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album | Planet Mu
12 February 2008
Acid Sauna, the debut long-player from London-via-Chicago’s Libby Floyd, aka The Doubtful Guest, is a fierce onslaught of...
by Kone-R
album | Planet Mu
12 February 2008
Balancing Lakes is the third album from Barry Lynn, better known for working under his Boxcutter moniker. Lynn has gained recent...
by Kone-R
live / album | Secretsundaze
9 October 2007
Six years back if you’d have suggested to me that London might host a large outdoor techno event that would take place regularly on a...
by Kone-R
album | Lex
10 September 2007
Whilst the country’s group mind engages in one of its periodic fits of the vapours and starts demanding the immediate locking up of every...
by John Power
album | Concurrent
8 July 2007
The debut release on Expanding Records' sub-label, Concurrent, explores the development of the synthesizer from 1968-1987. But it's much more than just a library piece, says Spannered's Kone-R.
by Kone-R
album | Rephlex
2 July 2007
Fallen into any black holes lately? Kone-R puts down his quantum mechanics book and checks out Gerald Donald's latest work.
by Kone-R
album | Adaadat
2 May 2007
Doddodo make cheap and scuzzy lo-fi sample breaks. Sample Bitch Story is a mid-paced stomp through Japanese pop culture on the back of...
by Edward Blake
album | Soma
1 May 2007
The name is an instant turn-off for me, so it’s with some trepidation that I place this into the CD player. My doubts are justified as...
by Edward Blake
album | Soma
1 May 2007
What else would you expect from a compilation of The Black Dog's best old school offerings (plus some lovely rarities) other than pure...
by Edward Blake
album | Skam
23 April 2007
Nothing beats a good nautical theme when it comes to music. Space is so new and cliché-ridden that when used conceptually it nearly...
by Edward Blake
album | Epitaph Records
1 December 2006
Converge are one of those bands I seem to have found out about too late, having only bought their last album You Fail Me and, despite being...
by Edward Blake
album | Ant Acid Audio
1 December 2006
Ah, NoMeansNo. One of those bands that have been there all along, having moments of brilliance both noticed and missed. You get the feeling...
by Edward Blake
album | Seasons of Mist
1 December 2006
Having gained an enviable position as black metallers who don’t suffer any of the trappings of said genre (corpse paint, painfully funny dark...
by Edward Blake
album | Big Dada
20 April 2006
Big Dada's energetic new kids meld bouncy East Coast hip hop with what sounds dangerously like Brighton Big Beat circa 1996. Is it successful though?
by Masta G
album | Out Here
13 April 2006
The profound connections between reggae music and the African continent have been apparent since thousands of rastas came to greet a bemused Haile...
by Masta G
album | Low Life
11 March 2006
A carefully picked crop of EP and album tracks showing the range and depth of one of the UK's leading hip hop outfits.
by Demented Toddler
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