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Welcome to Spannered’s music feature and review archive. What’s in here then? Well, since the site was launched in 2006, Spannered has run in-depth interviews with globetrotting tastemakers Kode9, DJ Ripley and Maga Bo, tripped over to Barcelona's Sónar festival, fallen over at the first ever Bloc Weekend, toured New York's global music circuit and gotten tinnitus in Bristol and São Paulo.
 
Spannered's archive stretches all the way back to 2000, however. Have a dig about and you'll unearth interviews and features with Jeff Mills and Photek, write-ups of Cat Power and Caribou gigs, and album reviews spanning Aphex Twin to NoMeansNo.
 
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album | Soma   
17 April 2005
Alex Smoke
Incommunicado
Soma have been quietly modernizing of late, and so far this year their output has been exceptional, with the wonderful Robag Wruhme and Wignomy...
by Benjamin Lehmann
album | The Leaf Label   
31 March 2005
Caribou
The Milk of Human Kindness
Great production but sketchy songwriting from Manitoba that was.
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Delta 9 Plastics   
17 February 2005
Various Artists
Plastic Volume 1
Delta 9 Plastic's accomplished debut album keeps one eye firmly on the dancefloor but is refreshingly diverse.
by Benjamin Lehmann
album | Jester   
17 February 2005
When, Upland, Bogus Blimp
Whenever/Oblitorated/Rdtr
There are some record labels that become like old friends to you. You know the ones: they don't just spew out crap like someone who has mistaken the...
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Warp   
17 February 2005
Harmonic 33
Music For Television, Film and Radio Volume One
Pin-pointing the birth of electronic music is more difficult than you think. Often people will bring up Kraftwerk’s name, as they certainly...
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Adaadat   
17 February 2005
Ommm
Testing The Equipment
This album has some of the funniest and most simple cover artwork I have ever seen, especially when taken in context with the music itself. A...
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Big Dada   
17 February 2005
Roots Manuva
Awfully Deep
The brand new Roots Manuva is back. His own earlier work has served to create the unique taste by which this album is to be enjoyed. Publicists and...
by Demented Toddler
album | Accidental   
17 January 2005
Mugison
Niceland
The nature of soundtrack work is such that the true intentions and emotions of an artist are slightly obscured by the task of matching sound to...
by Ed Chamberlin
album | The Leaf Label   
29 November 2004
Efterklang
Tripper
There are a lot of interesting things happening in Denmark right now music-wise: Under Byen are creating some shocking sensual stuff with...
by Ed Chamberlin
album | UpToYouToo   
23 November 2004
Nairobi Yetu
Kilio Cha Haki (A Cry For Justice)
The poignant intro to Kilio Cha Haki sees MC Kinyanjui Anthony's assertion that 'I was born in the street, I was born in the slum' balance...
by Masta G
album | Nascente   
23 November 2004
Various Artists
Urban Latino
This compilation from world music label Nascente (put together by salsa don DJ Lubi) combines Latin hip hop and R'n'B with reggaeton, the Latin...
by Masta G
album | Mental Groove   
17 November 2004
Snax
From The Rocking Chair To The Stage
In recent years there has been a shift in lyric writing away from the introspective, hypnotized verses of the early noughties. Hedonism in music is...
by Benjamin Lehmann
album | Everest Records   
17 November 2004
Everest
Heimlich Maneuver
During the 70s prog rock gradually found itself stubbornly striving for higher levels of technical, conceptual and compositional complexity to the...
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Warp   
15 November 2004
Milanese
1 Up
1 Up is the debut mini-album from this Birmingham-based producer, allegedly signed up to Warp after his neighbour (a certain Chris Clark)...
by Benjamin Lehmann
album | Lo Recordings   
23 October 2004
Alexandroid
False Starts
Alexandroid is one of the many Russians contributing to the slightly more tech end of the electronica scene at the moment. His music is distinct...
by Benjamin Lehmann
album | Om   
20 October 2004
J-Boogie
J-Boogie's Dubtronic Science
This deep mix from San Franciscan hip hop DJ J-Boogie is one of this month's unexpected gems, combining as it does hip hop, dub, nu soul and...
by Masta G
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