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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Dati
album | Disturbance   
1 August 2002
Dati
Italy
Dati's label likens this release to 'a great spider' with each of its legs in a different territory of dance music, and I really like this metaphor,...
by Elizabeth Wells
Nitrada
album | 2nd Rec   
1 August 2002
Nitrada
0+
Nitrada, aka Christophe Stoll, claims he does not prioritise sound over image, and to demonstrate this aesthetic he has had different artists...
by Elizabeth Wells
Desormais
album | Intr_version Records   
1 August 2002
Desormais
Climate Variations
Like a lot of contemporary electronic musicians, Mitchell Akiyama and Joshua Treble are separated by plenty of air miles (Akiyama is based in...
by Elizabeth Wells
The Digitariat
album | The Locus of Assemblage   
1 August 2002
The Digitariat
I Created Over One Million Jobs
This rather idiosyncratically packaged album, courtesy of Paul D Knowles, comes complete with photocopied insert of a collage of mundane statements...
by Elizabeth Wells
Cornucopia
album | The Locus of Assemblage   
1 August 2002
Cornucopia
C
Presumably someone thought that making one long track embodies the 'conceptual' idea when it comes to avant-garde music making. Unfortunately it...
by Elizabeth Wells
TaaPet
album | Fact   
1 August 2002
TaaPet
TaaPet Sounds
This album review descends into metaphor I'm afraid; it's very difficult to describe this kind of minimalist soundscaping without making reference...
by Elizabeth Wells
Hakan Lidbo
album | Mitek   
1 August 2002
Hakan Lidbo
06.10.60
Hakan Lidbo is currently working with 80s filmic electronic pioneers Yello, and shares their filmic aesthetic. The mood is blue-black and lucidly...
by Andy Rantzen
Ruzina Frankulin
album | Starbaby   
1 August 2002
Ruzina Frankulin
Electroblue
Electroblue is a synaesthesically perfect title for this release. A fat, fuzzy, quartzy, highly synthetic sound is bumped along by chunky, restless...
by Andy Rantzen
Various Artists
album | Kombination Research/Elp Medien   
1 August 2002
Various Artists
The Advent presents: Recreations 1 and Recreations 2
Cisco Ferreira has put out fourteen Advent 12" singles on Kombination Research and Recreations 1 (to be released at the end of...
by Andy Rantzen
Various Artists
album | Irritant   
20 August 2002
Various Artists
Welcome To My World
I’ve been a big fan of Irritant ever since I heard their first (10”) compilation release and this, their latest (third) compilation...
by Motorboy
John Beltran
album | Exceptional   
1 September 2002
John Beltran
Americano
John Beltran, the press release assures us, leads a ‘quiet but athletic life’. I found myself speculating on what this might mean. A...
by Andy Rantzen
Various Artists
album | Cocoon   
1 September 2002
Various Artists
Cocoon Compilation C
Sven Vath and Pauli Steinbach have pulled together another impressive roster of artists for this, the third Cocoon compilation. Steve Rachmad, Funk...
by Andy Rantzen
Various Artists
album | Primal Rhythms   
1 September 2002
Various Artists
Ben Sims - Escapism
Well, how exactly do you review a DJ compilation? It’s a real puzzle. This sounds like it would’ve been a good night out at some British...
by Andy Rantzen
Various Artists
album | Urban Substance   
1 September 2002
Various Artists
DJ Godfather - Ghetto Tech Detroit
Don’t be fooled into thinking that Detroit is simply about looped, melodic techno and Drexcyian electro, for there is a much rawer street...
by Motorboy
The Advent
album | Tresor   
12 September 2002
The Advent
Sketched For Life
Tracks by The Advent are to DJs what planks are to builders: useful, solid, a bit hard, rather uninteresting on their own but perfect as the...
by Andy Rantzen
Smyglyssna
album | Vertical Form   
13 September 2002
Smyglyssna
We Can Fix It
There's a busker that regularly sits near London Bridge and bashes the hell out of various items of junk metal, such as pots and pans, buckets and...
by Miles Hawthorn
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