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album | Mille Plateaux
25 February 2003
Mille Plateaux, the electronica arm of Force Inc records, has long been associated with cutting edge compilations, seeming to have a knack of...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Off On One
25 February 2003
Thud is the brainchild of the pseudonymous Edward Blake of Overload Media, who is best known in techno circles for his Cut Out releases (more...
by Andy Rantzen
album | Obsessive
25 February 2003
Here is edition ten of the series where artists compile an album of their musical influences. The Lo Fi Allstars’ choices are bookended by two...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Luaka Bop
25 February 2003
The only thing that this has in common with hip hop (generally) is tempo. The music on here has been turned inside out, mangled and hung out to dry;...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Plug Research
25 February 2003
Avant-garde hip hop remixes on show here, with Warp stars Antipop Consortium headlining. Madlib (in his Yesterday's New Quintet guise) turns his...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Third Ear
9 March 2003
Tread are Take Kitahara and Hiroshi Watanabe (who records as Kaito for Kompakt) and take a self-styled ‘minimalist’ approach to their...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Expanding
9 March 2003
Apart from Price’s rather irritating habit of over-punctuating everything (all we need now is another electronica artist with an icon fetish)...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Monopsone
9 March 2003
After the release of French artist Matthieu Malon’s debut album, System: On, he has handed his baby over to a set of very different...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Aesthetics
9 March 2003
A very popular and acclaimed release in some corners of this small but flourishing industry (it recently made album of the issue on another...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Third Ear
9 March 2003
What a magical recording: this is a beautifully crafted piece of work, from the opening snatches of birdsong and amplified bell tones on...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Halflink
2 April 2003
Astor's debut, two years in the making, is the work of Rhode Island's Michele Doucet (music and production), and Alison Jane (occasional...
by Andy Rantzen
album | Rotters Golf Club
15 April 2003
A new artist/band on RGC, produced, it appears, by Andy Weatherall. This contains six tracks of electropop, fuelled by infectious hooks, bittersweet...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Peacefrog
30 April 2003
Suburban Knight chooses this moment to release his first album for seventeen years, a production schedule to confound many a major label bigwig. He...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Warp
30 April 2003
Beans is one half of Antipop Consortium, who goes it alone for this. The album opens with Roar and the first thing you notice is that the...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Logistic
30 April 2003
This is one part of a trio of new releases on Monobox from Rob Hood; there is also a twelve inch and a double vinyl album. Some of the tracks...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Rednetic
27 May 2003
This is the debut release of new label Rednetic, which claims to be the home of innovative ‘breakbeat electronica’ and claims this first...
by Elizabeth Wells
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