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album | Rephlex
30 June 2001
Back in the mid 90s the boys at Rephlex started getting disillusioned with the way techno was going and the demise of Chicago acid sounds. To remedy...
by Andy Gain
album | Mego
30 June 2001
At first listen Live Salvage appears to be little more than random feedback and unstructured white noise, the sort of effect you'd...
by Motorboy
album | Axis/Music Man
30 June 2001
Jeff Mills finally releases a CD compilation of his two very scarce Axis double packs for those who missed them first time round or who could not...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Domino
30 June 2001
Some of the titles would lead you to think that Four Tet wasn't particularly fussed about trying to break new musical ground; Leila Came Round...
by Edward Blake
album | Eskimo Recordings
30 June 2001
So often the adage that good producers do not make good DJ's is proved to be a correct one. Recloose however, best known as a recording artist on...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Bip-Hop
30 September 2001
The fourth in this series is a truly international compilation pulling in artists from the UK, France, the USA and Australia. Defiantly in the vein...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Quatermass
30 September 2001
The third in a series of 'versus' match ups, this one pits Quatermass (electronic division of Sub Rosa) against Rather Interesting (the prolific...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Angelika Kohlermann
1 January 2002
With a name like that and a sound as earth-shatteringly bad as this, it’s hard not to start playing around with the letters. I don’t...
by Edward Blake
album | Emanate
1 January 2002
Galleon ships of days gone by tended not to have hi-fi systems on them, but if they did I think this may have been a popular choice with the crew....
by Edward Blake
album | Freskanova
1 January 2002
The press release says that the Freestlyers have tried to take their sound from “clubland to the next level – the sound of future...
by Edward Blake
album | Go Jazz Lounge
1 January 2002
The day has to get better when the brightest record of all year arrives for review. Joy and the Boy are jazz vocalist and...
by Edward Blake
album | Jester
1 January 2002
Holy shit! Somewhere along the way the free-jazz hardcore sound has become the domain of the sound-editor and the result is simply genius-mentalism....
by Edward Blake
album | Jumpin & Pumpin
1 January 2002
You could probably accuse FSOL of heightening the dance music fetish for the pseudonym, that frustrating tactic of releasing music on the sly. In...
by Richard Wilkes
album | The Leaf Label
1 January 2002
Once you've adjusted to Eardrum’s unique sound – not unlike a blind person with one leg shorter than the other trying to walk in a...
by Isabel Hopwood
album | Multicolor Recordings
1 January 2002
Overblown sales guff in the promo leaflet aside (“bestowing the intermedial world”, indeed) this rocks. Played over decent speakers, the...
by Isabel Hopwood
album | Obsessive
1 January 2002
I didn’t really dig this year’s Bronx Dogs album, but I know people who did – it was one of those albums that sounded like the...
by Edward Blake
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