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album | Warp
9 June 2003
Recalls a time when the twin wasn’t obsessed with +160bpm din’n’bass, when he made some pretty if twisted tunes a la Selected...
by Gavin Weale
album | Warp
10 January 2003
This is a re-release of BOC's ridiculously limited first record, a private press of only 100 that has reputedly changed hands on Ebay for...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Warp
10 January 2003
You can instantly tell this is going to be nasty; the very flash holographic cover is covered in knives, the word Satan is in the title and the...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Warp
5 December 2002
The soundtrack to the film by Lynne Ramsay of the book by Alan Warner is truly that, a musical composition that traces a film from start to finish...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Warp
9 June 2003
So what were we meant to expect after Scott Herren’s debut LP as Prefuse, Vocal Studies and Uprock Narratives, cut hip hop to shreds...
by Gavin Weale
album | Warp
4 November 2005
Jamie Lidell: a bit of an enigma wrapped up in a conumdrum, one might say if one was prone to spouting such shite. As the one half of...
by John Power
album | Warp
15 June 2004
!!! (pronounced 'chk chk chk') were formed in 1996 by the former members of mid-90s hardcore group Yah Mos. This is their third long player, if you...
by Benjamin Lehmann
album | Warp
30 April 2002
Req is a multi-talented artist, with his finger in many pies, including graffiti art, music production and the obligatory DJing. Originally from...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Warp
1 February 2002
Ask any BOC enthusiast what they associate with Boards’ musical style, and many will cite their preoccupation with the sounds of wildlife,...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Warp
15 November 2003
From Luca Santucci’s opening lament you know that Spokes is not going to be a cheery album. That’s no bad thing, I hear you cry...
by Tom Giles
album | Wall of Sound
11 September 2004
The concept behind Wall of Sound's helpfully titled Two Culture Clash is that of collaboration and cross fertilisation between UK-based...
by Masta G
album | VP Records
5 July 2005
Unmissable compilation showcasing Jamaica's new roots sound which eschews modern dancehall’s materialism and the trinity of guns, girls and ganja for more spiritual values.
by Masta G
album | Vivo
21 November 2002
Black Faction is Andrew Diey, who has previously had one track out on Skam under the moniker Foreign Terrain, and you can see from the pseudonyms...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Virgin
31 March 2001
Any fan of the Parisian punkers will know that they've never really taken themselves seriously in the pop scheme of things. But with this follow up...
by Kate Butler
album | Violent Turd
27 April 2004
DJ /rupture and Mutamassik conduct guerrilla warfare on the stifling corporate culture which taints the music industry as surely as it does global politics.
by Masta G
album | Vertical Form
2 September 2003
Matt Haines is the Rip-Off Artist, presumably named due to his penchant for stealing famous album titles. The light-hearted humour that I assume led...
by Miles Hawthorn
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