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album | Bip-Hop
31 May 2002
This compilation is the next instalment in a conceptual ‘anthology’ put together by French glitch/minimalist label Bip-Hop. In keeping...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Bip-Hop
1 March 2002
The philosophy behind Douglas Benford's 4th si-cut.db album is a fascinating one. Apparently constructed partly from samples of woodwork noises,...
by Elizabeth Wells
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 | Big Dada
17 February 2005
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 | Big Dada
27 April 2004
There have been plenty of approaches to hip hop jazz, from Stetsasonic's Talkin All That Jazz (which, let's face it, didn't have much to do...
by Demented Toddler
album | Big Dada
20 April 2006
Big Dada's energetic new kids meld bouncy East Coast hip hop with what sounds dangerously like Brighton Big Beat circa 1996. Is it successful though?
by Masta G
album | Big Dada
24 October 2003
Upwards comes across as more thoughtful than those who've only come across Turn It Up Little and Get Over It might expect, with slow soulful tracks of introspection and social commentary in mutual complement with bouncing hip hop that you can't help but dance to, grinning like an idiot.
by Demented Toddler
album | Big Dada
30 October 2003
Lotek Hifi's mini album proves the range of Big Dada's roster in the wake of Ty's latest outing (see album review) and sees producer Wayne Bennett...
by Masta G
album | Big Dada
25 August 2008
Rodney Smith returns for a fourth album on Big Dada, the label from which he has become inseparable. While Awfully Deep showed a...
by Laurent Fintoni
album | Big Dada
2 September 2004
With Ty just nominated for the Mercury Prize and Infinite Livez attracting widespread and deserved critical acclaim, it seems that Big Dada can do...
by Masta G
album | Barry's Bootlegs
3 June 2003
If your mate sent you a tape of some Janet and John production with him MCing about how George Bush is a cunt, you’d probably think it was...
by Gavin Weale
album | Balkan Vinyl
6 August 2010
It's been a long and varied journey for the Posthuman pairing of cousins Richard Bevan and Joshu Doherty. Since debuting in 2001 with releases...
by Kone-R
album | B12 Records
12 May 2008
New material signals a welcome return for techno legends B12, but the Essex boys are not quite back on their feet yet, says Kone-R.
by Kone-R
album | B12
14 November 2008
The rumours of a B12 Records CD release of all those rare-as-hens-teeth 12”s from back in ‘the golden era of British techno’...
by Kone-R
album | B12
16 June 2009
It feels like an age since I reviewed the first two volumes of this hugely anticipated (by me, at least) reissue...
by Kone-R
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
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