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album | The Leaf Label
27 May 2003
Manitoba has always been seen as a pre-eminent darling of the Leaf label. In fact he’s prime press fodder, being both outspoken and evidently...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | The Leaf Label
31 March 2005
Great production but sketchy songwriting from Manitoba that was.
by Ed Chamberlin
album | The Leaf Label
30 May 2004
Delivery Room is the latest in a series of low-cost samplers from our friends at Leaf and boss man Tony Morley seems keen for us to explore...
by Alastair Dant
album | The Leaf Label
6 June 2004
Pick up sticks. Briefly. Let them begin to tap against brick and stone, to combine into forward rhythm. And as they begin to coalesce, let them...
by David Gunn
album | The Leaf Label
31 May 2002
This is rather an unclassifiable oddity: a strange mixture of Indian percussion with a decidedly Japanese flavour, which harnesses modern digital...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | The Leaf Label
30 April 2002
This release dubs itself ‘a highly evocative soundtrack to an imaginary Western’, which cites as its musical touchstones composers such...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | The Leaf Label
31 March 2002
Leaf release another tasty taster album with artists old and new, but all very wigged out. The overall ambience behind the CD is drowsily rural. A...
by Edward Blake
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 | The Leaf Label
20 August 2004
If i said that track one consisted of needlepoint keyboard arpeggios hammered out on a peat- and dung-encrusted upright piano in a barn at midnight...
by Vernon Crane
album | The Leaf Label
30 June 2001
It's been a while since I last had a good ambient Zulu boogie so hearing Susumu Yokota's river deep compositions has brought me a little piece of...
by Edward Blake
album | The Grey Area/Mute
2 July 2004
Along with Stephen Mallinder and Chris Watson, Richard H Kirk was Cabaret Voltaire (although Watson left the band as early as 1983). Along with...
by Tom Giles
album | Tehnika
26 November 2002
Uros Umek’s reputation has been built on jacking, buzzy minimalist floor material with more than a wave to the rave. His recent mix CD The...
by Andy Rantzen
album | Tectonic
26 May 2008
Laurent Fintoni finds plenty to like in the hotly anticipated debut album from dubstep-techno operative Dave Huismans.
by Laurent Fintoni
album | Swim
31 March 2001
Swim champion all things lo-fi and post-rock so we should champion them too, but this release is a step backwards. Silo lie somewhere between...
by Edward Blake
album | Supremat
30 June 2001
Echoing a rich heritage of sound experimentation, executive producer Cristian Vogel presents an album where his machines truly do all the talking....
by Gavin Weale
album | Suction Records
30 June 2001
Suction's engagement with a retro synth-pop sound predates the last two years burgeoning rise of this re-visited genre, however these two...
by Ian Trowell
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