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album | !K7
1 January 2001
Awash with understated harmony and shuffling, fractured rhythm, a languid tone of contemplation permeates Return To X's nine tracks. From...
by Dave Stelfox
album | !K7
1 March 2000
Bristol's Smith and Mighty cement their relationship with Stud!o K7 by producing perhaps their finest work yet. Big World Small World is an...
by Dave Stelfox
album | !K7
1 March 2000
K7's DJ Kicks series has brought some of the most varied and inspirational mix compilations of recent years to public ears with the likes...
by Dave Stelfox
album | !K7
1 March 2000
Following on from 1997's sumptuous debut album Opera, Richard Dorfmeister and Rupert Huber's Tosca have taken a meditative, contemplative...
by Dave Stelfox
album | 2nd Rec
10 January 2003
It is nearly the end of the year but this is without doubt one of the best albums of it, or any year come to think of it. Giardini Di Miro have...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | 2nd Rec
31 July 2002
Nitrada, aka Christophe Stoll, claims he does not prioritise sound over image, and to demonstrate this aesthetic he has had different artists...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | 679 Recordings
6 November 2005
The first instalment of Run the Road last year brought the urgent, abrasive sound of grime to the attention...
by Masta G
album | 90% Wasser/Moloko Plus
27 May 2003
Put together with the input of collaborators such as Rechenzentrum, this Berlin-based collective release their follow-up to the critically acclaimed...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Accidental
17 January 2005
The nature of soundtrack work is such that the true intentions and emotions of an artist are slightly obscured by the task of matching sound to...
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Accidental
12 April 2004
In what sense is a new Herbert release 'unnecessary'? OK, so it is a compilation and therefore inherently not as good as a new album; but...
by Tom Giles
album | Adaadat
17 February 2005
This album has some of the funniest and most simple cover artwork I have ever seen, especially when taken in context with the music itself. A...
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Adaadat
2 May 2007
Doddodo make cheap and scuzzy lo-fi sample breaks. Sample Bitch Story is a mid-paced stomp through Japanese pop culture on the back of...
by Edward Blake
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 | Alpha Pup
5 June 2009
If 2008 belonged to Flying Lotus then 2009 may well be Nosaj Thing’s year when it comes to the meeting point between hip hop and...
by Laurent Fintoni
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 | Ann Aimee
3 June 2003
Following hot on the heels of his seven-track CTRL EP, Alex Cortex releases a double album Inward. This CD collects the two...
by Miles Hawthorn
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