Welcome to Spannered’s music feature and review archive. What’s in here then? Well, since the site was launched in December 2006, Spannered has run in-depth interviews with globetrotting tastemakers Kode9, DJ Ripley and Maga Bo, tripped over to Barcelona's Sónar festival, fallen over at the first ever Bloc Weekend, toured New York's global music circuit and gotten tinnitus in Bristol and São Paulo.
 
Spannered's archive stretches all the way back to 2000 however. Have a dig about and you'll unearth interviews and features with musical innovators Jeff Mills and Photek, write-ups of Cat Power, Caribou and Matmos gigs, and album reviews spanning Aphex Twin to NoMeansNo. You can also visit Spannered's music blog.
 
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Ian Simmonds
album | !K7   
1 January 2001
Ian Simmonds
Return To X
Awash with understated harmony and shuffling, fractured rhythm, a languid tone of contemplation permeates Return To X's nine tracks. From...
by Dave Stelfox
Smith and Mighty
album | !K7   
1 March 2000
Smith and Mighty
Big World Small World
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
Various Artists
album | !K7   
1 March 2000
Various Artists
DJ-Kicks: Stereo MC's
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
Tosca
album | !K7   
1 March 2000
Tosca
Suzuki
Following on from 1997's sumptuous debut album Opera, Richard Dorfmeister and Rupert Huber's Tosca have taken a meditative, contemplative...
by Dave Stelfox
Giardini Di Miro
album | 2nd Rec   
10 January 2003
Giardini Di Miro
The Academic Rise Of Falling Drifters
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
Nitrada
album | 2nd Rec   
1 August 2002
Nitrada
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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
Various Artists
album | 679 Recordings   
6 November 2005
Various Artists
Run the Road 2
The first instalment of Run the Road last year brought the urgent, abrasive sound of grime to the attention...
by Masta G
Column One
album | 90% Wasser/Moloko Plus   
28 May 2003
Column One
The Audience Is Sleeping
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
Mugison
album | Accidental   
17 January 2005
Mugison
Niceland
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
Doctor Rockit
album | Accidental   
13 April 2004
Doctor Rockit
The Unnecessary History of Doctor Rockit
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
Ommm
album | Adaadat   
17 February 2005
Ommm
Testing The Equipment
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
Doddodo
album | Adaadat   
3 May 2007
Doddodo
Sample Bitch Story
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
Pulseprogramming
album | Aesthetics   
9 March 2003
Pulseprogramming
Tulsa For One Second
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
Cnut
album | Angelika Kohlermann   
1 January 2002
Cnut
Prince Of Shampoo
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
Alex Cortex
album | Ann Aimee   
4 June 2003
Alex Cortex
Inward CTRL
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
NoMeansNo
album | Ant Acid Audio   
1 December 2006
NoMeansNo
All Roads Lead to Ausfahrt
Ah, NoMeansNo. One of those bands that have been there all along, having moments of brilliance both noticed and missed. You get the feeling...
by Edward Blake
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