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album | Lex Records
8 January 2004
Hymie's Basement are Andrew Broder of Fog (Ninja Tune) and Jonathan Wolf of cLOUDDEAD (Anticon) fame. Their weird, quiet album of mostly short songs...
by Demented Toddler
album | Lex Records
5 June 2009
One of the most anticipated musical returns of the year goes to DOOM, ex-MF but still a mask-wearing, full-time-rhyming supervillain. Patience...
by Laurent Fintoni
album | Lex Records
6 August 2003
It's hard for me not to like a hip hop producer who’s named after my favourite childhood superhero. Danger Mouse’s inventive and daring...
by Masta G
album | Lex Records
1 October 2003
Assured delivery puts less versatile MCs to shame, demonstrating a sharp range of styles, an acute knowledge of hip hop history and some impressive lyrical stunts.
by Demented Toddler
album | Lo Recordings
23 October 2004
Alexandroid is one of the many Russians contributing to the slightly more tech end of the electronica scene at the moment. His music is distinct...
by Benjamin Lehmann
album | Lo Recordings
8 October 2004
Théodore is a Greece-based artist with a fetish for old music boxes, or so it would seem from the unwieldily titled long-player. It’s a...
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Logistic
30 April 2003
This is one part of a trio of new releases on Monobox from Rob Hood; there is also a twelve inch and a double vinyl album. Some of the tracks...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Low Life
11 March 2006
A carefully picked crop of EP and album tracks showing the range and depth of one of the UK's leading hip hop outfits.
by Demented Toddler
album | Luaka Bop
25 February 2003
The only thing that this has in common with hip hop (generally) is tempo. The music on here has been turned inside out, mangled and hung out to dry;...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Lux Nigra
30 June 2001
People love to pigeonhole music, inventing genres such as trip hop, big beat and click-house to simplify and compartmentalise music. It is therefore...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Matador
1 January 2001
What starts out as a bizarre medley of glitches (there's even a track called Obligatory Glitch Worship), snares and piercing whistles...
by Kate Butler
album | Matador
30 June 2000
MC Paul Barman is not you usual, run-of-the mill, gun-totin', crack-tootin', ho'-slappin' rapper. In fact, he's a rather funny-looking Ivy League...
by Dave Stelfox
album | Matter Records
27 May 2003
A potentially interesting release, Under the Shady Tree is Chris White’s brainchild, and joins the ranks of recent releases such as...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Mego
30 June 2001
At first listen Live Salvage appears to be little more than random feedback and unstructured white noise, the sort of effect you'd...
by Motorboy
album | Melodic
2 February 2004
To celebrate their fifth year and 20th release, the good people at Melodic have put together a 14-track compilation of their bands' best material....
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Melodic
30 April 2000
More sublime, forward-looking, folksy electronica from the Melodic label. This time the Yorkshire imprint turns to the Athens, Georgia-based Empire...
by Dave Stelfox
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