music
album | Riddim Killa/Low Life
29 September 2004
Rodney P is a true ambassador of UK hip hop. As part of London posse in the 80s he was involved in one of the first UK acts to generate widespread...
by Benjamin Lehmann
album | Rise Robots Rise
3 June 2003
Second artist release for RRR and its a bit of a departure from the sound of first by Super_Collider for this nascent Brighton label. Whereas the...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Rotator
20 August 2004
Every once in a while, a release wings in from the middle of an unknown somewhere and drops sparkling surprises on your ears. Unanticipated,...
by David Gunn
album | Rotters Golf Club
15 April 2003
A new artist/band on RGC, produced, it appears, by Andy Weatherall. This contains six tracks of electropop, fuelled by infectious hooks, bittersweet...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | S.I. Project
30 June 2001
This is definitely the sound that has been doing the business on many dance floors around London for the last year or so: post-2-step, post deep...
by Gavin Weale
album | Sanctuary/RAS
25 August 2004
The associations between the grand old man of American music and Jamaica's greatest cultural export are not immediately apparent, even if Dylan does...
by Masta G
album | Science
31 March 2001
Pullen threads a preoccupation with time through his latest LP. He opens with the track that was made the longest time ago, Tsunami, and...
by Kate Butler
album | Seasons of Mist
1 December 2006
Having gained an enviable position as black metallers who don’t suffer any of the trappings of said genre (corpse paint, painfully funny dark...
by Edward Blake
live / album | Secretsundaze
9 October 2007
Six years back if you’d have suggested to me that London might host a large outdoor techno event that would take place regularly on a...
by Kone-R
album | Seed
10 January 2003
As is immediately evident from the artist name and album title, this is a work that is full of contrasts. One moment your heart is melted by the icy...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Short Cut
30 April 2002
So I’m sitting in front of my computer typing up some reviews, feeling a bit downhearted about the whole thing, when all of a sudden Jesus...
by Edward Blake
album | Skam
1 March 2000
Another case of the title influencing the decision to purchase, although being on Skam often serves to recommend. But never before has Skam sounded...
by Richard Wilkes
album | Skam
4 March 2004
On paper, an album put together over the Atlantic through ICQ, AOL and MSN Messenger looks like a great, new, productive and morally sound use for...
by Ed Thaw
album | Skam
23 March 2004
Choose Your Own Adventure? Maybe. But only if your adventure of choice has a title like Astrosmash, Cosmic Avenger or...
by David Gunn
album | Skam
23 April 2007
Nothing beats a good nautical theme when it comes to music. Space is so new and cliché-ridden that when used conceptually it nearly...
by Edward Blake
album | Skintone/The Leaf Label
1 January 2001
There are only fifty or so copies of this Japan-only release floating around in the UK at present, but when you combine one of the UK's most...
by Franklyn J
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