Welcome to Spannered’s music feature and review archive. What’s in here then? Well, since the site was launched in 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 Jeff Mills and Photek, write-ups of Cat Power and Caribou gigs, and album reviews spanning Aphex Twin to NoMeansNo.
 
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Why?
album | Anticon   
23 November 2005
Why?
Elephant Eyelash
Anyone familiar with the big crunch theory? The one where the decreasing thrust of the big bang combined with ever present gravity means that, one...
by Richard Bold
Various Artists
album | Audiobulb Records   
6 July 2004
Various Artists
Switches
Switches is the fourth release on Audiobulb, a new Sheffield-based electronica label. David Newman, Audiobulb's proprietor, met the artists whose...
by Tom Giles
Millsart
album | Axis/Music Man   
1 July 2001
Millsart
Every Dog Has Its Day
Jeff Mills finally releases a CD compilation of his two very scarce Axis double packs for those who missed them first time round or who could not...
by Miles Hawthorn
B12
album | B12 Records   
13 May 2008
B12
Last Days of Silence
New material signals a welcome return for techno legends B12, but the Essex boys are not quite back on their feet yet, says Kone-R.
by Kone-R
DJ Rubbish
album | Barry's Bootlegs   
4 June 2003
DJ Rubbish
Proper Propaganda
If your mate sent you a tape of some Janet and John production with him MCing about how George Bush is a cunt, you’d probably think it was...
by Gavin Weale
Roots Manuva
album | Big Dada   
17 February 2005
Roots Manuva
Awfully Deep
The brand new Roots Manuva is back. His own earlier work has served to create the unique taste by which this album is to be enjoyed. Publicists and...
by Demented Toddler
Busdriver
album | Big Dada   
28 April 2004
Busdriver
Cosmic Cleavage
There have been plenty of approaches to hip hop jazz, from Stetsasonic's Talkin All That Jazz (which, let's face it, didn't have much to do...
by Demented Toddler
Spank Rock
album | Big Dada   
21 April 2006
Spank Rock
YoYoYoYoYo
Big Dada's energetic new kids meld bouncy East Coast hip hop with what sounds dangerously like Brighton Big Beat circa 1996. Is it successful though?
by Masta G
Ty
album | Big Dada   
25 October 2003
Ty
Upwards
Upwards comes across as more thoughtful than those who've only come across Turn It Up Little and Get Over It might expect, with slow soulful tracks of introspection and social commentary in mutual complement with bouncing hip hop that you can't help but dance to, grinning like an idiot.
by Demented Toddler
Lotek HiFi
album | Big Dada   
30 October 2003
Lotek HiFi
Lotek HiFi
Lotek Hifi's mini album proves the range of Big Dada's roster in the wake of Ty's latest outing (see album review) and sees producer Wayne Bennett...
by Masta G
Diplo
album | Big Dada   
3 September 2004
Diplo
Florida
With Ty just nominated for the Mercury Prize and Infinite Livez attracting widespread and deserved critical acclaim, it seems that Big Dada can do...
by Masta G
Andrew Duke
album | Bip-Hop   
1 August 2002
Andrew Duke
Sprung
Reviewing records I imagine is like exploring caves; you shine your light in and are never quite sure what you are going to find. Often you feel...
by Miles Hawthorn
Twine
album | Bip-Hop   
1 June 2002
Twine
Recorder
Suitably for their music, Twine operate a kind of virtual partnership, with one half living in Colorado and the other in Ohio, and their music...
by Elizabeth Wells
Various Artists
album | Bip-Hop   
1 June 2002
Various Artists
Bip-Hop Generation [v.5]
This compilation is the next instalment in a conceptual ‘anthology’ put together by French glitch/minimalist label Bip-Hop. In keeping...
by Elizabeth Wells
si-cut.db
album | Bip-Hop   
1 March 2002
si-cut.db
Enthusiast
The philosophy behind Douglas Benford's 4th si-cut.db album is a fascinating one. Apparently constructed partly from samples of woodwork noises,...
by Elizabeth Wells
Various Artists
album | Bip-Hop   
1 October 2001
Various Artists
Bip-Hop Volume 4
The fourth in this series is a truly international compilation pulling in artists from the UK, France, the USA and Australia. Defiantly in the vein...
by Miles Hawthorn
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