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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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3 May 2007

Ova Looven
Gravity Has Expired

Blimey, I wasn’t expecting this from the packaging. Ova Looven have the glacial 80s sound of bands like The Cure and Talk Talk,...

by Edward Blake

12 | !K7

20 September 2005

Princess Superstar
Perfect

This is an odd departure for the bad babysitter, Kool Keith collaborator and dirty-mouth darling of indie hip hop. Perfect is a breathless,...

by Demented Toddler

12 | Abe Duque

6 August 2004

Abe Duque
What Happened

I’m pretty sure this record marks the return to vocals of Blake Baxter, the self-styled ‘Prince of Techno’, and as someone...

by Miles Hawthorn

7 | Adaadat

8 June 2004

DJ 100000000 vs Atom Truck
DJ 100000000 vs Atom Truck

Adaadat are one of those labels that have been around for a while now, have a very dedicated following, throw amazing parties, but still seem to be...

by Mikerak

ep | Alien Transistor Records

19 October 2003

Saam Schlamminger
Chronomad 1

The sleeve notes tell us that Chronomad is Saam Schlamminger, a young German of Turkish origin, a multi instrumentalist, filmmaker and student of...

by Tom Giles

single | Alku

1 May 2003

Team Doyobi and Powerbooks For Peace
Empire/Everest

Two new three inch CD releases on Alku from two groups that I believe also share a bandmember. Get ready to regress – this is baby music for...

by Miles Hawthorn

single | Ann Aimee

3 April 2003

Alex Cortex
CTRL

I love getting first releases on new labels, as you just know that people wait for something really special with which to launch a new imprint. And...

by Miles Hawthorn

single | Arcola

24 July 2003

Eric B & Rakim/Prince
I Know You Got Soul/Uptown

Warp kick off their new Arcola sub-label with this cheeky two track white label, allegedly knocked together by Brothomstates, it’s quite a...

by The Felonious Punk

single | Basic Replay

15 February 2004

Chesse Roots
Call Me Rambo/Rambo Gun Salute

Growing interest in dancehall has created a thriving market for classic early examples of the genre. But scant attention has so far been paid to the...

by Masta G

ep | Bewildered Beat Headz

13 August 2003

Buddy Peace and Zilla
A Friendly Game of Chess

Hip hop has come a long way since those early days of powering generators off street lights, from a minority music local to just a few...

by The Felonious Punk

7 | Big Dada

18 September 2003

Lotek HiFi
Ram Dancehall

This one’s been out for a while but I only just caught up with it. Wayne Bennett has previously produced for Roots Manuva and this hard to...

by Masta G

7 | Big Dada

2 October 2003

Lotek HiFi
Percolator

The Big Dada website coyly describes this new 7 as ragga disco, clearly hoping that people might not realise it's actually garage. Whatever you want...

by Masta G

ep | Big Dada

11 February 2006

Roots Manuva
Awfully De/Ep

Rodney's back to show us the swaggering bastard child of Witness (1 Hope) - here's your chance to down ten pints of bitter and throw yourself around with rowdy glee.

by Demented Toddler

single | Big Teeth

8 June 2004

Black Milk
The Competition/The Pretender

The Essex based Black Milk collective bring a musically and lyrically fresh approach to the consistently under-achieving genre that is UK hip hop....

by Masta G

ep | Blacknight Records

8 August 2004

Octavcat
Biggerabit

It's almost a century since the futurist manifesto declared war on sonic convention. Whilst bombarding listeners with his intonarumori, Luigi...

by Alastair Dant

12 | BPitch Control

1 April 2001

Smash TV
Rock On Boy

Cheap scuzzy electro – the best kind really. At parties where there's techno in one room and electro in the other, the electro room usually...

by Edward Blake

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