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album | Nonplace
1 January 2001
Had to be a winner this, the third, finely honed incarnation of an album recorded over the past four years, originally intended for release on two...
by Valerie Snails
album | Zenit
26 November 2002
Stanny Franssen’s first album starts like a masterpiece and ends like a solid loop-based tech-house record with a darker, more stylish vibe...
by Andy Rantzen
album | Delta 9 Plastics
17 February 2005
Delta 9 Plastic's accomplished debut album keeps one eye firmly on the dancefloor but is refreshingly diverse.
by Benjamin Lehmann
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 | The Leaf Label
6 June 2004
Pick up sticks. Briefly. Let them begin to tap against brick and stone, to combine into forward rhythm. And as they begin to coalesce, let them...
by David Gunn
album | Vertical Form
2 September 2003
Matt Haines is the Rip-Off Artist, presumably named due to his penchant for stealing famous album titles. The light-hearted humour that I assume led...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Jester
30 June 2001
Ulver aren't just your ordinary doom-hop mongers. These ex-death metal Norwegianers regard themselves as magicians and make slobbering new-wave...
by Edward Blake
album | Emanate
1 January 2002
Galleon ships of days gone by tended not to have hi-fi systems on them, but if they did I think this may have been a popular choice with the crew....
by Edward Blake
album | Domino
30 June 2001
Some of the titles would lead you to think that Four Tet wasn't particularly fussed about trying to break new musical ground; Leila Came Round...
by Edward Blake
album | Stoned Asia Music
1 March 2002
I have a slight problem with any compilation that boasts a marriage of 'authentic' rhythmic chants and global beats with a contemporary club...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Rephlex
20 January 2011
In which Gerald Donald/Heinrich Mueller (he of a million aliases, all of them legendary in their own right), returns under yet another new...
by Kone-R
album | Go Jazz Lounge
1 January 2002
The day has to get better when the brightest record of all year arrives for review. Joy and the Boy are jazz vocalist and...
by Edward Blake
album | Jumpin & Pumpin
1 January 2002
You could probably accuse FSOL of heightening the dance music fetish for the pseudonym, that frustrating tactic of releasing music on the sly. In...
by Richard Wilkes
album | Rephlex
19 September 2003
Just every now and then a record comes along that is not only an absolute pleasure to listen to but opens your mind once again to the almost...
by The Felonious Punk
album | Domino
20 August 2005
Richard Bold envelops himself in the haunting world of Slint guitarist Dave Pajo's debut solo album.
by Richard Bold
album | Downsall Plastics
30 April 2000
Dirk Swartenbroekx follows up 1998's Mocha Supremo with another richly blended album of jazz-influenced electronic fusion. Our Girl In...
by Dave Stelfox
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