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album | Struktur
19 May 2004
A pretty satisfying combination of solid clockwork crunches and an unsettling, unsettled undertow.
by David Gunn
album | Warp
9 June 2003
So what were we meant to expect after Scott Herren’s debut LP as Prefuse, Vocal Studies and Uprock Narratives, cut hip hop to shreds...
by Gavin Weale
album | Gadgets
30 April 2002
Gadgets is Italian-born Corrado Izzo and Finn Tatu Metsatahti, and their speciality seems to lie in the creation of warm, spacey techno, with a...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | RG Records
26 November 2003
Loose knit collective Border Crossing move through the different musical idioms of their native West London with consummate ease. Their genre...
by Masta G
album | Intuit Solar
31 March 2001
Based around a radio show format (complete with shout outs from some of Detroit's finest citizens), Off The Chain... features 83 (count 'em...
by Nick Craddock
album | Touch and Go
20 August 2005
Piercingly beautiful feral folk music, but are CocoRosie quite as original as they'd like to be?
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Tsunami
12 September 2002
Now this style of minimal and industrial loops really hasn't done it for me for a long time now, but I have to say this is the way it should be...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Epitaph Records
1 December 2006
Converge are one of those bands I seem to have found out about too late, having only bought their last album You Fail Me and, despite being...
by Edward Blake
album | Accidental
17 January 2005
The nature of soundtrack work is such that the true intentions and emotions of an artist are slightly obscured by the task of matching sound to...
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Tehnika
26 November 2002
Uros Umek’s reputation has been built on jacking, buzzy minimalist floor material with more than a wave to the rave. His recent mix CD The...
by Andy Rantzen
album | Peacefrog
30 April 2003
Suburban Knight chooses this moment to release his first album for seventeen years, a production schedule to confound many a major label bigwig. He...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Ninja Tune
19 October 2005
Treva's debut casts its net far and wide, but does is it suceed in creating new memories or just relive old ones?
by Demented Toddler
album | Warp
17 February 2005
Pin-pointing the birth of electronic music is more difficult than you think. Often people will bring up Kraftwerk’s name, as they certainly...
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Warp
4 November 2005
Jamie Lidell: a bit of an enigma wrapped up in a conumdrum, one might say if one was prone to spouting such shite. As the one half of...
by John Power
album | Ninja Tune
22 September 2004
Renowned lover of pies, fish and lengthy DJ sets, this first serving of Andy Carthy's Solid Steel megamix hits the shelves this month. Following the...
by Andy Parsons
album | Static Caravan
26 April 2005
There is a school of thought which holds that a landscape will influence the soundscapes recorded there. Sigur Rós'...
by Ed Chamberlin
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