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album | DC Recordings
1 March 2000
J Saul Kane returns under his pioneering Octagon Man guise for the sequel to 1995's The Exciting World Of... long-player. Ito...
by Dave Stelfox
album | Disturbance
31 July 2002
Dati's label likens this release to 'a great spider' with each of its legs in a different territory of dance music, and I really like this metaphor,...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | V/Vm Test
3 June 2003
After travelling the four corners of the world, V/Vm are back with an array of new talent intent on savaging the best of the worst of the last...
by Miles Hawthorn
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 | Ann Aimee
3 June 2003
Following hot on the heels of his seven-track CTRL EP, Alex Cortex releases a double album Inward. This CD collects the two...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Tresor
30 June 2001
Ruskin's second album for Tresor, and it's something of a production masterclass. The titles give you a clue as to the mood here: when...
by Gavin Weale
album | International Deejay Gigolos
30 June 2001
DJ Hell's widely adored label celebrates being so damn popular with a double CD compilation of electro-techno pop. From the first track the drum...
by Edward Blake
album | Soleilmoon
1 February 2002
“..since then I’ve been waiting to grab you by the hair, and pull you down … where you will hear harsh noises of...
by Isabel Hopwood
album | Trans-Dimensional Voice
30 June 2002
Gothic trance. Just makes you want to snigger until you fit doesn't it. Stomping on you with all the force of a 17-year-old called Alison with...
by Edward Blake
album | Rephlex
30 June 2001
Back in the mid 90s the boys at Rephlex started getting disillusioned with the way techno was going and the demise of Chicago acid sounds. To remedy...
by Andy Gain
album | Stattmusik
30 April 2002
It must be quite irksome to have to acknowledge after all this time that Yello! is still your most famous musical export in the dance world. So this...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Soma
17 April 2005
Soma have been quietly modernizing of late, and so far this year their output has been exceptional, with the wonderful Robag Wruhme and Wignomy...
by Benjamin Lehmann
album | Ninja Tune
11 January 2006
The second avant-rap political extravaganza from Nephilim Modulation Systems will either irritate or involve depending how much you like “apocalyptic dark and gloomy shit”... or Michael Moore.
by Demented Toddler
album | Hymen
1 March 2000
Purchased purely on the strength of the title this one could have been poor. But what seemed like a gamble came somewhat close to a jackpot, or at...
by Richard Wilkes
album | Domino
31 March 2001
It's quite a departure from Matt Elliot's early days as a Bristol drum 'n' bass kid, but besides that this remix LP is more in line with last year's...
by Kate Butler
album | The Locus of Assemblage
31 July 2002
This rather idiosyncratically packaged album, courtesy of Paul D Knowles, comes complete with photocopied insert of a collage of mundane statements...
by Elizabeth Wells
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