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album | Seasons of Mist
1 December 2006
Having gained an enviable position as black metallers who don’t suffer any of the trappings of said genre (corpse paint, painfully funny dark...
by Edward Blake
album | Delsin
22 November 2011
It's rare to hear an album of any genre which exudes perfection, but on Escapism Boris Bunnik (aka Conforce) possibly comes as close as any...
by Kone-R
album | Rednetic
27 May 2003
This is the debut release of new label Rednetic, which claims to be the home of innovative ‘breakbeat electronica’ and claims this first...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Music Man
25 August 2008
Techno music is a funny old game at the moment. The merest hint of fashion, or ego, and the old guard are up in arms. In 2008 then, they are...
by Kone-R
album | Bungalow
1 March 2000
As one of the very few truly independent Japanese labels left in existence, respect is due to Escalator Records. Ranging from the screwball...
by Dave Stelfox
album | EPM
20 January 2011
EPM is a company that has been steadily supporting quality electronic music for the past 10 years. From their bases in Maastricht and London,...
by Kone-R
album | Bip-Hop
1 March 2002
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
album | Warp
5 August 2003
Chris Clark plunged onto the scene two years ago with the frenetic, restless Clarence Park. Ranging from hyperactive distorted breaks to...
by The Felonious Punk
album | Anticon
23 November 2005
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
album | Starbaby
31 July 2002
Electroblue is a synaesthesically perfect title for this release. A fat, fuzzy, quartzy, highly synthetic sound is bumped along by chunky, restless...
by Andy Rantzen
album | Skam
1 March 2000
Another case of the title influencing the decision to purchase, although being on Skam often serves to recommend. But never before has Skam sounded...
by Richard Wilkes
album | Reel Musiq
31 May 2002
Japanese techno is intrinsically linked with the name of Ken Ishi. His productions, never easily pigeonholed by the music press, have always been...
by Low Life
album | The Grey Area/Mute
2 July 2004
Along with Stephen Mallinder and Chris Watson, Richard H Kirk was Cabaret Voltaire (although Watson left the band as early as 1983). Along with...
by Tom Giles
album | Tresor
30 October 2002
Cristian Vogel returns to techno’s arms after the much-celebrated jiggery-pokery of the deliriously smooth Super_Collider album with a double...
by Edward Blake
album | Planet Mu
1 January 2001
The latest of one Tatsuya Joseph Yoshide, he of the previous incarnation on Sub Rosa as Rom=Pari. The press release states that Joseph's strengths...
by Mathew Riley
album | Rise Robots Rise
3 June 2003
Second artist release for RRR and its a bit of a departure from the sound of first by Super_Collider for this nascent Brighton label. Whereas the...
by Miles Hawthorn
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