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album | Alpha Pup
5 June 2009
If 2008 belonged to Flying Lotus then 2009 may well be Nosaj Thing’s year when it comes to the meeting point between hip hop and...
by Laurent Fintoni
album | Tresor
31 August 2000
If you had a taste for techno back at the start of the 90s it would have been hard to miss the distinctive sound of the 'Prince of Techno'. With...
by Andy Gain
album | !K7
1 March 2000
K7's DJ Kicks series has brought some of the most varied and inspirational mix compilations of recent years to public ears with the likes...
by Dave Stelfox
album | Urban Substance
31 August 2002
Don’t be fooled into thinking that Detroit is simply about looped, melodic techno and Drexcyian electro, for there is a much rawer street...
by Motorboy
album | Violent Turd
27 April 2004
DJ /rupture and Mutamassik conduct guerrilla warfare on the stifling corporate culture which taints the music industry as surely as it does global politics.
by Masta G
album | Seed
10 January 2003
As is immediately evident from the artist name and album title, this is a work that is full of contrasts. One moment your heart is melted by the icy...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Geophone Records
31 May 2002
Buffalo-based arts professor Mike Parker has been crafting his twisted take on techno for quite some time now. The haunting feel that is created by...
by Low Life
album | Virgin
31 March 2001
Any fan of the Parisian punkers will know that they've never really taken themselves seriously in the pop scheme of things. But with this follow up...
by Kate Butler
album | Jarring Effects / Soot Records
10 March 2009
Filastine delivers his second album, a fresh and uncompromising musical bombardment.
by Rosenthal Whim
album | Novamute
3 June 2003
Never one to take music too seriously, Si Begg has taken a quick shufti under the bonnet of dance music and gone to work with his spanners, giving...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Compost
30 April 2000
Viscous, slightly electrified, disco-friendly, jazz-influenced floor fillers are what Syrup do and Different Flavours does not disappoint....
by Dave Stelfox
album | Soma
1 May 2007
The name is an instant turn-off for me, so it’s with some trepidation that I place this into the CD player. My doubts are justified as...
by Edward Blake
album | Third Ear
30 September 2002
All I need to really do here is to mention some of the names that grace this triple vinyl/double CD pack and I guess that many of you won’t...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | The Leaf Label
30 May 2004
Delivery Room is the latest in a series of low-cost samplers from our friends at Leaf and boss man Tony Morley seems keen for us to explore...
by Alastair Dant
album | Planet Mu
10 February 2006
2005 was a fertile year for London’s post-garage panorama. From the polished jabs and rhymes of big guns Dizzee and Kano to the cold,...
by Alex Ward
album | Blueprint
5 December 2002
First full length album from the Mavericks (Richard Polson and Nick Dunton) whose live shows are the stuff of techno legend. On the basis of this...
by Miles Hawthorn
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