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album | Mille Plateaux
25 February 2003
Mille Plateaux, the electronica arm of Force Inc records, has long been associated with cutting edge compilations, seeming to have a knack of...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Circulations
24 March 2009
Further proving that the rebirth of hip hop’s boom bap isn’t limited to a singular axis, New Worlds brings together some...
by Laurent Fintoni
album | Pardon My French
20 May 2004
I know it's lazy to draw comparisons between bands simply because of their country of origin, but sometimes it can't be helped. The late ’90s...
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Skam
23 March 2004
Choose Your Own Adventure? Maybe. But only if your adventure of choice has a title like Astrosmash, Cosmic Avenger or...
by David Gunn
album | Ninja Tune
6 June 2004
At a dead end, bored with endlessly extracting sounds from vinyl and smarting at the lack of inspiration in his home town of Nova Scotia, Vaughn...
by Ed Thaw
album | Rephlex
2 July 2007
Fallen into any black holes lately? Kone-R puts down his quantum mechanics book and checks out Gerald Donald's latest work.
by Kone-R
album | The Locus of Assemblage
31 July 2002
Presumably someone thought that making one long track embodies the 'conceptual' idea when it comes to avant-garde music making. Unfortunately it...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Brainfeeder
5 June 2009
As LA continues to lead hip hop’s production revival with Flying Lotus at the helm, the Warp signee and ever-smiling producer has set up...
by Laurent Fintoni
album | Compulsive
31 March 2002
‘A breaks journey’ says the CD. I groan under my breath and lie down on my bed prepared for another uneasy journey through...
by Edward Blake
album | Kudos
1 March 2000
Fila Brazillia have made quite a name for themselves with their inimitable blend of pronounced percussion, sweeping analogue and inspired slick...
by Dave Stelfox
album | Lex Records
5 June 2009
One of the most anticipated musical returns of the year goes to DOOM, ex-MF but still a mask-wearing, full-time-rhyming supervillain. Patience...
by Laurent Fintoni
album | Immigrant
30 June 2001
The theme of travel is omnipresent here as label boss Robin Porter is an ex-Brit who has moved to Southern California. He has also tried to put out...
by Edward Blake
album | Certificate 18
1 March 2000
Is jungle music facing an identity crisis at the moment? It certainly seems that the genre has passed on from the classic scattering breaks and...
by Paul Gannaway
album | Bip-Hop
30 September 2001
The fourth in this series is a truly international compilation pulling in artists from the UK, France, the USA and Australia. Defiantly in the vein...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Bip-Hop
31 May 2002
This compilation is the next instalment in a conceptual ‘anthology’ put together by French glitch/minimalist label Bip-Hop. In keeping...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | !K7
1 March 2000
Bristol's Smith and Mighty cement their relationship with Stud!o K7 by producing perhaps their finest work yet. Big World Small World is an...
by Dave Stelfox
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