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album | Primal Rhythms
31 August 2002
Well, how exactly do you review a DJ compilation? It’s a real puzzle. This sounds like it would’ve been a good night out at some British...
by Andy Rantzen
album | Jarring Effects
25 June 2003
This is clearly a band with style and pulling power: not only are they artistically very smooth (there is more than an aesthetic nod and wink here...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Planet Mu
12 February 2008
Balancing Lakes is the third album from Barry Lynn, better known for working under his Boxcutter moniker. Lynn has gained recent...
by Kone-R
album | B12
16 June 2009
It feels like an age since I reviewed the first two volumes of this hugely anticipated (by me, at least) reissue...
by Kone-R
album | B12
14 November 2008
The rumours of a B12 Records CD release of all those rare-as-hens-teeth 12”s from back in ‘the golden era of British techno’...
by Kone-R
album | Big Dada
17 February 2005
The brand new Roots Manuva is back. His own earlier work has served to create the unique taste by which this album is to be enjoyed. Publicists and...
by Demented Toddler
album | City Slang
22 March 2004
Kurt Wagner and his sizeable Nashville outfit have simultaneously released these albums, a call and response, Awcmon and...
by Demented Toddler
album | WMF Records
31 July 2002
Bit of a strange one this. First up I was drawn in by the quirky and unpretentious nature of the first track here, but then thrown off this by the...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Bungalow
30 April 2000
If you were a fan of Bungalow's quirky Japanese club-pop compilation, Sushi 3003, then this will be right up your street. Working along the...
by Dave Stelfox
album | Tresor
31 July 2002
Celebrating a double century of releases Tresor have really pulled out all the stops for this one. Basic Channel, arguably one of techno music's...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Warp
17 February 2004
The story of Apropa't is a sweet one. After a lifetime spent kicking about in the smoke and concrete of Atlanta, Scott Herren decided to...
by David Gunn
album | Certificate 18
1 March 2000
This is a pure shot of excellence into the blood-stream of electronica. Coming from a Black Dog/Autechre/Boards of Canada angle, Pilote manages to...
by Paul Gannaway
album | Southern Lord
4 March 2011
Lester Whimpers ruminates on drone, Fahey, The Pentangle and the Tantras Of Gyütö as he explores Dylan Carlson and co's latest journey to rich and strange regions of the musical cosmos.
by Lester Whimpers
album | Short Cut
30 April 2002
So I’m sitting in front of my computer typing up some reviews, feeling a bit downhearted about the whole thing, when all of a sudden Jesus...
by Edward Blake
album | Exceptional
31 August 2002
John Beltran, the press release assures us, leads a ‘quiet but athletic life’. I found myself speculating on what this might mean. A...
by Andy Rantzen
album | Swim
31 March 2001
Swim champion all things lo-fi and post-rock so we should champion them too, but this release is a step backwards. Silo lie somewhere between...
by Edward Blake
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