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album | Greensleeves
6 November 2005
Bob Marley sang of the music which he popularised around the world that “we feel it in the one drop”. His term is now used to describe...
by Masta G
album | 90% Wasser/Moloko Plus
27 May 2003
Put together with the input of collaborators such as Rechenzentrum, this Berlin-based collective release their follow-up to the critically acclaimed...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Kombination Research/Elp Medien
31 July 2002
Cisco Ferreira has put out fourteen Advent 12" singles on Kombination Research and Recreations 1 (to be released at the end of...
by Andy Rantzen
album | 2nd Rec
10 January 2003
It is nearly the end of the year but this is without doubt one of the best albums of it, or any year come to think of it. Giardini Di Miro have...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Adaadat
17 February 2005
This album has some of the funniest and most simple cover artwork I have ever seen, especially when taken in context with the music itself. A...
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Most Records
28 April 2004
Tunisian-born musician Jean Pierre Smadja has been making and recording music since the early nineties, but this album seems certain to bring him to...
by Masta G
album | Fact
31 July 2002
This album review descends into metaphor I'm afraid; it's very difficult to describe this kind of minimalist soundscaping without making reference...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Balkan Vinyl
6 August 2010
It's been a long and varied journey for the Posthuman pairing of cousins Richard Bevan and Joshu Doherty. Since debuting in 2001 with releases...
by Kone-R
album | Audiobulb Records
5 July 2004
Switches is the fourth release on Audiobulb, a new Sheffield-based electronica label. David Newman, Audiobulb's proprietor, met the artists whose...
by Tom Giles
album | !K7
1 March 2000
Following on from 1997's sumptuous debut album Opera, Richard Dorfmeister and Rupert Huber's Tosca have taken a meditative, contemplative...
by Dave Stelfox
album | Music Man
31 March 2001
There aren't many recording artists who can stake a claim on being the first to use a 303 on record. Phuture 303's current streamlined incarnation...
by Nick Craddock
album | FatCat
6 June 2004
Apart from a few scattered memories we've mostly forgotten what being young was like. The sheer unalloyed joy of a slice of white bread covered with...
by Ed Thaw
album | FatCat
5 April 2004
For people who make such gorgeous music, Múm certainly put themselves through hell to get there. Summer Make Good, their second...
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Skam
23 April 2007
Nothing beats a good nautical theme when it comes to music. Space is so new and cliché-ridden that when used conceptually it nearly...
by Edward Blake
album | Eukahouse
30 June 2001
Who's that? Uh... sorry, you've caught me napping. Oh dear, I appear to have drooled and everything. I don't know what happened. One minute I was...
by Edward Blake
album | Jester
30 June 2001
A real tongue twister of a title to get stuck into here but unfortunately not a lot else. This double CD from Norway is apparently about friendship...
by Miles Hawthorn
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