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album | The Leaf Label
30 April 2002
This release dubs itself ‘a highly evocative soundtrack to an imaginary Western’, which cites as its musical touchstones composers such...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Pagoda
30 April 2002
I have to admit I approached this album with a level of suspicion that I certainly wouldn’t have had if the press release hadn’t been...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Tresor
11 September 2002
Tracks by The Advent are to DJs what planks are to builders: useful, solid, a bit hard, rather uninteresting on their own but perfect as the...
by Andy Rantzen
album | Warp
30 April 2002
Req is a multi-talented artist, with his finger in many pies, including graffiti art, music production and the obligatory DJing. Originally from...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Rephlex
30 April 2000
A mix of blip 'n' bleep rhythm-scapes, droned-out melodies and sensitive, off-kilter vocals; despite the emotional similarities with Pram and...
by Paul Gannaway
album | Ninja Tune
5 April 2004
I can't remember how they did in the last Eurovision Song Contest. Nevertheless, I can safely say that Poland have not made an enormous musical...
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Supremat
30 June 2001
Echoing a rich heritage of sound experimentation, executive producer Cristian Vogel presents an album where his machines truly do all the talking....
by Gavin Weale
album | Progressive Form
1 March 2002
This is a curious little gem: well-crafted, precise, somewhat abstract, then in other places deals out some quite conventional 4/4 techno.
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Jester
30 June 2002
Not something I want to do, but it's time to slag off a record on Jester – a label that releases some of the freshest futuristic rock shit...
by Edward Blake
album | The Leaf Label
1 January 2002
Once you've adjusted to Eardrum’s unique sound – not unlike a blind person with one leg shorter than the other trying to walk in a...
by Isabel Hopwood
album | DC Recordings
28 September 2004
Amidst the innumerable amount of albums released each year by artists making 'electronic' music (in whatever form that may be) it is all to easy to...
by Andy Parsons
album | Just Music
25 August 2008
Several years in the making and off the back of some fairly constant gigging, Save Your Light For Darker Days is no radical departure...
by Kone-R
album | Warp
10 January 2003
You can instantly tell this is going to be nasty; the very flash holographic cover is covered in knives, the word Satan is in the title and the...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Adaadat
2 May 2007
Doddodo make cheap and scuzzy lo-fi sample breaks. Sample Bitch Story is a mid-paced stomp through Japanese pop culture on the back of...
by Edward Blake
album | The Leaf Label
31 August 2000
Japanese genius Susumu Yokota delivers another beguilingly beautiful project previously released on his own Skintone imprint. When you understand...
by Dave Stelfox
album | 679 Recordings
6 November 2005
The first instalment of Run the Road last year brought the urgent, abrasive sound of grime to the attention...
by Masta G
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