Welcome to Spannered’s music feature and review archive. What’s in here then? Well, since the site was launched in December 2006, Spannered has run in-depth interviews with globetrotting tastemakers Kode9, DJ Ripley and Maga Bo, tripped over to Barcelona's Sónar festival, fallen over at the first ever Bloc Weekend, toured New York's global music circuit and gotten tinnitus in Bristol and São Paulo.
 
Spannered's archive stretches all the way back to 2000 however. Have a dig about and you'll unearth interviews and features with musical innovators Jeff Mills and Photek, write-ups of Cat Power, Caribou and Matmos gigs, and album reviews spanning Aphex Twin to NoMeansNo. You can also visit Spannered's music blog.
 
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Sieg Uber Die Sonne
album | Multicolor Recordings   
1 January 2002
Sieg Uber Die Sonne
(-).(-)=(+)
Overblown sales guff in the promo leaflet aside (“bestowing the intermedial world”, indeed) this rocks. Played over decent speakers, the...
by Isabel Hopwood
Nitrada
album | 2nd Rec   
1 August 2002
Nitrada
0+
Nitrada, aka Christophe Stoll, claims he does not prioritise sound over image, and to demonstrate this aesthetic he has had different artists...
by Elizabeth Wells
Hakan Lidbo
album | Mitek   
1 August 2002
Hakan Lidbo
06.10.60
Hakan Lidbo is currently working with 80s filmic electronic pioneers Yello, and shares their filmic aesthetic. The mood is blue-black and lucidly...
by Andy Rantzen
Milanese
album | Warp   
15 November 2004
Milanese
1 Up
1 Up is the debut mini-album from this Birmingham-based producer, allegedly signed up to Warp after his neighbour (a certain Chris Clark)...
by Benjamin Lehmann
Various Artists
album | Skylab Operations   
28 May 2003
Various Artists
2088
A compilation apparently designed for long journeys where your only companion is your portable music player, 2088 is a colourful, varied...
by Elizabeth Wells
Aphex Twin
album | Warp   
10 June 2003
Aphex Twin
26 Mixes For Cash
Recalls a time when the twin wasn’t obsessed with +160bpm din’n’bass, when he made some pretty if twisted tunes a la Selected...
by Gavin Weale
Marco Passarani
album | Nature   
1 September 2000
Marco Passarani
6 Katun
Broken beats, electro, computer noise and sublime tones combine to form an album of some accomplishment from this Roman producer. 6 Katun...
by Andy Gain
A Hawk and a Hacksaw
album | The Leaf Label   
21 August 2004
A Hawk and a Hacksaw
A Hawk and a Hacksaw
If i said that track one consisted of needlepoint keyboard arpeggios hammered out on a peat- and dung-encrusted upright piano in a barn at midnight...
by Vernon Crane
Bobby Konders
album | International DJ Gigolos   
1 July 2002
Bobby Konders
A Lost Era in NYC 87-92
Put quite simply, if you don't have this, you need it. These decade old sounds from Bobby Konders' original Nu Groove releases still sound fresh...
by Miles Hawthorn
Theodore
album | Lo Recordings   
9 October 2004
Theodore
A Summer She Has Never Been, A Winter She Fears
Théodore is a Greece-based artist with a fetish for old music boxes, or so it would seem from the unwieldily titled long-player. It’s a...
by Ed Chamberlin
Pan Sonic
album | Blast First/Mute   
1 January 2001
Pan Sonic
Aaltopiiri
Pan Sonic are Finnish analog freaks who make decidedly expansive, er, minimal beat music. They used to be called Panasonic, but that was before the...
by Kate Butler
Muslimgauze
album | D.O.R.   
1 January 2001
Muslimgauze
Abu-Dis
Another posthumous release from the ubiquitous Bryn Jones. Notorious when he was at his creative peak, producing what seemed like a couple of CDs...
by Mathew Riley
The Doubtful Guest
album | Planet Mu   
12 February 2008
The Doubtful Guest
Acid Sauna
Acid Sauna, the debut long-player from London-via-Chicago’s Libby Floyd, aka The Doubtful Guest, is a fierce onslaught of...
by Kone-R
Various Artists
album | Out Here   
14 April 2006
Various Artists
African Rebel Music: Roots Reggae and Dancehall
The profound connections between reggae music and the African continent have been apparent since thousands of rastas came to greet a bemused Haile...
by Masta G
Capone
album | Hardleaders   
1 July 2002
Capone
AKA The Original Master
A full mix of Capone's prolific output on the best no-frills jungle label around. I always thought Capone was Dillinja for some reason (that's...
by Edward Blake
Slam
album | Soma   
1 July 2001
Slam
Alien Radio
Hard to fault the Glaswegian granddaddies of techno after all they've done for the music many of us have enjoyed for the last ten tears or more....
by Gavin Weale
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