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album | V/Vm Test
3 June 2003
After travelling the four corners of the world, V/Vm are back with an array of new talent intent on savaging the best of the worst of the last...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Disturbance
31 July 2002
Dati's label likens this release to 'a great spider' with each of its legs in a different territory of dance music, and I really like this metaphor,...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | DC Recordings
1 March 2000
J Saul Kane returns under his pioneering Octagon Man guise for the sequel to 1995's The Exciting World Of... long-player. Ito...
by Dave Stelfox
album | Om
20 October 2004
This deep mix from San Franciscan hip hop DJ J-Boogie is one of this month's unexpected gems, combining as it does hip hop, dub, nu soul and...
by Masta G
album | Nature
31 August 2000
Take equal parts of cool funk, dodgy drum machines, Psychic Youth type loops, ludicrous cut ups, delicious electronics and hey presto, you're Jolly....
by Andy Gain
album | The Leaf Label
31 May 2002
This is rather an unclassifiable oddity: a strange mixture of Indian percussion with a decidedly Japanese flavour, which harnesses modern digital...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Recording Under Construction
1 March 2002
This tasty little morsel from Germany's RUC records showcases four artists, all of whom have their own particular spin on contemporary electronic...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | UpToYouToo
23 November 2004
The poignant intro to Kilio Cha Haki sees MC Kinyanjui Anthony's assertion that 'I was born in the street, I was born in the slum' balance...
by Masta G
album | Memphis Industries
30 June 2000
There's something pretty special at work here. While you can't deny that Dan Berridge's music sounds like DJ Shadow – using a collection of...
by Bruno Martelli
album | Ninja Tune
4 November 2005
Skalpel tackle the difficult second album with a distinct change of tack.
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Planet Mu
23 March 2009
Ever since the name Syntheme started to appear on internet message boards, debate has raged about the identity of the person behind the now...
by Kone-R
album | B12 Records
12 May 2008
New material signals a welcome return for techno legends B12, but the Essex boys are not quite back on their feet yet, says Kone-R.
by Kone-R
album | Skintone/The Leaf Label
1 January 2001
There are only fifty or so copies of this Japan-only release floating around in the UK at present, but when you combine one of the UK's most...
by Franklyn J
album | Ghostly International/Spectral Sound
27 April 2004
Texas has been responsible for some of the most notorious antiheroes of the last century, not least our old friend George Dubya. This has lead some...
by Benjamin Lehmann
album | Blueprint Records
22 November 2011
The idea of an album co-produced by UK techno dons James Ruskin and Mark Broom for the former's Blueprint label was one which appealed strongly to...
by Kone-R
album | Domino
1 March 2000
TTEF might sound for all the world like a shadowy organisation that funds research into extra-sensory perception, but 'they' are in fact Matt...
by Tom Magic Feet
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