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album | Quatermass
30 June 2001
Self confessed kleptomaniac (that is of sound not actual goods, as 'that would be wrong') The Rip-Off Artist aka Mark Haines has plundered...
by Motorboy
album | The Leaf Label
31 March 2005
Great production but sketchy songwriting from Manitoba that was.
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Luaka Bop
25 February 2003
The only thing that this has in common with hip hop (generally) is tempo. The music on here has been turned inside out, mangled and hung out to dry;...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Plug Research
25 February 2003
Avant-garde hip hop remixes on show here, with Warp stars Antipop Consortium headlining. Madlib (in his Yesterday's New Quintet guise) turns his...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Noise Factory
27 May 2003
A prolific sound and avant-techno artist in his native Montreal, Neil Wiernik, aka Naw, offers a subtly invasive blend of sound manipulation and...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Klein
31 August 2000
The machine is dead, long live the man-machine interface. Hard disk conductor Beat Soler has sampled from his collection of 50s easy listening and...
by Andy Gain
album | Halflink
2 April 2003
Astor's debut, two years in the making, is the work of Rhode Island's Michele Doucet (music and production), and Alison Jane (occasional...
by Andy Rantzen
album | Accidental
12 April 2004
In what sense is a new Herbert release 'unnecessary'? OK, so it is a compilation and therefore inherently not as good as a new album; but...
by Tom Giles
album | Planet Mu
31 October 2005
Toddler investigates Manchester's foray into bimma-shaking grime.
by Demented Toddler
album | Novamute
4 June 2004
Man of many aliases, Tim Wright has been using his own name on Novamute since 2002 where he’s been bringing his eclectic style to releases...
by Ed Thaw
album | Third Ear
9 March 2003
Tread are Take Kitahara and Hiroshi Watanabe (who records as Kaito for Kompakt) and take a self-styled ‘minimalist’ approach to their...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Off On One
25 February 2003
Thud is the brainchild of the pseudonymous Edward Blake of Overload Media, who is best known in techno circles for his Cut Out releases (more...
by Andy Rantzen
album | Memphis Industries
20 August 2004
The Go! Team have already made an impression this year with the release of The Power Is On, the lead off single from this album. Over three...
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Isis Arts
30 April 2002
Chris Dooks’ former incarnations have included working as a film and documentary maker (he directed the South Bank show on avant-garde sound...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Science
31 March 2001
Pullen threads a preoccupation with time through his latest LP. He opens with the track that was made the longest time ago, Tsunami, and...
by Kate Butler
album | Warp
30 April 2003
Beans is one half of Antipop Consortium, who goes it alone for this. The album opens with Roar and the first thing you notice is that the...
by Miles Hawthorn
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