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album | Pardon My French
20 May 2004
I know it's lazy to draw comparisons between bands simply because of their country of origin, but sometimes it can't be helped. The late ’90s...
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Circulations
24 March 2009
Further proving that the rebirth of hip hop’s boom bap isn’t limited to a singular axis, New Worlds brings together some...
by Laurent Fintoni
album | Mille Plateaux
25 February 2003
Mille Plateaux, the electronica arm of Force Inc records, has long been associated with cutting edge compilations, seeming to have a knack of...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Intr_version Records
31 July 2002
Like a lot of contemporary electronic musicians, Mitchell Akiyama and Joshua Treble are separated by plenty of air miles (Akiyama is based in...
by Elizabeth Wells
live / album | Secretsundaze
9 October 2007
Six years back if you’d have suggested to me that London might host a large outdoor techno event that would take place regularly on a...
by Kone-R
album | Cocoon
31 August 2002
Sven Vath and Pauli Steinbach have pulled together another impressive roster of artists for this, the third Cocoon compilation. Steve Rachmad, Funk...
by Andy Rantzen
album | Intuit Solar
31 March 2001
Intuit Solar seems dedicated to representing the best of underground music emanating from the much hallowed Motor City, and thankfully avoids...
by Nick Craddock
album | Music For Speakers
31 July 2002
Music for Speakers operate at a different tangent to most, consistently producing intricate and authentic music that tests new rhythmic structures....
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Electronic Corporation
31 March 2001
Following on from their 1999 debut Plastic Omnium, Ive Muller and Rene Kirchner release their second collaborative album. Although German...
by Motorboy
album | Klein
31 August 2000
Vienna's favourite dub-munching electronica heads get ripped to shreds and glued loosely back together by a host of downtempo new school pioneers. A...
by Valerie Snails
album | deFocus
30 April 2000
In the wake of influential label Clear has arisen deFocus. While the essence of Clear converged very much around the revival of electro sounds and...
by Paul Gannaway
album | Everest Records
9 June 2003
A sampler compiled for the above Swiss convention, this collection showcases those who have been involved in the creation of non-commercial...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Skam
4 March 2004
On paper, an album put together over the Atlantic through ICQ, AOL and MSN Messenger looks like a great, new, productive and morally sound use for...
by Ed Thaw
album | Big Dada
27 April 2004
There have been plenty of approaches to hip hop jazz, from Stetsasonic's Talkin All That Jazz (which, let's face it, didn't have much to do...
by Demented Toddler
album | Pro-Jex
31 March 2001
LP of ultra tough street techno on Charlie Hall's Pro-jex label, aping the jack-attack sound of Chicago's DJ Rush in an uncompromising albeit...
by Edward Blake
album | Novamute
19 September 2003
UK Bass is a term first coined by the Wide crew to describe the fusion of ragga, hip hop, jungle, ghetto-tech and booty bass that they've been...
by Jimmy 'Zinger' Bolus
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