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album | !K7
1 March 2000
K7's DJ Kicks series has brought some of the most varied and inspirational mix compilations of recent years to public ears with the likes...
by Dave Stelfox
album | Tresor
31 August 2000
If you had a taste for techno back at the start of the 90s it would have been hard to miss the distinctive sound of the 'Prince of Techno'. With...
by Andy Gain
album | Alpha Pup
5 June 2009
If 2008 belonged to Flying Lotus then 2009 may well be Nosaj Thing’s year when it comes to the meeting point between hip hop and...
by Laurent Fintoni
album | Rise Robots Rise
3 June 2003
Second artist release for RRR and its a bit of a departure from the sound of first by Super_Collider for this nascent Brighton label. Whereas the...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Planet Mu
1 January 2001
The latest of one Tatsuya Joseph Yoshide, he of the previous incarnation on Sub Rosa as Rom=Pari. The press release states that Joseph's strengths...
by Mathew Riley
album | Tresor
30 October 2002
Cristian Vogel returns to techno’s arms after the much-celebrated jiggery-pokery of the deliriously smooth Super_Collider album with a double...
by Edward Blake
album | The Grey Area/Mute
2 July 2004
Along with Stephen Mallinder and Chris Watson, Richard H Kirk was Cabaret Voltaire (although Watson left the band as early as 1983). Along with...
by Tom Giles
album | Reel Musiq
31 May 2002
Japanese techno is intrinsically linked with the name of Ken Ishi. His productions, never easily pigeonholed by the music press, have always been...
by Low Life
album | Skam
1 March 2000
Another case of the title influencing the decision to purchase, although being on Skam often serves to recommend. But never before has Skam sounded...
by Richard Wilkes
album | Starbaby
31 July 2002
Electroblue is a synaesthesically perfect title for this release. A fat, fuzzy, quartzy, highly synthetic sound is bumped along by chunky, restless...
by Andy Rantzen
album | Anticon
23 November 2005
Anyone familiar with the big crunch theory? The one where the decreasing thrust of the big bang combined with ever present gravity means that, one...
by Richard Bold
album | Warp
5 August 2003
Chris Clark plunged onto the scene two years ago with the frenetic, restless Clarence Park. Ranging from hyperactive distorted breaks to...
by The Felonious Punk
album | Bip-Hop
1 March 2002
The philosophy behind Douglas Benford's 4th si-cut.db album is a fascinating one. Apparently constructed partly from samples of woodwork noises,...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | EPM
20 January 2011
EPM is a company that has been steadily supporting quality electronic music for the past 10 years. From their bases in Maastricht and London,...
by Kone-R
album | Bungalow
1 March 2000
As one of the very few truly independent Japanese labels left in existence, respect is due to Escalator Records. Ranging from the screwball...
by Dave Stelfox
album | Music Man
25 August 2008
Techno music is a funny old game at the moment. The merest hint of fashion, or ego, and the old guard are up in arms. In 2008 then, they are...
by Kone-R
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