music
album | The Leaf Label
30 June 2001
It's been a while since I last had a good ambient Zulu boogie so hearing Susumu Yokota's river deep compositions has brought me a little piece of...
by Edward Blake
album | Polydor/Geffen
31 July 2005
Okay, I should begin by admitting that I really loved the soporific, heartbroken country of Beck’s last album Seac...
by Kate Andrew
album | Invisible
1 March 2000
Unchecked ambition can be a dangerous thing in music. Former Cop Shoot Cop collaborator and film score merchant JF Coleman is Phylr (pronounced...
by Tom Magic Feet
album | Noise Factory
31 May 2002
Aaron Boot, aka Sparrow Orange follows up his debut, The Beauty of Strangeness (also released on Noise Factory) with this interesting...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Faith and Industry
20 August 2004
'So, what music do you like?' Don't you hate that question? Although, potentially, an accurate answer would easily dwarf the most hardcore...
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Tresor
1 March 2002
Having reconvened after two mighty fine solo ventures, the highly recommended Other People Place for Warp and Transllusion for Supremat, Drexciya...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Everest Records
17 November 2004
During the 70s prog rock gradually found itself stubbornly striving for higher levels of technical, conceptual and compositional complexity to the...
by Ed Chamberlin
album | V/Vm Test
3 June 2003
V/Vm compile their Help Aphex Twin series onto one CD in a final push to help the Twin. They never really let on what kind of help they are offering...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Skylab Operations
27 May 2003
A double album featuring Phasmid’s original LP and a host of remixes by various artists working on the fringes of electronic music. The first...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Zebra Traffic
29 January 2004
Not so much Millenium Metaphors as sophomore similes, Phi Life Cypher return with their second attempt to break the record for the number...
by Demented Toddler
album | Sprawl
31 August 2000
Let's pray God's got a sense of humour. Twenty cutting-edge electronic artists recreate hymns and anthems of their choice in a highly disrespectful...
by Andy Gain
album | Lex Records
1 October 2003
Assured delivery puts less versatile MCs to shame, demonstrating a sharp range of styles, an acute knowledge of hip hop history and some impressive lyrical stunts.
by Demented Toddler
album | Canine Records
5 June 2005
Deep Sea Diver opens this album with a collection of submerged, static drones and muffled vocals reminiscent of Can’s Future...
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Domino
27 April 2004
Album number six for the Berlin three-piece, and the adage 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' could never be better applied. The music contained on...
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Handle With Care
31 March 2002
After Detroit, Berlin is probably the second most 'techno-associated' city, and this is a showcase of six of its newest and most forward thinking...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Matador
30 June 2000
MC Paul Barman is not you usual, run-of-the mill, gun-totin', crack-tootin', ho'-slappin' rapper. In fact, he's a rather funny-looking Ivy League...
by Dave Stelfox
Contributors retain the copyright to their own contributions. Everything else is copyright © Spannered 2012.
Please do not copy whole articles: instead, copy a bit and link to the rest. Thanks!
