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album | Multicolor Recordings
1 January 2002
Overblown sales guff in the promo leaflet aside (“bestowing the intermedial world”, indeed) this rocks. Played over decent speakers, the...
by Isabel Hopwood
album | 2nd Rec
31 July 2002
Nitrada, aka Christophe Stoll, claims he does not prioritise sound over image, and to demonstrate this aesthetic he has had different artists...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Mitek
31 July 2002
Hakan Lidbo is currently working with 80s filmic electronic pioneers Yello, and shares their filmic aesthetic. The mood is blue-black and lucidly...
by Andy Rantzen
album | Warp
15 November 2004
1 Up is the debut mini-album from this Birmingham-based producer, allegedly signed up to Warp after his neighbour (a certain Chris Clark)...
by Benjamin Lehmann
album | Skylab Operations
27 May 2003
A compilation apparently designed for long journeys where your only companion is your portable music player, 2088 is a colourful, varied...
by Elizabeth Wells
album | Warp
9 June 2003
Recalls a time when the twin wasn’t obsessed with +160bpm din’n’bass, when he made some pretty if twisted tunes a la Selected...
by Gavin Weale
album | Nature
31 August 2000
Broken beats, electro, computer noise and sublime tones combine to form an album of some accomplishment from this Roman producer. 6 Katun...
by Andy Gain
album | The Leaf Label
20 August 2004
If i said that track one consisted of needlepoint keyboard arpeggios hammered out on a peat- and dung-encrusted upright piano in a barn at midnight...
by Vernon Crane
album | International DJ Gigolos
30 June 2002
Put quite simply, if you don't have this, you need it. These decade old sounds from Bobby Konders' original Nu Groove releases still sound fresh...
by Miles Hawthorn
album | Lo Recordings
8 October 2004
Théodore is a Greece-based artist with a fetish for old music boxes, or so it would seem from the unwieldily titled long-player. It’s a...
by Ed Chamberlin
album | Blast First/Mute
1 January 2001
Pan Sonic are Finnish analog freaks who make decidedly expansive, er, minimal beat music. They used to be called Panasonic, but that was before the...
by Kate Butler
album | D.O.R.
1 January 2001
Another posthumous release from the ubiquitous Bryn Jones. Notorious when he was at his creative peak, producing what seemed like a couple of CDs...
by Mathew Riley
album | Planet Mu
12 February 2008
Acid Sauna, the debut long-player from London-via-Chicago’s Libby Floyd, aka The Doubtful Guest, is a fierce onslaught of...
by Kone-R
album | Tectonic
26 May 2008
Laurent Fintoni finds plenty to like in the hotly anticipated debut album from dubstep-techno operative Dave Huismans.
by Laurent Fintoni
album | Out Here
13 April 2006
The profound connections between reggae music and the African continent have been apparent since thousands of rastas came to greet a bemused Haile...
by Masta G
album | Hardleaders
30 June 2002
A full mix of Capone's prolific output on the best no-frills jungle label around. I always thought Capone was Dillinja for some reason (that's...
by Edward Blake
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