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latest album reviews:
Luke Solomon
The Difference Engine
This is very good. Luke Solomon was always something of a special one, injecting plenty of leftfield weirdness into house long before Jesse Rose, Claude von Stroke et al were reaping in the benefits, fusing a Classic (literally) label and foreseei... »
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Alec Empire
The Golden Foretaste of Heaven
Electro crossover band Alec Empire’s ‘The Golden Foretaste of Heaven’ is an angst and pace driven composition, largely made up of the processed beats and electric synth and guitar led ventures we are familiar with from contemporaries of the genre.... »
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Various
Disco not Disco: Post Punk, Electro &...
Strut revive their Disco not disco series after the series which, first released at the turn of the century, now stands poised as the post punk era is held as one of the most creative in musical history. Angling a series of leftfield disco grooves... »
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Krafty Kuts / Various
Back to MIne
Krafty Kuts steps up to the table for Back to Mine and knocks up a mix that completely befits the slick, hip-hop infused style you’ve come to expect from the Brightonian breakerteer. On offer is a good time, nicely cut and spliced selection of gro... »
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Various
Controversy - A Tribute to Prince
Prince certainly covered some ground in his career, offering enough musical adventure and ingenuity to ensure that artists as diverse as Jamie Lidell and Outkast would claim obvious influence. So slapping together a compilation of covers from a f... »
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Carl Craig
Sessions
Carl Craig is a god, there’s no other way to tell it. Possessed with the kind of musical alchemy that befits only the truly great, his remixes consistently hit sonic wank ratios bulging out of any legitimate scale. Sessions saddles up as a mixed c... »
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Booka Shade (Various)
DJ Kicks
There are some albums that you think are amazing straight away, and after a few listens just fall short of your initial excitement. And then there are other albums which you pick up on and it takes a while to kind of fall into place, but eventuall... »
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Kraddy
'The Illegal Album
Glitch mob rocker Kraddy takes his ultra unique sound to wax for his second release 'The Illegal Album. As a pioneer of the highly revered Glitch Hop sound, the San Franciso based dj/ producer has always retained a raw yet impressively technical s... »
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latest single reviews:
Tomoki & Nono
3 years / Voices
Four:Twenty’s latest signings are two Japanese ex pats who split their experience between basement club duties and rocking in front of 20000 in stadiums. As far as the music itself goes, Voices starts with a burbling 808 bassline with some madcap ... »
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Sei A
Smile for Me
Sei A drop the haunting vocal led ‘Smile for me’ that uses the same bleak ineligibility that was at the heart of the massive ‘Mumblin (yeah)’ which captured 2007’s sleeper hit crown. It’s not as funky as that or as interesting, but certainly does ... »
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The Juan Maclean feat Nancy Whang
Happy House
Bubbling under for a while now, its hitting review territory because it just refuses to stop being ace. Starting off on a deep jazzy house tip, it’s a while before the drop happens, but then the piano licks just occur and the rest is history. Cu... »
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Red
Seen
Seen is the latest release from Red, which is a tangle of messed up breaks and gritty processed guitar leads mashed up with a little turntablism and some choppy modulated Public Enemy Number 1-esqe synth riffs. The All From Scratch mix lets you k... »
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Groove Diggers Feat MC Manic
Get Fresh
A rare release where all mixes are quality. The dub mix is perfect warm-up fodder -not a bad one to start with for leading into a set. The Sam hell mix ups the tempo and the quality creating a rasping dominator of a tune, pure quality! »
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Def Inc
Filty Dirty/Freak'N'Fry
Filthy dirty is a heads down roller with a good use of sounds and percussion. It’s not rocket science, but a more than adequate enough slice of iller for fattening your sets up. »
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Napt
The Rollers/Intergalactic
Napt have been slamming it of late with every release getting bigger and badder in the Micheal Jackson sense of the word. This is no different; in fact, it’s pushing hard for the title of my favourite so far! »
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Holmar Fillippson & Sasse
Lily Louisa
Holmar Fillippson teams up with MoodMusic main man Sasse for an interesting slice of atmospheric electro house that combines an ethereal melody against a crunching backdrop, though not nearly as adeptly as some of the stuff the genre has thrown up... »
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