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ARPANET
Label : Record Makers / P-Vine / Format : Original CD / Released : 08 December 06 / Style : Experimental, Abstract, Techno
As part of Drexciya and Dopplereffekt Gerald Donald can often be found in the catalogues of labels like International Deejay Gigolo, Warp and Tresor. In fact his track ‘Z-Bozon’, which he produced .... (more)
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GREENSKEEPERS
Label : KSR House / OM Records / Format : Original CD + Bonux Mix CD / Released : 11 October 06 / Style : House, Post-punk
If you pick up a copy of the Greenskeepers’ “Polo Club” and are expecting a serious head driven affair then you obviously haven’t listened to either of their two previous albums. The Chicago outfit’s 2004 .... (more)
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JUNIOR BOYS
Label : Domino / Hostess / Format : Original CD / Released : 11 September 06 / Style : Synth-pop
Putting in the disc for the first time you can be forgiven for wondering if you accidentally grabbed a Hot Hits of the 80’s CD by mistake. That is if it wasn’t for the deliberately sparse and sophisticated programming .... (more)
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ALVA NOTO + RYUICHI SAKAMOTO
Label : Raster-Noton / Format : Original CD / Released : 01 Jun 06 / Style : Electronica, Minimal
If you are a fan of the crowded, element heavy electro that is often passed off as minimal these days then you are not going to like the latest outing from glitch meister Alva Noto and Japanese pianist .... (more)
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UUSITALO
Label : Huume / Format : Original CD / Released : 12 May 06 / Style : Techno, IDM, Dub
Finnish literature surely ranks as one of the few universal interests, well perhaps not but that hasn't stopped Sasu Ripatti from dedicating an entire album to it. Ripatti shelved his Luomo and Vladislav .... (more)
photo A YEAR OF MULE ELECTRONIC
V.A
Label : Mule Electronic / Format : Compilation CD / Released : 22 Apr 06 / Style : Minimal, Techno, Dub
As soon as "A Year of Mule Electronic" starts up Saiko Tsukamoto takes us by the hand and leads us on a melancholic journey with a piano solo evoking images of rain drops rolling gracefully down a window .... (more)
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LUCIANO
Label : Soma Recordings / Format : Mix CD / Released : 17 Apr 06 / Style : Minimal, Techno
The second in the Sci.Fi.Hi.Fi series from the Glaswegian Soma Recordings is proudly brought to you by DC:10's newest resident Luciano. The last time we heard from the South American DJ/producer as far as .... (more)
photo DROWNING IN A SEA OF LOVE
NATHAN FAKE
Label : Border Community / Format : Original CD / Released : 20 March 06 / Style : Electronica, Downtempo
It was back in 2003 that we first heard from the twenty-something Englishman with the release of 'Outhouse' on James Holden's Border Community. Just one year later and he was changing the colour of skies .... (more)
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DJ KOZE
Label : KOMPAKT / Format : Original CD / Released : 12 Sep, 05 / Style : Electronica
In this latest release from Kompakt we are encouraged to invite Kosi into our house as DJ Koze supplies us with nine of his latest tracks ranging from driving head bopping tunes to smooth as silk melodic numbers .... (more)
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John Tejada & Arian Leviste
Label : Palette Recordings / Format : Original CD / Released : 25 Apr, 05 / Style : Tech House, Minimal
Palette Recordings promises that Back for Basics, the new album from John Tejada and Arian Leviste, will deliver plenty of "twisted minimal funk". On this occasion the team at Palette Recordings can most .... (more)
photo TO ALL THINGS WHAT THEY NEED
A GUY CALLED GERALD
Label : Studio K7 / Format : Original CD / Released : 31 Jan, 05 / Style : Electronica
In these modern times, where a large proportion of the music released is as disposable as the mp3 file format it comes in and where the advanced intricacies of modern music production is used to cover up a lack of real invention and soul.... (more)
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EDDIE RICHARDS
Label : Fabric / Format : Mix CD / Released : 29 May, 04 / Style : Progressive
'Evil' Eddie Richards has been around for ages and ages. If you're interested in the history of dance music and don't know Eddie Richards then you should find new interests because Eddie's been in the dance business for a while, at least a 16 years while..... (more)
photo SORRY I MAKE YOU LUSH
WAGON CHRIST
Label : Ninja Tune / Format : Original CD / Released : 30 June, 04 / Style : Downtempo, Trip Hop
The single most provocative thing about Wagon Christ is working out how Luke Vibert came up with the name. I had plenty of time to ponder the question while meandering his latest album, Sorry I make you Lush. My conclusion; Vibert sees himself as Christ with a Wagon... (more)
photo FROM THE DOUBLE GONE CHAPEL
TWO LONE SWORDSMEN
Label : Warp / Format : Original CD / Released : 30 May, 04 / Style : IDM, Rock, Techno
"What the fuck are they up to now?" This, say electro stalwarts Andrew Weatherall and Keith Tenniswood, is what they expect you to think when you listen to their latest offering. They didn't really need to spell it out. For fans hoping for another slice of the liquid.... (more)
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SASHA
Label : Global Underground / Format : Mix CD / Released : 21 June, 04 / Style : Progressive
Sasha, his name is now legendary in dance music. Millions follow everything he does, people adore him, for many his music is gospel. So this, his first compilation album since 1998's Global Underground Ibiza, (a release hailed by many as the best in the series).... (more)
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ORBITAL
Label : Orbital Music / Format : CD / Released : 21 June, 2004 / Style : Techno
I was never a die hard Orbital fan, I thought their albums had some amazing tracks but none had the same optimistic, exciting new sound their debut album, loved and known as 'The Brown Album' did. The start of something special it captured the then... (more)
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MISS KITTIN
Label : NovaMute /Format : CD / Released : 31st May, 2004 / Style : Electro
Caroline Herve proves once again that her alter ego Miss Kittin is one feline to be taken seriously, and on closer inspection, with a serious pinch of salt. Listening to I com, Miss Kittin's latest album is like playing a game of pictionary; clever... (more)
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THOMAS BRINKMANN
Label : Maxernst / Format : CD / Released : 26th March, 2004 / Style : Electronica
I really envy the global electronic music producer. With production facilities condensed into a few kilograms of high tech computer equipment and high speed internet access, they are finding their working environment much less geographically confined.... (more)
photo RENAISSANCE MASTER SERIES
HERNAN CATTANEO
Label : Renaissance / Format : 2CD Mixed / Released : 16th Feb, 2004 / Style : Progressive
Hernan Cattaneo, Argentina's, and probably South America's biggest dance music export confirms his position as one of electronic music's living legends with this release on the highly respected series, Renaissance's, 'The Master Series'.... (more)
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AIR
Label : Virgin-EMI / Cat No. : CDV2980 / Format : CD / Released : 26 Jan, 2004 / Style : Downtempo
Floating gently on a sea of synth-pop this album, the third from the French duo is possibly their most accomplished piece of work yet. True original musical creators, every album so far has been a innovation, forging and developing... (more)
photo PERFECTO PRESENTS
SANDRA COLLINS
Label : Perfecto / Cat No. : TRVR90714 / Format : 2CD Mixed / Released : 27th Jan, 2004 / Style : Progressive
I get a bit skeptical about mix albums these days, computers do such a perfect job of mixing tracks together, every release is pretty much perfect so it really is down to track selection that makes the great compilations and the great artists stand outo... (more)
photo ESSENTIAL UNDERGROUND VOL.07
BEN SIMS AND CHRISTIAN SMITH
Label : Dj Sets.com / Cat No. : DJ020-02 Format : 2CD Mixed / Released : December 2003 / Style : Techno
Vol. 07, the latest in the Essential Underground series comes from both sides of the Atlantic. New York's Christian Smith and London's Ben Sims remix a mixture of Sims' own tracks and some of techno's other key producers to bring you this massive... (more)