Articles by Aaron Levy

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  Icarus

  Sylt

  PUBLISHED Nov 20, 2007

  Progressive English duo Icarus live up to their name in a sarcastic way. If you come from a background of more traditional electronica — fr...

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  Sawako

  Madoromi

  PUBLISHED Nov 19, 2007

  Madoromi sounds like the perpetual ending of every Broken Social Scene song. Charming, half-hushed and half-rushed, with throaty whisps and...

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  Triple M

  Revolutions

  PUBLISHED Nov 19, 2007

  Triple M is disappointing. After declaring himself a techno producer specialising in industrial and minimal dance, as well as touting his m...

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  Run With The Kittens

  Bangers and Mash

  PUBLISHED Oct 30, 2007

  Bangers and mash is England’s equivalent to meat and potatoes, and here the course is 11 tracks and one interlude encompassing 30 minutes....

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  LawnChair Generals / Various

  Around the Block

  PUBLISHED Oct 29, 2007

  LawnChair Generals are like the armchair quarterbacks of minimal break-like house producers. Instead of knowing better than Wade Phillips,...

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  Sex Party

  Sex Party

  PUBLISHED Oct 29, 2007

  Sex Party are the easiest act to underestimate upon first glance. Hushed melodic sub-synth themes dodge around walls of alternately post-pu...

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  First Person Shooter

  Codec

  PUBLISHED Oct 29, 2007

  I can’t tell if it’s First Person Shooter that totally sucks or just their singer. They’d be like a pop punk Evanescence if they weren’t so...

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  Opaq Face

  Buzz Killed

  PUBLISHED Oct 29, 2007

  The Buzz Killed EP shows a tenfold improvement beat-wise from Opaq Face’s 2004 EP Close Enough. Where the latter opens with a straight-up,...