Speedy J has produced influential touchstones in techno in the past, like G Spot, and created assorted brilliant ambient works under his own...
Articles By I. Khider
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ReviewsSpeedy J Loudboxer Published Jan 01, 2006
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ReviewsVarious Tape 10 Published Jan 01, 2006
The concept behind this compilation is interesting. Ten different music producers are each given a photograph, then asked to compose a music...
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ReviewsNaw The Resound of a Foggy Autumn Dawn Published Jan 01, 2006
The long awaited debut full-length by Naw, aka Neil Wiernik, offers dark and murky techno saturated in shadowy sounds yet dominated by power...
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ReviewsSink Usual Cerex Published Jan 01, 2006
Usual Cerex is yet another fine example of the burgeoning electronic scene in France, specifically in Le Bourg, where some high-quality work...
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ReviewsAloha Sugar Published Jan 01, 2006
The intro track, "Fractures," opens up with a clamour of percussive instruments before Aloha kicks in with "They See Rocks" and takes off wi...
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ReviewsSarah Peebles Insect Groove Published Jan 01, 2006
Sarah Peebles has long been a proponent of showcasing avant garde 20th century compositions by women through her radio show on CIUT, The Aud...
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ReviewsWidening Gyre Les Landes Published Jan 01, 2006
An ambient/down-tempo project that reminds me of the Boards of Canada but tends to a more ambient direction, and though there are rhythms, t...
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ReviewsO. Lamm Snow Party Published Jan 01, 2006
Snow Party is a release from Active Suspension, a new label that's based in France, a country not too well known for electronic music but on...
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ReviewsKnurl Paramecium Published Jan 01, 2006
Knurl is Alan Bloor, a noise artist who produces a variety of harsh, extreme textures in sound. Bloor comes for the realm of noise similar t...
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ReviewsSteve Roach/Vidna Obmana Inner Zone Published Jan 01, 2006
Steve Roach's latest foray into ambient space music sees him this time teaming up with Vidna Obmana, who here plays a Hungarian overtone win...
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FeaturesDo Make Say Think What Do Makes Say and Think Published Jan 01, 2006
Do Make Say Think play the kind of music you might want sound-tracking your life. For starters their cinematic instrumental sound defies the...
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ReviewsNecks Aether Published Jan 01, 2006
An uncommon approach to music from a traditional band set-up of upright bass, drums and keyboards, the Necks form patterns in their music, u...
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ReviewsVarious Documenta Published Jan 01, 2006
Documenta is a three-part compilation where each CD focuses on a particular facet of contemporary music. This being the first in the series,...
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ReviewsVarious The Freest of Radicals Published Jan 01, 2006
A double CD release of avant sounds from avant Montreal label No Type, featuring an overwhelming 36 tracks in total. A buffet of styles is o...
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FeaturesRichie Hawtin Are Cueing Up Published Jan 01, 2006
If you thought DJing involved beat matching a couple of records while manipulating pitch and EQ, think again. Richie Hawtin (aka Plastikman)...
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ReviewsScion Arrange and Process Basic Channel Tracks Published Jan 01, 2006
Tresor Records has released a mix of exceptional Basic Channel tracks by Chain Reaction's Scion (Pete Kuschnereit and Rene Lowe), featuring...
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ReviewsGalerie Stratique Nothing Down-To-Earth Published Jan 01, 2006
Nothing Down-To-Earth sounds like eerie and darkly hip science documentary music. Galerie Stratique likes to work with abstract beats and ee...
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ReviewsUnitus Cross Contamination Published Jan 01, 2006
Opening with heavily distorted guitar followed by drilling breaks, Unitus, aka Daniel Ross, clamours with a powerful, menacing yet adrenalin...
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ReviewsMerzbow Kathedral, Toronto ON September 20, 2002 Published Jan 01, 2006
For those who wished to court deafness via high-pitched abrasive sounds, this bill featured various local noise acts, capped off by the star...
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ReviewsNobukazu Takemura 10th Published Jan 01, 2006
As always, Nobukazu Takemura has some of the finest CD cover art that looks like it would fit right in a childrens fairy tale. Bright yet p...