Articles by I. Khider

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  Floppy Sounds

  Short Term Memories

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2001

  The cover of this CD, with the depressed mouse sitting atop a mushroom, stigmatised my first listen. There are some chintzy, wonky sounding...

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  Isabel's Dream

  Monomara

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2001

  A gorgeous album produced by Toronto's Michael Ulrich, I would compare this album with the work of guitar loop and processing luminaries Ku...

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  Kaffe Matthews

  cd dd

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2001

  My speakers haven't received such an intense work out since Aube's Substructural Penetration. This album is the latest work of Matthews, wh...

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  Pigface

  The Best Of...

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2001

  Time to drop this CD in your stereo, crank the volume and collide with a nearby buddy, full-tilt. The massive multi-contributor project of...

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  Sofa Surfers

  Constructions: Remixed and Dubbed

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2001

  This compilation took me back to the early '90s, back to a time of cigarette smoke-hazed clubs where the crowd moved like so many drunken m...

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  Surface 10

  In Vitro Tide

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2001

  In In Vitro Tide, frenetic, highly detailed programming that sounds occupied to the point of flirting with chaos is juxtaposed with soundsc...

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  Nobukazu Takemura

  Hoshi No Koe (Child's View)

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2001

  I have long held the belief that electronic artists should be touring assembly rooms in grade schools rather than bars and clubs. Adults wi...

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  Ilpo Vaisanen

  Asuma

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2001

  This CD is the result of one-half of Pan Sonic, Ilpo Vaisanen, who takes a lighter and more playful approach to the duo's click-dub techniq...