Articles by Joshua Ostroff

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  Ricardo Villalobos / Various

  In The Mix: Taka Taka

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  Initially released as an hors d’oeuvre for his acclaimed debut full-length, Chilean-expat DJ/producer Ricardo Villalobos’s stunning mix-dis...

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  Matthew Dear

  Leave Luck To Heavan

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  Just when you think the often overly analytical micro-house/minimal techno subgenre has worn out its welcome, another ginsu artist chimes i...

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  Funkstorung

  Disconnected

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  Funkstorung means radio distortion and while the name was an amusing pun during their IDM days, it seems even more applicable to their newf...

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  Squarepusher

  Ultravisitor

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  During the mid-’90s, drum & bass crawled up its own arse. There, deep inside the large intestine, "drill & bass” artists like Tom "Squarepu...

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  Jeff Mills

  Exhibitionist

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  For all his legendary status, the DJ formerly known as the Wizard is no mix-disc whore — Exhibitionist is his first in eight years (and onl...

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  Arthur Russell

  The World of Arthur Russell

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  Collective memory is entirely unreliable, thus disco recalls almost exclusively the sounds of Saturday Night Fever and Gloria Gaynor. But b...

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  As One

  Out of the Darkness

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  The Brits are known for taking American dance music and putting their own spin on it, but techno has always maintained a Detroit-Berlin axi...

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  Amon Tobin

  Chaos Theory

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  The Montreal-based trifecta of British beat bastion Ninja Tune, French videogame publisher Ubisoft and experimental Brazilian expat Amon To...