Articles by Kevin Hainey

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  Point Line Plane

  Smoke Signals

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

  Point Line Plane is a trio that offer a little bit of everything in their complexity — post-punk, prog rock, post-hardcore, electronic stab...

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  Various

  Pick a Winner

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2004

  Those colourful and exuberant noise-rockers at Load Records have assembled this DVD/CD collection to bring you their crazy lo-fi computer g...

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  Fatboy Slim

  Palookaville

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2004

  Norman Cook likes to stick to his ingredient lists when he’s baking up a track. For example, he takes one short, instantly recognisable voc...

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  Medeski Martin and Wood

  End of the World Party (Just in Case)

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2004

  Despite its atrocious title, End of the World Party (Just in Case) is a consistently solid and worthwhile Medeski, Martin & Wood affair. It...

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  Blissful Wizard

  The Return of the Blissful Wizard

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2004

  There are some important elements to lo-fi electronica that the Blissful Wizard provides in unlimited supply: shifting melodies and a taste...

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  Efterklang

  Tripper

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2004

  A ten-piece ensemble hailing from Copenhagen, Efterklang (which translates as "reverberation”) is the latest electronic group to explore a...

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  Switchblade

  Switchblade

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2004

  I think my favourite minimal metal track of all time is the EP version of Trans Am’s "Slow Response” — one chord, a complex time signature,...

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  Subtle

  A New White

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2004

  Some smart-ass white boy just had to come along and make hip-hop all arty. Doseone achieved nearly instant notoriety for combining non-typi...