Articles by Lauren Speers
Inner Circle & the Fatman Riddim Section
Heavyweight Dub/Killer Dub
PUBLISHED May 1, 2000
Anyone that remembers Jacob Miller will remember Inner Circle, the dub band known for the music behind the original "Cherry Oh Baby" (1971)...
Resinators
Maximum Dub
PUBLISHED May 1, 2000
Dub music is by nature minimal; that is, it is often reggae stripped down to highlight the elements of drum and bass (as opposed to only sp...
Rinôçérôse
Installation Sonore
PUBLISHED Nov 1, 1999
It’s a shame that there’s already a compilation called French Fried Funk, because that’s exactly what this fusion of live...
Dee Jay Punk Roc
Anarchy in the USA
PUBLISHED Oct 1, 1999
Mr. Punk Roc is a tall (and often half-naked) wizard of turntable trickery who was once a paratrooper for the American army. His DJing is a...
Dieselboy
A Soldier’s Story
PUBLISHED Oct 1, 1999
As DJ mixed CDs go, Moonshine has scored a winner here with New York’s Dieselboy’s aptly-titled A Soldier’s Story. Diesel...
John Kelly
High Desert Soundsystem
PUBLISHED Oct 1, 1999
John Kelly was drawn into DJing in 1993 and his involvement with So-Cal’s Moontribe and their evolutionary Full Moon remote desert pa...
Les Jardiniers
Le Theme
PUBLISHED Oct 1, 1999
Though writing prime time TV theme songs is hardly the underground route to notoriety, Montrealers Les Jardiniers have managed to maintain...
Various
Unknownwerks Volume 1
PUBLISHED Oct 1, 1999
The ever-dependable folk at Astralwerks have great intentions with this series’ opener; the goal is to pluck tunes from unknown elect...
