Articles by Melissa Wheeler

Champion

Chill 'Em All

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2005

Montreal-based Champion spent three years on this combo of guitar loops and tempered general techno beats, resulting in a relaxed but not s...

JT Donaldson and Lance Desardi

SanFrancisco Sessions

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2005

This may sound harsh, but listening to Donaldson’s disc of connect-the-dots house makes me understand why electronic labels are having such...

I-Wolf and Burdy

Meet the Babylonians

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2005

Rock, electro, French hip-hop, Bavarian folk, break beats, turntablism, spoken word, house, reggae and more are folded into this most brain...

Roni Size

Return To V

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2005

Although drum & bass is in the "nap time” phase of its genre cycle, and Sir Size’s sound still revolves closely around those present in 200...

Quebec Connection

Bonjour Expo

PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

Making no attempt to cover up their whereabouts and cultural standpoint, Montreallers Quebec Connection have taken the fossil of Expo ’67 a...

Bossabucanova

Uma Batida Differente

PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2004

In her book The Economy of Cities, Jane Jacobs argues that one of the tenets of a self-sustaining economy is that new types of work need to...

Chris Joss

PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2004

No, ESL doesn’t stand for English as a second language, but Eighteenth Street Lounge, the same label who brought you the fabulous mix The O...

Gabriel & Dresden / Various

Bloom

PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2004

One of the qualities I simultaneously love and hate about trance is, sometimes, no matter how hard you try to resist, a well-timed crescend...