Articles by Nick Holmes

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  Vladislav Delay

  Anima

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2001

  Ambient with a sense of humour, this is a much more linear record than first meets the ear. Vadislaw Delay is probably best known through R...

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  Grupo Batuque

  Africa Brazil

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2001

  This is much more than an update of the Jorge Ben album of the same name, although it has the same soulfulness to it, and closes with a cov...

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  Boubacar Traore

  Macire

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2001

  He's been compared to Ali Farka Toure, and had a hit in the '60s called "Mali Twist," but Boubacar Traore has been unknown in our part of t...

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  Tomas Jirku

  Variants

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2000

  Perhaps a bit propulsive for a pure couch sitting record, Jirku has fused Pole-like 21st century dub to Dolden-esque audio art. A lot of th...

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  Shalabi Effect

  Shalabi Effect

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2000

  Shalabi Effect's gorgeously packaged two-CD release covers more territory than most acoustic/electric groups these days. In many ways they...

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  Ribbon Effect

  Slip

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2000

  This Chicago group's debut calls itself "...a recording of music originally performed live as part of a collaboration with artist John Ross...

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  Pete Namlook & Richie Hawtin

  From Within III

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2000

  From Within III is the third of a projected four-album collaboration between Windsor's finest Hawtin, and Fax label founder Pete Namlook. T...

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  Pole

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  PUBLISHED Aug 2, 2000

  Berlin mastering engineer Stefan Betke’s third release under the name Pole probably won’t provoke the extreme reactions that hi...