Articles by Philip Downey

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  Gene Farris/Various

  Textures Vol. 1

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2003

  Like jazz-influenced disco house? Then this disc is for you, because that’s the only style of music on it. That said, it’s good jazzy disco...

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  Chris de Luca and Peabird

  Deadly wiz da Disko

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2003

  Deadly wiz da Disko is hip-hop thrown through the modern digital signal processing styles of abstract producers. A gratuitous Prefuse 73 na...

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  Advent

  Sketched For Life

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2003

  Chugga, chugga, boom, boom! The Advent's in the house, so stand ready for looped and pumping techno that is a surprisingly easy home listen...

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  Anthony Rother

  Hacker

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2003

  The ever-reliable Anthony Rother returns with another album of high-quality electro. Hacker begins with the ambient intro "Protektor," whic...

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  Spacefunk/Various

  Spectrum

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2003

  Spectrum is a good mix of peak-time house tracks. Many of the bigger tracks of 2002 are included on this mix, including dance floor-friendl...

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  Transillusion

  L.I.F.E.

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2003

  "Message To The World: 'Life is Fast Ending - So Live!'" Those liner notes proved sadly prescient, as James Stinson, one of the two men beh...

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  Various

  Trancelucid

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2003

  The subtitle of this compilation is "Smooth Melodic Trance," and is a near-perfect description that saves a lot of work reviewing it. So, t...

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  Vögler

  Constants

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2002

  Constants straddles the line between house music and electronic pop. Vögler, Toronto producer Derek Wagler, handles most of the musical dut...