Articles by Prasad Bidaye
Mighty Bop
Spin My Hits
PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2000
One of the best known acts on France's Yellow Productions label, the Mighty Bop have been releasing and remixing records since the mid-'90s...
Jolly Mukherjee
Fusebox
PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2000
A prolific composer and singer in the Indian film industry, Jolly Mukherjee is best known to Western audiences as one of the major players...
Springheel Jack
Treader
PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2000
Imagine Sun Ra conducting a big-band jazz orchestra with a score of breakbeats and digital treatments. Well, Treader is almost like that. I...
Springheel Jack
Oddities
PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2000
No doubt a sign for the kinds of things one might hear on Oddities - a six-track EP of sonic chaos. The highlights include a jazz-noir soun...
Armand Van Helden
Killing Puritans
PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2000
The cover of Armand Van Helden's latest has a photo of an African boy holding up a rifle and setting his aim from a position in the grass....
Basement Jaxx
Jaxx Unreleased
PUBLISHED May 1, 2000
After releasing one of the most visionary dance albums of last year, a collection of rare mixes and unreleased tracks initially seems anti-...
Clinton
Disco and the Halfway to Discontent
PUBLISHED May 1, 2000
Clinton may be the studio-project offshoot of Cornershop, but aesthetically its shares the same qualities of the latter: dry humour and iro...
Curtis
Grand Hotel
PUBLISHED May 1, 2000
Curtis shares Les Rhythms Digitales' obsession with '80s. His grooves on Grand Hotel are filled with classic electro trademarks and plentif...