Streeeams
Bright as buttons blissed-out electropop
St Germain ‘St Germain’ (Parlophone France)
Ludovic Navarre makes long awaited return with something of a curveball
Roots Manuva ‘Bleeds’ (Big Dada)
Rodney Smith returns with album number six. Any good? Let’s not ask silly questions, eh?
Merz ‘Thinking Like A Mountain’ (Accidental)
Mauled by the music industry in the 90s, Conrad Lambert serves up impressive sixth album
Sim Hutchins
Off-kilter glitch-ambience meets weird-techno
Zaflon
The new school of “chuck it all in and give it a good stir” drum ‘n’ tronica
Death In Vegas On ‘MTV Fashionably Loud’
It’s 1997 and guess who’s been invited to play on MTV’s leading catwalk-cum-rock concert crossover show? Only psychedelic big beat electro-grunge pioneers, Death In Vegas…
New Order ‘Music Complete’ (Mute)
Manchester’s finest serve up one of the year’s biggest albums. We take a long, hard listen…
Various Artists ’20 Years Of Being Skint’ (Skint)
Celebrating two decades of the Brighton label that led the Big Beat charge
Dan Tombs: Vision On
Have you ever been to a live show and wondered where, as if by magic, the images and graphics and fancy lights come from? If you’ve seen Jon Hopkins or Blanck Mass this summer, you’ve been wowed by visual artist Dan Tombs