Paddy Kingsland ‘Fourth Dimension’ (BBC, 1973)
“I was on the phone with [redacted] from Sonic Youth… ”
Various Artists ‘Retro Techno / Detroit Definitive – Emotions Electric’ (Network, 1991)
The North in the late 1980s and early 90s was not a bad place to be if you were into left-field music and dancing...
Kid606 ‘The Action Packed Mentallist Brings You The Fucking Jams’ (Violent Turd, 2002)
"...a hyper-paced stream of pinched music that Miguel Trost De Pedro reassembled into his glitched-out vision of the dancefloor."
Robert Logan ‘Cognessence’ (Slowfoot, 2007)
"Music journalism is not an exact science. Just ask the total wazzock who dismissed one of Hot Chip’s first singles..."
Shrift ‘Lost In A Moment’ (Six Degrees, 2006)
“Remember ‘Underwater Love’, the gently lilting and effortlessly catchy trip hop track used on a Levi’s television advert in 1997?”
Icebreaker International ‘Trein Maersk: A Report To The NATOarts Board Of Directors’ (IT, 2000)
"...two fellows who, using portable equipment, had recorded an album on a container ship they had boarded in Japan..."
Johnny Conquest ‘Uptown For The Americas’ (Sirkus, 2001)
"Despite never having quite the same cachet as your Warps or Ninja Tunes, the Sirkus label was a reliable stamp of quality at the turn of the 21st century..."
Philippe Doray / Asociaux Associés ‘Nouveaux Modes Industriels’ (Invisible / Scopa, 1980)
“This album is an intergalactic ambush!”
Voigt/465 ‘Slights Unspoken’ (Unanimous Weld Enunciations, 1979)
"Where I grew up, in rural Australia in the 1990s and early 2000s, the radio served up a fairly standard menu of meat-and-potatoes rock ’n’ roll..."
Synergy ‘Games’ (Passport, 1979)
The overstuffed bins at Angry Mom Records are just down the hill from the engineering campus of Cornell University, where students shoot lasers through cool neutral plasmas and test semiconductors