Various Artists ‘Retro Techno / Detroit Definitive – Emotions Electric’ (Network, 1991)

byCarl Griffin
October 9, 2025

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...

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Zan Lyons ‘Desolate’ (Foundry ,2000)

byIan Abraham

There’s beauty in the noise. Or is it beauty in the nanosecond as the noise stops?

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The Juan Maclean ‘Less Than Human’ (DFA, 2005)

byBen Hogwood

"In 2005, two decades before the age of AI, ‘Less Than Human’ was a prescient album title..."

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Disco Inferno ‘Technicolor’ (Rough Trade)

byNeil Mason

It’s 1996, Britpop is all-seeing and Rough Trade couldn’t give a hoot.

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The late 1990s and early 2000s threw up a slew of Air-style ambient masterpieces – but Fragile State’s 2004 classic ‘Voices From The Dust Bowl’ was criminally overlooked. It may just well be the UK’s ‘Premiers Symptômes’ of the era

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Craig Palmer ‘Industrial – Volume 26’ (Network Production Music, 1983)

byJoe Silva

At some point, the entertainment industry will have to relax its choke-hold on 1980s nostalgia. They’ll finally realise that video arcades aren’t coming back

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‘Carrera’

byBen Willmott

It was overlooked when it came out in 1997. It remains overlooked now. But Sluts’n’Strings & 909’s ‘Carrera’ album is the musical equivalent of an enormous chest brimming with sparkly and glittery things