It would be easy to dismiss the tracks on this EP as uninspired minimal techno, droning morosely along, amassing texture by layering beats at nodal points and squirting atmospheric keyboard chords over the top of (read more)
‘East London grime credibility or West Coast glamour, who cares? Just PICK ONE and get on with it!’ (read more)
Emptyset live up to their name with the sparse minimalism of 'All Together Lost' 'All Together Lost' is innocuous and inoffensive trancey, minimal house music, but what else is there to say about it? The (read more)
Amon Tobin simultaneously alienates and intrigues. (read more)
Rival Consoles' Kid Velo has the beats and builds of anthemic house, but it's more Paul Hardcastle than Paul Oakenfold. Now that GaGa has got her hands on sidechain compression and synth swooshes, dancefloors the (read more)
Erriapo's icy but intimate techno-chillout is understated, elegant, but never simple. Unhurried development: the tightrope walk of the electronic musician's art. How many bars can you feasibly expect people to listen to before bringing in (read more)
Swapping guitars and drums for VSTs and sequencers, Mental D-Struction makes the tricky jump to electronica and almost pulls it off. Having high artistic ideals, and creating material which follows them is laudable and to (read more)
David Tort’s ‘Jack it Up’ promises ‘a tempestuous sea of dark synths’ but actually delivers ‘a turgid canal of muddy loops’. With pretensions to dancefloor dominance, this six-minute track needs a radio/single edit to really (read more)
Weekend Nachos – Worthless – Relapse Records 2011 (read more)
Trailer Trax's 'Scan Me' EP wallows so deeply in the 1990s that it ought to be buried in a time capsule with a Sega Megadrive and a Blue Peter badge. 'The music business has changed', (read more)
Can Slugabed's quirky beats and basslines inject new life into pre-packed dancefloor anthem hooks? Perhaps. Slugabed's Moonbeam Rider EP comes from the mind of a musician who has spent a lot of time getting people (read more)
So NME accuse this album of ‘musical incompetence’ and being ‘baffling’, whilst The Fly go with ‘one of 2011’s most exciting prospects’. Things are already juicy. (read more)
Fear, righteous anger, too much booze and a boldly-drawn emotional vision, this debut from Dels wraps the disorientation of over-intelligent urban British youth into forty minutes of poetic and musical innovation. This may not be (read more)
Armed with a bag of glitch, can Aleph's four-track EP convince us of this Siberian instrumentalist's intent? What happens when musicians break free of the limitations of physical instruments and enter the world of digital (read more)
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