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Christmas Compilation
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Various Artists Christmas
Stocking Filler Pt. 2 (Twisted Nerve)
Ok so this is from a couple of
years back, but this is still a perfect seasonal compilation from
Twisted Nerve, featuring Andy Votel, Mum&Dad, Badly Drawn
Boy and all your favourites. |
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Electronics,
House, Techno |
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Doctor Rockit The
Unnecessary History Of Doctor Rockit (Accidental)
Must-have collection of Matthew Herberts
material as Dr Rockit spanning 1996-2003, including tracks from
the Clear label |
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Brooks
Red
Tape (Soundslike)
One of the albums of 2004,
house music stripped down and reconfigured into new places. |
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The Soft Pink Truth Do
You Want New Wave Or Do You Want...? (Soundslike)
Drew
from Matmos does slamming electronic death camp covers of hardcore
and punk classics, hold on to your chaps. |
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Lab Rat XL (Drexciya) Mice
or Cyborg (Clone)
The final ‘storm’ unleashed
by James Stinson/Drexciya, some of his toughest and best material
from a career defined by greatness. |
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Secret
Frequency Crew
Forest Of The Echo Downs (schematic)
Superb accessible album on Schematic, hard to describe well, just
listen to it. |
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Mr
76ix Hits
of 76ix (skam)
Skam's new secret Weapon - fat electronic sounds, drum patterns
and textures put through the mangler. Recommended. |
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Mouse on Mars Radical
Connector (Sonig)
Read
a Review Here |
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Fennesz
Endless
Summer (Mego)
Old but gold, reissued in 2004. This total classic from '02 evokes
the spirits of Brian Wilson & My Bloody Valentine and drenches them
in electronic textures. |
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Slam
Year
Zero (Soma)
New album from the Scottish techno/house veterans, featuring vocals
from Dot Allison, envoy, Tyrone and more. |
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Chateau
Flight Les
Antipodes (versatile)
Chateau Flight (I:Cube and Gilb'r) get remixed - Bertrand Burgalat's
Doors-esque organ workout is very French and very cool, while Malik
bleeps it up. |
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Basslines
/ Acid / Drums |
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Wagon Christ Sorry
I Make You Lush (Ninjatune)
Luke Vibert was back with another superb
Wagon Christ album. Big fun happy grinny music. |
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Super_collider
Radianatians
On The Rise (Rise Robots Rise)
Jamie
Lidell and Cristian Vogel's new EP, featuring Wagon Christ again on
the remix. |
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Spektrum
Enter
The Spektrum (Playhouse)
Jump-up, new wave, tight electro, irresistible.
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!!! Louden
Up Now
Chkchkchk
had their best year yet, this was the album. One of the best all-out
party albums ever. |
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Black Strobe
Chemical Sweet Girl E.P (Output)
One of the breakthrough artists of 2004 -
effortless Parisian acid and electro that the English cannot ignore..
For More Output see the Channel3
compilation. |
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James
Cotton The
Dancing Box (spectral)
Totally brilliant. Polygon Window, Adonis, early 808 State all put
through the James Cotton (aka dabrye/tadd mullinix) sound-mangler
and sounding like nothing else on earth. |
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Bleep Exclusives & Download Only Singles |
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Roots Manuva Double
Drat
(Big Dada)
Franz Ferdinand This
Fffire (Domino)
Squarepusher Squarewindow
(Warp)
LFO VS !!! Me&
Giuliani.. A Remix (warp)
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Icy
Electronic Pop Beauty |
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Bjork Medúlla
(One Little Indian)
Experimental, awe-inspiring and as
stunning as ever; Mark Bell back in effect at the controls and a
roll call of interesting contributors. |
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Nouvelle Vague Nouvelle
Vague (Peacefrog)
Languid, French female vocal Bossa
covers of English new wave and synthpop classics (The Cure, Joy
Division, Depeche Mode, PIL etc). Sounds irritating and gimmicky?
Its not, its perfect. Their version of Teenage Kicks is what Peely
is listening to in heaven. |
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Junior Boys Last
Exit (Electrokin)
Much hyped, and very good - definitely
an essential album of 2004. Tricksy Timbaland-y beats meet New Order/Depeche
Mode vocal emotion and style. |
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Lali Puna Faking
the Books (Morr)
Probably their best yet - dreamy,
fuzzy instrumentation, vintage synths and vocals . |
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Domino
- label of 2004? |
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Adem Homesongs
Stunning solo work from one-time member of Fridge.
Clinic Winchester
Cathedral
Sons And Daughters Love
The Cup
Rockabilly-fuelled Glaswegian band. One of 04's best.
Juana Molina Segundo
A delicate mix of traditional latin folk and electronica. |
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Hip Hop, Folk, Beats |
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Beans Shock
City Maverick (Warp)
His best solo work to date, futuristic
hip hop beamed directly into your brain. Jedi Knight/Reload man
Mark Pritchard contributes production. |
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CLOUDDEAD Ten
(Big Dada)
Last release from cLOUDDEAD (now
concentrating on the Subtle project on Lex records). They also released
the Dead
Dogs Two single with a spine tingly remix by Boards Of Canada. |
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Boom Bip Corymb
(Lex)
More Boards remix action, plus four
Tet, Mogwai, and more on this compendium of assorted Boom Bip tracks. |
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Subtle F.K.O.
(Lex)
Superb single, Doseone at his vocal
best. |
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Blockhead
Music
By Cavelight (Ninjatune)
A nocturnal treasure that sits well alongside
the best of DJ Shadow and Krush, but more psychedelic and attention-grabbing.
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Sixtoo The
Psyche Years. 1996 - 2002 (Vertical Form)
Tripped-out
21 track roundup of Sixtoo's work for various labels, plus early
demos and more. |
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RJD2 Since
We Last Spoke (Def Jux)
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Mentalrave |
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Brothomstates
Rktik
(Arcola)
A monster main room techno/house record that sounds best over an enormous
system in a big arena. |
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Mr.
Oizo Stunt
(F Com)
'Flat Beat' with an extra squirt of Amyl. |
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Alter Ego Rocker
(Klang Electronik)
The euro-electro-trash DJ's favourite of 04,
played about 1 billion times at Sonar. Coming to an office party near
you now. |
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Eight
Frozen Modules DJ,
Riddim & Source E.P. (Planet Mu)
Woah. Whats this? Seriously good digital ragga. |
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