(05.05.06) Last August a friend of mine called me from Berlin, asking if I would have liked some hard to find records, since he was […]

(05.03.06) Komposi003, the latest State of the Union release from Positron Records, is a landmark release for several reasons. Not only does it showcase the […]

(05.01.06) This is the third album by electronic producer Jon Tejada and guitarist Takeshi Nikimoto. It’s the most straightforward instrumental rock album they have released, […]

(05.01.06) This album is worth it for the opening cut alone. On past releases Mapstation’s Stefan Schneider has seemed content to slowly develop tracks around […]

(05.30.06) Wow. This band only gets better. Initially on drone/indie label Kranky, Growing have moved over to Troubleman Unlimited’s sub-label Megablade, and with that move […]

(04.30.06) For a few years now Thirsty Ear have been releasing a string of albums that team up various MCs with a selection of jazz […]

(04.30.06) Depth Affect’s first album is almost dangerously “now”: a mix of hip-hop instrumentals with a whole lot of mad synths; some acoustic guitar, chimes […]

(04.25.06) Mike Cadoo has nurtured his own sound for many years, once a part of the now-defunct Gridlock duo, and expressing gritty drum’n bass under […]

(04.25.06) Having contributed work to the first releases on the Rotterdam based DUB label back in 1998, Autophonic was instrumental in defining that label’s sound. […]

(04.23.06) Posthuman, and the Seed label, are a pair that have been difficult to pinpoint. Posthuman, before the label had been born, burst onto the […]