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Music: Feed the Animals
Now that we're past Girl Talk's breakout, Night Ripper, and mash-up progenitor Steinski has had his reissue moment, we can stop calling Gregg Gillis' work groundbreaking, be done with pseudo-intell...
Music: Með Suð í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
In a 2002 competition, fans were asked to interpret the "gobbledigook" of singer Jón "Jónsi" Þór Birgisson's lyrics on Sigur Rós' "Njósnavélin". Upon reading the results, the band seemed rather sur...
Music: Mega Breakfast
The Chap's pop parodists can be louder than a fluo-on-plaid color combo, but, scattered throughout the absurdist, charismatic electro-pop on their Ghostly debut, there are plenty of sly, understate...
Music: LP3
It would be easy, if cynical, to call Ratatat's instrumental jams formulaic, especially on a record with the bland placeholder-like title LP3. The chemistry is simple: layer buoyant beats, a droll,...
Music: Unusual Signals
German producer Sven Schienhammer (aka Quantec) is obviously in thrall to the chiaroscuro minimalism of what Simon Reynolds termed "heroin house" — that slowly mutating, blissful merger of dub, amb...
Fabric 36
Few mixes have arrived with as much mystery as Chilean/German showman Ricardo Villalobos' entry into Fabric's showcase series. Even its unique format — a seamlessly arranged slate of Villalobos' o...
Call to Mind
Ever since Hospital Records dropped the Future Sound of Cambridge compilation back in 2004, the region has hosted a drum 'n bass resurgence. Of the three artists featured on that breakthrough EP, ...
Fabric 36
Few mixes have arrived with as much mystery as Chilean/German showman Ricardo Villalobos' entry into Fabric's showcase series. Even its unique format — a seamlessly arranged slate of Villalobos' o...
Fabric 36
Few mixes have arrived with as much mystery as Chilean/German showman Ricardo Villalobos' entry into Fabric's showcase series. Even its unique format — a seamlessly arranged slate of Villalobos' o...
Fabric 36
Few mixes have arrived with as much mystery as Chilean/German showman Ricardo Villalobos' entry into Fabric's showcase series. Even its unique format — a seamlessly arranged slate of Villalobos' o...