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December 6, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Charles Webster: Decision Time

Charles Webster Decision Time Dimensions Recordings What a comeback. What a return. Charles Webster – legendary DJ, producer, remixer, composer – hasn’t made a proper record under his own name in nearly two decades. His influence is everywhere, he has popped up under several aliases over the years too (Presence, Furry Phreaks) and I last […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Burial, Charles Webster, Charles Webster: Decision Time, Decision Time, Dimensions Recordings, DJ, Furry Phreaks, House, No Lucky Days, Presence, Producer, Techno, Trance, Webster Wraight Ensemble, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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February 6, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Burial: Tunes 2011 – 2019

Burial Tunes 2011 – 2019 Hyperdub Arriving as part of the Hyperdub label’s 15-year celebration this compilation by Burial might at first seem intriguing and/or unnecessary but I for one welcome it.
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 12", 2011 - 2019, Aphex Twin, British, Burial, Burial: Tunes 2011 - 2019, Compilation, Dance, Electronica, EP, EPs, Hyperdub, Rival Dealer, Singles, Tunes, Tunes 2011 - 2019, UK, Untrue, William Emmanuel Bevan, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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March 30, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

HÆLOS: Full Circle

HÆLOS Full Circle Matador Get ready to be told, elsewhere that HÆLOS sound like the xx, when, if they even do, it’s the xx of the awful and dreary lightning-does-strike-once second-album, not that lush debut. Actually, HÆLOS – awful  font and stylised lettering and all – sounds like a throwback to 90s trip-hop – there […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Arthur Delaney, Burial, Dom Goldsmith, Full Circle, HÆLOS, Lotti Bernardout, Matador, Moby, Moloko, Morcheeba, Play, Trip-Hop ·

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September 2, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Four Tet: Morning/Evening

Four-Tet Morning/Evening Text Records/Temporary Residence Ltd Four Tet – aka Kieran Hebden – has released just over a half-dozen albums under his preferred moniker, then there’s collaborations and production work, mix albums, “solo” albums (under his birth name). And he’s in the middle of an exciting period, following up stints producing Neneh Cherry’s incredible “comeback” […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Beautiful Rewind, Burial, Evening, Evening Side, Four Tet, Kieran Hebden, Morning, Morning Side, Morning/Evening, Neneh Cherry ·

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April 3, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Hands: The Soul Is Quick

Hands The Soul Is Quick Ecstatic If a collaboration – or at least some perceived common ground – between Burial and Gate sounds like the proverbial cup of herbal for you then you might want to check The Soul Is Quick by Hands. If you know Axel Willner already from his work as The Field […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Axel Willner, Brian Eno, Burial, Gate, Hands, The Soul Is Quick ·

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January 29, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Haxan Cloak: Excavation

The Haxan Cloak Excavation Tri Angle Records Imagine Lustmord and Mike Patton sharing horror-movie scoring tips and you have some idea of what to expect when going into this new album by The Haxan Cloak. The British dark ambient project is a low-frequency set of rumbles that has plenty to offer to fans of goth […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Bobby Kric, Burial, Dark Ambient, Excavation, Lustmord, Mike Patton, The Haxan Cloak, Vessel ·

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December 17, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Burial: Rival Dealer EP

Burial Rival Dealer Hypberdub No one is doing brutal and beautiful – often all at once – quite like Burial. In the beat-less variety of dark ambient works there’s Lustmord, but in terms of grit and pulse Burial has been leading the way since Untrue fully announced the talent – the earlier, self-titled full lengther […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Burial, EP, Rival Dealer, Rival Dealer EP ·

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September 28, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

The Impending Adorations: Further

The Impending Adorations Further Mushroom In November of 2012 Paul McLaney released his first album as The Impending Adorations, Gestalt. By April of 2013 he’d readied Intentions and now, already, we have Further; the third in what he has set out as a four-album set. Further starts with the loping 10-minute opener, Canon; it perhaps […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Bandcamp, Burial, Gestalt, Gramsci, Intentions, Mushroom, Paul McLaney, The Impending Adorations ·

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August 29, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Lustmord: The Word As Power

Lustmord The Word As Power Blackest Ever Black As Lustmord Brian Williams has created a strain of industrial and dark ambient music that creeps along like a horror soundtrack one minute, then slowly, surely, it opens itself up – unfolding – to reveal the beauty (and still the darkness) of sublime classical music, of minimalism, […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Brian Williams, Burial, Dark Ambient, Dead Can dance, Gorecki, Lustmord, Philip Glass, Scott Walker, Swans, The Word As Power, Tool ·

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August 5, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Walton: Beyond

Walton Beyond Hyperdub/Southbound Sam Walton is a 22yo producer from Manchester and following on from his early recordings he released Beyond, an accomplished post-Burial slice of dance/electronica that celebrates the club without making you feel like you have to be listening to this music in that environment. So there’s acid house and dubstep collisions, there’s […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Aphex Twin, Beyond, Broken Beat, Burial, Dance, Dubstep, Electronica, Glitch, Hyperdub, Sam Walton, Southbound, Walton ·

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