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March 22, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Daft Punk – Unchained: DVD
Daft Punk – Unchained Director: Herve Martin-Delpierre BBC Worldwide Productions An interesting, and worthy documentary that traces Daft Punk’s music and antics back to the start, in fact back to the pre-robot days when, in an early review of their shoegazer-ish group, they were written off as making “daft punk”. So, Guy-Manuel de Homen-Christo and […]Archive
September 1, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
The Orb: Moonbuilding 2703 AD
The Orb Moonbuilding 2703 AD Kompakt Germany When I first heard The Orb my mind was blown, the ambient-house served as breath of fresh air was hip and wafting, psychedelic and engaging – it was easy to float along inside it, beside it, within it. But it was never only esoteric – and when it […]Archive
August 23, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Lapalux: Lustmore
Lapalux Lustmore Brainfeeder Stuart Howard – as Lapalux – impressed me with his debut full-lengther, Nostalchic and that sonic journey continues here, with some smoother corners, gentler bends, less glitchy and twitchy and still, very much, the antidote to pretentious or thoughtless (try-hard or not at all even trying) “club” music. This is that kind […]Archive
May 14, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Aphex Twin: MARCHROMT30a Edit 2b 96 (ep)
Aphex Twin MARCHROMT30a Edit 2b 96 (ep) Warp Records Last year Aphex Twin re-emerged. We had the very worthwhile Syro album, the eventual mainstream release of his Caustic Window project, then there was the ep, Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt. 2 (to my ears some of the very best Aphex work ever – and who […]Archive
June 4, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
The Purple Jazz Hues in the Dawning of Dawn of Midi with Aakaash Israni
Last year’s album, Dysnomia by Dawn of Midi arrived too late (to my ears) to make my list of favourite albums from 2013 but it’s been high on that list, high on rotate, for all of 2014. Their announcement as part of this year’s Wellington Jazz Festival was the thing that really sold me on […]Archive
October 8, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Armin Van Buuren: Intense
Armin Van Buuren Intense Armada The opening, title track is nearly nine minutes long and we have everything we’ve come to expect from Dutch trance producer Armin Van Buuren condensed down into the one track. There’s a gorgeous string opening before the pulse kicks in, it’s almost stadium dance music at one point but it’s […]Archive
July 6, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Disclosure: Settle
Disclosure Settle Interscope Records/Universal Disclosure is a British electronica duo, brothers Guy (22) and Howard (19) Lawrence. I mention their ages because – well – I’m impressed with the range of sounds on this album, their debut. There’s a depth here that shows the brothers have embraced enough about music and technology from their lifetime […]Archive
February 25, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1606
Mark Farina, United DJs Of America, Vol. 9 Frisko Disko (1998) In the mid/late-1990s, once or twice at least, I went off to a couple of dance clubs and “immersed myself” in the sound. What a load of wank. There’s some great music – and some of it still endures. But so much of it […]Archive
February 17, 2012 by Simon Sweetman