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June 29, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Neither Daft Nor Punk

Earlier in the year it was announced that French electronic music duo Daft Punk is calling it a day after 28 years.I’m sure on some level they’ll be back. But if they’re not it was a good run with some great music. I liked a lot of it. Not all of it. But I gave […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged [OST], Blog, Daft Punk, Dance, dance music, Discovery, Electronica, French, Homework, House, Human After All, Neither Daft Nor Punk, Random Access Memories, Robots, Soundtrack, Techno, Tron: Legacy, Tron: Legacy soundtrack ·

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November 29, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Theo Parrish: Wuddaji

Theo Parrish Wuddaji Sound Signature I’m a big fan of Theo Parrish. I don’t keep up with anything in dance music at all. Not anymore. And yet I hear Parrish and recognise his, er, footprints instantly. He is techno on the jazz tip – or at least there’s a jazziness about what he’s doing. His […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Amp Fiddler, dance music, Detroit, Sound Signature, Techno, Theo Parrish, Theo Parrish: Wuddaji, Wuddaji, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged BBC, Daft Punk, Daft Punk - Unchained: DVD, Daft Punk Unchained, dance music, Discovery, Doc, Documentary, Duo, DVD Review, Film, Guy-Manuel de Homen-Christo, Herve Martin-Delpierre, Homework, Human After All, Music Doco, Random Access Memories, Techno, Thomas Bangalter, Tron: Legacy, UnchainedD ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Acid-House, Acid-Jazz, Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld, Album Review, Alex Paterson, Ambient, Ambient-House, dance music, Dave Gilmour, David Gilmour, Moonbuilding 2703 AD, Pink Floyd, The Orb ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Brainfeeder, dance music, Electronica, Flying Lotus, Lapalux, Lustmore, Nostalchic, Stuart Howard ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 12", Album Review, Aphex, Aphex Twin, Caustic Window, Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt. 2, dance music, Demo, DJ, Drill'n'Bass, Electronica, EP, Japanese Version, MARCHROMT, MARCHROMT30a Edit 2b 96, MARCHROMT30a Edit 2b 96 (ep), Richard D. James, Syro, user487363530, Vinyl, Warp Records, XMAS-EVET [120] (thanaton3 mix) ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog · Tagged Aakaash Israni, dance music, Dawn of Midi, Dysnomia, Interivew, Jazz, Jazz Festival, Live Jazz, Opera House, Trio, Wellington Jazz Festival 2014, Win Tickets ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Armin Van Buuren, dance music, DJ, Intense, Producer ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Daft Punk, Dance, dance music, Disclosure, Electronica, Homework, House, Settle ·

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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 […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1998, dance music, Frisko Disko, I Know, LP, Mark Farina, Tim Deluxe, United DJs Of America, Vinyl, Vol. 9 ·

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February 17, 2012 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1617

V/A, After The Playboy Mansion (2002) This was a good score, found this in a collection of second-hand vinyl; bought a couple of crates for a set price. A lot of it I wasn’t interested in, loads of dance singles and such. But there was also some great stuff – and a few curios, things […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged After The Playboy Mansion, dance music, De La Soul, Dimitri From Paris, DJ, Don't Leave Me This Way, Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, Llorca, LP, T.S. Monk, V/A, Vinyl ·

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