Arts & Entertainment
The latest arts and entertainment highlights, previews, reviews, music and film features and opinion pieces from The Skinny writers.
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Akiko Kiyama - Seven Years
Everyone's favourite techno-geek drops her debut on District of Corruption, showing that she's as adept at making a bold 70-minute journey, as at churning ou... Read more »| 23 Apr 2008 -
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Clyde - Hyper Reality
This surprisingly catchy hip-house from new producer Clyde casually steps between slick pop production and experimental sounds. The wobbly bass and rugged hi... Read more »| 23 Apr 2008 -
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Future Loop Foundation - The Fading Room ; memories and remixes
Future Loop Foundation's new album mixes the grandiose with the intimate to great effect on Godzilla-sized slabs of soaring meloditronica peppered by 50-year... Read more »| 23 Apr 2008 -
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Estelle - Shine
Versatile is the only word to describe Shine, the new album from Estelle Swaray. Having kicked in the door in 2004 with the track 1980, the singer/rapper is ... Read more »| 23 Apr 2008 -
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V/A - FabricLive 39: DJ Yoda
DJ Yoda needs no introduction, yet the first track on this album is titled Intro. But listen closer, and it is in fact more the welcoming of a renowned hip-h... Read more »| 23 Apr 2008 -
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V/A - Defected In The House Miami 08
The latest offering from seminal house label Defected takes you straight into the heart of South Beach, where ultra chic meets the clubbing elite. Spread ove... Read more »| 23 Apr 2008
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Duke Spook - Dead Weight EP
Formerly known for his work with DJ Zinc and his industrial-flavoured breakbeat creations, Tone Stone has re-emerged as an echochamber-worshipping two-steppe... Read more »| 23 Apr 2008 -
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Punx Soundcheck & Chanty Poe - Inferno EP
This is pleasantly catchy electro-funk that uses fractured samples and clicky percussion alongside filthy bass and glitchy sounds. Punx Soundcheck make chopp... Read more »| 23 Apr 2008 -
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V/A - Fabric 39: Robert Hood
Coming from the man who coined the term 'minimal' on his 1994 EP Minimal Nation (back when Richie Hawtin was still in short trousers and Konrad Black was goi... Read more »| 23 Apr 2008 -
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The Black Dog - Radio Scarecrow
While many saw the Black Dog's reissuing of their back catalogue on Soma last year as some kind of sellout, their first album proper for Slam & co should... Read more »| 23 Apr 2008 -
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Marvin Wilson - Being Here
A beautiful mix of downbeat ambience and soaring euphoria, this is one of Alex Tronic's finest releases to date, a wonderfully decadent flight through clouds... Read more »| 23 Apr 2008 -
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Autokratz - Pardon Garcon/French Girls Play Guitar
Sometimes the title of a track alone could sell it. French! Girls! Guitar! What’s not to love? You could accuse Autokratz of false advertising (they ar... Read more »| 23 Apr 2008 -
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The Count & Sinden (Feat. Kid Sister) - Beeper
The pager is making a comeback. Who’d have thunk it? The rubbish version of the mobile phone once reserved for on-call doctors and jannies has been res... Read more »| 23 Apr 2008 -
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Many of us become so used to seeing the Cut Copy moniker alongside the word remix that it’s easy to forget the Australian trio are a proper guitar-stru... Read more »| 23 Apr 2008 -
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Midnight Juggernauts - Dystopia
This impressive debut from the Australian three piece has a lot to live up to after Justice proclaimed them their favourite new band earlier this year. Their... Read more »| 23 Apr 2008