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Ghost - It's All Love
This double-A side has coupled It's All Love, a more soulful and funky number with very little hip-hop feel to it, with Ying Yang, a rolling atmospheric instrumental that would fit perfectly as part of a film score Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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Robert Owens - Night Time Stories
Perhaps due to his impressive canon of past collaborations it was always going to be tough to deliver comparable efforts Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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Akufen and Guillame & The Coutu Dumounts, Freq, Sub Club, 5 Oct
A rapturous applause and a surge of outstretched hands towards the DJ booth suggests that this is a successful event indeed Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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A State of Mind & Skrein - Pre-emptive Nostalgia
Diversity is key, down to the finest detail Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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Atjazz - Full Circle
A collection that sidesteps musical fashions and is all the better for it Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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Iko Itzu - The Electronic Fighter
With a little more focus there could be either a cross-over hit or an underground anthem on this album, but it's too unsure of what it wants to be Read more »| 06 Jan 2008
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Obsidian - Millimetre
It taps into the droning power of Mogwai that lifts the listener beyond the everyday Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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Pyrelli - Vitamin A: A Twist of Fate
The self-aggrandizing rhymes are often lazy in their subject matter, adopting the braggadocio of mainstream US rap'n'bullshit rather than the hyper-intelligent storytelling of Wiley and Dizzee Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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V/A - Soma Compilation 2007
Soma always delivers the goods Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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Xtravaganza Mix - Mixed by Alex Gold & Pete Gooding
This compilation is sure to bring back good memories for those who've been to Space, and inspire those who haven't to make the trip Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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Basics, Henry's Cellar Bar, Edinburgh, 17 Nov
The sharpness of quality cannot be shaken, even through all the grooves, booze and boogie Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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Mutiny, The Bongo Club, Edinburgh, 28 Nov
A thoroughly unruly first night for Mutiny Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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The Lo Fidelity Allstars, King Tut's, Glasgow, 2 Dec
The Tiger Picks' playground electro style with its new wave leanings doesn't quite seem to fit with the overall Allstars tone Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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Ada - Fizzman
Allegedly based around the adventures of a fictional poodle Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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Donnacha Costello - Black Bag Job
The two edits of Black Bag Job utilise the same oneiric analogue synths and stripped-to-the-bone percussion as Colorseries Read more »| 06 Jan 2008