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Joey Beltdrives 
X-Mix – Jack The Box – Hardfloor – May 4, 1998, !K7 Records X-Mix Jack the Box is a 1998 mix album from German acid techno pioneers Hardfloor. It’s packed with seminal acid house classics alongside some of Hardfloor’s own tracks. It is the seventh in the popular 90s X-Mix series, which also featured … Read more
February 2025 was an epic month for releases which makes this one an epic post. We’ve got a modern classic revisited plus plenty of old skool vibes for the house heads plus the full spectrum of techno from introspective experimentalism right to up to industrial strength nose bleeders. There’s also a whole ton of big … Read more
Beaucoup Fish – Underworld – Released 1st March 1999, Junior Boys Own Released in 1999 on Junior Boys Own records, Beaucoup Fish is Underworld’s fifth album and the last to feature Darren Emerson. Emerson’s departure in 2000 ended the three-album streak of 90s Underworld classics which began five years prior with Dubnobasswithmyheadman. I vividly recall … Read more
Screamadelica – Primal Scream – Released September 23rd, 1991, Creation Records Screamadelica is the third album from Scottish rockers turned rave generation icons, Primal Scream. The decision to incorporate dance music elements represented a major departure from previous work and was a turning point in the band’s career. The result was a rare breed of … Read more
Jam On Revenge – Newcleus – Released 1984 Jam On Revenge is the debut album from US electro/funk group Newcleus. It’s a textbook 80s electro album, which puts Kraftwerk, p funk, Planet Rock, hiphop and breakdance culture into a funky space blender mixed up with some comic book heroics and glittering Afrofuturist vibes. Forty years … Read more
Archive One – Dave Clarke – Released February 12th, 1996, Bush / Deconstruction Records. Archive One is the debut album from UK techno superstar Dave Clarke. Essentially, it’s a compilation of tracks from his three Red EPs, plus the Southside release, with additional tracks of various genres thrown in to help add more variety … Read more
Troublegum – Therapy? – Released February 7th, 1994, A&M Records Troublegum was the fourth album from Belfast rock/metal band Therapy? For the uninitiated that’s a statement, not a question. Troublegum is often regarded as one of, if not the, band’s finest album. It was the band’s second album on A&M and sits somewhere between their … Read more
Well, we got through it, the most boring month of the year, from here on in it’s just going to get warmer and hopefully more exciting. Unless you’re in Australia, in which case it’s going to get colder and there’s never a dull moment because all the fauna is constantly trying to kill you. Lucky … Read more
It’s funny, I’ve read three articles just in this past week about how the death of music writing is inevitable. Now I’m starting to worry this article might be the final nail in its coffin. This might well be the weirdest thing I’ve published here but fukkit, going to put it live anyway. See, I … Read more
In Gorbachev We Trust – The Shamen – 1989 – Released January 30th, 1989 Demon Records / Fiend 666 Named in honour of the last ever president of the USSR, the Shamen’s second studio album was a strange and seductive synergy of acid smiley euphoria, 60s psychedelia and concrete Soviet perestroika. It unknowingly inaugurated a … Read more