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Laurent Garnier – Shot In The Dark – F Communications Records 1994 With the release of Laurent Garnier’s new album 33 Tours Et Puis S’en Vont on COD3 QR this month, it’s the perfect opportunity to revisit French techno’s big bang moment. Long before Daft Punk donned their helmets and Gallic muppets like David Guetta … Read more
Doubt yee not the power of The Orb – with 17 albums spanning 32 years and counting, Doctor Patterson’s travelling medicine show remains as fresh and freaky as ever. Their latest album, Prism, is a reassuring blend of familiar sounds that still packs plenty of welcome surprises. Prism builds on the legacy of Abolition of … Read more
The Orb – Live 93 – Released November 22nd 1993 (Island Records) With the release of the new Orb album Prism, I reckon there’s no better time to rewind 30 years to the first ever Orb album I ever bought, Orb Live 93. It’s difficult to put into words how much I love The Orb, but … Read more
The death of Andrew Weatherall was the first of many massive kicks in the balls we found ourselves on the receiving end of in 2020. Difficult to even begin to express what he meant to the world, other than to say he was one of the all-time greats, hugely influential, highly inspirational and sorely missed. … Read more
Optical Delusion – Orbital – Released February 2023 – London Records / Orbital Recordings Ireland hates Orbital apparently. Not the Irish people I should point out. No, we love them as much as anybody, but the Hartnoll brothers claim they’re cursed whenever they come here. It was certainly the case when my longest-suffering friend and … Read more
Snivilisaton is the third album from Orbital, the first of theirs I bought and probably the one I love most, with In Sides a close second. I was familiar with Orbital already, the usual suspects as you can imagine, Chime, Lush, Halcyon and Belfast, but having read an interview in Mixmag around the time of … Read more
Not a lot of people know this, but I learned to mix with Carl Cox. FACT! It was the summer of 1995 and I’d just gotten my first ever set of decks – two flappy, plastic-fantastic Kam beltdrive turntables and a matching GM25 “Made2Fade” 2 channel mixer. It was an unlikely combination, in retrospect. Carl … Read more
Album Of The Month: Carl Cox – Electronic Generations – Released December 2022 Full disclosure, I wasn’t expecting much from this one. In fact, I was more hoping that the new Leftfield album was going to be my album of the month, whereas this release came way out of eeeh… well you know what I … Read more
Leftfield – This Is What We Do – Released December 2022 Leftfield were already techno royalty when they released their debut album Leftism back in 1994. The album won awards and critical acclaim while also being one of the first big dance music records to cause die-hard rockers to proclaim, “Wow, this rave’s stuff’s not … Read more
Selected Ambient Works 85–92 – Aphex Twin – Released 9th November 1992, Apollo Records / R&S Records Selected Ambient Works 85–92 (or SAW I for short) is the debut album from Richard D. James, better known as Aphex Twin. 30 years on from its release this chillout classic remains his most beloved album and regularly … Read more