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Music For The Jilted Generation – The Prodigy – Released July 4th, 1994, XL Recordings Music For The Jilted Generation is the second album from UK electronic supergroup, The Prodigy. It’s the follow-up album to 1992’s Experience and was the first Prodigy album to incorporate live instruments, including drumming and rock guitar sounds. The 1994 … Read more
Ill Communication – Beastie Boys – Released May 31st, 1994, Grand Royal / Capitol Ill Communication is the fourth studio album by the Beastie Boys. Released 30 years ago back in May of 1994, it’s the perfect synergy of the band’s punk and hiphop roots, combined with their newfound funk sensibilities. The result is an … Read more
Phorward – The Shamen – Released May 1989, Moksha Records Phorward is the third full-length release by psychedelic indie kids-turned rave geezers, The Shamen. Initially released on 10” vinyl, Phorward is not considered a full album but rather a “mini album”. Phorward was released just a few months after their second album, In Gorbachev We … Read more
What’s the best Nirvana album? Which Nirvana album’s the most overrated? How do you rank the various Nirvana albums? Is Incesticide actually an album? Are you really going to answer any of these questions or is this just more SEO wank to waste my time? This article will answer all these questions – and more. … Read more
Give Out But Don’t Give Up – Primal Scream – Released March 28th March 1999, Creation/Sire Give Out But Don’t Give Up is the fourth studio album by Scottish rockers Primal Scream. While their previous album, 1991’s Screamadelica, borrowed heavily from the era’s acid house scene, this 12 track album sees the band go back … Read more
The Downward Spiral – Nine Inch Nails – Released March 8th 1994, Nothing/Interscope Records The Downward Spiral is the second album from Nine Inch Nails (ᴎIN), the band project fronted by producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist frontman, Trent Reznor. It was released in March 1994 on Nothing Records, the label run by Trent Reznor, then operating … 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
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
Blind On A Galloping Horse – David Holmes Featuring Raven Violet – Released November 10th 2023 After a hiatus of 15 years, Belfast-born DJ, producer and composer David Holmes has released a new album featuring the talents of vocalist Raven Violet. Though he’s remained busy composing movie soundtracks and working on other projects, Blind On … Read more
Some worrying developments in Technoland this month. The first being the sale of Bandcamp resulting in layoffs and concerns about the future of the company. This was soon followed by news that NTS Radio has been partially bought up by Universal Music Group. These are both disturbing signs of the ever-growing corporatisation of the scene, … Read more