Tempering the industrial tilt of their previous Reload material with slower, more graceful rhythms and
an ear for melody unmatched by any in the downtempo crowd, Mark Pritchard and Tom Middleton produced the single best work in the ambient house ...
Like Autechre and Bochum Welt, Boards of Canada draw heavily from both new wave and
electro in appreciable measures that, when recombined in the context of the group's tugging beats and simple-but-effective songwriting, end up sounding like way more than ...
Similar to the Analord EP series, 2016's Cheetah contains some of Richard D. James' most
stripped-down techno tracks. Nearly everything here sticks to a steady midtempo, and the tracks generally take their time developing, subtly adding new elements rather than ...
Carried along by a clanging, almost industrial backing rhythm and sparse, kicking electro beat, Get
Some was years ahead of its time in terms of pushing the compositional envelope of dance music. The flip contains a more dub-influenced version of ...
James' most consistent work, I Care Because You Do fuses his earlier hardcore techno days
with the smooth rhythm and atmosphere of his ambient work, often on the same song. Ventolin is one of the harshest singles ever recorded; the ...
Amon Tobin made his name with the most distinctive sampladelic electronica in the business, and
kept at it for longer than most, but eventually began trading in samples of jazz vinyl for field recordings and bands he's captained. ISAM is ...