You guessed it: Dub Side of the Moon is a dub reggae tribute to the Pink Floyd album of the nearly same name. It was released by Easy Star All-Stars in 2003, and it’s surprisingly not bad. I mean, to be fair, it’s not great. You wouldn’t be right to call it a tacky cash-in, […]

Richie Hawtin is a DJ and producer known as much for the approach he takes to music as the end results. Not one to mix a standard, everyday set if he can avoid it, Hawtin hooked up the drum machines and effects and released Decks, EFX and 909 in 1999. The album became the first […]

I didn’t make the time to do one of these posts last week, and it was mainly because I was already working on my first two reviews for Chart. There’s much more to come on that front in the near future – including an upcoming piece that I’m really excited about – but that doesn’t […]

The thing that sets Autechre apart from the vast majority of musical acts out there is their stubborn insistence on paying as little regard to personality, context or convention as possible. Groups who tell you that they’re “all about the music” are a dime a dozen, but in Autechre’s case it’s practically true by default. […]

I briefly met Kieran “Four Tet” Hebden as a concert promoter for my university back in 2001. I had booked him as an opener for DJ Food at a show at one of the campus pubs. It wasn’t a very crowded show – because I wasn’t a very good promoter – but it was a […]

Toronto’s own Joel “deadmau5″ Zimmerman is a serious case of “local boy makes good,” at least as far as the international club scene is concerned. Originally from Niagara Falls, and currently celebrated worldwide as a DJ and producer alike, deadmau5 showcases both his impressive solo skills and his flair for collaboration on this, his second […]

An excellent album from a group that sadly didn’t quite seem to get the widespread attention granted to a lot of their contemporaries in the ill-fated field of “electronica,” like Underworld, the Chemical Brothers and the Prodigy. 1999′s Rhythm and Stealth was Leftfield’s second and final proper album, and it’s one that deservedly endures. Much […]

The ninth studio LP from Download, and their contribution to the Beyond the Vault series released in October by Subconscious Communications, is one of the group’s best albums in years. With HElicopTEr, the duo of cEvin Key and Phil Western have fulfilled the promise of 2007′s FiXeR; following years of more subdued electronic releases that […]

You know, as much as I like reviewing records that came out twelve years ago, I’d hate to neglect all of the great new stuff coming out right now. Parisien producer Breakbot, for example, just put out a new EP called Baby I’m Yours, and it’s one of the catchiest new releases I’ve heard in […]

Musician and Subconscious co-founder Phil Western is fairly unknown when compared to some of the high-profile acts he’s worked for as an engineer and remixer. But he’s been putting out an extensive range of solo material for years now, sometimes under his own name, sometimes under one of any number of aliases, and sometimes as […]