DJ Cheb I Sabbah As Far As

Published Jan 01, 2006

Having established himself as a first-rate producer on Shri Durga and Krishna Lila, Cheb I Sabbah returns to his first love — DJing. The Alg...

Ennio Morricone Remixes Volume 1

Published Jan 01, 2006

In his heyday, Ennio Morricone had his pulse on then-modern sounds, rhythms and technology of his time much in the same way that today’s DJ-...

African Head Charge Shrunken Head

Published Jan 01, 2006

With the majority of their work preceding the age of the remix, African Head Charge bring world and electronic music together with a sense o...

Mr. Velcro Fastener/Various Present Deep:Inside Vol. Two

Published Jan 01, 2006

Electro is definitely an obsession for this Finnish duo (Tatu Peltonen and Tatu Metsätähti) but it has less to do with the synthetic clothes...

New Deal Gone Gone Gone

Published Jan 01, 2006

Holding it down as the coolest jam-band on the planet is one thing, cutting tracks in the studio with minimal excesses is another. With Gone...

Bugz in the Attic/Various Fabriclive. 12

Published Jan 01, 2006

There are plenty of broken beat compilations out there, but very few that come DJ-mixed. The fact that this one’s been sewn up by heavyweigh...

Various Seashore Sessions Volume One

Published Jan 01, 2006

Broken-beat tends to be known for its experimental edge over house and techno, but lately a lot of it seems to sacrifice dance floor appeal....

3 Generations Walking 3 Generations Walking

Published Jan 01, 2006

Like most records on Spiritual Life, 3 Generations Walking is less deep house than deep fusion. It un/consciously blends garage, dub, jazz,...

Karsh Kale Liberation

Published Jan 01, 2006

The first thing that hits you about Karsh Kale’s new album is that it’s both harder and softer than Realize or any of the other works the pr...

Asian Dub Foundation The Enemy of the Enemy

Published Jan 01, 2006

Asian Dub Foundation have always had an unparalleled reputation for their masterful mix of music and politics. Unfortunately, they may have...

Ramasutra El Pipo Del Taxi EP

Published Jan 01, 2006

It’s hard to take Ramachandra Borcar (aka Ramasutra) seriously. On one hand, he’s one of the few young South Asians in this country taking c...

Moodyman Silence In The Silent Secret Garden

Published Jan 01, 2006

The latest Moodymann disc opens with a two-and-a-half minute orchestration of deconstructed jazz drums, a jerky clavinet line and synth-stri...

Various The Music of Bollywood

Published Jan 01, 2006

The Music of Bollywood isn’t the first compilation to introduce Indian soundtrack culture to non-Hindi ears, but it is the most comprehensiv...

Various The Fire This Time

Published Jan 01, 2006

Not to be confused with the political dub project of Afro-Indian producer Patrick Andrade, The Fire This Time is a 73-minute audio-essay on...

Roni Size Is Expressive and Aggressive

Published Jan 01, 2006

Three years after turning the world on to their distinctive combination of sharp melodies and breakbeat assault, Reprazent's concept remains...

Kid Koala The Player

Published Jan 01, 2006

Every DJ has their signature sound. Grandwizard Theodore made his by "scratching" a record back and forth.Cash Money found a way to rhythmic...

A Guy Called Gerald Says Shut Up and Dance

Published Jan 01, 2006

Drum & bass is dead. Sure, it still gets played at raves, but it no longer has the vital force of what it had five years ago when many of u...

Better Luck Tomorrow Justin Lin

Published Jan 01, 2006

Better Luck Tomorrow revolves around Ben Manibag (Perry Shen), a suburban, Asian-American obsessed with getting straight As, overbooking his...

Joaquin "Joe" Claussell / Los Tambores Bata de Carlos Gomez Love NYC, New York City NY - April 3, 2005

Published May 01, 2005

There are few events that embrace the musical eclecticism and spirituality many of us witnessed at New York's Body & Soul before it closed d...

John Tejada Logic Memory Center

Published Feb 01, 2005

There’s something distinctively "laptop” about the tracks on Logic Memory Center. The hi-hats are really compressed, the bass kicks with a c...