Formed as Panasonic in 1993 by Mika Vanio and Ilpo Väisänen, the Finnish experimental techno duo Pan Sonic has since its inception built spacious but minimalist beat-driven, bass-dense […]
2001
A minimalist, clicks-and-cuts masterpiece by experimental guitarist Christian Fennesz, Endless Summer is a wild, breathtaking guitar record unlike anything released before or since. Multiplying six strings to infinity […]
With 18 tracks and not a bum one among them, the brilliant Blood & Fire compilation Darker Than Blue is just what its subtitle says: soul covers and […]
Lifestyles of the Laptop Café is the masterpiece lone album by The Other People Place, a solo project from legendary Detroit producer James Stinson, who is most known […]
German minimalist Jan Jelinek’s first album is among the most mesmerizing of the so-called clicks + cuts era of experimental techno. Propelled by dub’s heavy bass lines, glitchy […]
By 2001, Miami bass culture had reached the tail end of its pop culture moment, as acts like the L’Trimm, Quad City DJs, DJ Magic Mike and 2 […]
An underground hip-hop masterpiece from the ’00s, The Cold Vein is the debut album from Harlem-based duo Cannibal Ox, produced by Company Flow’s El-P (later Run the Jewels). […]
The third volume of a Boredoms remix project called Rebore, DJ Krush’s epic 45-minute megamix of sounds, tracks, samples and tidbits from throughout the Japanese experimental legends’ oeuvre, […]
Issued by the trip hop and breakbeat label Mo Wax in 2001, Now Thing is a revelatory look at the wildly inventive tracks coming out of Kingston in […]
Autechre’s sixth album is the Trout Mask Replica of early ’00s electronic music, a polarizing, often confounding listen that, like Captain Beefheart’s 1969 avant-rock classic, abides by some […]
An absolute Detroit electro classic – Lifestyles Of The Laptop Café is the last album by Drexciya’s James Stinson before his untimely death in 2002. At the time […]
Featuring 30 songs in total, Drukqs was met with a lot of blowback from critics and journalists. Many simply just didn’t seem to understand its brilliance at the time, or […]