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"Max" is widely considered a masterpiece, and rightly so - the ingenious use of a melody lifted from Paolo Conte's jazz piece of the same name creates a sublime and incredibly moving track and a fitting tribute to Italian producer Max_M, who passed away ... See full review

Once largely unknown outside the domain of the ardent deep house cognoscenti, there's now a renewed interest in the work of guys like Ray Castoldi (in no small part thanks to sites like discogs). His tunes are way too good to be left by the wayside, and ... See full review

"Somebody comes up to you and asks you, "you want drugs?" - what do you tell them? Drugs work!" A deep, trippy, bleepy techno classic and a hedonists' anthem from the minds of Klimek and Browse. Still sounds great two and a half decades on (which is all ... See full review

Decent, if severely dated rave EP from the Third Electric/Audiosex/Dr. Walker crew. The track "Wake Up" features a sample from Cheech & Chong's "Little Mary Elephant" skit, in which an exasperated substitute teacher screams her lungs out in an attempt to ... See full review

"Flange Stereo" is basically just a loop sampled from VDT's "The Rise" (Container Records, 1991) with added FX and percussion. Yet it's a perfect example in how to accomplish a lot with an extremely limited toolbox - and it's nearly 25 years old. Blows ... See full review

It's not the pressing. I've got this on CD and it's the same there. May have been recorded from a dodgy DAT.

Pounding Chicago-style drum tracks injected with a healthy dose of distorted industrial techno. "So What" is the chef-d'œuvre. It drills into your brain and stays there. Music to pour vodka on your sauna to.

"Transfer", such a frustrating tune. It has all the necessary elements to create a deep house classic, and could easily pass for an early 90's Italian production on Heartbeat or MBG. But it's too short! Why, why, why does it stop after less than 3 ... See full review

Early compilation of Danish techno. Perhaps the first one ever, I'm not sure. I bought it on CD in Copenhagen the year it came out, but regrettably lost it/sold it/can't remember a while later. In the spirit of nostalgia, I've now bought the vinyl ... See full review

"Quxy" is a subtly designed and skillfully executed IDM/broken beat fusion of sorts that combines lush electronics, rattling & unconventional beats and a wobbly bassline to create a very unique sounding track. The John Tejada remix is a mellow d'n'b ... See full review

Thought I'd drop by and give "Hey No Fear (Deep)" an honourable mention. Nico (who left us much too soon) later recycled the 303 line on the fantastic "Darkstar" on ESP.

How they came up with the title for this thing is a bit of a mystery: None of the tracks had been released anywhere else before (with the exception of "Fuzz" which appeared on the "Lost Entity" EP on Permanent, also in 94). And I don't believe for one ... See full review

I quite like this. I know I'm not supposed to. It's the aural equivalent of an empty carbs rush, a Gatecrasher-era fortress of cheese. And for someone who grew up on Eye Q/Harthouse, MFS etc., it felt like a personal insult when this style of music ... See full review

"Triton", pointless, pointless track, the sound of a complete identity crisis, a tune which has absolutely no idea what it wants to be or what it's trying to do. Sounds like three producers took three different tracks to the studio and then tried to glue ... See full review

"Black Hole" is fascinating; a love song it might be, but the vocals are oddly detached and impersonal and feel more like additional decor for the sleek, polished bit of electro-pop that constitutes the backing track than anything remotely heartfelt. And ... See full review