Dance Music Reviews - by Resident Advisor
The latest Reviews from online dance music magazine Resident Advisor.
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Phase - Binary Opposition
It's amazing how a small change in composition can have a huge impact. In the case of Ashley Burchett's latest 12-inch, it's using bass to fill in the spaces be..
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Ma Spaventi / Aroy Dee - Wrecking / Mr. Floyd
Marco Spaventi and Aroy Dee must be pretty friendly by now. After relocating to Amsterdam from his native Italy, Spaventi twice collaborated with the M>O>S foun..
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Leila - U&I
Back in 1998, UK-based musician Leila Arab released a weirdly lo-fi yet fully formed album titled Like Weather. Its main single, "
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Lucky Paul - Elephant Island
Kiwi Lucky Paul is Feist's drummer, but he also makes some intriguing leftfield records in his own right. "Elephant Island," apparently, is about British Antarc..
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John Tejada / Truncate - Maximiliano / Veinticinco
That Santiago Salazar and Silent Servant have shared several 12-inches on their own label Historia y Violencia is proof that they don't mind a little bit of con..
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Gianluca Meloni - Anthemusa
Italian duo Gianluca Meloni and Dino Sabatini are probably best known for the mind-bending techno they create together as Modern Heads—a collaboration that br..
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Prins Thomas and DJ Koze in Sydney
Like, say, Amsterdam and Rotterdam, Sydney and Melbourne are rival cities. Where Melbourne has always been credited a greater share of culture (reflected in a l..
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Julio Bashmore and Midland in London
Consistently unearthing new names for sell-out events over the past few years, it has been hard to avoid two of Northern England's most prominent nights—Louch..
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Art Department - Touch You Gently
Art Department's The Drawing Board consisted of eleven tracks of sparse, simple drum patterns and synth lines, with a dash of reverb, drifting indeterminat..
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Mark Van Hoen - The Revenant Diary
Former Seefeel member Mark Van Hoen has been releasing solo material under a variety of aliases since the early '90s, but his career apparently began a decade b..
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A Sagittariun - Carina
Maybe the oddest thing about about the anonymous A Sagittariun project is that anonymity is its least interesting factor: the confident and accomplished beats s..
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June Miller - Snapcase
Holland duo June Miller have been getting increasingly experimental with their drum & bass records for labels like Horizons, Inside and Buried Audio. That said,..
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Jacques Greene - Concealer
With so many producers in the bass music realm making starry-eyed R&B from scraps of pop culture, it's about time they started making their own, isn't it? Montr..
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Gadi Mizrahi and Voices of Black in Moscow
New Moscow venue 20:12 celebrated its official opening earlier this year with Stacey Pullen as a guest. On the night of the following Friday, the place was rule..
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Atomic Jam 16th birthday
On the night of Atomic Jam's recent 16th birthday celebrations, a majestic red glow radiated from the monumental brickwork of Birmingham's Q Club as the venue's..
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GB - 7 in 24
Dublin's peripatetic All City label looks once again to Los Angeles with its latest release, bringing GB (Gifted & Blessed) back for his first solo release afte..
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Mister Saturday Night in London
New York party Mister Saturday Night usually hangs its hat in temporary spaces in Brooklyn, having shunned Manhattan's clubs because, in the founders' own words..
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u-he - Diva
Ever since the release of Propellerheads' Rebirth-338 in 1996, soft synths designed around analogue architecture have endured and proliferated. It's not hard to..
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Harmonious Thelonious - Listen
"American minimalism vs. African drumming vs. European sequencing." These are the words that Stefan Schwander has used to describe his Harmonious Thelonious. Bu..
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Chaim - Robots on Meth
Chaim has an uncanny grasp of what makes a dance floor tick, but still has the ability to combine it with a pop sensibility. "Robots On Meth" is the third singl..
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