Dance Music Reviews - by Resident Advisor
The latest Reviews from online dance music magazine Resident Advisor.
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Unknown - Blackout
Full admission: The first few times I played "Blackout" it was at 33rpm, not its intended 45. But you know what? I thought it so..
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Trailerpark 2010
Why bother going to a festival as small as Trailerpark? I think I just answered my own question, to be honest. The Copenhagen ev..
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Hyetal - Phoenix
The influence of the "unremembered '80s" in music is considerable, and it's a force that finally seems to be invading even the i..
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Plastikman - Kompilation
Before Minus, before The Cube, before Richieeeeeeee!, there was music. Richie Hawtin was known in the electronic music community..
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Svpreme Fiend - Killer EP
Anyone using cyclical metallic beats and ghostly vocals these days is bound to get the name Burial thrown at them. Most of the t..
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Cosmin TRG - Tower Block
TRG seems to have his finger in every pie these days, dripping with influences from dubstep, rave, UK funky and techno. Cosmin N..
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Steven Tang - The Verged Sessions
If you'd forgotten about Steven Tang over the past few years, you're not alone. The Chicago DJ/producer releases music on his E..
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Diskjokke - 1987
For all their public rebukes of the term, our friends in the North have never quite been able to shake the disco tag. Wheth..
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Optimo and Retro/Grade in Glasgow
Maybe it provides some ancient reconnection with our seafaring past, or maybe it's just that a change is as good as a holiday. F..
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Various Artists - Milky Disco 3: to.the.stars
Stretch a compilation series past its second volume and chances are you're going to run into problems. Note that I said compilat..
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Dr Dunks - Keep it Cheap
Disco edits are trending downward at the moment, a bit of relief as reworks had been getting lazier and lazier, when they're not..
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Rick Wade - The Mack Of Moscow
Rick Wade's trump card is consistency. Some may lay claim to bigger hits, others to greater versatility, but surely Wade stands..
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Slam - Maffaking
I've always thought of Slam as occupying a space somewhere in between the Chemical Brothers, Joey Beltram and somewhere more und..
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Pryda Warehouse party in London
The Pryda Warehouse party was never supposed to be a warehouse party at all. It was originally intended for superclub matter, bu..
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Roland - Gaia
Roland's SH series synths need little introduction. From the SH-1000 almost 40 years ago to the enduringly fashionable SH-101 an..
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Corinne - Tonight
The most original thing about Corinne's EP for On The Prowl, the Brooklyn label run by Runaway's Marcos Cabral and Jacques Renau..
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Various Artists - Curle 25: So Far (So Good)
Clearly, the people at Curle like things that build. It takes till the fourth track of Curle 25, the label's rule-of-fives..
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New Kids on Acid in Berlin
Predicting whether a party will be good or not is a strange, hunch-based science. Big name DJs often disappoint, no-names someti..
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Various Artists - Rick Wilhite Presents Vibes New & Rare Music Part C
I have seen the future of dance music, and his name is Kyle Hall. Innovative, arch, cocksure, refined—to hold a 19-year-ol..
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Solomun - Sisi
Morse code house piano riffs can be reassuring. Take the second and third tracks on this three song EP. The title of "Talk to th..
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