Flanger - Inner Space/Outer Space
Flanger discovers music of intuition and chance. Questions of authorship arise, as it did when Miles Davis was recording with producer Teo Macero in the seventies, where spontaneous improvisations then savagely edited essentially reinvented the original compositions.

There's a fusion-y feel that is too knowing to fall into shit clichés: gorgeous vibraphones, subtle variance of percussion, all undercut by the satisfying precision of the programming that creates lovely space; the weird jump cuts and edits that reveal a techno pulse amidst the layers of lush instrumentation.

Flanger says: You are about to take the quantum leap to a fantastic journey on the other side of human understanding. Let's go!

The sample track taken from the album is 'The Men Who Fell From Earth'

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BONOBO - Animal Magic
Bonobo (a.k.a Simon Green) is a young man heralding from the town of Brighton. A talented musician and DJ, Simon brings a wide range of influences to his album, which is apparent as you stroll through the soundscapes he produces.

Animal Magic is one of those albums that appears richer every time you listen to it. It's depth and character grows stronger with each listen. It has several standout tracks and it seems everyone has a different favourite. Upon early listening Groove Armada have also expressed an interest in remixing the next single, and the music press, the like of the Big Chill have heralded 'Animal Magic as ""One of the most exciting discoveries for us this year".

The sample track taken from the album is 'Gypsy'

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Neotropic - La Prochaine Fois
It's time to welcome the new album from Riz Maslen aka Neotropic, renaissance woman of modern electronica.

"La Prochaine Fois" continues Riz's search for emotion and earthiness in electronics, this time with a more organic and live approach that harks back to the English folk tradition of Nick Drake, sideways to the post-rock experiments of Jim O'Rourke et al and forward to a new way of making electronic music. The album features guitar playing by Nick McCabe, formerly of The Verve, as well as main collaborator Paul Jason Fredericks and Sally Herbert, who has written string arrangements for the likes of Manic Street Preachers.

The sample track taken from the album is 'Still'

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Wagon Christ - "Musipal"
After his many moves and moods and interludes and so on, so forth and thereafter, Mr Vibert, as Mr Wagon Christ, has ended up producing his first album for his spiritual home-buddies, Ninja Tune. Thoughtfully taking us on a Vibert tour of the past 4 years "Musipal" presents a mixture of new tracks and previously unreleased archive material.

And very nice it is, too. From the most bubblegum nonsense to woozy, off-centre strangeness and taking in acid re-works, panting rapping and, as usual, the crispest, most swinging beats about, it confirms that Mr Vibert is happy to head on doing what he wants to do regardless.

The sample track taken from the album is 'Bend Over'

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Up, Bustle &Out - Master Session 2, Calle 23, Havana
This is the second in the series of the Master Sessions from UB&O, two albums which were recorded in both their hometown of Bristol and their spiritual home of Cuba. The project integrates music, literature and film into one compelling intrigue.

The project was co-written by, the man who forms the roots to popular Cuban music. He is Cuba's number 1 flautist and orchestrator, and recently he played on the successful 'Rubén González' and 'Buena Vista Social Club' albums.

The sample track taken from the album is 'Coffee Contamination'

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Pimply Skateboard Bob for Crud Magazine© 2002

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