Demob Happy

New Clothes for the New World 7/10 Disco Inferno are an interesting footnote to the British music scene in the mid-90s. Its 1994: while Britpop was rearing its ugly head in the guise of the Gallagher Brothers and their rivals Blur, and trip hop burgeoned under the commercial success of Portishead’s Dummy and Massive Attack’s [...]

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Unrelenting 3/10 I don’t really see the point of this. Jason Forrest – aka DJ Donna Summer – likes to cut and paste old disco and funk together in a kind of post modern mish-mash that is more IDM than Avalanches. It is click-and-cut of the most filtered, tinny variety, there is nothing of the [...]

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Empty vessel 6/10 This was a big disappointment for me. Its predecessor, Compassion, was one of the high points in sample-based electronica in the last five years. On‘The Vessell’, Dan Berridge enlists a male vocal foil in Richard Palmer –a cross between the lead singers of the Aloof and Placebo (to listen to,not to look [...]

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Sampledelica 9/10 This is unequivocably one of the best albums from the dance/electronica left-field in the last five years and rival to DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing as the high-point in sample-based instrumental music. Remarkably lush and always greater than a sum of its parts, Dan Berridge developes an astonishing melting pot of sound: broken, jazzy drum [...]

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