A slight return to experimental electro after the downtempo breakbeat of their EP work during 1999, the second Two Lone Swordsmen full-length for Warp also explores the minimalist side of techno and harks back to the early-'80s synth-funk Andrew Weatherall championed on his Nine O'Clock Drop mix disc for Nuphonic. Except for a few tracks of free-form ambient wallpaper, Tiny Reminders is pretty hard hitting, at least for Two Lone Swordsmen. The beats are less brittle, and though the cat...   [ read more ]

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Kirk's debut solo Warp album is an opus of sorts, with melodic passages and themes reappearing throughout. Obscure indigenous samples combine with standard and breakbeat techno and ambient textures, vocal, chanted, and spoken word snippets, and accomplished rhythmic programming. Reissued by Wax Trax!/TVT in 1994. ~ Sean Cooper, All Music Guide

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Yet another genre-blending comp from the Laswell camp, bringing together Laswell's Material project with a pair of collaborators (Graham Haynes and Byard Lancaster), and featuring tracks from DJ Spooky, DJ Soul Slinger, and Fullcone. A mixture of uptempo breakbeat and downtempo ambient dub/trip-hop, none of the tracks (save perhaps for Benwa's mix of Fullcone's "Ephedream") are particularly essential, but they're all well done and together serve as an enjoyable snapshot of ...   [ read more ]

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