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The Soft Pink Truth

Do You Want New Wave or Do You Want The Soft Pink Truth? Tigerbeat6

By Philip Sherburne
Nov 25, 2004

On the surface, much of Do You Want New Wave or Do You Want the Soft Pink Truth? is an album of electro-pop covers of punk songs from Drew Daniel -- ex-punk rocker, current Björk collaborator and Matmos member, and button-pusher behind The Soft Pink Truth -- that's perfect for...
Autechre

Draft 7.30 (Warp)

By Philip Sherburne
May 15, 2003

The music of Manchester, England's Autechre -- Sean Booth and Rob Brown -- can, indeed, veer dangerously close to difficult listening. But on the group's fantastic new CD, Draft 7.30, the project seems to have come in from the cold, offering a remarkably warm fusion of the human and the...
Frog's Legs

Schneider TM cooks up pop delicacies for your ears

By Philip Sherburne
May 1, 2003

Dirk Dresselhaus has just woken up from a strange, unsettling slumber, and he sits slumped over the breakfast table, rubbing at his rumpled head. Later, when he recounted the story, he didn't tell us what he was eating. But since he is German, let's imagine that he prods absently at...
Various Artists

Watch How the People Dancing: Unity Sounds From the London Dancehall, 1986-1989 Honest Jon's/Astralwerks

By Philip Sherburne
Mar 6, 2003

The Honest Jon's label -- launched by the U.K. record shop of the same name and co-owned by none other than Blur's Damon Albarn -- has built an eclectic roster over the course of its initial three releases. First came Albarn's Mali Music project, a set of rootsy collaborations with...
DJ Spinna

Here to There "BBE"

By Philip Sherburne
Feb 6, 2003

Hip-hop's history -- a dialectic forged by battling, boasting, and street-corner heroics -- is a long-raging tug of war between MCs and producers. Throughout much of the late Nineties, the lyricists had the upper hand, prompting the British label BBE (short for "Barely Breaking Even") to launch The Beat Generation,...

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