Tracks 2 Pie Island
- Fly
- Soto Mundo
- PIL
- Little Things
- Slipaway
- After Hours
- Nobody Never
- Mote
- Here I Come
- Colours
Release date: 2006-09-04
RRP: £7.99
Price: £4.94
Review 2 Pie Island / 2 Bit Pie:
Tracks Biscuits for Breakfast
- Pretty Little Thing
- Pills In My Pocket
- Hush Now
- Biscuits
- So Long
- Kamlyn
- You Gotta Choose
- Sorry I'm Late
- All Cried Out
Release date: 2006-04-24
RRP: £10.99
Price: £6.85
Review Biscuits for Breakfast / Fink:
Tracks Soundphiles
- Grass roots horizon
- Hammock island
- Slip into something... feat. Ben & Jason
- Skyscraper
- Bopalong
- Theatricks
- Hombre
- Lucidity
- Slip into something
- Bayou barrataria
- Biological break
- KINOBE skit
Release date: 2000-08-14
RRP: £13.99
Price: £8.20
Review Soundphiles / Kinobe:Julius and Blackie's debut longplayer starts off deceptively with the bugging hyperkinetic bounce of "Biological Break" and eases into the arid dark skank of the Benjamin Zephaniah collaboration, Theatricks. Scary stuff. Don't let that put you off however, because Kinobe shine with a more exotic and feel-good sheen elsewhere. Their previous 3 EPs on Pepper were all lush sonic imagings that floated in bluesy and warmer musical waters. After the aforementioned opening confusion, every track on Soundphiles is tailor-made lush soundtrack material-Kinobe never stray too far from the visual ethic. This record is perfect headphone food for daily travels across towns, cities and beyond. The highest points: "Hammock Island" and the Englebert Humplerdinck sampling "Slip Into Something More Comfortable" (with vocals by Ben and Jason) need little explanation as to their chill-out destination. This is the most essential downtempo gem of the summer. I'll have two please. -Dan Stacey.
Tracks Another Late Night - Rae & Christian
- California Dreamin' - Jose Feliciano
- I Pink I'm Going Squeezy - Bushy vs Sonic Boo
- Take Ya Time - Zum
- Strudel Strut - Aromadozeski Therapy
- Flashlight - Rae & Christian
- Mary Jane - Rick James
- Heavy Worker - Trendsetter
- Introlude - Dubble D
- Samba - Faze Action (Rae & Christian Remix)
- Come On - Joshua
- Copenhagen Claimin' Respect - The Boulevard Connection
- 100 Million Ways - Nash
- All The Way Down - Esther Phillips
- Straight No Filter (Only Child Remix) - Fumi
- Roll Call - Pablo
- Put That On My Moma - Riton
- Got To Be Me - H20
- Four - Capoeira Twins (Mr Scruff Remix)
Release date: 2001-09-24
RRP: £14.99
Price: £9.47
Review Another Late Night - Rae & Christian / Rae & Christian:Given the success of their own soul inspired long-players, Rae & Christian are the most obvious contributors so far to compile a home mix tape of preferred late-night listening for the Another Late Night series. Having previously collaborated with the likes of soul legend Bobby Womack, it's little surprise that vintage funk is their main focus. Starting from the imposing horns of Trendsetter's "Heavy Worker", every ghetto strut from sleazy disco (Joshua's "Come On") to Latin boogaloos (Aromadozeski Therapy's "Strudel Strut") via easy down-tempo (Riton's "Put That On My Momma") and hi-tech electro (Mr Scruff's mix of Capoeira Twins "Four") is covered on route to a glorious climax with flamenco guitarist Jose Feliciano's aching cover of the Mamas and the Papas classic "California Dreaming". With so much funk and so many break beats on offer, this third instalment of Another Late Night is as much a gift to disillusioned hip-hop heads as it is dance-floor weary clubbers in search of something stylish to unwind to. Low slung and wilfully eclectic, it's also every inch a Rae & Christian album. -Dan Gennoe.
Tracks Electric Gypsyland Vol.2
- Terno Chelipe - Taraf De Haidouks
- Fiances Dream - Zelwer
- Maxutu - Cibelle & Kocani Orkestar
- Duba Duba Si Hora - Taraf De Haidouks
- A La Turk - Taraf De Haidouks
- Cudna Zena - Kocani Orkestar
- Lest Sexy - Rai, Mahala Banda
- Alone At My Wedding - Buscemi & Kocani Orkestar
- Spoitoresa Revisited - Russ & Nahala Rai Banda
- Romano Dance - DJ Click & Mahala Rai Banda
- Rom And A Home - Oi-Va-Voi & Taraf De Haidouks
- Oi Bori Sujie - Animal Collective
- Man Who Drinks - Forty Thieves Orkestar & Mahala Rai Banda
- Romano Dance - Mahala Rai Banda
- Ismail Oro - 43 Skidoo & Susheela Raman
- New Adventures Of Soldier Tufaiev - Gurzhy, Yuriy & Zelwer
- L'Orient Est Rouge - Kocani Orkestar
- Siki Siki Baba - Kocani Orkestar
- Homecoming - Tunng & Taraf De Haidouks
- Duba Duba Si Hora - Shantel & Taraf De Haidouks
- Cind Eram La '48 - Taraf De Haidouks
- Soldier Tufaiev Gets Married - Zelwer
- Neacsu In Africa - ShrineSynchroSystem & Taraf De Haidouks
- Morceau D'Amour - Nouvelle Vague & Mahala Rai Banda
- Spoitoresa - Rai, Mahala Banda
- Red Bula - Balkan Beat Box & Mahala Rai Banda
- Mi Bori Sar Korani - Smadj & Kocani Orkestar
- Go East - Fabri, Gaetano & Taraf De Haidouks
Release date: 2006-11-06
RRP: £14.99
Price: £6.66
Review Electric Gypsyland Vol.2 / Various Artists:
Tracks Doppelganger
- Slinker
- Pleasure Control
- Closer
- Be Here With You
- Saturday
- Three Floors Above You
- Pure Statik
- Fools Rush In
- Vibration
- Free Your Mind
- Put Your Hands Together
- Mighty Heroic
- 8 Miles From Memphis
Release date: 2008-03-24
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.05
Review Doppelganger / Grid:
Tracks Cream Live Vol.2: Paul Oakenfold/Nick Warren/James Lavelle
- If I Could Fly - Grace (2)
- Soul Food - Tuff Crew
- Bjango - Lucky Monkeys
- Radiate - Brothers Grim
- New Kicks - Bley, Johann
- Moon - Virus (2)
- Calm Down - Most Wanted
- Star - Shaker
- Meiso - DJ Krush
- Loose Caboose - Electroliners
- Western - PFM (2)
- Fantasya - Miles, Robert
- Bug In The Bassbin - Inner Zone Orchestra
- Hate That Hate Made - Paris (3)
- Disco Stomp - Electric Fruit Orchestra
- Berry Meditation - UNKLE
- Giant Within - Art Of Silence
- Hidden Sun Of Venus - LSG
- Paint A Picture - Man With No Name & Hannah
- Hypnotizin - Winx
- Domination - Way Out West (1)
- Come On - Konya
- Bee - Scientist (2)
- Gift - Way Out West (1)
- X'cellent - Dubeuro
- Inner Energy - Ebe Audio
- Let The Hustlers Play - Pulse & Tango
- Eugina - Salt Tank
- Last Stop - Groove Robbers & DJ Shadow
- Snow - ORN
- Skin On Skin - Grace (2)
- In My Mind - Deepsky
- Spinners - UNKLE
- Animal - Lost (1)
- Coma Aroma - In Aura (1)
- Oscillator - Paperclip People
- I Like That Sound - Munsterland
- Caught Short - Autocreation
- Indoctrinate - Castle Trancelot
- My House - BOD
- Clubbed To Death 2 - Dougan, Rob
- Piano Tune - Peshay
- Live As One - Sam Traxx
- Modular Mix - Air (2)
- Blue Flowers - Dr. Octagon
- Drifting Sounds Of Wakiki - Repeat
- Tripple Double - City Wide Allstars
Release date: 1996-06-01
RRP: £21.99
Price: £39.99
Review Cream Live Vol.2: Paul Oakenfold/Nick Warren/James Lavelle / Various Artists:
Tracks Charango
- Public displays of affection
- Get along
- Charango
- Great London traffic warden massacre
- Aqualung
- Sao Paolo
- Undress me now
- What New York couples fight about
- Slow down
- Women lose weight
- Otherwise
- Way beyond
Release date: 2002-07-01
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.09
Review Charango / Morcheeba:It's no surprise that Morcheeba's fourth album Charango has been given a summer release to catch the chillout boom. Since bursting into the charts and national consciousness with 1998's sophomore album Big Calm, the trio have carved a veritable niche as purveyors of evocative nuevo-lounge and dreamy ambience. While 2000's Fragments Of Freedom saw the South Londoners' first tentative step out of the "coffee table" pigeonhole, Charango is the sound of them relaxing, infusing influences such as hip-hop, country and cinematic scores into a joyous blend of humour, romance and soothing melancholy. There are vintage moments such as the lush lethargy of "Slow Down" and the string-laden single "Otherwise" but some of the most interesting tracks are the result of collaborations. Having written "What New York Couples Fight About" and "Undress Me Now", Lambchop frontman Kurt Wagner lends his achingly-emotive vocal to the former, while providing Skye with some charming lyrical raunch on the latter; "Using Your Mind / Imagine Our Skin / Joined At The Hip / Joined From Within". "Women Lose Weight" meanwhile is far less romantic; featuring rapper Slick Rick's dulcet tones, it's a tongue-in-cheek tale of a husband driven to murder by his overweight wife. Recorded soon after Rick was released from prison for shooting his cousin, it's of dubious taste if nonetheless entertaining. Adventurous and inspired yet dripping with Morcheeba's trademark languid rhythms and tranquil melodies, Charango is at the very least a return to form and arguably their best work to date. -Christopher Barrett.
Tracks Singles 90/98 (11 CD's/63 Tracks)
- Euro Zero Zero
- Blacksmith/daydreaming
- Risingson (2)
- Unfinished Sympathy
- Risingson
- Inertia Creeps
- Angel
- Back She Comes
- Superpredators
- Hymn Of The Big Wheel
- Any Love (2)
- Daydreaming
- Sly
- Any Love
- Karmacoma
- Reflections
- Group Four
- Home Of The Whale
- Protection
- Be Thankful For What You've Got
- Teardrop
- Safe From Harm
Release date: 1998-07-12
RRP: £64.99
Price: £37.16
Review Singles 90/98 (11 CD's/63 Tracks) / Massive Attack:Though perhaps not as relentlessly stylish as their contemporaries Underworld, Massive Attack are still easily the most influential dance-related act of the 1990s. But on this special, limited-edition boxed set, they've also got style to spare: the box itself is gloriously groovy, constructed from a heat-sensitive material that changes colour whenever somebody handles it. And then there's the music: 11 CDs, comprising 63 tracks that include album versions, B-sides and some of the best remixes around. Though the package could have fit on fewer discs-making for fewer trips to the CD player-there's ample reasons to pull the box off the shelf repeatedly: rediscovering classics like the Bond theme-ish "Sly", the relentlessly funky Brixton bass Mix of "Daydreaming" and the subversive, lustful Underdog's Angel Dust Mix of "Protection" among them. -Randy Silver.
Tracks See You in the Morning
- Effect on Me
- See You in the Morning
- World
- Rest Your Head
- Enhancement - Electronic Press Kit
- Singin in the Rain
- Little Words
- Wait For You
- Harpy
- I Don't Care
- Something New
- My Heart Is Beating Fast
- Video - Wait For You
Release date: 2005-08-22
RRP: £14.99
Price: £6.42
Review See You in the Morning / Mint Royale:
Tracks Abductions and Reconstructions
- Porno 3003 - Pizzicato 5
- Dance On Vaseline - Byrne, David
- KC Doppler - Slide 5
- Defenceless - Waldeck
- Closer To God - Urbs & Chaoz
- Tickertape Of The Unconscious - Stereolab
- This Strange Effect - Hooverphonic
- Transmission Central - Rockers Hi-Fi
- Boof 'n' Baff 'n' Biff - Black Uhuru
- Polyesterday - Gus Gus
- Sexelevatormusik - Avatars Of Dub
- Savoir Faire - Ursula 1000
- Souka Nayo (I Will Folow You) - Maal, Baaba
- Hijack - Thunderball
- Ave Maria - Cordeiro, Edson
Release date: 2008-07-28
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.66
Review Abductions and Reconstructions / Thievery Corporation:It's fitting that Rob Garza and Eric Hilton, the duo behind Thievery Corporation, run both a club and a label that have the name Eighteenth Street Lounge: all of the music (which shares the same dubby, acid-jazz flavour) on the label is perfectly suited to the club. Abductions and Reconstructions, however, is different from previous ESL releases, such as Dubbed Out in D. C. , in that it's easily the label's most accessible album to date. It consists of 15 Thievery remixes of artists from Stereolab to David Byrne to Baba Maal and tends to be a lot more active than the duo's original compositions. Still, the tracks here bear only a passing resemblance to their original forms-in Thievery's hands, the songs are drawn out, tranced up, mellowed down, but each has its own flavour. The end result is an album that's both diverse and consistent and completely enjoyable. You could just as easily dance to these tracks as sit and lounge to them-the perfect soundtrack for either a great bar or your next party. -Randy Silver.
Tracks Reeled and Skinned: the Snapper, Swank & Hot Flush Eps
- Hot Flush
- Wesley Don't Surf
- In Deep - Red Snapper & Beth Orton
- Cortina
- Hot Flush
- Snapper - Red Snapper & Beth Orton
- One Legged Low Frequency Guy
- Lobster
- Swank
Release date: 1995-06-26
RRP: £13.99
Price: £7.99
Review Reeled and Skinned: the Snapper, Swank & Hot Flush Eps / Red Snapper:Critics, bless them, didn't quite know what to make of Red Snapper. Were they jazz? (They kept playing at the legendary London jazz club Ronnie Scott's. ) Electronica? Trip-hop? Of course, this very contrariness was the band's great strength, lending their music a fractious, busy quality that set them apart from the vast majority of their peers. The aim was simple enough: to achieve the mesmeric textures of loops and mixes, through a clash of live and electronic instrumentation-the former including such comparative oddities as saxophone, clarinet and double bass. Mostly it worked, and the result was sublime. Prince Blimey was their first album (Reeled And Skinned is a collection of their first three singles and EPs), and the sound is often reminiscent of a late 1960s British gangster flick-an impression reinforced by titles like "3 Strikes And You're Out" and "Thomas The Fib". At other times, it imagines some inspired fusion of King Tubby, Miles Davis and Dick Dale. Indescribable, really. Ultimately, the best tag might be one coined by the band themselves: "Fuck-Off Jazz". Nice. [+]-Andrew McGuire.
Tracks The Best Album in the World...Ever Vol.7
- Karma Police - Radiohead
- Sonnet - Verve
- Teardrop - Massive Attack
- SMDU - Brock Landars
- Kelly Watch The Stars - Air (2)
- Settle Down - Unbelievable Truth
- Bentley's Gonna Sort You Out - Bentley Rhythm Ace
- Rockafeller Skank - Fatboy Slim
- Eat My Goal - Collapsed Lung
- Vindaloo - Fat Les
- Monkey Gone To Heaven - Pixies
- What A Beautiful Day - Levellers
- On Your Own - Blur
- Ice Hockey Hair - Super Furry Animals
- Sun Hits The Sky - Supergrass
- How High - Charlatans (1)
- Wide Open Space - Mansun
- Delicious - Catherine Wheel (1)
- Passenger - Iggy Pop
- Ice Hockey Hair - Super Furry Animals
- Come Back To What You Know - Embrace (1)
- What The World Is Waiting For - Stone Roses
- Choose Life - PF Project & Ewan McGregor
- It's Like That - Run DMC & Jason Nevins
- Vision Incision - Lo Fidelity Allstars
- Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth - Dandy Warhols
- Brimful Of Asha - Cornershop
- Twisted (Everyday Hurts) - Skunk Anansie
- Drinking In LA - Bran Van 3000
- Push It - Garbage
- Let Me Entertain You - Williams, Robbie
- Best Friend - Ether (1)
- Poison - Prodigy (1)
- Rocks - Primal Scream
- Begin Again - Space (3)
- Hundred Mile High City - Ocean Colour Scene
- Four Big Speakers - Whale
- Tubthumping - Chumbawamba
- I Would Fix You - Kenickie (1)
Release date: 1998-07-06
RRP: £17.99
Price: £42.94
Review The Best Album in the World...Ever Vol.7 / Various Artists:
Tracks Succour
- Ruby-Ha
- Extract
- Rupt
- When Face Was Face
- Utreat
- Cut
- Vex
- Fracture
- Meol
- Gatha
Release date: 1999-10-01
RRP: £13.99
Price: £8.89
Review Succour / Seefeel:
Tracks Not for Threes
- Prague Radio
- Getting
- Kortisan
- Headspin
- Rakimou
- Abla Eedio
- Extort
- Lat
- Fer
- Myopia
- Seph
- Lilith
- Forever
- Milh
- Lady Burst
- Ol
Release date: 1997-10-27
RRP: £13.99
Price: £5.35
Review Not for Threes / Plaid:
Tracks Spiderman of the Rings
- Wham City
- Jimmy Joe Roche
- Big Milk
- Woody Woodpecker
- Pink Batman
- Snake Mistakes
- Trippy Green Skull
- Crystal Cat
- Okie Dokie
Release date: 2007-11-19
RRP: £13.99
Price: £5.57
Review Spiderman of the Rings / Dan Deacon:
Tracks Ibiza Annual 2006
- I Thought That - Migrants
- Music Loud - Tocadisco
- My My My - Van Helden, Armand & Tara McDonald
- Mama - Housefeller & Christine Moore
- Walking Away - Egg (2)
- Tonight - Sonique (2)
- Coracao - Ropero, Jerry & Denis The Menace/Sabor/Jacqueline
- My Life - Chanel
- Swimming Places - Jabre, Julien
- Dirty Cash (Money Talks) - Mind Electric
- Release - Lake, Chris
- Woz Not Woz - Prydz, Eric & Steve Angello
- Sun Science - Crazy P
- Soulshakin' - Christopher, Dennis
- E Samba - Junior Jack
- Right Here Right Now - Fatboy Slim
- Cure And The Cause - Fish Go Deep & Tracey K
- Same Man - West, Till & DJ Delicious
- Streetlife - Class A
- Young And Beautiful - Young Punx
- All This Love - Similou
- Faster Kill Pussycat - Oakenfold, Paul & Brittany Murphy
- 2 People - Jean Jacques Smoothie
- Wonderland - Leg Soup
- DYOT - Dab Hands (1)
- All I Need - Ill Beat Hustlers
- Voodoo Child - Rogue Traders
- Summer Jam 2003 - UD Project
- Lost - Sanchez, Roger
- In My Arms - Mylo
- Take It (Closing Time) - Novy, Tom & Lima
- U Control - Spiritchaser & Seyi
- Bit Patchy - Switch (2)
- Heaven - Late Night Alumni
- Things You Say - Cicada (1)
- Tell Me Why - Supermode
- Moonlight Party - Fonzerelli
- Steppin' Out - Kaskade
- Makes Me Love You - Eclipse (2)
- Me And U - Ultra DJs
- What A Feeling - Grey, Richard & Gate 54
- Guitarra G - G-Club & Banda Sonora
- I Love NY - Seasons Of Love
- World Hold On (Children Of The Sky) - Bob Sinclar & Steve Edwards
- Pasilda - Afro Medusa
- Believe - Soldier Of Twilight
- Golden Sun - Asle
- Turn Me On - Dirty Old Ann
- Crazy All The Time - 33Hz
- Not Over Yet - Carnival (2)
- I Need A Miracle - Cascada
- Kill 100 - X-Press 2 & Rob Harvey
- Exceeder - Mason (3)
- Everybody - Solveig, Martin
- Put Your Hands Up For Detroit - Fedde Le Grand
- Fade - Solu Music & KimBlee
- Can't Get Enough - Fireflies & Alexandra Prince
- Flaunt It - TV Rock & Seany B
- Moving Too Fast - Supafly
- Everytime We Touch - Morgane
Release date: 2006-08-28
RRP: £18.99
Price: £4.52
Review Ibiza Annual 2006 / Various Artists:
Tracks Den of Thieves: the Sound of 18th Street Lounge/Compiled By Thievery Corporation
- Blue States - Bare Bones
- Desmond Williams - Brooklyn Blues
- Ursula 1000 - Samba 1000 (Nicola Conte mix)
- Federico Aubele - Postales
- Federico Aubele - El Amor De Este Pueblo
- Thunderball - The Panther
- Thievery Corporation - Language Symbolique
- Sofa Surfers - See The Light
- The Karminsky Experience - Exploration
- Arkestra One - Into The Light
- The Karminsky Experience - Departures
- Thunderball vs Liftoff - Welcome Back Cooper
- Les Hommes - Hommage
Release date: 2003-07-28
RRP: £13.99
Price: £5.98
Review Den of Thieves: the Sound of 18th Street Lounge/Compiled By Thievery Corporation / Thievery Corporation:
Tracks Ibiza - the Story So Far: the Story So Far/Mixed By Matt Cassar
- VOAT - Moonchild (2)
- What Would We Do - DSK
- Give Me Luv - Alcatraz (1)
- Testament - Chubby Chunks
- Pacific 303 - 808 State
- Nagasaki - Kendoh
- Something Goin' On - Terry, Todd
- Sexy Dancer - Rockford Files
- Hot - Ideal (1)
- Want Love - Hysteric Ego
- Your Love - Prodigy (1)
- Playing With Knives - Bizarre Inc.
- Something About You - Mr. Roy
- Don't Deal With Us - JT Company
- Horny - Mousse T
- Going Back To My Roots - FPI Project
- Shine On - Degrees Of Motion
- Big Love - Heller, Pete
- Le Voie Le Soleil - Subliminal Cuts
- Free - Ultra Nate
- Sound Of Eden - Shades Of Rhythm
- Professional Widow - Amos, Tori
- Let Me Love You For Tonight - Kariya
- Not Over Yet - Grace (2)
- Train Of Thought - Escrima
- Break Of Dawn - Rhythm On The Loose
- Latin Dream - Sueno Latino
- Yeke Yeke - Kante, Mory
- Move Your Body - Xpansions
- Shock The Beat - Electro Choc
- So In Love With You - Duke (3)
- On Ya Way - Helicopter
- Your Loving Arms - Martin, Billie Ray
Release date: 2000-06-19
RRP: £17.99
Price: £28.95
Review Ibiza - the Story So Far: the Story So Far/Mixed By Matt Cassar / Various Artists:
Tracks Better Living Through Chemistry
- Sound Of Milwaukee
- Weekend Starts Here
- Give The Po' Man A Break
- Punk To Funk
- First Down
- Santa Cruz
- Song For Lindy
- Going Out Of My Head
- 10th And Crenshaw
- Everybody Needs A 303
- Crenshaw Siren Beats
Release date: 2000-09-01
RRP: £9.99
Price: £1.65
Review Better Living Through Chemistry / Fatboy Slim:
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