Dance & Electronica Reviews

Latest Dance & Electronica Reviews

• Seek Magic Memory Tapes

  
  Pencil him in as delivering a future album of the year, now.

  reviewed by Mike Diver

• Waiting for You King Midas Sound

  
  Heavy with urban dread but awake to the promise of a better life.

  reviewed by Louis Pattison

• Sadly, the Future Is No Longer What It Was Leyland Kirby

  
  Boasts an emotional, melancholic undertow so accomplished it shames other ambient LPs.

  reviewed by Louis Pattison

• Cambio Wechsel Kelpe

  
  A journey to exciting territories beyond the beats-and-pieces norm.

  reviewed by Mike Diver

• Bite Harder: The Music De Wolfe Sampler Volume 2 Various Artists

  
  There’s a commendable level of crazy sonics sneaked into these brews.

  reviewed by Noel Gardner

• Ay Ay Ay Matias Aguayo

  
  Ay Ay Ay barely puts a foot – or larynx – wrong.

  reviewed by Chris Power

• Let the Night Roar King Cannibal

  
  A fusion of drum and bass and dubstep that’s idiosyncratic of focus.

  reviewed by Melissa Bradshaw

• Unbalance 2562

  
  Futuristic dance music that’s more than the sum of its influences.

  reviewed by Colin Buttimer

• Crack House EP DJ Zinc

  
  The celebrated DJ continues to showcase his flexibility.

  reviewed by Louis Pattison

• Solar Life Raft DJ/Rupture and Matt Shadetek

  
  Never predictable, full of surprises, and engaging from start to close.

  reviewed by Louis Pattison

• For Lack of a Better Name deadmau5

  
  This mix will only further his already admirable reputation.

  reviewed by Mike Diver

• DJ-Kicks Chromeo

  
  They’ve dived into their world of beloved 80s electronica.

  reviewed by Alistair Lawrence

• Broadcast And The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age Broadcast and The Focus Group

  
  Like a strange mirage glimpsed in the depths of the English countryside…

  reviewed by Louis Pattison

• 4hero presents Extensions 4hero

  
  ‘Standards’ rearranged by like-minded musicians and producers.

  reviewed by Lara Bellini

• United Colours of Beggattron Foreign Beggars

  
  A collaboration-heavy LP that’s gritty, playful and inventive.

  reviewed by Alistair Lawrence

• Bass Generation Basshunter

  
  Music of a staggeringly low quality.

  reviewed by Al Fox

• Kaleidoscope Tiësto

  
  A multi-collaborative affair from the superstar DJ.

  reviewed by Adam Kennedy

• Filmmusik Anthology Volume 4 & 5 Irmin Schmidt

  
  His film work borrows from both past and present with surefootedness.

  reviewed by Chris Power

• Five Years of Hyperdub Various Artists

  
  Dance music with a recurrent sense of subdued anxiety.

  reviewed by David Stubbs

• Love 2 Air

  
  They sound reinvigorated, differently coloured, and full of fresh intentions.

  reviewed by David Stubbs

  • 6 Music Album of the Day