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Nite Fleit: Day Fleit / Nite Fleit (digital, Steel City Dance Discs, August 2022)

This is the debut album from Australian producer Alysha Fleiter. While it’s all firmly electro, it’s very much a thing of two halves, as the name suggests. In fact, she recommends that playing one side or the other individually according to your mood (something which doesn’t work quite so neatly on digital). The Day side […]

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Dopplereffekt: Cellular Automata (LP, Leisure Systems, May 2017)

When I think of Dopperleffekt, I tend to think of the larky lo-fi electro of 1999’s Gesamtkunstwerk, all tinny synths and Speak & Spell-style vocals, and such memorable tracks as Plastiphilia 2, in which our protagonist expresses a desire to become better acquainted with a mannequin. (Just imagine a world in which that was the big […]

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DMX Krew: Wave Funk (2xCD, Rephlex, September 2010)

Why, Ed DMX, you spoil us, with your double disc set of 35 tracks and nearly two hours of nice bloopy acid goodness. Astute readers may have guessed the problem here: it’s all very pleasant, and there are some satisfying sounds and some good tunes here, but there’s no way it can sustain my interest. […]