All About Abakus
Abakus: Much closer to the Sun
After releasing the "chill out album of 2004" Russell Davies, aka Abakus, talks to Barkus about following up his recent success and playing in Australia. [more]
Winterdaze 2001: UK Underground
by MarkyMark on May 28th, 2002
One of Melbourne’s favourite Queen’s birthday parties is set for a London Underground groove when ALSO presents Winterdaze 2001 at Shed 7 at Melbourne’s Docklands. [more]
With time, the dancability factor increased with some solid basslines and entrancing percussion. The filters and effects were in full effect and it was good to hear some decent variation from the studio sounds on tracks such as Direct Drive. Despite the welcome nature of these stronger sounds, it became apparent yet again that we were experiencing bad sound in Geisha. [more]
Homelands made dreams come true for this reporter. If they ever manage to put the event on in Oz, GO. [more]
Crucial Dance - Various Artists
An extended version of Storm's Time to Burn that's heavy on the synth and 303 still sounds tremendous even if it's old. There's a brief foray into Garage with feel good tracks like Girls Like Us by B15 project and Crazy Love by MJ Cole. [more]
World Service - Dave Clarke
World Service is a double cd highlighting Dave Clarke's techno mastery and his love of electro. Both cds contain many highlights and are quite dark and moody to say the least. [more]
Lady Marmalade - Moulin Rouge Soundtrack
No matter what you think of Baz Luhrmann's latest experiment on film, 'Moulin Rouge', it's hard to deny that the soundtrack contains a veritable who's who of recent modern (and sometimes very good) popular music. [more]
Your Disco Needs You - Kylie
The last response to Kylie on this website was not very positive, to say the least. Many of our contributors believe that our Kylie isn't niche enough to rate a mention here. Well like it or not I am going to review her once more. (If you don't like it, have your say in the forum.) [more]
I'd just been treated to a deep, and primarily darker, sequence of tracks by Terry Farley (Nite Life 04), when 05 trots along - courtesy of Toronto's Nick Holder. They're not chalk and cheese, but 05 is certainly a departure from its predecessor. [more]
The first release for Brisbane's own and only live hard techno duo is just what you'd come to expect from many hours spent playing video games and poking synthesisers. [more]
Kool & the Gang's 'Celebration' has been sampled and covered so many times that you MUST know that familiar creeping bassline by heart now. For anybody to use it again, they are going to need some real innovation to keep you from falling asleep at the wheel. [more]