Month: November 2002

As a Folk singer dressed like a Punk Rocker with an attitude to match, Ani Di Franco has operated outside the mainstream from the beginning.  By turning her back on corporate rock, the unconventional Di Franco has emerged as one of the most prominent and inspiring cult heroines of the 90’s underground music scene.  Lyrically uninhibited, Ani constructs politically driven songs pertaining to but not limited to: rape, abortion, and sexism.  The controversial singer/songwriter has seen little commercial radio play Continue Reading

Some have already commented on the sheer breadth of non-conformist knick-knacks that My Computer manage to ‘shoe-horn’ into each and every track on their debut release, Vulnerabilia and the single itself is no exception. Whilst not as staggeringly eclectic as ay Lemon Jelly or Add N’ To X (or as much as their press release suggest) the Manchester duo have managed to mine a hard seam of soul and originality through the snarling vocoders, analogue keys and the general noise Continue Reading

Since 1999, producers Morgan Geist And Darshan Jesrani’s series of EP releases have always managed to find respect and approval from many of the daddies in clubland. And whether or not your tastes are discerning enough to appreciate it – the pair have cooked up an album of cuts that pretty much cements that credibility. Casting some old classic cuts alongside new material, the album is a summation of their careers at this point in time. An established techno artist Continue Reading