Exit Planet Dust
Artist: The Chemical Brothers
Community Score: 7.85

The former Dust Brothers make oblique reference to litigation averted on their debut full-length. The Chemical Brothers' sound is big on bombast, replete with screeching guitar samples and lots of sirens and screaming divas. A breakthrough album of sorts, Exit Planet Dust was, upon its release, one of the few European post-techno albums to make... Read More

The Analogue Theatre
Artist: CJ Bolland
Community Score: 8.30

Bolland's breakout album with a larger crowd continues to display his roots in hard techno while springing a more percussive, wall-of-sound aesthetic closer to the Prodigy than Joey Beltram. "The Analogue Theatre," "Counterpoint" and "The Prophet" are up-front trance stormers, and "Electro Power" is an intriguing pastiche of big-beat and... Read More

Promised Land, Vol. 1
Artist: LTJ Bukem
Community Score: 10.00

A double-disc collection of L.T.J Bukem's mixing talents, Promised Land, Vol. 1 includes fewer items from his own Looking Good/Good Looking labels, and the lack of intelligent jungle shifts the focus to harder, darker and earlier tracks than are featured on his Logical Progression and Mixmag compilations. The mixing is excellent throughout. ~... Read More

Psychotrance, Vol. 4
Artist: Slam
No Man's Land
Artist: David Holmes

Intended for and in response to the film In the Name of Father, Irishman Holmes recorded "No Man's Land"; the B-sides explore trip-hop and electro. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide Read More

Smoker's Delight
Artist: Nightmares on Wax

George Evelyn's solo step as Nightmares on Wax, Smoker's Delight, is a whole delightfully irreducible to its parts, which, as with earlier releases, is largely electro, hip-hop, and soul, with bits of Latin percussion and down-tempo funk thrown in. The album spawned a pair of somewhat forgettable remix EPs and was reissued by TVT immediately... Read More

Second Toughest in the Infants
Artist: Underworld
Community Score: 8.36
This Film's Crap, Let's Slash the Seats
Artist: David Holmes

It's important when encountering this album for the first time to think of it as a dry run for film soundtracking rather than as a straight-up techno effort -- because viewed through the latter lens, This Film's Crap is actually not much. Thus the lengthy opener "No Man's Land," opening with pure Third Man/Spy Who Came in From the Cold dynamics... Read More

Born Slippy - US 3 TRACKS
Artist: Underworld
Community Score: 6.60