The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
Artist: The Orb
Community Score: 8.67

Much like the early Orb-related project recorded as Space, Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld simulates a journey through the outer realms -- progressing from the soaring ambient-pop of "Little Fluffy Clouds" and the stoned "Back Side of the Moon" (a veiled Pink Floyd reference) to "Into the Fourth Dimension" and ending (after more than two hours)... Read More

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

The Best of Strange Cargos
Artist: William Orbit
Community Score: 3.00

Compiling tracks from his three Strange Cargo albums (with recordings dating from 1984 to 1994), William Orbit displays a range of recording styles, drifting from the ambient-pop of "Water from a Vine Leaf" with Beth Orton to recordings more obsessed with trance and world rhythms. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide Read More

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

Music for the Jilted Generation
Artist: The Prodigy
Community Score: 8.55

The Prodigy's response to the sweeping legislation and crackdown on raves contained in 1994's Criminal Justice Bill is an effective statement of intent. Pure sonic terrorism, Music for the Jilted Generation employs the same rave energy that charged their debut, Experience, up the charts in Britain, but yokes it to a cause other than massive drug... Read More

Firestarter - UK
Artist: The Prodigy