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The Raincoats - The Raincoats

Review by Chris Power

Gloriously ragged, The Raincoats are among the better adverts for the DIY empowerment of punk. »

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Armchair Dancefloor 013 incl Lee Curtiss mix

In Depth by Chris Power

The best electronic releases of recent times (well, last month) and a new and exclusive deep, sleek house mix from DJ and producer Lee Curtiss.»

Ben Frost

Ben Frost - By The Throat

Review by Chris Power

By the time the respirator-led ‘O God Protect Me’ begins it’s difficult to tell if that’s the track’s title or a suggestion as to what you should be begging for. »

kraftwerk

Spotifriday #20 Side II: Kraftwerkweek as a playlist

In Depth by Chris Power

To mark the end of Kraftwerkweek we've put together a Spotify playlist of music that owes its existence to Ralf, Florian, Wolfgang and Karl. »

Tour de France

Kraftwerk - Tour de France: Remastered

Review by Chris Power

Kraftwerweek's series of album reviews culminates in a sprint finish with the tour de force Tour de France. »

The Mix

Kraftwerk - The Mix: Remastered

Review by Chris Power

Kraftwerkweek continues with The Mix, Kraftwerk's controversial 1991 reappraisal and overhauling of their own back catalogue. »

Techno Pop

Kraftwerk - Techno Pop: Remastered

Review by Chris Power

Kraftwerk week continues with a review of the remastered edition of Techno Pop, by reputation Kraftwerk's most disappointing album.»

Computer World

Kraftwerk - Computer World: Remastered

Review by Chris Power

Kraftwerkweek reaches its mid-point with a look at the remastered edition of the last of Kraftwerk's classic late-Seventiess, early-Eighties trilogy.»

Man-Machine

Kraftwerk - The Man-Machine: Remastered

Review by Chris Power

Kraftwerkweek moves on to the perfect union of man and machine, synthpop style, and the best remastering job of the project. »

TEE

Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express: Remastered

Review by Chris Power

Kraftwerkweek continues with a look at the album that invented the future of music. Thanks for that, Kraftwerk.»

Radio-Activity

Kraftwerk - Radio-Activity: Remastered

Review by Chris Power

Kraftwerkweek continues with Kraftwerk's fifth LP, which saw them shed their last remaining rock vestiges and bid a long farewell to their avant-garde background. »

Autobahn

Kraftwerk - Autobahn: Remastered

Review by Chris Power

Kraftwerkweek on DiS commences with a review of the German legends' fourth album, 1974's Autobahn, which changed the course of popular music. »

barbers' chairs

Armchair Dancefloor 012

In Depth by Chris Power

Chris Power's fortnightly round-up of electronic releases, featuring Mary Anne Hobbs' new Planet Mu compilation, Japanese psychedelia on DFA and one of the biggest tunes of the year from a certain J. Orbison »

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Armchair Dancefloor 011

In Depth by Chris Power

Download Bristol wunderkind Julio Bashmore's exclusive Armchair Dancefloor mix, and read reviews of new releases from Zomby, Vladislav Delay, Hauntologists, Neil Landstrumm, Rebolledo and more.»

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Armchair Dancefloor 010

In Depth by Chris Power

Chris Power's roundup of the best in techno, dubstep, house, IDM, Balkan skronkcore (not really) and Nintendo DS-constructed rave anthems (really). Plus, win yourself a triple-vinyl pack of Voodeux's The Paranormal. AD010 is all heart. »

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Armchair Dancefloor 009

In Depth by Chris Power

Chris Power's fortnightly harvest of the best of the electronic music crop. This time around there's batty-winding pressure from Hyperdub, undersea unease from On, Technicolor dubstep from Hyetal, trippy longfrom techno from Rome's Gorgio Gigli and lots, lots more.»

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Armchair Dancefloor 008

In Depth by Chris Power

This time around, Chris Power's fortnightly round-up of the electronic scene flits with elephantine grace between Dutch dubstep, Belgian horrorcore, Lithuanian ambient techno and plain old laptop blissfulness from the Home Counties.»

Dinosaur Jr, Farm

Dinosaur Jr - Farm

Review by Chris Power

Just because an indie band is a quarter of a century old doesn't mean it can't still be setting standards their descendants might find it hard to match. Farm offers ample proof of that.»

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Guitar Hero Fail: DiS meets J Mascis

In Depth by Chris Power

This month sees the release Farm by Dinosaur Jr, and we tracked down the band's infamously laconic frontman and general indie rock deity J Mascis to a west London hotel lobby in an attempt to ask some questions that might garner more than a shrug in response. We were partially successful. »

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Armchair Dancefloor 007

In Depth by Chris Power

Welcome to Chris Power's regular wander around the world of all kinds of pixelated sounds.»

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Speck Mountain - Some Sweet Relief

Review by Chris Power

Chicago's Speck Mountain deliver a hazy space-rock blissout just in time for what might actually turn out to be a less than rubbish summer. »

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Armchair Dancefloor 006

In Depth by Chris Power

Chris Power's fortnightly column about all things electronic.»

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wisp - The Shimmering Hour

Review by Chris Power

The main problems with The Shimmering Hour are twofold. Firstly, when Reid isn't crafting subtle, eddying tunes – ones that whip past and melt away like traces of ocean spray – he's forging big, melodramatic ones that, in the case of 'Kultus Klawata' and the overblown 'Summoner's Hollow', suggest his stated debt to video games might be recognition of a serious Final Fantasy habit.»

yachtchairs

Armchair Dancefloor 005

In Depth by Chris Power

From the first lady of UK funky to Italian turntablist manoeuvres, Twin Peak-time house, skeletal techno and pirates of the Barbary Coast, number five is well and truly alive.»

Bloc Party - Intimacy Remixed

Bloc Party - Intimacy Remixed

Review by Chris Power

Aside from No Protection, Mad Professor's magnificent future-dub reconstruction of Massive Attack's Protection, remix albums tend »

St Vincent - Actor

St Vincent - Actor

Review by Chris Power

For all the darkness of Actor's concerns, it remains an exceptionally pleasurable album to listen to. But that isn't to say that its songs, which cluster around the themes of dishonesty, unhappiness, hurt and doomed dreams of rekindling past loves, are ultimately unsuccessful in conveying what they're about. It's more the case that, like any truly engaging artwork, they satisfy even as they perturb. »

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Plaid at Royal Festival Hall, Lambeth, Fri 17 Apr

Review by Chris Power

Ahead of the highly anticipated release of Scintilli, the first studio album from Warp stalwarts Plaid since 2003’s Spokes, comes their collaboration with Javanese gamelan musician Rahayu Supanggah as part of the Ether 09 festival. »

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Fennesz at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Lambeth, Tue 21 Apr

Review by Chris Power

There's a palpable sense of excitement on London's Southbank this evening, as the time for more-than-a-record-label Touch's contribution to the Ether 09 festival approaches. With a line-up tonight of Sweden's CM von Hausswolff, New Zealander Rosy Parlane and Austria's Fennesz, it doesn’t matter in the least that we have to quit the crowds drinking on a sun-drenched Festival Hall terrace overlooking the Thames and file into a dark auditorium. They can keep their beer in the sun: we're here to get droned into the middle of next week.»

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The Vaselines - Enter The Vaselines

Review by Chris Power

There's plenty on the band's debut and only album (thus far, at least – they’ve recently reformed and new material has already been written) that has clearly stood the test of time. »

Royksopp 2009

"Pay whatever you feel is right..." Downloading, eating fish and fighting: DiS meets Röyksopp

In Depth by Chris Power

Röyksopp's Svein Berge talks about the two sides to the band's music, guest vocalists, Spotify, and why having 3000 mp3s on your hard drive is the same as an attic full of crap. »