armchair dancefloor 024 incl Danny Saul mix
This month's look at the best electronic and open-tuned electric guitar releases. Plus an exclusive, femur-shatteringly good mix from Mancunian experimentalist Danny Saul. »
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armchair dancefloor 023 incl Terence Fixmer mix
In this month's look at the best electronic releases: three arks, one oval, an eagle, a Leek and the future. All in roundabout 100 words or less per release.»
armchair dancefloor 022 incl Zero dB mix
In this month's look at the best electronic releases: travelling with Shed, working up a gloomy sweat with Kassem Mosse, DJ Nate's dizzying footwork and Hildur Gudnadottir's inimitably European brand of misery.»
armchair dancefloor 021 incl Solomun mix
armchair dancefloor is a monthly look at the best electronic releases. This month: praise for the witchy doings of Demdike Stare, Macc & dgoHn's whipsmart drum & bass assault, Max Richter, Peverelist's latest conundrum, and gridskipping in Aix. »
armchair dancefloor 020 incl Jamie Anderson mix
This month's electronic music round-up fetures Robert Hood's soundtrack to The Omega Man, the retro-futurist synth odysseys of Oneohtrix Point Never, divisive keyboard studies from Gas-man Wolfgang Voigt, a long-awaited return from the inventor of glitch,»
armchair dancefloor 019 incl Iori mix
The essential releases from the recent electronic crop, and a deep, dark techno mix from Japanese DJ/producer Iori. »
Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
If this space opera doesn’t quite make it all the way to the stars, we still get to visit some pretty extraordinary places before the phat lady sings.»
armchair dancefloor 018 incl Klimek mix
The March electronic releases it's most worth taking a byte out of. (Sorry.) Featuring an exclusive mix from Klimek spanning drum & bass, post-punk, C86 indie, shoegaze, dub-house and baggy.»
First listen: LCD Soundsystem's untitled third album
DiS' Chris Power gets a first listen to LCD Soundsystem's forthcoming untitled album.»
armchair dancefloor 017 incl 10-20 mix
armchair dancefloor details the recent electronic releases it's most worth hunting down. In our opinion, that is. We're not god. This time we're also proud to include a mix from 10-20, who's sequenced a half-hour of his inimitable abstract techno solely for your enjoyment. »
armchair dancefloor 016 incl Blue Daisy mix
On top of your regular round-up of the electronic releases it's worth directing your purchasing power at, Camden Town's Blue Daisy contributes the next installment in the armchair dancefloor mix series. He produced one of last year's most noteworthy debuts with his Space Ex/The Fall 12 (see ad008), and here he moves between tech house, dubstep, jazz-steeped beats and some extraordinary, exclusive Blue Daisy material. Enjoy it.»
armchair dancefloor 015 incl Kreng mix
Armchair Dancefloor collates the final and finest electronic moppings from the end of last year, and slouches weirdly into 2010 with a superbly off-kilter mix from Belgium's foremost dealer in menacing atmospherics, Kreng. Plus, your chance to win a DJ slot at the BLOC Weekend.»
Tom Waits - Glitter and Doom Live
If you were there you’ll be prompted to bask in the memory, and if you weren’t you’ll be wishing like hell that you had been. »
Lost 9 of '09 - #2 2562 Unbalance
Every year we ask our staff to submit their records of the year and every year, writers put records in their lists that seem to have been somewhat overlooked both within the realm of DiS and/or across the board. Rather than leave these records as forgotten footnotes, last year we launched our imaginatively titled Lost 8 of '08 (see the 8 highlighted records here) and this year it returns, one year older 'n' wiser, as the Lost 9 of '09. Once again this little list intends to do much the same neck-out-sticking for some of our staff's personal favourites. »
The Raincoats - The Raincoats
Gloriously ragged, The Raincoats are among the better adverts for the DIY empowerment of punk. »
armchair dancefloor 013 incl Lee Curtiss mix
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 - By The Throat
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. »
Spotifriday #20 Side II: Kraftwerkweek as a playlist
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. »
Kraftwerk - Tour de France: Remastered
Kraftwerweek's series of album reviews culminates in a sprint finish with the tour de force Tour de France. »
Kraftwerk - The Mix: Remastered
Kraftwerkweek continues with The Mix, Kraftwerk's controversial 1991 reappraisal and overhauling of their own back catalogue. »
Kraftwerk - Techno Pop: Remastered
Kraftwerk week continues with a review of the remastered edition of Techno Pop, by reputation Kraftwerk's most disappointing album.»
Kraftwerk - Computer World: Remastered
Kraftwerkweek reaches its mid-point with a look at the remastered edition of the last of Kraftwerk's classic late-Seventiess, early-Eighties trilogy.»
Kraftwerk - The Man-Machine: Remastered
Kraftwerkweek moves on to the perfect union of man and machine, synthpop style, and the best remastering job of the project. »
Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express: Remastered
Kraftwerkweek continues with a look at the album that invented the future of music. Thanks for that, Kraftwerk.»
Kraftwerk - Radio-Activity: Remastered
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. »
Kraftwerk - Autobahn: Remastered
Kraftwerkweek on DiS commences with a review of the German legends' fourth album, 1974's Autobahn, which changed the course of popular music. »
armchair dancefloor 012
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 »
armchair dancefloor 011 incl. Julio Bashmore mix
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.»
Armchair Dancefloor 010
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. »
Armchair Dancefloor 009
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.»