ROOM 5 - MAKE LUV

Single Review by EDF

Does this track have a history or what? This was originally a minor club hit for Oliver Cheatham in the 1980’s. Back then the track was called GET DOWN SATURDAY NIGHT. Fast forward to the year 2000 and a group called Felt covered the track their way and renamed it

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PLUNKY & ONENESS - GOT TO MOVE SOMETHING

Album Review by EDF

Originally known as Oneness Of Juju, Plunky & Oneness are based in Richmond, Virginia, USA. Regardless of the slight name change, they continue with more of the old and a sprinkling of the new. J. Plunky Branch might be more familiar to you than you even realise as at one

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OZRIC TENTACLES - ETERNAL WHEEL: THE BEST OF

Album Review by Mark Bayross

Back in the 80s, Ozric Tentacles were a regular fixture on the free festival circuit, a free form space rock collective that would regularly turn out three-hour sets of improvised electro-jamming with a revolving door of onstage musicians. The brainchild of guitarist / programmer Ed Wynne, the band’s sound

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OVERLOOK - SMOKE AND MIRRORS

Music Review by Natalie Homer

Philadelphia based, OVERLOOK is comprised brothers Billy and Timmy Roach who together provide the textured ambient guitars, synths, solid vocals and dynamic rhythm section for this alternative rock sound.

It’s a cop out to make comparisons, I know – but how else can I explain the very accomplished sound

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OUTLOUD DREAMER - DRINK THE SKY

Album Review by EDF

When do you replace the old with the new? When the new, lesser known acts sound as professional and even at times better than the originals. Coming in with a mixture of Dido / Beth Orton style vocals, Morcheeba and musically mixed with a pinch of Portishead (whatever happened to

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ORYX - ORYX

Album Review by S Felce

ORYX is a project by Palestinian Bashar Abed Rabbo and German Dirk Heibel. Oryx is Rabbo and Heibel’s idea of music without barriers, mixing traditional Arabic sounds with Western dance music. The result is quite interesting.

After last year’ explosion of Bollywood films, Eastern music seems more familiar and

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ORPHAN PROJECT - ORPHAN FOUND

Album Review by EDF

There is a feeling that metal is coming back. There is enough pap out there right now that upcoming bands such as Orphan Project from Baltimore cannot be ignored. The project is the brainchild of Shane Lankford, who himself was an orphan and this is essentially a concept album documenting

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ORISHAS - A LO CUBANO

Album Review by EDF

Orishas are a quartet based in Paris. What we have is a mix of Franco-Latin hip-hop rap and salsa.

Originally from Havana, Orishas, a name used for the Gods of Santeria, which is an Afro-Cuban religion, have created a style that interestingly mixes French and Spanish into the lyrics. Taking

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ORBITAL - WORK 1989-2002

Album Review by Mark Bayross

When Phil and Paul Hartnoll released the quietly elegant CHIME in 1989, naming themselves rather undramatically after the motorway that circumnavigates London a stone’s throw from their native Sevenoaks, few could have predicted that they were destined to become elder statesmen of dance music.

But 13 years, six albums,

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ORBITAL - REST & PLAY

EP Review by Mark Bayross

As an accompaniment to Orbital’s WORK 1989-2001 retrospective album, the REST and PLAY EP comes in two parts, both of which feature new track FRENETIC (which also appears on the album) in edited and 12” versions.

The female vocal-led song (an update of KENETIC, originally recorded under the Golden

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