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CD Feature/ Lull: "Like a Slow River"; Oophoi: "An Aerial View" Two lovingly lay-outed Digipacks: Isolationist Ambient pulling in everyone willing to submit to it.

CD Feature/ MGR vs. Xela: "Barge Split Series Vol. I" Depth, gutfeeling and spatiousness: An LP a lot of people will be whispering about in silent reverence very soon.

CD Feature/ The Orb: "The Dream" Genial unpredictability: The Orb have doubled back to amniotic sci-fi weird-scapes.

CD Feature/ Ian Holloway: "A lonely Place" Gauges what lies behind the precipice: Holloway transforms shapeless allusions into emotional forms.

CD Feature/ Suns of Arqa: "Remixes Muslimgauze" The soundtrack to a picnic in the Sahara: An amphibic accumulation of sound, groove and texture.

CD Feature/ Jonty Harrison: "Environs" A familar ring: 21st century programmatic musique concrete.

15 Questions to Ruth Palmer In the summer of last year, two of England's brightest young performers, Nicky Spence and Nicola Benedetti, were nominated in ...

CD Feature/ Burning Skies: "Greed Filth Abuse Corruption" You really do not have time to breath: Burning Skies are letting their inner aggression come out.

15 Questions to Fenella Barton 2008 is an important year for Fenella Barton - and June is one of its most important months. On June ...

CD Feature/ Portishead: "Third" They're still there and they still matter: The triumph of a band who have never sounded this human before.

The Herbaliser: Same as it Never Was heralds happy, dancy return Funksoul HipHop band The Herbaliser are about to return to the scene with their first album in three years. Promos ...

Steppas Delight History being made: A compilation by Souljazz Records cuts through the hype surrounding Dubstep.

15 Questions to Autistici The release of "Volume Objects" on 12K set the record straight on two things: That Autistici was a netlabel artist, ...

CD Feature/ Dub Syndicate: "Overdubbed" An economical choice for the season: A tour-de-force of all that's good and modern in dub reggae.

Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music 2008 A rare case of dedication: Concert Reports, a cultural guide to London and picknicking in front of a classical concert ...