Articles by Joshua Ostroff

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  Pole

  Pole

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2003

  Berlin glitch producer Pole (Stefan Betke) has long been known for his dubby clicks’n’cuts. That was then. His debut record for Mute still...

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  Metric's System

  or how we learned to stop worrying and (finally) release our debut

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2003

  The first time I saw Metric was actually the third time. It was March of 2002 and the nomadic duo of Emily Haines and James Shaw were near...

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  About Schmidt

  Alexander Payne

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2003

  Midway through About Schmidt, the latest film from hip writer-director Alexander Payne, Jack Nicholson's character Warren Schmidt meets a c...

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  The Pianist

  Roman Polanski

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2003

  Before WWII, there were 360,000 Jews living in Warsaw. At the height of the "Warsaw Ghetto," the area of the city where the Jews were walle...

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  Barbara Brown/Various

  White is Pure 2

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2003

  On first listen, the politically incorrect side of me thought, "wow, this is the gayest thing I have ever heard.” Then, after discovering t...

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  Data 80

  Data 80

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2003

  Coming from Swedish tech-house producer and a subsidiary of Germany’s minimal techno powerhouse Force Inc, the pop flavourings of Data 80 m...

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  Disco D/Various

  A Night at the Booty Bar

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2003

  If you are an uptight type that gets put off by dirty words, then please stay the fuck away from Disco D’s major label debut. Yep, you hear...

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  Mouse On Mars

  Glam

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2003

  Following the recent release of its EP collection, German "post-techno” duo Mouse on Mars (aka Andi Toma and Jan St. Werner) has decided to...