Articles by Melissa Wheeler

Swayzak

Loops from the Bergerie

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

On album number four the British pair of David Brown and James Taylor have relegated the laptop to recording duties in favour of ’70s...

Frederic Galliano and the African Divas

Sacré Live!

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

With lively, rich voices, and luscious, plentiful up-tempo instrumentation Frederic Galliano and the African Divas present a live release w...

Jimi Tenor

Beyond the Stars

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

He may have just moved back to his hometown of Lahti, Finland after years of global living, but Jimi Tenor is far from his days of the mid-...

My Robot Friend

Hot Action!

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Hot Action, hot damn! Not only does it make you want to dress to match its gorgeous electric pink sleeve, it sounds good too. It’s a lucid...

Timo Maas

Pictures

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2005

The accolades that made Maas into a name-brand DJ can do nothing to help him as a producer. Pictures, Maas’ second original album with prod...

Elemental Science

GRAFFITI FESTIVAL

PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2005

Hip-hop is like Tinker Toys. The wall space, danceable floor surfaces, microphones and turntables are like the wooden knobs; the graf artis...

A-Trak

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2005

Trusting records to airlines is a hazard of being a highly-travelled scratch DJ, but when carriers lost A-Trak's booty four times in three...

Ark

Caliente

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2005

French artist Ark, aka Guillaume Berroyer, has ten little fingers and ten little toes in all kinds of electronic musical fruit — the flavou...