Articles by Melissa Wheeler

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  Roy Davis Jr.

  Chicago Forever

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2004

  Roy Davis Jr. emerged as a name-to-know in the house scene of the early ’90s and has been continually refreshing his status (especially wit...

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  Tim Hecker

  Mirages

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2004

  Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. But they almost hurt Tim Hecker. After reading the egotistical press re...

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  Knifehandchop

  How I Left You

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2004

  Throughout history music has served as refuge for artists suffering from a breakup. But for some artists overt references to the breakup an...

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  Various

  Klein Records All Stars Vol. 1

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2004

  The folks at Klein Records may have hit upon the next big underground marketing scheme. Make the album art deceptively ugly, but ensure tha...

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  Radioinactive and AntiMC

  Free Kamal

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2004

  Listening to Radioinactive gives your brain the same kind of workout that a Sunday morning crossword does: he invites you to join up notion...

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  Robin Judge

  Pattern

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2004

  Understated and elegant while still being face-forward fresh, Robin Judge uses minimal house-tech standards to construct an insouciant and...

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  Noah Pred

  Pacific Technics

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2004

  It’s been a long time since I’ve come across a techno compilation that didn’t make me want to turn it off halfway into the first track, and...

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  Jake Fairley

  Touch Not the Cat

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2004

  If this album could speak, it would say "Party, damn it, and look good while you’re doing it!” Torontonian Jake Fairley’s dirty glam-techno...