Articles by Melissa Wheeler

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  Jason Forrest

  The Unrelenting Songs of the 1979 Post Disco Crash

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2004

  Also known as the fake Donna Summer, Jason Forrest comes with an album that runs from frantic to amusingly calm to absurd and back again. O...

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  Kabuki

  Signal To Noise

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2004

  Can drum & bass be delicate? While the frantic music verges on metal at one end of its spectrum, Kabuki shows how the other end of the spec...

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  Nilbymouth

  Hello Skizo

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2004

  With their second album, the Montreal trio Nilbymouth storms in with early ’90s popular techno with a swig of electro-pop. There’s a distin...

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  Technova

  Electrosexual

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2004

  Across the flirty and lean bounce of candied electro a deep yet feminine voice dripping with sexual confidence opens the album with the wor...

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  Various

  Futurism Ain't Shit to Me

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2004

  Steal my heart and open with Dabrye’s subdued glitch/dub of "Making it Pay,” why don’t you! It gets better, including more artists working...

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  Sixtoo

  And Change

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2004

  The first time I visit Sixtoo's Montreal apartment it isn't the nicest of days. The sun is battling the clouds for weather supremacy, and t...

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  Atmo Brtschitsch

  Change Your Life

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2004

  Slightly sinister and deceptively down-tempo, this album emerges from a variety of well-blended genres to make it step away from the pack....

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  Deadbeat

  Something Borrowed, Something Blue

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2004

  Montreal’s static glitch dub fanatic Deadbeat returns with his second album. The opener, "A Brief Explanation…” is an introduction to the a...