Short Cuts
Elk nummer andere recensies van CD's. Van Club tot Hardcore, van Drum & Bass tot Jungle, Van Techno tot HipHop, van Pop tot Klassiek en alles wat daar wel of niet tussen past.
The purpose of this section of Projecta is to list all the new and exciting music that has come out and has been bought by the various projecta writers. But this time, no new stuff. Because we're almost at the end of this year, and like any other music orientated magazines, we look back upon a wonderful year full of strange and beautiful records and we pick out the most essential. That way you'll know what to buy each other for Christmas and New Years Eve.

[ Ni Go Snix - Speedy J ]
The biggest innovation in electronic music is made by someone I didn't expect it from. Speedy J also known as Jochem Paap, Rotterdam's own techno wizard, has always been making good electronic music. But never as extreme as this! Ni Go Snix moans, howls, cries, screams, the sound of electronics coming apart in the funkiest way ever commited to vinyl. An essential record for anyone who cares about innovation. This has never been done before and it will be hard to do it ever again. Speedy J is god. [ j v ]
(Mute Recordings) 12" vinyl

[ Stay - Radar Bros. ]
I overlooked them last year, but after seeing them support Swell in Rotown, they are the one band I have cherished all year. These brothers make quiet, slow, friendly, lovely songs in the same vain as Nick Drake, Leonard Cohen and Will Oldham. Except for the title track, the songs on this single are not on their just as essential eponymously titled debut album. Hearing Radar Bros. will make you cry of happiness and long for more. [ j v ]
(Restless) CD-single

[ Simple Headphone Mind - Stereolab & Nurse With Wound ]
Stereolab have been steeling from the history of music all their life, but they always make something fresh with the things they steal. Simple Headphone Mind contains a rhythm stolen from Kraftwerk, a guitarriff by Neu and sounds by their partners in crime Nurse With Wound. The ideal headphone single, sounds coming from everywhere around, thirty minutes of analogue bliss. [ j v ]
(Duophonic) CD-single

[ Songs From Northern Britain - Teenage Fanclub ]
Not many remember, but Creation was once the most innovative independent recordlabel in England, they released some of the most influential records of the early nineties. Since they teamed up with Sony and since the exploding succes of Oasis, they are no longer innovative. I gave up on Creation and all the bands on their roster, even the Teenage Fanclub. And suddenly there was this record. A collection of perfect rocksongs written by the four Scotsmen, songs topping even the best work by their own influences: The Byrds, Crosby Stills & Nash, Big Star, The Beatles, The Beach Boys. This music is timeless. [ j v ]
(Creation/Sony) CD

[ Modus Operandi - Photek ]
Rupert Parkes is a strange person. Totally obsessed with fast cars, martial arts and beats. Especially beats, he'll work months on just one track getting the beats right, making a certain sound shorter or longer. Checking and arranging every milisecond in a song until it's perfect. You might expect this music sounds too worked on, it doesn't, it's just perfect. There is emotion in the cold, sharp and precise work of Photek. Just listen. [ j v ]
(Virgin) CD

[ Newforms - Roni Size & Reprazent ]
That Roni Size was going to release an important album was already known early in the year. But no-one had expected it to be this important. Reprazent did sell out, making drum'n'bass accessable for the masses, but not by making it easier to listen to or by only emphasising the juicy bits. Reprazent have done something different, this record contains more than drum'n'bass, it contains everything it was build upon. Reprazent is building New Forms. And this is only the beginning. [ j v ]
(Mercury) CD

[ Speed of Sound - Origin Unknown ]
No album as such, but a collection of drum'n'bass tracks by the same bunch of guys under different names. Probably the loudest collection released this year and there's not a bad track on this. Unlike the collections by Grooverider, Torque, V recordings and Penny Black. Looking for the best in drum'n'bass? This is the collection you need. [ j v ]
(Ram) CD

[ Beat Classic - Various ]
You may not have noticed, but oldskool hiphop is on its way back. You can hear it in the drum'n'bass beats, the rapping over the beats, the electro released in Germany and Detroit, the breakdancing done on stage. This collection shows you why the breakbeats, scratching and raps in the early eighties were so important. A collection of songs that have become extremely hard to get, because the recordslabels that released them were usually coverups for drugs-money and hardcore pornography and are now nolonger there. Innovative music was created on the street back then. It is happening again. [ j v ]
(DC Recordings) CD