From a remarkably youthful beginning, Will Holland has been startlingly omnivorous in his musical tastes. Operating as Quantic, his talents as a producer, multi-instrumentalist, tunesmith and all-round maven have produced a hugely impressive body of work. Now, after a decade’s output for the Tru Thoughts label, it’s time to...

"Wildfire"from the album SBTRKT2011iTunesAfter a couple years of incessant gigging and social networking, South London DJ SBTRKT (né Aaron Jerome) is â€" at least for the next couple weeks â€" the preeminent export from the ever-mutating hype nebula that is UK bass culture...

James Blake's self titled debut album has offered the world of music a sensational new take on song-writing. Drawing fans as prestigious as Paul Simon, the 21 year old recent graduate's special set on Sunday night was sure to be something remarkable.

My hopes of a memorable set were not dashed;...

Bristol rapper Adrian Thaws, aka Tricky (once he’d dropped the cumbersome "Kid" from his moniker), was hardly an unknown force when he released this debut album in early 1995. His whispered, husky vocals had appeared on Massive Attack’s 1991 disc Blue Lines, and he featured again on...

With an excess of review fodder dropping through the mail slot on a daily basis, it is always heartening to be presented with a release that does not fit neatly into standard categories. And the debut long player from Submotion Orchestra definitely is out on a limb of its...

It’s an uncomfortably common practice in the cult of music critique for writers to overstate the importance of particular albums. Subsequently, long-players by relative makeweights like the Longpigs are talked about amongst scribes of a certain age as lost classics, and the consumer can pick up a deluxe edition...

Prince may have neglected to mention it, but 1999 actually belonged to Groove Armada’s Vertigo and Moby’s Play. Along with Air’s Moon Safari, released a year earlier, they were standard-issue discs in even the most causal of music collections at the end of the 90s. These...

The Marley sons know a thing or two about stepping out of the shadow of a famous fatherâ€"so does Femi Kuti. Sometimes it starts with putting together your own band (in this case, The Positive Force), but it’s all rendered pointless if you don’t have a clear vision about where...

"Safe in the Steep Cliffs"from the album Safe in the Steep Cliffs2010iTunesAt the age of 19, Emancipator self-released his first album, Soon It Will Be Cold Enough, in 2006. While his electronic, instrumental trip-hop did not receive much notice in his American homeland...

It would seem that 2112 took the managability right out of Rush. Any hope of gleaming-eyed record executives to mold a talented group of musicians into a pure product of the times could be, to the thoughtful listener, seen as an act of futility in direct opposition to the wills...