"...Störung produced a work in 1983 that was far ahead of its time, the duo created a sound that not only pushed the concepts of traditional instruments but employed new machines to make music that had never been heard by anyone before..."

"...Flexx are not just throwing out poor gummy sounding reprints, they are re-issuing tracks from a golden time with great sound quality whilst throwing a remix and edit into the ring..."

Bazooka Joe interviews Dave Heckman, the founder of Metropolis Records and unearths the distinctive industrial fragments of the labels roots and progression.

"...The Minimal Wave sound is an analogue one that borders the line of warm and clinical, where lyrics are dead pan but filled with emotion, where elation and sorrow lie..."

"... In terms of sub-genre, Quantec does not seek to re-invent, more to refine and deepen, and lend a different colour and texture, making ambiance the area where his take on dub-techno finds more of a voice of its own..."

"...Odd nods along the way too --let's say Drexciya, Chocolate Industries/Schematic and Pete Namlook, to name but several, illustrating Rontronik's allegiance to and creative continuation of a line from '80s electro to '90s ambient and the IDM crossover..."

"...Portishead live is rawer and slightly rougher around the edges but better realised than their recorded output might suggest. Beth Gibbons is perhaps an unlikely front woman but watching her is enthralling; she gets lost in her art and her ability to perform with such beautiful intensity is captivating..."

"...a fitting document, providing as it does an exhibit of the State of the Art of 12k and its ambit; its organic environments, "real" instruments, and relatively 'natural' sonic architectures at one end, through to the more heavily digital domain, with its 'virtual' instrumentation..."