Just want the records? Browse the album reviews on their own. A review of Sines and Singularities, a synthetic, reverb-drenched downtempo album from Bluetech (Evan Bartholomew). Artist: Bluetech · Year: 2005 · Rating: ★★★ Bluetech, a.k.a. Evan Bartholomew, brings a decidedly electronic downtempo vibe on Sines and Singularities, one of three Bluetech albums on the list, some in full. How one French B-side from 1982 became the most scratched record in history, and why you can hear “Ahhh, this stuff is really fresh” all over the Monkey Radio playlist. Question: What do DJ Krush, Coldcut, Yoko Kanno, and DJ Vadim have in common with Everlast, Céline Dion, Linkin Park, and Britney Spears? Answer: Ahhhhhh, that stuff is really fresh. A few Monkey Radio tracks only ever existed on wax. There’s now a deep dive on how they got digitized: the gear, the levels, and the judgment calls. A handful of tracks on the station never made the jump to digital — the only way to get them was to track down the vinyl and rip it myself. There’s now a deep dive on exactly how that happened. A review of “Count On You,” a downtempo single from Polaroid that appeared on Hed Kandi: Winter Chill 06.02. Artist: Polaroid · Year: 2002 · Rating: ★★★★ One of the harder tracks to pin down on the Monkey Radio playlist, “Count On You” has a bit of a history. It’s a stellar track with an infectious refrain. Danielle “Dan” Rowe delivers haunting vocals with a Boa-like vibe (a la “Duvet”). The trick is that the band doesn’t have an album. A review of 1995, a 2020 album of “lost” recordings from the legendary Vienna duo Kruder & Dorfmeister. Artist: Kruder & Dorfmeister · Year: 2020 · Rating: ★★★★½ 1995 is aptly named, if misleadingly so: released in 2020, it is supposedly the product of the duo finding old unreleased tapes in their studio and revamping them to modern standards. …But should this be in the playlist? Beta Launch: 1507 tracks from the old Monkey Radio rotation are now streaming ad-free, plus the deep dives on how it all got rebuilt. After a lot of late nights, spreadsheets, and old CDs, it’s finally on the air: the Monkey Radio Archive is live, and 1507 tracks from the old station’s rotation are streaming right now. A review of Ki-Oku, an album by turntablist DJ Krush and jazz trumpeter Toshinori Kondo. Artist: Toshinori Kondo & DJ Krush · Year: 1996 · Rating: ★★★★½ A collaboration between avant-garde jazz artist Toshinori Kondo and pioneering turntablist and Monkey Radio staple DJ Krush. Released in 1996 in Japan, and 1999 elsewhere. It received its first-ever repressing in 2024 on vinyl in honor of the third anniversary of Kondo’s passing. A review of Cold Krush Cuts, a remix album by DJ Krush, Coldcut and DJ Food. Artist: Coldcut, DJ Food, and DJ Krush · Year: 1997 · Rating: ★★★★★ This is a massive Ninja Tune double-album set of remixes. One disk is mixed by Coldcut and DJ Food; the other by DJ Krush. The master list at the time of this writing assigns a massive 32 tracks to this collection, making it the single largest number of Monkey Radio tracks you can get in a single purchase. Bluetech - Sines and Singularities
Scratch and Sniff
Groove: A New Deep Dive on Ripping Vinyl
Polaroid - Count On You
Kruder & Dorfmeister - 1995
Groove: Monkey Radio Archive Goes Live
Toshinori Kondo & DJ Krush - Ki-Oku
Coldcut - Cold Krush Cuts
