Tag Archives: Aphex Twin

Essential Listening: The Best Albums Of 2020

Posted on 28/12/2020 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

Are we all still alive after Christmas with your family? Is your family? Not dismembered among a morass of Turkey bones? I’ve had a stressful Christmas, which I won’t get into, suffice to say Christmas was cancelled and I’ve barely … Continue reading →

Posted in Essential Listening | Tagged 30th Century Boy, Antifa, Aphex Twin, Bandcamp, Be Up A Hello, Bill Callahan, Black Lives Matter, Blade Runner, BLM, Blonde on Blonde, Blood On The Tracks, Bob Dylan, Charlotte Kemp Muhl, Crystal Castles, David Johansen, Demdike Stare, Dismembered family members, Doğu Çiçekleri, Eastern Flowers, Essential Listening, Fragments of Nothing, Gold Record, Highway 61 Revisited, James Blake, Jon Collin, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Loose Ends, Madlib, Malibu Liquor Store, Marc Bolan, Mojave Desert, Murphy's Law, Nick Cave, Persian, Placebo, Róisín Machine, Róisín Murphy, Richard D. James, Rough and Rowdy Ways, Sault, Sean Lennon, Shit & Shine, Sketches of Everything, Squarepusher, Streetsoul, Stressful Christmas, Sven Wunder, The Best Albums Of 2020, Tribute to Marc Bolan: AngelHeaded Hipster, Turkey bones, Turkish, UNTITLED (Black Is), UNTITLED (Rise), Various, Velvet Goldmine | Leave a comment

Essential Listening: The Best Albums Of 2018

Posted on 30/12/2018 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

We survived. Well, most of us. As with my best songs of the year list, this list is restricted to ten and is in alphabetical order. However, the title of this post is somewhat disingenuous as I haven’t restricted this … Continue reading →

Posted in Essential Listening | Tagged 1/3, 2/3, 2018, Aphex Twin, Autechre, Blood Orange, Boards Of Canada, Bon Dylan, Bootlegs, Brexit, Brian Eno, Compilation, Compro, Dance Hall Style, Deadline Paranoia, Essential Listening, Gabe Gurnsey, Horace Andy, Jeremy Corbyn is a cowardly twat, Kate Bush, Keith Richards, King Of Cowards, Leaving via a Gatwick drone, Machinedrum, Negro Swan, New Year, NTS Sessions 1-4, Oil Of Every Pearl's Un-insides, Oregon, Pet Shop Boys, Physical, Piano & A Microphone, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Prince, Reeperbahn, Reissue, Scott Walker, Skee Mask, SOPHIE, Soya milk drinking welly wearing yoghurt producing vegan types, Switched on Eugene, The Purple One, Too lazy and tired to do a bigger list, Various, Voices Of Freedom | Leave a comment

Song Of The Day – The Best Songs Of 2018

Posted on 23/12/2018 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

And so again we’ve reached the end of the year amigos. It’s been a dismal. Usually I’m happy for the New Year to arrive, bringing with it the possibility of improvement. But not this time. Our prospects, well, for a … Continue reading →

Posted in Song Of The Day | Tagged An even worse New Year, Aphex Twin, Autechre, Boa, Cleo, Collapse, Compro, Cruise Control Love, Den Hab Taves, Donato Dozzy, Faceshopping, g 1 e 1, Gwenno, Heat, I Don't Wanna Dance (with My Baby), Insecure Men, Le Kov, Luvvies of Brexit, Melatonin Man, Merry Christmas you bastards, Mindless Fullness, Music for Saxophone & Bass Guitar, Nicola Sturgeon, NTS Sessions 1-4, Oil Of Every Pearl's Un-insides, Omnishambles, Sam Gendel, Sam Wilkes, Session Add, Shinichi Atobe, Skee Mask, So Good So Right 2, SOPHIE, Stupid End Of Year Lists, T69 Collapse, Truncated to ten | 1 Comment

Essential Listening: The Best Albums, EPs, Reissues and Mixes of 2015

Posted on 24/12/2015 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

With each passing year the better music websites (and no, this doesn’t include the Kanye West fellating, hypster centric, Pitchfork) are publishing their end of year lists well before the year ends, in some cases right at the start of … Continue reading →

Posted in Essential Listening | Tagged 31st March Mix for Rinse FM, 38 Metal Guitar, 54 Synth Brass, 65 Cathedral, A Love Supreme, A Tribe Called Quest, Alexandria, Ami Shavit, Another Side, Anthony Child, Aphex Twin, Art Angels, Bad, Bad Guynaecology, Bad Guys, Best of 2015, Bjork, Black Zone Myth Chant, Blur, Brand new, CC Not, Demdike Stare, Dream A Garden, Elaenia, Electronic Recordings From Maui Jungle Volume 1, EP, Fingers Inc., FKA Twigs, Floating Points, Galcher Lustwerk, Geo Fi, Gnod, Grimes, High Drama (Blowing Up The Workshop 41), Holly Herndon, I Was Crossing a Bridge – Music From Memory, In Alpha Mood, In Situ, Infinity Machines, Jam City, John Coltrane, Kamasi Washington, Key Markets, Laurel Halo, Leif, Lil-Ugly Mane, Lone & Ross From Friends, M Ashworth, M3LL155X, Mane Thecel Phares, Mixes, NTS Mix 5th November, Palmbomen, Palmbomen II, Paranoid London, People’s Instinctive Travels and Paths of Rhythm, Peru Bravo: Funk, Platform, Reissue, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Secret Thirteen Mix 149, Shinchi Atobe, Ship-Scope, Shit And Shine, Sleaford Mods, Soul & Psych From Peru's Radical Decade, Sticky Fingers, Summertime 06, Taraxacum, Testpressing 007 (EP), The Epic, The Magic Whip, The Rolling Stones, Third Side of The Tape, Too many tags, user48736353001, Vince Staples, Vito Ricci, Vulnicura | 1 Comment

Essential Listening: Muslimgauze

Posted on 16/08/2015 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

Let’s consider the bastardisation of the word ethnic. Its contextual use is invariably pretentious and therefore so is the question. Similar to the incessant use of ‘iconic’, its overuse means it no longer carries gravitas. Now it simply means – … Continue reading →

Posted in Essential Listening | Tagged Aphex Twin, Azzazin, Bryn Jones, Demdike Stare, Essential Listening, Iranair Inflight Magazine, Manchester, Muslimgauze, Muslimgauze files, Muslimgauze: Chasing The Shadow Of Bryn Jones, Narcotic, Zul'm | Leave a comment