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Essential Listening: IDM for late spring/early summer – Jan Jelinek circa 2001-2002 & Consumed in Key – Plastikman & Chilly Gonzalez (2022)
T.S. Eliot stated that April is the cruellest month. Well at this latitude I’d add May to that too. It’s a tease of a month; the summer solstice gets closer, days lengthen considerably, the wind no longer bites quite so … Continue reading
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Tagged Aphex Twin, Berlin, Bob Dylan, Canadians, Chilly Gonzalez, Computer Soup, Consumed In Key, Detroit, Disco, Druids in Wiltshire, Essential Listening, Farben, German pastiche, Gramm, Heroin kills baby elephants, Human sized Bumblesting, IDM, Improvisations And Edits Tokyo, Jan Jelinek, John Coltrane, Keith Richards, LCD Soundsystem, Live Aid, London, Loop Finding Jazz Records, May is the cruellest month, New Orleans, New York, Personal Rock, Plastikman, Punk, Richie Hawtin, Secret Thirteen, Starbox, T.S. Eliot, Techno, velux windaes, Voices Of Freedom, W.H. Auden
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Essential Listening: The Best Albums Of 2021
Amidst the threat of yet another lockdown, cancelled Christmas parties, the prospect of me spending my first Christmas ever alone and potentially no football on Boxing Day (which is a defacto referendum on whether greed for the few is more … Continue reading
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Tagged Aphex Twin, B12, Bandcamp, Berlin, Blade Runner, Bodytronixxx, Booka Shade, Boxing Day, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Can, Covid, DJ Sprinkles, Early Transmissions 1991-95, Easy To Build Hard To Destroy, Essential Listening, Floating Points, Gage, Gayest Tits & Greyest Shits: 1998-2017 12 Inches & One-Offs, Gnod, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, LFO, LGHTR KRU: Nite Mode Vol.1, Live In Stuttgart '75, London Symphony Orchestra, Merry Christmas, Michael Karoli, Midtown 120 Blues, MMM (Errorsmith & Fiedel), On The Edge, Pharaoh Sanders, Pink Floyd, Planet Love Vol. 1, Pool, Promises, Skee Mask, Soulseek, Spacemen 3, Spirtualised, Squarepusher, SS Hacienda, Steve Jobs is scum to us audiophiles, Stockhausen, Sun City Girls, Tago Mago, Tangerine Dream, Terre Thaemlitz, Tresor 30, Underground Resistance, Vaporwave, wearing a garish shell suit while on acid and ecstasy, Will Long
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Essential Listening: The Best Albums Of 2020
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
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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
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Essential Listening: The Best Albums Of 2018
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
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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
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Song Of The Day – The Best Songs Of 2018
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
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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
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Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard 
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