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Essential Listening: The Plateau Phase – Crispy Ambulance (1982)
Snobbery and decay, when it comes to music consumption preferences, for some this is the only way. Adopting such a tribalistic paradigm becomes ridiculous when taken to the extreme – because Leonard Cohen or Joni Mitchell aren’t Bob Dylan to … Continue reading
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Tagged 80's, Alan Hempsall, Are You Ready, Bob Dylan, Brian Eno, Comsat Angels, Concorde Square, Crispy Ambulance, Death from Above, Essential Listening, Federation, George Michael, Grosse Point Blank, Ian Curtis, Jobs for music snobs, Joni Mitchell, Joy Division, Leonard Cohen, Mark E. Smith, Morrissey, New Order, Post Punk, Scott Walker, Simon’s Ghost, The Cure, The Fall, The Plateau Phase, The Presence, The taste police, Tony Wilson, Transmission, Travel Time, White Music, Wind Season, XTC
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Essential Listening: Best of Jan Jelinek
It all started with a Secret Thirteen mix in 2014. Before this I’d never heard of Jan Jelinek, and truthfully, the only reason I even gave it a chance was superficial – the disparate track list, and that I recognized … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014 was eleven years ago - FML, Bandcamp, Basic Channel, Bernard Parmegiani, Bob Dylan, Brian Eno, Butlins, Coil, Damien Hirst, Dean Blunt, DJ Sprinkles, Do you know Otahiti, Essential Listening, Farben, Frank Zappa, Germany, Improvisation and Edits Tokyo, Jan Jelinek, Japan, Jazz fragments, Jimi Hendrix, Kompakt, Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records, LSD music, Muslimgauze, Oval, Pitchfork, Richard D. James, Secret Thirteen, Shat on by a seagull at Butlins, Soulseek, Soundcloud, Subbuteo, Textstar+, The Orb
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Essential Listening: The Best Releases Of 2024
So, another year in the books, and a decent one music wise. Other than that it’s kind of been meh, that includes most of the stuff I’ve written on this blog, even though I’ve enjoyed the process of writing as … Continue reading
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Tagged AraabMuzik, Bandcamp, Boomkat, Brian Eno, Bryn Jones, Bullwackies, Christmas, Cindy Lee, Dennis Bovell, Diamond Jubilee, Disintegration, Fat White Family, Forgiveness Is Yours, Gen-Z cunts, Here to knock Pitchfork's Fiona Apple and Kanye West sycophancy, In Full Effect, Jah Shaka, Jason Boardman, Jesus died so we could get a holiday, Jon Hassel, Kate Bush, Lee Perry, ML Buch, Muslimgauze vs Species of Fishes, New Order, New Year, No-Ones Listening Anyway - UK DIY Post Punk & Dubs 1980-1984 (Volume 1), Patrick Flegel, Pitchfork, Pontius Pilate, Pornography, Regal86, Roman Empire, Sade, Songs Of A Lost World, Soundcloud, Sufferer Sounds, Suntub, Taylor Swift, The Cure, The Head On The Door, Tim Reaper & Kloke, Total Blue, Unearthed Vol.II - *100 Trax*
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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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Essential Listening: Blond – Frank Ocean (2016)
In the excellent documentary 30th Century Man, Brian Eno, clearly hamming it up a touch for the cameras, mused, with pious exasperation, that pop music’s proclivity for ingenuity had stagnated. What he was implying was more forgiving; bands often aspire … Continue reading
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Tagged 30th Century Man, Album of the year, Already a classic, ‘some tattooed eyelids on a facelift’, Blond/Blonde, Bob Dylan, Brian Eno, Channel Orange, Essential Listening, Frank Ocean, Futua Free, Ivy, Nikes, Pink and White, Pop music is alive and well - in this instance anyway, Prince, Pyramids, R'n'b, Scott Walker, Self-Control, Siegfried, Soul, Talking Heads, The perfect aesthetic for our times, The perils of over-contextualisation, Trayvon Martin, Tupac won't be found
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