Tag Archives: Essential Listening
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: Various Bandcamp Stuff
As with Discogs and Boomkat, Bandcamp looms as a potential worm hole for aficionados. Now, if you know what you’re after, you can escape quickly, and financially intact, but if you’re browsing you can easily get sucked in. Not that … Continue reading
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Tagged 1991, 2814, Bandcamp, Bingo, Boris Johnson, Bounce Dominic Cummings’ head off a kerb, Butlins, California Dreamin', Coronavirus, Covid-19, Darwinist, Eggglub, Essential Listening, Fucking Apple music, Gary Neville is a good egg, ΔKTR, Japan, Japanese/Chilean combo, Jürgen Klopp gives good advice, JCB digger, Kanji, Kelvin MacKenzie = cunt, KEVINTHECREEP, Kirstie Allsopp relocated when she shouldnae have, Lockdown Listening, Midnight Express, Midnight Love, Mike 'Horrible Fat Bastard' Ashley, No More Dreams, Parmesan microplane, Roy Chubby Brown, SIC Records, South Korea, Split, Spotify, Star Slinger, Takeshi Kitano, Tim 'worzel gummidge' Martin, Vaporwave is as crap as a McDonald’s breakfast, Vector Graphics, Yakuza games
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Essential Listening: The Best Albums Of 2019
Gotta be honest, I lacked motivation for writing this column. Normally it’s the piece I look forward to writing the most. Doing an annual music round-up is the only blogging tradition I’ve developed since I started five years ago. There … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, Best Albums Of 2019, Bill Callahan, Crush, Essential Listening, Eton Alive, Fairport Convention, Fat White Family, FKA Twigs, Floating Points, Ghosteen, Imperial Flood, Loft conversion is finished!, Logos, Magdalene, Merry Christmas, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, NTS podcasts, Originals, Paranoid London, Peace out homies, PL, Prince, Richard Dawson, Serfs Up!, Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest, Sleaford Mods
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