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Essential Listening: Best of the NTS Guide To…
It’s a contradiction of sorts, streaming albums (once, again, thank you Bandcamp) in their entirety feels very old-fashioned. The rationale is a cleaving to analogue snobbery – lifting just one or two songs from an album feels cheap, egregiously so … Continue reading
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Tagged Alzheimer’s, Bandcamp, Basic Channel, Bat country, Bieber, Bruce Kaplan, Champagne Socialist, Coldplay, Deacon Blue, Deadmau5, Death Row Records, DJ Fuckface, Dylan Mulvaney memes, Essential Listening, Hard-Fi, High Fidelity, Jamaican dub, James Corden, John Cusack, Keane, Korean rap, Kula Shaker, Limmy, Mango Walk, Nate Dogg, NTS, Peyote, Post Punk In Dub, Razorlight, Regulate, Ronnie Drew, Ry Cooder, Sinead O’Connor, Smooth G-Funk, Snoop, Spoken word Irish Folk, Stunted (mostly) hairless Wookie is a valid gender identity, That cunt who wears the marshmallow helmet, The Dunes, Too Short, Toploader, Tupac, Uptown Girl, Warren G
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Essential Listening: The Best Releases Of 2022
It’s been a year of nostalgia through sound meeting the innovation wrought by modernity, reflected by the diversity in my choices for best releases of 2022; a street-soul compilation, unreleased demos from the sixties, a discarded album spanning material from … Continue reading
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Tagged 1992, Adele, Bandcamp, Blood FM 1, Blood FM 2, Consumed In Key, Death is Not The End, DJ Fucks Himself, Donald Trump, EP, Essential Listening, Farben, Finally New, Galcher Lustwerk, Jacob Rees-Mogg collects fascist memorabilia, Jan Jelinek, Les Rallizes Dénudés, Limmy, London Rave Adverts 1991-1996, Lou Reed, Margaret Thatcher’s pubic hair, Merry Christmas you bastards, Michael J. Blood, Pause for the Cause, Plastikman & Chilly Gonzalez, Reissue, Saada Bonaire, Sensible Soccer, Soulseek, Textstar+, The Soft Pink Truth, They Hate Change, V4 Visions: Of Love & Androids, Was It Ever Real?, Weisse Weste, Words & Music May 1965
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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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