Hooked On Radiophonics
br> The great Delia Derbyshire at work. Maybe I’m weird but there’s something vaguely erotic about seeing such a well-spoken young lady playing with heavy audio equipment like this. JG Ballard...
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Trip Hop Don’t Stop
Apart from a brief Britpop blip when I bought a couple of Oasis and Blur CDs I spent most of the mid- to late 1990s listening to Trip Hop or its mutant offspring Downtempo, Chill-Out, and Electronica....
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A couple others that are contenders for my bestest evah Trip Hop/Electronica/Knob-Twiddling albums: br> Buy: Lamb – Lamb (album) br> Buy: Blue Wonder Power Milk – Hooverphonic (album) Seeing as...
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New Monday
The Eccentronic Research Council are an experimental electronic combo fronted by actress Maxine Peake who is apparently quite a big star on the telly back home. Their debut 1612 Underture is a concept...
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New Monday
The new London-based label PC Music (it stands for Personal Computer) puts out primitive, glitchy synthpop that often sounds like it’s been thrown together by kids who’ve eaten too much candyfloss...
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Midnight Moroder
When I worked in the record department of WH Smith in the late 70s there were a few records which we were guaranteed to sell a copy of if we played them. Giorgio Moroder’s soundtrack to Midnight...
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I Have Twelve Inches
Producer Arthur Baker made quite the splash in 1982. First he unleashed the revolutionary “Planet Rock” on the world and changed dance music forever — I still remember the first time I heard it — and...
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The Big Beat
I’m currently writing a long blog post about how and why I ended up in America which got me thinking about the music that reminds me of living in Florida in the 90s. During that decade electronic...
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Lana Del Remix
Lana Del Rey has a great new single out right now which has got me listening her older records again, particularly some of the remixes of them. For some reason her songs are really well suited to...
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Say Kids
Want some more Coldcut? Or course you do. This was their 1987 self-released debut single and is one of the first records to be entirely built around samples — 35 of them — some of which are out of...
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All The Boys Think She’s A Spy
Speaking of having no idea that a record you liked was a cover version (which I was last week), how many of you knew that “Bette Davis Eyes” was originally recorded by Jackie DeShannon in 1974? I...
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I Have Twelve Inches
OK I’m lying a little here. I don’t have this as a vinyl 12″ because it came out in 1998 when the only people buying new vinyl were DJs. But I do have it on a CD and it is the extended mix so who...
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The new album from superstar producer Mark Ronson is rather good indeed and features vocal turns from Lykke Li, Miley Cyrus, Alicia Keys, and Angel Olsen among many others. Ronson described the album...
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Going Long
Some records are just too damn short. I’m sure you all have songs you love but wish they were longer, the ones with the great riffs, melodies, or grooves that you want to go on forever. This is...
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