At times it can miss and sort of sink onto an uber-intellectual silly soup (Justo, I’m thinking of you here), but when it’s right it’s… well, fantastic.
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Gunshae – Out Of Darkness, Light
…a lot of these gargantuan tracks plod purposefully on, like brontosaurs slowly munching their way through some Jurassic swamp, oblivious to all around.
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When Icarus Falls – Aegean
…a welter of guitars pianos, lung bursting growls and chord changes that turn slower than the Queen Mary, all happening in over ten minutes, no holds barred…
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Incendiary chat to Gudrun Gut
In the 80s, Germany did not have an infrastructure for independent music, but it started. America and England were the masters of pop then. I think now you can listen to very good new music from all over the world and that’s liberating.
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Singing Adams – Moves
It helps that they have a tendency to sound like they’re throwing away melodies that others would hoard like precious jewels.
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Politburo – Sally & Prinss Revisited
I still shudder at the memory of seeing the singer Nick licking the Perspex barrier of my deejay booth clean, obviously and hilariously under the influence of some wonder drug or other, in crazed reaction to (and I may be guessing but I’m sure I’m not), a Fela Kuti record.
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Rebekka Karijord, Magic Arm, Olympian, Race To The Sea – Manchester Ruby Lounge, 17/01/13
And if you ever thought the concept of melisma (you know, where you do loads of notes for one syllable) had been debased beyond redemption by said warblers then Rebekka is the woman to save it.
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Andy Kershaw – No Off Switch
This is the autobiography of someone who seriously knows his onions musically: someone who I can credit with giving me something to dream about and think about, someone who planted some of the canes to wrap the tendrils of my very nascent social and cultural persona around.
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A Samling Records Sampler with Mike Koldin, Herrek, Woud
Invariably the music is of the highest quality, if focussed pretty heavily on things that could be herded up into the ambient / post-post-industrial / white noise / alt-jazz bracket.
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Incendiary talk to Fawn Spots
When you work you really start seeing the value of time in a very tangible way, and music seems like the total opposite of what working in an office represents – we just have to do something outside of that.
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