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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Incendiary interview Nouveau Vélo
The basis is friendship and the fact that we see people getting pleasure from what our friendship has produced is special to us. Friendship is the basis, the fundamental element in Nouveau Vélo. But there is a lot of separateness about us. Eenheid.
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Dexys Midnight Runners live at the Brighton Dome
In this setting, I realised, even in the earlier phase of Dexys, that this element had always been a key part of their vision. It’s working class magical realism. The portal at the bottom of your street.
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Snow Palms – Intervals
Of course the use of instruments like a reed organ or a harmonium helps set the tone, as do the lachrymose strings …but in these things are very much part of a whole, and that whole is a warm, rich experience.
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