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So, I’ve given up on YouTube recommendations for the moment. But, thanks to something that no algorithm has yet been able to replicate, I’ve stumbled across this, which is absolutely perfect. It’s taken from the 1st volume of LTJ Bukem’s excellent Earth series of compilations (long overdue a reissue if any record labels are reading this), which [...]

Around 11 years ago I returned from a great year in Australia, though when I got back to the UK I was very happy to be able to find great music without having to wait for a Gilles Peterson tape to be sent by a kind friend. And, so, one of my first buys after [...]

Whilst Kid A, the album that How To Disappear Completely is taken from, may have been named by Pitchfork, Rolling Stone & The Times as the best album of the noughties, I’d guess that for those of us who aren’t music critics or die-hard fans of the band, it doesn’t get anywhere near as much [...]

In its ongoing bid to have more sub-brands than any other media owner, Absolute Radio recently launched a new niche-station, this time one tailor-made for those of us currently experiencing the dizzying pangs that come with realising nostalgia isn’t just something that happens to your parents: Absolute 90s. And, as part of the ongoing celebrations [...]

It’s almost as if everyone is determined to make me feel old. As if to highlight the fact that in less than 4 months time it will be 10 years since I saw in the year 2000 dancing on Bondi Beach, Absolute Radio are asking their listeners to help choose the Song of the Decade. [...]

I haven’t bought the new Portishead album, Third, to date because, a: the 2nd album was so disappointing, and b: the first single off of Third scared the living bejeesus out of me. However having read about Radiohead’s accoustic cover of The Rip from Third, I may have to change my mind. Because the Radiohead [...]

I’m in the process of sticking up for the 1990s, a much maligned decade (probably too recent to be cool yet). Here’s part two of the most underrated songs from the 90s.. Teenage Fanclub – Everything Flows: Bandwagonesque was the album that was going to make them stars, topping most Album of the Year charts [...]

In all the excitement of moving jobs, I realised that I completely forgot to mark my blog birthday… Yes – its been over a year since I started blogging. I probably should have commemorated that particular mile-stone somehow, but I forgot. So, in the manner of a belated birthday card (except that it’s to myself), [...]

The BBC series Soul Britannia and the accompanying set of concerts at The Barbican traced the growth of soul music in Britain… Massive Attack – Unfinished Sympathy Soul music has probably effected Britain more than any other country outside of the US or the Caribbean, which probably has a lot to do with our close [...]

Public Enemy’s rap classic Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos was turned into a raging guitar monster by trip-hop genius Tricky, with the help of Martina Topley Bird.. As a founding member of Massive Attack Tricky was a key player in the development of the Bristol sound that would grow into trip-hop. But on [...]