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the whole "relaxin'" album is lovely if you can get your head into the mannerisms of that era. i listened to it ALOT travelling on my own through thailand. reading the ian car "miles" book and picking off cassette bootlegs from stores. by the end of my travels i had no spare clothes and a...

and in case you never heard it (do these people exist?)

always loved this too

one for the jungle massive

it's all about: https://www.discogs.com/Blackbeard-I-Wah-Dub/master/250892 and https://www.discogs.com/Black-Beard-Strictly-Dub-Wize/master/250891 two of my absolute fave dub lps. the production on LKJ's stuff is awesome too https://www.discogs.com/Linton-Kwesi-Johnson-LKJ-In-Dub/master/121552...

it isn't a fleetfooted rhythm - granted. but i guess it's about a boxer - maybe supposed to be stocky-sounding? your critique duly noted.

very different:

she did a translation of the tao te ching https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lao-Tzu-Tao-Te-Ching/dp/1570623953

the earliest stirrings of electro. wait for the bassline:

i think it's that what attracted to me to a particular piece of music was how much "mana" it contained. so although, yes, some pieces of music have a bit of a zeit fingerprint for me - the things i really value tend to be perennial favourites. with them it's a bit like holding a jewel in the...

very pleased to report that my music taste ceased to evolve.

it's definitely not fashionable any more though. it was rediscovered in the nineties and then people have spent the intervening period discovering more and more obscure music which yields less and less pleasure. that perennial music geek race towards aridity.

i really like electric miles. i think it's great. it's music with a lot of style - panache. music for people with sports cars with purple fur trim.

oh wait i have another one for the DJ disasters/shame bundle! i was asked by FACT magazine to DJ a Michael Nyman LP launch. so i dug out all these fabulous Minimal classics and ensconced in the Vinyl Factory bunker beneath that car park on Poland Street proceeded to play them as the crowd...

i was thinking about this and i thought it had to be either Charles or Christopher. so i'm going to pat myself on the back and light a big cigar.

me too