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200 Tracks from 2011 – Part Seven – The End

So, it’s over – the year and the list. Time to start making resolutions or plans for 2012? Well, yes, maybe, but we can get to that later. For now there are a few extra miscellaneous bits to tidy up. … Continue reading

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200 Tracks from 2011 – Part Six (20-1)

And so we enter the final furlong. Get yourself comfortable, it’s a long ride. #20 Ga’an – Arms They Speak Magma-like drone-prog, hypnotic drums and organs, very promising stuff.   #19 Azealia Banks – 212 Every month or so a … Continue reading

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200 Tracks from 2011 – Part Five (40-21)

#40 Siriusmo – Einmal in der Woche schreien What is this? Weird German electro, very odd and very fun.   #39 ▼▲▼Vagina Vangi – Of Chaos and Hell Russian Hardcore New Romantic Witch House. This could be massive. Doesn’t really … Continue reading

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200 Tracks from 2011 – Part Four (60-41)

#60 Toddla T – Streets So Warm feat. Wayne Marshall & Skream This year’s best politically-minded 8-bit dancehall reggae track. I’m not entirely sure what it’s about though – has the government covertly installed under-floor heated roads? The public must … Continue reading

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200 Tracks from 2011 – Part Three (80-61)

#80 Rainbo Video – Ultraviolet There is pretty much no information whatsoever available on this band, so I’ll just quote the 20jazzfunkgreats entry that led me to this in the first place – “Ultraviolet takes that disconcertingly (and contradictory) modernist … Continue reading

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200 Tracks from 2011 – Part Two (100-81)

So, here we go! #100 Laura J Martin – Spy (The Simonsound Remix) Very talented young Liverpudlian flutes & loops artiste remixed by retro space synth act The Simonsound. I love the drum samples.   #99 Katy B – Lights … Continue reading

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200 Tracks from 2011 – Part One (200-101)

At the start of 2011 I decided that it would be a good idea to get up to date with music by listening to every new release I could find for the year. It did genuinely seem like a good … Continue reading

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Forgotten 90s bands – Phantom Pregnancies

The third in an intermittent series. Just found a stash of ripped 7″ singles, so may be more of these soon In 1996 I was in the habit of going into Magpie Records in Worcester* and buying anything that looked … Continue reading

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Silver Apples in Beijing

Last weekend we went to see the Silver Apples. Who are the Silver Apples, I hear some of you ask. Well, their first album, released in 1968, sounds like a mish-mash of krautrock, electronic pop and sampling, all of which … Continue reading

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Strawberry Music Festival 2011

Last weekend I found out that there was going to be a music festival in Tongzhou. A festival! Even the idea that there would be a gig in Tongzhou seemed fairly unlikely. I remember being quite excited when a western-style … Continue reading

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