20. Kung-Fu World Champion – HiromiOne of my favourite musical discoveries of the past few years is Japanese pianist/keyboardist Hiromi Uehara. Great player, and really great composer. I suppose what I really like about her — apart from the sheer virtuosity of what she does — is the fact that she’s doing something that seems [...]
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19. Train to Doomsville – Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry & The Dub SyndicateWhen we left New Zealand for the UK, we were ruthless. Essentially we divested ourselves of all our worldly possessions. Furniture, kitchenware, household appliances, books — even music. Records — gone. CDs — gone. DAT tapes — gone. Cassettes and MDs… well you get [...]
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18. Man Overboard – Do-Re-MiApropos of nothing, this was just a song that crept up from the darkest recesses of my brain and I thought: ‘I haven’t heard that song for ages’. I used to own the 12″ (the version I include here), and it’s one of those records that disappeared long ago, never to [...]
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17. Dreaming – BTThis is not normally my music. I’m not particularly antagonistic toward the genre, but by the same token, there’s little in this branch of house music that holds my interest. At all. Having said that, Brian Transeau — aka BT — approaches the form as a sound designer, rather than the more [...]
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