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As an experiment, I've uploaded a FLAC copy of The Orb's "Blue Room" over at Spinster's Rock.I keep threatening to move this blog over to the Wordpress site, but it doesn't seem to be sparking much enthusiasm from you people.Do me a favour and let me know:1. Should I move the blog over to the Wordpress site?2. Is there any appetite for more FLAC stuff?Ta, Chuck.Blue Room FLAC at Spinster's Rock.

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100% Silk Mix mixed by Sir Stephen.Download.The Dub Vault featuring the Blood And Fire Allstars. Mixed by Pendle Coven and Dom Blood And Fire.Download.

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Heads up, arpeggio fans!CiS favourite, Steve Moore has a new mini album up on Bandcamp. The soundtrack (apparently) to a documentary about independent horror movie producers/directors, this is a short, but wonderful piece of work. 11 tracks of Italio horrorcore served on a lush bed of analogue swirls with a neo-prog jus. Get on board.It's five bucks for goodness sake. Bargainmoungous.Horror

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Weirdly, I had this one lined up to post, just as a request came in from friend of the blog m.m asking if I had a copy. Ker-ching!*Strictly limited copies - just 100 of these have been made* Promising new imprint Snug Life finally kick-start their run of limited releases with a two-track 45 of blasted post-industrial beat-offs by Ekoplekz and Drvg Cvltvre. The label are proposing a series of 7",

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The boxes are looking a bit bashed up, alas, but the vinyl is sounding in remarkably good nick.We have here the remaining Cope "baggy" remixes by Hugo Nicholson as lifted from the "Peggy Suicide" album. These are also available digitally on the Dancing Heads CD and latterly on the monstrous balls up that was the Peggy Suicide Deluxe Edition which appeared a few years ago. Following on from the

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Utterly fantastic early works from Karl O'Connor, better known these days as Regis.I've been playing this to death over the last few weeks and am loving the early industrial vibe a la Cabaret Voltaire/Robert Rental/DAF etc etc.Still available here, so this one will only be up for a few days.Vinyl rip at 320 Kbps.Link Expired.

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The Grid's signature track gets a typically lovely and sensitive treatment from the genius that is Prins Thomas. This appeared just before Christmas on a one sided 10" single and has been getting serious punishment over the holiday period.Vinyl rip at 320 Kbps.Download.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!I hope you all had a good time. My New Year's Eve was eventful. I didn't/couldn't get out of bed until 15:45 on New Year's day due to an appalling hangover. The consequence of mixing wine, champagne, moscow mules and port. Just imagine the state of my poor shrunken brain-sac after THAT assault.As I stumbled through the remaining part of the day this remix of Cope's "Beautiful

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Ah, the infamous "To The Shores Of Lake Placid" LP. Catalogue Number Zoo 4.Wikipedia.1. Big In Japan - Society For Cutting Up Men2. Those Naughty Lumps - Iggy Pop's Jacket3. The Teardrop Explodes - When I Dream4. Echo And The Bunnymen - Pictures On My Wall5. Echo And The Bunnymen - Read It In Books6. Lori And The Chameleons - Lonely Spy7. The Turqoise Swimming Pools - The Winds8. Whopper - Kwalo

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This LP is a recent release collecting a load of UK DIY stuff both old and new. It's not always brilliant, but it filled me with a warm glow of nostalgia that this stuff was still getting released. It's pretty authentic too; foldover card cover in a poly bag, hand stamped label and typewritten insert. Brilliant.It's typically bonkers stuff. There's a mix of lo-fi and very lo-fi, but crucially

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A Krautrock drone-out future classic.You need this one in your life. Come back and tell me if I'm wrong.Brand new and up for two days only.Link Expired.

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Thanks to all for your suggestions. As I'm sticking with Mediafire for now using Chrome for a browser. Issues seem to be definitely relating to a break between Firefox and the redesigned Mediafire upgrade. Onwards.I've got a few things to post which are new and still available, so I'm only keeping them up for a few days.First up is this great little single from Steve Moore's Zombi. I've

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Apologies for the lack of activity here. I'm having horrible trouble with Mediafire which since it's "brilliant" refresh doesn't seem to work with Firefox. Or it might be issues with OSX Lion, which is equally "brilliant".Can anyone recommend another pain free file hosting site?In the meantime, you could always have a look at my series of photos of 100 Londoners over at Spinster's Rock. At

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This release appeared a few months ago. You know the drill by now:Released anonymously? Check.Rumoured to be be The KLF? Check.Chock full of recognisable KLF tropes? Check.Sparking internet arguments about the veracity? Check.In the end, it doesn't really matter does it. It obviously has nothing to do with Drummond/Cauty, but it IS a great record. A kind of sample collage built around folk

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You're going to like this one.The Bombay Royale are a Melbourne band dedicated to honouring and reviving the funky, bizarre and mysterious music of vintage Indian cinema. Dusting off near-unheard relics, smashing out Bollywood classics and putting down surfadelic Hindi originals is all in a day’s work. This band brings the sound of the Golden Age of Bollywood back to the future, where it

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I've always loved this track.Colin Vearncombe is much underrated as far as I'm concerned.This reminds me of attending a house party at an impossibly glamorous friend of a friend who lived in Stoke Newington. Before I moved down to London, I made a brace of exploratory visits, each one convincing me more and more that I had be down there. The land of a gig every night and women and women and

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A gathering of early Shadow tracks, which is worth the price admission for "What Does Your Soul Look Like (Parts 1-4)".I haven't heard the new album yet. I've resisted so far as I bought the last one and thought it was shit. Any reviews from the Castles Massive?Download.

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They saved the best till last. "West" is my favourite BTWS album. Again presented here in a brand new rip with full vinyl porn artwork.As it's been a good few years, I'm assuming that alas, there will be no more from Team BTWS. Richard continues to make great music in a similar vein as The Time And Space Machine, while Erol Alkan is all across the current club scene. Check out his website for

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The third album is better than the last, and has the brilliant "Electric Bananas" as the centrepiece.Red splatter vinyl.Vinyl rip at 320 Kbps.Download.

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The second transmission from planet BTWS is great, while perhaps not quite achieving the same levels of trance-en-mentalness as the first album.Highlights include the psyche-out money shot of "Words" and the horrible hippy tweefest of the John Peel sampling "The Perfumed Garden".Clear/blue splatter vinyl.Vinyl rip at 320 Kbps.Download.

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I've had a request to repost a couple of things by BTWS from a friend of the blog, Marc.As this stuff is utterly wonderful and has always proved quite popular with "the heads", I thought it might be time for a refresh of their entire oeuvre. So, you know, why the fuck not?Kicking off with their awesome début, pressed on baby pink vinyl, we have the mighty "Birth". Setting out their stall for

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Right. I've got a lot to get through today, so get out of my way. I'm kicking off with this brilliant third single from the wonderful post punkers, Yachts. I wonder what Wikipedia has to say about them?The group was formed by art students in Liverpool in April 1977 out of an earlier band, known variously as 'Albert Dock' or 'Albert and the Cod Warriors', who had supported the Sex Pistols on

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Nest are amazing.Their last album proper, "Retold" was probably my favourite album of 2010. Beautiful, suspended ambient music, but with a true heart of musicality underpinning the floating. The drift of events. Rain and piano. A throb in your head and a rattle of the windows. Swelling strings ebb and flow. The moon shines brighter for an hour then fades away. You think about your partners

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Classic old school reggae from much missed Dennis Brown.This has one of those lovely clip clop beats that runs through the track like a chilled out horse. Dennis's voice is super sweet and the version on the flipside stirs in a bit additional grooviness.How could you say "no"?Vinyl rip at 320 Kbps.Download.

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Reworking of classic Kate Bush track "Running Up That Hill" to bring the disco to the fore. Apparently this has been hanging around for a few years, but has just been repressed in this more sparkly, cleaned up version. The flipside is a much less interesting funk thing, which isn't really doing it for me, but the wonder of the A side more than makes up for it.Vinyl rip at 320 Kbps.Download

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From good old Wikipedia:"Safe from Harm" is the third single from Blue Lines, the 1991 debut from Massive Attack. The bass, guitar, and drums are sampled from the song "Stratus" by Billy Cobham, from his album Spectrum. Additional drums are sampled from "Good Old Music" by Funkadelic. Other samples come from Herbie Hancock's Chameleon. The vocals are sung by Shara Nelson.The opening track on the

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*Silk-screened sleeve. Limited edition of 300 copies* Weird but ace boogie and minimal wave edits from John Talabot and Marc Piñol on Hivern Disc's LTD edition series. They've really dig deep for this one, setting their sights on some truly obscure and pretty much unknown material. Uptown, John Talabot rejigs some kinda cosmic Boogie number called 'Party Girl' with a deadly B-line and a strange

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Brilliant double 12" remix EP from Steve Moore's latest project.Fans of mid period Depeche Mode should be all over this. It really is very, very good. This will only be up for a few days.The EP features a lofty and inspiring selection of names including techno legend The Field with a blissful 10-minute ambient epic, the visionary electronic auteur Fennesz with a slinky, fluttering gem,

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One of the rarer albums in Julian's long and sprawling discography, this excellent live album catches the great man in fine form. His backing band were great around this time and I saw him several times in '91. From Head Heritage:Following hot on the heels of The Teardrop Explodes' ZOOLOGY comes Julian Cope's own LIVE JAPAN '91, a sonically superb disc which consolidates Head Heritage's

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Classic early Orbital EP, ehich feaures the first sighting of "Satan" as well as "L.C.1" and the perhaps their defining moment, "Belfast". This version is the 1995 reissue of the "III" EP on FFRR from 1990. This version features a longer edit of "Satan".Download.

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Drew will be furious, but here are the Nellee Hooper remixes of "Unfinished Sympathy" for those that want 'em. I think as an original member of the Wild Bunch, his remixes add something a bit special, although it is difficult to argue with the point that the original mix is pretty much perfect.Vinyl rip at 320 Kbps.Download

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I try and steer away from throwing up anything too obvious on here most of the time. However, I also try and share some of the stuff which occupies my time and keeps me entertained. Those of you who have been around for a while will know that this might include anything from neo-classical drone to the most cheesy pop music. I'm quite proud of that fact.So, again, I'm pretty sure that most of

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I'm painfully short of time, but I'm going to try to get a few things up here tonight. I'm starting off with a few classics, the first of which surely needs no introduction.This is the remixed version of "The Robots" which as far as I can tell is lifted directly from "The Mix" album. This lovely UK 12" dates from 1991 and in addition to the extended remix, features a single and original album

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You're going to have to trust me on this one, but the folks who hang around here and like the stuff I like will get a proper buzz out of this one. It's a truly great record.And there's a fantastic Time & Space Machine remix. Bonus.Vinyl rip at 320 Kbps.Link Expired.

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I have had the most difficult week at work that you could imagine. I am not a unreasonable man, but some self important twat hung up on me yesterday because I had asked him to follow the appropriate process. I was fucking livid. The boss has been off on holiday and under-resourced and over-committed, I battle on. Seriously, these fuckers would not last five minutes out in the real world.Deep

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It's hard to keep track of the early ZTT releases as they were routinely released in several different mixes and versions. However, I think that this version of the mighty "Moments In Love" is the second edition, dating from 1985.This version contains "Moments In Love (Beaten)" on the A side and the even more lush "Love Beat" on the second side, in addition to what seems to be an original mix of

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A pretty limited (edn of 600) split between Bitchin Bajas (CAVE's Cooper Crain) and Faceplant (Peaking Lights' Aaron Coyes). The sleeve has a big picture of a massive bud of skunk on each side. We've got two long tracks from each artist here. The Bitchin Bajas side is a totally soothing affair, with layers of synth drones and arpeggios creating a shimmering voyage into the cosmic ether. The

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The second and third 12" EPs from the Beloved are a pair of total classics, featuring an array of excellent remixes covering all of the pop and early house bases. I think these stand up really well and still sound very fresh. "Hello" in particular is one of my favourites, with its cheeky but cool lyric. Go here for a bio and as indicated on the previous post, a whole load of rare

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I've posted the 7" of this before, but here's the 12" in all it's glory. 7 Ways To Love was written by Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs of St Etienne, who hoped the track would be their first step in building a Stock, Aitken & Waterman / Brill Building / Hit Factory style songwriting empire.Cola Boy was a duo, consisting of Janey Lee Grace and Andrew Midgley. Andrew had worked with Bob and Pete on

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More early Warp goodness hewn from the vinyl mountain.This is WAP 10 and hails from Leeds, I do believe. Tomas was one Thomas Sylvanus Stewart, who never released anything else, other than a track on a compilation which precedes this release.All of those early trademarks of the UK house scene are here in spades on this record; it's classic Warpery. My favourite track is the AA side tune, "

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Clint Mansell's partnership with Darren Aronofsky has produced some of the finest film music of recent years. He pulls it out of the bag again here for Duncan Jones's wonderful, elegiac sci-fi film, "Moon". This is a work of quiet power which reminds me (in places) of the quiter moments of the 2001 soundtrack. The recurring theme is lovely and gets thrown into different shapes as the soundtrack

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A piano moves us towards weirdly thick, slowed down house grooves. A chunky kick drum pushes its way through stuttering clouds of unusual instrumentation and synthesized drones, giving a weird after-hours neon resonance. Flip over to ‘Outrigger’ though and we’re reframing twisted folk into something dusty and yet crunchy.A terrific single.Download.

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This appears to have sold out, so I'll hang it up here for a few days as a mark of respect for the recently departed Conrad Schnitzler.This double album (pressed on white vinyl) is a slightly noisy pressing, with a warpy disposition and off-centre labels, but the music contained within those caucasian grooves is the stuff of joy. Recorded in '72, but out of time - this could have been cooked up

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Just out of the traps. Won't be here for long.Vinyl rip at 320KbpsLink Expired.

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A true Balearic classic which strangely turned up on as many ambient compilations as it it did banging trance compilations.It's a beautiful song, which uses the same sample that Orbital used in their equally brilliant track, "Belfast" ("O Euchari" sung by Emily Van Evera).Presented here is the original UK 12" release which features a brace of excellent remixes.Vinyl rip at 320 Kbps.DownloadEDIT:

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Decent remix 12" of the first Orbital single. Rarely heard these days. At least in Bedfordshire.Vinyl rip at 320 Kbps.Download

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I Can't believe I haven't posted this one before, as It's one of my favourite ever records. A masterful example of those early, heady days of the "indie/dance crossover", Pop Will Eat Itself should get a hell of a lot more respect for the role they played in breaking down the barriers between the opposing poles of pale indie and shaking your honky arse.This is a SUCH a great record. The back

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There are a couple of remixes here, which as far as I know, have only ever been available on this brilliant, rare 12"The lead "Dream 17" track is taken from the "North" album I posted yesterday, but the flipside tracks "Nightmare On Dream Street" and "Dream Slumber" are where things really start to take off. These sound incredibly accomplished given the fact that we were back at the dawn of the

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The follow up to the Floatation 12" I posted a few days ago, this is another great single from The Grid (which immediately followed the Floatation 12"). The 12" is just OK, but the 7" mix on the flip is great. What seals the deal, however, is the "Progressive" mix of Floatation which comes as the second track on the B side.Vinyl rip at 320 Kbps.Download.

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I might be mis-remembering this, but I'm pretty sure that it was Douglas Hart, ex of the Jesus And Mary Chain who was the prime mover behind Acid Angels. It certainly has some of those dirty rock influences that Primal Scream ran with later in their Magpie-like career.Whatever, this is another very early UK acid contender, which still sounds great 23 years after the fact. 23 years! Jesus!Vinyl

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And already, I'm going off piste with this one, as strictly speaking, it's more of a breakbeat thing than an acid thing. It's still great, though and is the acceptable face of all those stoopid acid novelty records which were unleashed at the turn of the nineties as sampling technology developed further.Anyway, for those who don't know, this is Richard D. James AKA The Aphex Twin in one of his

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Excellent early acid track from the Chicago pioneer, Adonis. The instrumental on the flipside probably just cuts it over the vocal version on the A side.Vinyl rip at 320 Kbps.Download

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A quick plug for my my friend, Billy Milk and his band, The Stately Homes Of England.They have recently released a lovely new EP which features a star turn from the legendary underground cartoonist, Hunt Emerson. The EP is available in every format that you could wish for, including some very special limited editions featuring unique artwork from Hunt.It's a lovely, folk tinged thing which

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From the sleevenotes:"It was summer 1986 and clubs in London are rocking to the sounds of East Coast hip hop and Washington Go Go. Meanwhile, dancefloors ´North of Watford´ (especially in Nottingham, Sheffield and Manchester) are crammed with people jacking to a new sound from Chicago called "house", and for two years a north/south divide of a different kind was established.Summer 1988 reads very

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Fairly full-on acid from the early days of the second summer of love. This is a great record and although it features a few of the things which fairly quickly became the trademark (clichéd) sounds of the acid house movement, this one was one of the innovators.The flipside "Acid Chant" is an insane psychedelic head-fuck monster. It's almost as if these people were taking drugs.Both sides of this

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I've been listening to a shitload of early acid house this week. I'm gonna try and throw as much drug-fuelled nonsense as I can up her over the next few hours.Strap yourselves in and take all of your drugs now.Acid House Saturday is GO!

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Not really, but that's what this brand new, beautifully packaged, clear vinyl 10" puts me in mind of. What heady times we are living through. It's all up for grabs isn't it?You'll like this one, I promise. As I say, it's new, so will only be up till the weekend.Vinyl rip at 320 Kbps.Download

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The Grid were a duo comprising Dave Ball, ex of Soft Cell and Richard Norris, who later went on to make some brilliant records with Erol Alkan as Beyond The Wizards Sleeve and subsequently as the sole member of The Time And Space Machine."Floatation" was The Grid's first single proper, released after a pair of hard to find DJ promo releases. Although they went on to much greater success

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After the releases “in g”, “urlaub” and the Conrad Schnitzler / borngräber & strüver cooperation “Con-Struct” which will be released in August this year, Christian Borngräber – one half of “borngräber & strüver” is working on a solo project which is going to be released early 2012.For this ambitious project he needs the help from as many contributors as possible. The plan is to create a virtual

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This remix 12" tries to boost a little house boom currency into the already long established dance moves of the Yazoo classic, "Situation". While not entirely successful, there is much to love here as a period piece as much as anything. And as it is a Mute Records release, it proves yet again that I can never resist the lure of this wonderful label.Essentially a housey re-tooling of the

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One of the best early Warpers for my money. Catalogue number WAP12 and issued in 1991. TWENTY YEARS AGO!Vinyl rip at 320 Kbps.Download

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Tricky Disco has the catalogue number WAP 07. I'm pretty sure the flipside was the first time I'd heard that monk sample a la Enigma. The B side is the better cut for me.One more to go...Vinyl rip at 320 Kbps.Download.

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This one is much more like it. From the nascent Nightmares On Wax, a double whammy of electro coolness delivered in two short transmissions. I played this fucker to death back in the day.Vinyl rip at 320 kbps.Download.

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A strange one, this. Not really carrying the typical Warp sound or vibe and certainly not one of my favourites. The flipside track, "Bulldog" is a bit more like it, but generally, this one hasn't stood the test of time too well. According to Discogs, this was the their first and only release.Vinyl rip at 320kbs.Download.

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This superb 12", catalogue number WAP 14, is so, so good.LFO polish their best turbocharged Robo-Kraftwerk moves to the delight of inner space explorers everywhere. This is an amazing track and a true highlight of the early Warp releases.The more spangly flipside "Nurture" is just lovely. Bouncy and rattly techno which still sounds pretty fresh to me.Attention! Atention! Acid Dads in the area!

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Here's the "Unlimited Edition" of the brilliant "What Is House?" EP from LFO. Two tracks the same, two tracks different. Worth having for the looy "Mashed Potato" alone. More LFO and mpore early Warp to come later today.Vinyl rip at 320 Kbps.Download.

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I'm going to get as much stuff as I can posted today. Stay tuned for more Warped goodness...

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You know when I said "imminent"...?Once again, apologies for the delay in posting. I'm going to try to get a few things up here tonight - starting with this wonderful single from the early It's Immaterial canon. This is really all about the A side as the flipside songs are a bit weak. But have a listen to White Man's Hut. Especially at 0:35 where the backing chorus comes in. It's a thing of

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Bonjour! I've just got back from La Belle France, hence the lack of blog action. Updates coming as soon as unpacking has been completed and the mountain of washing has been conquered.

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From 1991, this 4-track 12" EP, catalogue number WAP 17LTD was pressed in a limited edition of 2000 clear vinyl copies.Mine is No 1346. And it's amazing.Vinyl rip at 320 Kbps.Download

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For no reason at all, I pulled out a stack of early Warp 12" singles this afternoon. I've been away with the boys for a few days in Tallinn, so it wasn't like I needed any further excitement, but sometimes it's good to pull out something old to spark up the old nostalgia glands. Anyway, while I would never describe this as sounding fresh, it pretty much still did it for me and was a total

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This brilliant single was one of my first proper exposures to Arthur Baker and John Robie. After being a dedicated post punker, the likes of Cabaret Voltaire and New Order picking up on this stuff was massively exciting and pointed a whole new direction for the way that music was going to evolve.I always felt that this brilliant little record never got the recognition it deserved from the

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Do you want to hear a huge-big-massive eighties tune with superfat syth riffing and girl backing vocals underpinning a guest turn from the Numanoid? Do you want an instrumental version? Do you want an extra track called "Mistasax Version Two" which has one of those extended sax solos over a bed of brooding synths and sounds like the incidental music from a dour British detective show?I think I

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This is one of two special Record Store Day 2011 releases that I was desperate to get my hands on. (Don't worry, viewers, I got the other one as well.)Limited edition 12“, edition of 500, no repress. With remixes by Studio, Etienne Jaumet and Mauve DeepSIDE A.1. Pastoral Symphony I. Dominoes II. Infinity Room (Original Version by ARP)2. The Past (Version by STUDIO)SIDE B.3. PS (Version by MAUVE

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I love the way that certain records drift in and out of your life. I hadn't heard this album in years and I'm not even sure I played it that much when I bought it back in 1997. My tastes were probably somewhere else when this was released. And there was always the gigantic shadow cast by their exquisite début. This is their third and final album. After this one, David Gavurin and Harrriet

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A weird and wonderful collection of eccentric electronic gems and unreleased rarities from Macca in celebration of his recent engagement announcement. Created in the late 70s while McCartney was messing about with his new electronic instruments, these early experiments have more than stood the test of time and despite being little known amongst McCartney’s mainstream fans, many have gained a

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"Drugs Will Keep Us Together" is a guaranteed killer, with Philadelphia's Pink Skull offering up this funky off-kilter tech-house banger. Alongside the original version on the A side, there is a monged out electrohouse dub mix from NYC's 33Hz. The flip is owned by a brilliant Trevor Loveys extended mix.It's a very musical and melodic trip with disco guitars, a supersaw synth, stuttering

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Wonderful sampler CD featuring tracks taken from the vinyl only Disposable Music Library Subscription Discs series from the ever-brilliant Finders Keepers Records founded and run by Andy Votel. The Subscription disc series was a set of five highly limited vinyl pressings featuring library music both new and old. It's a beautiful set with distinctive artwork and high production values. I think

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Discodeine are a parisian duo comprised of Pilooski (Dirty Sound system) and Pentile. "Synchronize" is a perfect disco-pop song featuring Jarvis Cocker, who provided the lyrics and a perfect vocal performance that turns this song into an instant classic. This was a limited edition of 500 copies pressed up on blue vinyl.Pilooski mailed me a few years ago after I'd posted the highly limited DIRTY

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Prins Thomas' "Full Pupp" label's first CD release was this excellent double disck pakage dating from 2008. Tha album is a compilation of tracks released to that point by the label and includes all the greats from the Nordic scene including Todd Terje, Mental Overdrive, Diskjokke and a whole host of less widely known (and for that matter, less pronuncable) talents. On the first disc, the album

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Released early last year in a hand-stamped, hand-numbered limited edition of 110 copies, Sub Loam (aka Thomas Shrubsole) offers up two long pieces of what he terms "landscape meditation and exploratory ambience". The 15-minute opening first track plunges your ears into a hauntological realm populated by suggestive sound cues and vintage sonic constructions to trick the memory. Throughout there's

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Too Pure finally brought this album back into print after far too long with this double-disc "Redux Edition", and listening now, you'll hear the beginnings of a still-thriving genre that remains slippery and unnamed, purely electronic music with a strange, tangy rock aftertaste. It's just the barest tinkling of percussion, a rising and falling bass line to provide a barely audible pulse guiding

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From the dawn of hip hop culture, this fantastic single rings out down the years. Co-written and produced by the indomitable Stephen Hague. There's an album as well, which I have somewhere. This seemed very, very new and exciting on it's release in 1983.The instrumental version on the flip might just edge it, but the vocal version is a solid gold classic. Make a break, make a move.Vinyl rip

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Guys and Gals, apologies for lack of posts over the last few weeks. My employers and family keep asking me to, like, do stuff. The bunch of leeching, grabbing, annoying bastards. I'll try and rectify the dearth of tunage over the coming few days.Let's kick off with this recent and highly limited 12" from the wonderful E.M.A.K. (Electronische Musik Aus Koln) collective as recently compiled on

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Those of you who enjoyed this should also find something to get excited about for Zombi's "Spirit Animal". The linking factor is Steve Moore, although in the Zombi incarnation, this music is much closer to authentic, actual prog rock. It's done with élan and care and somehow, againt a lot of the odds (if not all of them) it somehow works. Thought that the synthesizer-happy instrumental duo

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I got sent a link to these, which are absolutely brilliant. Not available until early April, but on this evidence, worth waiting for."Cults of Brasilia follow up last year’s debut release with fresh remixes of α60’s Exit Ramp by Subway (Sunday Best, Soul Jazz Records) and Antoni Maiovvi (Fright Records, Slime Records, Caravan, The Cold Hand).Soul Jazz favourites Subway deliver a driving,

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Demdike Stare have lit up the spooky electronica space over the last year or so like nobody I can remember. A slew of great, atmospheric albums have continued to be on heavy rotation here at Micron Towers since they appeared. Beautifully packaged and with an obvious attention to detail from folks who know their way around making haunting, affecting music. Although ostensibly featuring other

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My rip from vinyl at 320 KbpsNo artworkFirst post to be ripped and recorded using new turntable, so any feedback about rip quality or problems most welcome.Link Expired.

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A terrific piece of work which seems to exist in and of itself. The primary example in a field of one. Who else ever sounded like this? Massively individual and self contained, this record is one of my favourite albums. Some might find it a difficult first listen, But as with all great works, it reveals itself over time as the nuances unravel layer after layer. Just two men and a Yamaha DX7.

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The Music Library is an absolutely fantastic book featuring the artwork from 300+ library music albums. Compiled by Jonny Trunk, who really, really knows about this stuff. This is a truly beautiful artefact. I haven't gone to the trouble of trying to capture the images in the book, as this is a delight which really needs to be experienced via the medium of holding it in your hands and looking

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Cracking live set from the king of the Diskomiks which was released on a tiny run CD issue.Robert Johnson is a Deutsch clubnite apparently, although information on the CD is minimal. It may even be unofficial. Don't ask me. I scored my copy from Discogs, from where you can check out the tracklist here. What the Discogs page doesn't convey is the uber grooviness, expert track selection and

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Recently discovered 10" single from roots heavyweight and Marley cohort, Peter Tosh. I don't know much about this, but I know quality when I hear it. The flipside tackles "Johnny B. Goode" with aplomb and verve. Vinyl rip from 10" single. It's a beautiful thing."When they signed that peace treaty, I told them it would not worky-worky". Come on. It's genius isn't it. You could always rely

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Oooh, look out! We've got a live one. This thing of beauty is next-level Eighties throwback industrialism. And for the sake of into-the-red authenticity it features a Richard H. Kirk remix on the flip which dulls it all down to maximum effect. Watch out for that drum box at 2:55. This could easily be a vintage Cabs track. Yes, you heard me correctly, Doctor. Meanwhile over on the main

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New track from upcoming Human League album, "Credo". Phil sounds in fine voice...Into The Night

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Wonderfully pretty soundtrack wares from long serving soldier, Thomas Fehlman. Fehlman has been involved in some of my favourite records like, ever (The Orb's peak period), and this one follows in the tradition of his wonderfully detailled, yet bouncy techno sound, which situates itself on the borders of home listening and going out noise.Thomas Fehlmann's sixth solo album, his first in three

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Awesome Scottish house music album from last year, which has now sold out as far as I can tell. This uses all of the classic tricks yet adds a beautifully individual twist. Anyone in the market for a bit of Detroit inspired moderne will find much to love here. Neu disco heads should also get involved as there are a couple of bangers which will put a huge smile on your face. It's all about the

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A progression from the Ultravox/Kraftwerk/Bowie early albums. This is sounding awesome. I think this was the last thing of his I bought following the Thatcher revelations. Poor fucker. A PR would never let that happen these days.Anyway, at this remove, I think we treated him rather shabbily. This stands up.Vinyl rip at 320KbpsLink Expired.

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This 12" issue of classic League track is the one to seek out and indeed, while carrying the flaming torch of the "League Unlimited Orchestra" album into the "Hysteria" campaign, it verily shits from a great height all over the album version.Although the extended mix is very, very good, the one on which to focus your attention is the "Improvisation" mix, which is properly bonkers and all the

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Luke Abbott's "Holkham Drones" was one of my favourite albums from last year. He specialises in throbbing, slipstreamed, autobahn-ready techno with real depth and attention to detail. It's also deceptively groovy.This latest single features key "Holkham Drones" track, "Trans Forest Alignment" in original and remixed form. The Rocket Number Nine remix is brilliant, but this is a killer EP with

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