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Jul 29, 2009

I'm batting for Lashes (and baseball-batting Erasure)

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Despite my recent nigglings at this year's Mercury Music Prize, I still feel the need to tip a winner. Last year, my bet for Burial go...
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Jul 26, 2009

It's not how many notes you have: it's what you do with them

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I spotted this on Richard Holden's thoroughly readable blog (link now broken) . Howard Goodall is an award-winning composer and the wri...
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Jul 24, 2009

M*therf*dding Risil is not the m*therf*dding shizzle, m*therf*dders

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Risil's album Non Meters (pictured) is the only album in the world* that can only be described with a four syllable word: polyrhythmic....
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Jul 22, 2009

We need a new Mercury Music Prize for people that give a crap about electronic music

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There's a sumptuous scene in Danny Boyle's best movie Sunshine where a fullstop-like planet Mercury slinks past a firey, all-powerfu...
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Jul 20, 2009

"It's not funny."

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May 2012 edit: Rest in peace, MCA. Sometimes, you do stop . Adam 'MCA' Yaunch has cancer. As you see in this clip, he seems p...
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Jul 17, 2009

Top of the bleeps: what's hot and banging bad-style right now

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Topping the downloads list on electronic music's answer to the Arndale Centre, Bleep dot com , is Clark 's Totems Flare album. I...
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Jul 10, 2009

Self-pity plus needless humping reference equals blog catharsis

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Do you know the worst thing about not having a computer ? I'm completely missing everything that's happening in Manchester. I missed...
Jul 3, 2009

Future Daniel: Clark's massive Totem is July's essential purchase

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Edit: This album is mentioned in my top ten electronica albums of 2009 .  I'm still in computer no-mans'-land , but that won't...
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