The recent announcement that the OED had made "GIF" its word of the year prompts Ryan Diduck to consider the similarities of that tiny looping file format to culture in 2012, and why, like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day, being doomed to repeat ourselves might not be entirely a bad thing
From a love for choral music inspired by his grandmother, to discovering Steve Reich at school, setting up a label just to release SD Laika and seeing Cocteau Twins on Top Of The Pops 2, Visionist picks the thirteen albums that made him the artist he is today
Ahead of an appearance at Portugal's Semibreve Festival later this month, as well as the release of an upcoming mini-album, Christian Eede speaks to Visible Cloaks' Spencer Doran about fourth world concepts in music and the influence of Japanese ambient and Italian minimalism