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Into The Pre-Gap: Forty Years Of The CD
40 years since the first album was released on CD, Daryl Worthington pays tribute to the unique experimental potential of the format, explores how it changed the parameters of the album itself, and wonders why it’s still not thought of as fondly as cassettes and LPs
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It’s So Good: I Feel Love By Donna Summer Turns 45
To create the future, you have to imagine the future. You have to take that potential and extend its possibilities – sonically, mechanically, literally – through time. Jude Rogers speaks to co-producer Pete Bellotte and a host of famous fans about one of the all time great singles
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A Roll Of The Dice: Guided By Voices’ Propeller Turns 30
Prolific? GBV’s Robert Pollard has more side-projects than most other long-running bands have releases. As Propeller turns 30, Sean Kitching talks to Pollard and past band member, Tobin Sprout, about the album where it all starting falling into place
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Echo Decks: Stitching Together The Kaleidoscopic Tapestry Of Screamadelica
Two themes are routinely described as transformative for Primal Scream’s celebrated 1991 recording: acid house and Andrew Weatherall. But, as Ben Gilbert outlines, other factors led to an album that was both era-defining and defined by the era in which it was made
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Innocence And Experience: Lisa Left Eye Lopes’ Supernova Turns 20
It was supposed to be the moment where the most misunderstood woman in pop got to explain herself and empower her audience: but the release was cancelled and within months she was dead. Angus Batey revisits Lisa Lopes's debut and rediscovers a forgotten treasure
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Light On The Waves: Echo & The Bunnymen’s Heaven Up Here Turns 40
Angus Batey finds permanence in a record that is often seen as a document of fleeting change and talks about "Hevvo"'s contentious reputation, slammed by Bill Drummond as "dull as ditchwater" in 45 and held up as art for the ages by Cathi Unsworth in Weirdo
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Junk Shop Classical On Brahms: Music Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP
Phil Hebblethwaite invites you into Brahms’s German Requiem, one of the worst-named pieces of classical music in the canon. It has nothing to do with nationalism, or the church, and should have been called what Brahms later suggested: A Human Requiem. It couldn’t be more relevant in 2017
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WIN: Exclusive V/Vm CD Limited To 10 Copies
As Leyland James Kirby's V/Vm project returns, seeing him adapt the style of light entertainer Mrs Mills, read on for details of how you can get your hands on one of only 10 copies of another new release which sees him reinterpreting the works of Tim Hecker as if done by Nils Frahm
