Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives
The middle part of the 2000s was a barren period, in my mind, for music. I don’t remember having much to feed off. Then Doves came out, and it was the best thing I’d heard for ages, and was listening to it a lot in the middle years of the 2000s. I was a government minister, so maybe I was out of things at the time, but I felt like Doves were the only band going back to the true traditions of what I was brought up on.
As Nitzer Ebb gear up to play Helsinki's Flow Festival, Douglas McCarthy talks Luke Turner through his favourite music, from listening to classical while eating offal on Canvey Island through David Bowie, Killing Joke, Brian Eno, JJ Cale, Thelonious Monk and more
We know you all love a bit of synth porn so here's Benge's Baker's Dozen - a sort of synth erotica reading, if you will, as he guides you through 13 electronic favourites from Morton Subotnick to Else Marie Pade and George Harrison's Moog explorations to Air and Autechre. Benge photo by Ed Fielding
Jas Shaw marks the release of the first album from his new project Shaw & Grossfeldt with a Quietus Baker's Dozen, featuring an Aphex Twin love story, why dance music isn't an albums game, and how a Resident Advisor podcast helped him through chemotherapy
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