Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives
It’s almost like The La’s, it’s a perfect album. I’ve listened to other Strokes albums, and they’re good, but it’s like The Stone Roses and the La’s. They’re in a really high category on their own. As a first album, it’s of such 24-carat purity. It’s unbelievable. For me, it’s one of those albums where you just absorb it for ages and ages. That album that did that to me.
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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