Hailu Mergia ‘Hailu Mergia & His Classical Instrument: Shemonmuanaye’ (Kaifa, 1985 / Awesome Tapes FROM Africa, 2013)

byLippy Kid
March 9, 2023

When searching for pioneers of electronic futurism, how many of us would consider the golden age of Ethiopian jazz-funk to be an obvious port of call?

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Luc Van Acker ‘Taking Snapshots’ (Self-Released, 1982)

byRyan Walker

“These track names were created by the people who bought the album in 1982”

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Nick Nicely ‘Psychotropia’ (Tenth Planet, 2003)

byImogen Bebb

Born on a transatlantic flight layover in 1959, from the moment he took his first breath there was always going to be something a little different about Nick Nicely.

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The late 1990s and early 2000s threw up a slew of Air-style ambient masterpieces – but Fragile State’s 2004 classic ‘Voices From The Dust Bowl’ was criminally overlooked. It may just well be the UK’s ‘Premiers Symptômes’ of the era

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Tanning Salon ‘Dream Castle’ (PrismCorp, 2011)

bySpenser Tomson

Tumbling into YouTube holes can be a risky business. One minute you’re learning about dark matter or the Italian Futurists, the next you’re watching a pseudo Professor Denzil Dexter explain how the moon is, in fact, hollow and made out of toilet roll tubes

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