I Start Counting ‘My Translucent Hands’ (Mute, 1986)

byImogen Bebb
May 11, 2023

"Of the various musical guises assumed by David Baker and Simon Leonard, it was arguably their first – I Start Counting – which saw them at their most multifarious"

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Imogen Bebb

Prop ‘Small Craft Rough Sea’ (Silent, 2001)

byClaire Francis

If, like me, you were a teenager in Australia in the early 2000s, the album everyone was listening to at house parties, on the radio, and on swapped burned CDs was the debut record by The Avalanches.

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Paddy Kingsland ‘Fourth Dimension’ (BBC, 1973)

byJoe Silva

“I was on the phone with [redacted] from Sonic Youth… ”

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Money Mark, ‘Mark’s Keyboard Repair’

byMat Smith

Thick as thieves Beastie Boys’ compatriot Money Mark is perhaps best known for his eclectic 1998 album ‘Push The Button’, but his earlier debut, ‘Mark’s Keyboard Repair’, was really where it’s at

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Die Doraus Und Die Marinas ’Blumen Und Narzissen’ (ATA-TAK, 1981)

byMat Smith

Die Doraus was Andreas Dorau, who was only 16 when he recorded 1981’s ‘Blumen Und Narzissen’ (‘Flowers And Daffodils’) with Der Plan’s Kurt Dahlke and Frank Fenstermacher for their fabled Neue Deutsche Welle label Ata-Tak.

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The Scott 4 Free Rock Orchestra

byPush

You might remember them as Scott 4, but it was as The Scott 4 Free Rock Orchestra that they released ‘E-S-P’, a record that flipped from electrofunk to chillout to weirdo reggae without missing a beat

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Voigt/465 ‘Slights Unspoken’ (Unanimous Weld Enunciations, 1979)

byClaire Francis

"Where I grew up, in rural Australia in the 1990s and early 2000s, the radio served up a fairly standard menu of meat-and-potatoes rock ’n’ roll..."

I Start Counting ‘My Translucent Hands’ (Mute, 1986)

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Imogen Bebb

Prop ‘Small Craft Rough Sea’ (Silent, 2001)

Paddy Kingsland ‘Fourth Dimension’ (BBC, 1973)

Money Mark, ‘Mark’s Keyboard Repair’

Die Doraus Und Die Marinas ’Blumen Und Narzissen’ (ATA-TAK, 1981)

The Scott 4 Free Rock Orchestra

Voigt/465 ‘Slights Unspoken’ (Unanimous Weld Enunciations, 1979)

John Grant

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Clark

Kraftwerk: Love Hertz

Curtain Twitcher: Peep Show

Ben Frost: Nature’s Requiem

Jeremy Greenspan

Roberto Gerhard

I Start Counting ‘My Translucent Hands’ (Mute, 1986)

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