Faceless ‘Achievement’ (Noisebox, 1995)

byNeil Mason
April 14, 2022

Norfolk’s answer to The Chemical Brothers, Alistair Cormack and Thomas Albrighton were an ambient dub duo from Norwich.

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Raymond Scott ‘Soothing Sounds For Baby Vol. 1’ (Epic, 1964)

byJames Thornhill

The artists that live on the fringes, the forward (or sideways) thinkers, have always drawn me in. This fascination really kicked in at university when, in the early 2000s, I presented a radio show with Erotic Volvo of Birmingham wrong-pop band Misty’s Big Adventure. As a kind of musicologist of the weird, his selections were never predictable and often a revelation.

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My introduction to Wes Anderson’s ‘The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou’ began when a friend passed me the film, newly-released on DVD. “You are going to love this,” he said, excitedly.

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‘Carrera’

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It was overlooked when it came out in 1997. It remains overlooked now. But Sluts’n’Strings & 909’s ‘Carrera’ album is the musical equivalent of an enormous chest brimming with sparkly and glittery things

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The accepted history of electronic pop music that I was spoon-fed, via compilation cassettes and CDs, ran a well-worn patch cable back to 1981.

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In The Nursery ‘Stormhorse’ (Sweatbox, 1987)

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"I was at the centre of the greatest story ever told and I’d never felt more alive."

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Anne Clark ‘The Sitting Room’ (Red Flame, 1982)

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Fittingly for an album called ‘The Sitting Room’, I first came across Anne Clark’s debut long-player from 1982 while sitting in the living room of a friend-of-a-friend’s flat in Berlin last summer

Faceless ‘Achievement’ (Noisebox, 1995)

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Neil Mason

Raymond Scott ‘Soothing Sounds For Baby Vol. 1’ (Epic, 1964)

Various Artists ‘The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (Original Soundtrack)’ (Hollywood, 2004)

‘Carrera’

Rational Youth ‘Cold War Night Life’ (YUL, 1982)

In The Nursery ‘Stormhorse’ (Sweatbox, 1987)

Anne Clark ‘The Sitting Room’ (Red Flame, 1982)

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Faceless ‘Achievement’ (Noisebox, 1995)

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