Cujo ‘Adventures In Foam’ (Ninebar, 1996)
"My introduction to Cujo, the name under which Amon Adonai Santos De Araújo Tobin made his earliest recordings..."
Waves: The Electronic Music of Éliane Radigue
‘Music can be a mirror of the mind. There is an analogy with the body, too. The way…
Shrift ‘Lost In A Moment’ (Six Degrees, 2006)
“Remember ‘Underwater Love’, the gently lilting and effortlessly catchy trip hop track used on a Levi’s television advert in 1997?”
LAIKA ‘Silver Apples Of The Moon’ (Too Pure, 1994)
Laika should be much better known than they are...
Charlie Tate ‘Alta Plana’ (OM, 2005)
Without any announcement at all, Alta Plana appeared in 2005 as a digital-only release and promptly disappeared.
Holger Czukay & Rolf Dammers ‘Canaxis’ (Music Factory, 1969, reissued on Spoon, 1982 and 1998)
I heard rumours of this album’s existence – originally released privately as ‘Canaxis 5’ in 1969 and credited to Technical Space Composer’s Crew – in the days before the internet.
Robert Palmer ‘Pride’ (Island, 1983)
Robert Palmer passed away in 2003 at the shockingly young age of 54. A massively underrated artist who wrote and produced so many great songs, the fact that he died without much comment or celebration of his life was a crying shame.