Charlie Tate ‘Alta Plana’ (OM, 2005)

byRichard Skinner

Without any announcement at all, Alta Plana appeared in 2005 as a digital-only release and promptly disappeared.

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Leila ‘Like Weather’ (Rephlex, 1998)

byBen Willmott

Leila Arab was born in Iran, but moved to Britain at an early age, her family forced to flee the country’s Islamic Revolution because of her father’s ties with the ousted Shah

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Bel Canto ‘White-Out Conditions’

byPush

We’ve followed the secret map of electronic music past and found a hidden chest of lost gems. This month, we’re pulling out and polishing Bel Canto’s ‘White-Out Conditions’

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Morph ‘Stormwatch’

byFat Roland

It’s the 90s and New York techno duo Morph have slipped out their ‘Stormwatch’ album almost unnoticed. Very much time for a reassessment we think

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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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Savath and Savalas ‘Folk Songs For Trains, Trees And Honey’ (Warp, 2000)

bySpenser Tomson

An album can be revelatory in any number of ways. Perhaps it arrives at the right time in your life to be particularly resonant, or it might reveal a whole area of music you didn’t realise existed.

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In The Nursery ‘Stormhorse’ (Sweatbox, 1987)

byPush

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

Charlie Tate ‘Alta Plana’ (OM, 2005)

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