Roger Powell ‘Air Pocket’ (Bearsville, 1980)
"The window is about 20 years, more or less. That’s the point where that obscure band you loved is mostly forgotten about..."
Various Artists ‘Blueprints For Modern (Techno)Logy Vol 1’ (Plus 8, 1991)
"Our first mistake was wandering unprepared into that hip Atlanta boutique where they sold all that rave clobber, and asking for a recommendation on a hot local DJ."
Eberhard Schoener ‘Bali-Agúng’ (Harvest, 1976)
"The renowned German musician, composer, conductor and arranger had discarded traditional orchestral instruments in favour of the Moog..."
Paddy Kingsland ‘Fourth Dimension’ (BBC, 1973)
“I was on the phone with [redacted] from Sonic Youth… ”
Various Artists ‘Retro Techno / Detroit Definitive – Emotions Electric’ (Network, 1991)
The North in the late 1980s and early 90s was not a bad place to be if you were into left-field music and dancing...
Kid606 ‘The Action Packed Mentallist Brings You The Fucking Jams’ (Violent Turd, 2002)
"...a hyper-paced stream of pinched music that Miguel Trost De Pedro reassembled into his glitched-out vision of the dancefloor."
Robert Logan ‘Cognessence’ (Slowfoot, 2007)
"Music journalism is not an exact science. Just ask the total wazzock who dismissed one of Hot Chip’s first singles..."
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?”
Icebreaker International ‘Trein Maersk: A Report To The NATOarts Board Of Directors’ (IT, 2000)
"...two fellows who, using portable equipment, had recorded an album on a container ship they had boarded in Japan..."
Johnny Conquest ‘Uptown For The Americas’ (Sirkus, 2001)
"Despite never having quite the same cachet as your Warps or Ninja Tunes, the Sirkus label was a reliable stamp of quality at the turn of the 21st century..."