Cut And Paste ‘Come Unstuck’ (Freskanova, 1999)

byNeil Mason
November 19, 2020

While tidying out a dark corner of the home office recently, some boxes of old CDs revealed themselves, among them a hillock of promos from the late 90s.

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400 Blows ‘…If I Kissed Her I’d Have To Kill Her First…’ (Illuminated ,1984)

byPush

Synder: “If you got outta here, there are a lot of people who think you’d start killing again.”

BBuried Treasure

3 minute read

In 1991, Prefab Sprout frontman Paddy Mcaloon was struck down with serious illness that led to perhaps his boldest work, 2003’s ‘I Trawl The Megahertz’, a fever-dream of skittish longing that deserves ear time

BBuried Treasure

2 minute read

Vic Twenty ‘Electrostalinist’ (Lucky Pierre, 2005)

byNeil Mason

I first came upon Vic Twenty when they supported Erasure at Leicester’s De Montford Hall in 2003 and I was prepared to be disappointed.....Of course, I was wrong.

BBuried Treasure

2 minute read

The Magnficents ‘The Magnificents’ (KFM, 2004)

byDavid Pollock

The first time I saw the Magnificents live, in the small, sweaty Wee Red Bar at Edinburgh College of Art almost two decades ago, it was an initiation in both electronic music, and the power of discovering a group that felt like they were truly your own – or at least, shared only with the 50 or so fiercely devoted fellow travellers in the room.

BBuried Treasure

2 minute read

Holger Czukay & Rolf Dammers ‘Canaxis’ (Music Factory, 1969, reissued on Spoon, 1982 and 1998)

byRichard Skinner

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.

BBuried Treasure

2 minute read

Merz ‘Merz’ (Epic, 1999)

byNeil Mason

Back in the olden days, many music journalists had a nice sideline penning biogs, frothy one-pagers extolling the virtues of a major label’s next big thing. The money was more than you’d earn writing a cover feature, so understandably competition was fierce.

Cut And Paste ‘Come Unstuck’ (Freskanova, 1999)

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Neil Mason

400 Blows ‘…If I Kissed Her I’d Have To Kill Her First…’ (Illuminated ,1984)

Paddy Mcaloon

Vic Twenty ‘Electrostalinist’ (Lucky Pierre, 2005)

The Magnficents ‘The Magnificents’ (KFM, 2004)

Holger Czukay & Rolf Dammers ‘Canaxis’ (Music Factory, 1969, reissued on Spoon, 1982 and 1998)

Merz ‘Merz’ (Epic, 1999)

Billie Ray Martin

Stephen “Tin Tin” Duffy

Nina Walsh

Suzanne Ciani: Every Trick In The Buchla

Gruff Rhys: The Hills Are Alive

A Winged Victory For The Sullen: Grand Gestures

Frankie Rose

UNE: Never Mind The Balkans

Cut And Paste ‘Come Unstuck’ (Freskanova, 1999)

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