Icebreaker International ‘Trein Maersk: A Report To The NATOarts Board Of Directors’ (IT, 2000)

byWill Simpson
June 12, 2025

"...two fellows who, using portable equipment, had recorded an album on a container ship they had boarded in Japan..."

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Mount Florida ‘Arrived Phoenix’ (Matador, 2000)

byNeil Mason

Held every Sunday between 1997 and 2010 at Glasgow’s Sub Club venue, the ferocious hedonism of Optimo Espacio was set off by the non-partisan tastes of DJs Keith “Twitch” McIvor and Jonnie Wilkes.

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Eyeless In Gaza ‘Photographs As Memories’ (Cherry Red, 1981)

byImogen Bebb

Eyeless In Gaza were formed in Nuneaton in 1980 by hospital worker Martyn Bates and lab assistant Pete Becker.

BBuried Treasure

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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

BBuried Treasure

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Peter Gabriel ‘Birdy’ (Charisma, 1985)

byNeil Mason

When they first came out, I was slightly too young to appreciate Peter Gabriel’s four, self-titled solo albums that spanned 1977-1982, but ‘Birdy’, his first film soundtrack, really caught my attention.

BBuried Treasure

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Voigt/465 ‘Slights Unspoken’ (Unanimous Weld Enunciations, 1979)

byClaire Francis

"Where I grew up, in rural Australia in the 1990s and early 2000s, the radio served up a fairly standard menu of meat-and-potatoes rock ’n’ roll..."

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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.

Icebreaker International ‘Trein Maersk: A Report To The NATOarts Board Of Directors’ (IT, 2000)

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Will Simpson

Mount Florida ‘Arrived Phoenix’ (Matador, 2000)

Eyeless In Gaza ‘Photographs As Memories’ (Cherry Red, 1981)

Leila ‘Like Weather’ (Rephlex, 1998)

Peter Gabriel ‘Birdy’ (Charisma, 1985)

Voigt/465 ‘Slights Unspoken’ (Unanimous Weld Enunciations, 1979)

The Magnficents ‘The Magnificents’ (KFM, 2004)

Penelope Trappes

Suzanne Ciani

ESG ‘UFO’

Andy Votel: A Tribe Called Votel

Hinako Omori: The Soft Bulletin

Gavin Friday: Renaissance Man

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: Deep Feeling Fascination

Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee: Stick It Out

Icebreaker International ‘Trein Maersk: A Report To The NATOarts Board Of Directors’ (IT, 2000)

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