Sandra Cross ‘The MMs Bar Recordings’ (Trunk, 2011)

bySpenser Tomson
November 10, 2022

As someone who writes about a lot of weird music, I can get desensitised to it. The soundtrack to an imaginary film about school dinners? Meh.

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Geinoh Yamashirogumi ‘Ecophony Rinne’ (Invitation, 1986)

byIsaak Lewis-Smith

Parliament-Funkadelic. Underground Resistance. Wu-Tang. When you’re thinking about the great musical collectives of the past 50 years, your mind may not jump to the Japanese outfit Geinoh Yamashirogumi.

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Johnny Conquest ‘Uptown For The Americas’ (Sirkus, 2001)

byPaul Clarke

"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..."

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Ron Geesin ‘Electrosound’ (KPM, 1972)

byBob Fischer

The track titles alone sound like long-lost episodes of early 1970s ‘Doctor Who’.

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Don Dorsey ‘Bachbusters’ (Telarc, 1985)

byMat Smith

Back in April 2012, at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, my two young daughters – then aged four and five – were watching the Electrical Water Pageant float past. Transfixed by its colourful show of lights, they genuinely believed it to be the work of pure magic.

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Laptop ‘End Credits’

byNeil Mason

We all like a bit of 80s influenced shizz, right? Listen and learn from New York’s Laptop whose cool as cubes 90s debut EP ‘End Credits’ was quite the ear-catcher

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Higher Intelligence Agency, ‘Colourform’, (Beyond, 1993)

byMat Smith

"Chris was the older brother of my high school best friend. He had the hippest taste in music, but he was also really intimidating."

Sandra Cross ‘The MMs Bar Recordings’ (Trunk, 2011)

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Spenser Tomson

Geinoh Yamashirogumi ‘Ecophony Rinne’ (Invitation, 1986)

Johnny Conquest ‘Uptown For The Americas’ (Sirkus, 2001)

Ron Geesin ‘Electrosound’ (KPM, 1972)

Don Dorsey ‘Bachbusters’ (Telarc, 1985)

Laptop ‘End Credits’

Higher Intelligence Agency, ‘Colourform’, (Beyond, 1993)

Berlin ‘The Metro’

Josh Wink ‘Higher State Of Consciousness’

Roger Eno

‘Seven Songs’

Automatic: Automatic For The People

M83: Wishful Thinking

Thomas Dolby: The Appliance Of Science

Simple Minds: Natural High

Sandra Cross ‘The MMs Bar Recordings’ (Trunk, 2011)

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