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I have been meaning to write up a review of some of the music I have been listening too recently, but never seem to get round to it. Instead, I am just going to publish this list in draft format, and I might expand at a later date if I feel the urge to be creative.

There is no real order here, it is not a top ten, or anything approaching that level of organisation!

Four Tet

Quite chilled electronic, with lots of interesting blips and beeps. Out of the three albums (Dialogue, Pause & Rounds) or the two singles (My angel rocks back and forth & Pockets) I am hard pushed to pick a favourite, although (and it may be because it is the most recently purchased) I am very much liking the more upbeat ‘Pockets’

Mercurial—“Structure and Chaos EP”

As far as I can determine, this is the only thing released by Mercurial, but it is amazing. I keep searching in vain for more of the same, but to no avail.

Gogol Bordello—“Gypsy Punks”

Quite different to the other albums on here, a mix of New York and Eastern European Gypsy music. Probably shouldn’t work, but it does. Plus they have a new album out soon apparently.

Mogwai

The only Mogwai album I owned until recently was “Rock Action”, then “Government Sessions”. More recently I have downloaded most of their back catalogue from eMusic. While it is all of a similar sound, there is enough to differentiate the tracks and albums and make you want to keep listening. It’s just not good music to fall asleep to due to the abrupt volume and tone changes.

Squarepusher

My sister bought be “Music is Rotted One Note” for my birthday past. It is less electronic than some of the other Squarepusher stuff I own, but it clearly demonstrates what an amazing musician Tom Jenkinson is. Nobody else can play a bass guitar like that.

Burial

After hearing one track on Mary-Anne Hobbs’ radio 1 show, the Breezeblock, I knew I needed Burial’s self-titled debut album. It is raw music with lots of interesting samples, classified in the sub-sub-sub-genre of ‘hyperdub’ whatever that really means.

If you like any of the artists above, it might be worth trying to get hold of the others, as they are similar, but not the same, if that makes any sense.

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