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Loco Dice: Purple Jam (digital, Virgin, May 2025)

Back in the mid-to-late-noughties, when I was in my ubercoolische minimal techno phase, I loved the sounds of the Tunisian–German Loco Dice. His output (often in collaboration with Martin Buttrich) was quite varied, and I loved pretty much all of it, from the stripped back tracks on M_nus like Seeing Through Shadows to the lusher […]

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Gavin Bryars: The Sinking Of The Titanic / Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet (CD, Virgin, 1998)

I am somewhat in love with The Sinking Of The Titanic, especially the 2007 version on Touch played by Alter Ego with the wonderful Philip Jeck doing turntable magic. So I was interested to hear this earlier recording by The Cockpit Ensemble plus tapes “prepared” in a physics department, produced by Brian Eno in 1975. […]