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83. THE AUTEURS – “Unsolved Child Murder”
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— 5 Sep 1999 Tom 1 comment

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
Anyone who’s read the British tabloids in the 1990s learns to recognise the purse-lipped nudges and twitched-curtain insinuations that have become the endlessly reported cousins of inexplicable crime[…]

84. 187 LOCKDOWN – “Gunman”
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— 4 Sep 1999 Tom 1 comment

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
Sure, it doesn’t get much crasser than this; two jovial, ageing D.J.s making a record of piledriving dancefloor unsubtlety. But then one of the best things about commercial dance culture has been the[…]

85. THE COUP – “Dig It”
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— 3 Sep 1999 Tom 1 comment

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
“Presto! Read the Communist Manifesto…” More Benjamin than benjamins, The Coup’s tough-talking Marxist hip-hop might initially smack of Michael Franti-esque talking down or the funkful but funless […]

86. LFO – “We Are Back”
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— 2 Sep 1999 Tom 1 comment

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
The thing about the early Warp records is that even though the people involved had the potential and motivations to mess about making electronic artmusic (as borne out by virtually every Warp release since[…]

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