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The Top Three Songs I Want To Listen To This Very Second. Now.
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1. Wookie – “Battle” (MP3, forthcoming single)
Underground soulful 2-step ex-Soul II Soul man UK Garage. Would be big except for the fact that I’ve not heard it on the radio yet. Perhaps the Dreem Team are playing it? Large se[…]

Here comes Greg to stop the lethargic NYLPM from slipping into a coma and look what happens while I’m writing my entry!
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Anyway, here goes…
Napster: The Computing Equivalent Of Unsafe Sex – and so the backlash continues. A band named the Tabloids (nope, me neither) have launched a site named StopNapster.com with the intention of spearheading guerilla tactic[…]

Spiritualized – “Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Apace (Elvis Mix)”
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Have you heard this, josh? if not, you should coax tom into making you a copy.
For me, it’s quite revelatory: if i was jason pierce, i’d be majorly pissed off at the writers of “can’t help falling in love” for nixing th[…]

SPIRITUALIZED – “Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space”, “Come Together”
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Both songs are in waltz time (3/4, or at least 6/8, but close enough) – but it took me until this week to realize it (typical). Any odd time signature is a funny thing – for whatever reason, we’re so accustomed to 4/4 and similarly […]

The Swingle Sisters
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cf. Stereolab thirty years ago.[…]

Broadcast
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cf. Stereolab with a Brummie accent.[…]

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