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THE FT TOP 100 TRACKS OF ALL TIME No.70
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— 10 Aug 2006 mark sinker 7 comments

aqua: lollipop (candyman)
There’s a device in film soundtrack music which may well go back to 19th-century opera — or actually operetta, something just round the corner of memory is whispering (bizet, it whispers, bizet) — where ban[…]

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Fopp Turntablism Shocker!
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— 10 Aug 2006 Pete Baran 3 comments

A couple of years ago, big brand record stores started to BRING BACK VINYL. They had noticed that 12″ vinyl was still the format of choice of DJ’s and the Oxford Street stores were losing trade to the Berwick Street and other gangs which […]

Poptimism – Surprise Test
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— 10 Aug 2006 Alan 4 comments

I should have seen this coming, but I don’t have anything for you this week. Well that’s not strictly true, I have a couple of tracks, but I’m going to skip one and come back refreshed next week. Let’s say it’s to celebr[…]

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Food Science Day 2: Request For Submissions
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— 10 Aug 2006 Pete Baran 20 comments

So its that time of year again when the enquiring minds of the FreakyTrigger collective turns to food. And not so much the eating of food, as the testing to destruction of. Yes it is time for the Second Annual Liz Daplyn Food Science Day. Provisional[…]

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