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#4: I cry when angels deserve to die
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— 2 Sep 2020 Tom Comment

One of the phenomena of the 1990 poll was that we managed to get an entire bracket out of baggy – the pie-eyed marriage of British indie and dance music. We haven’t managed to get an entire bracket of 2001’s great hybrid, nu-metal’s splic[…]

#3: When you’re lost I know how to change your mood
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— 2 Sep 2020 Tom Comment

This bracket is heavily informed by two European developments in the late 90s. The first was the release of Air’s Moon Safari in 1998, which pushed chillout music into the spotlight and (because dinner parties last more than 45 minutes) created a m[…]

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