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[…]

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
So on the one hand you have the most boiling, advanced, raw-edged, up-for-grabs, funny music of my lifetime, and on the other you have Suede. Guess which I was listening to? Guess which everyone else I kne[…]

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
The first jungle 12″ I ever bought. I called it ‘jungle’ though it barely was – most SHJ tracks were soft-soled ambient washes with politely bustling breakbeats, or else they were f[…]

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
Riot Grrrl had jack-shit UK impact outside London and Glasgow, and Bis went from being a bad joke to just boringly being, and so here’s the best, crassest, funniest splenetic shriek-pop of the decade[…]

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s 
Urban Debussy beat: Mary J’s aqueous introductory bubblings convinced me that swingbeat was worth it, that its hard and glamourous stare masked multiple sonic joys, that the mutterings of crits abo[…]

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s 
Readers, creeping deadlines have caught Freaky Trigger unawares and without its master list, and so a single which I bought two days ago vaults its way into the countdown. But what’s the point of pop w[…]

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
When I was 14 I went to hospital and had two micro-thin metal filaments inserted into my thigh and shoulder, which were allowed to spool through my major blood vessels until they reached my heart. Electric[…]

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s 
“To the sound of the World of Twist, you leaned over and gave me a kiss….”. They coulda been contenders? Well, possibly, though there’s something a bit playful and wilful about WO[…]

“Where’s Your Child” is a 12″ record by Chicago House act Bam Bam, long out of print but available on compilations occasionally, including one called Acid Flashback, where I heard it. It’s a clammy, tauntingly hostile da[…]

Tom Ewing’s Top 100 Singles Of The 90s
This single version is a botch job. Its scatty honkings and weeping free-jazz vapour trails work as music but detract from the icily simple logic of the song: you need, you obtain, you wait to need again. […]