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Robyn Hitchcock - On Songwriting

A companion piece to John Edginton’s documentary “Robyn Hitchcock:Sex,Food,Death…and Insects”. Robyn discusses his songwriting process while trying out four unfinished songs.

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The Heliocentrics - Infinity of Now

The Heliocentrics’ albums are all confounding pieces of work. Drawing equally from the funk universe of James Brown, the disorienting asymmetry of Sun Ra, the cinematic scope of Ennio Morricone, the sublime fusion of David Axelrod, Pierre Henry’s turned-on musique concrète, and Can’s beat-heavy Krautrock, they have – regardless of the label on which they’ve released their music – pointed the way towards a brand new kind of psychedelia, one that could only come from a band of accomplished musicians who were also obsessive music fans. Drummer Malcolm Catto and bassist Jake Ferguson are the Heliocentrics’ masterminds and producers, and they are obsessive weirdos in today’s musical climate, searching, progressive humans who are often out-of-time with current trends.

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UB40 - Signing Off

Signing Off is the debut album by British reggae band UB40, released in the UK on 29 August 1980 by Dudley-based independent label Graduate Records. It was an immediate success in their home country, reaching number 2 on the UK albums chart, and made UB40 one of the many popular reggae bands in Britain, several years before the band found international fame. The politically-concerned lyrics struck a chord in a country with widespread public divisions over high unemployment, the policies of the recently elected Conservative party under Margaret Thatcher, and the rise of the National Front party, while the record’s dub-influenced rhythms reflected the late 1970s influence in British pop music of West Indian music introduced by immigrants from the Caribbean after the Second World War, particularly reggae and ska – this was typified by the 2 Tone movement, at that point at the height of its success and led by fellow West Midlands act The Specials, with whom UB40 drew comparisons due to their multiracial band line-up and socialist views.

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Robyn Hitchcock - Mossy Liquor

Mossy Liquor is the title of a vinyl LP released by Robyn Hitchcock in 1996. The album preceded the release of the Moss Elixir CD by a few weeks, and half of it was made up of demos or alternative versions of the Moss Elixir material.

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Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators

Nicole Willis rolls out with her third album made together with The Soul Investigators: Happiness In Every Style. It is bound to send shivers down backs all around the world. As the name suggests, the new album will offer variety and tilt towards a more positive note after the murky Tortured Soul.

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Kraftwerk - Computerworld

Computer World (German: Computerwelt) is the eighth studio album by German electronic band Kraftwerk, released on 11 May 1981

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Skinshape - Oracolo

William Dorey (born. June 20, 1991, Swanage, United Kingdom) better known as Skinshape, is a British singer, multi-instrumentalist and DJ based in London. His music are of genres psychedelic rock, reggae, funk, trip hop. He has also been a bassist for the band Palace (2014-2017). He has his own record label, called Horus Records, which reissues Jamaican reggae songs from the 60s-80s.

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Frightnrs - Nothing More to Say

Nothing More to Say" is the debut album by the reggae band The Frightnrs, released in 2016 by Daptone Records. It’s a rocksteady-influenced album, noted for its smooth, lovestruck style reminiscent of late 1960s Jamaican music. The album is tragically shadowed by the lead singer Dan Klein’s passing shortly before its release, adding to the record’s intensity.

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