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Nice use of Comic Sans on the Consonance CD player. If I'd dropped whatever x grand that that had cost I'd be sending it back on principle.

Is there much Stars of the Lid on Spotify? They're pretty awesome in this regard.

Terre Thaemlitz - Soulnessless Clocks in at 31 hours +, so hopefully long enough!

Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty Like a bottle of chateauneuf-du-papes / I'm fine like wine when I start to rap

I can also recommend Norman - really great site. I've found out about lots of interesting releases from their recommendations. Also, they quite often send you free sweets with your order!

Fela Kuti - Original Sufferhead. It's all about Power Show on this LP.

Mark McGuire - A Young Person's Guide To... Excellent 2xCD comp of CDr and cassette releases by the young guitarist. Also worth checking his other solo releases and work with the group Emeralds.

Cinematic Orchestra Remixes 1998-2000

IIRC PWEI often (always?) gave songwriting credit to Vestan Pance, so that isn't a Gracenote anomaly and more a 20 odd year old jape.

I don't think that is a DAC in the Digital to Analogue Converter sense inspite the confusing name. I think it's an analogue pre amp with some sort of digital gain control or something... The translated description is quite confusing. Would be interested if anyone can shed anymore light on...

John McEntire - Reach the Rock OST A veritable who's who of late 90's Chicago post-rock - Tortoise, John McEntire, The Sea & Cake etc.

Beck did that with Modern Guilt. The LP came with an MP3 download code - so far not so unusual... However, in this case the MP3s had been recorded from an actual vinyl pressing of album, using IIRC Pink Triangle TT and other assorted kit. I believe the 1st MP3 started with the sound of the...

I don't think much new world music comes out on vinyl. The new Tinariwen LP did for one and Soul Jazz did an album of Haitian drumming that came out on vinyl last year... There are quite a few labels that reissue what might be called "world music" on vinyl: Honest Jons (also new releases)...

Lambchop's recordings nearly always sound great to me (in terms of recording and production). However, I have the 1999 original of Nixon and always felt that side 2 has quite a bit or surface noise - possibly I just have a slightly duff copy. It was reissued as part of City Slang's 20th...

A perennial favourite since 1998. Tortoise - TNT.