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Oh, to be one of those people (OK, we mean boys, as it mostly is boys, isn’t it?) who command pride of place as ruler of your musical destiny behind the counters of record shops. Those fickle men who can gift you with a new musical gem or brutally cut you down for not knowing it was
Amon Duul on the stereo.
The chaps at Rough Trade are far more egalitarian about it all and extend a hand of musical liberty through this massive 50-track collection containing the best tracks of the last year. Covering as it does every possible genre from experimental jazz metal and festive jangle pop to Tuvan throat singing, there are more obscurities in here than you could count on three pairs of hands but this music treasure hunt unearths some real crackers. Maston Jones, the
ovolutron of sound and no doubt much ot tho alhurn Wt” work on tho dancotloor hut rt all grows rathor' trrosorno in tho homostoad. lndood it's hard to fathom oxactly what tho oloctro rs clashing wrth much of tho trrno. A lot down. dosprto
contr'rhutrons trorn Scissor Sistors' .Jakr: Shoar‘s. production input from Soulwax and high oxpoctatrons ol l'rga hrrnsolt, Soxor could finally provrdo a dictionary antonyrn ot synor'gy.
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