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May 13
The Finest
2 Men A Drum Machine & A Trumpet · 1988 Spin it Again - Three musicians decided the only way forward was to remove everything but trumpet, drums, and voices, and they were right.
genre:Hip Hop
May 8
Process
Sampha · 2017 Spin it Again - Sampha spent years writing for Drake and Kanye, then went home to London and made the record none of them could have made.
genre:R&B
May 8
A Broken Darkness
Låpsley · 2014 Spin it Again - An eighteen-year-old made this in her Southport bedroom and XL Recordings signed it before she'd played a single show.
genre:Ambient
May 8
Long Way Home
Låpsley · 2016 Spin it Again - You played this twice in 2016 and then life moved on — tonight is the first time you'll actually hear it.
genre:Indie Pop
Apr 29
Vespertine
Björk · 2001 Spin it Again - Matmos turned liposuction sounds into percussion and somehow this is the warmest record of 2001.
genre:Trip Hop
Apr 28
The Brothel
Susanne Sundfør · 2015 Spin it Again - The record Sundfør made before everyone found her — colder, stranger, and more honest about what she was reaching for.
genre:Electronic
Apr 19
Kid A
Radiohead · 2000 Spin it Again - Thom Yorke couldn't pick up a guitar after *OK Computer*, so they made this instead.
genre:Electronic
Apr 19
The Noise Made by People
Broadcast · 2000 Spin it Again - Trish Keenan sang like she was narrating a film nobody had made yet, and then she was gone at 42.
genre:Dream Pop
Apr 17
Slowbrew (Music for a Café Culture)
Taste Of Joy · 1980s Spin it Again - A library record from the Selected Sound archive that your shelves have been hiding from you.
genre:Electronic
Apr 14
The Geometry of Fire
Natacha Atlas · 2010 Spin it Again - Atlas spent the nineties building a sound loud enough to fill clubs; here she proves she never needed the volume.
genre:Electronic
Apr 14
Transmigration of Soul
Sussan Deyhim · 2006 Spin it Again - Deyhim trained for years to sing in ceremonial contexts and then spent her career making sure none of those ceremonies exist.
genre:Electronic
Apr 14
Sacred Frequencies
Cheb i Sabbah · 2006 Spin it Again - Rahat Fateh Ali Khan over a four-on-the-floor kick drum, and somehow nobody flinches.
genre:Electronic
Apr 14
Keep Coming Back
Cheb i Sabbah · 2009 Spin it Again - You've had this record for years and you've never actually listened to it.
genre:Electronic
Apr 11
Three Weeks in January
Laurie Anderson · 1993 Spin it Again - This proves that all albums in the 90's weren't bad
genre:Electronic
Apr 11
World of Echo
Arthur Russell · 1986 Spin it Again - This is a strange album and that's what makes it great. It's one of those ones you make a tape of and share it with your friends. "Listen to This".
genre:Electronic
Apr 6
Trans-Europe Express
Kraftwerk · 1977 Spin it Again - Four Germans in suits built the skeleton that every DJ, hip-hop producer, and synth band has been draping flesh on ever since, and most of them still haven't caught up.
genre:Synth-Pop
Apr 5
Third
Portishead · 2008 Spin it Again - Eleven years away and they came back sounding like a band that had decided warmth was no longer an option.
genre:Electronic
Apr 4
The Beginning
Karlheinz Stockhausen · 1971 Spin it Again - Stockhausen in 1971, still convinced that sound itself was the argument, and honestly, after an hour of this, you start to think he was right.
genre:Experimental
Apr 4
Replicas
Kraftwerk · 1974 Spin it Again - Kraftwerk in 1974, still half-human, building the machines that would eventually replace them.
genre:Electronic
Apr 4
The Robots
Kraftwerk · 1978 Spin it Again - Four Germans in Düsseldorf decided machines were more honest than people, and turned out to be right.
genre:Krautrock
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