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Inspiration Information/Wings of Love by Shuggie Otis
Inspiration Information/Wings of Love by Shuggie Otis
2013 | Pop
(0 Ratings)
Album Favorite

"I learned about this record from the Luaka Bop reissue in 2001, so I subconsciously include 'Strawberry Letter 23' on there, which isn't on the original record but is one of my all-time favourite songs. It's the same for lots of the classic soul records, but this album in particular has that sense of one person in a studio in this playground - this wonderland - and it's so euphoric and happy and positive, in that mode of somebody just exploring music and exploring sound. That's something that really connected with me, because that was very much my perspective of the music I was making at that time. It's like, "Oh wow, look at what you can do with this sound, with this technique or this piece of music or whatever.""

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Simon Pegg recommended Ex Machina (2015) in Movies (curated)

 
Ex Machina (2015)
Ex Machina (2015)
2015 | Sci-Fi, Thriller

"As a piece of modern cinema, I would love to mention Alex Garland’s Ex Machina, which I thought was a brilliant, brilliant film. I think in a year that saw Oscar Isaac and Domhnall Gleeson have another science fiction film out as well, it was such a great reminder of how smaller, more thoughtful, more intense, grown-up… It’s an example of the combination of those things, in a way, a kind of more science fiction in the vein of 2001, a more cerebral, literally cerebral kind of science fiction film that was and just how beautifully performed it is. Alicia Vikander is amazing in that film. It’s a film that I’ve watched many times because I just, I don’t seem to tire of it. I think it’s excellent."

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Jonathan Higgs recommended 2001 by Dr Dre in Music (curated)

 
2001 by Dr Dre
2001 by Dr Dre
1999 | Hip-hop, Rock
8.5 (10 Ratings)
Album Favorite

"This was a huge album amongst me and my friends. It was kind of the soundtrack to ten years of my life. From high school, through uni and then right out of uni was all soundtracked by that record really. It was the Bible in terms of hip-hop. It was one of the first introductions to hip-hop of mainstream appeal. It was so full of bangers. It's overly long and the production… well, it's Dre, isn't it? Anything from it is so ingrained in my generation. I'm always happy to hear this album which I think is the true sign of a good album. Although I wouldn't be so pleased to hear Kid A, because it doesn't have that same mood. 2001 has that 'all moods covered' thing going on."

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