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Tyondai Braxton recommended Liedgut by Atom TM in Music (curated)

 
Liedgut by Atom TM
Liedgut by Atom TM
2009 | Dance, Electronic
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"Both of Atom TM's records on the Raster-Noton label are some of my favorite electronic records ever made. Liedgut was his first one for the label. It feels cinematic without being pandering. Inventive and beautiful. Being that it’s electronic, and just that it in its own particular style, it’s a lot more having to do with texture and sound design. But then there’s this weird kind of melodic framework that goes in and out throughout the record, that’s very “hypermelodic”. Very consonant. It almost sounds like… you know those snow-globes that have a twisting belt? Like a music box. It’s texturally focused sound design. And he’s able to go back and forth here in a way that’s really compelling. And again, you can tell it’s very intuitive - he’s just going where the music takes him. In a world of forward thinking electronic music, where anyone can pick up a computer and do this thing, his voice is so unique. I'd be able to pick him out of a thousand records – his own distinct voice. I really love his records, especially the ones he did for Raster-Noton."

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Laetitia Sadier recommended Creekside by Lori Goldston in Music (curated)

 
Creekside by Lori Goldston
Creekside by Lori Goldston
2014 | Alternative, Indie
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"I saw her at a Mississippi Records evening at Café Oto. I went there because the guy from Mississippi Records had somehow inherited 700 hours of footage by a man who woke up one morning, I think in the 80s when the technology of hand-held cameras had just appeared, and he felt like he had a mission to go and film people, poorer people, and how they expressed themselves, artistically and spontaneously. So we're not talking about people who were trying to make records, just people who play the guitar and sing or whatever, just musically expressing themselves. And that man felt like these people would soon disappear, that society would disappear and it would be extinct. And I think he probably had a very strong intuition that proved to be right. I think technology will soon take us away from just picking up a guitar and singing some songs, spontaneously. It's refreshing because we don't see that on TV, where everything is manufactured and filtered. It felt so good for my brain and my senses to be connected into that, and to witness all of these expressions."

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Laura (45 KP) rated Duolingo in Apps

Nov 2, 2017  
Duolingo
Duolingo
Education, Social Networking
9
8.4 (60 Ratings)
App Rating
Easy to use (0 more)
I like this app. There are pictures and word matching activities, you translate to and from your native language from written words and by listening to a recording, and it records you speaking to get practice that way too. It's set up to just do a little bit each day so you don't feel overwhelmed, or you can do as much as you want.
  
First Band on The Moon by The Cardigans
First Band on The Moon by The Cardigans
1997 | Alternative, Indie, Pop
8.0 (1 Ratings)
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"I have an older sister and she was into things like Bros, New Kids On The Block and Kylie Minogue, and I think she ended up buying a few Cardigans records. We used to listen to them a lot. I remember being aware that the drums sounded really different to other bands. The production was incredibly good, it was catchy pop music. One of the guys involved, Peter Svensson went on to become Hollywood and write for Ariana Grande. I think it was probably the first of a few times when I realised that you didn’t have to be into production or catchy songs, you can be into both. All of their records are very good, I think."

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Nancy Whang recommended Animalization by The Animals in Music (curated)

 
Animalization by The Animals
Animalization by The Animals
2020 | Pop, Rock
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"One of the other records that lived in our house when we were growing up was The Best Of The Animals and I was trying to decide between that and this but I went with Animalization because it's an album. I was really into 60s-70s British rock, I really like that sound, and I really liked The Animals, I loved Eric Burdon's voice. After listening to The Best Of… growing up it was Animalization that I bought when I first had money to buy my own things with."

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Dooku: Jedi Lost (Star Wars)
Dooku: Jedi Lost (Star Wars)
Cavan Scott | 2019 | Science Fiction/Fantasy
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7.7 (3 Ratings)
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Plot (1 more)
Characters
A brilliant, well written story!
Dooku: Jedi Lost, as you can probably guess details the life of Count Dooku from his Jedi training, right up until his turn to the dark side, but all is not as it seems.

When looking up the chronology of canon Star Wars media, it usually appears as the first thing to read, but book actually takes place directly before The Clone Wars, as Ventress has just become Dooku's apprentice.

The book is actually Ventress trying to learn more about her new master from records while on a mission for him, but the bulk of the book is set in the past (in the form of a record anyway). But the mission and the tales from the records come together in the end to form one single, glorious ending!

A worthy, engrossing entry in the Star Wars canon, and truly worth a read!
  
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Gaz Coombes recommended Come Away With ESG by ESG in Music (curated)

 
Come Away With ESG by ESG
Come Away With ESG by ESG
1983 | Rock
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"I first heard this maybe eight or nine years ago. It was a new record for me in terms of it being something that I hadn't heard in my teens but as soon as I heard it I really liked it. I like the sound of it and the delivery of the vocals. It felt very throwaway and raw and instinctive and in the moment, which is brilliant. And then hearing more the story behind it and, as I understand it, I think it was their dad getting them out of trouble saying: 'Look, I've got a studio with loads of instruments. Just go in there and stay off the streets and out of trouble and see what you can do.' And then they made, with the help of a few people hanging around, this mad record that ended up being one of the most sampled records of all time. I'm not that good about nerding up about records, as you may have gathered, but I hear little snippets and I love that story. I think it's brilliant. And I gravitate to records that are instinctive and not too forced and it feels like a record where these girls are just enjoying themselves and having fun with these beats."

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