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Life Of A Discaholic: Mats Gustafsson's Favourite Albums
Stewart Smith , November 26th, 2013 08:56

The prolific free jazz saxophonist, The Thing and Fire! member and crate digger extraordinaire takes up our top 13 albums gauntlet

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No Means No - Wrong
Yeah, that's another kind of connection. I picked it up because of the cover when it came out in the record shop in Stockholm and I was completely blown away, I had no idea what it was, I just liked the cover. Whenever I'd meet other friends, musicians, I'd always play this record or talk about it and no one had heard about them. Then after years I finally met Massimo Pupillo from Zu and that's one of his favourite records, so of course we completely connected and started to work together. I love the music. I don't want to put a label on it, but it has an improvised music quality to it, but it's so raw and aggressive. It's not trying to please! A really in your face attitude, which I really, really like. It's not really the kind of punk I grew up with, it's much more of a slap in the face, or a boot! This record is something else.