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Concretise The Oddness: Lee Gamble Picks His 13 Favourite Records
Jennifer Lucy Allan , September 27th, 2017 09:22

With his first album for Hyperdub en route and Unsound appearance impending, Lee Gamble guides Jennifer Lucy Allan from 80s beatboxing to some of 2017's best releases through the medium of his 13 favourite records

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Krush - 'Jack's Back'

When I would walk to school there was a newsagents with one of those postcard stands you get at tourist shops but in it were 7”s, and my mum would sometimes buy me one. I bought loads of terrible ones, but one I did get was this. The A-side was a big chart hit, but this is the B-side. It's intriguing to think that kind of stuff was in the charts. It’s another one where I think: I'd play this now. You could drop this and nobody would bat an eyelid, but it’s a 7" I bought when I was 10.