"Music In Which To Get Truly Lost": Daniel Avery's Favourite Records | Page 12 of 14 | The Quietus

Baker's Dozen

Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives

11. Moon DuoKilling Time EP

Part one

About four years ago it felt like I’d hit a turning point in my life. I had been DJing as a hobby since I was 18 but had become increasingly tired with the music I was playing and the idea of producing was little more than just that: an idea which was far from being fully formed. The record shop I had been working in closed its doors and London was becoming less and less attractive to me every day. However, as this city sometimes enables, a few chance meetings reconnected me with some old friends and everything changed. We started hanging out again, walking around town to two or three gigs in a night. They introduced me to this whole new wave of tripped-out, loopy music that I felt an immediate connection with. It genuinely felt like a rebirth, a new way to live my life and, almost overnight, it inspired me to take things seriously. To put my real name to my music. It was through this group that I met Tim Fairplay and subsequently Andrew Weatherall in his Bunker studio which started a whole new phase for me.

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