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Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives
Again, another obscure artist I discovered accidently. Often I’ll discover someone or get a link on someone’s recommendation and see a couple of names, and I’ll go to Last.fm and read the little bios and I was intrigued by his bio. I thought: "This sounds interesting, it mentions drone, melancholy – I’m there!" So I listened on Rdio and it took about a minute to go, "Wow, this is amazing". Again, it has some timeless, archaic, antiquated, odd quality to it.
In a piece originally commissioned by The Bug's Kevin Martin, Justin Broadrick follows the release of Godflesh's new album A World Lit Only By Fire by taking a new spin on the Baker's Dozen format and talking Kate Hennessy through his current listening favourites
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