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#318 Cocteau Twins – Heaven or Las Vegas
I’m not a huge Cocteau Twins fan, which is probably an error. That’s not to say I don’t like them, I like this very much, but I don’t know much of their output beyond this classic album. I first heard the Cocteau Twins because their Pitch The Baby track was included in a sampler cassette […]
#375 Delia Derbyshire – Circle of Light
Delia Derbyshire, the doyenne of the Doctor Who theme tune and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, is not so well known for her work outside of the Beeb’s sonic sound institution. Fortunately, more of that is now coming to light thanks to the work of a few Delia devotees and the experts at her archives now […]
#406 Maurice Duruflé – Requiem
What are the chances? A few records back (Duran Duran) I was bemoaning the fact that my random number generator hadn͛t fallen on this one, and now here we are. Truly random. I do love a good Requiem. I’m particularly partial to Mozart’s and Verdi’s and Faure’s, the latter of which this is the closest […]