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James Knapman's 2004 Top-10

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  • Khonnor :: Handwriting (Type)
  • Helios :: Unomia (Merck)
  • Deaf Center :: Neon City EP (Type)
  • Bola :: Gnayse (Skam)
  • Logreybeam :: It’s All Just… (Type)
  • 154 :: Strike (Delsin)
  • V/A :: Everything Is Green (Toytronic)
  • Akira Rabelais :: Spellewauerynsherde (Samadhi Sound)
  • Dribs :: The Open Log Book EP (Ann Aimee)
  • Dynarec :: The Lost Souls EP (Delsin)

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    • A product of good old eighties Britain, screwed up by school, shat out by university and infuriated by anything corporate, I have never studied music, played an instrument beyond learning and then quickly forgetting the piano, rarely go to gigs and hold no particular interest in music hardware. It probably shows. But ever since my first exposure to late eighties popular music, a very simple and straightforward passion has remained a pure constant: that there is nothing more sublime in this life than simply sitting and listening… to music in particular. It was the late and dearly beloved BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel who irrevocably changed my life for the better, savagely demolishing the walls obscuring the wondrous and rapidly evolving proliferation of music that was really out there. Since then this music has constantly and inescapably shaped my life. My early attempts to persuade friends and family that this was what truly inventive, inspired music could sound like largely fell on deaf ears, and I quickly tired of the imitation bleep noises and amusing quips about the record or CD player being broken. Since then I have written for igloomag.com in an attempt to persuade you, the readers, not to make my early, blinkered mistakes, but instead to brave the waters of the ever deepening oceans of musical possibilities that exist out there. You wouldn’t want your life to be boring or humdrum, so why should the music you listen to be?