bit of a bowie vibe in the studio at the moment…

lou reed’s transformer is chaotic, pastoral, dumb, smart, sexy and innocent all at once. but it’s always near the top of those ‘best album in the whole world ever’ lists so you don’t really need us to recommend it. the bowie link - he produced it and ’spider’ mick ronson did the arrangements. there was no stopping these guys in 1973.

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aphex twin’s mixes for cash is something james brought in. and boy is it good. we particularly like his take on philip glass’s heroes symphony, based on bowie’s album of the same name and featuring some wonderfully stretch-out histrionic vocals.

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and finally an album by the man himself. i seem to remember this got a bit of a slagging back in ‘96 and as a result earned bowie an ‘embarrassing grandad trying to hang out with the kids’ reputation. can’t see why, it now sounds twice as good as most of the drum n bass stuff that was its contemporary. he’s the man.