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Whereas the levels of the mathematics and the neurophysiology humours in a piece of music are a result of the music and it’s performance, can’t be consciously altered or planned and are musical genre and cultural tradition independent, the impressionism and literalism humours are a result of the conscious thinking of the artiste … what [...]

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In this list, this record represents, along with Arab Strap and Fugazi, where my musical tastes are today.  It wouldn’t necessarily have to be this record but something in the shoegazing oeuvre (and since this record is one of the,  if not the, finest example of this style …). Like everyone else I  claim to [...]

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There is a famous show on BBC Radio 4 called Desert Island Discs. On the show someone in the public-eye, from all walks of life – polticians, actors, artists, muscians, scientists, businessmen and so on - talks about their life and career puctuated by a selection of eight pieces of music they would want with them [...]

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