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Such a beautiful song. Evans was really something else.
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This every time. I had a slow-mo Francois K mix where weaved this in perfectly, not sure where tf it is now but need to dig it out…
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All of this pretty much.
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I’d never heard this before and decided to play this in the car on the drive to my 9 year olds championship games today (New England finals, super proud of her) and I caught her just vibing to this. When it ended she asked if I had it my record room and when I said I didn’t, she said, “you should fix that”.
So thank you for making a nervous girls morning.
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Ah that’s lovely. I adore that record xxx
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(Shamefully) Had never heard this before and it’s beautiful. Thank you.
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She won, and got chosen for the team of the tournament.
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This does it every time for me.
The moment when the keys come in over the moody bass/piano line and totally change the mood. That shuffling breakbeat. The wonderful double-bass. The gorgeous synth solo. Anyone know who played it? Pete Z?
EDIT:
Just looked it up on Discogs. Says the keys are by Andy Wallace. Never heard of him - seems to be some kind of big time session musician (Robbie Williams, Kylie, Lemar etc.)
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I’ve never heard that before but its gorgeous.
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when I saw the topic this immediately came into my mind!
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Raj Gupta (Laj/Ray Mang), Ben Applin (Quakerman) and the Idjut Boys were doing things in the late 90s that were so ahead of their time. I’ll throw Crispin J Glover (Century Falls, Masterbuilders, Motif) in there too. Fiasco Records, Noid and U-Star were buy-on-sight labels for me back then.
Here’s another little known Laj & Quakerman beauty with a devilish swing to it:
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I’d add Glen Gunner to that list too.
I still get major goosebumps just listeing to the opening strings…and if a gun was pointed at my head on favourite track of all time, I think this is what would come up
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Yes indeed.
I agree that context is important and something unexpected at the right moment can do it.
Debussy’s “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun” never fails to give me the shivers to the point where I try not to listen to it very often to preserve that feeling
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Strings on this gem.
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I just Googled this and it pops up as digitally available on a Laj & Quakerman ‘bandcamp’ page, which all looks a bit suss.
The ‘buy this track’ link takes you to ‘free discussions dot com’ page, where you have to subscribe to access.
All rather odd.
Anyone else experience this?
I only saw one track on Bandcamp by them- on a Bearfunk compilation from 2008.
Yeah, if you go via BC you only get that one track, but if you Google Laj & Quakerman Leap of Faith, you get this link
Leap Of Faith | Laj & Quakerman Leap Of Faith | Laj & Quakerman
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