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James Evans @jdevans.bsky.social · Dec 23

AS DOES THE SUN: embracethemargin.blogspot.com/2024/12/line...
#TheGoonSax #Wombo #Lewsberg #Stereolab #Broadcast #MountKimbie #YantiBersaudara #EddieOkwedy #TheChills #JonMcKiel #RickWhite #LookBlueGoPurple #JoelGion #ParquetCourts #LovelyEggs #SamEvian #CometGain #JeffClarke #mixtape #linernotes

LINER NOTES: AS DOES THE SUN [2024]

As Does the Sun Liner Notes

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James Evans @jdevans.bsky.social · 19h

Oh, it wasn't that bad. I was just skint, and the short-term contracts I was taking on were badly paid, dispiriting, and ultimately led nowhere. But I was fit and healthy and I was cycling a lot, which kept my spirits up. Your situation sounds way more stressful than mine ever was.

James Evans @jdevans.bsky.social · 20h

Another great read. Incidentally, The Field were also the backdrop to a bit of a rough time in my life (although not half as rough as yours, by the sounds of it): embracethemargin.blogspot.com/2018/04/line...

LINER NOTES: TAKE A RIDE [2013]

Terrorist chic in Berlin

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James Evans @jdevans.bsky.social · 2d

Choice cut: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F01f...

#BlackSheep #flavorofthemonth #herbalpert

Black Sheep - Flavor Of The Month

YouTube video by BlackSheepVEVO

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James Evans @jdevans.bsky.social · 2d

THE GOLDEN AGE OF HIP HOP, VOL. 4 [1991-92] open.spotify.com/playlist/50E...

Liner Notes: embracethemargin.blogspot.com/2016/10/line...

#GoldenAgeHipHop #RapSelection #1990s #mixtape #BlackSheep #CypressHill #GangStarr #ThePharcyde #KamanchiSly #KoolMoeDee #PublicEnemy #TribeCalledQuest #SlickRick

1991-92: THE GOLDEN AGE OF HIP HOP - VOLUME 4

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James Evans @jdevans.bsky.social · 2d

Good shout (even if I am more of From Here We Go Sublime kind of guy).

James Evans @jdevans.bsky.social · 4d

Choice Cut - Chapter & the Verse with Black Whip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8l3...

CHAPTER & THE VERSE - Black Whip (1991)

YouTube video by NO SOUL NO LIFE

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James Evans @jdevans.bsky.social · 4d

THE GOLDEN AGE OF HIP HOP VOL. 3 [1990-91]: open.spotify.com/playlist/1Pu...

Liner notes: embracethemargin.blogspot.com/2020/03/line...

#Goldenagehiphop #mixtape #rap #NationalFresh #Gangstarr #BrandNubian #MainSource #CashCrew #LondonPosse #KMD #SonofBazerk #PeteRock&CLSmooth #SilverBullet #1990s

1990-91: THE GOLDEN AGE OF HIP HOP - VOLUME 3

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James Evans @jdevans.bsky.social · 4d

Interesting stuff; sent me down a bit of a wormhole and I found this: revsoc21.uk/2016/11/27/a...

Anarchy in the UK? The politics and people that produced punk rock

rs21 - revolutionary socialism in the 21st century

James Evans @jdevans.bsky.social · 5d

Choice Cut - this has never got the recognition it deserves: www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3VF...

YouTube video by David Johnson (AKADCJ)

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James Evans @jdevans.bsky.social · 5d

Choice cut: www.youtube.com/watch?v=05pc...

J.V.C. Force - Strong Island [HQ] (Original 12'' Version)

YouTube video by Simon Ambler

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James Evans @jdevans.bsky.social · 5d

Check out volumes 1 (not derived from National Fresh) and 3 and 4 (derived from National Fresh and the Rap Selection that succeeded it).

James Evans @jdevans.bsky.social · 5d

I don't think anybody growing up in the 1970s and '80s is either completely ignorant nor disinterested in what happened in Northern Ireland. You couldn't be - it was on the news all the time.

James Evans @jdevans.bsky.social · 5d

THE GOLDEN AGE OF HIP HOP, VOL. 2 [1989-90]: open.spotify.com/playlist/6tz...

Liner notes: embracethemargin.blogspot.com/2020/02/line...

#NationalFreash #JeffYoung #XClan #LAStar #Subsonic2 #Goldenagehiphop #mixtape #rap #PublicEnemy #BDP #TribecalledQuest #3xdope #MastaerAce #KoolGRap #Sindecut

1989-90: THE GOLDEN AGE OF HIP HOP - VOLUME 2

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James Evans @jdevans.bsky.social · 5d

I've just recently finished the book, and I would recommend it highly.

James Evans @jdevans.bsky.social · 5d

THE GOLDEN AGE OF HIP HOP, VOLUME 1 [1988-89]: open.spotify.com/playlist/61s...

Liner notes here: embracethemargin.blogspot.com/2020/01/line...

#Goldenagehiphop #mixtape #rap #1980s #playlist #PublicEnemy #RunDMC #EPMD #JVCFORCE #Hijack #SilverBullet #JungleBrothers #SheRockers #EricBandRakim #NWA

1988-89: THE GOLDEN AGE OF HIP HOP - VOLUME 1

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James Evans @jdevans.bsky.social · 7d

Walking With Thee by Clinic is conspicuous by its absence.

James Evans @jdevans.bsky.social · 7d

That time period IS my twenties. Quite a few on there that featured on the playlists I made back then. I could suggest others that aren't, but you've got to draw a lime somewhere...

James Evans @jdevans.bsky.social · 8d

I prefer that too, but it doesn't yield enough material on its own. I don't think music journalism is objective as it once was, and some of my friends have stagnated in their listening habits - or they'll recommend something but by the time I've got home I'll have forgotten what.

James Evans @jdevans.bsky.social · 8d

Listening to the algorithmic music on Spotify is a bit like shopping in TK Maxx: more often than not it doesn't lead to anything, but every now and then you stumble upon a gem. (I don't pay for it or use it for that anyhow.)

James Evans @jdevans.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks Gary. 👍

James Evans @jdevans.bsky.social · 9d

A playlist of bits and pieces, that for one reason or another never made it onto any of my compilations, in roughly chronological order: open.spotify.com/playlist/27i...

#playlist #mixtape #britpop #indiemusic #1990s #1980s #sarahrecords

ROSE TINTED SPECTACLES

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James Evans @jdevans.bsky.social · 12d

STADIA: OLYMPIASTADION AND ALLIANZ ARENA, MUNICH.
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#BayernMunich #AllianzArena #OtlAicher #BayernMunchen #Olympiastadion #stadia #footballgrounds #footballstadiums #munich #olympics @playedinbritain.bsky.social @garyparkinson.bsky.social

STADIA: OLYMPIASTADION AND ALLIANZ ARENA, MUNICH

The Olympiastadion and Allianz Arena, Munich

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James Evans @jdevans.bsky.social · 12d

Enjoyed that, thanks. Musically speaking, I would have said you straddled both the first 'phase' of The Fall - embracethemargin.blogspot.com/2021/11/line... - and the second - embracethemargin.blogspot.com/2021/11/line...

James Evans @jdevans.bsky.social · 12d

Discuss? Shall we start with that amazing haircut Stephen's sporting? Here's a Pastels playlist if anyone's interested: open.spotify.com/playlist/5p6...

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James Evans @jdevans.bsky.social · 12d

Yeah, but that one wasn't like other ones, such as the ones up by Drake's Circus. It was open and visible and felt completely safe. It may well still have smelled of wee in the morning, though. 😞