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March 2, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Badbadnotgood: Late Night Tales

Various Artists Late Night Tales: Badbadnotgood Late Night Tales/Night Time Stories Ltd. Canadian jazz-meets-hip-hop-let’s-party band of clever clogs’ Badbadnotgood deliver a wonderful entry into the late night mixtape series. Just as you might be wondering whether these sorts of mixes are needed in the era of too many Spotify playlists along comes exactly this sort […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged After Hours, Album Review, Badbadnotgood, Badbadnotgood: Late Night Tales, Compilation, DJ, Late Night, Late Night Tales, Mix, Mixtape, Soundtrack, Too Slow To Disco, V/A, Various Artists, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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January 10, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Five Films That Stay With Me: Elaine Shute

Elaine Shute is a volunteer programmer at WERU-FM, a community radio station in Downeast Maine. Her show ‘On the Wing’, a three-hour eclectic mix of music, airs on alternating Mondays, and can be streamed on demand. Here are five films that have stayed with her….  1 – Breaking Away:  I love a coming-of-age story, and – along […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged After Hours, Al Capone, Alice In Wonderland, America, Breaking Away, Brian De Palma, Daniel Sten, David Mamet, DJ, Elaine Shute, Film, Film Review, Five Film, Five Films, Five Films That Stay With Me, Five Films That Stay With Me: Elaine Shute, Griffin Dunne, Jonathan Demme, Julie Harris, Martin Scorsese, Movie Review, Movies, Radio, Rosanna Arquette, Shirley Jackson, Something Wild, Special Guest, The Feelies, The Haunting, The Shining, To Kill A Mockingbird, Untouchables, WERU-FM ·

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October 11, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Jon Hopkins: Late Night Tales

Various Artists Late Night Tales: Jon Hopkins Late Night Tales Late Night Tales – the formula is great, well the idea, as it’s never (quite) a formula. Essentially an artist makes a mixtape, but the clue is in that series-title, Late Night, so these tales are the type told at 1am or 3am or 5am, […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged A Winged Victory For The Sullen, After Hours, Ben Lukas Boysen, Bibio, Compilation, CompilationD, David Holmes, DJ, Four Tet, Jon Hopkins, Late night mix, Late Night Tales, Late Night Tales: Jon Hopkins, LateNightTales, Mix, Nils Frahm, Producer, Rick Holland, V/A, Various Artists ·

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September 11, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Nils Frahm: Late Night Tales

Various Artists Late Night Tales: Nils Frahm Late Night Tales The Late Night Tales series, when it works properly (and it usually does) gives some insight into the artist’s influences, more than that though it’s a mixtape of hopes and dreams. And also it’s designed – the very concept of it is – to suggest […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged After Hours, Album Review, Classical, Compilation, Electronica, Flight of the Bumblebee, Four Tet, Influences, Late Night, Late Night Tales, Miles Davis, Mix-Tape, Nils Frahm, Nina Simone, Noise, Piano, Sound, V/A, Various Artists ·

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June 19, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Glenn Frey: After Hours

Glenn Frey After Hours Universal Music Somehow, oddly, I almost respect Glenn Frey for being a complete See-you-next-Tuesday and then deciding the best way to back that up is by making music so insipid, banal, bland, safe and obvious. And when I say I almost respect him all I mean is that it’s baffling that […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged After Hours, Album Review, Brian Wilson, Glenn Frey, Randy Newman, See-you-next-Tuesday, Standards, The Eagles ·

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