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March 16, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Tricky: 20, 20 (ep)

Tricky 20, 20 (ep) False Idols Tricky is one of the most distinctive, idiosyncratic voices in modern music across the last quarter century. You hear in every release how he’s taken from – and given to – the worlds of hip-hop, trap, grime, electro, pop and so many hybrid genres and then out into the […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged $20, 20-20, 20/20, Album Review, Bjork, David Bowie, EP, False Idols, Maxinquaye, Pre-Millennium Tension, The XX, Tricky, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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May 11, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Re-Wired For (New) Sound(s): Ten Important Electronica Albums In My Life

I recently posted this – a list of “Ten important metal albums”. And I started it off by linking to this – “Ten important hip-hop albums”. I mentioned then that I would be doing a series of these, across genres, and I repeated the opening paragraph from the hip-hop post. So now I’m going to […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Andrew Weatherall, Aphex Twin, Blue Lines, Daft Punk, Dance, Depeche Mode, Dorfmeister, Drukqs, Electronica, Hometown, Kid A, Kruder, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Leftfield, Leftism, Little Fluffy Clouds, Mad Professor, Massive Attack, Maxinquaye, Mezzanine, Nearly God, No Protection, Pre-Millennium Tension, Primal Scream, Protection, Re-Wired For (New) Sound(s), Re-Wired For (New) Sound(s): Ten Important Electronica Albums In My Life, Screamadelica, Sounds From The Thievery Hi-Fi, Ten Important Electronica Albums In My Life, The K&D Sessions, The Orb, The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld, Thievery Corp., Thievery Corporation, Tricky ·

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February 20, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Five Albums From 1995: The Year I Left Home

In 1995 I moved to Wellington, ostensibly for university, but in reality it was to start an enormous CD collection. Most of that collection has now been replaced by vinyl – and/or Mp3s. That’s because 1995 is closer is more than 20 years ago now. But at the time I was buying up music, having […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 1995, Albums, Around The Next Dream, BBM, Carnival, CD, Five albums from 1995, Five albums from 1995: The Year I Left Home, Formative, Ginger Baker, Ginger Baker Trio, Going Home Again, Kristin Hersh, Leaving Home, Limbo, Maxinquaye, Natalie Merchant, Nostalgia, Prince, Records, Sam Hunt, The Gold Experience, The Year I Left Home, Throwing Muses, Tigerlilly, Tricky, University, Wellington, Wgtn ·

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July 23, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Tricky: False Idols

Tricky False Idols False Idols/!k7 Tricky’s tenth studio album is his first on his label (also called False Idols). It kicks off with Somebody’s Sins, it’s his version of John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme mantra using the Patti Smith refrain of “Jesus died for somebody’s sins/But not mine”. Adept as a covers artist, Tricky also knows […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Blog On The Tracks, Blowback, False Idols, Knowle West Boy, Maxinquaye, Mixed Race, Pre-Millennium Tension, Tricky, Vulnerable ·

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April 25, 2012 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1518

Tricky, Maxinquaye (1995) It was $50. And so I left it in the shop for a week to consider it. I figured that if it was gone when I went back it was not to be. If it was still there I’d think about it. But that’s bullshit – if it was gone I woulda […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1995, Black Steel, Feed Me, Hell Is Round The Corner, LP, Massive Attack, Maxinquaye, Nearly God, Overcome, Ponderosa, Pre-Millennium Tension, Public Enemy, Tricky, Trip-Hop, Vinyl ·

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