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February 8, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 122: The Shamen – “En-Tact”

Barriers of entry. You just need to dive in – mostly. But sometimes it helps if you’re there at the right time. And with anything dance-music related I feel that’s most certainly the case, for the most part anyway. I love a lot of Daft Punk’s music because I hear it always thinking about how I heard their earliest singles and watched the videos and embraced the debut album as it was arriving – it was of its time, as most dance music is.  
 
Would I like this album more if I knew it in 1990? No doubt. But The Shamen absolutely passed me by. I’d be lying if I said I knew anything about them really… 
 
Beyond what I’ve just cribbed from the Wiki notes, as I do when I listen to these albums on this list for the first time. 
 
As the album’s played on I rather like it. At first I was going to dismiss it as most certainly something I didn’t need to hear. And, look, ultimately that is still the case – but there’s a lot here I dig. Why didn’t this go in when The KLF did? Or Primal Scream or whatever else… 
 
I don’t know. 
 
I really don’t know.  

I’m going through the book, 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, and playing all of the albums I haven’t (previously) heard. It’s a pointless goal, but it’s my goal…

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