Duncan Gordon

2010 Treasurables- The List

In the sweet spirit of good will to all men and ladies I’ve made a special effort to avoid too much esoterical cogitation.

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Forgotten Treasurable Pleasurables

What the hell? How did we get so old? With unique local club night The Full Monty celebrating it’s twentieth birthday on the 2nd October this year, Beat Magazine looks back at an exciting age of a burgeoning Progressive House music scene with a post facto exploration of one of the key players – William Orbit’s Guerilla Records.

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Forgotten Treasurable Pleasurables

So, of course, this column is about the albums not the groups who made the albums. If you want to know about the groups then there’s the internet. I don’t remember the great events of 1986 very well, the cursory gestures of world wide organisations or the embracing of existential prudence by a superpower but what I do remember was hearing music.

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Forgotten Treasurable Pleasurables

Music. There’s a lot of it about isn’t there? On the telly, on the radio, on the internet, in our heads, memories and hearts. Some of it is big and ugly and some of it’s small and beautifully formed; some of it loud and pompous, some of it quiet and reserved. Some of it prevails but, sadly, most of it is forgotten. So come on, let’s all sit down, stop watching that pointless rubbish over there and hear it for the treasurable pleasurables.

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Goodbye Nine, Hello Ten.

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Sound-hound Duncan Gordon looks back at the bands that made 2009 and forward to 2010 to see what will be blowing your ears clean off your head in the months to come.

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