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1999
1999 - the year of the Eagle Transporter is here with us at last! But regardless of the airbrushed hairstyles and strictly 1970s behaviour of the cheery American stars of that series, what types of music could they have been listening to this year?

Frankly I thought I might as well give in at the start of this year. All the music had been written already, everyone's records were rubbish, there was no new music... Of course there was new music in abundance just waiting to be discovered.

Not that I discovered any of that, though. Instead, I bought the collection described as follows. But I ended up choosing these ones anyway.

• Les Rythmes Digitales DarkDancer.
  The fantastic cover is all you really need to know about this one. A three way airbrushe gatefold sleeve reveals the artiste (looking ahem somewhat less acned that in photographs of the same) opening a can of Pepsi, leading on to an all time 80s classic montage of a Golf GTI and a woman in silver silk underwear, finally yielding to a series of ageing Digital syntheizers.
  
  The music is a pastiche of various 1980s synth styles, performed using the instruments of the times (including the crappy drum machines) and even going so far as using faded 1980s star Nik Kershaw (last heard of advertising in the MusicMart magazine for friends) to sing one of the tunes.
  
  Complete and utterly pointless. But it has such a fresh clean sound, and a sense of fun ("Jacques Your Body"?) that combined with the sleeve I have to rate it high.
  
  "You complete and utter wanker", as they say. 9/10
  
  
• Stereolab Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night
  Stereolab continue to work at the intersection between the techn
  
  
• Plone For Beginner Piano
  I love this record. The best title too, and the CD is a severely minimalist purple. Buy it!!!! The music is fantastic - imagine if Stereolab had just started with a set of children's toy instruments and a techno bent... Not just that, but thank the Lord for a thanks list which misses out God, MC Master Fucking Brilliant, DJ I Gave you a Freebie and various other arse-licking and instead thanks a whole pile of actual people called Susan, Tim, Cath and Sam. Fuck knows I would be happy to be an anonymous Steve in there...
  
  
• Capitol-K Sounds of the Empire
  It's not always great, but the good bits make me want a whole lot more... A
  
  
• Orbital Middle Of Nowhere
  Review to come.
  
  
• Spring Heel Jack Treader
  Review to come.
  
  
• Chemical Brothers Surrender
  Review to come.
  
  
• Groove Armada Vertigo
  Review to come.
  
  
• Scott 4 Works Project LP
  Review to come.
  
  
• Puff Daddy PE2000 (remix)
  Puff Daddy updates the all-time best hip-hop tune - everyone holds their breath - have PE sold out for good for the cash? Will Puff Daddy turn it into #1 selling mush with female soul vocalists? No! This version has the same wondeful JB's sample with that rhythm looping over and over (still uncredited!) and some nice scratching. But the thing about this one is whilst the PE version was just mouthing off about money and cars and their public profile and stuff, Puff Daddy really is the Public Enemy referred to in the lyrics...
  
  Single of the year, 10/10.
  
  
• Add-N-To-X Avant Hard
  Review to come.
  
  
• Capitol K These are the Sounds
  Review to come.
  
  
• Scritti Politti Anomie and Bonhomie
  Review to come.
  
  
• Regular Fries Accept The Signal
  Review to come.
  
  
• u-Ziq Royal Astronomy
  Wrongly reviewed by many as the record where u-Ziq's Mike Paradinas sold out to the commercial crowd, this record is as just as noisy as all of his recent output; it just has the advantage of being one of the first records he wrote that you can listen to; but even listen to with pleasure. I don't know about you but when I hear a track like "Autumn Acid" which pitch a synth through a distortion pedal and where it keeps spilling over into resonant tones I just know I want to go dancing.
  
  Noisy, bassy, swearing and some acid basslines. 7/10.