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According to the internet's fount of all knowledge that is largely apocryphal, Wikipedia:

"Colin Angus worked in a project called Pablo Sandoz from 2004 to 2008."

And that's all they have to say about his post-Shamen work. In an interview in April 2010, Mr.C spake thus:

"I have no idea what Colin Angus is doing right now as we don't keep in touch," admits Mr. C. There are unconfirmed reports he dropped out of the band to further his interest in the mystic and psychedelic, travelling the world visiting temples and ruins. He is thought to be behind the mysterious electronic project Pablo Sandoz (Watch 'Pyramid'), which emerged in the mid-‘90s and produced music up until 2009, and is now rumoured to be living in Brighton.

Boss Drum is one of my favourite albums of the nineties (and I don't have many favourites from that era) but for some reason my hard drive has decided to delete the first three tracks irretrievably so I have only a somewhat truncated version of it. Still, at least Librae Solidi Denari is still in there and it's one of my favourite tracks so I shouldn't complain!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixWaKECAiG0

I fully intend to listen to some more Pagan Dub Lord today, as it happens Mr.I

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Merci, Stringy.

When you've listened to a bit of PDL. Put on 'Incense & Gifts Of Sacred Science'. It's what made me think of The Shamen when I was listening to it on Sunday night, even though it sounds nothing like The Shamen. Bloody good album though. The very Foxx like 'Thinking Metal (Dance Of The Gemenids)' was the stand out track on this listen.

I may just do that, but for now I'm listening to some Half Man Half Biscuit radio sessions. Where else can you get lyrics like

"There is nothing better in life
than writing on the sole of your slipper with a biro
on a Saturday night instead of going to the pub"?

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Currently taking in the newly released, remastered, deluxe edition of Mike Oldfield's Incantations.

2 CDs. 1 DVD. 11 unreleased tracks. Nice package. New artwork.

Not necessarily one of my very favourite or most played Oldfield albums, which means there's a new bit to discover with each listen.

Nosound- A Northern Religion Of Things

The Horrors - Skying

Mike Oldfield - Voyager

Just finished Tubular Bells II.

Just started playing Amarok.

Clearly Mike's most barmy work, and a list of instruments to rival any other!! And some of his very best guitar work, hidden away between the cavemen, chainsaws and toothbrushes!!

I just came across a bootleg of New Order live in New Zealand, December 1982. Some pretty bizarre early versions of Blue Monday and 586.

Actually - Pet Shop Boys
Everything & Nothing - David Sylvian

Over the last couple of weeks I've returned to listen to a haunting and majestic track called Afraid Of You, from Our Sleepless Forest, its felt so right for the days of summer mixed with rain that we've been experiencing here recently:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srRz4RbB_FI

On a similar note I've been addicted to playing Tim Heckers In The Fog, parts I to III, from his recent work Ravedeath,1972 (think I'm going to have to buy this one). The album was recorded in Iceland using a pipe organ but for me his track Fog perfectly fit's that time of day during a green and lush summer when the sun's still in the sky and the evening feels so much longer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytQLA77X6Qw

And still sticking with that summer feeling, also been playing this a lot, its sheer aural beauty:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56dnT6v_-Ys

On one of those random youtube searches I came across a clip from the early days of Genesis, my past experience of that band was (with the exception of having parts of The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway 'played continually at me' by a fellow college student) limited to that period when Peter Gabriel (Yay) was completely solo, and Genesis 'were three', and then Phil Collins (boo hiss) went solo and became chums with Princes Di.

So I was really quite impressed by a fantastic video of the band where Peter wasn't shaving off the front of his hair and pretending to mow the intergalactic field's with an invisible lawnmower, and he instead looks like a rather handsome, nay cute, young man, dressed in a slick black jumpsuit and seemingly channeling Mick Jagger, and our Phil also looks like quite a cool guy before he met any Royalty. So now I'm well on my way to becoming a fan of early Genesis:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W35wtfcByIY

From all of the sublime above and ending now the music on the ridiculous (depending on your tastes of course), ah, remember the good old days, radical haircuts, distinctive suits, and synthpop was the future? well on another random youtube search I'm seeing the past I'd never seen before, close your eyes and it sounds less frightening than it looks:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMQUvRFNRoo&feature=related

I particularly like the guy in the hat, shades, and stripey shirt, jumping about and waving his hands in the air, he's clearly seeing the brave future coming a decade ahead, and its name was Rave!

We Are The Bollywood Robots

(and If you are so inclined you can listen and watch lots more of Endhiran online):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEfMZbbpsAY


This is well catchy, eat your hearts out Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II2ZHDzIdJ8&feature=related