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Xmas 2011 Round Up

Welcome to Clockwork Shorts – allow me to wish you a joyous, fruitful and relaxing holiday season, wherever you are.  When you find that you have a bit of time to kill, please bookmark and come back here to enjoy my round up of movies & music from 2011.. After a couple of weeks of [ READ MORE ]

The Stinkers of 2011 – Bjork’s Biophilia

First things first, I’ve chosen my words very carefully in the title above and feel like perhaps I should clarify myself. I don’t think it would be fair to label Biophilia as “The Worst Album of The Year” by any stretch of the imagination, but perhaps it is the most disappointing, and that disappointment stinks. [ READ MORE ]

The Albums of 2011 – #1 Amon Tobin – ISAM

As soon as I started to write these end of year blogs, I knew exactly what would sit proudly at the top. Amon Tobin’s ISAM album is his seventh for Ninjatune records in 15 years (not including Solid Steel Mixes) but this is his first that is completely and utterly peerless. Tobin’s body of work [ READ MORE ]

The Albums of 2011 – #2 Machinedrum – Room(s)

It would seem that Travis Stewart, aka Machinedrum, has been putting out music for over a decade, so I’ve clearly been remiss that he hasn’t appeared on my radar until the last 12 months or so. Admittedly this isn’t my choice for #1 album of the year, but I can honestly say it’s definitely the [ READ MORE ]

The Albums of 2011 – #3 Kuedo – Severant

So, Bronze Award for the Clockwork Shorts: Album of the Year goes to Jamie Teasdale, formerly one half of dubstep duo Vex’d, and now working solo as Kuedo. Fittingly released on Mike Paradinas’ Planet Mu record label, it harkens back to the mid-1990′s Artificial Intelligence series of albums on Warp that led to the somewhat [ READ MORE ]

The Albums of 2011 – #4 Rustie – Glass Swords

It seems like an awful long time since Rustie’s Jagz The Smack ep came out. Well, 4 years to be precise. Remembering to back then, his bass-heavy “aqua krunk” style of instrumental hip hop left chinstrokers unsure if this was dubstep or something similar. In 2008, I had the pleasure of seeing him and fellow [ READ MORE ]

The Albums of 2011 – #5 – Africa Hi Tec – 93 Million Miles

The further we get from the mid-1990′s Global Communication and Jedi Knights aliases, the more apparent it seems to be that Mark Pritchard had always been the duo’s Lennon to Tom Middleton’s McCartney. Whilst Middleton has become synonymous with The Big Chill, all things ambient, and the crowd-friendly Crazy Covers compilations, Pritch seems to go [ READ MORE ]

The Albums of 2011 – #6 Sun Glitters – Everything Could Be Fine

I have to be honest, picking album #6 of the year for me has been the most difficult choice of this entire top ten.. The reason being that the top 5 are pretty solidly locked down, but as I homed in on the top of the list I realised how many albums I had truly [ READ MORE ]

The Albums of 2011 – #7 Gatto Fritto – Gatto Fritto

One can’t help but feel that Cosmic Disco has had a bit of a bum rap this year.. Championed for some time by the likes of Lindstrom, Prins Thomas, Todd Terje et al, it seems that creatively theyve all sauntered off to greener pastures – teasers of Lindstrom’s new lp due early in 2012 hint [ READ MORE ]

The Albums of 2011 – #8 Lanu – Her 12 Faces

Nothing wrong with a bit of a singalong sometimes, is there? Coming from a perennial favourite label of mine – Brighton-based beat heads Tru Thoughts, Lanu is a solo/side project from Lance Ferguson. Lance also happens to be a member of TT’s legendary Aussie funk ensemble The Bamboos and has worked with Kylie Auldist and [ READ MORE ]

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