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I present to you something I've been idly picking over all day. I'm currently testing the Rega System One. By the by, it's excellent. It also means that the top of my rack looks like this; Having these two sat side by side has been itching at my brain and it ties in with starting the year so...

Alabama 3; Exile on Coldharbour Lane Famous because of that song but a fine album in its own right.

Mammoth WVH; Mammoth WVH I'll be honest, this one falls into a special category of 'things I'd probably buy just for the cover' but it's one of my faves of 2021. Work has finished for the day so I'm emphatically not listening to this one on a dinky valve amp.

Arcade Fire; Funeral The Rega is currently being used to run direct into a dinky EL84 valve amp (that's why it has a moving magnet cart on at the moment). I'm not sure that what's coming out the other end is truly 'hi-fi' but it's unquestionably enjoyable.

Last one before bed. Dead Can Dance; Dionysus

Moby; Play (the non VMP version with the proper version of South Side)

My Baby; Mounaki

Chemical Brothers; Exit Planet Dust; @Poly-Rythmo, easily one of my albums of 2021 that- joyous.

Brand New Heavies: Shibuya 357

Absolutely love snappy artist and album names. Would ZZ Top have scaled the heights they did with Eliminator if they'd called it We Bought Synths! or the Smiths had plumped for Yes, he's a bit of a twat but he's got a great voice over Meat is Murder? I guess we'll never know. Anyway, on a...

UNKLE; War Stories

Remember kids, when the whole house is inebriated, there’s no shame switching to digital.

Talk Talk; The Party's Over: Don't get me wrong, I love late phase, soaring post rock Talk Talk but I adore this album too; a beautifully crafted piece of new romanticism.

Gil Scott-Heron; We're New Again;

Propellerheads; Decksanddrumsandrockandroll;

I didn't expand on this very much at the time because I was rocking backwards and forwards looking at my online banking but doing this actually goes hand in hand with doing something else very stupid. Remember this line? That arm has lived here for a bit on the GyroDec and it has now been...

Don't want the other turntables feeling left out since the Vertere arrived (although the Gyro needs an arm change before coming back into use again). As such, I felt a turntable from Essex was best placed to deal with some men from Essex. The Prodigy; Invaders Must Die.

UNKLE- Ronin.

The situation in the UK is a bit shit right now; But, for the 8 minutes and 12 seconds that On The Painted Desert lasts, it is very briefly, less shit.

Thanks chaps. It's become painfully clear since it arrived that I can't not have it in my life. The issue has been more one of timing and liquidity than anything else. The structure of the UK tax year for the self employed is that I pay up in Jan (a whisker over $10k for what it's worth). Adding...