18/16 - We'll Run Along The Empty Highways

OK, here some frantic rhythms to represent the last couple of weeks of madness. Degree show,  degree show party, degree show deinstall, and then straight up to Edinburgh for another install. Now, perhaps unsurprisingly, I'm ill in bed and recuperating.

Matmos - Steam and Sequins for Larry Levan

Amazing album I hadn't listened to in a long while.

Marc Moulin - Balek

A hypnotic track from Caribou's 1000 Song Mixtape. Full disclosure: all songs on this list except that one above ^ are discoveries from his excellent playlist. The meeting of those waveform synthesizers and those live brass stabs is right deadly.

Silver Apples - Seagreen Serenades

Sooo good. I don't know why I haven't properly explored Silver Apples earlier. I've just known and loved Oscillations as a groundbreaking track, but didn't even consider there was a whole album to go with it...

Thomas Mapfumo - Gwindingew Rine Shumba

Let me call your attention to the bass. It sounds... otherworldly. Quite simple in a way, but if you focus on it... it's like something piped in from deep beneath the earth, or from outer space.

Aphrodite's Child - Loud, Loud, Loud

And this is me, now. Slowly resurfacing in a post-feverish world.

17/16 - And Time Can Do So Much

Degree show install DONE!

Radiohead - I Might Be Wrong (live)

First a song that captures the frenzy and the onslaught of doubt that has characterised the last two weeks at the top of the Ben Pimlott building. Also, one of the best live songs in the world.

The Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody

Then a keening song for those exhausted but hopeful evenings in front of the London skyline in sunset. Also, one of the best songs ever, period.

Frank Sinatra - My Way

Then the obvious choice for just after the deadline.

Beck - Wow

Now, giddy-up! On Thursday, 6-9pm, the degree show opens, and you are welcome to be wowed.

José Gonzalez - Open Book

And after that... Well...

A drifting vessel in the storm 

Pushed around from shore to shore 

I know there's so much left to see 

I know I have so much left to give