Richard Russell (Everything Is Recorded)

Make It Big

Wham! ·1984

"this is actually a US version of Make It Big. This was the time when bands used to bow out and that was it when they did their last show."

Goblin

Tyler, The Creator ·2011

"I feel like Tyler is like a thousand miles ahead of everyone else at the moment and he's kind of in his own space... I'm incredibly proud this came out on XL so this was like his first kind of proper release and yeah he's just so inspirational and so brilliant."

Nightclubbing

Grace Jones ·1981

"Grace Jones was so far ahead, I think still is, actually presenting herself in a way no one had ever done before, doing exactly what she wanted, no rules, no restrictions, and the music's so incredible."

World Shut Your Mouth

Julian Cope ·1984

"Julian Cope, World Shut Your Mouth, he was in a band called the Teardrop Explodes, great psychedelic Liverpool band."

Solid State Survivor

Yellow Magic Orchestra ·1979

"Yellow Magic Orchestra, they were a Japanese four-piece. Ryuichi Sakamoto was in Yellow Magic Orchestra, who's become quite a famous composer. They were like an electropop group, but it started in 1979. This is way ahead of its time."

The New Sound

Geordie Greep ·2024

"I heard one song by him, I thought it was amazing. I was like, what is this? Who is this? Do you know my name? Of course you know my name."