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Manu Ekanayake

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Freelance music, clubs and culture journalist for @GuardianMusic @theQuietus @mixmag etc. Now an author too in The Secret DJ Presents... Tales From The Booth
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Slow Burners: Sean Johnston on the 13 Songs that Shaped A Love From Outer Space

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By Patrick Clarke Verified, Manu Ekanayake
| The Quietus Verified
Baker's Dozen Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives A Quietus Interview Baker's Dozen Slow Burners: Sean Johnston on the 13 Songs that Shaped A Love From Outer Space A Love From Outer Space, the club night that celebrates music that never goes above 122 BPM set up by the late DJ / producer Andrew Weatherall and his musical friend of over 30 years, Sean Johnston, in 2010 is celebrating a big birthday this year.
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Music For The Jilted Generation Turns 30: The Prodigy Talk Early Years

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By Manu Ekanayake, John Doran Verified
| The Quietus Verified
Recently XL reissued Experience: Expanded, the sounds of the bracing first flush of rave, along with More Music For The Jilted Generation, one of electronic dance music’s high water mark releases. Finally, enough time has passed to judge these albums separately from the metal-lite, stadium direction that The Prodigy took (for an admittedly shortish period of time) with Fat Of The Land.
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Low Culture Essay: Manu Ekanayake On Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

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By Manu Ekanayake
| The Quietus Verified
I first met George Smiley when I was 21. The tap on my shoulder happened in suburban Essex when, home for Christmas, I watched Sir Alec Guinness’ sublime performance as the spymaster in the 1979 BBC adaptation of the John Le Carré novel, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. This complex tale of espionage, human frailty and betrayal, played out in the morally grey and stodgily brown 70s Britain that lingered into my childhood in the 80s, blew me away and I’ve been obsessed ever since.
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