My last record, which I briefly mentioned earlier, is an album by a folk singer from Turkey called Selda. You probably know this record, it was reissued by Finders Keepers and it's so heavy. There's so much heaviness on the record and so many fuzz guitars and intense psychedelic sounds, and yet her voice cuts through all of it in this really intense way. I love that record; a good first foray into Turkish psychedelic music.

I have played that record out so many times when I've DJ-ed. It's just super-funky and kind of psychedelic, and really catchy. But the whole record is really an exploration of that same kind of sound. I love Brazilian music and I was introduced to a great deal of it by my friend Joel Stones, who had a store in New York called Tropicalia In Furs.

This record is I believe their first. It's so tightly produced. The drumming is unbelievable. The guitar work is really specific, sonically, to them. It's a record I've listened to over and over again. Just simple instrumental funk played so expertly; it's an incredible record.

They're a Turkish band from the late sixties, early seventies. I believe they did a great deal of work on the more psychedelic stuff by Selda Bagcan, who's also incredible. But I believe this is their first album. Effectively this record is an exploration of traditional Turkish rhythms and traditional Turkish dance.

And then the person recommended well if you like this you should probably listen to Emperor Tomato Ketchup. It introduced me to the band but it still remains probably my favourite record of theirs, just in terms of the cohesion. I think it's probably their best collection of songs. Every record from Stereolab explores different things and has certain sonic differences, but this album is really defined I think by these grooves that build on themselves, so almost every song starts with a number of instruments and builds into itself to become what it is.

And I don't know if that record gets as much attention as it deserves. It also feels like them trying to reinvent themselves again, and I admire them for their constant sense of reinvention and exploration, which has obviously been a staple since Screamadelica. But yeah, Screamadelica really does stand out on its own.

But I think Pacer has everything. It's kind of experimental; there's a lot of vocal experimentation on the record. I love the recording. I don't think it's a Steve Albini recording, but it sounds like it. The drums are very abrasive and raw, and it has everything. There's an incredible mix of pop songs and weird, kind of abrasive almost punk rock songs, and there's real beauty I think on this record.

What can I say about this record? It has an absolutely astonishing rhythm section. It's super groove-based, but there's an attack to the music that is extremely heavy and abrasive. Those two things operating in tandem is such an exciting thing to hear.

This is another mainstay for me. Again, this is a record of my youth. This is something I really grew up listening to.But I think Reading, Writing And Arithmetic remains the ultimate statement of the band, just in terms of representing who they are, what they are, the kinds of songs that they write.

This is a new favourite, and a record that I haven't been able to stop listening to for the last six months. Chapter III is just astonishing. It really is. It's incredible. And that's my favourite thing about being a music enthusiast and a record collector, that you're never not discovering something. A

I think it was one of the first jazz records that I ever bought. I think it was definitely instrumental in introducing me to jazz and I think it was one of the first, including Miles Davis's Kind Of Blue, that I really fell in love with. The version of the song 'In A Sentimental Mood' is easily my favourite, and one of my favourite songs of all time.

ut Blue is just an extraordinary record. Vocally it's astonishing. It's the only album that has the tonality that it has. There's a very high timbre to the guitar tone. There's very little bass on the record. It operates on a very high timbre, and I love it. I love the guitar sound. She never really repeated it again.

And Sign O' The Times, I think if I were to pick a favourite Prince record it's always been my favourite. I think it's his masterpiece. I know that so many people point to Purple Rain,, and I've listened to that record many times since his passing and revisited that too, and it's certainly a completely ground-breaking record.