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Tim Derricourt from Australian band Dappled Cities Fly tips the Bee Gees’ album, Saturday Night Fever, as being essential to any decent CD collection: ‘There’s no doubt that this album is absolutely superb, inspiring and above all, entirely wholesome. The songs have an intricate and intelligent strain, yet retain their pump ’n’ swagger, and from the pure white get-up that we see on cover to the sheen of those hunky string parts, this collection only emulates positive thoughts all suitable for a general exhibition. And that’s essentially why it (eventually) changed my life. At first listen, after pulling it out of my father’s vinyl collection, I was scoffingly shocked at its saggy dagginess; afterall this was the mid-nineties and I was a solid victim of my early-teens. At the time the genius of songs like More than a Woman and You Should be Dancing were completely foreign and inconceivable. But then I was forced to eat my Hot Tuna hat, as it wasn’t long before my face was a’ smiling, my hips were a’ swinging and my voicebox was a’ humming as I tumbled down the dark and sinister path of the disco-freaked metrosexual’. [photos by Esther Blake and Daniel Boud]

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Brooklyn-based artist Leah Beeferman draws inspiration from architecture, maps, and mechanical diagrams for her geometric, almost-non-representational drawings. Her images seem ancient and timeless, hinting at traditional Asian scroll paintings, folk art, and cave paintings. Yet through her installations and projections, they cast new light on the contemporary spaces in which they exist. Read more

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