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Keith's recommendations: UPDATED October 27th 2004

currently chilling to:

Live at Dakini Nights
Blue Fish - Aki Ueda
Hotel Vietnam - Blue Asia
Istanbul Calling Various Artists
anything from Music for Dreams
Piano Works - Craig Armstrong
AR Rahman - Discography 1992 - 2004
Zen Connection 3 - Various

all time 5 dancefloor classics

Lonnie Liston Smith - Expansions
Gil Scott Heron - The Bottle
Hamilton Bohannon - Let's Start the Dance
Jimmy Castor Bunch - It's Just Begun
Atmosfear - Dancing in Outer Space

Respect due

Van Morrison
Donald Byrd
Isley Brothers
New Order
Roy Ayers
Felt
Gil Scott Heron

Books

Charles Bukowski - Factotum
Jack Kerouac - Dharma Bums
Yasunari Kawabata - Beauty and Sadness
Laurie Lee - As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
William Burroughs - Junky
The Wild Sports and Natural History of the Scottish Highlands (1888) - Charles St. John
George Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London


Films

Likely Lads
Whiskey Galore (or pretty much any Ealing comedy)
Cinema Paradiso
Withnail & I
Nabbie no Koi
Tampopo

Graphic Designers/Artists

Peter Saville (Factory, New Order)
Tomato (Underworld)
Bokunen (Habu Box)
Reid Miles (Blue Note)

Photographers

Uenishi Shigeyuki
Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen