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23 Skidoo: Urban Gamelan; Shriekback: Jam Science

Mat Snow, New Musical Express, 11 August 1984

I DON'T KNOW whether it was the film of African boys being circumcised or the self-important and gimmicky drone that accompanied it, but back in '81 I walked out of the 23 Skidoo experience, I thought never to return.

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