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The Shamen: En-Tact (One Little Indian)

Stephen Dalton, Vox, November 1990

THE PHUTURE is now. The Shamen once riffed and jangled in anoraks, got into splintered hip-hop iconoclasm for the magnificent In Gorbachev We Trust album and now sound like nothing else on the planet. Imagine the KLF remixed by William Gibson in a massive multi-coloured warehouse inside your head and you're almost there. Just one step closer to the edge...

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