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Two Lone Swordsmen: Basics, Leeds

Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 12 October 2004

FOR MOST OF THE LAST DECADE Andrew Weatherall was one of dance culture's prime movers. He produced Primal Scream's hallowed Screamadelica and lived it large as one of the first "superstar DJs". Suddenly though, the former punk rocker walked away, getting himself fired from his radio show, cancelling all his lucrative remixes and going to live in an isolated cottage.

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