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...Ladies and gentlemen, Mogwai.” The first sound on Mogwai’s Government Commissions: BBC Sessions 1996-2003 is the voice of John Peel, the British radio legend who died of a heart attack last year at the age of 65. A smattering of applause, and we?...
While the idiosyncratic disc jockey was a cult figure in the U.S., he enjoys superstar status in his native country, where for the last 37 years his voice graced the airwaves for BBC’s Radio 1. Peel would often invite artists to perform on his show, with the recorded material invariably being released (not always officially) to the public under the moniker “Peel Sessions...
...seems self-explanatory that Mogwai’s record is dedicated to Peel, as it is from these sessions, along with appearances on fellow BBC DJ Steve Lamacq’s program, that the ten tracks found on Government Commissions are culled...
...fact that a group like Mogwai can even find an audience for its strangely mutated sonic constructions says something about John Peel and his ilk’s influence on popular music over the last three decades. Peel was committed to playing music that he liked, simple as that—damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! This revolutionary attitude put his broadcasts head and shoulders above afraid-to-fail approach that plagues most other radio. Peel is credited with assisting the launch of the careers of such divergent acts as Captain Beefheart, the Buzzcocks, the Smiths, Pulp...
...records, realize that if it wasn’t for people dedicated to exposing quality music, you might be spinning bullshit like “This Love” too—and then tip out your forty for every indie lover’s dead homey, John Peel...