
Photo by Tamara Lichtenstein One of the great joys of going to your local record shop (or, er, scrolling through menus of WhatPeoplePlay ) is the anticipation, nay, expectation of discovering something or someone you had never hear of before. As Innervisions boss Dixon says of their bright young hope, Culoe de Song, "Sometimes tracks appear from somewhere you would never expect." So far, 2009 has been no different, with a host of fresh and (more often than not) astonishingly young talent breaking through. Narrowing it down was a tough job, but [...]