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The Launch of Nocturnal Records

Mark Daniels ponders a novel experience – his first ever rave.

The relationship between philosophy and music has been a source of much debate since the heady days of Plato and Pythagoras. Even in more modern times, thinkers such as Schopenhauer and Adorno have bent their little grey cells to an analysis of the phenomenon. Nonetheless your humble editors were still somewhat taken aback to be invited to the launch of a new record company (Nocturnal) in a country hotel in deepest Norfolk.

Armed with earplugs and bottles of aspirin, your still-humble editors ventured forth to investigate the newest developments in this time-hallowed relationship. Thus equipped, they descended into a noxious den suffused with odious vapours, dim and dismal writhing forms which on closer inspection proved to be Terpsichorean devotees garbed in feathers, plastic, kilts, tattoos and other curious appurtenances.

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