LOOKEEHEAR:
"DREAM BILL? Sly and the Family Stone, Oum Kalsoum, Harry Partch, Fun-Da-mental, Wild Man Fischer, Can, Sylvester, Loop Guru, Sivan Pewer, Headbutt. COMPERE? President Nasser of Egypt and Joyce Grenfell."

"The cab driver's eyes are popping in his head. He's had Tarby and besty and an MP or two. But the Queen of Egypt and her courtiers, come back to life in the back streets of Bow? The wife'll never believe it!"

PROTEAN / TAAL ZAMAN:
"There are shadows of the great Egyptian divas in 'Taal Zaman', an ode to love at a distance sung by Natacha Atlas with aching intensity against a string orchestra from Cairo and a massive techno trance beat."

SHIMMER
"There's this angry-sounding gentleman ranting about Aborigines and world wars and the like and then the hook hits you from heaven!"

"It's just that I didn't know human beings could actually do those things with their hips. At least not without ball bearings or some other mechanical device."

TEMPLE HEAD
"There's this tune, you know the one. A real end of night anthem, slow (or is it fast?), stacks of tribal chants, probably the most original dance floor excursion this year..."

"Trans-Global Underground: a band, a collective or an unhinged bunch of loonies?"

"The Human Queeker is a man of indeterminate origin. "I belong to the world" he says graciously. "But biologically I am a Somali gypsy.". He is also an excellent mimic, getting my voice down pat within minutes and making the interview impossible to transcribe."

I, VOYAGER
"I don't have a clue what's going on with the TGU record except that it's silky, smooth and sexy - probably the best shagging record of the year."