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The origins of bedroom pop music probably stretch back much further than this, but for my money the man ultimately responsible for the success of Lily Allen, Jamie T and every other homespun ‘MySpace sensation’ is none other than Jyoti Mishra, who – under his White Town guise – scored a Number One in the UK singles charts back in 1997. This contemporary interview from Wired tells how “Your Woman”, Mishra’s one and only hit, was produced in his bedroom using a Tascam 668 multi-track tape recorder and an Atari ST. It’s debatable, to say the least, whether or not the song’s rise from lair to the daytime playlists of BBC Radio 1 signalled the start of the end for major labels, but in 2008 Vincent Frank’s pop music sounds like a lament, anyway, for the lost glamour of off-limits sound stars and the room the teenage imagination had to manoeuvre around them. A bedroom pop star in the making himself, one of the two remixes of Frankmusik below comes from Christian of Croydon pals Party Shank, the other from Vincent himself. You’d think pop would be full from eating itself by now, but what one man gets up to in the comfort of his own bedroom isn’t anything to do with us.

Sounds like: A-Ha, Simian Mobile Disco, T2

Download: Frankmusik - 3 Little Words (A1 Bassline Remix)

Download: Frankmusik - 3 Little Words (The Heaths Remix)

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Download: Paige 3 - Prophets (Frankmusik Remix)

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