I think I first heard Scottish musician Dot Allison's music in the late '90s while living in Pittsburgh. I bought her debut CD Afterglow which was quite wonderful, in the genre of, let's say Beth Orton and Dido, but not quite as middlebrow and inoffensive as, at least, Dido. She had been a part of the electronic band One Dove who had released one great album before disintegrating. Afterglow was pop, but it was also odd and strange with unexpected noises and beats. One of the stranger tracks was "Message Personnel" which was then remixed by another famous Scottish band Arab Strap (another early 2000s favorite of mine) who completely transformed the decidedly morose track into an absolute jewel of late nineties electronic pop.
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