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#6MusicXL - Help Create an XL Recordings Anniversary Playlist

Help Tom Robinson celebrate the 25th anniversary of XL Recordings with a playlist featuring artists linked to this seminal independent label.

Tom Robinson invites 6 Music listeners to celebrate the 25th anniversary of XL Recordings with a playlist featuring artists linked to this seminal independent label.
Founded in 1989 originally as a rave and dance offshoot of the Beggars Banquet label, XL's diverse signings have since included The White Stripes, Beck, Adele, Jamie xx, The Prodigy, Thom Yorke, Basement Jaxx, Gil Scott-Heron, SBTRKT, Vampire Weekend and Jungle.
As part of the label's 2014 birthday celebrations, XL Recordings revealed plans online this week of a compilation album marking its 25 years, which will be available on August 25.

In the sleeve notes to the album, XL owner Richard Russell writes: "XL Recordings is a collaborative endeavour, and many people have contributed to its evolution". Gill Scott Heron also once said to not even consider XL an "independent", because everything is connected.

So in honour Now Playing hands the show over to 6 Music listeners to compile an unmissable playlist inspired by the label and the artists and bands connected to it.

Send in suggestions via Twitter using #6MusicXL, post on the Now Playing blog or the 6 Music and Now Playing Facebook pages, drag tracks onto the collaborative Spotify and Rdio playlists, or via the other usual live show contact methods.

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Sun 10 Aug 2014 18:00
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Music Played

  • SL2

    On A Ragga Tip

    • On A Ragga Tip.
    • XL.

  • Liquid

    Sweet Harmony

    • (CD Single).
    • XL.
    • 3.

  • The White Stripes

    Fell in Love With a Girl

    • XL.

  • Selected by owner of xl recordings Richard Russell

    • Bobby Womack

      Please Forgive My Heart

  • The Horrors

    A Sea Within A Sea

  • The Prodigy

    Out of Space

  • Max Romeo

    Chase the Devil

  • selected by acting editor of gigwise andrew trendell

    • Radiohead

      15 Step

  • Atoms for Peace

    Judge, Jury & Executioner

    • XL Recordings.

  • Badly Drawn Boy

    Once Around the Block

    • XL.

  • Vampire Weekend

    A-Punk

    • CD SINGLE.
    • XL.

  • Jungle

    The Heat

    • CD Single.
    • XL Records.

  • Frankie Bones And Lenny Dee

    Just As Long As I Got You (Original Version)

  • Roni Size / Reprazent

    Brown Paper Bag

    • Talkin' Loud.

  • Roy Davis Jr Featuring Peven Everett

    Gabriel

  • The Avalanches

    Since I Left You

    • XL.

  • Aphex Twin

    Flim

  • M.I.A.

    Paper Planes

    • CD SINGLE.
    • XL.
    • 1.

  • Peaches

    Talk to Me

    • CD SINGLE.
    • XL.
    • 1.

  • FKA twigs

    Water Me

  • Sigur RΓ³s

    Vid Spilum Endalaust

    • Meo SuoI Eyrum Vio Spilum Endalaust.
    • Parlophone.
    • 1.

  • Breakbeat Era

    Breakbeat Era

  • Adele

    Rolling In The Deep (Jamie XX Shuffle)

Broadcast

  • Sun 10 Aug 2014 18:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 6 Music