If I were to select my favourite track of the current millennium, The Venopian Solitude's Mother Earth & Father Man-Made would be a very strong contender. It appeared as part of the Sangfroid EP in February 2010, a release which, like much of the artist's other output, was available as a free download.
TVS is a solo Malaysian artist who came to my attention purely by chance in 2010 and, when I played it in my Dandelion show, it generated more feedback than I've had from any track before or since. It went on to be placed at number 18 in that year's Festive Fifty.
Despite my comments in my Dandelion Radio retrospective this month, it appears the track and the Sangfroid EP are still available on the artist's Bandcamp site, which was updated fairly regularly until 2012 and then hosted what seems to be a one-off 2020 release. There's a quirky, lilting quality to everything she does but nothing matches this.
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