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January

Naïssam Jalal ❀ Quest of the Invisible

Solemn, nocturnal, beautiful and such a change from my usual electronic listens. Flute in Arabic jazz is a wonderful thing.

Thanks to snow_over_mongolia for the recommendation!

▷ Web page (in French)
▷ RYM

Maurice Louca ❀ Saet El Hazz (The Luck Hour)

And this one is Arabic experimental folk, different but also nocturnal and immersive — a beautiful calm atmosphere and custom versions of traditional instruments played microtonally (though the timbres also stand out as interesting and unusual).

Thanks to Odiopal for the recommendation!

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

Material Girl ❀ Drujjha

Could be my favourite release by him so far? “Material Girl Meets the Devil Pt. 2” is definitely my favourite track of his (he’s so good at packing intense emotions into a few lines), and the rest is all really good too — melancholic, experimental, occasionally jazzy (the closer especially). “We Both Know It’s True” contains some minimal shrill tones and several minutes of silence, which may put some listeners off but you know I’m into this kind of thing. (Speaking of which, ↓)

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

Inge Marie ❀ Collected Birdsong Recordings, 2020–2021

Harsh and beautiful. This features ear-splitting tones (biting cold) which makes it impossible to listen to on headphones for me (speakers it is), but over some ambient tracks that truly resonate with me, sometimes massive and distant, at other times intimate and warm. Of all the EAI-related works I’ve listened to, this counts among my favourites — and a rare one I find evocative instead of being fully abstract. The cover art is spot on.

Thank you Inge for making this!

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

Radiohead ❀ Kid A Mnesia Exhibition

Did you also doodle Radiohead bears in the margins of your school notebooks? If you’re gen Y like me, did you like Radiohead’s website, with the mixed media pictures, labyrinthine links, videos and cryptic / mood texts? I was all over that at the time and I still am (actually I tried to make my own website a bit like that).

This digital exhibition is great — it expands on their ideas in all kind of cool ways that may not have been technically possible at the time. (Also some of the lyrics and texts make more sense to me now than they did then — especially the ones that have anything to do with politics.) You don’t get to swim and explore the flooded city from the original “Pyramid Song” video, but the experiences you get instead are worth it!

▷ Official website (free on PC (on Epic Games only though) and PS5)
▷ Glitchwave

Naoko Yamada ❀ Liz and the Blue Bird

Watched this on New Year’s Eve — I’m always kind of sad then because I’m not sure I really want to go out and drink and party with friends but I still feel bad when I don’t get to, so watching a film is one of my favourite things to do.

A simple unrequited love story between two musicians. The story is minimal and it all happens at a slow pace, in a small setting, which makes it all the more moving maybe. It was nice!

▷ RYM

Lexie Liu ❀ The Happy Star

Even better than Gone Gold — this is the kind of sleek, colourful, big-budget catchy pop I love! ♥

▷ Youtube
▷ RYM

Propergol ❀ Ground Proximity Warning System

Noxious industrial fumes and recordings from cockpits and airports of unknown provenances — perhaps documents before actual catastrophes, or it could be all fiction? This sounds atmospheric enough to make for great background listening, yet it could also be very disturbing depending on how you hear it.

Thanks to Phivium for the recommendation!

▷ RYM

Ammer / Einheit mit Pan Sonic und Gry ❀ Frost 79° 40’

And I was going to make a parallel with Ammer / Einheit’s Crashing Aeroplanes, which is great on a similar theme, but I think I like this one even more: a musical play about Scott Amundsen’s tragic expedition, narrated by a female voice in English while Günter Rüger plays the role of Amundsen in German (great voice acting from both), over experimental, dramatic and dynamic electronics. Does it sound cold? Yes and no, it’s more like a cruel but very exciting show!

Thanks to Birds for the recommendation!

▷ RYM

V/A (Haunter Records) ❀ forever

A long collection of post-industrial beats (somewhere between electro-industrial, dark ambient and deconstructed club) which I admit I downloaded just because of the cover — but it’s solid, consistently interesting, and has a cohesive surreal atmosphere.

One of the most memorable tracks in there is “Permanent Mute” by Helm, which goes DUNDUNDUNDUNDUNDUN beeep DUNDUNDUNDUNDUNDUN beeep DUNDUNDUNDUNDUNDUN beeep with accidental sounds (rattling, glass bottles clinking, synths, glitches) — super simple but haunting.

▷ Bandcamp
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Grimório de Abril ❀ A Lung Full of Flowers

Got this because I loved the intense purple on the cover! It’s good, like medieval sacred music fragments, distorted, decontextualized, repurposed to build an environment that’s weirdly sensual with faux mystical tones and a psychedelic, otherworldly feel.

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

The Legendary Pink Dots ❀ Chemical Playschool 15

Even stranger than the other albums I’ve heard by them, and with a different pace; dark, alluring, introspective, psychedelic long tracks, they have vocals but do not really feel like songs. More felt, more abstract, less constructed. Closer to ambient experiments, often atonal, dissonant. And the lyrics are as good as you’d expect from Ka-Spel, still my favourite storyteller in music.

Keep an ear out for my screams.

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

Deadbeat ❀ Drawn and Quartered

Sleek, electric, complex, lively dub techno.

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

Sault ❀

My two-cent takes on their latest five (!) albums (love this band, among my favourite neo-soul projects):

Earth is my favourite of the bunch, it’s one of the best records in their discography, love the batucada elements!;
11 feels like its sibling album and is also really good, with occasional dub and reggae elements (which they had already explored briefly on the 10 single, the same vocalist is back on this album, he’s good);
Today & Tomorrow... nah. The rock guitars just hold them back, all tracks end up sounding the same, lacking grooves and energy. Cool cover art but that’s about it;
(Untitled) God is a bit uneven but good, with some truly great tracks (the closer especially), a couple of misses and is generally a bit too long, like Untitled (Black Is) and Untitled (Rise) before it. Recommended for fans;
AIIR, while not essential, was a nice surprise — I expected it to be like AIR (their first modern classical, instrumental record with an orchestra and choirs and all, which I found more surprising than moving), but this one speaks to me more, it sounds more human and not just trying to be ethereal.

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

Pillow Fight ❀ We Know the Devil

At first I was scared by the official description because it sounded like it would be a cruel and disturbing story, but… the themes and mild content warnings convinced me to give it a try anyway. Good thing I did.

It’s very short, but I love the characters, the soundtrack (especially when it gets loud and intense towards the end) and how the story only makes sense when you can relate to it emotionally. I think this could resonate with you very strongly or miss you entirely depending on who you are (your relationship to religion, to other people, how queer you are?). Aim for the three normal endings then the true one (it doesn’t take long and you can fast forward all the parts you’ve already seen) — it gets better and better as you get to know the characters more, and the story just isn’t complete without the true ending.

And yes, Venus is everybody’s favourite and mine too because she’s the most relatable character I can think of right now, not just because she’s trans but the shyness, the awkwardness, the way she keeps her distances, eludes social situations by playing dumb. I know I’m not the only one.

Am I ever glad to be myself, weird and wonky and free now, to see myself and be seen as myself, rather than trying to be invisible and averting my eyes from all mirrors.

I really wouldn’t mind spending more time with these characters. Like a comic book with them, I’d be all over that. Going to look at some fan art now.

▷ Itch.io
▷ Glitchwave



February

Ariel Kalma ❀ Le temps des moissons

Aerial but lively, psychedelic, mystical drone folk
fiery, jazzy playing over very relaxing drones
with dust and surface noise (it’s an old album), but somehow that works, it makes it even better?

(Also yes the cover art of the handmade first edition was the artist hand-silhouetting his own hand)

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

Gorogoa

A beautiful and original puzzle game that’s all about changing frames to keep the story going. It’s very short (you can probably finish it in one session, took me two or three short ones but I’m slow). I like games that are like interactive books, like this and The Unfinished Swan!

▷ Official website
▷ Glitchwave

Juba ❀ Fact Mix 878

Love seeing releases with five secondary genres and no primary one! Contemporary beats, a selection focussed on African artists (“from Afrotech to gqom, global bass, Asokpor, drum and techno and flavours in between”). Named best mix of 2022 by Resident Advisor.

▷ Soundcloud
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Moodymann ❀ Taken Away

Deep house with full vocals, close to soul (no jazz this time), with smooth grooves and punchy beats — songs about love, breakups and drugs, quality as you’d expect from the artist. (He still sounds like a jerk in relationships though tbh.) Could have been a bit longer maybe, especially as the last track takes the music to darker, more anxious place I also like but then just stops there.

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

Prince Waly ❀ Moussa

I started getting into French hip hop — a genre I’m rarely into, but Ayaash curated a monthly selection on one of the servers I’m on so I dug in and found a bunch of things I really liked! This one is my favourite, conscious, close to boom bap, kind of an old school vibe, with impeccable production (no autotune), good flow too (and I like how Prince Waly uses several ways to pronounce French, sometimes tweaking the consonants just a bit to change the overall feel). Even the interludes are good.

▷ RYM

joaqm ❀ la liste de lecture Fm70.7

This one is quirky and short — his voice is kind of childish and high pitched, the album sometimes sounds disjointed or like unfinished sketches yet it’s brilliant, always working in odd ways (or straightforwardly with an odd sound). Gets better and better with each listen!

▷ Bandcamp
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Népal ❀ Adios Bahamas

And this is the (mostly) zen and moving one. I like some tracks more than others, but the most peaceful and introspective tracks (like the closer “Daruma”) are just beautiful.

Thanks Ayaash!

▷ Official page
▷ RYM

Willie Colón & Héctor Lavoe ❀ Vigilante

Getting into salsa (just a bit) then?
I checked this out because I love Set Fire to Me (his deep house single, first thing I heard by him)
You didn’t even need to tell me this is a film soundtrack, the title track sounds like an entire film in itself. Breathtaking.

But I think what I like about this album is the ambiguity, the different layers — like on “Juanito Alimaña”, even though it is stylistically straightforward (like, exactly what I imagined salsa to be, no surprises there) and I can’t understand the lyrics, I was never sure what the next note was going to bring, excitement, joy, tension. Very satisfying chorus too, and the fact that it takes its time to get there makes it even better.

(Only the last track is disappointing, it lacks the depth the first three had and just falls flat to my ears. Still great all in all though.)

▷ RYM

Kali Malone featuring Stephen O’Malley & Lucy Railton ❀ Does Spring Hide Its Joy

I’m in the minority here, but I liked the previous works I’ve heard by Kali Malone without loving them. (The slow-but-not-quite-drone pacing of The Sacrificial Code is like a low tension that’s just continuously there and I wish it would either evolve or resolve; conversely, I feel like Living Torch ends before it reaches its full potential.)

This one is solid classical drone and my favourite by her so far. Electronics, cello and electric guitar; three renditions of the same hour-long composition, similar but still different enough to justify including all three (I skipped the digital "1.1", "1.2"… versions though, they’re just edited parts for the vinyl version (why would you even cut such a piece into thirds?)). Penumbral, overall calm and introspective but with depth and contained power.

▷ Bandcamp
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이윤정 ❀ 進化

Hybrid 9os electronic pop with elements from breakbeat, big beat, hip hop, trip hop — catchy and colourful on the surface, but it’s more oblique than it appears, with some underlying darkness, aggressive at times, pretty fascinating. I couldn’t name a favourite track but something about the whole album keeps me coming back.

GrapeOfWrath’s review comparing this to both Sheena Ringo and Lee Jung-hyun is on point too.

▷ RYM

Clifford D. Simak ❀ City

If I don’t already know that information, I like to guess when a book was written — see what tips me off and when. This one kept me guessing for pretty long and I still underestimated how old it was! Great read, and I really liked the overall structure with short stories following each other, sometimes centuries apart, each presenting a new idea.

Mike Ratledge ❀ Riddles of the Sphinx

Another old, psychedelic one with surface noise — it’s been a favourite of mine for a while. Sounds like ancient, unsolved yet familiar mysteries, starring female characters who cross bridges between this world and others, ancient or imagined. I can relate to that.

(Actually the soundtrack to a 1977 experimental film I still haven’t seen.

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

Asher Tuil ❀ Three Compositions (January, 2oo5)

Three long tracks of dark, quiet textures + even quieter ambient, like very slow and distant series of notes that may or may not form melodies.

▷ Bandcamp
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Moki ❀ Sumpfland

My German isn’t great but it was enough for this graphic novel, often textless, about strange creatures living, mutating, loving, dying, organic life in all its strangeness. It all seems to happen in the same forest swamp but each person and each story is so different. Some simple. Some complex. All printed on green paper, looks really good.

▷ Artist’s website

Return of the Obra Dinn

Yay mystery solving on a ship with mysterious, ancient technology! The concept is great, the beginning can be a bit off-putting as the game starts by throwing dozens of cutscenes at you (= dozens of riddles you can barely seem to solve a tenth of at first), but once things settle a bit and you get the hang of it, it just gets better and better. I’ve never played anything else like this.

I also think it looks really cool with the IBM 8503 colour scheme and sharp rendering.

▷ Official website
▷ Glitchwave



March

André O. Möller with Christopher Nicolaus and Rasha Ragab ❀ Music for Stone Harps

= Instruments made of granite, played by wet hands. They sound as nice as you’d expect if you like the sounds of stones and of wet glasses! This is a pretty extensive collection with short drone tracks and longer ones, a little austere (as expected from Wandelweiser) (though after listening to some of the most austere early Wandelweisers, I’m often surprised by how listenable their recent releases can be) but with rich tones and neither too minimal nor too dissonant. “Stoned Fridge” sounds like it has feedback or another kind of processing added too.

▷ Editions Wandelweiser
▷ RYM

David Toop & Max Eastley ❀ Buried Dreams

Somewhere on the fringe of tribal ambient, in one of its most interesting parts. Not trying to emulate any musical tradition, these soundscapes sound wild and unreal, perhaps a bit menacing — even futuristic by some aspects. (The artists also collaborated on a free improv / EAI album; I think I like this better though.)

▷ RYM

23wa ❀ 3

Stream-of-consciousness experimental hip hop, think a bit like JPEGMAFIA but softer / head-in-the-clouds / in an altered state, always likely to change abruptly and switch beats (or get glitchy or angry) midway through. Lyrics are all in French but I couldn’t even tell you what they’re about, I like this for the beats.

▷ Bandcamp
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Hecker ❀ I T ISO161975

Ominous humming, almost ambient glitch but evocative of a hellish machine that’s merely on sleep mode for the moment — much easier to get into than the other Hecker albums I’ve heard, which tend to be in-your-face mega weird. It’s pretty short but the remixes album [r*] Iso | Chall is a nice followup, hit-and-miss but worth getting if you like this!

▷ RYM

Peter Rehberg ❀ Work for GV 2004–2008

Compositions for Gisèle Vienne’s shows with puppets — dramatic, intense, evocative, dark. Eerie glitch. Walls of distorted guitars and noise. Spaces. But compared to the other works I’ve heard by Rehberg (= Pita) it’s also more accessible, with melodic and expressive tracks.

Content warning: the spoken word (especially on the two “ML” tracks) is explicit and contains strong physical violence + abuse, delivered in an almost but not quite toneless voice, I have no idea who the character is without context (I’d be curious to know, actually) but he’s definitely fucked up, toxic and dangerous as hell. Somehow the delivery, brooding drones and noise make this work.

▷ Bandcamp
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Gonçalo M. Tavares ❀ Uma Viagem à Índia [Voyage to India]

Is this a novel? Poetry? (Even bordering on philosophy?) Perhaps a contemporary take on the epic poem, or anti-epic as the protagonist is definitely not a hero?

Bloom is a troubled man, haunted by past deaths and love, departing for India to find wisdom and perhaps peace. But his story is more of a pretext to focus on each aspect of his trip and the world around it, and this gives the book a fascinating structure — the story is told in ten cantos divided into very short fragments, each of which could also stand alone. Reading them in succession makes Voyage to India read like a novel, but focussing on each one turns the book into poetry. I think you could re-read this many times and discover something you missed every time.

Tavares’s books are unlike anything else I’ve read, so fascinating but also so cold, with so many characters acting cruelly for no good reason. Perhaps he’s a genius. Perhaps he’s also a psychopath.

Floy Krouchi ❀ Vibrant Continuum

Found out about this artist because she created the soundtrack to a radio exploration of Fukushima (I like these experimental France Culture broadcasts, you never know what you’re going to get — once it was a documentary about a couple of guys infiltrating trains at night and sometimes staying days in unknown locations, another time it was just field recordings of nature in Sri Lanka (I think it was Sri Lanka?) with no commentary, or just people talking about silence.)

These are bassy, crisp experimental tracks, some of which sound close to industrial music (Geiger counter sounds wouldn’t sound out of place here either). Inspired by raga music, though I’m not really hearing this.

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

Exael ❀ HNYPOT 348: Exael’s Seraphim Vape Mix

At times dreamlike, at times rhythmic and vivid — IDM (mostly), ambient trance, progressive electronic, minimalism and other eclectic picks. Sometimes it seems like it’s hovering around ambient music without ever being fully ambient.

▷ Soundcloud (free download)
▷ RYM

Isabella Lovestory ❀ Amor Hardcore

Catchy, sensual (often sexual) and hedonistic, but also raw and with a coldness in the sound — a bit like ABRA in this way, like on “Exibistionista”, it’s so addictive but also haunting with the reverb and wailing synths.

▷ RYM

OS2//WARP ❀

Three releases that seem connected, or maybe they just have similar covers? I thought I’d give them a try and found that they make a pretty good long playlist:

To the Other Half of One’s Flesh — Distorted, unnerving glitchy sounds, interesting in contrast with the other two though it overstays its welcome (I would keep a shorter edit as an intro);

When Tomorrow Came, They Were All Gone — Starts with an erratic, unpredictable drumming sequence that is looped for the entire track — then a nice drone is added and this makes it really work;

Your Eye Is a Lens Upon Its Mirror — Abrasive but peaceful, as if steadily burning, power ambient/drone piece that warrants its two-hour duration.

▷ Bandcamp

Wareika ❀ Harmonie Park

Deep house + microhouse with a distinctly Perlon sound, but this also sounds like they were inspired by The Necks? Jazzy, atmospheric, fluid, and although it’s divided into nine “scenes” this is all a continous hour-long composition.

▷ Discogs
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Moving Still ❀ Tafadal تفضل

Music for Arab robots who like to dance furiously to acid

▷ Bandcamp
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Foudre! ❀ Kami 神

It was a good idea to look for more projects like Light of Shipwreck (relaxing drone + intense percussions that fade in and out, with a bit of a post-rock influence)! This has some similarities with Tarentel too, some with power ambient (e.g. fuzzy, abrasive, busy ambient/drone), with some industrial elements, intense and melancholic.

▷ Bandcamp
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Kelela ❀ Raven

Her previous records had songs I loved like “Frontline”, “LMK” or “Rewind”, but this is the first record of hers I really vibe with from start to finish — and the way the entire album flows seamlessly is lovely too, like how the melody keeps going but the beats wake up when “Let It Go” segues into “On the Run”, it’s a detail but I love it. Also the breakbeats. It hits deeper.

▷ Bandcamp
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仮想夢プラザ [Virtual Dream Plaza] ❀ 精神ガイド [Spirit Guide]

You know that location in Undertale with the underground waterfalls and peaceful, introspective music? I stayed there for a while, just resting, having a cup of tea because it was so peaceful and nice.

This sounds a bit like that.

▷ Bandcamp
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April

Midori Takada & Lafawndah ❀ Le renard bleu

A little time out of time and out of this world, bridging music from different eras, talking to a mythical animal you’ve never seen. Or perhaps only in dreams.

(This is the best kind of collaboration too, I would never have pictured these artists together and it works really well + both are enhancing each other’s strengths)


▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

Artemiy Artemiev ❀ Five Mystery Tales of Asia

Deep ambient cut from the 90s — half-dark, exotic and mysterious indeed. I like Artemiev, his works are sometimes a little dated (or niche in that way tribal ambient albums are) but in a good way, often nicely cinematic or emotional too.

▷ RYM

Barry Adamson ❀ Oedipus Schmœdipus

Funky, quirky, slightly sleazy noir fun! Talking about things like sexual desire and dolls and therapy and whatever, all about the grooves and attitude. Not nearly as creepy as the cover might suggest, but... just a little bit.

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

Mézigue feat. Sans-Qui ❀ Je ne veux pas rentrer chez moi seule (Tout au Final Reshape)



(edit of Regrets’ “Je ne veux pas rentrer chez moi seule” — French pop song from 1983 about being thirsty, chasing boys and not caring about your safety, with added acid and beats)

▷ Bandcamp
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billy woods ❀ Aethiopes

The more I listen to this, the stronger and more catchy it sounds. The production is more straightforward than on Armand Hammer’s Paraffin (which still impresses me every time I listen to it, it’s just out of this world in a futuristic + unpredictable way) but this highlights different strengths of the artist, more about the rap and songwriting. Will keep exploring these artists’ discographies.

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

David Lynch ❀ Mulholland Drive

First saw this a while ago when it aired on TV (with my mum coming downstairs and deciding to watch the film with me even though she had missed the entire first half — I don’t think she enjoyed it). Felt it was time for a rewatch.

I remembered it being disturbing, cryptic, dark and sad, but I didn’t remember it being actually funny at times, and altogether so heartbreaking.

Even real-life Los Angeles seems like hell to be honest. The club Silencio scene is so good. The use of the colour blue is haunting. I should try and find Lynchian films set in different places, like outside of huge American cities, I think I’d like that; my favourite Lynch work so far is Twin Peaks: The Return and the semi-rural setting is one of the reasons why (also the pacing, atmosphere and extra weirdness)

Remedy Entertainment ❀ Control

In which you’re appointed director of a US federal agency like five minutes after stepping inside, acquire telekinesis powers and wreck the rooms by throwing coffee machines, seats and other random stuff at the possessed office workers who are levitating and chanting or screeching and attacking you. It’s fun!

It also has style, the right dose of horror and humour without being obnoxious, a bit of Finnish weirdness and an amazing doctor named Casper Darling. I’m more into nonviolent weird indie games now, but that’s a big-budget one I recommend. Despite it all happening in a grey building with no windows. The Foundation DLC is also good.

I wonder if Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves was an inspiration? I didn’t think about it until spoiler: click to read. Also, the songs in the ending credits are two old favourites of mine (Tricky “Vent” and Porcupine Tree “Fear of a Blank Planet”).

▷ Official website
▷ Glitchwave

goreshit ❀ goretrance 9

:emoji of rainbow character vibing hard:

Makes me feel like a mad loving goddess of destruction nuking everything on planet Earth with blinding pink light beams or something; the first track here (based on 3LAU’s “We Came to Bang”) is easily the best I’ve heard in the genre

Discovered via Breakcore/Mashcore/Lolicore/Dancecore Mega Mix PART 1, thanks Ullur!

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

MMMD & Alem ❀ L’âge de l’absolutisme

I wouldn’t have thought that sepulchral drones would go so well with classical harspichord compositions! These renditions are unusual but very respectful of the originals and not gimmicky, I don’t think I’ve heard this effect anywhere else before. (This is the only version of Bach’s “Air” I’ve heard that I like.)

I wouldn’t mind hearing more of this, at three tracks it’s a little short (which is a usual flaw with MMMD, they make good atmospheric records but most of them are just half an hour long)

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

Guedra Guedra كدرة كدرة ❀ Vexillology

Refreshing blend of gnawa, house and juke, the rhythms here are great and the sound is as bright and hybridized as the cover

▷ Bandcamp
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Don Cherry & Jean Schwarz ❀ Roundtrip

Really nice experimental / spiritual jazz jam (all tracks seguing into each other) with a focus on rhythms, almost hypnotic.

▷ Bandcamp
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MCR-T & horsegiirL ❀ Farm Fantasies

Very silly, catchy and fun and yes this is as colourful and trashy as the cover implies — you know you’ve found some wild stuff when the Discogs profile of an artist just says “Black artist disguised as a horse, based in Berlin, Germany”.

Blame and/or thank Ariel Zetina for this (she included one track on her FACT mix last year) — I’m not surprised to see Partiboi69 in the related artists as well

▷ Bandcamp
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Wah Wah Wino ❀ KWALK

I agree with YGR2’s review — a pleasantly dreamlike collage, often gently floating in a daze, sometimes getting into strange experimental twing twangs and binaural organs and found sounds and stuff. Inspired by ketamine (yes, the drug).

Thanks to rtdx for the recommendation!

▷ Boomkat
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Satanicpornocultshop ❀ Arkhaiomelisidonophunikheratos

Music for being a jolly little monster in spring, hopping around and dancing and twirling your bionic appendages, singing along classic French songs from the 1960s

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The Hafler Trio ❀ How to Slice a Loaf of Bread

I remembered this getting a lukewarm reception when it was released, with listeners (or was it just Aquarius Records?) saying it was way overpriced and not substantial enough — like, just McKenzie just droning ad libitum for a live show and selling it as a super special deluxe thing. Maybe that’s kind of true, but I enjoy it — McKenzie is good at droning.

(And price and concept aren’t really a concern if you get it on Soulseek with no better scans than this very lo-res picture of the front cover)

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