Description: Exuberance/Ebullience, banter, possibly an interview, context and connection, the familiar, the strange.
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May 21, 2026: 250
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Track
Album
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Year
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New
Music behind DJ:
Ocean Therapy
Rosy Sea
Along The Coast
Ambia Sleep and Meditation
2024
Mills
Just an Idiot
Outtakes and Mistakes
Alistair Mills
2024
Mills has 8 monthly listeners. We need to get that number up, because this British guy makes good music. Maybe he is just an idiot, but this is good idiot music. Not only is this tune relateable, but the icing on the cake is that nice Daniel Ash guitar bit. I freakin love this song from Mystery Mills!
Irked
Death Cult
The Grievance
Wrong Speed Records
2026
Based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the quartet’s debut, The Grievance, blazes with their own particular (fire)brand of bruising garage punk with vocals howled by a twirling dervish of pure fury. Whether it’s in the short, sharp jolt of sub-one-minute rager ‘Running’, or ‘Who Asked’s grim cycle of working and drinking, underlined by the chorus “Why does everybody want to fuck with me?”, the band are never far from spitting out a mouth full of bile. The hard-working and hard touring band play hard and fast too. Simon Hubbard’s razor-wire guitars slice the air as the combustion engine rhythm section, made up of Zachary McDade’s pounded tubs and the rumbling bass of Michael Hill, rockets everything onward at a pace that could get photographs of your number plate posted to your home. They’re up against a hard world and every stony face in it presents another hurdle to overcome. Another grievance. It’s fair to assume that these battle-hardened punks would have hardened their hearts too. Instead, there’s an optimism in their rage. A positivity rather than a nihilistic submission to the void. A sense that these wrongs can be righted. They might be Irked, but they’re certainly not giving in. - The Quietus
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Stuart Pearce
New Cod War
Red Sport International
Safe Suburban Homes
2023
Hailing from Nottingham, they are "UK's premier beat combo"... Composite: dialectical materialism w/conventional instrumentation n a world obsessed with trends; where keeping up with algorithm diktat occupies contemporary musicians'; where the obsession with capturing minute bursts of attention trumps exploration of the creative impulse – SP stand tall and reject; forging their own path and celebrating those that stick to their vision and ignore all the noise from the sidelines...exploring 60s Psychedelia and 80s Jangle Pop, combines it with contemporary production and a general disdain for the demands of a deformed culture industry, to turn out a cohesive three-minute pop single.
STEEF
So It Seems I Flirt With Death
Reality = Hell
STEEF
2026
STEEF is a freak-rock entity that rose from the Louisiana swamps in 2022 with a raw and unhinged debut EP titled “POST F”. Its ethos is a blend of astonishing technical skill and endless imagination, culminating in brain-scrambling psychedelic benders. Originally the solo project of Stevie Spring, STEEF has since blossomed into a full live band, featuring superbassist Avery Legendre, synth wizard Code Kilgo, guitar maniac Cole Jones, and tech-death drum beast Shannon Paine-Jesam, with Spring’s tripped-out lead vocals and oddly angled guitar licks at the helm. Sophomore album hngryhrnybrken (pronounced “hungry horny broken”), while still freewheeling in spirit, applies a more attentive approach to its conceptual collage, full of left-field samples and inventive synthesized drumming.
STEEF is currently working on tunes that push its sound into even wilder territory and, for the first time, see Spring bringing the full band into the studio. Equipped with an attitude silly enough to melt the hardest of hearts — and a hypeman who calls crowds of “BELEEFERS” to action at its epic live shows — STEEF is simply too fun to fail.
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Saudi Oil
Hair In My Shower Drain
Single
Saudi Oil
2026
"If you want frictionless, easy-to-predict-the-next-hook pop music, then Saudi Oil might not be for you. BUT, we argue it's exactly what you should be listening to, as its brash, irreverent, antennae-probing spirit is what good music is and motivates us to be better. That said, describing this incredible NYC band with anything other their own words feels like an injustice, for their very ethos is better felt, or possibly quipped in sardonic bites." Of the song, bandleader Chistopher Al- Jumah says "I think at its core the songs about being tired of yourself. The music vid leans into surreal but at its core its about the Sylvia Plath fig story and how when youre aging you start seeing life paths deteriorate as you’re forced to make some decisions about where you want your life to go"...
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Buddy Wynkoop
Nouveau Riche
Single
Joy
2026
Sloganeering art-punk that never stops for breath, Portland’s Buddy Wynkoop follow last year’s Better Than Botox LP with whirligig Nouveau Riche. It’s loud, energising, and insists upon your attention: a manifesto set to music. Spitting out fire and brimstone like a volcano on the edge of eruption, the lyrics aren’t hidden from view. They’re upfront and personal, delivered with a passion that is infectious and maybe, maybe, just a little bit enjoyably scary in its disinhibition. States the band, “The song’s lyrical themes draw on mono no aware, a Japanese concept that describes a sensitivity to impermanence, the quiet, bittersweet awareness that things are beautiful precisely because they don’t last. Like cherry blossoms or youth, their fleeting nature is what gives them meaning.”
They continue, “In contrast, the song reflects on how modern capitalism often encounters these same moments of beauty and transience only to extract and commodify them, monetizing what is ephemeral, then quickly discarding it in pursuit of the next thing, rather than pausing to appreciate it for what it is.” - analoguetrash
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The Foreign Body
SURPRISE
Single
99 Overallco
2026
WE ARE OFFICIALLY THE FIRST BAND EVER TO MAKE A SONG ABOUT NOT BEING ABLE TO MAKE YOU DANCE, WHILE MAKING YOU WANT TO DANCE. DONT LOOK IT UP. Foreign Body formed in New York City in 2022 and quickly released an EP and a pair of demos. Their debut album Fixed followed via the cult Malaysian label Menora Recordings in 2023 with a 2025 re-release on Reanimated Miscarriage. Fixed got the attention of many in the underground thanks to both the band’s ferocity and its raw, unflinching lyrics. Intellient punk that you can dance to, and punch things to. While dancing. Fun Fact: "Foreign Body Surprise" typically refers to the unexpected discovery of retained or swallowed objects in the body, such as swallowed toy parts, unhygienic inclusions, or forgotten surgical items. In medical contexts, these unexpected objects are often diagnosed using X-rays or during surgical procedures.
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Justin & The Cosmics
E N E R G Y
E N E R G Y
Cosmic Thug Records
2026
There is something about repeating a word over and over until it morphs into something unrecocgnizable or some kind of mantra...."“If you want to see a real punk band, not some indie band that calls themselves that because they use fuzz pedals and wear Converse, then Justin & the Cosmics is the band you need to see. There’s the Clash, the Modern Lovers, and even that original punk, Elvis, all in their sound. Collins is a sneering amalgam of, like, every early American male badass; Johnny Cash, James Dean, Elvis, and Dylan are all there. His voice was gritty and snotty and at moments drifted into southern rockabilly inflections. If you’re looking for the great punk-influenced rock and roll in Nashville, this band was smarter, were better performers, and more authentic than all the groups of children hardly old enough to drink that constantly get buzz as the best ‘punk’ groups in town.” - No Country For New Nashville
Music behind DJ:
Peter Winslow
Beachcomber
KPM Series 1000: Summer Songbirds
KPM Library
1973
Party Dozen
Special Unit
Special Unit [Digital Single]
City Slang / Grupo
2026
Released May 19, 2026. "Sydney psych-noise duo Party Dozen have announced their signing to City Slang and unveiled new single, "Special Unit"." ........................ ""Special Unit" follows a string of previous single releases throughout 2025 and the pair's 2024 album, Crime In Australia. The track was written, performed, recorded, mixed and mastered by the band themselves, formed by saxophonist Kirsty Tickle and percussionist Jonathan Boulet." .................. "Speaking about the song, Party Dozen say, "You have the right to remain stupid. Anything you say or do will be laughable. If you cannot afford common sense, a version of it will be provided for you. You have minimal training and exhibit zero qualities that qualify you for the authority bestowed upon you. So here’s your gun, and your uniform. Have fun out there and welcome to SPECIAL UNIT."" PARTY DOZEN - SPECIAL UNIT (Official Video)
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Loose Fit
Diminishing Excess
Bittersweet Excess
Dinosaur City
2026
Released May 22, 2026 --- Which is now in Australia; but has not yet arrived in our EST. .............. Anna, Richard, Kaylene, Max. ............. Making music on Gadigal Land, Sydney, Australia. .................. [email protected] ............... instagram.com/loose___fit/ ........................ "The notion of being open to sublimity and grace, while reconciling with the grief and despair that surrounds you, is a tension that snakes through Loose Fit’s exhilarating new EP Bittersweet Excess out now on Dinosaur City. ............... On this new collection of songs, Eora/Sydney-based quartet Loose Fit (Kaylene Milner, Max Edgar, Richard Martin and Anna Langdon) expand their tightly wound post-punk sound, collaborating closely with musician, producer and DJ Hugh Burridge (Hugh B). Across the EP’s four tracks, the group explore deeper dub production techniques, settling into looser grooves that feel both tough and slinky. These spacious explorations are complemented by the figurative imagery of vocalist and saxophonist Anna Langdon, whose lyrics, she says, “span much more dreamy and ethereal territory than our previous work, dipping into prophetic visions, myths and philosophy.” ..................... But make no mistake, this metaphysical bent has not softened Loose Fit’s sound. The EP is awash with razor-sharp guitars, dubby bass and mutant dance-punk. Then there are the vocals, which oscillate between bodily, screechy yelps and wry deadpan ....................... "Loose Fit formed in 2017. The band was born out of a friendship between Milner (Wah-Wah) and Langdon, who had met at fashion design school years earlier." " https://loosefit.bandcamp.com/
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McClusky
spock culture
i sure am getting sick of this bowling alley
Ipecac Recordings
2026
Released May 1, 2026. ..... "mclusky have returned with new music (and some not-so-new music) in the form of a mini album called "i sure am getting sick of this bowling alley", .................. this follows their album "the world is still here and so are we" which was released in 2025. ..................... content. it drives the modern music world. photos. opinions. more photos. more opinions (please note - not all photos and opinions are bad, just 99 per cent of them). how about - and indulge me here - music? that content-y enough for you? fact is we can’t stop writing, at least at the moment. it’s fun (that’s all it needs to be). it’s the common denominator of band. only death will slow us down (note - it won’t stop us). ........................ the idea for this release started as a bit of a stop-gap - a thing with which to help promote the north american tour - and ended up as something else entirely. ‘i know computer’ and ‘as a dad’ are new and are singles (they may make the next album, who can say, it’s already half-recorded and you will like it). damien probably likes ‘i am computer’ a bit too much but that’s okay, the heart wants what the heart wants. ........................ ‘spock culture’ and ‘hi! we’re on strike’ were recorded during the the world sessions. why didn’t they make the album? i’m not sure. lyrically they are important historical documents, up there with the pusheen the cat books and/or the US constitution. ......................... ‘fan learning difficulties’ and ‘that was my brain on elves’ have only had a digital release before and are, to quote british children from forty years ago, ‘skill’. hopefully you can agree that i - and by osmosis, all of us - have read a lot of books. - falco x"
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Swell Maps
Au Rora
C21
Tiny Global Productions
2026
Jowe Head continues on as head Swell Map... C21, is the newest (unlikely?) addition to the Swell Maps canon, released as of April 3, 2026. ................ Says Jowe Head: "In December 2021, I organised a performance with ten musicians to perform Swell Maps music for two concerts on consecutive nights at Cafe Oto, a fine venue in Hackney, internationally renowned for it’s live presentations of alternative music. As well as performing a selection of the better-known Maps material, it gave me an opportunity to present material that had never been performed live before, such as “Bronze & Baby Shoes”, “Ghost Train”, “Jelly Babies”, “Wireless”, “Don’t Throw Ashtrays”, and “Collision With a Frogman”. .......................... It was a brilliant opportunity to feature some of Epic’s piano-based pieces, because we had Lucie Rejchrtova, a fine keyboard player, and Oto’s grand piano! The other contributors: Dave Callahan and Luke Haines (both guitar & vocals), Cos Chapman (lead guitar), Jeff Bloom and Ian Wadley (drums), Jasmine Pender (electric cello), Lee McFadden (bass & guitar), Jon Hodgson (bass), Gina Birch (vocals). Both sets at Cafe Oto were recorded, and I mixed the performances for an exciting live album, which is now available on the Glass Modern record label. ...................... I got back together with Dave, Lee, Jeff, Lucie, Luke, and Gina, at Rough Trade East in March 2022, to perform at the launch party for my book on Swell Maps. The band are continuing to operate as a collective in concert, the usual line-up consisting of: Dave, Lee, Jeff, Lucie, Chloe Herrington and myself. This line-up recorded a new Swell Maps album called “C21”, with Luke as a guest on a few tracks."
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HEATHEN AXE
Guzzler
HEATHEN AXE
DEATHGOD CORP
2026
It's John Dwyer o'clock again!!! His third release in just over a month, this one was released May 1 (Bandcamp Friday). He explains of this one... "I WANTED TO MAKE A TOTALLY FRIED RECORDING, QUICK AND DIRTY. ....... SORT OF A CATHARTIC EXPULSION. ............ CLEAN THE COBWEBS ......... I RECENTLY BOUGHT A VESTAX MR44 (THE BEST SOUNDING 4 TRACK EVER IMHO) ....... THE SAME 4 TRACK I RECORDED SOME COACHWHIPS. EARLY OCS ETC ON ......... NOW WE HAD THE TOOLS WE NEEDED ....... SO I SPENT A WEEK WRITING RIFFS AND BROUGHT THEM TO TOM DOLAS AND JOHN HODGE. ....... WE RAN THEM ONE TIME AND THEN RECORDED THEM ON THE SECOND GO. ....... LOOSELY IMPROVISED AND UNHINGED. ....... EVERYTHING TURNED ALL THE WAY UP ....... HOPE YOU DIG ....... PLAY LOUD ....... FOR FANS OF MAINLINER, HIGH RISE , COMETS ON FIRE , HAIR POLICE" ...... "HEATHEN AXE: JOHN DWYER GUITAR, VOCALS & NOISE MACHINES // TOM DOLAS BASS, TAMBOURINE & CLAPS // JOHN HODGE DRUMS"
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Music behind DJ:
Atabasca
Paco
Atabasca
Killer Groove Records
2026
From Italy. "Atabasca’s sound moves through jazz-funk, world, and cinematic territories, weaving together afrobeat, desert, and psychedelic influences into a personal and timeless language.Their music is imaginative and at times dreamlike, blending the classic concept of the instrumental trio with the worlds of film scoring and sound design." ..................... "Killer Groove Records proudly presents the self-titled debut album by Italian cinematic funk trio Atabasca. A sonic journey where funk, psychedelia and desert groove merge into a timeless narrative suspended between rhythm and vision. "Atabasca" marks the debut release from the cinematic funk trio" https://atabasca.bandcamp.com/
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MY LIBERAL PONY
OUMUAMUA
OUMUAMUA
Hot Earth Records
2026
"MY LIBERAL PONY IS AT TIMES SERIOUS, AT TIMES FUNNY, BUT ALWAYS THE INVITATION INTO AN MRI SCANNER THAT YOU DIDN'T KNOW YOU NEEDED.
MY LIBERAL PONY is not intended to be restricted to a specific genre.
MY LIBERAL PONY shows are a safe space.
MY LIBERAL PONY is not intended to infringe on any copyrights as outlined by the Hasbro corporation however it would also be quite funny if it did." They are from Reading/London and call themselves "hip hop art pop" And we agree. Weird, wonderful, we need more of this please...
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BOSS
Monkey Thoughts
Full Power
2022
Is It Math Rock? Yes? Maybe? But it's gutteral but also pop and synthy but also math rock and a bit yelly...and just...well it's fucking good. I like it. Makes me want to jerk back and forth. Also we all have monkey thoughts because we are still apes.
Perfect Chicken
HOG
Pecking Order
Sentric Music
2025
I love this because it could be a song from the Mighty Boosh. It's fun but also disturbing. And the sounds kinda make my skin crawl...and when this song hits...OH DOES IT EVER. Quite brilliant. Perfect Chicken hatched in 2023, after years of painful gestation. Teesside’s poultry purveyors of Regressive rock invite you to tickle your cochleae, at their discretion.
Here’s the word on the street about Perfect Chicken:
“If any musical act on Teesside right now represents the underground ethos it's Lazenby surrealist punks Perfect Chicken... [Gigs] which already teem with an unnatural comic delivery and onstage chemistry reminiscent of a young Vic and Bob.” – Narc Magazine
“It's a dizzy mix of surreal country, jazzy hardcore punk, wonky pop, heartfelt spoken word and a bit of good honest shouting. Like Andy Kaufman covering Pavement via Vic Reeves or something...” - Benefits (The Band)
“It’s chaotic as fuck... The infectious energy, unbelievable onstage chemistry and surreal, seemingly unrehearsed humour..” - Under The Hills Nearby Magazine
“Raging, scratchy, thrashy but often hilarious punk. a little country here, a little Pavement there. ...and so the legend of Perfect Chicken was hatched.” - Off The Beat Magazine
J'Cuzzi
asslesschaps.biz
asslesschaps.biz
Spaceflight Records
2026
A new single from J'Cuzzi bringing a bit of the Boognish and brown. "Austin artists J'cuuzi have been skyrocketing in popularity over the past year thanks to their eccentric approach to live music and performance art....when speaking of the "band," it may be more accurate to describe J'cuuzi as a shifting ensemble of larger-than-life characters. Swathed in avant-garde style and with the type of energy that could power an entire city, this two- and sometimes three-person troupe equally embraces fashion shoots and mosh pits." Psych meets pop meets glam meets chaos and I am ALL HERE FOR IT.
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David Cronenberg's Wife
Mark's Eight Tastes
Department of Biology
Blang
2026
I cannot help but feel that there is a major nod to MES going on here. With a wink towards the body horror auteur, David Cronenberg’s Wife (or DCW) are the house band in the biology theatre at the end of the world. They loop riffs in relentless cycles til they stop being riffs and become psychological conditions; the bass maintains the pulse; the guitars sharpen the knives; the drums suggest they’re growing extra limbs. Then, removing an eye from his microscope, the deadpan lecturer with the twinkle in his eye details narratives of the absurd and the macabre, all the while waiting for the weaker stomached of his audience to exit the room in despair. Told with devilish wit and displaying a vulnerability beneath the jagged edges, the musicians don’t so much soundtrack these stories as stalk them. The songs of DCW are unhinged to the point where the door at the dark side of the corridor falls off into the seediest underbelly of fun.
FUCKING LOVE THIS BAND.
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Widget
MANLY KUBRICK (HE SAYS SHIT LIKE)
Classy Hits Vol. II
Peach Records
2026
wonky, funky post punk. east london queer supergroup.
legends in our own time. u get the idea. fulfilling that one dream we've definitely all had where everyones face is danny dyer. "‘It’s absolutely bonkers that you go online, see the most horrific thing, and then you’re supposed to continue like it’s normal. It’s a trauma response, says Ky. ‘We’re quite a weird generation – we’re never had a rest from war, economic crashes and constant bullshit. Like our whole lives we’ve been under stress and strain.‘ Drummer and vocalist Zahra Haji Fath Ali Tehrani expands: ‘We watch genocide unfold on a mobile phone and then the next minute you’re looking at dog videos,‘ she says. ‘it de-sensitises people from the West to be able to see people from different backgrounds as people. It has the effect of disconnecting you.‘
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Double Sun, Evert Snyman
Roff
Springloader
Double Sun
2024
Double Sun hail from Pretoria, South Africa and they are "a 5-Piece Psychedelic Post Blues Punk Rock Experience with experimental influences." I say FUCKING EPIC. This track is as deep as it is wide. "If you’re looking for some good, clean, psych-rock fun – the sort that only surfaces every couple of years or so from the underground scenes which pulse through cities – Double Sun has a tune or two for you.
The Pretoria-hailing five-piece have been around for a while now – though I’m still inclined to consider them new kids on the block. They banded up in high school, spent a couple of years frequenting grimy Pretoria north stages, then the lockdown gave them the chance to sit down and write a 2020 album...since then they have been delivering heavy rock and psych on the scene in their native homeland, playing a ton of festivals and the like. They do have a new single out as well so check that out!
Music behind DJ:
Keith Mansfield
The Joys Ol Spring
KPM Series 1000: Voices In Harmony
KPM Music Ltd.
1973
Tricky
Because I Don't Know (feat. Mitch Sanders)
Different When It's Silent
False Idols
2026
This track released May 19 ahead of the yet-to-arrive July album......... From 'Soundsphere': "TRICKY Releases New Single ‘Because I Don’t Know’ Featuring Mitch Sanders. ................ Tricky today shares his new single ‘Because I Don’t Know’ featuring Mitch Sanders, the second track to be unveiled from his forthcoming album, Different When It’s Silent, released on 17 July 2026 via False Idols. .................. Built around a pulsing electronic rhythm and shadowy atmospherics, ‘Because I Don’t Know’ highlights the spectral falsetto of Bristol singer Mitch Sanders, whose voice threads through much of the album. Over the track’s brooding electro throb, Sanders delivers the haunting refrain, “Can you feel my pain? Do you feel the same? Just let me know”, while Tricky’s murmured vocals lurk in the background, creating a tension between vulnerability and menace. .................. The song offers another glimpse into Different When It’s Silent, following ‘Out Of Place’, the album’s first single and a powerful closing moment on the record featuring longtime collaborator Marta, which is currently B-Listed at BBC Radio 6 Music. The track pairs Marta’s restrained, atmospheric vocal with Tricky’s urgent, almost punk-like delivery, the contrast between the two creating a striking and dynamic finale. ..................... Different When It’s Silent is Tricky‘s 15th studio album and first full-length release under his own name in six years, since 2020’s Fall To Pieces. Recorded between his home in France and sessions in Bristol, the album reconnects with the distinctive sonic language that has defined Tricky’s work since his groundbreaking debut, Maxinquaye."
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Glissandro 70
You The Vandal
G70 2: Bones Of Dundasa
Constellation Records
2026
Released May 1, 2026 ......... Glissandro 70 are Toronto's Craig Dunmuir & Sandro Perri ..................... "20 years after its self-titled debut, Glissandro 70’s follow-up straddles the Album and Archive. Comprised of a decade’s worth of recordings that were abandoned, lost in a hard drive mishap, recovered in the form of rough stereo mixes, reappraised with the balm of time, and restored/augmented/enhanced, they are finally seeing the light of day. ........................ Back in 2016, Craig Dunsmuir asked Sandro Perri to meet for a drink, and dropped a bomb: those recordings they’d been working on over the past few years? Well, he’d gotten cold feet and wanted to shelve them. Perri then dropped a bomb of his own: he’d accidentally deleted those very same recordings during a computer upgrade. Hesitation had met destruction, the double negative all but sealing the material’s fate. “It was meant to disappear,” says Perri. When the COVID lockdowns hit, Perri began poring through his vast archive of old recordings and works-in-progress, and though the Glissandro 70 multi-track sessions were definitely gone, in early 2024 he discovered rough stereo mixes on another hard drive. By his own admission, it felt really good. “The aging process flattered it. It was like, oh, maybe it's time to try and do something with this.” By that point, Dunsmuir was also primed for the work’s reappraisal, as he’d loved how Perri repurposed some of their other collab material for his second Off World LP. A meticulous rediscovery and re-creation process began in earnest. ................................. Glissandro 70’s beguiling mechanics are perhaps best understood through the dissonance of the duo’s respective approaches as solo artists and bandleaders. Dunsmuir, a human music encyclopedia and 20-year veteran of Toronto record stores, leads the Dun-Dun Band, a group that mines the ferment of three towering Fs (Fela, Philip, Pharaoh). Equally inspired by math-rock, Dunsmuir’s scrumptious G70 riffs don’t aestheticize complexity or pester the listener into noting they’re in 13/8: rather, rhythm materializes as a mere fact of the riff, sharing more with the tranced coalescences of gnawa and afrobeat. Perri is the consummate studio dog and might be Toronto’s own Caetano Veloso, crafting loose, sprawling songs of quixotic beauty whose textural virtuosity and joy in repetition refashions pop music into sound sculpture. Together, they’re each other’s perfect foils, and Glissandro 70 is also informed by the intersection of their respective leftfield electronic projects, Kanada 70 and Off World. On G70 2: Bones Of Dundasa, Dunsmuir plays the role of “riff referee”, while Perri assumes the mantle of jester, destabilizing the “obstinate ostinatos” with his signature textural tics, editing, and dubby interjections." https://glissandro70.bandcamp.com/
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Lee "Scratch Perry" & Mouse On Mars
To The Rescue
Spatial, No Problem
Domino Recording Co.
2026
Second track in advance of the June 5, 2026 forthcoming album................... "Want a story? .......................... After the passing of Lee “Scratch” Perry, a deluge of recordings appeared claiming to be the “last” or “final” project of the Jamaican icon. However, his last official album project took him to Berlin, Germany where he landed on the doorstop of electronic pioneers Mouse on Mars. ................. The first question was why Lee “Scratch” Perry was coming in the first place. .............. Reasons were vague then and remain so now. Rumours of a record label connection. A backstory about a friend who’d worked with Mouse on Mars on Tromatic Reflexxions, their 2007 collaboration with late postpunk luminary Mark E Smith under the name Von Südenfed. All the group knew was they had been chosen. ..................... Mouse on Mars prepared as much as you can for the arrival of someone who had attained mythic status while still very much alive. Still, Lee “Scratch” Perry’s arrival at Mouse on Mars’s Paraverse Studio in Berlin, December 2019, was a surprise. Dates kept fluctuating. Schedules kept shifting. There was also that infamous unpredictability. ............... If he was coming, which one of his personae would arrive? The Upsetter, Pipecock Jackxon, The Super Ape? Maybe Inspector Gadget, or The Firmament Computer. .................. Perry wasted no time. He opened his traveling suitcase and brought out knickknacks, icons, images, stickers, talismans. With pens and markers, he wrote further slogans and ideas on walls and surfaces. ................... Perry also transformed the studio with sound. Chanting, singing and mumbling in rhythm, communicating in murmurs, coughs and sly glances. Doing rude and loving damage to words. .......................... The musicians followed him, recording all the time. Jan St. Werner talks about the instinctual recording process: “We hardly spoke about what we were doing. We met and got going. He was laughing a lot and we laughed along. We also cooked and ate fish soup and papayas.” ................. "Once upon a time, Mouse on Mars asked Lee “Scratch” Perry about space, Jamaican fish stew was in the air. Specifically, they asked of his familiarity with Spatial Audio and multi-channel sound diffusion. His response provides not only the title of this epic collage of genres, but the very method of its making. “Spatial,” he said, grinning, “No problem.”"
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Opus Kink
The Sweet Goodbye
The Sweet Goodbye
So Recordings
2026
Released May 21, 2026 ........"Brighton six-piece preview July debut LP with new single and autumn tour." "Opus Kink have shared a new single called ‘The Sweet Goodbye’, the title track from their upcoming debut album due on 31st July via SO Recordings. ................The track follows previous album cuts ‘Come Over, Do Me Wrong’ and ‘The Head Tree’ featuring The New Eves, and arrives alongside the announcement of a UK and European headline tour for the autumn, including the band’s biggest London headline show to date at the O2 Forum Kentish Town. .............. Frontman Angus Rogers says of the track: “A man sings a lullaby to his love, his heart’s instrument, his medium of choice on the eve of their parting. Tomorrow they will bid one another goodbye but not before delivering a last message to the world that made them. The big man once said parting is such sweet sorrow… lift the pen, turn the peg, climb the clocktower, take aim, give everything.” ................ Produced by Craig Silvey and engineered by Dani Spragg, the song continues the band’s mix of post-punk, jazz and country influences as they build towards the release of ‘The Sweet Goodbye’."
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Arab Strap
You You You
Half-Told Tales
Rock Action Records
2026
Album released Sep 4, 2026 --- First single released May 19, 2026. ------ "The new album arrives thirty years after the Scottish indie band — led by Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton — released their first single, "The First Big Weekend", which was featured on their debut album The Week Never Starts Round Here. ................... Lead single "You You You" lands today in what Moffat describes as, “a sort of disco-metal incantation, with a message of future felicity and fellowship that – fingers crossed – might make you dance and giggle too.”" .............. "The single is one glimpse into the wider themes of the album, serving as "an attempt to remind ourselves, and hopefully others, that the world’s not full of awful people,” Moffat continues. “That there are millions of us out there dealing with the same worries every day: from the rising costs of absolutely everything, our mental and physical health, the constant slaughter and tyranny in our newsfeeds, to playing an unwitting part in the military-industrial complex, and the endless warping of reality. ....................... "It can often feel like a complete absence of human decency – it’s no wonder that despondency can feel like our default disposition. It was designed as a kind of invocation,” says Moffat. “To bring forth the stubbornly elusive spirits of hope and solidarity.” ................... Discussing the push-pull process of how the album came together, Middleton adds: “The excitement comes because me and Aidan like and hate different things. There are things in the record that individually we might not choose but that’s why I like this album so much, because it's not the one I wanted to make. I don't think it's what Aidan wanted to make either, it's this bit in the middle. It might not be 100% what we want but it's good for the band, and it works.” Arab Strap - You You You (official video)
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Music behind DJ:
Atabasca
Kundela Mawedi
Atabasca
Killer Groove Records
2026
From Italy. " This is a project built on evocative imagery: each song unfolds as an open scene, an emotional landscape where listeners can step inside and write their own ending.
Lap steel, kalimba, percussion and guitars interweave with bass and drums, striking an original balance between tradition and experimentation that evokes unwritten soundtracks for worlds at once distant and familiar. The record navigates between melancholy and irony, tension and release, with a sharp focus on dynamics and sonic narrative. ....................... Deserts, seas, imaginary villages, getaways, pursuits and collective rituals: "Atabasca" emerges as a collection of musical landscapes that unfolds through vivid, evocative imagery. ...................... Jazz-funk, world music, afrobeat, psychedelia and the Italian Golden Age of movie soundtracks merge into a singular emotional geography: warm, analog and deeply human." https://atabasca.bandcamp.com/
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Y
May
Enter EP
Hideous Mink
2026
This is a band I'm very excited to play. This song isn't even their best song and it's FANTASTIC. Y delightfully unhinged; it shouldn't work but absolutely does. Like a fever dream scored by a jazz band having an existential crisis, 'Y' careens through gloriously weird experimentation that gradually reveals method within its madness. Born from London's isolation period, 'Y' feels like the product of creative minds let loose without restraint. The band draws from an encyclopedia of influences – Japanese jazz fusion, Italo disco, experimental electronics – and scrambles them into something entirely new. It's a debut that demands attention, not through volume or aggression, but through its sheer inventive spirit. THIS BAND IS GREAT
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Baby Maker
Inguhlund
Inguhlund
A.O.M.B.
2026
Baby Maker hails from Oxford, UK. “Moody” alt-indie musician Baby Maker released his first album last year: From the Desk Of. Dry-wit lyrics toying with evocative rhymes make him one to watch on Oxford’s up-and-coming music scene." This song takes aim at the bigots of England and everywhere....
Q. Your SoundCloud profile tells us you “cherry pick and prod at the carcass of influence”. Where do you look to find your influence in your music?
“I think I had a few jobs doing gardening and stuff, where I was just mowing lawns; I could just have albums on all day. And there’s that book: One Thousand and One Albums Before you Die. There’s a website version of it; it auto-generates a new one each day if you just listen some randomly. Also, I was just a big history music buff growing up I suppose, reading a lot of Wikipedia articles.”
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Baby Dave
Mycelium
Billy
Baby Dave
2026
Another charming track from the new Baby Dave album (and oh there are more to come! ), this one taking on one of his favourite topics of wellness and health...and an ode to the wonderful magical world of fungi, their underground network that sends information, nutrients and good vibes to their freinds across the forest floors and meadows of the world...
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Shub
Bloodline
Heritage Part Two
Shub Music
2026
Shub (f.k.a. DJ Shub, formerly of A Tribe Called Red) dropped a 2 part album. Regarding his name change, the artist born Dan General explained, "Over the years, I've evolved as an artist. It's become more than just DJing; it's about storytelling, blending cultures, and honoring the deep connection I have to my Mohawk heritage. So today, I'm stepping forward under a new name — Shub. Dropping 'DJ' isn't about leaving anything behind; it's about embracing the full scope of who I am as an artist. It's not just about the technique or performance anymore, it's about the message, the story and who I am as an electronic Indigenous artist."
"I wanted this album to be a celebration of our traditions while pushing the sound of powwow step forward," Shub explained of the effort in a statement. "The concept behind it is all about resilience, identity, and bridging the past with the future."
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Victor Torpedo, Antonio Olaio
If My Heart Had A Brain
If My Heart Had A Brain
Lux Records
2026
Victor Torpedo whose real name is Victor Silveira (b. 1972) is a Portuguese musician and visual artist from Coimbra, mainly a guitarist, has been part of several punk & rock 'n' roll groups such as Tédio Boys, The Parkinsons and The Blood Safari, as well having released some solo albums, having toured all over the world, as a visual artist he has had several exhibitions, usually working with mix media, he is also one half of art duo Tableroni & Sardine with Jay Rechsteiner. This is glorious and cinematic, a little bit fragile, and the kind of sensitive wonk we like here on the beach...
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De Ambassade
Witte Paarden
Manrira
Pinkman
2026
Sometimes, mystery can be a powerful thing. Just ask Pascal Pinkert. The Dutch producer and musician is the brains behind cult favourite Dollkraut, but he’s also the driving force of De Ambassade, a shadowy cold wave outfit based in Amsterdam. “Beneath the surface lies a deeper Dutch-language narrative celebrating free speech and thought,” says their Bandcamp page. Standing in opposition to “alienation and solitude”, De Ambassade have created a dank, gloomy mix of 80’s no wave and the starkest of DIY atmospherics. It’s retro, but not pastiche; the weathered riffs and warped effects deployed throughout sound redolent of the isolated concrete suburbs of west Amsterdam where the record was conceived...let the inky waves wash over you, and become one with the darkness....
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The Ehems
Run
The Ehems
OHIO
2022
"Rock" trio based out of NYC. The expression "Ehem" is the sound someone makes when they're clearing their throat, trying to attract attention, express doubt or give a warning. The name is telling in that “ehem” is an involuntary expression in many cases - in other words, it's something you need to do, something you need to get out, not something you can control....
Music behind DJ:
Syd Dale
That Spring Feeling
KPM Series 1000: Pleasure Spectacle
KPM
1967
Mid-Century Modern
40 Versions
Decades: Post-Punk
LLL Recordings P/L
2025
From Australia......... "Mid-Century Modern is an Australian artist interested in the therapeutic induction of nostalgia through music and sound... ............... ...possibly." ..................... ""40 Versions" written by Bruce Gilbert and Colin Newman,
and originally recorded by Wire for the '154' album, 1979." .................................... "INFLUENCES and INSPIRATION in no particular order...
Roxy Music, Sparks, Wire, T.I.S.M., Serge Gainsbourg, The Isley Brothers, The Fall, James Brown, Nick Drake, Throbbing Gristle, Traffic, Bauhaus, Sly and Robbie, Ian Dury, Specials, Prince, EPMD, LL Cool J, Afrika Bambaataa, A Guy Called Gerald, Steinski, James Last, Scritti Politti, The Byrds, Gang Of Four, Tones On Tail, Devo, David Holmes, Funkadelic, Mantronix, Shuggie Otis, Scott Walker, The Laughing Clowns live with Tactics at the Grand Hotel, The The, Daft Punk, The Chambers Brothers, Isolee, Arthur Lee and Love, Robert Johnson, Derek Forbes playing bass in Simple Minds, PIL, Jimmy Webb and Richard Harris, Cowboys International ®, Jimi Hendrix, The Wailers, Doors, Arthur Russell, Human League, Cabaret Voltaire, Led Zeppelin, Stetsasonic, Jimmy Cliff, Isaac Hayes, Kraftwerk, The Associates, Psychedelic Furs, Pauline Murray and the Invisible Girls, Colourbox, Yello, Buzzcocks, Soft Machine, Lene Lovitch, Marc Bolan, The (British) Beat, The Models' first Queensland gig at the Paradise Room, Love And Rockets, Josef K, D.A.F., The Gun Club, John Foxx, Sly and the Family Stone, Soft Cell, Japan, The Fall, Killing Joke, Todd Rundgren and Utopia, Blondie, Brasil 66, Tom Jobim, Clash, Trevor Jackson, Cream, Maurice Fulton, Lee Perry in various guises, Leftfield, Ben Watt and Buzzin Fly, Curtis Mayfield, Get Physical, Conny Plank, John Barry, Don Black, Osibisa, Marvin Gaye, Holly and the Italians, Talking Heads, Brian Eno and David Bowie, Magazine, Felt, Curious Yellow, The Pixies, Jungle Brothers, Joy Division, The Electric Prunes Mass In F minor, David Axelrod, Cybotron, The Mason Rack Band, John Peel, The Small Faces, Boney M, Liquid Space, Tom Tom Club, Echo and the Bunnymen, The BrianJonesTownMassacre, This Is Serious Mum, Scars, The Seven Ballerinas, Herb Alpert, The Katholiks Are Kumming, The Velvet Underground, Boys Next Door, Giorgio Moroder and the Munich Machine '77, The Ramones, Astrud Gilberto, Françoise Hardy, The Stranglers, Cocteau Twins, Gene Loves Jezebel, Marshall Jefferson, Bill Laswell, The Strawberry Alarm Clock, Putsch '79, The Neptunes, N.E.R.D., 801, The Blue Oyster Cult, Salsoul, Beck, The Beatles, did I forget to mention The Fall?, Malcolm McLaren, Cody ChestnuTT, The Sex Pistols, The Goon Show, Iggy and the Stooges, Harry Nillsson and The Point, The Monkees, Ry Cooder's Paris Texas, Ennio Morricone, Broadcast, Comsat Angels, Clock DVA, Aunty Jack and Thin Arthur, Yoko Ono-Walking On Thin Ice, Gary Numan, Xero/Xiro/Zero …"
Mickaël Mottet
15 Ways to Leave Mark E Smith (Ichliebelove Remix)
15 Ways to Leave Mark E Smith EP
We Are Unique! Records
2021
"Après l’album Glover’s Mistake (sorti sur We are Unique l’an dernier), Mickaël Mottet sort ce 16 avril 2021 un EP 6 titres autour de la chanson 15 Ways To Leave Mark E Smith : la version de l’album, ainsi qu’une version single inédite qui rhabille la chanson en costume hip hop, et 4 remixes géniaux, par le brillant musicien américain Why? et les copains de label Ichliebelove, King Kong Was A Cat, et Zéro Degré. ....................... L’erreur à ne pas commettre, avec les EP comportant des remixes, c’est de les écouter d’une traite. La piste de voix étant souvent l’élément commun, on finit par s’y perdre. L’idéal est de se garder un remix par jour, comme pour donner une humeur, une couleur à sa journée : ...................... Lundi, écoutez la version single de 15 Ways To Leave Mark E Smith. Mickaël Mottet avait prévu de faire figurer ce morceau aux tonalités hip hop, basé sur un sample de Madlib, dans son album Glover’s Mistake. Mais lors de l’enregistrement, l’ajout des délicats arrangements de hautbois, saxophone et clarinette en a décidé autrement : Mottet a remodelé la chanson dans son ensemble, et elle est devenue la version album (celle que vous écouterez samedi). ......................... Mardi, savourez l’incroyable remix de Yoni Wolf. L’artiste américain à la tête de Why?, génie du rap alternatif depuis 20 ans, est rieur, barjo, et diablement intelligent. Un bel hommage de l’idole à son plus grand fan, qui rappelle fort le tout premier Why?. Comme la version single, cette relecture jouera avec vos perceptions auditives et dévoilera ses mille feuilles au gré de vos écoutes. ..................... Mercredi, une légère saudade s’empare de nous, comme dans le remix de Zéro Degré. Mais on s’arme de courage, et on danse quand même : la version de ce musicien messin, également bassiste de Melatonine, est parfaite pour ça. Nicolas Tochet, alias Zéro Degré, a pris le morceau de Mottet à contretemps. Ce décalage donne une teinte plus tragique aux paroles, qui parlent du besoin des artistes de se créer un monde, une bulle fictionnelle dans laquelle s’enfermer pour créer. ..................... Jeudi, c’est fête avec King Kong Was A Cat. Mathieu Lozinguez, lui aussi membre de Melatonine et fréquent collaborateur de Mottet (leur groupe ensemble s’appelle AWAC), a décidé dans son remix de se concentrer sur le groove étrange du morceau original. ...................... Vendredi, le Tourangeau ichliebelove (Philippe Raimond) crée un joyeux bordel dans la chanson de Mottet, quelque part entre Comelade et dDamage. Autrement dit, assez loin des sentiers électro-psyché habituellement battus par ichliebelove : un remix est aussi l’occasion de s’aventurer sur de nouveaux territoires, après tout. ....................... Il vous restera le samedi pour vous plonger dans la version album, et le jour suivant pour écouter ou réécouter Glover’s Mistake, soutenu haut et fort à sa sortie par les médias indés français."
The Fall
15 Ways (To Leave Your Man) (Recorded Live at the Astoria, London, 26 June 1996)
Time Enough At Last [Compilation]
Sanctuary Records Group Ltd.
1996 / 2003
A live & lively workout of an otherwise banal Fall song... Augmented by Brix E. Smith's gusto & effervescence... A song she did not record in the studio with the band, having still been split from Mark E. Smith & the Fall in 1994; but her return in late '94 to early '97 would see her often add vocals to the early 90's work to which she was estranged. ................. Of the studio original: "Middle Class Revolt is the sixteenth album by the Fall, released in 1994 in the UK on Permanent Records and in the US on Matador Records. It spent one week on the UK Albums Chart at number 48, a marked contrast to the top 10 debut of their preceding album, The Infotainment Scan. The album's full title is Middle Class Revolt A/K/A The Vapourisation Of Reality. Drummer Karl Burns features for the first time since 1985's This Nation's Saving Grace, having rejoined the band in 1993. ................ The album included two songs previously released as singles, "Behind the Counter" (December 1993 – UK no. 75) and "15 Ways" (April 1994 – UK no. 65), although different versions of both were included on the album. "
WOW 13
Lightning Bolt
The Horizon Spirals / The Horizon Viral
Thrill Jockey
2026
"OOIOO and Lightning Bolt: Together at Last! ............ Two avant-garde titans team up for a split LP of majestic spiritual noise" ................ You might be disappointed to learn that OOIOO and Lightning Bolt do not actually collaborate on their new LP, The Horizon Spirals/The Horizon Viral. But maybe it’s for the best. The pairing of two of the underground’s wildest bands, powered by two of the most formidable drummers in the biz — OOIOO’s YoshimiO and the Bolt’s Brian Chippendale—is a lot to handle as a split album. A true partnership might prove too much for this fragile reality to bear. ................... On the surface, Spirals/Viral presents a study in contrast. OOIOO contributes two long tracks, filled with shifting tempos, interlocking rhythms, and metaphysical grooves. Lightning Bolt gives us five quick, overdriven barnburners. The ever-restless OOIOO push their sound forward, building on and refining the Balinese gamelan elements they began exploring on 2013’s Gamel; Lightning Bolt stick to the blistering, relentless ecstasy with which they made their name. A closer look, however, reveals some intriguing links. Both bands reference other musicians: Opening track “The Horizon” pays tribute to Sun Ra’s “Horizon,” one of the legendary Afrofuturist bandleader’s most knob-twiddling numbers, while Lightning Bolt nods to such scene luminaries as Clown Core (“Cloud Core”), YoshimiO’s old band Boredoms (“Wow 13”) and Deerhoof (“The Runners 2”). ................. OOIOO and Lightning Bolt navigate their inspirations in different ways. The Japanese quartet take Ra’s skein of electronic noise as a starting point, wrapping it in a sizzling no wave funk beat, vocals that veer between incantatory and goofy, and bewitching mandalas of chimes and gongs. YoshimiO, sharing fellow ’90s icon Flea’s recent interest in the instrument, turns in a credible trumpet line during the track’s shuffling, exuberant second half. Lightning Bolt have less interest in construction or expansion, instead boiling down their already heavy sound into a dense, nutrient-rich slurry. Brian Gibson’s gangrenous bass riffs and Chippendale’s gibbering, muffled vocals have even more gonzo energy than usual, while the drums contain the usual amounts of bombast and finesse. “The Runners 2” begins with a noxious black-light bass drone and proceeds through a demolition derby of blast beats, hyperactive polyrhythms and pummeling distortion. It’s less than half the length of OOIOO’s “The Horizon” but feels twice as long, and any resemblance to the deft noise-pop of Deerhoof has been pulverized. It bleeds directly into the Boredoms-indebted “Wow 13,” which has a bit more space and a clearly identifiable, if hopelessly mutant, swing—at least for a few seconds, before the riffs kick in. ........................... Two extreme bands coming together to make an album of extremes has a certain pleasing logic. But even in its most opposing moments, from its depths of disintegration to its peaks of pattern-building, Spirals/Viral has a cryptic unity. OOIOO’s mesmerizing melodic repetitions hover on the edge of chaos, while Lightning Bolt’s melted entropy often suggests a greater, probably incomprehensible order. Whether built as a hypnotic, recurring shape, a rampant contagion or both, music this uncompromising and unpredictable always carries a message for those who need to hear it.
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Aids Wolf
Sixty SEVEN
Harsh Human Style
Skin Graft
2026
Released March 6, 2026. Hurrah for Montréal's loveliest gem of the past ........ "After the release of "Ma vie banale avant-garde", there was still unfinished business. The music was stretching out in unexpected ways; Alex’s woobly-woos were taking on a bluesier inflection, Chloë was listening to a lot of 20th-century opera and you could hear it, Yannick’s drumming was breathing and flowing in multiple directions at once. ..................... In June 2012, shortly after their very last shows, AIDS Wolf piled their gear into the La Brique studios in Montréal and recorded the final four AIDS Wolf compositions, engineered by Sébastien Fournier. This was the very last time the trio played together. ...................... "Harsh Human Style" documents fleeting glimpses into random fractured lives.... A transcription of moments encountered while peering through windows; roaming the roads of a blasted, post-2008 economic-crash United States. ...................... The songs presented here are composition numbers 66-69. These songs were written after "Ma vie banale avant-garde" was completed and were played for the first time during the 2011 summer European tour. ............................ AIDS Wolf: Alexander Moskos - Guitar, Electronics // Chloë Lum - Voice, Electronics // Yannick Desranleau - Drums, Percussion ............... Recorded At La Brique, June 2012, Montréal" https://aidswolf.bandcamp.com/
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Xiu Xiu
One Hundred Years (Featuring Chelsea Wolfe)
OH NO
Polyvinyl Record Co.
2021
Cover of The Cure song, opener from Pornography. ....... "Oh No (stylized in all caps) is the twelfth studio album by American experimental band Xiu Xiu. It was released on March 26, 2021, via Polyvinyl. It is described as a "duets album". ................ According to frontrunner Jamie Stewart, the features on the album reflect people that helped them realize that the "ratio of beautiful humans to shitty humans is more like 60/40", rather than what [they] had always assumed was "1/99" ............ Recording studio: Nurse (Jamie Stewart's home studio in Los Angeles)
Music behind DJ:
Atabasca
Popora
Atabasca
Killer Groove Records
2026
From Italy. "The tracks were recorded in single takes, capturing the raw energy and natural atmosphere of the performance. Artistic production was handled by the trio alongside Andrea Fabrizii (digger, musician, producer and catalogue curator for CAM Sugar), while Riccardo Ricci mastered the album at Velvet Room Mastering Studio in Brighton. ......................... Like a desert blooming within the evergreen forests of the planet's far north, a unique, alien, disruptive environment. This is the vision behind Atabasca, the project of Luca Mongia (guitars, lap steel, keyboards, vocals), Paolo Mazziotti (bass, keyboards, vocals) and Valerio Pompei (drums, percussion, vocals). ....................... Individually active for over twenty years on both the national and international scenes, the three Italian musicians came together in 2023 to create a project that merges experience, experimentation and creative freedom. Their music is imaginative and at times dreamlike, blending the classic concept of the instrumental trio with the worlds of film scoring and sound design. ......................... Atabasca's sound moves through jazz-funk, world and cinematic territories, weaving together afrobeat, desert and psychedelic influences into a personal and timeless language. Each piece is a scene; each sound, a fragment of a world, a journey between reality and imagination where groove, texture and organic timbre merge into a singular sonic ecosystem: a perpetually shifting balance that generates new inner landscapes." https://atabasca.bandcamp.com/
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