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Track
Album
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Year
Comments
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Sonic Youth
Bull In The Heather
Battery Park, NYC July 4th 2008
Matador
2009
For all the Taurus/symbol of the bull signs... "Battery Park, NYC July 4th 2008 is a live album by American noise punk band Sonic Youth, recorded at the River to River Festival in Battery Park, New York, on July 4, 2008. It was released June 9, 2009, coinciding with the release of The Eternal. It has only been released on vinyl and digital services. The album was mixed at Echo Canyon West, a studio often used by the band." ................... Bull In The Heather: "The song was written collectively by Sonic Youth, and production was done by Butch Vig. Singer and bassist Kim Gordon explained that the song is about "using passiveness as a form of rebellion—like, I'm not going to participate in your male-dominated culture, so I'm just going to be passive". The song's title is a reference to the race horse Bull Inthe Heather, who won the Florida Derby in 1993. [At 25-1 odds] ......................... The music video was directed by Tamra Davis and produced by Kris Krengle. Filmed in Los Angeles, the video features Bikini Kill singer Kathleen Hanna dancing and occasionally interacting with the band members, particularly guitarist Thurston Moore; she accidentally gave Moore a bloody lip during filming. Also featured are a young couple hanging out in a semi-wooded field and stock footage of horses racing. .......The scenes of Moore and Lee Ranaldo jumping around on a bed were inspired by a photo of Moore when he was younger. At the time of the video, bassist Kim Gordon was five months pregnant." Sonic Youth - Bull In The Heather (Official Video)
Music behind DJ:
Glass Beams
Taurus (Mixed)
DJ-Kicks: Jayda G
IK7 Records
2021
Released May 14, 2021. -- Glass Beams is the music project of Indian-Australian multi-instrumentalist and producer Rajan Silva. He founded the group in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. The band blends Eastern musical elements with contemporary Western music. On stage and in music videos, the band appears in bejewelled doily-like masks. ..................... The band's debut EP, Mirage, was released in 2021. The follow-up EP, Mahal, was released on Ninja Tune in March 2024 .............. In all public appearances, the band wears gold bejeweled glass masks. ................................ Silva is primarily a drummer and records, produces, and mixes all of the band's music. .......... ------- ............ Canadian by birth and now London-based, Jayda G has risen steadily and stealthily through the dance music underground with her infectious energy, vitality and boundless enthusiasm. She released her debut album "Significant Changes" on Ninja Tune in March 2019. ..............
Amyl and the Sniffers
Born To Be Alive
Born To Be Alive
ATO
2020
Baby Amyl and the Sniffers! "An anthem to help us stage dive into 2021, with full hearts and flailing limbs” “It’s good 2 be alive!” the band wrote on Instagram to announce the cover. “CELEBRATE THE WIERD YEAR!...."Born to Be Alive" is a song written by French singer Patrick Hernandez. It became a worldwide hit and reached number one on the U.S. Billboard National Disco Action chart in early 1979. The song achieved gold status in the United States, Brazil, Germany and Italy, platinum in Australia and Canada, and silver in the United Kingdom. Also, in a feel good moment, the band donated 35K to Melbourne small music venues. Good peeps!!
24KIARA
Cake
Asleep In the Ballroom
Chip Shop Records
2026
It's HERE! I've been so excited for this record. Also who doesn't love cake? Especially birthday cake, because I'm an icing whore. 24 KIARA is a delicious blend of electro, pop, and indie rock. Imagine catchy synth melodies that get your feet tapping and make you want to dance, shimmering disco arpeggios, and hard-hitting beats. After releasing their debut EP "Hodophilia" in 2023, the trio takes things up a notch, flirting with rawer garage rock sounds, but always with a distinctly pop sensibility.
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Hyperculte
Temps Mort
Massif Occidental
Bongo Joe
2019
Hyperculte is a minimalist transpop prekraut postdisco duo band.
Hyperculte was formed in 2014 in Geneva, Switzerland
Melancholic and nostalgic danse for a poetic trans. or the contrary....
Hyperculte is continuously trying to open hearts at all costs.
L.A. Sagne
Cigs are Fun
Good Company
Geertruida
2026
L.A. SAGNE. It fizzes, it screams, it holds dear, and when it starts, it makes everything move.
Friends? Yes. The kind you wouldn’t want showing up unannounced at your mom’s birthday part. They are from Amsterdam. They are a melange of many bands that I like...and I can put my finger on a few....Elastica is one of them. Just fun awesome rock. And yes, Cigs do kill you...but FUCK IT. We're gonna die sometime, amirite?
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Handle
Mhmm
In Threes
Upset the Rhythm
2020
Loooove the bass in this song. What a great wonky little ditty. Imagine that ESG hung out in the no wave crowd, and it starts to give you an idea of the sound they’ve cultivated. With just bass, drums and keyboard, a Handle track locks into a groove and holds on for dear life. Most songs on In Threes display the band’s pop instincts, but they also never let the listener get too comfortable. Tracks like “Life’s Work” offer the straightforward pleasures of rhythm driven post punk, while others like “Coagulate” sound on the verge of collapse without ever quite falling apart. Most songs fall somewhere in the middle of these poles, anchored by an off-kilter drum and bass line but not afraid to take an unexpected turn. Taken as a whole, it’s a bracing, unpredictable listen full of danceable yet angular tunes. - poptrash
Jake Tobin
Specific People
Torment
Chill Mega Chill Records
2016
Ahhhh LOVE when the whole band kicks in. Unexpected and awesome. Jagged jangly skronky, yet so MUSICAL. Anxious, weirdo experimental rock with jazz elements that speaks to the kind of corporate anxiety demonstrated on the album artwork. "Torment" is a concept album about being stuck in a cycle of "Office Space"-esque mediocrity and sheer boredom, the kind of stuff that sounds like a joke to those who haven't yet experienced it.
Overall it's pretty successful there, evoking the kind of nonsensical and you-have-to-laugh-or-you'll-cry aspect of getting into the """"real world"""" that all the adults talk big shit about.The last 20 minutes of this album is a post rock instrumental ambient post rock jam...so they have no fucks to give in the best way! " a graceful mix of sounds, of chaos and control"......yes.
Jacky Winter, Amanda Roff
I Pay My Taxes
The One Thing That I Own
Altar Boy
2019
I am a bit obsessed by this song. And yeah, I DO pay them. This band is a bit of a mystery, not a lot of info but I am presuuuuming that Amanda Roff guesting on this is a member of post-punk gallows-gospel outfit Harmony and is principal lyricist and vocalist for shadowy pop group Time For Dreams. Both bands have been long-listed for fthe Australian Music Prize. April 30 is the tax deadline for taxes here in Canada...and sadly we do have to pay taxes on the beach. But it funds our free universal guaranteed booze and weed, dental and health programs!
Uncomfortable Police
Ra Ra Ya Ya
Michelin Star Hardcore
Teen Beat
2025
An group featuring D. Trevor Kampmann (hollAnd) and Mark Robinson (Unrest/Flin Flon) : Catchy, experimental, beautiful, human, robotic, artistic, laser-light-show-like, pretty-great, honest-to-goodness songs. The quintessential audio for our age. Our name changes with each album. We were Fang Wizard for our first album, Party Milk with our second, and are now Uncomfortable Police. They can change their name all they like, but this sound is the shiiiiiiiit. Wonky, weird and low key intense. LOOOOOOVE Take this shit and shove it indeed....
Cloud Becomes Your Hand
Hermit
Rest in Fleas
Northern Spy
2016
I am also loving that 2016 music is indistinguishable from 2026 music. Proof that this wonky post punk shit HAS LEGS. Like visions from a 3D comic book, color fantasies explode in vivid new sound-tones on Cloud Becomes Your Hand's Rest in Fleas. The band's second album for Northern Spy establishes the Brooklyn sextet as purveyors of googley-eyed psych-pop of the highest order, delivered in a kinetically singular dialect of the musical language of fun. Over eight tracks, Cloud Becomes Your Hand affirm their position in the secret lineage that links the pingings of the BBC Radiophonics Workshop to the happy goofing of Syd-era Pink Floyd (like if the busted gearwork at the end of "Bike" started its own band?), a line that connects the energy dome power of Devo to the collage-happy Frosted Ambassador wing of the Elephant 6 Recording Company. Feed your head, right? But while the collective destination might be the sweet innocence of marmalade skies, the Cloud irregulars are hardly musical naifs, executing dazzling conceptual and compositional turns that puts them just as much in the family of New York's uncompromising experimental music scene.
Music behind DJ:
Alan Hackshaw
Happy Rainbow
KPM 1000 Series: Happy Rainbows
KPM Music Ltd.
2009
Kate Kristal
Totally Wired
Totally Wired Records 001 - 2012
Totally Wired
2012
Totally Wired Records is from Wien, Austria. The very first release was Kate Kristal's cover of The Fall's Totally Wired, on May 18, 2012. This can be bought for 1 euro on the bandcamp, or you can buy the "Name Your Price" compilation from that (and other years) & enjoy a lot more artists & tracks for whatever price you wish. There's at least 4 compilations from the years 5 years the label was active. //// In addition to performing under her own name, she has also been in: Dot Dash, Kristy And The Kraks, Rabe, Kate Kristal & The Alps https://totallywiredrecords.bandcamp.com/
Ana Threat
House of Wired
Totally Wired 023 - 2015
Totally Wired
2015
On the Bandcamp for label 'Totally Wired Records', at the affordable cost of "Name Your Price". From one of the four v/a compilations collected over 4 years of the short-lived label. ........................ "Ana Threat ---- Real Name: Kristina Pia Hofer ................. Profile: Austrian musician and media theorist. ................... Aliases: PFARRE, The Boiler, Voiler ................... In Groups: Kristy And The Kraks, Puke Puddle, The Boiler, The Happy Kids, Tintifucks" https://totallywiredrecords.bandcamp.com/
Imaginary Icons
CCTV
Imaginary Icons EP
Dot Dash Sounds / Daggerman Records
2026 / 2008
Tom Dash alert! Dot Dash Sounds alert!! Old is new alert!!! Buy Digital Album @ "Name Your Price" alert!!!! -- Or buy the 12" EP on New-Old-Stock-Hand Numbered edition... Yeah!!!!! + more CCTV content!!!!!! ---- Originally released in 2008 on Daggerman Records .............. "New York’s Imaginary Icons churned out an awesome blend of 70s brit-punk, wavey synth-skronk and D.I.Y. pop and created their own unique sound. The band formed in 2004 and broke up in 2011. .................. NOTE - these are OLD-STOCK copies, stored new since release. There are minor bent corners and ring wear from age. Vinyl is unplayed/as new. ............................ "I picked this up a while ago, gave it a few spins, neglected it. Which was dumb. The opening track “Mirror Panics” sets the scene for a damn solid twelve. It is some tightly wound post punk grit, brewing up a storm with monotone vocals and shouted backups. It slots in very nicely into a pre-conceived notion I have of where bands all line up in a row, from one style to another. In this stupid vision, I am seeing Imaginary Icons standing kind of haphazardly, and on one side are Wire and Mission of Burma, and on the other side are Eddie Current Suppression Ring. Isn’t my system useful! It means you can put bands in neat boxes! And it causes music to be utterly devoid of soul, as I force bands to occupy a very specific niche in the spectrum of music. Anyway, it helps me do reviews, and this is a very good record, it buzzes away with menacing gloom, some nice synth fizzing intercedes here and there to add some bonus white noise to the moderate distortion. And there’s some sax sometimes, but not much. Anyway, I am getting away from the point. This is some good quality, angular post punk, it doesn’t linger around, gets to the point, kicks you in the shins, and runs off again, flicking the V. I particularly enjoy the groove and the Mission of Burma flavour of the vocals. Worth checking out I reckon!"- Andy Malcolm, Collective Zine 2009 ................. credits released April 10, 2026. ..................... "Benzoil - guitar, synth, vocals // Sir Vaylance - guitar, vocals // TomDash - bass, backing vocals // Nate Red - drums, backing vocals" https://imaginaryicons.bandcamp.com/
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The Destructors
Dot Dash
The Astronauts / The Destructors – One Wave / Schwerpunkt
Rowdy Farrago Records
2012
"The Destructors are an English punk rock band from Peterborough, originally existing between 1977 and 1979 and then 1980 until 1984. They reformed as Destructors 666 in 2006 and then changed to The Destructors in 2009. The Destructors continue releasing their own brand of punk / skuzz / garage to this day." ...................... "The band was formed by former 6ck 6ck 6ck members Allen Adams (vocals), Phil Atterson (guitar), and Dip (Paul Wicks) (bass) and various drummers including Steve Rolls and Dave Colton. Later the original band were complemented with a varying line-up including Andy Butler (drums) Andrew Jackson (guitar). Butler and Jackson left in 1978 to set up a new band called The Blanks. Some of Jackson's songs were used in later Destructors recordings. A Blanks 3 track EP featured the song Northern Ripper which Allen Adams wrote the words. In 1980 The Destructors name was resurrected by Adams with a new line-up of Neil Singleton (vocals), Andy McDonald (drums), and 'Dave Ivermee ' (rhythm guitar) Allen Adams(bass) and later Graham "Gizz" Butt (lead guitar, formerly of The System, among other bands) before their first release, 1982's Senseless Violence EP. Butt took on the job of writing about half of the band's music, with Adams writing the lyrics. Singleton remembered the songs: "They could be very complicated and a right bastard to remember. He also seemed to have a fixation with serial killers!". A series of EPs and two albums followed before 1984's final album Bomb Hanoi, Bomb Saigon, Bomb Disneyland. The band split shortly after Bomb Hanoi, their records never living up to their live shows, and the band members falling out. According to Singleton: "I don't think we ever made a really good record! They never ever lived up to our live shows; We were so much better on stage". Of the frictions within the band, Butt said: "Neil couldn't get on with Alan, and me and Dave didn't want Andy on drums any more. We weren't happy with Alan organising everything and neglecting his bass-playing role". Adams immediately formed a new band, Five Go Mad In Europe, and resurrected the band name as Destructors V in 1984. Singleton went on to front Trench Fever. Butt went on to form The Desecrators, joined English Dogs, and later formed Janus Stark and then The More I See, also playing guitar with The Prodigy. ........................... The band name was resurrected again in 2006 as Destructors 666, with former members Adams, Dave Colton, and Steve Rolls ex of The Now joined by new members Steve Crosby and Lee Reynolds. Steve Crosby walked out of the studio one night and was never heard from again. Lee Reynolds left the band due to recording commitments with The 925's. Crosby and Reynolds were replaced by Ian Stapleton (bass) and Rob Baylis (drums). In 2009, the band returned to the original name of The Destructors. .................... Allen 'The Kid' Adams died on 12 November 2019."
Wire
Dip Flash
Read & Burn 03 PLUS
Pink Flag
2026
Released April 18. RSD edition of the expanded last EP of the original full lineup. ............................. "Released at the end of the initial period of Wire’s 3rd Act – after Aend and before the band’s post-Bruce Gilbert re-invention – Read & Burn 03 never quite got the attention it deserved. However the opening track 23 years too late, with its tour narrative text and motorik rhythm stands as one of the band’s finest achievements of any era in the view of both core fans & the band (a rare point of agreement!) .......................... the original ep, 3rd in the read & burn series and the one not compiled on to the send album, was the last non-historic release by the original wire line up of colin newman, graham lewis, bruce gilbert & robert grey and has never been properly released on vinyl. ............................ the 2026 version brings the original 4 tracks and adds 3 more. ......... while some of the tracks originated as part of the 2021-2022 sessions that gave forth send, others have a more storied history. 23 years too late actually started life as a highly transformed cover of the 70’s wire single dot dash – performed under the name dip flash as part of iain sinclair's london orbital, a night at the barbican london on 25th october 2022, celebrating london’s m25 motorway (aka the orbital). the never previously released piece in its original form is included as an additional track. meanwhile desert diving actually started life as a version of the chairs missing track heartbeat as performed live at the garage, london during wire’s series of concerts there in may 2000. ............. the original version of our time and an alternate mix of desert diving are the other additional tracks."
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Dot Dash
Silence
Dot Dash
Totally Wired
2013
Released November 27, 2013 ........ Pop Rock band from Wien // Members: Clemens Denk, Florian Tremmel, Kate Kristal, Philipp Hanich ........................ Roughly translated............. "Rock'n'roll and conceptual art, happily combined: The Viennese quartet Dot Dash calls their current second album "Dot Dash" like the first; as with the debut, the good piece is only released on vinyl and the cover is also a close relative of the previous model in its minimalist black and white aesthetic. With Philipp Hanich, Kate Kristal and Florian Tremmel, Dot Dash consist of three quarters of the makers of the underground music label Totally Wired Records, plus Clemens Denk (great new solo album too!) is another TWR act. Together, the four build bridges from The Velvet Underground to British post-punk culture, quoting each other from John Cale to Delta 5 to Joy Division and sounding like the great punk roots The Fall more than once: arrogant, belligerent – and very good." https://totallywiredrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dot-dash-2
Miss Kitten, Lawrence Williams
Requiem For A Hit - Radio Edit
I Com
Nobody's Business
2004
A very provocative statement from Swiss provocateuse, incredible DJ and producer and ice queen of Electroclash. Is this song....challenging? Yes it is. It is challenging. And that's clearly what she intended, and no it's not for everyone. And the breakdown literally confounds a dancefloor, rendering it useless for that purpose. BUT. That beat is slamming...and there are moments to be had here. "The fickle indie music scene swiftly makes outcasts of former loves. Trends seem to become passé overnight, and in 2004, few sounds have been more cold-shouldered than electroclash. Sadly, Caroline Herve (aka Miss Kittin) has had to bear that burden. Much of the credit for her previous work went to production partners such as Goldenboy, Felix da Housecat, and The Hacker, the latter of which provided the beats on the 2001 collaboration, The First Album. Despite often working as a co-producer, Miss Kittin has been inadvertently written off as the electroclash gal with the heathen voice, the vixen who rasped atop oily dance jams. Miss Kittin, however, is not only a deft producer in her own right, but through her cover-mounted Muzik mix, On the Road, and Radio Caroline, Vol. 1 she has also repositioned herself as an innovative dancefloor helmswoman." - Pitchfork
The Slits
Instant Hit
Cut
Island
1979
You could write a lengthy essay about the Slits’ landmark LP Cut based on the semiotics of its cover alone. Three young women stand wearing only loincloths in a Surrey rose garden – a sight to delight any shock-marketing executive. But they are covered almost entirely in mud, possessing the unmistakable attitude of warriors; the aesthetic much closer to National Geographic than lad mag. Titillation is not on offer, a fight might be. The Slits had been part of the collective, chaotic ‘No!’ of the punk era, frightening even some of the era’s most alarming figures with their gleefully obnoxious antics. Led mostly by singer Ari Up, such incidents saw the group nearly thrown off the White Riot tour bus with the Clash.
Released in 1979, as wilfully amateur, clashing guitars had begun to seem an exhausted gesture, Cut retained the defiant attitudes but moved on to more adventurous sonics. Almost from the off, Jamaican music had been the preferred listening of the bands making their reputation with shouty noise. The Slits were among the first to try absorbing that influence fully into their own music...
Kamikaze Palm Tree
The Hit
Mint Chip
Drag City
2022
The art of falling apart, a theory put forward by those wise philosophers Soft Cell, serves as a succinct manifesto for creating thrilling songs. There is little more delightful than music which is beguilingly odd and unlikely yet still has immediate fluency. ‘The Hit’ by Kamikaze Palm Tree is a prime example, beginning with an attention-grabbing piano line, throwing in plentiful melodic twists, delightfully twisted guitar lines and bits of 1960s organ whilst teetering on the brink of descending into chaos to create an exhilarating song.
‘Mint Chip’, Kamikaze Palm Tree’s second album, is a curate’s egg of a release, slaloming wildly through all points from the sublime to tracks that have not so much fallen apart as never coalesced.
Cyril Cyril, Syndicat du futur
Le Gros Hit
Le Petit Bonhomme Orange / Le Gros Hit
Bongo Joe
2026
For the second time, the Geneva-based duo Cyril Cyril hands the microphone to the Syndicat du Futur. Behind this small group campaigning for a better future are Jeannot and Marilou, Zoé, Marlowe and Lenaïs — the respective children of Cyril (Yeterian) and Cyril (Bondi). Two years after La Météo / Le Monde Embêtant, the crew is back. The voices have grown and changed, but the sharp perspective remains, and the adult world had better watch out.
On Le Petit Bonhomme Orange, a certain D. Trump takes a hit. Seen from a child’s point of view, the war leader and his gesticulations look less like a figure of authority than a ridiculous scarecrow ruling through fear. And when power turns grotesque, it stops being intimidating.
With Le Gros Hit, it’s time for the absurd. A song that builds itself in plain sight, stacking lines with no apparent logic and embracing its own laziness. A reminder that you can make a track with three ideas and a chorus, and sometimes that’s all it takes.
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Otu
Hit Song
You're Still There
Self Released
2025
Otu Suurmunne is a super talented musician and producer based in Helsinki, Finland. Running his vast and diverse music under his company Moonic Productions, Otu can mimic countless styles of music and artists with great depth and creativity. He is the guitarist and vocalist for the stoner metal juggernauts Kaiser , and his own style is as introspective and diverse as one would examine. For a complete discography of Otu’s recordings, google Moonic Productions and you’ll discover his huge collection of work. It’s quite amazing on how much content that Otu produces in one calendar year.
LCD Soundsystem
You Wanted A Hit
This Is Happening
Parlophone
2010
Dance punk is one of those arenas of incessantly cheeky, absorbing music that remains largely untouched by the dreary sanity of larger society. LCD Soundsystem is the roller-skating Bo$$ of the arena, coated in brassy leather jackets and lots and lots of zippers. So here's Murphy, armed with what I've read elsewhere as a "disco shotgun," on This Is Happening and he's gunning down the shells of what music should be with every fascinating collage of meaty, groovy funk. The Eno, the Bowie, and even the Prince are all present in the form of clattering influences tangling over the pieces of what should, by all accounts, be considered an impressive musical legacy by this point.
But what does the Bo$$ make his fizzy, funky, fresh album about? Love, really, and the spaces between people. And insecurity. And pain.
The nine-minute "You Wanted a Hit" rocks with disco inspiration and Murphy's clear intent. "You wanted a hit, but maybe we don't do hits," he offers without noticing "Daft Punk is Playing at My House" or nearly every single cut on This Is Happening or Sound of Silver for that matter. Because we sure as shit know he DOES make hits, and so does he, lol.
Abrahams Pea
This Is A Hit
This Is A Hit
Self Released
2023
Zero Monthly Listeners, 2 Views on youtube, Zero Internet Presence except for a photo that depicts a middle aged, white haired Mediterranean man. Make of it what you will, this is a tasty little tune and while not a hit, it's charming as shit.
Music behind DJ:
John Shakespeare
Sandals In The Sand
KPM Series 1000: Gentle Sounds
KPM Library
2009
Noirxheart
Stop!
Stop! [Digital Single]
Self Released (Bandcamp)
2026
----He's not AI----!!!!!!!!!!!! Released Apr 7, 2026. Noirxheart is from Pittsburgh, PA... His BC page elucidates: "sometimes synthpop / sometimes industrial / sometimes uhhh / sometimes a lot of things". ----------- However, he wrote us out of the blue to confirm he's not AI & we wrote back, asking for some words for us to share......... Here you go: "I’m Noirxheart, (26) from Pittsburgh, PA. I’ve been living here my whole life. I’ve been writing and recording all kinds of music for my own projects and acting as a producer, writer and engineer for other artists since around 2014. 100% DIY, everything I’ve ever released has been recorded from home and I’ll probably keep it that way forever. I love the freedom it provides and I love having total control over the creative process. ......................... Music has always been my entire life and purpose which leads me to this: ......... In the US we’re currently living in this surveillance heavy, Cyber-fascistic Hellscape led by the most incompetent ghouls imaginable. The current attack and intended eradication of art made by humans through AI is purposeful. It is just the tip of the iceberg in their process of dehumanization and we need to resist this at every turn. Go out of your way to support human creators. Go out of your way to shame AI slop peddlers who have no respect for the subculture they’re attempting to infiltrate, sexualize and use ‘til it means absolutely nothing. (*cough, SKARS, cough*) ................ Art belongs to us. Stay class conscious. Love each other. Down with ICE and this current administration. Free Palestine, Free Congo & free the world from tyranny. Also, f*ck Live Nation! .............. I think it’s time we’ve told them to Stop! ;) .............. Thank you all again!! ..... Noirxheart " ..................... https://noirxheart.bandcamp.com/
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Tricky
Out Of Place (feat. Marta)
Different When It's Silent
False Idols
2026
Released April 22. "Tricky Announces New Album Different When It’s Silent: Hear “Out Of Place” ---- The raspy Bristol enigma Tricky might not currently have the same vaunted status as his fellow trip-hop pioneers Massive Attack and Portishead. But the man has made some absolutely brain-melting music, and his voice still has a ton of gravitas. Today, Tricky announces his new album Different When It's Silent, the follow-up to 2020's Fall To Pieces. ........................... Since 2020, Tricky has released a bunch of side-project records under aliases like Lonely Guest, and manager Alan McGee had to convince him that his new songs belong on a proper Tricky LP. The record includes guest vocals from Bristol singer Mitch Sanders and from longtime Tricky collaborator Marta Złakowska, who appears on lead single "Out Of Place." It's a stark, flickery post-punk track, and I don't remember Tricky ever sounding quite this much like Tom Waits, though I guess they're both Massive Attack collaborators now. ......................... Check out the Steve Gullick-directed "Out Of Place" video Tricky - Out of Place (feat. Marta Złakowska) [Official Video]
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Population II
Cha Cha Les Mouillés
Gimmicks
Bonsound
2026
Released April 3, 2026. "Blending vocal and instrumental tracks, Gimmicks is a companion piece to the Montréal band's latest full-length. It's an extension of the electronic sounds we explored on Maintenant Jamais, explains Pierre-Luc Gratton. Even though we added upright piano and fuzz bass to some of the songs, our number one rule for this project was: keyboards and synthesizers, first and foremost! This is why they decided to ditch the guitar completely on these new songs, once again demonstrating the extent of their versatility. ..................... Rhythmically, the use of a drum machine allowed the musicians to push their own boundaries and take this exercise in style to a higher level. It made us rethink our rhythmic habits and add bursts of intensity by experimenting with timbre and sound dynamics. The result is a synthedelic rock EP at times unsettling, at times dreamy, but perfectly calibrated, where constraint gives way to ingenuity, freedom, and friendship. Although prog and krautrock fans will recognize the influence of Syrinx, Tangerine Dream, and Cluster, Gimmicks is, above all, the affirmation of a band capable of looking back to move forward." https://population2.bandcamp.com/
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Fomies
Pause Cigarette
Liminality
Taxi Gauche Records
2025
Fomies are from Vevey, Switzerland. "Liminality is the sixth longplayer by Vaud-based quintet Fomies. The five fake homies have prepared a heavy psychedelic trip for thei listeners. For fifty-one minutes, all senses including the third eye shall be activated and stimulated. As the title may already imply, Liminality is about transformation, change, renewal, and a happily hopeful approach towards the future. Does this soundlike something we all need in these times? It does indeed! Thus, fasten your seatbelts, put on your sunglasses, and get ready for a hypnotizing and colouful ride. ..................... Liminality commences with heavy and sedating sounds before the album reaches its first climax, the powerful Heavy Psych Suite Colossus I-III. This massive thirteen-minute journey really comes up to its name, and right after, Fomies grant their audience a six-and-a-half minute break to catch new breath (Pause Cigarette), just to intensify the level of Fuzz and Heavy Psychedelia right after. This exciting roller coaster rides on between relaxing Krautrock one the lower end and monolithic Fuzz and Garage on the higher one. Liminality is a musical invitation to let go, to enjoy the mental cinema, and to dive through the fantastic spheres of rebirth and renewal. https://fomies.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">https://fomies.bandcamp.com/
La Peste
Whirlpool
I Don't Know Right From Wrong: Lost La Peste 1976-1979 Vol. 1
Wharf Cat Records
197?/2026
Compilation released April 17, 2026. "“La Peste were Boston’s first true punk band — and one of the best bands of the era that most people never heard. I Don’t Know Right From Wrong tells their full story by collecting their unreleased studio and loft recordings, along with the two tracks that were officially released during the band’s brief run.
The material in this compilation comes from the studio session that produced the Better Off Dead 7”, their 1979 session with The Cars’ Ric Ocasek, a 1979 session at Electro Acoustic Studios, four-track loft recordings and the the band’s very first studio sessions with Curt Naihersey (Pastiche, The Kids).
The accompanying book features tons of newly uncovered photos, a long-form essay by music journalist Andy Cush and micro-essays by Greg Hawkes (The Cars), Roger Miller (Mission Of Burma), Peter Prescott (Mission Of Burma), Clint Conley (Mission Of Burma), Pat Place (Bush Tetras, Contortions), Willie Loco Alexander (The Lost, Boom Boom Band), Richard Parsons (Unnatural Axe), Malcolm Travis (Human Sexual Response) and more.”"
Music behind DJ:
Squarepusher
K4 Fairlands
Kammerkonzert
Warp Records
2026
"Thomas Russell Jenkinson (born 17 January 1975), known professionally as Squarepusher, is an English electronic musician, record producer, bassist, multi-instrumentalist and DJ. His music spans several genres including drum and bass, IDM, acid techno, jazz fusion, and electroacoustic music. His recordings are often typified by a combination of complex drum programming, live instrumental playing, and digital signal processing. Since 1995, he has recorded for Warp Records as well as smaller labels, including Rephlex Records. He is the older brother of Ceephax Acid Crew (Andy Jenkinson)." ............................. "Squarepusher -- Thomas Jenkinson’s new album is an absolutely flagrant showcase for his ear and skill for composition, jazz and harmony, all while completely subverting any rules of these devices ........................ Kammerkonzert translates into English as ‘chamber concert’, typically compositions performed by a small number of players. But how small is small? In this case, it’s just one hugely impressive performer – Squarepusher himself, who oversees every aspect of this wonderfully multi-faceted production. ................... Squarepusher has returned with his first album since 2024’s Dostrotime. However, Kammerkonzert is a stark departure. Drill’n’bass has been replaced with multi-layered compositions of jazz-cum-IDM-cum-orchestral essences. Currently it’s impossible to not relate the word ‘chamber’ to the triggering buzzterm ‘echo-chamber’, but in a time of complacent self-confirming trends, fads and vitality, Kammerkonzert stands confidently on its own two feet. ................... Kammerkonzert is cinematic, but not confined to one particular film genre." ....................... https://squarepusher.bandcamp.com/
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Spacemoth
Do We Exist?
Do We Exist?
Greenway Records
2026
Spacemoth is the solo project of Maryam Qudus, an Oakland producer and engineer who has worked with people like Toro y Moi and SPELLLING. Qudus released her first Spacemoth album No Past No Future in 2022. She produced La Luz's very cool 2024 album News Of The Universe, and then she joined that band as a touring member when they took the record on the road. While touring with La Luz, Qudus started work on Inward Eye, the new Spacemoth album that she'll release this summer. The project is inspired by the work that Qudus did digitizing her family's old VCR tapes, causing her to flash back to the childhood self that she saw onscreen.
"Do We Exist?" is the first song on Inward Eye, and Qudus says that working on the track helped her figure out the record's sonic concept: "Creating drum parts, bass lines and sequences that coexist tightly, loop around and morph as the song goes on. How tightly wound those parts intertwine and loop together connects to how tightly wound life can be and how we’re constantly running in these little circles."
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Forever Pavot
Dreams Are My Reality
La Boum/Les Aventure du TinTin
Born Bad
2026
Emile Sornin, the mastermind behind Forever Pavot, is a French musician known for crafting cinematic, psych-pop, and prog-influenced music, often described as soundtracks for imaginary films. Recent interviews, particularly around his 2023 album L'Idée Fixe and subsequent projects on Born Bad Records, highlight his meticulous approach to production, love for analog gear, and his shift toward more varied, pop-oriented structures. I love this. I love French singing robots.
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Elle Barbara
BBQ All-Dressed
Word On The Street
House of Barbara
2025
Elle Barbara’s Word On The Street is as much a personal expression as it is social commentary, prompting the listener to examine their relationship to art, their inner workings, and the outside world. Heavily Inspired by the work of André Serouille, whose art is worked into the architecture of Montreal, and engineered by Rennt Wilson at Value Sound, Barbara’s compositions expertly blend genre elements from alternative, glam, devotional, and soul. Word On The Street is also time-bending, evoking multiple eras with synths, drum machines, and dramatic key changes. It is bravely on the nose of this current moment in human history, and a triumph of independent artistry. In addition to her musical endeavors, Elle Barbara runs the House of Barbara, a collective of Black individuals who compete in the ballroom scene and form a familial bond. She also serves as a mentor, speaker, and performance artist, embodying a broad range of roles that reflect her deep commitment to the community. I am besotted. This music is...just so...everything. It's 80's Europop, but oh so much more. That PIANO? The backups, the shifting keys...the singing robot? Oh and the nod to New Order with the kick drum pattern in the bridge? It's perfection.
Peel Dream Magazine
Lie In The Gutter
Rose Main Reading Room
Topshelf
2024
Peel Dream Magazine is the nom de plume of Los Angeles-based musician Joe Stevens. A nod to BBC Radio 1 legend John Peel, arbiter of all things underground, Peel Dream Magazine is highly evocative of a certain strain of independent music. As Stevens explains, “I wanted to create an outlet for subcultural wanderers. Something you can subscribe to."
Stevens harkens back to the early 1990s, when The Velvet Underground resurged as an inspiration to a new set of bands wielding synthesizers, off-set guitars, and a political bent. The Peel Dream experience is defined by a gentle, fuzzy psychedelia —it’s a hypnotic bit of mod-ish lo-fi pop, recalling the best of early Stereolab, Lilys, and other shaggy haired kids with vintage fuzz pedals, slim trousers, and good record collections. Stevens conjures a distinctly 90s vision of the 60s. Not the actual 60s, mind you, but perhaps a 60s daydreamed about from the creature comforts of a suburban living room. An abstraction. Shag carpet turned to bowl cut. Jean jackets — disaffected but wholesome youth. It's not irony, exactly. It's the love that comes from loving. And a bit of whimsy. It's the 90s, again. Post-post.
Music behind DJ:
Equipment Pointed Ankh
Rainforest Cotillion
Without Human Permission
Astral Editions
2021
Equipment Pointed Ankh is a Louisville, Kentucky-based experimental, avant-pop, and industrial collective. Known for an improvisational, "no-writing" approach, they create playful, genre-bending music combining krautrock, jazz, folk, and electronic sounds. Primarily a quintet or ensemble, members include Jim Marlowe, Ryan Davis, Chris Bush, Dan Davis, and Shutaro Noguchi. I AM OBSESSED WITH THESE SOUNDS
Angharad
Postapartum
Motherland
Libertino Records
2024
Released March 1, 2024. A confounding exception to an otherwise pretty straight-ahead Welsh Pop album. Outnumbered 12-1 by acoustic nursery song rave-ups, near mainstream fare, lush pop arrangements and downtempo jazzy creepers; this outlier is the second track from an album that otherwise sounds NOTHING like this. A trait I've found fascinating with fellow Welshwomen Aidwaith. The ability to make music all over the stylistic map, often flirting with pedestrian pop & then somehow dropping some wildly out-there freakouts amongst it all. Honestly, I wonder what's in the water over there on that island. https://thisisangharad.bandcamp.com/
The Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower
Pleasure Heads Must Burn
Release The Bats: The Birthday Party As Heard Through The Meat Grinder Of Three One G
Three One G
2006
A cover of a non-album track by The Birthday Party. ...............In case you have a birthday on the go today or sometime soon.................... "The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower was an American four-piece noise rock/post-hardcore band from San Diego, California, United States, that formed in 2001. After disbanding in 2006, drummer Brian Hill now plays with The Soft Pack, while singer Brandon Welchez and Charles Rowell formed the duo Crocodiles. .......... The group's name is derived from a book by rock critic Greil Marcus, Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century, itself a reference to a line in Guy Debord's 1978 film In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni. ...................... On their earlier work, their music incorporated elements of punk rock in a jazz-oriented improvisational and constructional sequence, whilst later works incorporated a more noise and lo-fi approach. .................. The band was known for their confrontational live shows. While performing on their 2005 tour with The Blood Brothers and Big Business, each member wore a red armband with "PLOT" written in a white circle, intentionally mimicking the armbands worn by members of the Nazi Party. The armbands were in keeping with thematic/aesthetic elements associated with the 3rd Reich that was prevalent on their album Love in the Fascist Brothel. ..................... Welchez also claims they caused a "near riot" in Salt Lake City, and caused a "piss waterfall"[clarification needed] in Baltimore, which led to them being banned from playing in the city. ........................... The Plot won the San Diego Music Award's "Best Punk Act" award two years running, in both 2005 and 2006. ......................... On September 26, 2006, The Plot announced via a Myspace bulletin that their then-current U.S. tour would be the band's last before disbanding. Their final show was in their hometown of San Diego. A posthumous release of a seven-song mini-LP entitled Saviors & Suckers on Three One G records was in the works, but Three One G has since said they will not be releasing the title."
Death Sentence: PANDA!
Insects Awaken
Upset the Rhythm
2008
"DEATH SENTENCE: PANDA! were Kim West, Paul Costuros and Chris Dixon - a trio of San Franciscan musicians associated with the Bay Area's lively rock underbelly. After 7 amazing years, they called it a day in 2011, but continue to make music together in various forms, including as Cops, Earth Jerks, Famous Techno, Murder Murder, T.I.T.S., the Sea Apes, River of Shit and the Pineapple Boys. ..................... Death Sentence: Panda! draws heavily on traditional Chinese and Korean folk music, ragtime, New Orleans-style marching bands and hardcore punk. Cropped and impulsive pop songs bubble over with exuberance, forever underpinned by the group's unusual instrumentation of pitch-shifted clarinet, flute, xylophone and drums. Add to this mix Kim West's impassioned and oft-spooked vocal and Death Sentence: Panda! come into their own." .......................... "After two previous vinyl-only releases with Upset The Rhythm, Death Sentence: Panda! readied their first debut album proper in the shape of 'Insects Awaken'. Written largely around a trip to Europe and a US tour with Burmese, 'Insects Awaken' came together quickly. ................. Recorded in a house filled with books, the band have taken the time to create a record that truly expands their vision. 'Insects Awaken' was mixed with Philip Manley (Trans Am, Oneida, Golden) in a clandestine location not far from the previously mentioned, library-like abode. ................. 'Insects Awaken' is a call to arms to all those who thirst for the sweet nectar of discontent. Inspired by and dedicated to champions far and near, friends and foes alike, it is, in fact, the sound of a wasp's sting to the tongue rewarded with the delicious gift of coconut ice cream." --- 14 tracks, 42 mins | 29 Sept 2008 --- https://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk/deathsentencepanda.shtml
Ekko Astral
stuffing my fingers into a meat grinder (live)
fuck this band: live at the chapel
Self Released (Bandcamp)
2026
Released April 22. Buy the album, support the cause! ----- "All proceeds to Gender Liberation Movement and No More Dysphoria. 🏳️⚧️ ............................ Ekko Astral’s West Coast tour with punk legends mclusky was just supposed to be a quick promotional run in anticipation of their second studio album – the beltway is burning. Instead, it would shape the band’s trajectory immediately and permanently. ............................In February 2026, Ekko was abruptly dropped by their record label with little explanation — years of work reduced to a scrapped album cycle with no clear way forward. They reached out to their producer Jeremy Snyder to join them on drums for what would potentially be their last dates as a band before an interminable hiatus. As one last hurrah, Ekko stuffed the setlist with lasers from deep in their discography, and on one of the final dates of tour would capture the crucible of noise and rage from the dying light of a Fuzz War. ................................. fuck this band: live at the chapel was tracked at The Chapel, a former mortuary-turned-music venue in the heart of the queer Mecca of San Francisco, CA. fuck this band features eight reworked and expanded versions of tracks from Ekko Astral’s two studio albums, including two unreleased songs from the beltway is burning. Written for the mclusky tour, “stuffing my fingers into a meat grinder” is a new original song in which lead singer Jae Holzman frets rejection in between whacked-out instrumentals and an anxious no-wave rhythmic build. “I will never write a song/I will never write a song again,” drawls Holzman right before the ensemble obliterates a four-on-the-floor groove. “Someone asked me why I even do music/I said I wanted to be Sorority Noise,” Holzman concludes, “but I don’t think we need any more songs when this world is so fucking perfect.” .............................Holzman’s audible tears on the final track sound like despair: the supernova at the end of a white-hot run for the band. But fuck this band is not an end. This album and the mclusky tour became a means to a new beginning. .............................. fuck this band will upon release raise money for organizations benefiting from the trans rights music festival they helped found – Liberation Weekend – despite no longer celebrating the band’s second studio album with a benefit performance as intended. 100% of the proceeds from digital sales of fuck this band will be split evenly between Gender Liberation Movement and No More Dysphoria. The album can only be officially heard by those who purchase it on Bandcamp, with the exception of “lil xan goes to washington (live)." ................................. The album was mixed by Liam Hughes and mastered by Jeremy Snyder. The album cover was taken during the Chapel performance by Eber Bravo of the San Francisco band RABBIT. ................... Fuck this band. <3" .....................
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Music behind DJ:
Squarepusher
K9 Reliance
Kammerkonzert
Warp Records
2026
"Thomas Russell Jenkinson (born 17 January 1975), known professionally as Squarepusher, is an English electronic musician, record producer, bassist, multi-instrumentalist and DJ. His music spans several genres including drum and bass, IDM, acid techno, jazz fusion, and electroacoustic music. His recordings are often typified by a combination of complex drum programming, live instrumental playing, and digital signal processing. Since 1995, he has recorded for Warp Records as well as smaller labels, including Rephlex Records. He is the older brother of Ceephax Acid Crew (Andy Jenkinson)." ............................. "Squarepusher -- Thomas Jenkinson’s new album is an absolutely flagrant showcase for his ear and skill for composition, jazz and harmony, all while completely subverting any rules of these devices ........................ Kammerkonzert translates into English as ‘chamber concert’, typically compositions performed by a small number of players. But how small is small? In this case, it’s just one hugely impressive performer – Squarepusher himself, who oversees every aspect of this wonderfully multi-faceted production. ................... Squarepusher has returned with his first album since 2024’s Dostrotime. However, Kammerkonzert is a stark departure. Drill’n’bass has been replaced with multi-layered compositions of jazz-cum-IDM-cum-orchestral essences. Currently it’s impossible to not relate the word ‘chamber’ to the triggering buzzterm ‘echo-chamber’, but in a time of complacent self-confirming trends, fads and vitality, Kammerkonzert stands confidently on its own two feet. ................... Kammerkonzert is cinematic, but not confined to one particular film genre." ....................... https://squarepusher.bandcamp.com/
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Black Devil Disco Club
<<H>> Friend
Black Devil Disco Club
RCA
1978
Black Devil, or Black Devil Disco Club, is an electronic disco music project by Bernard Fevre, a French musician who also released synthesizer compositions on library music albums under his own name and under the alias Milpatte.
The first Black Devil release was the relatively obscure Disco Club six-track EP in 1978. The actual artist name and album title are ambiguous; releases, reviews, and even the official artist and label websites use "Black Devil" and "Black Devil Disco Club" interchangeably. This song is EVERYTHING and groundbreaking in transitioning from disco to coldwave and modern electronic music. The 1978 album Disco Club (reissued in 2004) was a pioneering work in electronic music, utilizing Moog synthesizers and sequencers to create a robotic, "Moroder-esque" sound, similar to Giorgio Moroder’s work.
evre’s use of synths and tape loops, produced with little or no MIDI/computers in 1978, anticipated electronica and techno trends, often sounding "10 years ahead" of the mainstream. Thanks for coming to my TED talk...
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