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A selection of some of my favourite music from artists releasing on Bandcamp alt netlabels TQN-aut, HREA’M Recordings, Wormhole World, Aescape Sounds and Smikkelbaard Recs, with a couple of artist-self-releases thrown in for good measure. Get comfy and join me on a stroll off the beaten track.
New High Jinks episode is mixed bag of ambience and ‘feral weirdness’ including Saffronkeira, Blessed are the Hearts that Bend, Tunes Of Negation, Tim Hecker, Demdike Stare and Emptyset.
Ben ‘Jack Your Body’ Robinson brings you Acid House, Electro, Italo Disco and various other auditory delights.
Richard Youngs shirks the melodrama this week with No Histrionics – music that doesn’t bust a gut. Herbal tea is the order of the day. Features John Cage, Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk and Anne Briggs
Neil Dargie returns with the Rope Factory for a 10th outing, with tunes by Sault, Sun Ra, Tamar Osborn & Idris Rahman, Rogér Fakhr, Carla Dal Forno and an exclusive outing for a tune by Neil’s very own brother Jamie Dargie.
Extra Normal Records & Contra Pop honcho Lumpen Nobleman returns to Tak Tent bringing from the crates a trademark blend of indie pop, industrial oddities & a healthy cut of Chicago house.
Bagging Area began as a music blog in 2010 and Adam Turner has been ploughing that antiquated musical furrow ever since, with daily posts and pictures. Bagging Area’s Find The President mix looks for the joins between ambient, found sounds, drones and noise, Two Lone Swordsmen, 80s Factory, Eno and Byrne and Snake Plissken.
High Jinks features some domestic tension from Keeley Forsyth’s forthcoming Photograph, pastoral ambience from Bhajan Bhoy’s new That Summer oh Creator! EP and some motorised instrumentation from the workshop of Pierre Bastien.
Ben ‘Jack Your Body’ Robinson brings you Italo Disco, Electro, Dancehall and much more besides.
A musical review of politics and society from Richard Youngs this week. Features Hawkwind, Flux of Pink Indians, The Raincoats, June Tabor and Pet Shop Boys. Don’t worry, ‘…it’s gonna be alright.’