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RIP. A weekly roundup of releases on Bandcamp and Soundcloud selected and delivered by Aidan

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Is 120 a number of any significance? 120 weeks (give or take) of Bandcloud. Not too bad. I hope you're still enjoying it though, otherwise this is a fruitless enterprise.

Ensemble - Versatile
French label Versatile is celebrating 20 years, and they've done this sweet release to celebrate, conceived and recorded in three days. It features three original tracks and a remix. 'Song For Nana' is an infectious house groove built on a foundation of funk; 'Méandres' is a meandering wonder, part twisted folk, part electronic wizardry — it's so so different to the track before, and yet it's a marvel nonetheless. Things kick up again with the barnstorming 'Likwid', which is also remixed by I:Cube. Both versions kick hard.

Solo Andata - In The Lens
Oh this is just lovely. It's apparently built from lost samples and fragments on hard drives, lots of guitar, piano and woodwind smoothed out and layered together beautifully. Hazy, blissful music with a hint of melancholy.

Matt Nida - :4 EP
Matt Nida hasn't put anything out in a while so I was very happy to see this. I really loved his Explorer release on Hel, and featured it here, but this is a bit more rounded than that space-focused EP. Across its four tracks it's got that same inquisitive electro spirit, but with a variety of tempos and ideas, particularly on the bouncy and unusual 'Forcefield', the weirdest and best track of the bunch. 

Herd - Arteater
And to close we've some dark techno. Lots of mechanical scraping and twinkling scratches, driven by faint militaristic drums, it's equal parts dystopian cityscape and nightmare videogame scenario. 

SoundCloud playlist

Vapor Lanes - summer sleeper
The title is apt. It's a long and foggy weird number, not one for festivals but for soothing your nap in the back garden on a muggy afternoon.

 
tapes - Live (snippet) @ OCCII 21.05.16
tapes shared this performance excerpt from a few weeks back. It builds slowly, a sitar and tablas becoming more and more discordant and corroded across 15 minutes. Gnarly.

rRoxymore - Safe (Space)
This was originally recorded a few years ago and is now thankfully coming out on videogamemusic. It's a wonderful fusion of vocal samples and electronic textures that was originally produced for a sound installation in Denmark some years back. 

Proto - Vitamin A3
New Where To Now? that is quite good. Shocker. Proto seems to be a new name, at least I can only find a SoundCloud page that reposted this very track, so kudos to WTN? for continuing to dig for new talent. This track is a gentle jam, up-tempo and softly percussive but with a subtle grace and restraint throughout. I'm intrigued to hear the rest of this release, which is due in 10 days.

datavis.wakesleep — gay bass hologram (BassTechCustom™ Style) 
More lengthy beautiful noise! Always building, always growing, getting louder and bolder until finally collapsing under the weight of its own excess and drifting off solemnly.

Vlubä - Android Qayin
I came across this when aetheric records shared it into my timelines, and for that much thanks. They've got a few things up there, with the particularly long and brilliant 'A-Mu-Kia (Fur Future)' a highlight, but these feels the most apt. Dank noise, screams and clanks, lost in a cave underground like En Sabah Nur.
 
I'm away for a fortnight! In my absence you'll have guest editions from Tayyab and Eradj. Peace! 

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