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Hi! I'm Wonja. Aidan is on holiday in Japan, so he has kindly entrusted me to curate this week's Bandcloud.

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Vangelis Katsoulis - The Sleeping Beauties: A Collection of Early and Unreleased Works
This is an incredible collection of 1980's electronic music from Greek producer Vangelis Katsoulis. Captivating and cinematic, it invokes the likes of Geinoh Yamashirogumi, Philip Glass, and Popol Vuh. Major tip. Also check out the guest mix from Into The Light records in the soundcloud section.

Marco Shuttle - Sing Like A Bird
Deep, booty-shaking techno from London-based Italian producer Marco Shuttle. Builds perfectly with evocative vocals weaving in and out of the mix. I love the seagull noises that come in during that last half. Peter Van Hoesen's remix takes it above the clouds by adding shimmery chords and bringing out a nice ethereal effect in the vocals.

Submit X by Gesloten Cirkel
This album is top notch. Jilted techno with biting acid lines, sunken, distorted vox, and a healthy amount of bleeps and bloops. Some of the tracks build onto others, which the track order demonstrates clearly, so it's sort of like you can hear the album being constructed as you listen through. The title track "Submit X" is an absolute banger. Highly recommended.

Panabrite - Tracer E.P.
Galvanizing modular synth goodness from Seattle-based Norm Chambers.

Austin Cesear & Stefan Jós - Split
Solid split from Where To Now? artists Austin Cesear and Stefan Jós. Austin's side is patient and ethereal, incorporating field(street?) recordings, and Stefan's side is bright and tranquilizing, with neon staccato melodies.

V/A - Tax Haven 4
Iberian Records shakes your floorboards again with a compilation of grimey bass-filled techno. Engage your techno core and build your yoga fire.

Donato Dozzy - Dimensions E.P.
Reissue of the coveted Dimensions E.P, get em while they're hot! Be nourished by the rolling, atmospheric, white-hot techno that only Dozzy can provide.

Musumeci - Schwarz Morgen / Zusammen
I know what you're thinking, cut to the chase and give me the EBM. Here we have two really phenomenal tapes by Italian cold wave band Musumeci from 1985 and 1986. Fans of DAF, SPK, and Cabaret Voltaire apply within and peep this comp if you're looking for more.

In Aeternam Vale - Dust Under Brightness
This album rules. A cathartic outpouring of guttural vocals, sonically intense yet anarchic and indifferent at the same time.

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Fresh Out The Box - BBOX Radio 2/27/2014 || M.E.S.H.
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Functions Of The Now VII: M.E.S.H.
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M.E.S.H., a producer and resident DJ of Berlin club night Janus, puts together a mix for Truants and a mix for BBOX radio. The tracks on these mixes range from playful to desolate to aggressive, but they all share a strange kinship that only M.E.S.H. is able to bring to light. I love the "f--- a bpm" approach to mixing. A+. Major points for opening the BBOX Radio broadcast with ASMR and closing with "Juke Ya Boy". M.E.S.H.'s debut EP on PAN, Scythians, is scheduled for release later this month. Definitely check out theseinterviews for more info on Janus and its two other residents Kablam and Lotic. 

Bill Kouligas with guest Into The Light
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PAN's Bill Kouligas blesses us once again with this gem of a journey through field recordings and ambient piano/drone pieces before leading us to the shore with some soft rhythms, then hands us off. In the second half is comprised of equally lush and meditative material from Into The Light records. I started listening to this after having a bad day, and in my friagile state almost started weeping because what I was hearing was so beautiful. This mix is like a deep tissue massage. Just listen to it. You won't regret doing so.

Blackest Ever Black - Talking To Myself Again: A Mick Hobbs Sampler
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Mick Hobbs is like Syd Barrett's awesomely weird art-rock cousin. His many projects, including Officer!, The Lo Yo Yo, The Work, and Half Japanese, all skillfully toe the line between light and heavy moods, and all with the most unique instrumentation. Some of the most intelligently silly music you'll hear. Officer!'s Dead Unique and Ossification will be / have been reissued on Blackest Ever Black and on Megaphone/Knock 'Em Dead, respectively. I for one am so pleased that this music is coming back into a more public eye. A real treat of a mix.

Concepto MIX #165 D/P/I: "Crutch of Society"
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This mix lets its freak flag fly in a very good way. It goes from chopped and screwed reggaeton and traditional merengue music to the gnarliest Lana Del Rey remix I've ever heard to a haunting poem/song by Crass to thowed country to opera to funk to ???. I'll make no subscription to your paradise, indeed.

KEMAΛ Mix for the Reverie show on NTS
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KEMAΛ (Berceuse Heroique) lays down some select tunes from the vault for a little over an hour for Reverie on NTS, including synthy new wave, balearic house, abstract techno, and a song from Bay Area cult musician The Space Lady. Spoiler alert, thewhole show is great. "If you're having a bad day, it's gonna be worse."

Smoke Machine Podcast 101 Lee Gamble
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Rejoice! Smoke Machine Pod Past from the legendary Lee Gamble! This starts off with a little groaning drone and slowly builds for the first half with a series of hazy acid and grimey techno before dropping straight into party mode around halfway through starting with a track from the new Beneath EP. Lines of distortion run wonderfully in and out of the whole mix. Listening to Lee Gamble's music I often have the feeling that his songs would still sound great at double speed, and I have a similar feeling about this mix at half speed. Afternote: Also listen to
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The Trilogy Tapes NTS May 5 2014
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Whenever I listen to a Will Bankhead mix, I often forget I'm listening to a mix because every track makes me feel like this is what I was always meant to listen to in that moment. This installment includes a playful dancehall edit, dark techno, a bit of disco, a very pretty traditional folk piece (I'm not sure where from), and plenty of rewinds.

No. Inc. - Refraction I / Early Reflections
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No. Inc. are Material Object and Atom™. The first track is a blazing dub techno track and the second is a 7-movement exploration of ambient space that is just breathtaking. I already need more more more.

Rivah: Music To... Shakey Bum Bum To.
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East London DJ Rivah gives us a very quality short and sweet dancehall and afrobeat mix packed to the brim with hot fire. I love the song this opens with very much, so I'm quite biased right off the bat here, but this is guaranteed to get your bum bum shakey. Another day, another wish for all of the i-D Music To... series to be downloadable. 

DEEP29 - Underwater Ari's Tri-State Hi-Fi -> M/M -> Naka Naka
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Newtown Radio's DEEP show is a bit intimidating. 3+ hours of music every week?!? And offering a huge range of genres from ambient to funk to techno/house/acid to dub, residents M/M and Naka Naka know their stuff (check out their Robert Ashley tribute show from a few months ago). Plus, they always have the best guests! I couldn't find much information on Underwater Ari, but the first hour is an engaging mix of dub and reggae interspersed with segments of odd, warped samples of dialogue. Those samples are the only talking that happen here though, as the mix launches straight into the second half with M/M serving up breakbeats and blissed out techno and Naka Naka with some jazz and acid, closing the mix out with a classic. Seriously, how do they do this every week?

BCR Special - NHK'Koyxen
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Homeboy Kouhei Matsunaga gives us two hours of "puzzle techno" with a pinch or two of rap, drawing from some of his work with rapper Sensational. Tell me how you're gonna say no to that. 

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Transmission 22 - Dalhous
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(Okay, I know this isn't a bandcamp or soundcloud, but it is a cloud, so it kind of counts, right?)
This is a languid and relaxing mix of selections by Monk as well as very nice commentary that sounds like it's run through a harmonizer which is really quite a nice effect, and then a bunch of Dalhous demos and early recordings from 2009-2013. Dalhous never fails to move me in a way that is so intangible yet so palpable, nostalgic yet unfamiliar all at once. I'm very much looking forward to their album Will To Be Well due in June on BEB.

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That's all from me! Hope you enjoyed Bandcloud (Guest Remix), because I sure did.
Thanks again to Aidan! And thanks to anyone who sent me music this week, or ever.
All the best, <3

Wonja (http://twitter.com/wonja)