Happy Halloween. There isn't actually much scary music here. For that you need to check FACT's top 100 horror soundtracks post. Or perhaps Demonic Glare's Tranarchy Zombie Pride 2014 Horror Mix. Or maybe even @yayyab's SpOoKy mixtape. Here we just have your regular scheduled programming ofnoisey drone and pounding techno. I hope that's okay.

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Rosen+The Old Dream of Symmetry - #FØ02: Rose+ODoS
Rosen is in the middle of a series of collaborative works, releasing them on her Bandcamp. This effort, with The Old Dream of Symmetry aka Will Gresson, was recorded and produced in a day, but that's a mark of spontaneity and verve rather than a badge of honour I think. It's fuzzy and distorted, with shades of birdsong and static running underneath. Slightly doom laden. The closing piece is like an alien transmission to an abandoned world. #3 is due in November, ie very soon.

Freebies from Slackk
Grime overlord Slackk drops an album's worth of tracks for free - "Some new/old bits" as he put it. The first track is called 'Spanish Holiday When You Were Little' and features a frivolous Iberian melody over chunky bass rubs and claps. Where do you go from there? It's great stuff though, heavy, weightless, all intricately produced and brimful of ideas, as you'd expect.

B£AMS - £300 STERLING (Vol. 1)
While I was away I slept on a few things, this being one of them. Sonic Router dropped the £300 Sterling tape from B3AMS, a lustrous collection of hip-hop beats and bass-laden grooves.

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Slumber Session: Lucrecia Dalt
Lucrecia Dalt has a release out, and she's got a mix up on i-D. It's almost like they planned it this way! It's another of those Slumber Sessions, and this one is brilliant in how it jumps from sound to sound. It's got languid atmospherics, dusty old-time music, piped foreign voices speaking unknown terms. Just like a dream that hops from one unknown yet familiar site to another, so this mix moves seamlessly through genres and eras. Listen to her dark and smouldering release for Other People here ('Veta' is my pick).

Deradoorian
Okay I feel a bit silly for sharing this but I can't be the only who hadn't heard of Deradoorian until I saw her at RBMA Tokyo? She was in Dirty Projectors and she's in a group with Animal Collective's Avey Tare but I only heard of her this week. No matter, she's got some ace stuff on her Soundcloud, particularly 'Duduk For Two Voices' and 'Loopy'.

GENERO MIX 01
Given the brilliant and vital pieces from Aimee Cliff and Ruth Saxelby (in Dazed Digital and The Fader respectively) yesterday on women in electronic music, this seems prescient."Compilation of work from artist and friends of Genero, a Vancouver based label and audio project for female and women-identifying portions of the population." D. Tiffany, whose release on CACAO I featured a few weeks back, I think she was my entry point here. Rosen, up above, is also present.

Jack Murphy - Points Zero
Don't Be Afraid just announced three records to close 2014, one each on DBA Dubs, Special Editions and on the label proper. This one is from The Techno Detective Jack Murphy aka rap dot com. If you don't know Jack you should get to know him - not only is he a talented DJ and producer, he's kind and always giving of his time and knowledge. And he's got a lot of that - hence the nickname. Anyway. The title track is a hypnotic techno number, it's got the same driving percussion from his last release on Reference but with this searing synth riff creating a feeling of terror. '4MT' is a droning shuffle of industry, it kind of reminds me of Untold's 'Motion The Dance'. The B-side is even better. 'Prefec'r' is both lush ambience and relentless techno energy, imbued with the spirit of early 90s techno (Carl Craig, Aphex Twin), and 'Thieves' is even more haunting than the three before it, with a gently paranoid riff and chilling chords floating quietly in the background. Top, top work.

Tiny Mix Tapes - Guest Mix: Katie Gately - Untitled
A mix of ideas and influences from Katie Gately to coincide with her 'Pivot' release on Fat Cat (which I shared last week).

Teresa Winter - Jacob Bronowski on Utopia
I really don't know what to say about this. I don't want to break it down or attempt any sort of analysis. It is what it is.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Xosar - Bleed Into Dreams
Another RBMA 2014 participant, Xosar has featured on many Bandclouds because she makes such brilliant music. This features on her upcoming release for Valcrond Video, and she described it as a "depressing snippet" from her new record. I guess you could call it that. Problem?

p trafford - are those real plants
This showed up in my Soundcloud feed and caught my eye because the name was so silly. It's really good though, surging minor-chord techno.

Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 2
To think I nearly forgot about this! I've listened to this approximately eight times in the last few days. And that's a lot for me. I could probably write out a series of favourite lines but that would be really annoying and you should just listen to it yourself.

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Hats off to Maisie Williams (Arya Stark) for the Kanye pumpkin. Now that's creppy.

All the best,

Aidan