More like.... Meltcloud. No seriously, I'm melting. Remember me fondly.

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Wedding Acid Group - Newpestian Adventures Remixes
Some cool vibey remixes of Wedding Acid Group. I quite like the efforts from Alley Catss and Berriloom.

Drekka - Go From My Window
This is a lil bit old but I only came across it this week when I finally got to listen to Throwing Snow's FACT mix (which deserves its own entry, to be fair, but we've only so much space). Gorgeously haunting, expansive, intimidating, it's perfectly in tune with Throwing Snow's own sound, if perhaps on a grander scale. 

Surachai - Ritual
A bizarre collection of untitled experimental workouts, from blistering techno to fizzling electronica, all with an occultish tinge. 

Pearson Sound on Bandcamp
Nothing new here, but Pearson Sound has put his own label's three releases on a designated site. Raindrops is particularly lovely, while two years on I'm still wondering what that vocal is on 'Untitled'. "Don't wait for letters? Breakfast? Pick-pick-pick me girl..." Sure...

LIES on Bandcamp
"We have embraced the digital age and now have a bandcamp. More titles up soon, also some exclusives to the site" 
Again nothing new, but this is news. I shared this with a friend and was met with a shrug, that most of it is already available digitally anyway. What you gonna do. I'm looking forward to getting stuck into KWC 92's Dream Of The Walled City (...) at last. 

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EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Terriers - Stardragon (Tuff Sherm Remix)
Big thanks to Barry for this one. Major Problems are about to put out their second release, House No 9 from Dublin's Terriers. This is a remix of 'Stardragon' from Tuff Sherm, aka Dro Carey, and it's superb. Chuggy, druggy, it's a lot cleaner than one might expect from Yung Eugene, but it's still got that narcotic scuzzy he does so well. 

Homeboy Sandman - America The Beautiful
I don't share enough rap here. I'm not sure if that's because I haven't come across rap on either platform or because I'm not looking hard enough... Homeboy Sandman runs down the basic positives of the US, from the fundamentals (education, labour laws) to the inane (wifi, park benches).  "Okay, the streets aren't paved with gold - at least they paved though! Weaker than the euro, stronger than the peso... We are the 99% locally... We are the 1% globally." Interesting thoughts.

Matias Aguayo - Una Fiesta Diferente (Violet's version)
Violet turns in a cover of Matias Aguayo's 'Una Fiesta Diferente', "one of my fav tracks of one of my fav albums from last year". Jacking, frivolous, intoxicating. Great work.

Vessel - Red Sex
Vessel's been making top-notch work since I first heard his Nylon Sunset EP on left_blank a few years ago, though his solo work has taken a back seat while the Young Echo project has taken hold over the past 12 months. This is the first track from his forthcoming second album, and it's a real racket. There's a searingly intense solo from an undetermined instrument that really speaks to me.

Call Super - One Four (with Beatrice Dillon)
The intimidatingly intelligent and talented Call Super and Beatrice Dillon talk art and production and everything in between, as well as playing new music of their own creation alongside techno, reggae, disco. 

Juno Plus Staff Mix Vol. 2 - Tony Poland
Tony Poland, Juno Plus editor, turns in the second in the site's series of staff mixes. To paraphrase, it's a bunch of tracks he likes with no great concept, unlike the weighty opening gambit from James Manning (not that there's anything wrong with that). Tracks breathe, flowing into each other with minimal transitions, allowing you to breathe them in in their full glory.

Kab Driver - New
Funky two-tracker from Belfast-based Kab Driver. Well, 'Guilty Pleasures' is a funky number while 'My Thoughts Inexactly' is like Daft Punk's 'Aerodynamic' if it were shorn of its beats and the main theme was muffled under ambient swathes of sound that ebbed and flowed with wistful abandon. 

Accrual - Travail
I believe this is an old piece of work from 2005 by Ruaridh Law, aka TVO of Broken20 fame, which is shortly to be reissued on Moving Furniture records. Moving Furniture recently put out Law's fascinating Dileab Cholbhasach (The Western Lands Pt. 1) (I'd go into it but I'll leave it for another day). This is wonderful, swirling, glistening synth patterns and plucked, beat-repeated guitar notes, traditional melodies fed through computerised systems. I can't wait to hear the rest.

Alley Catss - Eqwrrztziitrzterwrqetzw34q5324q
I didn't even realise this was the aforementioned Alley Catss until I started writing this up - I found it through Wasabi Tapes, who posted it during the week. It caught my eye because of the title's vague similarity to the name Erdbeerschnitzel - though it sounds nothing like his work - but it impressed me in its reverbed wonder. Like an Argento soundtrack if Argento made bright, animé-inspired pop horror.

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All the best,

Aidan