Work travel's got me feeling guilty about my carbon footprint while Robert Eggers has me out at night. Sorry this is so late. But also, not sorry.
2Lanes - Giving & Receiving EP
Thrilling, driving techno from Detroit lad 2Lanes. Tough and melodic, squelchy and powerful, it's top notch club stuff. There's also a remix from MGUN.
radio.syg.ma GUESTS 95 – Adam Dove: World Surface Tension
Just another hour of weird textural noise.
SPNT001: For The Rave / When The Rave Is Not Enough
I've talked enough on Twitter about giant compilations but this one is special, it's going for a kind of 2CD effect. That works better with SoundCloud playlists, of course, but it's a novel approach. It was released alongside a zine from Spontaneous Affinity, who also do a wicked mix series, and it celebrates two years of the project. It features Bandcloud friends and faves including Doc Sleep, Olive T, DJ Wawa and ose among others, and takes you through the night into the early hours and beyond. It's brilliantly programmed, from dark and trippy openings through dreamy bounciness, late-night rollers, all the way towards contemplative catharsis. There is one track that samples the 45th President of the USA, and I could do without ever hearing his voice, personally, but not everyone can bury their heads in the sand like that. Anyway, it's name your price, and proceeds go to Critical Resistance, which works towards ending the prison industrial complex.
Nick McDonnough @ Death of Affect launch party
Austin DJ Nick McDonnough shared this live recording of his set from a recent party in his city. It's a proper party, with tracks from Karima F (the excellent 'Random Loop From Doepfer Site'), Lighght, two tracks from Leonce, Bambounou, even ending up with some Two Lone Swordsmen.
Black Moon - Waxing
Black Moon - Waning
Kind of like the Spontaneous Affinity release above, this is a double-pack of sorts (albeit with two Bandcamp pages). Sofia Records presents to you two CDRs made up of tracks composed and recorded under last August's Supermoon. Isn't that ace? One highlight of Waxing is Ingrid Plum's cover of Ivor Cutler's 'Look At The Moon', something I sing a lot to myself after hearing it in Minor Science's BUTW mix several years ago. I do wish it was longer, so if you have any other takes Ingrid, please share!!! We have Lighght again, working under his given name of Eamon Ivri alongside queef's Clare Guerin. We have Amy Cutler (any relation to Ivor?) and Mark Williamson. On Waning, we have Michelle Doyle literally picking mushrooms. We have dank drone form Hardworking Families. We have beautiful, beautiful sounds from Roslyn Steer. It's just a wonderful selection, a wonderful concept, all-round wonder.
Ocean Viva Silver - Îpe
Forty minutes of OVS!!! This is a gift. Swirling electroacoustic goodness.
Vague Imaginaires - L'île Amazone
This is kind of new agey but not in a twee way. I must have listened about five times this week? And this is a 10-minute track so that's kind of a lot. Hypnotic.
Auton - Bodyhammer Variations (Tram Planet 2020)
Auton has created four reworks of tracks from last year's Bodyhammer release. While those tracks, inspired by anti-globalisation movements in Italy and beyond between 1994 and 2001, were hefty and propulsive techno tracks, these versions are deeper and dubbier. They're also bolstered by audio from a German documentary film that explored the movement. I won't pretend to know a thing about them but it's great music and a launchpad for further investigation.
rubot - Respect The Moratorium
In Ireland we have a tradition that in the 24 hours before an election there is a moratorium on coverage of anything pertaining to the election on TV or radio. Now, in the social media age that's pretty much irrelevant, but still. Or something. rubot has written an ode to that tradition. Knowing him, this will probably be deleted as soon as he realises I've put it here.
CAO - Flesh Luminescence
I've listened to this so many times since it popped up the other day. It's from CAO, a Peruvian artist based in Amsterdam, and it's on Club Chai. Flesh Luminescence is a whole lot of things. It's film-score-esque artful electronica, dramatic vocal plodding slomo techno, misty netherworldly music, trippy electro, finally closing with emotive blippy weirdness. I'm not in any way doing it justice. The blurb says it's "inspired by the dynamics of migration and the subsequent metamorphoses this process entails. These ideas are evoked through the creation of sonic spaces, raising the phantasmagoria of nativeness through narratives of belonging, the debris of what is deemed to be “natural”, and the ritual/ shamanic consecration of places". Get on it.