Welcome. This week has been dark and wet and unkempt. A few good tunes have surfaced though, as ever. As ever, we aim to bring them to you in a spirit of selfless offering.

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Death Register - Phonaesthesia
Really enjoyable, immersive darkness. The label seems sweet but this is the only release I've got my teeth into thus far.

ARASH AKBARI - Cracked Echoes
Beautiful ambience, a gentler kind of sound from a young (ish? He's 27) Iranian producer. Slowly undulating passages that ebb and flow with mournful elegance.

nebulo - Akzidens
I'd seen this online but out to my man Tayyab for pointing it my way. This is a nice collection of jams, some funky, some abstract, some noise, all intriguing.

夕方の犬 (Dog in the evening) - mb_s_4_ch
This is a really beautiful collection of sounds found and created, muted electronics and lilting guitar. The description on the 905 Store, where I found it, is heartbreaking. "Harkening to fleeting emotional anime soundtrack motifs, minimal luminous midi tone phrase clusters, languid sampling atmosphere. The pang of evening lights. A child speaks. The bittersweet dog in a walking apparatus. Memory is an orange I peeled. Morose white blue."

Akkord – HTH020 (The Haxan Cloak’s Cloud Of Witness)
Houndstooth's Akkord are already pretty sparse and trippy, but this remix from Haxan Cloak goes down the rabbit hole of darkness into a netherworld of unpredictable sonics and brash cacophonies. He's actually taken all four tracks from HTH020 and fashioned this 10-minute monster from the pieces. Fascinating work.

Radio Cómeme - "Sentimental Flashback" 23 by Lena Willikens
Lena Willikens puts together an hour of music inspired by her recent appearance and attendance at the much-lauded Unsound festival. Think dark and contemplative stuff.

esaoperations - A Singing Comet
We landed on a comet. And now it's making tunes. I swear, everyone's a producer these days. It'll be inviting you to its DJ night next.

New Jackson - Having A Coke With You
Capitalism meets house meets sax. This is the A-side to David Kitt's new New Jackson release on Permanent Vacation.

Yamaneko - Pixel Healing Spa
I swear I can't shut up about Yamaneko. This appeared on Mumdance's always essentialRinse show, which this week was broadcast from Tokyo - quite appropriate given the eastern influences (Yamaneko is the Japanese for the Iriomote cat, see above). It's a healing balm of a mix, (exactly) 30 minutes of quiet lullabies and flutes and blissful tones. Juno Plus also premiered another album track yesterday, 'Primrose Island', which features early in the Healing Spa mix.

SSS Podcast #134 : Klara Lewis
Klara Lewis throws down 50 minutes for the French SeekSickSound blog. It's got 'Kid For Today' in it so it has to be good. You can stream her newest release Msuic here, though the less said about that write-up the better.

Ghostface Killah - Love Don't Live Here No More
Ghostface in Madison Square is on your poster. Ghost tells a story of returning to his love after nine years. He ain't welcome. Too bad, son.

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Have a superb weekend, friends.