Last weekend was fantastic. I hope yours was good too! The monthly mix is a bit delayed this time, we have a guest taking over. I've had a listen, and it's pretty great, I can promise you.
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Félicia Atkinson - L'Oeil (from A readymade ceremony)
Félicia Atkinson is a French visual artist and musician with ties to the Shelter Press and Umor Rex labels. This slab of electrifying noise feels like a meeting of Roly Porter and Björk. A multi-faceted work, the release features her written work, spoken over dark contemporary music. For a taste of her interests and influences, check out this mix she did for The Drone.

Christian Lappalainen - Acid På Svenska
Anyone who's following my Twitter will have noticed that I've fallen into a dubby hole these past few weeks. This delightful release, which was recommended by Body In The Thames (thanks for that, fella), turns the genre on its head. This is an individual take on acid, as the title suggests, with wistful folk melodies played on upper registers, while those thick dubby bass notes tie it all together.

loscil - Greta
loscil was behind Sea Island, a gorgeous ambient release from last year that came out on Kranky. This collection is a fundraiser effort: the daughter of a friend and fellow musician has been diagnosed with Ewing’s Sarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer that predominantly affects children, and loscil has offered these three beautiful tracks in the hope of raising money for the girl and her family.

Erstlaub - Jupiter's Children
This piece of noise/sound art was originally written and performed as part of Cry Parrot's 'Music Language Redux' festival in September 2013 at DCA, Dundee, after which its creator collaborated with Kathryn Briggs to fashion a mixed-media collaborative book project. The music is haunting yet refreshing, and the pictures of the book (which is included as a pdf file with the download) are quite beautiful. Can't really recommend it enough.

Derelict Zero One - Transmission 001
Derelict Zero One is a new ambient project from Dutch musician Tomas Roels, who also records as TMSV. While that alias sees him put out gnarly dubstep, this is an entirely different venture - one more suited to Bandcloud, let's say. An hour-long mix/album/whatever, it's a study in moods, from the serenely unsettled to the more blissfully elegiac.

Ital & Halal - Phase 2 live at Unsound Festival NYC
"Unearthed live take of Phase 2 from Unsound NYC, April 2014." Ital's label Lovers Rock shared this live recording from a performance in New York last year, and it's masterful to say the least. This is really hitting that dubby spot.

Sharp Veins - Ghosts Approach Snout to Snout
Just as wild as the title might suggest. Sharp blasts of noise, shrill layers of sound, uncontained digital melodies. Wild.

Asphodel - Aokigahara, The Black Sea of Trees, Excerpt
Aokigahara is a forest at the base of Mount Fuji, which has an association with mythological demons and has, sadly, become a popular place for suicides. Perhaps capitalising on that association is crass or tasteless, yet the music is unmistakably moving. A meditation on "not being", a reflection on the lives lost and the ephemera left behind mourning the dead, it was released some years back as a free download and on a split tape with TALsounds and Steffi Neuhuber on the Cosmic Winnetou ‎label. It appears here because the Invisible Birds stable is preparing an LP release for this remarkable project.

Teresa Winter - How Strange Are Bodies
Teresa Winter, who's part of the CACAO family, is about to release a tape on RECKNO, and this wonderful gem is the first taste of that tape. Floating vocals over fuzzy synths imbued with misty ambience, BC catnip. And that title - isn't it just perfect?

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My travels continue this weekend - I'm off to Belfast to see the Hessle trio tomorrow.

Should be a riot.

All the best,

Aidan