It's Friday the 13th. So there's some creepy music in here. Some bangers. Some noodles.

All good, I hope.

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Sound Awakener - September Traveler
Gorgeous work here from Sound Awakener. This is a collection of early works that's being used as a soundtrack for a photography exhibition in Berlin this week. Slightly dusty reversed loops and one lengthy piece of work.

Sumbu Dunia ~ Sister Nature
Weird loops and electronic gurgles - not dance music, yet rhythmic in its own way. Every track is called 'Hollow', which makes things interesting. Track 5 is particularly beautiful, while others are mere blasts of noise and cut-up abstraction.

Dream Weapons - Moonland (Barnt Remix)
Barnt had a killer album and an even more killer 12" last year, and yet this remix sounds nothing like either. Swollen liquid synths and undulating low end come together for a mysteriously spoopy effect, almost in a horror score, yet pulsating enough for club readiness. Get lost. There's a chromatic downward slide around the halfway point that made me melt.

Cloud Waste and the Calf - JUST OFF JUNCTION TWO
So here is some actual (would be) horror music. Dark and angry synths, chilling melodies, fuzz, noise, pain, wavering tapes. Isn't there something terrifying about motorways - things that exist solely for you to get away from? Not a space to just inhabit, a space for contemplation or relaxation. Just pure, high-speed terror for you to escape. Escape as natural consequence of existence. And then, what lies beneath?

Rezzett – Goodness
Nnnnnffff. This is too good. Why is it so good? Rezzett's recent live in Japan tape is ridiculous, and this is ridiculous. So unfair. Seven minutes of pounding, noisy techno.

Radar Radio - E.m.m.a. - 3rd February 2015
E.m.m.a. comes through on Radar Radio, two-hour set with some of her own freshly minted productions, a whole range of styles, goes into that sepulchral grime mode, bitta trap stuff, grime, TI, then plays a bit of classic 60s psych rock before finishing with more emotive weirdness.

M A U D - Broken March
Not sure how you'd describe this debut release from Berlin-based composer and producer Caroline McCarthy aka MAUD - it's got shades of that Portishead bluesiness, the vocals are both dank and soulful, drowned in reverb. It's not happy music, certainly, more drown your sorrows stuff. Intriguing.

Monto - Proteus
Wicklow's Monto featured a short while back with his beats-meets-Laurie Spiegel track 'Worlds Apart'. New jam 'Proteus' has been picked up by Boiler Room Debuts, and I couldn't be happier. This is from a new tape called 8th Planet, due out soon on Fly High Society. The whole thing is inspired by Neptune and its moons, and this one is named after one of the largest. Large.

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Happy Galentine's Day. Or something.

All the best,

Aidan