Good morning. It's been an interesting week, musically. Kanye, anyone? Festival lineups? Here's some stuff that might not be on your radar.

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Worke/arasite - Exchange Value EP (CWS009) 
'Numing Number' isn't even in 4/4 dammit. This makes me feel warm in my heart though.

Bnjmn & Best Available Technology - D/-onstructions
The first release of the year from Astro:Dynamics, and as usual it's a corker. Bnjmn and BAT collaborated over email over a period of years, and this is the result. Digital meets analogue, yadda yadda backstory, enjoy the (very good) music.

Dijksterhuis - Lessself
I've been wondering for years how to pronounce Dijksterhuis and I've still no idea. Ah well. This collection of electronic meanderings is a paean of sorts to friends, family, love and life. It's gorgeous.

Teresa Winter - Oh Tina, No Tina
Teresa, of CACAO fame, drops a superb tape for RECKNO. "Devotional VHS post rave meltdowns," the label calls the tracks. Imagine the exuberance of PC Music with the dank murk of outsider house and then throw genre tags in the bin where they belong. It's just noise after all. Delighted for her to get more attention. 'Bounce 700' is my favourite.

Helena Hauff - 'The First Time He Thought, He Died'
Helena Hauff is really great, but some of her work is too hard for me. This is perfect. It's got that snarl, but it's more crisp electro than pounding techno. Plus the title is great.

Radio Cómeme - "Sentimental Flashback 25 - Personal Meditation“ by Lena Willikens
Lena Willikens has been gaining more and more traction lately, and deservedly so. I could have included a live mix shared this week by Nice N Sleazy but opted for this instead. She's put together an hour of music that calms her down, in which she "selfishly decided to prepare a show for [her] personal meditation" - our gain, no doubt. Expansive yawning stretches of sound that take you on a journey.

Juno Plus Staff Mix Vol. 7: Flora Pitrolo
The Juno Plus Staff Mix continues on into 2015 with this set from Flora Pitrolo, "a selection of homemade and hometaped darkwave". All entirely new to me, but sounding fantastic nonetheless.

Kim Ann Foxman - Open The House (Eli's Super NY Mix)
Kim Ann Foxman (of Hercules & Love Affair fame, but equally deserving of attention in her own right) launched her own Firehouse label last year, and this is from its second release. New York's Eli Escobar has remixed 'Open The House' (as well as providing a dub of same), and while I haven't heard the original, this is a typically perfect piece of late-night house.
Of course it is.

Itokawa Film 007 - KABLAM
I haven't fully got my head around the Janus "aesthetic", for want of a better term, and I don't even know how much I like this mix, but I love how it starts off with - and then eviscerates - the drums from Safri Duo's 'Played-A-Live'. It's all scraped metal and smashed bottles and cavernous noise.

T.O.P. Podcast series: Cave recordings (US)
"This podcast gives space only for feelings.Experimental, spacey, dreamy and abstract melodies holding our minds as a new born baby." Pretty much.

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And with that I leave you.

All the best,

Aidan