Hello and welcome. If you're new to this, allow me to introduce myself. I'm Aidan, I live in Dublin and nearly two months ago a friend suggested I round up all the links I find on Bandcamp and Soundcloud each week and share them. There's not much more to it than that. FACT were kind enough to tweet about it and that's why a lot of you are here. Hopefully you'll find something you like below. That's enough rambling.

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Cameron Michael Nichols-Rage - Let's Play!
Um, so this is weird. It's a recording fashioned out of the raw bones of some drumming and vocals recorded by a 20-month-old. And yet it sounds like wonderful freeform noise experimentation. I haven't quite wrapped my head around the whole thing, but it's worth it. 

E+E - Fire Gut
Evian Christ closed his rather excellent Resident Advisor podcast with this beauty, a cover (of sorts) of Bonnie Raitt's 'I Can't Make You Love Me' (though I was only previously familiar with George Michael's version). It's shrouded in fuzz, noise, rap samples, the sound of flames and monsters. Kind of like a Magic Eye poster, if you can make it through all of it it's quite touching.

Three Legged Race - Taboo 3
"Shrunken head palate cleanser exotica for all future "clean slate" activities." These two dusty pieces operate in that weird space where form is fluid and function isn't welcome. They may evoke thoughts of horror films, but they're far less specific even than that broad description. Also worth checking out is The Marshmallow Sickness of Our Fellow Tones Erupting as One.

Whirr - Pipe Dreams
My friend put me on to these guys this week, they're sort of like The Radio Dept - post-MBV poppy shoegaze stuff. He recommended the Around EP, but it's not on their Bandcamp. You can preview a track from it here, though.

Equal Stones - To Erase A Lifetime
No wheel reinvention here, just solid ambient soundscapes. Perfect afternoon working fodder, to drown out the chatter around you or to make the train journey home seem that bit more meaningful. 

iglooghost - orange&pin.essions [unrelease//oop//raft//mpro//umb shi//tc]
iglooghost just put out the Treetunnels tape on Error Broadcast, and here he shares 15 minutes of bits of pieces that's he's made over the last few years. 

El Michels Affair - Walk On By: A Tribute to Isaac Hayes
These guys did Enter The 37th Chamber, that excellent instrumental interpretation of Wu-Tang classics, and here they take a few tracks by soul master Isaac Hayes. You won't even recognise Shaft, but it's great. Plus there are two takes of 'Walk On By', inKind of Blue style.

Vacated - Borley EP
I meant to include this weeks ago but it kept slipping my mind. Sinister tones hinting at mechanical menace, similarly menacing beats born of industrial terror. Drone meets techno and scares everyone.

Bad User Experience - CGi
Full disclosure, I found this one in Brad Rose's Bandcamp roundup on FACT mag. Murky tones and mischievous bleeps meet haunting pads, as 80s sci-fi hovers in an airless state. The other stuff on the label (Nostilevo) is well worth checking out too.

BLACKEST EVER BANDCAMP
In case you missed it, all of the BEB back catalogue is available to stream at your leisure. For those days when you need some dread in your life.

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Solar Bears - Interzone
The Irish lads shared this studio jam with XLR8R, it's supposedly in honour of Dennis Hopper, I don't know how I feel about that, but it's a good tune. Pumping.

Daniel Avery Rinse FM Show w/ Marcus Worgull (24th February 2014)
You know what you're getting with Daniel Avery's Rinse show, normally it's plodding, no-nonsense house and techno, but this month he's opened the show on a more ethereal and stargazing note. Guest Marcus Worgull offers a delightful mix too, melodic techno, low-slung basslines and and emotive melodies. 

TX Connect - Special Mix for Resident Advisor
RA are putting on a party in Dallas, so Texan house DJ TX Connect has put together this mix ahead of the show. Jackin' grooves eh.

Pedestrian & Jasperdrum - Beatamax
These two collaborated on the frankly wild 'Kalakuta' on 2nd Drop last year, and have given this one away gratis through Mixmag. It's a bit more, dare I say it, pedestrian - lacking the excitement of 'Kalakuta' or the emotion of 'Hoyle Road', but it's on the better end of that shuffling house sound. A few chopped-up moments provide some excitement too. 

Call Super One Zero
There's no dance music for a good half-hour here. What's going on man. JR Seaton plays some mad shit that he likes on his Berlin Community Radio show and it's all very good. I mention him every now and then, I know, but trying to find a tracklist for this show I happened upon a Galcher Lustwerk appearance on the show. Can't believe I missed it till now. 

Chemotex - Payphone Player
I know TTT is something else that features a lot but this is too good not to share. The spirit of Mario Più lives on in this irritatingly brilliant chugger. You will probably hate this and if it gets played in a club I don't know how mad people will get but it's sure to provoke a reaction. Juno Plus called it "a noise techno version of the ringtone from hell", but hey, at least it's no the Samsung whistle.

Oni Ayhun - OAR003-B
Sometimes I like to finish on a classic. One of my new Bandcloud friends (hi Becca!) tweeted this during the week, and I had to share it. After all the dread and noise above, it's nice to have something like this - 11 minutes of unadulterated bliss.

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And that's it. I hope you've found something interesting, and if you have why not tell a friend. Have a great weekend.

All the best,

Aidan