Hello. I pretty much had this wrapped up at the weekend, or so I thought. I just kept on finding new stuff to share. Lucky you eh. 

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Aurora Halal - Shapeshifter
Stunning release from the force behind Sustain-Release, the Catskills-based festival in mid-September. I got the vinyl a few weeks back but it popped up on her own Bandcamp with an extra version of the track 'Death of Real'. It's a rolling, liquid take on techno that's both insistent and ephemeral, drifting away like dank vapour.

Matt Parker - The Imitation Archive
A weird and noisy experiment in sound. After two months spent at the UK's National Museum of Computing, Matt Parker came away with recordings of more than 100 different sounds from 70 years of computing history. There followed the construction of this 10-track work, built of creaking lurch and harsh, blistering sonics. 

Ryan Evans - RedRoom
This Red Room is full of dark devotion and emotional turmoil. Thundering percussion lines meet detuned vocals halfway between Enya and Garfunkel. One track features an excerpt from Six Feet Under on artistry; also sampled is Christopher Moltisanti musing on human similarities. Sampled live percussion, deeply twisted vocals and soft piano, rolling trap beats.

p0stm0rtem - FWIMC (Single)
Experimental avant-garde indie pop. Fuzzy synths, foggy claps, layered vocals. Weird.

WANAINC - Zvenygora
It's very hard to find information about the artists on Russian label Sense/Net. No matter.Zvenygora is a new score to Alexander Dovzhenko’s film of the same name from 1928, which was due to be screened at a contemporary arts centre in the Ukraine. For political reasons, that did not happen, and the label has put the score on tape. Inspired by 0PN, Ensemble Economique and Ukrainian folk, it's a largely ambient affair that verges on the ghostly. 
 

dc Sux - Fleeced
This track was made for 2015's Dimensions Sound Project, which, having gathered together found sound from across the world, invited producers to take some of those sounds and build a track around them, with a broader aim of creating an internationally sourced soundtrack for the festival. This is nice slice of acid gurgle, with roaring samples added for extra hoof. 

Sarah Angliss - The Machinery (sounds to accompany clog dancer - long excerpt)
This is an odd one. The sounds were collected from a working cotton mill in Styal in Cheshire, and assembled as they are here to accompany "a highly metric Lancashire heel-and-toe clog dance" performed by Caroline Radcliffe, who has been researching Lancashire clog dancing for a long time. There's a bizarre phone message in the middle that seems anachronistic, but it's a fascinating listen nonetheless. Angliss's SoundCloud has plenty more delights after one too.

Druid Cloak - Minotaurs (Translated by City)
City covered for me while I was on holiday a few months back, serving up a particularly weird and underground edition of Bandcloud. Here he unfurls arpeggiated bleeps over repeated vocals, taking the original's gentle melody and transporting it to a futuristic end time. 

Ieva Vaiti - Coral Swim
A London-based sound artist! She's really good though. I think I've listened to this track about five times and still don't know what to say about it. Reverbed strings, the rustle of leaves and rain, all in high-def, like those ridiculous pre-movie Dolby ads you see in the cinema. Gurgling electronics that sound like a barrel of marbles — inside your own head. Harsh harp flourishes. Delightful stuff that makes me feel alive and filled with wonder. 

Nene Hatun - nina's lullaby
"you ever heard the lullaby about savage cat who was tamed by the butterfly? she alighted on the nose of the killer beast and shook her beguiling dust in his eyes, making him forget the darkness of the jungle forever."

Claire Morgan @ God Goes Deep, Vor Frue Kirke Copenhagen, Nov 2014
It might have been best to hold off on sharing this one until colder climes return, but it's good for any time really. Berlin-based DJ Claire Morgan recorded an ambient set in a Copenhagen church last winter, a wonderful passage that moves from languid tones and gentle pulses through to a strings-based rendition of 'Gymnopédies'. Gorgeous.

Darren Bauler - History Regrets Itself
Swirling squelching noisey wonder. Gloopy. Almost like horror music if the horror were mechanical robots that decided music was bad and outlawed it.

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Edging closer and closer to the day.

All the best,

Aidan