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WARDRUNA - live at Tempe Arts Center, November 5th 2022
you don't know Wardruna until you've seen them live

BURD ELLEN - A TAROT OF THE GREEN WOOD
anyone for spellbinding folk magic? Of course, come here

LUCRECIA DALT - THE BABY (ORIGINAL SCORE)
another super score of wild electronics

ICEBERG - FINAL THAW
mind-crushing free jazz jammers

KYLE KIDD - SOOTHSAYER
beautiful soulful post-techno bliss-scapes

REDGREENBLUE - THE END AND THE BEGINNING
spacial jazz

ALEKSANDRA SLYZ - A VIBRANT TOUCH
huge organic dronework

FAXED HEAD - EXHUMED AT BIRTH
raw, wild, fun metal reissue featuring the man who would be Neil Hamburger and some Secret Chiefs 3

IMPERFECT STRANGER - EVERYTHING WRONG IS RIGHT
rugged electronics from seasoned soundtrack composer Kenny Inglis

CASSIOPEIA STURM & PATRICK SHIROISHI - THE INVENTION OF THE SAXOPHONE

wildest dreams of sound

CHOUK BWA & THE ÅNGSTROMERS - AYITI KONGO DUB #1

woooooah, Belgian techno meets vodou in dub

LUSTER - LUSTER
mist-soaked doom psych pop that puts your ears on alert

MADELEINE COCOLAS - SPECTRAL
it is...

INFINITY KNIVES & BRIAN ENNALS - KING COBRA
stella collab of hip-hop innovation

CONGREGATION OF DRONES - TWENTY TWENTY
a symphony of drones

THE BLACK ALBUMEN - THE BLACK ALBUMEN
funky, jazzy travel party

PRAISES - IN THIS YEAR: HIEROPHANT
a deadly grower of an album, beguiling nocturnal ballads

DÄLEK - PRECIPICE
the power and the beauty

HEILUNG - DRIF
an intense global call to brotherhood

WONDERFUL BEASTS - MAGIC & MYTH
this is the sound of dreams

SEDNA CHRONICLES - SEDNA CHRONICLES
unearthly music

UFOMAMMUT - FENICE
astonishing cosmic metal

ANDREW TUTTLE - FLEETING ADVENTURE
beautiful guitar soundscapes

LONER DELUXE - HINTERLANDS
lo-fi folk beat kaleidoscope

WARDRUNA - FIRST FLIGHT OF THE WHITE RAVEN
live greatest hits session in high fidelity

HOWLROUND - TRESPASS AND WELFARE
video review of this wild radiophonic gem

KING GARBAGE - HEAVY METAL GREASY LOVE
beautifully soulful music

SHIT AND SHINE - PHASE CORRECTED
filthiest hard rock possible

DELPHINE DORA - HYMNES APOPHATIQUES
astonishing devotional music for wordless voice and church organ

DAMO SUZUKI & SPIRITCZUALIC ENHANCEMENT CENTER - ARKAODA
Damo live with an amazing improvisation unit

ALISON COTTON - THE PORTRAIT YOU PAINTED OF ME
folk music deconstructed

AKUSMI - FLEETING FUTURE
astonishing whirlaround of jazz and classical composistion

LLOYD MILLER - ORIENTATIONS
treasure trove collection from the archives of this overlooked master of spiritual jazz

PARTY DOZEN - THE REAL WORK
furious noise rock power from down under!

FLACID MOJO - FM
the name is wrong, this storming hallucination electro funk is rather errect

GHOST POWER - ASTEROID WITCH/INCHWORK
two songs that will take you to blast off

ASHER GAMEDZE with XRISTIAN ESPINOZA AND ALAN BISHOP - OUT SIDE WORK
Two duets for the wild drummer

LUCRECIA DALT - THE SEED (ORIGINAL SCORE)
amazing horror soundtrack

THE SOUND OF SCIENCE
a delightful album of science pop for kids (of all ages)


TOMÁŠ NIESNER - BEČVOU
mesmeric ambient

DEAN SPUNT AND JOHN WIESE - THE ECHOING SHELL
rowdy avant garde explosions

ADELA MEDE - SZABADSÁG
extraordinary beauty

LINING TIME - STRIKE
timeless choral protest work

STELLAN VELOCE'S COMPLESSO SPETTRO
psychedelic folk horror jazz anyone?

SIMON KLEE - THE LIGHT OF ELEVATION
head into the light

J.PAVONE STRING ENSEMBLE - ...OF LATE
a roller-coaster ride through sound

SON OF BUZZI - DIE HAND DER RIESIN
acoustic guitar and field recordings in perfect sync

TWILIGHT SEQUENCE - TRESS IN GENERAL: AND THE LARCH
deep synth feast

OREN AMBARCHI \ JOHAN BERTHLING \ ANDREAS WERLIN - GHOSTED
epic trio session

ARTUR MAĆKOWIAK - SECRET CARNIVAL
a remarkable composition

JUSTIN HOPPER & SHARRON KRAUS - SWIFT WINGS
spectacular spoken word meets haunting electronics and folk

MEADOWSILVER - II
icy beauty in the mist

MIENAKUNARU - STRATO ARCOLOGY
devastating UK/Japan psychedelic power trio

LUSTMORD - THE OTHERS [LUSTMORD DECONSTRUCTED]
dark ambient classic gets remixes from Ulver, Godflesh, Zola Jesus and other luminaries

KING ROCKER (Film AND original soundtrack)
the documentary on Robert Lloyd of The Nightinagales gets a nice DVD/CD bundle

JOYFUL TALK - FAMILIAR SCIENCE
rainbow post-punk jazz

BUÑUEL - KILLERS LIKE US
brutal rock n roll annihilation

FRANKIE - STYX
heart-stoppingly beautiful

ALABASTER DEPLUME - GOLD
Jazz, spoken word, poetry and inspiration

XPEDIENT - 787B
minimalist electronic voids

SOFT-BODIED HUMANS X SWORDMAN KITALA - KAIJU KITALA
Ugandan MC meets UK producer with explosive results

DOGS VERSUS SHADOWS - THE LULL OF THE LEY
weird, ritualistic electronics

NIK COLK VOID - BUCKED UP SPACE
techno but not as we know it, sometimes dancefloor, sometimes homefloor

LINA TULLGREEN & ALEC TOKU WHITING - UNFAMILIAR CEILINGS
two people about to shatter a hole in the world

WATER DAMAGE - REPEATER
hypnotic drone rock perfection

DIKEMAN / GONZALEZ / HÅKER-FLATEN / HORNE - TEXAS BUTT BITERS
with a name like that for a free jazz album, you know you're in buisness

LAIBACH - WIR SIND DAS VOLK
wow, spoken word, classical and beats all combine for this theatre soundtrack

CHEB TERRO VS DJ DIE SOON -  s/t
incendiary collab between the late Tunisian MC and Japanese producer DJ Die Soon

ZOMBIE ZOMBIE - VAE VOBIS
euro horror goes down the disco

YDNI HALDA - ENJOY ETERNAL BLISS
a much needed post-rock repress

THE BLACK ALBUMEN - GIRL FROM THE BALTIC SEA
groovy single

CHARBONNEAU / AMATO - SYNTH WORKS VOL.2
euphoric synth works

RICHARD PINHAS - ICELAND
handy reissue of Pinhas' first post-Heldon solo album

THE VEX COLLECTION - THE VEX COLLECTION
world music from another world

TYLER MITCHELL FEATURING MARSHALL ALLEN - DANCING SHADOWS
the most beautiful jazz album I've heard all year, just amazing

THE SEAMAN AND THE TATTERED SAIL - STANDING ON THE PRECIPICE OF TEARS
beautiful ambient minimalism with surprise bonus covers album

GONORA SOUNDS - HARD TIMES NEVER KILL
joyous sounds from Zimbabwe

ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF - LIVE AT MONTREUX JAZZ FESTIVAL
epic live album

J.R.BOHANNON - COMPULSIONS
laid-out beautiful explorations

GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR - Phoenix Crescent Ballroom
a report of some live music

CARAMBOLAGE - S/T + EILZUSTELLUNG-EXPRÈS + BON VOYAGE
classic German post-punk girl group

SPACESHIP - RAVINES
sonic probing of the ravines of the Calder Valley

DRNTTRCKS - NEIN + NEIN
electro distopia

DUNCAN MARQUISS - WIRES TURNED SIDEWAYS IN TIME
cosmicana musical journies

HALFSILKS - CUPID OPERATIONS
stunning Berlin girl trio action

SHANE PARISH - LIVERPOOL
sea shanties from the oceans of sound

ILHAN ERSAHIN, DAVE HARRINGTON & KENNY WOLLESEN - INVITE YOUR EYE
blue sky music

VANESSA WAGNER - STUDY OF THE INVISIBLE
beautiful piano interpretations of minimalist classics

NANNA BARSLEV - LYSBÆRER
exquisite Nordic balladry

DIE WILDE JAGD - ATEM
yes, the album title is a sort of sign post

preston.outatime - MIRROR RADIUS
electronic soundscapes

LUKE STEWART - WORKS FOR UPRIGHT BASS AND AMPLIFIER VOL.2
you HAVE to hear this one

DALHAM - FÜNF
beatless techno beauty

MORDANT MUSIC - DEAD AIR
extraordinary haunted rave music for broadcasting

TY SEGALL - WHIRLYBIRD (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK)
wildly varied and precociously good movie soundtrack

CARLTON MELTON - MICROWAVELENGTHS
video review of San Francisco's leading psychedelic dreamers

SUNN O))) - META BENEVOLENCE
storming radio session tracks of psychedelic chugg

MATCHESS - SONESCENT
vivid minimalist composistion

MAYA SHENFELD - IN FREE FALL
sheer electronic bliss

HAWTHONN - EARTH MIRROR
video review of this beautiful, mysterious wonder

DAN MUNKUS - THE EDGE OF HIGH TRACE
blistering post rock compositions

LINDY-FAY HELLA & DEI FARNE - HILDRING
spell binding

JULIA GJERTSEN & NICO ROSENBERG - PAISAJES IMAGINARIOS
tranquil beauty

ULVER - SCARY MUZAK
the fearless Ulver boys tackle the score for John Carpenter's Halloween

VIS-A-VIS - THE BEST OF VIS-A-VIS IN CONGO STYLE
classic Afro-Cuban party music from Ghana

SINERIDER - A FAMILIAR LIGHT
beautifully electronic minimalism

LUKE REQUENA - MIRROR STAGE
Berlin school for the new world

RICHARD DAWSON & CIRCLE - HENKI
a dream collaboration creates the folk/prog/metal/other masterpiece we needed

JESSICA MOSS - PHOSPHENES
epic in its beauty, breath-taking in its execution

ARTHUR KING - CHANGING LANDSCAPE (ISLE OF EIGG)
blissful psychedelic sound collage for the Scottish isle

BLACK CHANNELS - TWO KNOCKS FOR YES
much needed vinyl reissue of the spooky radiophonic classic

THE GERMAN OCEAN - GOII
low end, growling drone masterwork

BURD ELLEN - THE HIGH PRIESTESS AND THE HIEROPHANT
just two tracks on a 7"/download and yet the words just flowed and flowed on this review. Essential modern reinvention of folk traditions

GOODPARLEY AND POPPY JENNINGS - ENJOYING NATURE
beautiful rural drones

INCENTIVE - INCENTIVE
wild electronics

STEALING SHEEP AND THE RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP - LA PLANETE SAUVAGE
live soundtrack to the classic animation

GROUPER - SHADE
Liz Harris hits new peaks

LIGHT CONDUCTOR - SEQUENCE TWO
get high on synths

ROSS GOLDSTEIN - CHUTES & LADDERS
haunting mellotron anthems

NONEXISTENT - NONEXISTENT
Astrud Steehouder, Alex Tucker & Luke J Murray takes us off into deep space

PAUL SCHÜTZE - THE SECOND LAW
perfectly curated compilation of 80s and 90s highlights from the master producer

GASPAR CLAUS - TANCADE
Cellist genius creates a heartful masterpiece

HTRK - RHINESTONES
Minimalist melancholy songs

KRISTEN GALLERNEAUX - STRUNG FIGURES
Detroit folklorists turns her hand to deep techno abstraction!

GOLDEN DONNA - THE DAMAGE HAS BEEN DONE
blasting little EP of futurist techno gems

IBUKUN SUNDAY - THE LAST WAVE
epic Nigerian ambient

GOOD SHEPHERD - LET'S SEE WHAT THE EAST WIND BRINGS
astonishing folk loveliness

THE UNIVERSAL VEIL - HELIOS/HIND
world music from another world

EVERLING - AD HOC
constantly surprising cosmic ambience

RICHARD YOUNGS - CXXI
beautiful spacious music

SOPHIE COOPER - GOODBYE GEMINI
video review of the new spooky tape from the noted avant songstress

XOCHIMOKI - TEMPLE OF THE NEW SUN

Aztec music....I think?

G.E.K. - FACULTY OF PERCEPTION
piano/sax duo doing beautiful things with their powerful chemistry

PATRICK SHIROISHI - HIDEMI
beautiful and hopeful and so important

TY SEGALL - HARMONIZER
good times are here again

TOM DISSEVELT & KID BALTAN - THE FASCINATING WORLD OF MUSIC + TOM DISSEVELT - FANTASY IN ORBIT
we tuck into two early electronic classics

BEN CHASNY - THE INTIMATE LANDSCAPE
Mr.6.Organs made a stunning acoustic album for the KPM Music Library

LAUREN SARAH HAYES - MINI SAVIOR OPT.
astonishing electronic explosions

W.H.LUNG - VANITIES
synth pop at its most hedonistic

JJJJJEROME ELLIS - THE CLEARING
its a thesis, its trap music, its classical, its ambient, its spoken word, its hip hop, its all of those things and none of them at the same time

CHARLES RUMBACK - SEVEN BRIDGES
all the best things about jazz somehow combined into one album

10,000 RUSSOS - SUPERINERTIA
superpsyche turbo speed!

MAURICE LOUCA - SAET EL HAZZ (THE LUCK HOUR)
Egyptian musician and composer lets you in to a strange, secret world

WARP TRIO - WARP TRIO'S PANDEMIC DISCO FANTASY
astonishing stuff, its chamber music meets disco and rock

VANISHING TWIN - OOKII GEKKOU
pop music from 1950s Venus

SOFA - SOURCE CROSSFIRE
bumper compilation of their 97 LP and some EPs, Slint meets Joy Division

BRETT NAUCKE - MIRROR ENSEMBLE
haunting ambience for empty corridors

TARA CLERKIN TRIO - IN SPRING
beautiful strange EP

HMOT - THE MUSIC GREETS DEATH
strange ambient transmissions from Moscow

NEW AGE DOOM & LEE "SCRATCH" PERRY - LEE "SCRATCH" PERRY'S GUIDE TO THE UNIVERSE
The Upsetter goes out in absolute style

MARISA ANDERSON & WILLIAM TYLER - LOST FUTURES
two titans of modern guitar amalgamate their talents

ULVER - HEXAHEDRON - LIVE AT HENIE ONSTAD KUNSTSENTER
Wolves evolve? They never bloody stop evolving

HARMONIOUS THELONIOUS - INSTRUMENTALS (A COLLECTION OF OUTERNATIONAL MUSIC STUDIES)
eternal dervish beats from the 22nd Century

MEGABOG - LIFE, AND ANOTHER
a songwriter from another place

BUCK GOOTER - HEAD IN A BIRD CAGE
fearsome and heartbreaking swansong

ZYKLUS - STIMULACRA
a full CD treasure trove of electronics. they don't call it Buried Treasure for nothing

MAKO SICO - GARLAND OF HEADS
what is this? global post jazz? experimental classical? simply sublime? or all of the above

SØLYST - SPRING
post-apocalyptic industrialism without cliche

THE CRAZIES - A SIMPLE PLAN
a lost 1978 outsider punk classic

BRIGID MAE POWER - BURNING YOUR LIGHT
six cover versions remade in Brigid's subtle style

LOVE-SONGS & U.SCHÜTTE - SPANNENDE MUSIK
become lost in the groove

OLD MILLION EYE - THE INCADESCENT SHIFT and FUTURE WONDER
the perfection of psychedelic soup

KLOTANG - A MIRROR TOUCH
the spirit of rave comes to save you

LINGUA IGNOTA - SINNER GET READY
prepare to be eviscerated emotionally

BIRDS OF MAYA - VALDEZ
rowdy scorched primal rock n roll

KEVIN RICHARD MARTIN - RETURN TO SOLARIS
the Bug himself returns to his spectral roots with a haunting alternative score to Tarkovsky's classic

YANN TIERSEN - KERBER
another richly emotional journey from the deeply cinematic composer

WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM - PRIMORDIAL ARCANA
nature in the raw

Various Artists - KIOSQUE OF ARROWS 2
gateway compilation of deep underground mainly electronic cuts mostly from the 80s

---__--___ - THE HEART PUMPS KOOL AID
weird melancholic minimalism

PHEW - NEW DECADE
bleak post-industrial soundscapes from the 80s legend

YOSHI WADA - THE APPOINTED CLOUD
drone masterpiece from the sadly recently departed maestro

DANIEL VUJANIC - PARAMNESIA
tripped out genius

CRAZY DOBERMAN - "EVERYONE IS ROLLING DOWN A HILL" OR "THE JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF SOME ARCANE MYSTERY AND THE ENTANGLEMENTS OF THE VINES AND VEINS OF THE COSMIC AND UNWIELDY MILLIEU ENCOUNTERED IN THE MIDST OF THAT ENDEAVOR"
an album so good, they named it longly

LAIBACH - WE FORGE THE FUTURE
once again, the Laibach of today cover the Laibach of yesterday but this time more faithfully.

MIND MAINTENANCE - MIND MAINTENANCE
two skilled jazz musicians take two African instruments and strum to nirvana

CUBS - RIVER OF AMBER/FROZEN WATERFALL
deep, beautiful new folk

WARRINGTON-RUNCORN NEW TOWN DEVELOPMENT PLAN - PEOPLE & INDUSTRY
nostalgic futurism never sounded better

BLACK DICE - MOD PROG SIC
tripped out party music

WREATHS - GOLDEN THREADS FROM RIVEN ROT
marvelously melancholic morbid minimalism

HYPNOTIC BRASS ENSEMBLE - THIS IS A MINDFULNESS DRILL
a whole album cover of Richard Young's folk classic "Sapphie"

ERIC ARN - HIGHER ORDER
more six string magic from the great maestro

EXPO 70 - EVOLUTION
taking space rock to the extreme

VIOLET COLD - EMPIRE OF LOVE
joyous, psychedelic metalgaze from Azerbaijan

LOSCIL - CLARA
beautiful drifting drones pieces

OLD MILLION EYE
get ready to flipped upside down by the whirling drones

DEAN McPHEE - WITCHES LADDER
the timesless poignant guitar of Dean McPhee continues to astound

MAINLINER - DUAL MYTHS
beautiful psychedelic noise rock

BIG BLOOD + JAKE BLANCHARD @ Internet - Saturday 27th February 2021
a review of an online gig that really blew me away

SKY BURROW TALES - SEAFAIRIN' AND BACKPORCHIN'
video review of some cosmic roots music out of Austria, the great outdoors and Alpha Centauri

NEW BUMS - LAST TIME I SAW GRACE
Ben Chasny of Six Organs and Donovan Quinn of the Skygreen Leopards reignite their incendiary collaboration

ROYAL TRUX - TWIN INFINITIVES
Another video review, this time for the cassette reissue of this rowdy nineties classic

THE KLF - COME DOWN DAWN
the classic album Chill Out is back temporarily in a new, improved version. It's streaming only and doubtless they'll take it down forever sooner or later

NURSE WITH WOUND - TRIPPIN MUSIC
a catch up video review of one of 2020 favorites

TREES - 50th ANNIVERSARY BOX SET
 both classic albums and some extras

JON COLLIN AND DEMDIKE STARE - SKETCHES OF EVERYTHING / FRAGMENTS OF NOTHING
stunning collaboration, rural blues abstraction

PHARAOH OVERLORD - 6
2020 appropriate: cosmic hypno-electro with doom metal vocals

ANDREW LILES - CRACKED
2020 sounds made out of old records

ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF - ALL THOUGHTS FLY
2020 also sounds a lot like this - dark pipe organ meditations

ULVER - FLOWERS OF EVIL
2020 definitely sounds like this - electro pop pessimism

PRANA CRAFTER/RAGENAP - NO EAR TO HEAR
split LP of lush, blissed psychedelia

LAIBACH - PARTY SONGS
a mini album taking further gold out of the group's North Korea trip

DDT - ENTER THE BEND
a stunning collision of White Manna and Carlton Melton

SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE - COMPANION RISES

it's been a while but here's a triumphant return

PRINCE - 1999 SUPER DELUXE EDITION
crass cash in or cultural treasure trove? or both?

CHROMATICS - CLOSER TO GREY
the leaders of melancholic electropop come back brighter

THE SLOWEST LIFT - PLUTONIC SHINE
first video review in about a year, it's the noise pop band of your dreams

WAQWAQ KINGDOM - ESSAKA HOISA
global psychedelic wonderbeat

SPIRAL WAVE NOMADS - SPIRAL WAVE NOMADS
ecstatic guitar/drum combo

STARBIRTHED - STARBIRTHED
cosmic devotional music glowing from the grooves of the vinyl

DIAZEMUM - A PSYCHOBIOGRAPHY
an evocative and emotional journey by drone

BEN FROST - DARK CYCLE 1 & CYCLE 2 SOUNDTRACK

the long-awaited score to the Netflix show. Tough, eerie and otherworldly.

THE COSMIC DEAD - SCOTTISH SPACE RACE
gigantic heavy psychedelic rumbles

CARTER TUTTI VOID - TRIUMVIRATE
stunning electro-funk-drone farewell from this scorching collaboration

SUNN O))) - Mesa Arts Center
we attempt to describe being internally cleansed by metal drone

ALEXANDER TUCKER - GUILD OF THE ASBESTOS WEAVER
cosmic pastoral psych rock pop but more complicated than that

STEVE GUNN & THE BLACK TWIG PICKERS - SEASONAL HIRE
4 years after it was written, I finally post my review of this joyous team up

HOUSE AND LAND - ACROSS THE FIELD
a vivid breathing modern folk tradition in beautiful life

DANIEL W J MACKENZIE & RICHARD A INGRAM – HALF DEATH
otherworldy soundscapes

PINK GLOVES - LOS ANGELES
beautiful,melancholic synth pop
  
TEETH OF THE SEA - WRAITH
jacking psyche experimentalism with beats

SPAZA - SPAZA
Stunning freeform psychedelic jazz from Africa

20 GUILDERS - ACOUSTIC MOTHERFUCKERS
two noise mongers turn campfire troubadours

ASTRAL SOCIAL CLUB AND GRUMBLING FUR TIME MACHINE ORCHESTRA - PLASMA SPLICE TRIFLE
a stunning sonic kaleidoscope

ANDREW LILES - COLOSSUS PART TWO
even more imaginative reconstructions of former hit singles, so big it took me 11 pages to review the fucker

DEAFKIDS - METAPROGRAMAÇÃO
scorching percussive noise rock

PRANA CRAFTER - MINDSTREAMBLESSING
psychedelic wonderment

MATT LAJOIE - THE CENTER AND THE FRINGE
beautiful guitar explorations

BLACK TO COMM - SEVEN HORSES FOR SEVEN KINGS
out-there electronic deconstructions

ANDREW LILES - THE GEOMETRY OF SOCIAL DEPRIVATION
an epic of found sound and experimentation

SCANNER - MASS OBSERVATION
extrodinary experimental electronic minimalism and voyeurism

HEATHER LEIGH - THRONE
pedal steel monster turns ballad-weaver

ULVER - SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI ep
supplemental musical goodness from Norway's new mythology

M GEDDES GENGRAS - LIGHT PIPE
astonishing space journeys

NAUJAWANAN BAIDAR - VOLUME 1
An authentic distillation of Western psych and the more tranced elements of Afghan folk

WILLIAM FOWLER COLLINS - FIELD MUSIC
a rich, varied drone album of disquiet

LAIBACH - THE SOUND OF MUSIC
the grand provocateurs tackle North Korea and Julie Andrews with enormous succcess

NIGHTS WITH FRIENDS
a video review of a book! Don't worry, it has plenty of pictures, its celebrating 10 years of Phantom Limbo gigs

MOODSETTERS
wild and wonderous collection of Library Music on Burried Treasure compiled by expert crate digger Alan Gubby

CURRENT 93 - THE LIGHT IS LEAVING US ALL
a landmark album from the long running experimental project of David Tibet

ULRICH ROIS - EVERYTHING IS MERGING
blissed-out guitar psychedelia

PRINCE - PIANO & A MICROPHONE 1983
a step back in time to a lonely genius with his piano

ROSS GOLDSTEIN - THE EIGHTH HOUSE
cinematic experimentalism

THE HARROWING OF THE NORTH
cracking compilation of new music from Yorkshire

HHY & THE MACUMBAS - BEHEADED TOTEM
strange, percussive pleasures

LIME EYELID - WEEK OF WONDERS
slow ghost psych, wonderfully weird

ANDREW BERNSTEIN - AN EXPLODED VIEW OF TIME
astonishing horn hypnosis

DEAD OTTER - BRIDGE OF WEIRD
cosmic Glasgow/space rock

DEAD RIDER TRIO feat. MR.PAUL WILLIAMS - S/T
A wtf jam from intense American improvisers with a very intense British vocal performer

ZU93 - MIRROR EMPEROR
David Tibet of Current 93 teams up with Italian experimental band Zu. The results are predictably great

NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND (EXPERIMENTAL SOUNDS BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN)
astonishing comp of Eastern European communist-era experimental music

ALEXANDER TUCKER - DON'T LOOK AWAY
dreaming underground rural pop psychedelia

ONE-ELEVEN HEAVY - EVERYTHING'S BETTER
feel-good rock n roll boogie

THE FALL - 458489 A-SIDES
the well-loved compilation has been reissued

JOHN RENBOURN - LIVE IN KYOTO 1978
surprise discovery of this stunning live recording of the master in session

THE STAR PILLOW - SYMPHONY FOR AN INTERGALACTIC BROTHERHOOD
dream-like guitar ambience

HELLVETE - DROOMHARMONIUM
epic celestial drones

Various Artists - FREEDOM OF THE PRESS
rip-roaring benefit album with all sorts of treats and surprises from the likes of Wooden Wand and Hans Chew

ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE MELTING PARAISO U.F.O. - ELECTRIC DREAM ECSTASY
Twin Peaks covers, krautrock work-outs, psych-folk and rock n roll

HIGH RISE - HIGH RISE 2
deluxe vinyl edition of the Japanese psychedelic noise rock classic

AL DOUM & THE FARYDS - SPIRIT REJOIN
stunning psychedelic jazz explosion

BONG - THOUGHT AND EXISTENCE
triumphant return of the most cosmic doom group ever

WET TUNA - LIVIN THE DIE

MV&P6 deep cosmic jams

SEABUCKTHORN - A HOUSE WITH TOO MUCH FIRE
its guitar, Jim, but not as we know it

HAWTHONN - RED GODDESS (OF THIS MEN SHALL KNOW NOTHING)
beautiful, ritualistic music

DATASHOCK - KRÄUTER DER PROVINZ
your cosmic dreams come true

ACID CANNIBALS - WHY NOT EVERY NIGHT?
storming hard rock duo debut 7" skull-splitter

EKCA LIENA - GRAVITY AND GRACE
deep and dark soundscapes yet oddly psychedelic

FATHER MURPHY - RISING: A REQUIEM FOR FATHER MURPHY
the enigmatic Italian band draw to an incredibly enigmatic ending

live report: ALVARIUS B + FAT GRAY CAT
back down in downtown a day later

live report: 6 ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE + SUNN TRIO
Ben Chasny solo in downtown Phoenix!

LEAFCUTTER JOHN - RESURRECTIO
video review for a work of divine beauty

WK569 - OMAGGIO A MARINO ZUCCHERI
video review of experimental Italian electronics

CHRISTINA VANTZOU - NO.4
an album of depth, space, strength and beauty

CATH & PHIL TYLER - THE AX & THE OX
exquisite folk interpretations

DELPHINE DORA AND SOPHIE COOPER - DIVINE EKSTASYS
stunning dark duo improvisations

FEDERICO DURAND ‎– EL IDIOMA DE LAS LUCIÉRNAGAS
a video review of this beautiful album of abstracted ambience

PSYCHIC LEMON - FREQUENCY.RHYTHM.DISTORTION.DELAY
ignore the band name, this is great beat-heavy psychedelic rock

ANDREW LILES - COLOSSUS
gigantic album of 50 minute reinterpretations of twenty five chart-topping hits

THE SLOWEST LIFT - S/T
stunning collaboration between Sophie Cooper & Julian Bradley of Vibracathedral Orchestra

CARLTON MELTON - MIND MINERALS
the psychedelic rock lords return with another expansive album

SLOMO - SUPER-INDIVIDUAL: COLLECTIVE RITUAL
12 remixes from the likes of Andrew Liles, Gnod, Teeth of the Sea and 9 more

DREAM WEAPON RITUAL - THE UNCANNY LITTLE SPARROWS
strangely beautiful music from Italy

SUZUKI JUNZO - SHIZUKA NA HEYA DE ASHIOTO HA
classic rock meets the PSF legacy in a supernova explosion

DEAN McPHEE - FOUR STONES
miraculous guitar compositions

PRETTY LIGHTNING - THE RHYTHM OF OOZE
two man psychedelic blues stomp

MICHAEL BEGG - TITAN
getting high up with Michael Begg's sonic ode to a crane

LA TENE - TARDIVE / ISSIME

hypnotic French jams, wild folk-ragas

Cosmic Winnetou Autumn 2017 batch
we tuck into new tapes by Sasha Mishkin, Dry Valley & Inspired School of Astral Music

RAISING HOLY SPARKS - SEARCH FOR THE VANISHED HEAVEN
a synth roadtrip through the mystical, historic underbelly of Europe

DEAN HURLEY - ANTHOLOGY RESORUCE VOL.1: △△
strange sounds from Twin Peaks

JARBOE & FATHER MURPHY - EP
two stella talents combine for this special 10"

CARLTON MELTON - HIDDEN LIGHTS
more technicolor melting psyche rock

THE MYRRRORS - HASTA LA VICTORIA
spectacular desert psyche, burning bright

THREE EYED MAKARA - MOONMILK ROOF
sparks fly with these robust improv sessions featuring two Woven Skulls

LAL & MIKE WATERSON - BRIGHT PHOEBUS
lost classic folk album that ranges from psychedelic pop to folk horror bleakness

BALDRUIN - BIOTISCHE VERWITTERUNG

dark, experimental, disorientating electronics

SUNN TRIO - SUNN TRIO
cosmic wildness on a global scale

QUINTA - THE QUICK OF THE HEART
wistful and sophisticated pop

PSYCHIC TV - ALLEGORY AND SELF / PAGAN DAY
classics reissued

YURI MOROZOV - STRANGE ANGELS
stimulating primer on the Russian studio genius

ALISON O'DONNELL - CLIMB SHEER THE FIELDS OF PEACE
Mellow Candle/United Bible Studies singer delivers exemplary solo album

CIRCLE - TERMINAL
the definite word in erotic Viking psychodelic 80s krautmetal

Ascetic House
we review a whole batch of eight releases from Ascetic House. 22nd Centruy machine funk strangeness

SOPHIE COOPER & JULIAN BRADLEY - THE BLOW VOLUME 3 SHIP
stunning surreal pop

KEITH SEATMAN - ALL HOLD HANDS AND OFF WE GO
ghostly electronic psych grooves

WOODEN WAND - CLIPPER SHIP
long awaited new classic from Wooden Wand

LEJSOVKA & FREUND - MUSIC FOR SMALL ENSEMBLE & COMPUTER
beautiful and strange, like Four Tet remxing Max Richter

BRANDON SEAKBROOK - DIE TROMMEL FATALE
powerful, strange band sounds

REVBJELDE - REVBJELDE
a mind-boggling journey through the other England(s)

ULVER - THE ASSASSINATION OF JULIUS CAESAR
upbeat, lively tragedy-pop

somesurprises
spellbinding musical craftsmanship

RICK TOMLINSON - PHASES OF DAYLIGHT
video review of former Voice of the Seven Woods & Thunders mainman

ZU - JHATOR
strange, exotic soundscapes

WORST - MMXVII
rowdy psychedelic punk explosion

ISIS - LIVE VII
an explosively vivid live album recorded on their last tour

MARK DAGLEY - COLLECTED WORKS 1978 - 2016
wonderful collection of mostly unreleased works

PIZZA - KEYNOTE MIXTAPE
video review of some kinetic electronic improv from Germany, probably

BUS GAS - LIVE ON LEAVE
spellbinding post-rock drone

VICTOR HERRERO - ASTROLABIO
taking the Portugese guitar to Jack Rose territory

GÜNTER SCHLIENZ - AUTUMN
dr.analogue returns with more electronic visions

ASEETHE - HOPES OF FAILURE
epic doom

EXPO 70 - AMERICA HERE AND NOW SESSIONS
live, slow, glowing psyche rock

SLOMO - TRANSITS
deep, spacial drone

THE FOREST / THE WALD
Another mysterious compilation from A Year In The Country

MICHAEL ZERANG & SPIRES THAT IN THE SUNSET RISE - ILLINOIS GLOSSOLALIA
beautiful strange collaboration

KWANGKAY
Funerary music of the Dayak Benuaq of Borneo

BURIAL HEX - PENTECOST
discomforting soundscapes

UNIFORM - WAKE IN FRIGHT
Fierce, harsh, angry but sharp

ERIC ARN - ORPHIC RESONANCE
righteous guitar sounds

ULVER - RIVERHEAD
a stark but beautiful soundtrack

ANDREW LILES - MONSTROUS MEDICAL MISHAPS (HORRENDOUS HOSPITALS AND DISASTROUS DENTISTRY)
Medical shockrocktechno madness

SUNN TRIO - LIVE AT THE DOUBLE NICKELS COLLECTIVE
the future sound of Phoenix

DATASHOCK - HD_TRAILER
the heirs of the German sound

BERTONI / BOCCARDI / MONGARDI - LITIO
tight Italian trio

TERMINAL CHEESECAKE - DANDELION SAUCE OF THE ANCIENTS
psychedelic sludge party music

MICHAEL BEGG - A MOON THAT LIGHTS ITSELF
the master of abstract sound returns

VARIOUS ARTISTS - STAND WITH STANDING ROCK
justified and ancient

GRUMBLING FUR - FURFOUR
British psychedelic pop experiments of the highest order

ITASCA - OPEN TO CHANCE
beautiful folk song

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS - SKELETON TREE
everyone else has already reviewed it but can't help myself

THE STARGAZER'S ASSISTANT - REMOTENESS OF LIGHT
mind-expanding percussion lead genius

NOT WAVING - REDACTED
experimental techno head mash

THE COSMIC DEAD - RAINBOWHEAD
Scotland's finest psycheheads get reviewed with dodgy metaphors

CARA AND MIKE GANGLOFF WITH THE GREAT AMERICAN DRONE ORCHESTRA - KNOCK ON LIFE'S DOOR
classic song gone drone

HYPNOPAZUZU - CREATE CHRIST, SAILOR BOY
David Tibet of Current 93 and Youth of Killing Joke collide and explode

THE CHILLS - KALEIDOSCOPE WORLD
compilation of the band who should have ruled the 80s

TRÄD, GRÄS OCH STENER
ahnds down reissue of the year

SONGS OF THE BLOOD MOON
a compilation for the blood moon

THE QUIETENED BUNKER
more compiled mysteries

BERT JANSCH - FROM THE OUTSIDE
Jansch studio rarity revived and remastered

THE DWARFS OF EAST AGOUZA - BES
global psychedelic masterpiece

GAVIN PRIOR - ALL WHO WANDER
guitar & field recordings road trip

ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE MELTING PARAISO U.F.O. - WAKE TO A NEW DAWN OF ANOTHER ASTRO ERA
a new line-up go in new space

RICHARD A.INGRAM - TORSIDE

CHARLIE ULYATT - DEAD BIRDS
electric guitar wizard

THE QUIETENED VILLAGE
mysterious compilation

GIRL SWEAT - BAD HAPPENINGS
its a noisy party

ULRICH ROIS - ALONG THE BELT, AROUND THE BEND
banjo ecstasy

GROUNDHOGS - SPLIT-UP A EXHUMATION BY ANDREW LILES
Groundhogs classic album gets reworked!

RAZGRAAD - THE WATER TOWERS
debut release from this bright electronic talent

MICHAEL BEGG : HUMAN GREED - LET THE COLD STOVE SING
back again and wonderful as ever

DAVID KEENAN - ENGLANDS HIDDEN REVERSE
eagerly awaited new edition of the book about Nurse With Wound, Coil and Current 93

C JOYNES NICK / JONAH DAVIS - SPLIT ELECTRIC
serious guitar meditations

IN THE CITIES OF YOUR EYES
beautiful sad fundraiser compilation for Greek refugee camps

RANGDA - THE HERETICS BARGAIN
Corsano, Bishop and Chasny get it together

DELPHINE DORA - L'AU DELA
beautiful improvisations

ULVER - ATGCLVLSSCAP
an astounding sonic monument of the undefinable

HEATHER LEIGH - I ABUSED ANIMAL
haunting album, reaching between sparse and intense

NOVELlER - GLACIAL GLOW
stunning soundscapes of electronic drones and guitar

ZETA ONE - DREAMSNAKE II
cosmic synth dreams

FATHER MURPHY - LAMENTATIONS
a demented celebration of gloom

THE COSMIC DEAD / GIRLSWEAT - SPLIT
fucking great split tape

MICHAEL BEGG : HUMAN GREED - HIVERNANT
another stunning production

BALDRUIN - PORTAL
great new German electronics on vinyl

WOLF EYES - I AM A PROBLEM : MIND IN PIECES
trip metal goes bigtime

SHAPES - SHAPES
great synth tape with lots of moods

UNITED BIBLE STUDIES - THE ALE'S WHAT CURES YE
a perfect landmark in modern experimental and traditional folk

CARLTON MELTON - OUT TO SEA
pure psychedelic joy

MANUEL GÖTTSCHING - E2E4 live in Hebden!
we went to a gig and danced

JOHN BAKER - THE VENDETTA TAPES

more staggering Radiophonic genius gets freed from the vaults

MUGSTAR / THE COSMIC DEAD - SPLIT
psychedelic magick

RAISING HOLY SPARKS - TRANCES OF THE BLAST
classic Popol Vuh meets classic black metal!

WOVEN SKULL - FAT BABY BLUES
beautifully wild tape or download

CHICALOYOH - LES SEPT SALONS
white vinyl EP of black magic

AUGENMUSIK - AUGENMUSIK
feral, mind-scraping electronics & violin

ERIC ARN - MISUSE
spectacular live solo CD of guitar mastery & magic

SQUADRA OMEGA - ALTRI OCCHI CI GUARDANO
musical acrobatics and inventions

BONG - WE ARE, WE WERE AND WE WILL HAVE BEEN
majestic, hypnotic otherworldy doom

BAD GUY - BAD GUYNAECOLOGY
demented funny sludge rock excitements

CARLTON MELTON / KANDODO 3 - split
blue vinyl psychedelic bliss

DARREN TATE - NOTHING BY CHANCE
our world made strange through field recordings and drones

JARBOE & HELEN MONEY - s/t
the unworldy blues singing of Jarboe meets Helen's amplified cello and conquers all

BLOWN OUT - JET BLACK HALLUCINATIONS
heavy fucking guitar overload

EKCA LIENA - GRADUALS
The way overdue return of one of the master of dark and light

COLIN POTTER - ENTERING AGAIN
Classic tape reimagined and reissued on vinyls

GÜNTER SCHLIENZ - TREEHUT VISIONS
expert head-melting analogue electronics

CORE OF THE COALMAN - NEW CHORDS
experimental drones on tape

NIGHT FLIGHTS - NIGHT FLIGHTS VOLUME 1
Carlton Melton side project of nocturnal summer synths

SUZUKI JUNZO - 7
guitar reinventions and folk/blues distortions

THURSTON MOORE & JOHN MOLONEY - FULL BLEED
wild experiemental rock explosions

BLOWN OUT - DRIFTING WAY OUT BETWEEN SUNS
Bong's Mike Vest pays tribute to the dark void of space through guitar noise

SLEAFORD MODS - CHUBBED UP
singles compilation of punk beat poetry fury genius

HUMAN GREED - WORLD FAIR
video review of this haunting & beautiful album

STEVE GUNN - WAY OUT WEATHER
makes me want to roadtrip

SUNFIGHTER - GOLDEN EAGLE OF ILLUMINATION
bright orange liquid psych

GÜNTER SCHLIENZ / HERING UND SEINE SIEBEN SACHEN / MICROMELANCOLIÉ - TOUR TAPE 2014
far out electronics

SOPHIE COOPER - OUR AQUARIUS
special acoustics and songs for the hair on the back of your neck

COURTIS / MOORE - KPPB
exciting collaboration serves up a banquet of sound

ANDREW LILES - PREMATURE MATURITY
stripped down vintage synth experimentation

DEATH SHANTIES - CRABS
mad free jazz with a lot of soul

BASTARD MOUNTAIN - FAREWELL, BASTARD MOUNTAIN
Folk with a hint of drone from this Scottish supergroup

CONTROL UNIT - BURN
video review of this blistering cassette

O'DEATH - OUT OF HANDS WE GO
very appealing album of alt country folk

OPAL ONYX - DELTA SANDS
electronics, cello and beautifully moody vocals

WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM - CELESTITE
startling synth-based experiment

MONSTER KILLED BY LASER - TENDER CRAWLER
power proj majesty

EARTHLING SOCIETY - ENGLAND TAKE MY BONES
new psyche rock

WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM - CELESTITE
startling synth-based experiment

GONZALEZ AND STEENKISTE - DIMLY LIT
video review of these majestic drones

GUM TAKES TOOTH - BURIED FIRES
deadly world beats with Cut Hands remix

ENDLESS CAVERNS and OUTER VERTEX - split cassette
wonderful guitar soundscapes

MIMINOKOTO - USOBUE
Japanese psych blue trio in full swing

ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE MELTING PARAISO U.F.O. - ASTRORGASM FROM THE INNER SPACE
double the vinyl, double the fun

NEIL YOUNG - A LETTER HOME
the King of Canada takes a trip in the TARDIS

DONATO EPIRO - FIUME NERO
wild, percussive psyche sesh

LA PIRAMIDE DI SANGUE - SETTE
high tech experiments in psychedelia and dub

MONTIBUS COMMUNITAS & Ø+YN - OFFERINGS FOR THE DESTROYER
Super team-up of S.American lysergists

PANCHASILA - PALLQA
high tech experiments in psychedelia and dub

CRASHING DISEASES AND INCURABLE AIRPLANES
astonishingly uplifting and psychedelic drone metal

GERMAN ARMY - MILLERITE MASAI
mad, high tech dark electronics

DATASHOCK - KEINE OASE IN SICHT
desert-fried psyche rock ecstasy

CURRENT 93 - I AM THE LAST OF ALL THE FIELD THAT FELL
the greatest lyricist in music returns with his best band yet

WOODEN WAND - FARMER’S CORNER
welcome sunny return for our favourite song writer

SLY & THE FAMILY DRONE - UNNECESSARY WOE
wonderfully sick electronic rock

KPTMICHIGAN - BLACK WOOD
psyche rock genius & deep drones on vinyl

Delia Darlings Tour - Hebden Bridge Trades Club
review of the tour celebrating the work of Delia Derbyshire

BIRD PEOPLE - AUTUMNAL HUM
deep nature drones on vinyl

RAPA NUI AND Ø+YN - ECO PARADIGMA
genius collab of Peruvian free jazz & Argentinian freak-folk

SNOQUALMIE FALLS - DREAM SEQUENCE
epic bliss

JONAS REINHARDT - GANYMEDE
amazing LP of way-out synth sound

ASTRAL SOCIAL CLUB - GLAMANIMALS
quick tree-based review of this psychedelic house jam

COLIN POTTER - TWO NIGHTS
beautiful vinyl reissue of this classic cassette given chaotic video review treatment

PLURALS - BUGENÈS MELISSAE
dark drones blowing yr mind while fundraising for bees

LISTENING MIRROR - THE HEART OF THE SKY
landmark ambient album makes its CD debut

JUNG AN TAGEN - VIELHEITEN
excellent techno music for your brain on tape

CYCLOBE - THE VISITORS
their classic 2nd album back in print at last

LAVENDER COUNTRY - self titled
stone cold classic gay alt country from 73 gets reissued

JON PORRAS - LIGHT DIVIDE
half a Barn Owl unleashes a mesmeric electronic odyssey

CYCLOBE - SULPHUR-TAROT-GARDEN
the masters awaken sound

NICHOLAS SZCZEPANIK - NOT KNOWING
a power headphone journey

C O L L E C T R E S S - MONDEGREEN
beautiful quartet music from members of Penguin Cafe, Bat For Lashes & Patrick Wolf's band

an interview with CYCLOBE
we don't normally do interviews but it IS Cyclobe

Ø+YN - MANOS DE JABALÍ / UN TÉ DE LAS RELIQUIAS DE SATURNO
more wonderful strangeness from Ø+yn

FLAMINGO CREATURES - HYBRIDS UNLIMITED
a tape of strange acoustics

split tapes by IGNATZ / SOPHIE COOPER and HELLVETE / JAKE BLANCHARD
video review of two split tapes

RAY FENWICK - INTERVIEW FOR FIVE VOICES
hypnotic, mind-massaging vocal treatments

MATT BALDWIN - IMAGINARY PSYCHOLOGY
wide-reaching, high-flying guitar work

MACHINEFABRIEK - ATTENTION, THE DOORS ARE CLOSING!
exciting new dimensions in sound

NEW BUMS - VOICES IN A RENTED ROOM
magical touch of Ben Chasny & Donovan Quinn in perfect synch

BONG - STONER ROCK
the kings of smoked-out doom return in mighty gorm

THE COSMIC DEAD - EASTER FAUST
yoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow!

PELT PART WILD GATE - HUNG ON SUNDAY
tape of some deep live subaquatic antiquity

RAINBOW ISLAND - ROAD TO MIRAPURI
go on an exotic journy into sound

MARK BANNING - JOURNEY TO THE LIGHT
essential new age reissue, beautifully remastered

ANCIENT OCEAN - WIEN
tape of some deep live subaquatic antiquity

DOUG TUTTLE - S/T
psychedelia in all its vivid glory

FATHER MURPHY - PAIN IS ON OUR SIDE NOW
a video review of some glorious darkness

DEMDIKE STARE - GIG REVIEW
I went to a gig!

Ø+YN & UTON - SOLID GEOMETRY
brain whisking tape rituals

SUNN O))) WITH ULVER - TERRESTRIALS
hugely organic and engrossing collaboration

HENRY BLACKER - HUNGRY DOGS WILL EAT DIRTY PUDDINGS
rooooooooooooooooooooooooock!

RHYS CHATHAM - HARMONIE DU SOIR
the master lets loose with a truely varied album

BEAR BONES, LAY LOW - OCCULTCITI
synth-heavy electronics in excelsis

THE PRIMAL BARBER TRIO - BARBERBarberbarbr
3" cd acapella madness

GUNN GANGLOFF - MELODIES FOR A SAVAGE FIX
Steve Gunn & Mike Gangloff team up for some dawn inducing sound rituals

BOBBY BEAUSOLEIL - ORB
vinyl debut for Beausoleil's 2001 synth world meditations

MYSTICAL WEAPONS - CROTESQUE
invigorating noise rock action

BIRD PEOPLE - TERMA
deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep trip tape

BURNT HILLS / RAMBUTAN - EYE OF THE SUN
video review of this vital and wild split tape

ENDLESS CAVERNS - COLOUR BREATHING
mind melting guitar psyche on tape

various artists - I AM THE CENTRE
a defining compilation of private press new age music form 1950 to 1990

KK NULL & ORE - DAWN OF TIME
7" collaboration between Japanese digital explorer and Birmingham tuba doom duo

SOPHIE COOPER - LABYRINTH
wonderful tape where the song waltzes with the avant garde

LOOP - Leeds Brudenell Social Club
we get lost in a void of psychedelic drone rock action

SUZUKI JUNZO - PORTRAIT OF MADELEINE ELSTER
his other album out this season is a guitar mediations classic

ANTONYMES - THERE CAN BE NO TRUE BEAUTY WITHOUT DECAY
haunting, collaborative beautiful music on Hibernate

NURSE WITH WOUND - CHROMANATRON
video review of this landmark Nurse With Wound album that sees them working with the archive of mysterious kruatrock band Sand1

MV & EE - SHADE GROWN
godamn beautifully dubbed out psychedelic album from our fave duo

WOODEN WAND & THE WORLD WAR IV - S/T
astounding full band album jammed with jams

THE CHILLS - SOMEWHERE BEAUTIFUL
surprisingly amazing live album

THE COSMIC DEAD / PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS - split LP
loud psychedelic action

TROUBLE BOOKS - LOVE AT DUSK
joyous meditations in pop, electronics and noise

BARDO POND - PEACE ON VENUS
wonderous stoner rock

MIKE GANGALOF - POPLAR HOLLOW
video review of this stellar solo album from Black Twig Pickers member Mike

SUZUKI JUNZO - SINGS II
the psychedelic troubadour unleashs his best album yet

CARLTON MELTON - FOUR EYES
blue vinyl, blissed-out psychedelic dream

HERING UND SEINE SIEBEN SACHEN / PARASHI - split tape
two sides of amazing soundscapes that will flip your mind

CHRIS FORSYTH - SOLAR MOTEL
wonderful guitar delights

Various Artists - TRAVEL EXPOP SERIES #2 : Great Britain
a cracking vinyl compilation with The Oscillation, Mugstar, Listening Mirror & Ben Nash

TRIP SHRUBB - LEVDER VAN FROHR
3 x 90 minute cassette compilation of avant garde electronic versions of everything on the American Folk Anthologies

DESTRUCTION UNIT - DEEP TRIP
blazing wild rock n roll action from Arizona

CHICALOYOH - FOLIE SACRÉE
powerful, cinematic music from French star Chicaloyoh, chanteuse of the dusk

GORGES - OUR THROATS, LIKE VALLEYS
haunting singing, harmonium drones, honking horns...all recorded in a disused basement car park

MONTIBUS COMMUNITAS - HACIA AQUELLOS BOSQUES DE IMMENSIDAD
stunning South American psyche sounds

CHALAQUE - SOUNDS FROM THE OTHER IDEOLOGY - Feathered Coyote Records/Golden Lab Records
blast your face off rock n roll noise

PHIL TYLER - WE SUNK THE SHIP TO GET RID OF THE RATS - Tor Press/Riff Mountain
beautiful banjo blues

LAUBE – AUSMERZEN
mellow post-jazz meditations

JON COLLIN – THE GREAT STINK
wild guitar sounds

THE ENTRANCE BAND - DANS LA TEMPETE
magic EP of psychedelic rock delight

CHICALOYOH + BEAR BONES LAY LOW
review of a live gig in Bradford from August 25th

WHITE HILLS - SO YOU ARE...SO YOU'LL BE
mighty new psyche rock masterpiece

ECSTATIC COSMIC UNION - XCU
a new wave of Kosmische electronique on tape

KOMMISSAR HJULER - NO!kopf
insane tape art action

MB - INDUSTRIAL TAPE
surprise reissue of this intense noise cassette from 1980

DESERT HEAT - CAT MASK AT HUGGIE TEMPLE
amazing collaboration between Cian Nugent, Steve Gunn and John Truscinski

former_airline - AN INCIDENT AT TERMINAL BEACH
extrodinary electronic inventions on cassette

MOON ATE THE DARK - MOLT AND GROW
beautiful modern classical magic

CIAN NUGENT & THE COSMOS - HIRE PURCHASE
beautiful rural psychedelia on 7"

CHALAQUE - HELDERBERG HOWL
rowdy 7" of rock n roll deconstruction

HERBCRAFT - FLOWERING
a very bleated video review of this psychedelic treat

DATASHOCK - STATUS BLÖD / MODUS DUMMHEIT
staggering communal vibe psychedelic rock megaliths

MV & EE - FUZZWEED
we arrive late for the party of the year

MICHAEL BEGG/HUMAN GREED - OMEGA O.S.T.
a haunting carnival noir symphony

MY HOME, SINKING - s/t
beautiful, mesmeric album on Fluid Audio

various artists - SEVENTY YEARS OF SUNSHINE
double CD compilation celebration LSD's 70th anniversary

GNOD / BEAR BONES LAY LOW - split
wild sonic frequencies via Russian label Full of Nothing

NAUTILUS - PUMPKIN II
sublime minimalism and dreamily psychedelic

WOVEN SKULL & CORE OF THE COALMAN - s/t
international collaboration of avant folk wonderment

PLANETS AROUND THE SUN - COSMIC JOB
great psyche rock tape action

3 LEAFS - EP
another wild, varied tape release from 3 Leafs

STEVE GUNN - TIME OFF
magical summery acoustic sounds

THE MASTER MUSICIANS OF BUKKAKE - FAR WEST
astouding psychedelical explorations of lost lands

KOMMISSAR HJULER – IN GENUA NICHTS NEUES
reissue of a solo outing from the Kommissar back in 2001

ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE MELTING PARAISO U.F.O. - IN SEARCH OF THE LOST DIVINE ARC
a full-on psychedelic rock album from AMT

CARLTON MELTON - LIVE IN EUROPE
one of favourite psychedelic rock bands caught live on vinyl

EVAN PARKER - VAINCU. VA! LIVE AT THE WESTERN FRONT 1978
wild saxaphone antics beatifully mastered for your aural pleasure

PIOTR KUREK - HEAT
stunning, kaleidoscopic whirl of an album blending melody and innovation

THE FLAMING LIPS - THE TERROR
dark, despairing melodic electronic minimalism from the mainstream's strangest band

IMPLODES - RECURRING DREAM
darkly dizzying album of dreamgaze rock

TEMPLE OF THE SMOKE - THE LOST ART OF TWILIGHT
stunningly ambitious but very succesful psychedelic prog rock album

SAVAGING SPIRES - S/T
the psychedelic folk wonderkind revisit their debut album with startling results

SUNWØLF – MIDNIGHT MOON
haunting post-rock beauty

METZENGERSTEIN - ABERO SPECCHIO
stunning otherworldy psyche noise

ASIO OTUS - OTUS, ASIO. CROSS CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS OF SOUNDS INDUCED BY RELIGIOUS PRACTICES IN HUMAN HEARING RANGE
kaleidoscopic whirl of sounds and field recordings

ENSEMBLE ECONOMIQUE/HEROIN IN TAHITI - split album
wild global sound trips

SUNNY DUNES - VILLAGE GLOBAL
a moorland video review of this magical bit of warped electronica

DATASHOCK - LIVELOVEDATA$
video review of this excellent, way-out, psyche-rock tape

jffstnhs - BROKEN
strange, sinister minimalism

THE COSMIC DEAD - INNER SANCTUM, LIVE AT THE NOTE & ORBITING SALVATION
triple review of the new action from The Cosmic Dead

AIDAN BAKER & PLURALS - GLASS CROCODILE MACHINE
drone lords team-up for a Latitudes session with hypnotic results

KAWABATA MAKOTO'S MAINLINER - REVELATION SPACE
the world's heaviest ever psychedelic band rise from the grave

IN ZAIRE - WHITE SUN BLACK SUN
psychedelic wig-out rock mayhem

BAXAMAXAM - BAXAMAXAM
amazing African blues experiments

ENDLESS BOOGIE - LONG ISLAND
epic, spaced-out, dirty rock

SWANS - live review
we witnessed a devastating sonic assault from the increasingly all-conquering new Swans

CHELSEA LIGHT MOVING - s/t
Thurston Moore's new band lay down a blazing rock n roll exploration

ENSEMBLE PEARL - s/t
Stephen O'Malley's extrodinary new outfit delve into some deep territories

LUTTO LENTO ‎– DUCH GÓR
field recordings & drones meshed strangely together

LEVERET / BIRD PEOPLE - OFFERINGS
wonderfully atmospheric drone rituals on tape

HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER - HAW
fantastic sunshine songwriter

JAMES BLACKSHAW & LUBOMYR MELNYK - THE WATCHERS
a staggeringly beautiful collaboration

JOOKLO & METABOLISMUS - PERCEPTION OF THE ILLUSION OF THE OPPOSITION OF CONTRARIES
video review of this epic team-up tape

LUNAR MIASMA - BLACKEST HAZE
video review of this wonderfully transcendent cassette

NATURAL SNOW BUILDINGS / ISENGRIND / TWINSISTERMOON - THE SNOWBRINGER CULT
double CD or two single LPs and a double LP reissue for this classic slice of beautiful strangeness

BARDO POND - TICKET CRYSTALS
double vinyl reissue of this stoner rock classic

MICE PARADE - CANDELA
the wonderful Mice Parade return with their ninth studio album

HOOKWORMS - PEARL MYSTIC
juicy debut album from the deft Leeds space-rockers

JAKE BLANCHARD - ARCHAIC PRACTISES
heavy, way-out drones

DEATH SHANTIES - live review
live review of drummer Alex Neilson's wild new free jazz project at Sowerby Bridge Puzzl Hall on February 5th 2013

GROUPER - THE MAN WHO DIED IN HIS BOAT
Liz Harris kindly opens her vaults and lets a lost Grouper classic out

GNOD - CHAUDALANDE
mighty, freaked-out rock joy

CONNY PLANK - WHO'S THAT MAN
4 cd box set compilation celebrating the work of legendary Krautrock producer Conny Plank

THURSTON MOORE, MICHAEL CHAPMAN & DEAN McPHEE - live review
we relax and enjoy someone else's gig at Hebden Bridge Trades Club on February 3rd 2013

SMALL THINGS ON SUNDAYS - SEARCHING FOR
we're back in action with this evocative ambient drone album

SUNWØLF – BEYOND THE SUN
beautiful post-rock

3 LEAFS - TECHNICAL DEATH METAL PARKING LOT
freaked out krauted up tape wig out

WOODEN WAND - BLOOD OATHES OF THE NEW BLUES
The Wand rediscovers his weird while keeping it blues

CLOUDLAND CANYON - AURELIUA
exonic electronic action

UNCLE ACID & THE DEADBEATS - BLOOD LUST
amazing psychedelic metal album

THE WHITE MEADOWS - A TIME FOR DRUNKEN HORSES
wild global sound trip

BARDO POND - YNTRA
heavy psychedelic heaven

RED CROSS STARE - HE STOLE MY RADAR
neo classic meets avant garde electronics

WOODPECKER WOOLIAMS - PATRYOSKA
Russian cassette release of a very English artist

BBBLOOD / UMEZ - split album
mighty split album action

MUGSTAR - AXIS
bouncing psychedelic rock action from Liverpool

COLIN POTTER - ANCIENT HISTORY
mighty box set excavating the forefront of classic 80s experimental electronics

AL DOUM & THE FARYDS - POSITIVE FORCE
like Amon Duul II jamming with Sun Ra & Fela Kuti....on a good day

BRAMBLE - CYCLE STASIS
haunting minimalism on cassette

ARSZYN - B
excellent new wave avant garde from Eastern Europe

BIRD PEOPLE - A PULSE IN THE VOID / SKY HUNTRESS
wonderful psychedelic folk adventures on tape from Austria

3 LEAFS - LIVE AT CAFE DU NORD
freaked out and funked up live album

HERING UND SEINE SIEBEN SACHEN - ON KWAS
beautiful and wild electronic excursions

ROBERT HAMPSON - SIGNAUX & SUSPENDED CADENCES
two reviews for the price of one as we dive in to the new Robert Hampson releases

GUENTER SCHLIENZ - TAPE STUDIES
excellent analogue electronics

MARK BRADLEY - OFFERINGS
cassette of electronic imaginations

OM - ADVAITIC SONGS
an even more Eastern sound from the innovative duo

BONG - BONG
expanded reissue of their mighty debut album

MY CARAPACE IS LEAKING / ASTRAL SOCIAL CLUB - split cassette
magic noisey actions on a beautifully packaged tape

FIFTY-FIFTY & METABOLISMUS - ARMED RESISTANCE IN WEST GERMANY
jazz noise cassette excitement from Germany

various artists - LUNAR JAMS FOR TOM CARTER
staggering double cassette set with free bandcamp download

NATURAL SNOW BUILDINGS - NIGHT COERCION INTO COMPANY OF WITCHES
very handy reissue of rare drone release by French enigmas

TALVIHORROS / EKCA LIENA - SWARMS WITH SWARMS
two of our favourite guitar abusers/laptop saints put out a perfectly split album

ANCIENT OCEAN / EXPO 70 - split
epic primordial drones on split vinyl

SUZUKI JUNZO - EIGHT-SIDED INFINITY
hellishly good guitar reinventions

THE COSMIC DEAD - THE EXALTED KING
might space rock action

A STORY OF RATS / HELLVETE split tape
dark experimental music

BIRDS BUILD NESTS UNDERGROUND - KISS
more strange tape action

CARLTON MELTON – PHOTOS OF PHOTOS
psychedelic stoner rock album of the year

ATLANTIS - THE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
beautifully alien tape sounds

IAN WATSON - 20/20
noise cassette action

GARY WAR - JARED'S LOT
psychedelic electronic downer pop, video reviewed in Berlin

HUMAN HORSES - PART WILD HORSES MANE ON BOTH SIDES + HUMAN COMBUSTION ENGINE = HUMAN HORSES
astounding live team-up

FLAMINGO CREATURES / LIMPE FUCHS - TRAMPELPFAD
split tape mayhem

SAMARA LUBELSKI – WAVELENGTH
the queen chanteuse of psychedelic pop returns

ROBEDOOR - ROCK BOTTOM
vinyl re-release for this cassette classic psychedelic garage fuzz-out

SARIN SMOKE - VENT
Tom Carter & Pete Swanson work up some gee-tar magic

SPARKLING WIDE PRESSURE - NO NEED FOR A MEANING
awesome outside blues noise on tape

DIAMOND TERRIFIER - KILL THE SELF THAT WANTS TO KILL YOURSELF
beautiful, wild sax explorations

SWANS - THE SEER
astounding new album from Swans

SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE - ASCENT
Ben Chasny gets all psyche rock on yr ass and sends it to the moon

WITXES - SORCERY/GEOGRAPHY
debut album from this French producer

HAXAN CLOAK - THE MEN PARTED THE SEA TO DEVOUR THE WATER
another great Latitudes session, this time very electric strangeness

OLAN MILL - PATHS
video review of a stunning multi-media package of neo-classical richness

VENN RAIN - CYMATIC CYMBOLS
blissful synthed out cassette meditations

LT.CARAMEL / KOMMISSAR HJULER UND FRAU - split LP - not safe for work album art
sonic violence of the imagination

WIL BOLTON - UNDER A NAME THAT HIDES HER
video review of fascinating multi-format Hibernate Recordings release

GUIDE TO KRAUTROCK HUNTING IN BERLIN
updated version of the classic record shop guide by John Wray

SUNBURNED - THE TINGLE OF CASUAL DANGER
blazing live set from Cafe Oto with an all-star line-up

0+yn and GMC – POPOLUS AJENO
shamanic acoustics and electronics

ISNAJ DUI - ABSTRACTS ON SOLITUDE
flute and electronics in synchornised melancholy

LA PIRAMIDE DI SANGUE – TEBE
tight, frentic, melodic but experimental Italian combo

ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE MELTING PARAISO U.F.O. - SON OF A BITCHES BREW - NSFW cover art, of course
oh....my......god............*head explodes*

GRUMBLING FUR – ALICE
Daniel O'Sullivan & Alexander Tucker team-up for experimental pop heaven

NEIL CAMPBELL & ROBERT HORTON - TROJANDROPPER
mad, beat-crazed, noise bliss collaboration

SUNFLARE - GHETTO BLAST
rip-roaring, distorted, psychedelic rock n roll action

JOOKLO DANISH GROUP - MIXTURE OF ENERGIES
wonderfully wild free jazz celebration

KAWABATA MAKOTO AND A` QUI AVEC GABRIEL - GOLDEN TREE
dazzling narcotic collaboration of experimental folk drones

CONRAD SCHNITZLER - ROT
timely reissue of electronic masters (possible) debut solo album

GONZALEZ & STEENKISTE - STUFFED WITH THE DOWN OF THE EIDER
lovable tape madness from America

SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE - PARSONS BLUES
7" of rock action from Ben Chasny and his old Comets on Fire buddies

EKCA LIENA - LIGHT PROCESSION
new release from one of the finest producers around

M GEDDES GENGRAS - REBIRTH LOS ANGELES
video review of a Russian cassette release of Los Angeles sonic bliss

THE GRAY FIELD RECORDINGS - NATURE DESIRES NATURE
stunning experimental folk strangeness

SYNDROME - NOW AND FOREVER
guest reviewer Daniel Mackenzie tackles something powerful and affecting

CARLTON MELTON - SMOKE DRIP
kings of wild frontiers of widescreen, buzzed-out psyche rock return

ENSEMBLE ECONOMIQUE - NO GPS
video review of Starving Weirdo Brian Pyle's journey into the heart of darkness

MUGSTAR - AD MARGINEM
experimental soundtrack work from Liverpool psych rockers

ROBERT HAMPSON - RÉPERCUSSIONS
Main/Loop mainman returns with a stunning, deep, digital session

TRAILING - OPACITIES & ALLURES
beautiful, freaked-out tape release

SLEEP - DOPESMOKER
beautifully remastered new version of the 63 minute apogee of stoner metal

MOON ATE THE DARK - S/T
beautiful, haunting improvisations on piano and effects

CHORD - GMAJ7
stunning chord drone experiments that bend time

CAN - THE LOST TAPES
a box....of 3 CDs.....of vintage Can from the vaults......swoons

SYLVESTER ANFANG II - untitled
live, heavy kosmische psyche session

THE MELVINS LITE - FREAK PUKE
kings of sludge team up with Trevor Dunn on the double bass for good times

JOOKLO DUO & BILL NACE - SCRATCH
improv trio that'll burn your fucking face off

MICHAEL BEGG / HUMAN GREED - DIRT ON EARTH: A POCKET OF RESISTANCE
a strange, dream-like, chilly journey to the centre of the night

SUZUKI JUNZO - ODE TO A BLUE GHOST
extrodinary guitar reinventions

JK FLESH - POSTHUMAN
Godflesh mainman returns with a dark, post-industrial, dubstep-influenced sound

PAINTING PETALS ON PLANET GHOST - TRANSPARENT WINTER
spetctral beauty on vinyl from Blackest Rainbow, featuring My Cat Is An Alien members

PAULINE OLIVEROS - REVERBERATIONS: TAPE & ELECTRONIC MUSIC 1961-1970
12 CD box set to celebrate 80th anniversary of major avant garde composer

MOON OF OSTARA - The Star Child
psychedelic new wave of sound from Earthling Society's Fred Laird

LICHEN GUMBO - ZOOM ZOOM OHM UMPHA
tape of lo-fi psychedelic, post-punk, experimental rock

ISLE OF SODOR - GOSHEN
video review of this deeply mellow electronic tape

THURSTON MOORE / JOHN MOLONEY - FUNDAMENTAL SUNSHINE
explosive guitar/drum fire in a live setting

VODER DETH SQUAD - II
live sci-fi darkness on cassette from Jeremy Kelly & M.Geddes Gengras

PLEQ AND LAUKI - PERCEIVING PERSPECTIVE
video review of some ambient, neo-classical cassette fun

TROUBLE BOOKS - CONCATENATING FIELDS
gorgeous, mellow psychedelic electronic pop joy

THE CONGOS / SUN ARAW / M GEDDES GEDRAS - ICON GIVE THANK
astounding culture collision in dub technology and rasta spirituality

0+YN / THE FAILED N.A.S.A. EXPERIMENT split
fiery split cassette of incendiary improv, like an exploding Sunburned Hand of the Man

CHRIS FORSYTH & KOEN HOLTKAMP - EARLY ASTRAL
searing, visionary team-up

STRIË – ÖHTUL
enigmatic neo-classical soundscapes

THE TREMBLING BELLS with BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY – THE MARBLE DOWNS
psyche folk pop heaven, possibly album of the year 2012 already

BONG – MANA YOOD SUSHAI
majestic psychedelic heaviosity

NATURAL SNOW BUILDINGS - MONSTERS/DEPTHS
video review of this Record Store Day exclusive 7"

HUSH ARBORS / ARBOURTEUM - AUREOLA
psychedelic rock split album action

LISTENING MIRROR - WHAT'S WRONG WITH MIRACLES
stunning void soundtracks

UFOMAMMUT - ORO: OPUS PRIMO
stunning, psychedelic, epic stoner rock ecstasty

CHURCH + STATE – LIVE AT HUNTINGFIELD CHURCH 29/01/10
mysterious live album of atmospheric drones

LA OTRACINA – THE AQUARIAN WIND
hard psychedelic rock thrills on vinyl

FROM THE MOUTH OF THE SUN - WOVEN TIDE
video review of this stunning work of soundscaping

ARANOS - IN SNOW ON ICE CABBAGE DANCES
tape release of strange, tribal experimental compositions

various artists - HEAD MUSIC
covers of Can, Neu!, Popol Vuh, Tangerine Dream & co by the likes of Bevis Frond, Earthling Society, Vibravoid and many more

LUNAR MIASMA - IMPERMANENT NATURE
beautiful electronic tape

CELER - IN ESCAPING LAKES
deep, aquatic minimalism

WHITE HILLS + MUGSTAR + HOOKWORMS @ Leeds Brudenell, March 22nd 2012
live review

ASIO OTUS - TAIVAALLISIA TULIA
video review of an insanely varied psychedelic tape action

HOOKWORMS - S/T EP
punked-up psyche action

BURIAL HEX - FOR GRANTED IS HIS WILL
video review of an amazing cassette release, as innovative as it is evocative

S.CHALMER'S TUSK - MYTHS AND BEASTS
strange, distubing, sonic manipulations

WHITE HILLS - FRYING ON THIS ROCK
they're back, its psyche-rocks NYC champions

GOOD WEATHER FOR AN AIRSTRIKE - UNDERNEATH THE STARS
full length album of post-classical post-rock on Hibernate

JAMES BLACKSHAW - LOVE IS THE PLAN, THE PLAN IS DEATH
brand new, full length album of stunning new compositions

TEMPLE MUSIC – CHILDREN OF THE SUN
amazing handmade CDR

CONCESSIONAIRES – ARTICIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
deep, electronic otherworldly madness

DUANE PITRE – FEEL FREE
stunning meditative improv on Important Records

FELICIA ATKINSON - CRYSTAL ARROWS FOR A COSMIC KING
cassette release of sheer spectral space sounds

ANTONYMES - LIGHT DISPERSED
evocative postcard release from Hibernate

NADJA – EXCISION
double CD compilation of rare vinyl detonations

GARY SMITH, SILVIA KASTEL & NINNI MORGIA - BRAND
strange, skeltal sonic explorations

RICHARD YOUNGS – AMARANTHINE
classic Youngs, all lost in sound & wonder

EXPO 70 – HOVERING RESONANCE
one-sided 12" of deep Kosmische explorations

PLURALS – IMAGINING PERPETUAL TOWER
tour only 12" but well worth hunting down

LISTENING MIRROR – RESTING IN ASPIC
sublime compilation on Hibernate

MATT ELLIOTT - THE BROKEN MAN
absolutely stunning blend of Leonard Cohen and Nick Drake for the modern age

THORN1 - OBLIVION
Siberian sounds of beauty and desolation

TWO PEOPLE IN A ROOM - self titled
video review of this CD on Home Normal

JAMES MURRAY - FLOODS
tinkling soundscapes of water-based exploration. I think.

MI & L'AU - IF BEAUTY IS A CRIME
have the tender folk spirits of the Finnish forests really gone electropop? kind of

MOTION SICKNESS OF TIME TRAVEL / LISTENING MIRROR - split cassette
video review of this narcotic split cassette

BLEEDING HEART NARATIVE – ALL THAT WAS MISSING WE NEVER HAD IN THE WORLD
stunning album of soundscapes and heartbreak

MAPS AND DIAGRAMS - LIGHTS WILL CALL ON YOU
rich, layered & frosty minimalism

RICHARD GINNS - SEA CHANGE
video review of this deep, experimental ambient album

DANIEL MENCHE - GUTS
extreme noise pleasure

BIRCHALL/CHEETHAM DUO – TIPPING POINT
searching improv duo explore new sounds in music

STEFFEN BASHO-JUNGHANS - IS
12-string & pedal steel explorations from this heartfelt German maestro

DZJENGHIS KHAN - PREHISTORIC ROCK LIVE IN S.F.
live, raw and very loud rock n roll from a line-up that never hit the studio

NICK HUDSON - A DAY WITHOUT COMFORT
beautiful & disturbing music halfway between Morrissey & Current 93

MICHAEL BEGG - LIVE DARK ARTS AT THE CLASSIC
dazzling live album from the Human Greed/Fovea Hex sound controller

BURIAL HEX – IN PSYCHIC DEFENSE
technoir explorations

USTAD ABDUL KARIM KHAN – 1934 TO 1935
compilation on Important Records of classic Indian 78s from this incredible singer

DAVID THOMAS FREEMAN - THE BEAUTY OF DOUBTING YOURSELF
celestial otherworldy broadcasts

FUNK POLICE – HOT WE ARE FUNK WE PLAY
raw, dirty, scraped-down funk

PART WILD HORSES MANE ON BOTH SIDES – POISSON
extraordinary release from this flute and percussion experimental duo

AL DOUM & THE FARYDS - self titled
astounding self-released mini album of world rhythms & psychedelic freakout

KLEEFSTRA/PRUIKSMA/KLEEFSTRA - DEISLIEPER
handwritten review of this very curious experimental album on Hibernate Recordings

tucking into the back catalogue of SLOW FLOW REC - part 1
to brighten up the cold, wet winter days we, go on a musical binge

SCISSORS AND SELLOTAPE - ...FOR THE TIRED & ILL AT EASE
another video review, this time for a stunning package on Facture

MENAGERIE#3
a compilation of sight & sound where the music of Ben Nash, C Joynes, Twinsistermoon & Isengrind inspires and is inspired by cutting edge illustrators

MAMA BÄR – BILDNEREI DIE GEISTESKRANKEN VOL.2 “RUHE”
we return to our binge on the German fluxus musician artists

BENGALFUEL - TOTH
another spaced out 3" on Hibernate

PORTRAITS - s/t – Important Records
supergroup featuring all of Barn Owl plus members of Date Palm, Tarentel and others

KING DUDE – TONIGHT’S SPECIAL DEATH
dark acoustic Americana

SUNN O))) meets NURSE WITH WOUND - THE IRON SOUL OF NOTHING
Nurse With Wound drag Sunn O))) into another dimension

ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE MELTING PARAISO U.F.O. - LIVE AS TROUBADOUR
yep, them again. this time live, acoustic & magnificent

TRANS/HUMAN - THE 8 HOUR DANCE
devastating rock noise cassette

WOODEN WAND & THE BRIARWOOD VIRGINS - BRIARWOOD
at last! new Wooden Wand sounds....and amazing they are too

JANEK SCHAEFER – DOUBLE EXPOSURE
major compilation of recent work from the soundmeister Schaefer

SUNN O))) – 00 VOID
drone metal classic reissued so we reapraised

ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE OVERVIEW
we dig into their epic back catalogue and come back with some recomendations for you

FREIBAND & CARLOS VILLENA – split tape
more cassette noise experimentation of the highest order

RAINBO VIDEO - SHADOW RELICS
ecstatic tranced-out guitar celebrations

MOON POOL & DEAD BAND - s/t
amazing new synth duo of Nate Young & David Shettler

STEVE HAUSCHILDT - TRAGEDY & GEOMETRY
huge, dense synth workouts from Emeralds scientist-in-chief

ANTONYMES meets SLOW DANCING SOCIETY - WE DON'T LOOK BACK FOR VERY LONG
sublimely dreamlike remixes

KOOLAID (GLOBAL TYRANNY) - s/t
breakout debut album of psychedelic rock madness

LISTENING MIRROR - THE HEART OF THE SKY
stunning dream soundtracks on cassette

GAUNTLET HAIR - s/t
stunning psychedelic harmony pop with a subtle funk

ERIC LUNDE / KOMMISSER HJULER split LP
continuing our adventures with the Hjluer back catalogue in our first video review for a while

ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE MELTING PARAISO U.F.O. – THE RIPPER AT THE HEAVEN’S GATES OF DARK - a little bit of nudity on the cover
the most essential album in years from the main AMT collective

BARDO POND / CARLTON MELTON - split
crushingly good psychedelic heavy

THE NOTHING MACHINE - NMTR v1
brain-warming ambient experimentalism

BABY DEE – GOES DOWN TO AMSTERDAM
wonderful live album from this talented performer

CIRCLE + SECRET CHIEFS 3
review of an amazing @ Islington Mill, Salford.

MICHAEL FLOWER & NEIL CAMPBELL, FEATURING JOHN GODBERT
blazing double-cassette of psychedelic noise

CHRISTINA VANTZOU – NO.1
sublime ambience of the highest calibre

SANKT OTTEN - GOTTES SYNTHESIZER
80s style synthesizer soundtrack experimentation

MAMA BÄR – BILDNEREI DIE GEISTESKRANKEN VOL.1 “ES IST SO”
continuing our binge with Flexus experts

MORKOBOT - MORBO
mental hardcore with two bass guitars and a drumkit

JEAN-CLAUDE VANNIER - ROSE ROUGE SANG / ELECTRO RAPIDE
past & present collide for this French legend who helped Serge Gainsbourg reach his finest moments

TITAN - PACIFIC LIVING
amazing live prog-psyche cassette

AIDS WOLF - MA VIE BANALE AVANT-GARDE
serious rock noise excitement

CHARALAMBIDES - EXILE
stand-out new album from the cosmic Texcans

ORFANADO – ITER
amazing psychedelic sounds

SPHERULEUS – VOYAGE
stunningly nocturnal dronescope from Hibernate

MEG BAIRD - SEASONS ON EARTH
Beautiful folk for the new school and the old

KOMMISSAR HJULER UND FRAU – JACOB UND WILHELM GRIMM
wild fairy tale earfeed

SAVAGING SPIRES - s/t
amazing lysergic woodland freakout party but damn catchy

FAREWELL POETRY - HOPING FOR THE INVISIBLE TO IGNITE
staggering work of elegant, post-rock genius

KLAUS GIRNUS / KOMMISSAR HJULER UND FRAU - split LP
two sides of low-fi sonic madness

US AND THEM with FROBISHER NECK – SUMMERISLE EP
Fruits De Mer hit us with a 7" of songs from the Wicker Man

ACID BIRDS - III
scorched blasting improv of the holiest, primal kind

JAMES BLACKSHAW - HOLLY
new solo EP from the guitar wizard on Important Records

QLUSTER - RUFEN
dazzling album from Roedelius' post-Cluster project

MIMINOKOTO – HITOYOGIRI
dazzling Japanese psyche featuring members of Acid Mothers Temple, Overhang Party and Che-Shizu

CAM DEAS & JACK ALLETT - OUTGROWING THE WRETCHED CRADLE
a dazzling work of avant garde guitar and electronics

ROLL THE DICE - IN DUST
blasting clustertronics into a new century

CLANDESTINE SERIES CASSETTE # ONE
amazing four track compilation tape

CAVE - NEVERENDLESS
hypnopsychedronekrautheavy rock masterpiece

SILVIA KASTEL - LOVE TAPE
wonderfully warped electronics

ISIDORE DUCASSE - s/t
amazing new drone rock LP on Blackest Rainbow

QUIVERS/CHORA SPLIT LP
devastating LP of scorched improv on Ultramarine

TALVIHORROS - DESCENT INTO DELTA
a video review of the epic drone work on Hibernate Recordings

DVD: THE MINERS HYMNS
we get lost in this collaboration between film-maker Bill Morrison & composer Johann Johannsson

HUSH ARBORS - ALIVE
double LP packing in two very different live sets

VESSELS - HELIOSCOPE
beautiful rock explorations

KOMMISAR HJULER UND MAMA BAER & NINNI MORGIA AND SILVIA KASTEL
split album of intense sonic insanity

OFFTHESKY - THE BEAUTIFUL NOWHERE
video review of Hibernate Recordings second ever vinyl release

MARCELLO MAGLIOCCHI - MUSIC FOR SOUNDING SCULPTURES IN TWENTY-THREE MOVEMENTS
stunning cassette from this genius percussionist, reviewed in a photoshop happy style

y0t0 - URIARRA ROAD
strange, dark soundscapes from Fluid Audio

EKCA LIENA / A DEATH CINEMATIC – PRETERNATURAL
split album of experimental sounds

FLOTEL - VALENCE
another video review of another lysergic cassette from Chemical Tapes

AIDAN BAKER – STILL LIFE
deep, jazz-fueled sonic explorations

PRINCE RAMA - TRUST NOW
eastern classical meets western rave-up. results winning, trust now

BARN OWL - LOST IN THE GLARE
the Owl Lords of drone rock return with their most masterful recording yet

BENGALFUEL - EDGEMERE
3"s of space sounds & beats

MOHAVE TRIANGLES - SMOKED MYSTICS
video review of this very smoked tape

ANNA ROSE CARTER & PLEQ - MY PIANO IS BROKEN
video review of the latest Rural Colours release

THE.BÄND / Z’EV / CARLOS VILLENA – split cassette
can't beat the drums. Don't know what I'd be without that noise.

CHANTING CAFETERIA PROJECT - FJÄRDE SOLUPPGȦNGEN
stunning album from Sweden that charts maps across a new sonic space

ADAM A.WILLIAMS - ANOTHER DAY THE SAME
video review of Hibernate's latest postcard release

AFTERNOON BROTHER - MODERN FLORIDA
spazzcore jazz for Cardiacs & Bungle-heads

CHRIS DOOKS - TRIPLE TRIAGE
Hibernate's exemplary postcard series continues

BALACLAVA - CRIMES OF FAITH
hardcore metal on Southern Lord

THE FINER POINTS OF SADISM - ADMINISTERING & THE PEAK/DEATH BY LSD
three inches of sonic madness

CORNUCOPIA / CARLOS VILLENA - split cassette
strange, dark abstraction

WOODEN SHJIPS - WEST
fuzzy psyche-rock good times

WIL BOLTON - CHIMES FOR A WALL DRAWING
video review of this epic chime-based drone pice

FAT CAT SPLIT SERIES#21: FOOT VILLAGE / SUPER KHOUMEISSA
drum-heavy sounds from California & Africa

DVD: DEEP END
the lost classic from 1970 out on DVD at last

UMBER – MORNING’S PASS
beautiful little mini album

PANABRITE - OMNI CENTRE
all-enveloping analogue electronics tsunami of peace

PIKACYU * MAKOTO - OM SWEET HOME: WE ARE SHINING STARS FROM DARKSIDE
power duo collision of Acid Mothers Temple guitar hero and Afrirampo super drummer & vocalist.

CONSTANT LIGHT - MAG AMPLITUDE
motoric, melodic and intricate

THE COLOURS WILL ERASE US - THE END
rain-lashed video review of this stunning blend of post-rock & ambience on new label Itsu Jitsu

DARREN HARPER & GIMU - FIELD & FERN; MOUNTAIN & SEA
video review of Rural Colours 40th release

BARN OWL - SHADOWLAND
essential EP release from the duo of dreams

EARTHLING SOCIETY - STATIONS OF THE GHOST
psychedelic space rock

SIMON BAINTON - SUN SETTINGS
a beautiful tribute to Anglesey

NICHOLAS SZCZEPANIK - PLEASE STOP LOVING ME
video review of this startling work of ambience

PJE - HIDDEN STONE
lush, beautiful and mysterious EP

MARS TO STAY - E.P.
marvelous little EP from this haunting guitar band

KANSHIN
video review for scene-defining compilation album raising funds directly for Japan

DANIEL W J MACKENZIE - TEETH SLEEP UNDER WINKING BLACK EYELID
Ekca Liena man goes under his own name for this beautiful and sparse album

IN THE BLEAK WILDERNESS OF SLEEP
a compilation CD from Audio Gormet

ASTRAL SOCIAL CLUB - SNAEFELL
video review of this wonderful outpouting of electronic mentalism

CANNIBAL MOVIE - AVORIO
blazing drums and organ duo unleash their sick debut EP

LAUREL HALO – HOUR LOGIC
an EP of electronic tonics

RURAL COLOURS SUBSCRIPTION PACK 12
EPs from Dentist, Ex Confusion & Isnaj Dui & Hybernation

G.S. - SUTRA
strange and beautiful work

THE COSMIC DEAD - s/t
devastating space rock action

YAJÉ - YAJÉ
self-titled debut EP of extreme garage psyche

LISTENING MIRROR - EVEN IN THE QUIETEST MOMENTS
a self-released 3" postcard CD of immense celestial drones

NATURAL SNOW BUILDINGS - CHANTS OF NIFLHEIM
experimental video review of mind-bending psyche drone record store day special

LUNAR DUNES - GALAXSEA
summer spacerock sounds

CAUGHT IN THE WAKE FOREVER / KARINA ESP / SHEEPDOG - SADNESS & STATIC
astounding collaborative EP on Hibernate

BLACK STEPDAD - YOU, ME AND THE HEAT DEATH OF THE UNIVERSE
head-rattling noise ambience

HUMAN GREED - FORTRESS LONGING
a dense, intense work of extraodinary production & composition

RICHARD A INGRAM – HAPPY HOUR
electronic sonic urban ambience

JACK ALLETT - THE COLLAPSING MIDDLE
cosmic guitar play for fans of Fahey and Rose

ALEXANDER TUCKER – DORWYTCH
pastoral songwriter composer soundscapes and beyond

MACU Vs FEDERICO BARABINO – WAVES
a sonic blast of static dreams

QLUSTER - FRAGEN
phase three for electronic legend Rodelius

NATURAL SNOW BUILDINGS - WAVES OF THE RANDOM SEA
video review of the French folk/drone magicians

CHRISTINA CARTER - TEXAS BLUES WORKING
once again, I discover an album late after everyone else but it's great!

WHITE HILLS - H-P1
staggering album of new psyche genius

MOUNTAINS - AIR MUSEUM
an album of intense tone float

IMPLODES – BLACK EARTH
burning rock explorations on Kranky records

THE PSYCHOGEOGRAPHICAL COMMISSION - WIDDERSHINS
another video review, this time for a startling 3" cd

DANIEL MENCHE & ANLA COURTIS - YAGUA OVY
video review of some storming, echoing, bass-heavy, rhythmic noise on vinyl

RELIGIOUS KNIVES - SMOKESCREEN
fucked-up, fuzzed-out, dirty & delicious psyche-rock

SYZMON KALISKI - OUT OF FORGETTING
hauntingly beautiful neo-classical mini album

KYLE BOBBY DUNN - WAYS OF MEANING
celestial minimalism

BENGALFUEL - SPRAGUE
startling little EP from Hibernate that should re-educate Tangerine Dream fans

RICHARD A INGRAM - CONSOLAMENTUM
a strange, dark, extraordinary work

STROM NOIR - DNI STRATILI SVOJU FARBU
immersive drones from Slovakia

INTERNET ARCHIVE: INTERVIEWING IRMIN SCHMIDT & KUMO
the internet achive saves another lost feature

BANDCAMP
an appreciation for our favourite source of digital music

FELICIA ATKINSON - THE DRIVER
video review of the first vinyl release from Hibernate Recordings

EKCA LIENA - SLOW MUSIC FOR RAPID EYE MOVEMENT
startling work of invention on Dead Pilot

BIG BLOCK 454 - BELLS & PROCLAMATIONS
Musical Mancunian madness

RURAL COLOURS SUBSCRIPTION PACK 10
video review of releases from Davis, Kleefstra & Kleefstra, Richard Ingram & Arkonia

CARLTON MELTON - COUNTRY WAYS
new psychedelic guitar sounds

EARTHLING SOCIETY - GREEN MANALISHI
more Fruits De Mer covers madness

DAMIAN VALLES - THE WAVES THAT DESTROY
postcard#4 from Hibernate Recordings

SUNFLARE - YOUNG LOVE
incendiary guitar explorations

MARS TO STAY - MARS TO STAY - redux
haunting new cassette release. now with a proper photo of the goods

LISTENING MIRROR - OUTSIDE HEAVEN
ethereal otherworlds of sound

KPTMICHIGAN / BLACK STEPDAD - split cassette - redux
drone noise funtime with not safe for work nudie artwork. now with a proper photo of the goods

PONYTAIL - DO WHATEVER YOU WANT ALL THE TIME
psychedelic joy

CURRENT 93 - HONEYSUCKLE AEONS
video review of the dazzling new album

MESSAGE TO BEARS - DEPARTURES
a must for all fans of the strange acoustic

SARGASSO SEA - MADONNA
dark, post-punk pop explorations

CLEM LEEK - A LETTER
video review of a very special 3" CD

ITHACA TRIO - CLARITY
is it a postcard? is it a 3" CD? no, it's both

HAUSCHKA - SALON DES AMATEURS
new classical meets basement house music

SEASONS (PRE DIN) - LESSER AND STILL
more transmissions from another place

ANTONYMES - THE LICENSE TO INTERPRET DREAMS
a work of delicate beauty

SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE - ASLEEP ON THE FLOODPLAIN
a welcome return from the ultimate acoustic act

CHRISTINA CARTER - OF THE GUTTER
video review of this live album from a unique artist

DEAF CENTRE - OWL SPLINTERS
genre defying work of great beauty

STEFFAN MATHIEU - A STATIC PLACE
epic drones

MV & EE - FREAK FLAG (I WANNA MAKE YOU MOAN LIKE KAREN BLACK)
seriously, a real highlight from their live series

CLUTTER - LIVE IN THE BURNED OUT CHURCH
uncanny sounds from Cumbria

NICK HUDSON - MY ANTIQUE SON
there's no snappy one-liner for this, just read

PLEQ - GOOD NIGHT
small hours electronics from Eastern Europe

QUINN WALKER - THE WEIGHT OF CARE
video review of this new EP on Rural Colours

HIDDEN LANDSCAPES
a videeo review of this excellent compilation album by and in support of net label Audio Gourmet

MANI NEUMEIER & KAWABATA MAKOTO - SAMURAI BLUES
Guru Gure leader meets Acid Mothers Temple leader with explosive results

AKRON/FAMILY - S/T II or THE COSMIC BIRTH & JOURNEY OF SHINJU TNT
a mouthful of a title and a real meal of an album

ALVIN LUCIER & NICK HENNIES - STILL AND MOVING LINES OF SILENCE IN FAMILIES OF HYPERBOLAS
Nick Hennies approaches the work of pioneering composer Alvin Lucier

HAKOBUNE - AWAY FROM THE LUNAR WATERS
mesmeric guitar explorations

ELIAN - APPARITIONS
startling mini CD of intense sound

MAJEURE / SANKT OTTEN
a mysterious split release

SUBLAMP - IN OUR HIDING VOICE
strange, dark and subtle music

THE FLAMING LIPS - TWO BLOBS FUCKING
a 12-part surround space rock youtube extravaganza ready for you now

BILL ORCUTT - NEW WAYS TO PAY OLD DEBTS
insanely dirty guitar sound

INTERNET ARCHIVE: SONGS OF GREEN PHEASANT
I'm pretty sure I was the first person to interview this massively under-rated drone/psyche/folk act

FAT WORM OF ERROR - BROODS
our very first ever VIDEO review. Erm, as in the review is a video not the review is of a video. The big quesiton is, will it also be the last?

ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE SWR & UMEZU KAZUTOKI - SAX IN THE CITY
free jazz punk madness

ROQUETING THROUGH SPACE
Fruits De Mer unleash more inspired cover versions

THOUGHTS FROM SCREECHING LAKE
mind-burning compilation from Singing Knives

ENSEMBLE - EXCERPTS
French genius on Fat Cat Records

DRUMMS OF CHAOS & JENS UWE BEYER - MAGAZINE 3
Jake Liebezeit's drum ensemble finally put out an album!

CLUSTER - CLUSTER 71
the debut Cluster album! re-released with the original running order

BARN OWL - ANCESTRAL STAR - now up and running
epic slow-burn sonic landscapes

FAUST - SOMETHING DIRTY
Faust! Faust! Faust! Faust! Faust! Did I tell you it was Faust? FAUST!

EMPHEMETRY - A LULLABY HUM FOR TIRED STEETS
stunning ambinet post-rock songwriting

CORY ALLEN - PEARLS
exquisite ambient release, hopefully not for the swine

THE HUNTER GRACCHUS - THE BOLSHEVICS SHAT IN MY BRAIN
mind-fuck from the backstreets of Sheffield

GAMES - THAT WE CAN PLAY
mind-bent synth pop

WOODEN SHJIPS - OH TANNENBAUM / OLD LANG SYNE
festive psyche rock!

DANNY SAUL - KINISON GOLDTHWAIT
mind-blowing Hibernate release

THE HATERS / HAL HUTCHINSON
split cassette of noise

FIELD ROTATION - ACOUSTIC TALES
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CHAZ KNAPP - FINGER
piano, strings & electronics

WIL BOLTON - TIME LAPSE
mind-bending electronics & field recordings

WOODEN WAND - DEATH SEAT
back so soon? Good.

PLEQ - MY LIFE BEGINS TODAY
quality electronic experimental experience

ANDREW LILES - MIND MANGLED TRIP MONSTER
sounds like a tribute to our readership

ZOMBIE ZOMBIE - PLAYS JOHN CARPENTER
does what it says on the tin, now get your can opener

WOODEN WAND - WITHER THOU GOEST, CRETIN
bloody limited, fucking brilliant acoustic album

SWANS + JAMES BLACKSHAW
live review of Leeds University gig 29th October 2010

WOLF PEOPLE - STEEPLE
psyche-folk-rock fun

TEETH OF THE SEA - YOUR MERCURY
bold statement of post-post-rock

BEN NASH / MAGIC LANTERN
another mad, mighty split LP from Blackest Rainbow

ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS - SWANLIGHTS
wow

THE PSYCHOGEOGRAPHICAL COMMISSION - PATIENT ZERO
the dark underbelly of Britain illuminated

SHIGETO - FULL CIRCLE
strange future soul music

DAVID A JAYCOCK - PRESETS
strange folk music from the small hours

SENDELICA - A NICE PEAR
more 7" cover version madness from Fruits De Mer

SWANS - MY FATHER WILL GUIDE ME UP A ROPE TO THE SKY
can't believe I am reviewing a new Swans album

STARVING WEIRDOS - B/P/M 1
piano madness

GREGORY & THE HAWK - LECHE
Meredith returns with her stunning new album

PLEQ & SEGUE - THE SEED
ambient global collaboration

HESSIEN - OBELISK/STELEA
deep space electronics

SILJE NES - OPTICKS
beautiful whimsy from Fat Cat Records

HAUSCHKA - "FOREIGN LANDSCAPES"
composition of mystery & wonder

CLOSEDEYESAREDANCING - "SLEEP COLLAGES"
electronic mentalism (and free)

HUSH ARBORS - "NOTHING ELSE (ANDREW LILES REMIX)
a digital ride of the valkyries and a bargain too - fixed

ANDREA FERRARIS/MATTEO UGGERI WITH MUJIKA EASEL & ANDREA SERRAPIGLIO - "AUTUMN IS COMING, WE'RE ALL IN SLOW MOTION"
amazing exploratory ambient on Hibernate

MIMINOKOTO - "CHOFU, EKODA, KOENJI"

live Japanese psyche action - review now properly available

CLEM LEEK - "HOLLY LANE"
mysterious minamilism

MOON UNIT - "HELL HORSE AND HEADY STRATUS"
blistering space rock

SUZUKI JONZO - "BURIED SKY, SPIDER TORN TO PIECES"
wild Japanese psyche sounds

MARK HARRIS - "THE BOY OBSERVES THE OCEAN"
more Hibernate ethereal otherness

THE HUNTER GRACCHUS / KOMMISSAR HJULER UND FRAU - split LP

two highly charged sonic particles collide on one piece of vinyl

MICE PARADE - "WHAT IT MEANS TO BE LEFT-HANDED"
one of the worlds best-kept musical secrets

TWINSISTER MOON - "THEN FELL THE ASHES"
mysterious drone folk from France

NURSE WITH WOUND - "HUFFIN RAG BLUES"
we tuck into the new vinyl mix of this modern NWW classic

AFRIRAMPO - "WE ARE UCHU NO KO"
noise rock goddesses say goodbye

ARKHONIA - "TRAILS/TRACES"
secret sound of the suburbs

SEASONS (PRE-DIN) - "OCCASIONALLY, I FORGET TO BREATHE"
haunting soundscapes

VINCENT KUHNER - "NO MINUTE..."
an album with a very long name + FREE DOWNLOAD LINK

JAMES BLACKSHAW - "ALL IS FALLING"
the Lord of the 12-string returns

CLUTTER - "YELLOW LIGHT DISCARDED"
excellent experimental little 3"

FIELD ROTATION - "WHY THINGS ARE DIFFERENT"
icey sounds

MOON DUO - "ESCAPE"
heavy psyche grooves

GUILD - "REQUIEM"
majorly mysterious minamilism + FREE DOWNLOAD LINK

CURRENT 93 - "BAALSTORM, SING OMEGA"
major new release from David Tibet and his current crew

WORMROT - "ABUSE"
mind-crushing grindcore from Singapore on Earache

GUSTAVO JOBIM - "TRAPPED IN A DAYJOB"
electronic soundwaves from Brazil

MAX RICHTER - "INFRA"
new album from the innovative composer/producer

NANCY GARCIA - "BE THE CLIMB"
more irresistible madness from Ecstatic Peace records

CARLTON MELTON - "PASS IT ON"
heavy psyche kicks from the West Coast

FAUST
live review of the Manchester Ruby Lounge date

HAUSFRAUEN EXPERIMENT
4 classic songs get taken up the analogue electric avenue

DAVID NEWLYN - "FRIDAY NIGHT CHOIR PRACTISE"
manipulated cathedral field recordings

TALVIHORROS - "MUSIC IN FOUR MOVEMENTS"
a free-flowing, stream of conciousnes review of a strange ambient record

DAMON & NAOMI - "1001 NIGHTS"
A DVD compilation from the former Galaxie 500 rhythm section turned acoustic troubadours

CARLOS VILLENA - "OSCI.LACIONS EN LA PENOMBRA DE LES TAQUES SOLARS"
a 3" disc from another world. probably.

MUSHROOM - "NAKED, STONED & STABBED"
more sultry, sunny sounds

CARIBOU - "SWIM"
new album from Dan Snaith and it's joyous

WOODEN SHJIPS - "VOL.2"
a compilation of essential but rare Wooden Shjips moments

IT'S SPRINGTIME!
a spotify playlist for your next barbeque, garden party, game of croquet or hillside booze session

HARUKI - "THE LAND THAT LIES BEHIND US"
a stunningly abstract mini-album on 5" cd

VIBRAVOID - "WHAT COLOUR IS PINK? EP"
a 7" that takes early Pink Floyd over to Dusseldorf

FURSAXA - "MYCORRHIZAE REALM"
some seriously psychedelic folk

JACK ROSE - "LUCK IN THE VALLEY"
lovely old time jam with the sadly recently deceased guitarist

THE PSYCHOGEOGRAPHICAL COMMISSION - "GENIUS LOCI"
tripping through England's hidden reverse

RBE: RAUDIVE BUNKER EXPERIMENT
80s experimental electro compilation

WHITE HILLS - "WHITE HILLS"
white-hot, shit-hot, white-out rock 'n' roll reviewed

HARMONIA & ENO 76 - "TRACKS & TRACES re-issued"
better late than never, a review of the new version of Eno's collaboration with his German mentors

HANNAH PEEL - "REBOX"
a little EP of big songs with a little sound

NICK HENNIES - "LINEAL"
more haunting ambience from the ever-poignant SRA label

KAWABATA MAKOTO & MICHISHITA SHINSUKE - “MARU SANKAKU SHIKAKU (CIRCLE TRIANGLE SQUARE)”
another collaboration between the Acid Mothers Temple & LSD March mainmen

SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN - "A"
Latest collaboration with Four Tet - fucking a!

KRAUTROCK: Cosmic Rock & it's Legacy
we review a book!

HUSH ARBORS - "YANKEE REALITY"
More great modern American new rock sound

WHITE OUT with JIM O'ROURKE & THURSTON MOORE - "SENSO"
Incendiary live document

MV & EE - "BARN NOVA"
Super cosmic woodland rock n roll

STARLESS & BIBLE BLACK - "SHAPE OF THE SHAPE"
Mancunian folk-rock space exploration

SAMARA LUBELSKI - "FUTURE SLIP"
gorgeous downtempo album from the former Hall Of Fame, The Tower Recordings member

RICHARD YOUNGS - "UNDER STELLAR STREAM"
a hand-written review of one of 2009's finest

THE YELLOW MOON BAND - "POLARIS (SPACE AND TIME REMIX)"

what's 12"s long, yellow and give us pleasure?

BORIS - "8 / HEY EVERYONE"
first in a new series of Boris 7"s entitled "Japanese Heavy Rock Hits"

SPACEMEN 3 / WOODEN SHJIPS
a split 7" of Spacemen 3 songs

MICHAEL YONKERS & PLASTIC CRIMEWAVE SOUND - "BLEED OUT"
lp of guitar noise joy

CAVE - "THE RIDE"
a little 7" packed full of power

ALOG / ASTRAL SOCIAL CLUB
latest release in Fat Cat's Split Series

MAX RICHTER - "MEMORYHOUSE"
composers debut album finally available again

PENS - "HEY FRIEND WHAT YOU DOING?
sick, psyche punk pop thrills

THE FLAMING LIPS - "EMBRYONIC"
it's not often you'll find us enthusing about Time Warner produce but every rule has it's exceptions

CELER - "CLOSE PROXIMITY AND THE UNHINDERED CARE-ALL"
a stunning work of minamilism and emotion

OM - "GOD IS GOOD"
the bass/drum duo leap off further into space

VARIOUS ARTISTS - "ALL KILLER"
Gaslamp Killer makes a mix CD out of the Finders Keepers catalogue

THE TWILIGHT SAD – “FORGET THE NIGHT AHEAD”

The Scottish miserbalists return and still on form

SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE – “LUMINOUS NIGHT”
Ben Chasney is back with another classic album

VIBRAVOID – “KRAUTROCK SENSATION EP”
A 4 track EP on coloured 7" vinyl of.....krautrock cover versions!

MÚM “SING ALONG TO SONGS YOU DON'T KNOW”
Twinkling, odd pop music from Iceland

TWINKRANES - "SPEKTRUMTHEATRESNAKES"
A review of the forthcoming debut album on Twisted Nerve from this Dublin trio. Hand-written and cut-up

BAKU: SYMPHONY OF SIRENS. SOUND EXPERIMENTS IN THE SOVIET AVANT-GARDE
Andy Wilson reviews Recommended Records compilations of Soviet era avant-garde music.

SUNN O))) - "MONOLITHS & DIMENSIONS"
A hand-written review of the recent Sunn O))) album

JEFFREY LEWIS - HEBDEN BRIDGE TRADES CLUB - 27/9/09
A mathematical hand-written gig review

MAHIKARI - "MAHIKARI"
A review of the collaboration between Kawabata Makoto of Acid Mothers Temple and Yamamoto Seiichi formerly of The Boredoms

NICHOLAS SZCZEPANIK – “THE CHIASMUS”
A review of a modern masterpiece of mood-driven, ambient minimalism

FAUST "C'EST COM...COM...COMPLIQUE"
A hand written review of the new Faust studio album

WAS IST DAS SPOTIFY PLAYLIST
Listen to a list of recommended tracks, both classic & modern

ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE "ARE WE EXPERIMENTAL?"
An excedingly odd album reviewed in all it's glory

"OPEN STRINGS: Early Virtuoso Recordings From The Middle East, And New Responses"
Excellent new compilation on Honest John's Records

RHYS CHATHAM - "A CRIMSON GRAIL (FOR 400 ELECTRIC GUITARS)"
Not a new release but just for the sake of it, here's a review

 

 

WASISTDAS VERSION 1.0

All the files were lost due to computer death while the site was offline. However, in a few wonderful corners of the internet, I managed to find traces and remnants presented here for historical and sentimental reasons

ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE. - "MYTH OF THE LOVE ELECTRIQUE"
A review of one of their 2006 releases

JANEK SCHAEFER - HUDDERSFIELD TOWN HALL
A review of a gig from November 20th 2005, part of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

JEAN-HERVE PERON OF FAUST INTERVIEWED
One of the earliest articles on the old website, an e-mail interview with Jean-Herve Peron of Faust.



INTERNET ARCHIVE

I found a 2006 version of my website saved on the internet archive. Thanks to them, here are the rest of the articles

CAN REMASTERS - BATCH 2

AMON DUUL II - "PHALLUS DEI" DVD

LUNZ "LUNZ/REINTERPRETATIONS"

FAUST - "CONNECTIONS"

JOHN PEEL - "MARGRAVE OF THE MARSHES"

MUSIC OF TODAY- an overview of Embyro by Lee Brady

FAUST - "COLLECTIF MET(Z)"

TUSSLE - "KLING KLANG"

FAUST + Ectogram - Newcastle Academy 2, UK, 8th November 2005

TONY CONRAD & FAUST - "OUTSIDE THE DREAM SYNDICATE ALIVE" (Table Of The Elements)


SUPERSILENT @ Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Saturday 19th November 2005


AMON DÜÜL II - Mean Fiddler, London, UK, November 13th 2005

DAMO SUZUKI NETWORK - The Cornerhouse, Huddersfield, Friday 27th January 2006

BRAIN LABEL REMASTERS - DIGIPAK ISSUES

ROTHER, CURTIS & KLINGHOFFER @ The Bowery Ballroom, NYC, USA, 4th March 2006

CAN - "ZHENGZHENG RIKANG"

THIRD & FINAL BATCH OF CAN REMASTERS

MICHAEL ROTHER & MOEBIUS – Picture House, Hebden Bridge, 14th July 2006

ANDY WILSON - “STRETCH OUT TIME: 1970-1975” - book about Faust


THE FLAMING LIPS - “AT WAR WITH THE MYSTICS 5.1”

TUSSLE – “TELESCOPE MIND”

FAUST – Irish Centre, Leeds, 5th June 2007

HARMONIA - “LIVE 1974” (Gronland)

 

 

ommited are:  [FOUND IT]

1. A very obsolete article about legal music download websites.

2. Lee Brady's excellent article on Embryo does not seem to be on the web archive. BAH! It was really good, trust me. [FOUND IT]

3.An article on the Huddersfield Festival of Light which was little more than a bunch of poorly-taken photos on an early camera phone.

4.A review of a single by !!! which I think was the first review I ever did on the site. If memory serves, I took it down after a year or two for no particularly good reason. Internet Archive did not capture it.