Many wonderful sounds for you tonight, including an interview with Michael Muller from the wonderful Texan band Balmorhea…
LISTEN AGAIN link at the bottom, as ever.

But to start off, an album that I really shouldn’t have neglected for the last month or two. Second album proper from High Places, whose music I first heard in the excellent Tokyo record store Warszawa, the perfect setting for something of a spin-out. They haven’t exactly gone mainstream since then, and the effects-laden tribal percussion and other freaky sounds are still present; but there might be a bit less tampering with the vocals, which leads to a fantastic weird pop album.

This week I also finally got hold of Clint Mansell’s beautiful soundtrack to Duncan Jones’ extraordinary movie of last year, Moon. A highly effective two-note piano refrain, and an excellent post-rock in this piece. Of course if I’m playing Clint I have no choice but to play something from the Poppies, who were for more than half a decade my favourite band in the whole world. I decided to play it safe(ish) and not jump back to their grebo origins or even their intergalactic punk-rock hip-hop, but instead we had the epic remix of “Everything’s Cool” by the ubiquitous (at the time) Youth.

Andrew Khedoori’s Preservation label is a decidedly internationalist Sydney label, and while you may not have heard of most of their artists when they first arrive on the label, the quality is guaranteed. The latest offering is from Finnish artist Ous Mal, previously released on the equally reliable UK label Under The Spire. It’s got that strangely Finnish sensibility – out of focus, unfamiliar influences clashing in pleasing ways. Plus cello, which always helps :)

Speaking of cello, a goodly portion of the new album from the boats (which compiles hard-to-find tracks from the last few years with a bunch of unreleased stuff, and is well and truly their best work in yonks) features the brilliant cellist Danny Norbury. The best results combine his multi-tracked cello with the minimal electronics the boats do so well. And as for minimal electronics, we had a memory brush past us of Craig Tattersal’s other band the remote viewer’s timeless classic first album from 1999. This desparately needs re-releasing, or at least needs to be made available digitally.

Which brings us to Balmorhea. Michael Muller is a lovely fellow and had some very interesting things to say. I’m afraid I forgot to offer the interview as a separate download as well, but if you’re keen to have it on its own, let me know and I can probably arrange it. I think the selection of their tunes shows their impressive range – almost postrock, folky Americana, post-classical (if you will), drone and field recordings…

Balmorhea’s closing piano extravaganza somehow put me in mind of the harp runs from one of the albums of the week, Flying Lotus’s incredible Cosmogramma. FlyLo is the nephew of jazz great Alice Coltrane, who is referenced in the first of a few tracks I played tonight. There’s also some cute scatting, some Ninja Tune-style hip hop and some off-kilter wonky goodness too.

Another American playing in the outskirts of dubstep & hip-hop is Starkey. The new album ramps up the dancefloor sheen and adds vocalists to about half the tracks, and so it doesn’t all suit Utility Fog (although very fine stuff). “Marsh”, from his debut album, is as wonderfully twisted as ever.

Japanese electronic artist Geskia also likes play with the hip-hop beats. Tonight we didn’t hear one his own productions as such, but sampled instead the heavy dubby sound of perennial UFog favourite Bracken.
Bracken then gets the remix treatment himself, from Buddy Peace, in a cut from his excellent remix album from a couple of years ago, which I played because Buddy Peace just did a nicely scratchy remix of a new Caribou tune, which you can download from the link below.

Also wonkying up the beats is Vorad Fils, aka John Hassell, from Seekae. After the familiar delight of those kidz’ “Void”, we had a lovely long ambient piece from John.

Speaking of ambient and long, ex-pat Aussie Robert Curgenven is in town for one more week before heading overseas again. He’s playing this coming Sunday at the Cad Factory, for Harmonic Territories #8, also featuring improv trio Espadrille, sound artist Kraig Grady and experimental songwriter Anna Chase. Should be fantastic.

Finished tonight with a short piece from Edwin Montgomery’s quiet guitar album – gorgeous guitar fx – and some scary goodness from Monstera Deliciosa and Crab Smasher Grant Hunter.

High Places – On a Hill In a Bed On a Road In a House [Thrill Jockey]
Clint Mansell – Welcome To Lunar Industries (Three Year Stretch) [Black Records]
Pop Will Eat Itself – Everything’s Cool (Youth‘s Safe As Milk Mix) [Infectious Records]
High Places – Drift Slayer [Thrill Jockey]
Ous Mal – Tuulensuoja [Preservation]
Ous Mal – Kotlin (feat. Iiris Tötterström, cello) [Preservation]
the boats – veleta two step (feat. Danny Norbury, cello) [flaü/Home Normal]
the remote viewer – untitled tk 4 from self-titled first album [555 Records of Leeds, UK]
the boats – the arrow home (feat. Danny Norbury, cello; Chris Stewart, vox) [flaü/Home Normal]
Balmorhea – Night in the Draw (Jacaszek remix) [Western Vinyl]
Balmorhea – Process [Western Vinyl]
…interview with Michael Muller from Balmorhea, feat. “Harm and Boon”, “Baleen Morning”, “Bowsprit”…
Balmorhea – November 1, 1832 (Peter Broderick remix) [Western Vinyl]
Balmorhea – Steerage and the Lamp [Western Vinyl]
Flying Lotus – Drips / Auntie’s Harp [Warp]
Flying Lotus – MmmHmm (feat. Thundercat) [Warp]
Flying Lotus – Do the Astral Plane [Warp]
Starkey – Spacecraft [Planet µ]
Starkey – Marsh [Planet µ]
Geskia – Second Coming (Bracken Remix) [flaü]
Bracken – We Cut The Tapes and Scatter (Steinbeck Ultramagnetic remix by Buddy Peace) [no label/Anticon]
Caribou – Sun (Buddy Peace “Plasmic Meatball” Remix) [Domino, available as free download from Buddy Peace’s SoundCloud]
Vorad Fils – Temple Leak [Feral Media]
Seekae – Void [Rice is Nice]
Vorad Fils – The Warmest Static [Feral Media]
Robert Curgenven – Gran Coda Andante [LINE]
Edwin Montgomery – The Last Night [Monstera Deliciosa]
Grant Hunter – When a new baby arrives [Monstera Deliciosa, edition of ONE *hehe*]

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Quite a journey tonight, from late-’60s French freak folk (can I call it that? please?) to noise, to postrock/drill’n’bass… and more!
Wanna LISTEN AGAIN? See end of playlist as per usual.

I have only just discovered, via an internet friend, the amazing music that Brigitte Fontaine made with collaborator Areski Belkacem, and particularly on an incredible album working with avant-garde jazz pioneers the Art Ensemble of Chicago. I played the title track of the album Comme à la radio, and later another gorgeous folk song. Incredible music from 1969 still having repercussions today.

Next up, a few things reminded me of this wonderful track from Spartak’s recent album. I was talking to Shoeb from the band last week on the show, and then this week John Part Timer sent me his remix of singer Lucrecia Perez’ solo project The Sound of Lucrecia.
Her vocals over the improvised Spartak track are a wonder, and her own music a revelation. I’m thinking it’ll be available in Australia later this year via Shoeb’s hellosQuare Recordings. And Part Timer’s remix is one of the best thing’s he’s done lately.

One of a few artists being featured on tonight’s show is Serafina Steer, who I’ve been playing since her first 7″ on Static Caravan. We heard that tonight, as well as a couple of tracks from her new album. Still plenty of her signature harp and vocals, with some different collaborators: on the Peach Heart 7″ she worked with Mike Lindsay from Tunng; the new album is co-produced very sensitively by Benge and Capitol K, and although not altogether folktronic, it’s a very modern take on folk songs.

Sydney’s Gail Priest, who we heard on last week’s show as well, gives us a few tracks tonight. Two come from her new EP which you can grab from her Bandcamp right now – an amazing piece of vocal manipulation and a gorgeous piece of hi-fidelity guitar and effects. The other track is almost techno – the one track from her previous album imaginary conversations in reverberent rooms which edges towards dance music.

We went from Gail Priest’s technoid sounds to some other rhythmic explorations, starting with Daniel Lopatin’s Oneohtrix Point Never, with a track which can only be found in Wire Magazine’s third subscriber-only Behind The Radar compilation. His familiar blissful but edgy analog synth patterns make us even more excited for the new album(s! – I believe) on their way from him this year…
And then the man whose noise label brought Lopatin to our attention, Carlos Giffoni. Inspired no doubt by the analog synthesiser nostalgia of a number of noise exponents of late, Giffoni has formed No Fun Acid, and I chose to play a track from This Is No Fun Acid 2, a 12″ which features a rather incredible remix by Gavin Russom. It’s quite an epic number and worth every minute.

Back to The Wire’s BTR comp with Jacques Beloeil, who seems to have very little info about him on the internets. Digital and analogue noise that’s so extreme we had a listener wondering if there was something wrong with the transmitter; and yet even the modulated digital feedback seems to me to exhibit the hand of a real human intelligence. It’s a fascinating listen.

Also tonight, I finally got to play the collaboration between two of my favourite noise artists, Yellow Swans & Burning Star Core. C Spencer Yeh of BxC scrapes and howls on his violin over dense drones from Yellow Swans. After Beloeil this is beautiful chamber music :)

And the last hour of tonight’s show features a few more artists who deserve a few tracks in a row. First off, multi-instrumentalist prodigy William Ryan Fritch has a new album out as Vieo Abiungo, showcasing his musical prowess on a huge array of instruments, in something of a world music vein. He’s probably best known as the backing for Sole as The Skyrider Band, where he can be anything from sample-based hip-hop to rock band.
And our Part Timer pops up with another forthcoming remix, quite ambient and taking full advantage of the strings and vocals of Fritch.

Next are 65daysofstatic, long beloved of this show. I’ve been playing them since their first EP, from which we heard a wonderfully raw track tonight. Also the explicitly drum’n’bass-meets-postrock of “await rescue”, and then… The Cure! The boys toured the USA with Robert Smith’s band in 2008, and as well as being asked to remix the band, they managed to get him in for a vocal appearance on their new album. They’re still in fine form, and the new album can actually be found locally in Australia – so, no excuse!

Finally, it’s no secret (er, why would it be? weird expression!) that I’m a huge fan of Newcastle/Sydney noisesters Crab Smasher, and I recently discovered a blog post on Grant Hunter’s Monstera Deliciosa with a really old cassette of theirs which was a fun listen. I also jumped back to 2007 for what’s still one of their best releases, the Impossible Monsters EP, and finished with something from their latest EP, the doctor is in… over his head, which is undoubtedly some of their best work yet – nuanced free improv that you need in your earholes.

Brigitte Fontaine et Areski avec the Art Ensemble of Chicago – Comme à la radio [Saravah]
Spartak – Second-Half Clouded (feat. Lucrecia Perez) [Low Point]
The Sound of Lucrecia – Ara [Pruna]
The Sound of Lucrecia – Ceniza (Part Timer‘s “Bless You” remix) [forthcoming on hellosQuare]
Serafina Steer – Day Glo [Static Caravan]
Serafina Steer – Peach Heart [Static Caravan]
Serafina Steer – Drinking While Driving [Static Caravan]
Gail Priest – Etchings [get via Bandcamp!]
Gail Priest – body in birmingham [self-released]
Oneohtrix Point Never – Fourier Ocean Scenes [unreleased, via Wire Mag]
No Fun Acid – No Fun Acid 2 (Gavin Russom remix) [No Fun Productions]
Jacques Beloeil – Bidule 9 (Guillotine edit) [Entr’acte via Wire Mag]
Gail Priest – Phantoms [get via Bandcamp!]
Yellow Swans & Burning Star Core – Skylab, Columbus OH, September 2006 [Blossoming Noise]
Brigitte Fontaine et Areski avec the Art Ensemble of Chicago – Le Noir c’est Mieux Choisi [Saravah]
Vieo Abiungo – In A Wash or Haze [Lost Tribe Sound]
sole & the skyrider band – a sad day for investors [anticon]
Vieo Abiungo – Fugue [Lost Tribe Sound]
Vieo Abiungo – Blood Memory (Part Timer remix) [forthcoming on Lost Tribe Sound]
65daysofstatic – await rescue [Monotreme]
65daysofstatic – play.nice.kids [Dustpunk Records]
65daysofstatic vs The Cure – Freakshow [here’s Robert Smith explaining why you shouldn’t buy this from iTunes!]
65daysofstatic – Come to Me (feat. Robert Smith!) [Hassle Records]
Crab Smasher – skeleton fury [old stuff available at Monstera Deliciosa]
Crab Smasher – The Moon Rattled Inside Her [Squeamish Recordings]
Crab Smasher – How To Dodge Red Shells [new stuff from Bandcamp]

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Evening all! Beautiful music to start tonight…
LISTEN AGAIN via the link at the bottom!

Chris Weisman appears again with a delightful ditty about “bicycle operator and co”. Near the end he refers to the BOAC in the Beatles’ “Back In The USSR”, which that eminence gris of Drum Media, Ross Clelland, pointed out to me stands for “British Overseas Airways Corporation“. I prefer Weisman’s acronym.

More also from Sam Amidon, including a track from his earlier album All Is Well — more highly authentic American folk.

Matthew Herbert’s new album is as conceptual as ever. One One indicates that he has reduced his sphere of sample-sources to nothing but… himself! He plays and sings and produces and edits everything here, and his unsteady vocals lend a special quality to the familiar melodic cadences which are usually sung by one of his female accomplices. Lovely stuff.

B. Dolan’s album continues to impress. Heavy tricky beats and great vocal delivery.

I played Underlapper’s excellent remix of Parades a couple of weeks ago and it gets another spin tonight because the Parades album proper is now out. Jonathan Boulet & co take their drums into album drum’n’bass territory, with postrock aesthetics and great pop hooks. Underlapper just ramp it up to the Nth degree with a last third heading into full-on breakcore glitch territory…

…after which there is no choice but to play some new 65daysofstatic. I’ve been supporting these guys since their very first EP, and it’s great to see their latest album getting an Australian release. Maybe now we’ll get to see them live, finally. From their Weak4 EP we have a very electronic piece, kind of glitchy drum’n’bass, and then a really beautiful number from the album We Were Exploding Anyway, just out this very week. I’ll play some more next week, along with a few exciting bits from their past — including something with young Robert Smith of a band called The Cure, who 65dos supported on tour last year (or… 2008-2009?)

Following this, we were joined by the estimable Shoeb Ahmad from Canberra, who popped in for a chat and a chance to play some favourite music of his. Shoeb’s work with Spartak and solo, and his label hellosQuare Recordings, have provided much listening fodder for Utility Fog over the years, so it was great to hear these selections, and also some of the connections that brought them forth.
That’s how we go from German postrockers to rococo rot to Blur to Massive Attack (connected by Krautrocky grooves) and later the alt.country experimentation of Califone and the gorgeous classicism of Hauschka. Listen to the re-play below for much discussion.

The “triple play” after Massive Attack is an interesting beast. Cold Cave is one of those bands combining the post-punk disco/electro-pop thing (I tried to get “goth” in there but wasn’t sure where to put them hyphen) with a bit of the noise biz, and with both Dominick Fernow of Prurient (and Hospital Productions) and the fabulous Sarah Lipstate (Noveller) involved, at least live, it’s got to be interesting.
The collaborative tracks came from a cassette on Hospital Productions that’s surprisingly ambient (and lovely), and in between, the legendary Arthur Baker takes on one of Cold Cave’s tracks…

Continuing in the noise-meets-ambient sphere, we have some newness on boutique label Monstera Deliciosa, run by Grant Hunter of UFog faves Crab Smasher.
Reunion Sacred Ibis is a solo act from Melbourne, and both “pana-wave” tracks are thrilling bits of broken-down distorted electronics.
Sydney’s Edwin Montgomery should be familiar to UFog listeners, and his latest album’s title says it all: Please Be Quiet and Play Your Guitar, Vol. 1 sends his guitar through various pedals to produce quiet listening music.

Meanwhile, Gail Priest has some new tracks up on Bandcamp for only a few dollars. Disquieting vocal, acoustic and electronic sounds and one of the big recommendations of the week.

A couple more tracks courtesy of Shoeb, including a bit of processed field recordings from Bangladesh, and then we’re back to Sydney with Vorad Fils, aka John Hassell from Seekae. Anyone familiar with his trio’s music will know what to expect, but this album certainly delivers — despite being written & recorded in only a few weeks. Glitched-up hip-hop beats, verging on the wonky side, with synths and (acoustic) piano processed to buggery.

Did we say “wonky”? One of the centres of the west-coast US’s wonky hip-hop/dubstep/thingy sound is Alpha Pup Records, whose latest release comes from Take. The album has really grown on me, but I’d been scratching my head for a week or more over the synth sample in this particular track…
After confirming that it wasn’t any of the classic idm folks I thought it was, I suddenly had the epiphany that it was much closer to home – a wonky producer from across the Atlantic. No wonder it had been so familiar — Paul White’s Clean Dub of Tranqill’s Payroll had been one of my favourite songs of last year! This led me to track down the original, which is none other than Greek synth legend Vangelis, he of the Blade Runner soundtrack. The track “Spiral” comes from years earlier – 1977 – starting with these synth squiggles and then moving into a sequenced line of the sort we’d hear in the work of Emeralds and Oneohtrix Point Never these days.
It’s amusing to hear that not one, not two, but three artists have sampled this same squiggly line within about a year – the third being that manufacturer of drum’n’bass anthems Sub Focus, who takes not just the wobbly/warbly beginning but also the pomp and bluster of the big organ lines to introduce his hard-hittin’ beats. All very silly but fun enough.

Chris Weisman – b.o.a.c. [autumn records]
Sam Amidon – Little Johnny Brown [Bedroom Community]
Sam Amidon – How Come That Blood [Bedroom Community]
Matthew Herbert – Porto [Accidental Records]
B. Dolan – Earthmovers [Strange Famous]
Parades – Invaders (review) [dot dash]
Parades – Hunters (Underlapper remix) [Direct from the ‘lappies, but available on iTunes (eek!)]
65daysofstatic – Goodbye, 2007 [Hassle Records]
65daysofstatic – Debutante [Hassle Records]
Spartak – Tweezer [Low Point] {available locally through hellosQuare. Cheap! Awesome!}
to rococo rot – working against time [Domino]
Blur – Music is My Radar [Parlophone]
Massive Attack – Babel (feat. Martina Topley-Bird) [EMI]
Cold Cave / Prurient – Injured In Sleep [Hospital Productions]
Cold Cave – Life Magazine (Arthur Baker‘s Not Going Back Remix) [Matador] {Download from Stereogum}
Cold Cave / Prurient – Stars Explode [Hospital Productions]
Reunion Sacred Ibis – pana-wave 1 [Monstera Deliciosa]
Edwin Montgomery – Tuesday, 3:30pm [Monstera Deliciosa]
Reunion Sacred Ibis – pana-wave 2 [Monstera Deliciosa]
Gail Priest – Stranglers [get via Bandcamp!]
Califone – Evidence [Dead Oceans]
Hauschka – Rode Null [Fat Cat]
Shoeb Ahmad – Blossoms part 8 [hellosQuare]
Vorad Fils – Lioness [Feral Media]
Take – Crystallia [Alpha Pup]
Vangelis – Spiral [RCA]
Tranqill – Payroll (Paul White’s Clean Dub) [Planet µ]
Sub Focus – Let The Story Begin [Ram Records]

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Some very special stuff tonight from artists familiar and totally new. LISTEN AGAIN, see link at bottom.

Starting with an interesting outsider artist of sorts, a singer-songwriter of tremendous talent working in a charming lo-fi way which perfectly suits his songs. Chris Weisman had a collaborative album with Greg Davis on Davis’ autumn records last year(? or the year before) which showcased Weisman’s songwriting in an even more experimental context. These songs are wonderful. Enjoy!

A discussion of Dennis Potter’s amazing postmodern TV series The Singing Detective (beware the American remake in from 2003 or thereabouts!) prompted me to pull out the soundtrack, from which I took a genius track from Duke Ellington & his Orchestra — classic swing jazz as it should be done!

Next up, first of a few tunes I will have played tonight by Sam Amidon, whose album I declared to be the album of the week last week, and then proceeded to only get to one track! It wasn’t the feature album, m’kay, just the amazing release of the week, and it is wonderful, American folk musics — I’m hearing Appalachian in there — filtered through a modern sensibility with wonderful arrangements, but still a real folk authenticity.
So we have him, and also a track of Nico Muhly’s with Amidon singing & playing banjo.

In between, some gorgeous drone (of a sort) from UFog favourite Ian D Hawgood. He does “drone” in a really organic and acoustic way, mixing in field recordings, and making pieces which, like the works of Machinefabriek and Jasper TX go in surprising directions… Highly recommended.

The folk of Sam Amidon moves into the passionate alt.hip-hop of B. Dolan, whose Alias-produced album Falling House Sunken City is a masterpiece, hands-down. This is a relatively low-key number, to fit in with the surroundings, but later on we’ll get to the real meat. Political lyrics, full-on delivery, and brilliant beats.

Melbourne’s otouto put out their debut album Pip recently and are in Sydney to launch it this Friday. They’re playing at the Sando (Newtown’s Sandringham Hotel) with Seja and Ghoul, and it should be a great night (unfortunately clashing somewhat with the Pimmon show I’ll be mentioning shortly – but maybe one can make it to both!)
I hope there are some pots and pans among the percussion.

Of Blondes I know little but they are part of this synth-based noise and dance scene that’s springing up, and they made the wonderful choice of getting Oneohtrix Point Never to remix a track. Lovely lovely. Can’t wait for his new album due in the next month or so.

And our very own Pimmon, who has been soaking in these sounds from cassette releases galore over the last year or so, has put out a cassette of his own synth-psych. It’s pure heaven, and he’s playing this Friday in Sydney — no excuse, 6:30pm start, great line-up, you have to go. This is Refraction #2 for 2010. MySpace event here, Facebook event here.

Oh, and the track I played was nearly 12 minutes long, but this Emeralds tune that followed it was about 18 minutes – and totally worth it, kids! More synthesisers taking us on a trip into… er, the afterlife?

It was soooo tempting to play one of the longer pieces from this Ambarchi / O’Rourke / Haino album (a collaboration between three greats if ever there was one). But given that they’re 25 and 31 minutes, I thought we’d better stick with the one that’s a very radio-friendly 3:44. With Jim O’Rourke on piano, Keiji Haino on vocals mainly, and Oren on guitar, it’s a splendid sound.

Two new tracks from Crab Smasher tonight. The first is from a shortly forthcoming cassette release on Grant Crabsmasher’s Monstera Deliciosa, and it’s one of the most beautiful things they’ve created – not far from the Pimmon & Emeralds stuff above, even. The second is a lovely piece from their recent 3” on CURT.

Always nice to receive new unknown music, especially from Oz. Melbourne’s Trjaeu make a nice form of mostly-instrumental post-rock, with fun rhythms and a warm sound.

Meanwhile, London’s Three Trapped Tigers are doing their take on a live version of IDM, effectively. Crunchy messed-up beats, keyboards and bass. They are very good at this, and should be going places anytime now.
These two were a nice fit, if different, so we had another track by each :)

And then two hard-hitting tracks from B. Dolan. Seriously fantastic beats here from Alias.

The latest Glaswegian purple dubstep hero seems to be Rudi Zygadlo, and he has a single on Planet µ with multi-tracked vocals and woop-woop basslines. Cool.

And Perth’s Carl Fox takes a bit of a dubstep turn near the end of his little bit of indietronica. His self-released album has some delightful bedroomtronic production.

And thence we return to the home-produced sounds of Chris Weisman, with looped percussion and guitar, and lovely vocals. The guy has such an amazing pop sensiblity.
More also from Ian D Hawgood — such weird and lovely percussion bubbling up in the middle of this one! And Chris Weisman’s last track for the evening is dedicated to Morton Feldman! How weird…

Final artist of the evening, with two tracks comes courtesy of the estimable Mr John Part Timer, late of Melbourne, Australia, who informed me this week that I had to listen to the music of his UK buddy James, aka Jazzy Jones Is Nano. His music is a pretty astounding blend of Autechre-style beat-meddling and in this case some well-considered orchestral sampling. This guy needs to be released!

Chris Weisman – working on my skateboarding [autumn records]
The Jungle Band (Duke Ellington & his Orchestra) – Rockin’ in Rhythm [(from The Singing Detective soundtrack, sourcing label info when I get home!)]
Sam Amidon – Red [Bedroom Community]
Ian D Hawgood – Inland River Valley [Humming Conch]
Nico Muhly – The Only Tune III – The Only Tune (feat. Sam Amidon) [Bedroom Community]
Sam Amidon – I See The Sign [Bedroom Community]
B. Dolan – Marvin [Strange Famous]
otouto – W. Hillier [Two Bright Lakes]
Blondes – Moondance (Oneohtrix Point Never Sundial Mix) [Merok] {download from Pitchfork}
Pimmon – Steered In Smash Ascent [Stunned Records]
Emeralds – Passing Away [Hanson]
Ambarchi / O’Rourke / Haino – Tima Formosa 2 [Black Truffle/CCA Kitakyushu]
Crab Smasher – digging a hole in a dried up lake [Monstera Deliciosa]
Crab Smasher – Say Good Morning and You’re Dead [CURT] {buy the 3” from CURT & download it from Bandcamp!}
Trjaeu – Room Rhythms [self-released]
Three Trapped Tigers – 10 [Blood and Biscuits]
Trjaeu – Mindsapattern [self-released]
Three Trapped Tigers – 12 [Blood and Biscuits]
B. Dolan – Economy of Words (Bail it Out) [Strange Famous]
B. Dolan – The Reptilian Agenda [Strange Famous]
Rudi Zygadlo – Resealable Frienship [Planet µ] {download from FACT Magazine}
Carl Fox – Sunny Day [self-released]
Chris Weisman – be and [autumn records]
Ian D Hawgood – No Clouds [Humming Conch]
Chris Weisman – morty’s rugs [autumn records]
Jazzy Jones Is Nano – and… always remember to always listen… [unreleased]
Jazzy Jones Is Nano – Tender Minded (involuntary sins) [unreleased]

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