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Extended verve this week. Inspired by amazing writers in The Wire Magazine, and more subversive style musics that have very little promotion or backing, from quality musicians with always quality work. 

Today's..29th-30th June 2025

Coil 

The Black Antlers 

3CD

Spotify Premium Stream 

Released 2025

Antler earworms in industrial libraries.

ASC 

Reflections 

Spatial label 

Released April 12th 2024

ASC 

Skanna 

Switch 

Beyond Time 

Spatial label 

Released June 6th 2025 

ASC 

Aural Imbalance 

Duality

Test Press Vinyl

Released 29th November 2024

Masters of golden era progress.

Today's..27th June 2025

 

LMajor

Settle Down 

Trying EP

Repertoire Records label 

Released July 11th 2025

Bandcamp DL 

Marbled Vinyl

Popping the breakbeat ill skill. 

ASC 

Echoes In Space Part Two

Auxiliary label 

Marbled Vinyl

Test Press 

Black label 

Cohesion of the welded interstellar.

 

Greg Haines 

Moments Eluding 

Kning Disk 

Released October 30th 2012

Bandcamp DL 

Pianist's keys into sunlit spurs.

Today's.. 1st July 2025

Jaekkohn

Desert

Spotify Stream 

Arcologies

Sensorium

Omni Music 

Spotify Stream 

Sentimental suns through serendipitous drums. 

Siddhartha Barnhoorn 

Planetary Orbit

Bandcamp DL 

Balm of the beyond solar.

Today's listens..27th June 2025

Alison Goldfrapp 

Find Xanadu

Royksopp Remix

Royksopp Extended Remix

Original Mix 

Spotify Stream Single 

Super in nature and synergy.

Today's..27th June 2025

Nebel Lang

Alejado De Todo Mal

Home Normal label

Released 27th June 2025

Fountains of the upright piano.

Today's listens..

Track of my week..

Rand Aldo

Lullaby Beach 

Spotify Premium Stream 

2020

Where the dream dreams itself. 

Next week arrives another instalment. 

Much appreciated 😊 

MuttleySV 

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When the musical marshalls monologise. 

Robin Ross & The TW Howlers

Back To The Forest 

EP 

Style: folk, acoustic 

Ingenious currency of Hendrixian wilds. 

Laufey

A Matter Of Time 

Spotify Premium Stream 

Style: chamber music, songwriting 

Using displacements to understand erasures. 

Addison Rae 

Addison 

Spotify Premium Stream 

The club with the technicolour. 

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Positive thinking from retroactive causalities. 

Abandoned Communities 

Abandoned Communities 

By Lee Anthony Norris 

By Pietro Bonnano 

Bandcamp DL 

2025

Style: dark ambient, drone

Where the sonars do roam. 

Oval

Cappa Remix 1998

Oval Odyssey 2000

Merve II 2012

Now Never Whenever Volume 8 

Bandcamp DL 

2024

Style: glitch, techno

Where brains become Balearic bezels.

CausaliDox

In No Memory 

Bandcamp DL 

2025

Style: ambient, electronics 

Techno imprints from sandstorm shoes. 

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For The Electronica Subverts Series 003 June 12th 2025

Like Abbey Road electronic lexicons. 

Limestone Ziggurat [LSZ]

Low Bedrooms 

Milieu Music Digital 

Bandcamp DL 

Released June 11th 2025

Magic eye sound design.

Natural Snow Buildings 

The Snowbringer Cult

Artwork Double Vinyl

Ba Da Bing Records 

Released 2008

We have ideas in society, and we have ides - common words, and seeming misspelling - of place and timehold. Natural Snow Buildings and crew have great ideas, though their ides coax into the occult in a way that sounds like a Siberian avalanche - a demonstration of coldness defining a musical alchemy. 

And three quality records from Shameless Promotion, sounding like one perfect record..

Duncan Lloyd [Maximo Park songwriter] 

Rituals 

Tarla Records

Stonefree Records

Messiness 

Feature With A Rapper

Reveal Records

Audiogust

Here We Go Again 

Bandcamp 

Indie music - once about passion - became a metaphor for Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club before popularity became punk. These three records are part of the indie canon, going further into rock rather than popular song. 

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For The Electronica Subverts Series 002 June 2025

Inspired by great writing in The Wire magazine - www.thewire.co.uk - and working on TDD 11, and the 'Cyborgian Consequences 2024-2030 writing project. Any ideas for TDD 11, or to contribute, send me an email. 

Various Artists 

Kompilation 1

Kranky Records label 

CD

Released 1998

A well sequenced, unique compilation, with different versions of Kranky classics. I bought both compilations, 'Kompilation 2' is a 2xCD arriving in the next three months. For those that find ambient and drone music too extreme, hardcore and have to keep in the pop ambient bubble, this 'Kompilation 1' release is a good choice to investigate the outer reaches of music that is also too interesting to stop listening to. It sequences Gregorian Chant, Shoegaze, Industrial Drone, Musique Concrete, Eno-esque discrete music, post-rock, minimalism and a cranky connection to keeping awake, with a breakthrough sound where, as the Kranky label often does, removes a ricochet of the society back and forth. 

Aesop Rock 

Black Hole Superette 

Bandcamp DL 

Released May 30th 2025

Hip hop beats that roll, lucidise and elevate like golden scarab beetles with the dream of a Midas touch. 

Fydhws

Sen vlakoveho nadrazi

Rnaba Bo Ornaun

Bandcamp DL 

https://youtu.be/aRr8n25DbdU?si=M20pUvz4H4DQA8rT

I have returned to listening to fydhws amazing drone ambient, reparative tinges of surreal myelin sheaths with audiovisual tinted windows with this video, check it out...

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For The Electronica Subverts Series 001 May 2025

Adapted from the recommendations area of the TDD DE Foci Left and TDD 11 free agency projects, a small change to the project header - Electronica that members of Subvert Central like or might like - and Electronica that Subverts the internet mainstream.

Coincides with me renewing my membership to The Wire Magazine: www.thewire.co.uk 

Three small recommendation columns in one capsule article, hopefully once a week on SubVersion. Check it out... 

DJ Ron

Better Times EP

Midnight EP 

Spotify Stream 

Released 2022, 2023

It might not be 'Crackman on the line freaking out', but it is something I would also want to listen to. Basslines that, however crystalline coated, sound like dayglow graffiti scrawled across a Krome And Time styled sound. 

 Caldon Glover 

 Eternal Night Radio 

 Cryo Chamber label 

 Bandcamp CD Digipak DL

 Preorder

 Releases 3rd June 2025

The press release identifies an accurate pressure to this type of sound, with a wrangle that makes a dungeon synth impossible to lift, but as a hallucination conclusion, synthesises so transparently that it could lift itself off the wall and climb up the stairs.

SV Stop 278: The End of Subvert Central

SubVersion: “Cataloguing notable progress of www.subvertcentral.com, with interviews, mixtapes and topical reports.”

So I'm sorry to report that the Subvert Central forum went down at 00:00 today. There was virtually nobody there anymore, so it wasn't worth renewing the hosting fees.

Ah well. Even if its prime time was long gone, 22½ years (from October 2002) is a pretty good run.

Love and respect to anyone and everyone involved in the community whenever.

In case I don't see you, good afternoon, good evening and good night.

Jon [Statto]