SubVersion Stop 281: For The Electronica Subverts 003 June 12th 2025

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. 

SubVersion Stop 280: For The Electronica Subverts Series 002 June 2025

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...

SubVersion Stop 279: For The Electronica Subverts 001, May 2025

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]

SubVersion Stop 277: This Six Weeks 5th April to 19th May 2025

This Six Weeks 5th April - 19th May 2025 As the months get longer, Summer gets closer, days reduce darker - and hopefully, I get smarter - I am studying six weeks to produce another six weeks, working on TDD11 until 2030, applying my study of the degeneracy matrix, family planning, the Beta Generation [Google AI] to positive everyday living. [] I have within one year produced more than 500 Remixes of others work. The Temu ['team up, price down' is the slogan] - https://share.temu.com/6TibZazGvpA - digital audio recorder - records in .wav and is, actually, an incredible piece of kit - has replaced the Olympus recorder that recorded so many keyboard parts, in 2012, for the 'Grumpy Love' Foci's Left debut LP. [] A production recorded with it: Foci Left band - Kites And Kit - inspired by The Open University [www.open.ac.uk] theme music, and the Study Diamond 'Effects, Techniques, Context, Meaning' study area. []Vinyl wise, from Truck Witney: Tommy Bee - Drums Of Thunder, Original Mix and Boom Boom Satellites Mix. [] CD wise: Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department 35 track Anthology CD Edition; Natalia Clavier - Trans; Gotan Project - Tango 3.0; Alison Goldfrapp - The Love Invention, Flux [releases 15th August 2025, Amazon preorder], My Summer Of Love 2005 Milan label soundtrack with Will Gregory, the Will Gregory Moog Ensemble - The Heat Ray, Goldfrapp - Utopia 3 Track CD, Barry Manilow - The Songs 1975 - 1990 2CD, Ben Watt - Hendra CD, Lana Del Rey - Transmission Impossible 3CD Live Record Amazon preorder [] www.bandcamp Wish List: Robert Haigh - The Silence Of Ghosts; Mike Lazarev - Tarnished Tapes And Saturated Signals; Various Artists - Planet Mu 30th Anniversary Compilation, 1995-2025, Stars Of The Lid - Music For Nitrous Oxide debut Sotl release [played by the great John Peel], 30th Anniversary edition, 1995-2025, Epic45 - The Dandelion Sessions, Warmth - The Stillness on Archives label, Jean Michel Jarre - Deserted Palace 1972 Remaster, Asher Tuil - Untitled Fictions I, Room40 label, Xela - Xela Bandcamp Digital, Chronicle - Deep Forest, Spatial label Bundle 012 - ASC, Chronicle, Aural Imbalance, Scott Lawlor & The Circular Ruins - Another Day, Mantra - Shades Of Rave on Rupture label Bandcamp Preorder, Good Weather For An Airstrike - Suspended Animation Bandcamp Preorder, Djrum - Under Tangled Silence, Brennan Lane - Various Artist - Distant Friends - A Compilation Of Collaborations, Soundscapes Sampler Volume 2, Ambient Duets In Space. Amir Baghiri & collaborators - Lucid Circles, Laudanum, Remixes, Serenity. Emanuele Liguouri - Early Jobless Day. David Cordero & Rhucle - So Far, So Close. Steve Roach - The Reverent Sky. Autumn Of Communion & Arni Gretar - Volume 3, Autumn Of Communion Bandcamp page; Lee Anthony Norris Bandcamp page.[] Reads: Richard Osman - We Solve Murders. []Grub: enjoying the frozen Aldi Plant Based Indian Vegan Nests; Aldi Plant Based Vegan Burgers [reminds of McDonald's Chicken Burgers!]; Thai Ginger Seasoning on Vermicelli Rice Noodles; Microwaved, Seasoned Triple Yolk Poached Egg as Eggs Benedict prep, from Tom Kerridge pro recipe book; Honey and Coriander Porridge with Cinnamon, Natural Greek Yogurt with Naturya Berry & Chocolate powders, combining Flaxseeds with healthier Protein options; the flavour of Panna Cotta combining Clotted Ice Cream with Prune Juice, also works with 0% strained fat Yogurt much more for myself; Eggy Bread with oxidizing Coriander Leaf, Wholemeal Bread cooked with Cholesterol Lowering Butter Spread, Chives, Olive, Chili, Pizza, Avocado, Sunflower and %100 Pure Rapeseed Oil combinations, sometimes to minimise eggs required. [] I'm collecting Dark and Korean Pokémon cards this previous 6 weeks to expand my horizons, such as Dark Dugtrio Foil, Dark Gyarados, Dark Golbat. Most recent purchase: Mamoswine Ex from Mystic Games Witney. [] Have a fantastic week! MuttleySV

SubVersion Stop 276: This Three Weeks

This Three Weeks 15th March - 4th April MuttleySV This previous three weeks have been focused on expanding neuroplasticity, seeing paradoxes as complexities, and resolving complexities. [] Some cool tracks []: Elliot Smith - Between The Bars, Vum - Laura Palmer, Joy Division - Atmosphere on repeat [all three also found on SubVersion blog in the White Blush Influences Mix]. DJ Trax - The Tribe [Subvert Central Vol 3 Vinyl]. The Bolshoi Brothers - Just A Girl [Self-Titled]. Jon Secada - Just Another Day [1992]. [] Studio experiments []: electronic guitar and electronic drones in synthesis chorus function. Black metal percussion styles combined with atmospheric dnb. Two Mixtapes playing together, equalised in Bass, Mid and High to sound like Bossa Nova Reggaeton. [] CD recommendations: Aural Imbalance - Different Perspective, Introducing Cadence Recordings mix CD. Kristof Bathory - Black Hole Expedition [Cryo Chamber label CD]. Redeyes - Poetry In Motion; Mood Swings Compilation 2CD one mixed one unmixed [Spearhead Records label]. Andy C - Nightlife 1 Mix CD. [] Vinyl recommendations: The Moody Blues - Out Of This World. Sub Rosa Drone Records 7' Promo vinyl, Yui Onodera - Drone Records 7' Vinyl, Pieter K - Everything All The Time [Breakbeat Science label] Vinyl. [] [...] And just to give the Subvert Central collective a surprise, after Stattos amazing Borritwem [Buying One Record Reviewed In The Wire Each Month] selections...Sam Friske of Metalheadz - Exclusive The Wire Magazine Mix: www.thewire.co.uk. Have a great weekend! MuttleySV

SubVersion Stop 275: This Fortnight

This fortnights purchases: 2 DLs from Neotantra, 50p each until Monday to add to your Bandcamp collections on app and or website. If you are new to Bandcamp and also enjoy free or Name-Your-Price downloads, the mobile phone application is free for ioS and Android, behaves like a streaming service without needing to download once a release is purchased. It's a great way to find records that nobody else would upload or release, as well as reduce the size of downloads on a regularly 256 gigabyte and under mobile phone averaging [..]: With 200+ Neotantra label releases on Bandcamp, the £35 a year Neotantra label subscription is tempting indeed.[] Track Of My Fortnight is also from Neotantra - 'We Are High And Infinite PT 2' by EugeneKha, from one of these releases, called 'Echo Of A Lost Summer'. The other release is by Ciaran Mulhill, and called 'Instinctive Drift: Cinematic Ambient Pieces 2020-2025'. An archival release with no withered tones, just positive ambient for the ears. [] This week's new releases: Shimmering Moods Records March 5CD Preorder: the gallantry of balanced acquiescence, always looking forward, and beyond the tones that sink the souls of the non niche. [...] Making tracks and making tracks: made a first visit to Truck Witney Oxfordshire since 6th February 2025, getting into the Techno vinyl crate and the White Labels, with a record by Groovy Onion sounding good on the turntable. Also listened to Astralwerks deep house White Label record there. Plus Pendulum - Out Here, which is a rare record because it can mix dnb and techno simultaneously within a 3/4 time signature rhythm, also a White Label with a dubbier mix of 'Fasten Your Seatbelts', a collaboration with The Freestylers also on the vinyl record. [] Record of my fortnight: An Introduction To New World Music Volume 1 CD, New World 1998. There is hope in eBay job lots - this is one. [...] This fortnights mixtapes: DJ Muttley SubVersion - To Confound. A Bandcamp Playlist. It's only a matter of time until these playlists can be shared embedded and referenced on mailouts, in a format similar to Soundcloud and Mixcloud, but with a direct functioning where a purchase of a DL is easy to get. The Bandcamp Playlists are currently only for Bandcamp DL purchases.