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Wednesday, 25 June 2025

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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. 







Wednesday, 18 June 2025

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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. 





Thursday, 12 June 2025

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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. 

Wednesday, 4 June 2025

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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 


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...