truly the most indispensable archival edition we've heard in forever - just genius, genius work by instrument builder/innovator Hans Reichel, compiled by Oren Ambarchi and utterly essential whether yr into 0PN, Fred Frith, Derek Bailey ✨
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preorder for AOTY just dropped from Gwretsien Ferch Lisbeth (ov The Ephemeron Loop & Tristwch Y Fenywod)'s other band - Guttersnipe 🔥👇🔥
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Ø (Mika Vainio)
Metri (1994)
2026 pressing of Mika Vainio’s debut ’94 minimal techno masterpiece, newly expanded with all tracks from the CD on vinyl for the first time and including the absolute all-timer ‘Lasi’ = 100% unmissable
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Giulio Erasmus & The End of the Worm gave us one of last year's standout weirdo albums, now back again in v limited supply - huge tip if yr into Flaming Tunes, Lifetones, Jac Berrocal, Dennis Tyfus
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Vladislav Delay Quintet
vd5
Vladislav Delay expands his jazz ensemble for a strong new album of rickety rhythms, snaking synths x stacked horn blasts
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Richard Skelton channels Pan Sonic on his darkest outing in years, possibly ever, adding cavernous kicks and an industrial palette to his patented bowed cello
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large bunch of Príncipe vinyl & CD re-ups
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Mark Fell x WIll Guthrie
Infoldings / Diffractions (2023)
next level percussive engineering influenced and guided by Gamelan and South Indian Carnatic musics // essential listening if yr into Autechre, Michael Ranta, The Necks, Milford Graves
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Kelman Duran links arms with FRANKIE for his poppiest excursion to date, threading haunted outlines with soaring vocals, baroque references and lush, cinematic instrumentation, tipped if yr into Julia Holter x Smerz
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sick first reissue of Ohkami No Jikan’s impossible-to-find 1992 recordings, indulging a properly strung-out adjunct to his blistering work with High Rise, newly upgraded by Black Editions - must check for acolytes of Keiji Haino x Les Rallizes Dénudés
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Hypnotic, high grade dark-room tekno ballistics by an ideal new addition to Woody 92’s singular club label, Omen Wapta - RIYL Nebuchadnezzar, D.K., Hoavi
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Next on Modern Love’s fantasy jukebox; genius dreampop gristle from Melissa Guion’s MJ Guider, presenting a classic sound through a thick slab of frosted glass.
Anyone into MBV, Curve, Cocteau's or Bowery Electric - your time ✨
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New from The Death of Rave.
Mastered by Russell Haswell, artwork by Mark Fell
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This is next level; the debut proper by contemporary Hindustani classical & carnatic musician Nakul Krishnamurthy, adapting 800 years of vocal tradition with the radical addition of computer synthesis.
RIYL Alice Coltrane, CC Hennix, Amelia Cuni
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and the award for most discomfiting artwork of ’26 so far goes to Neue Deutsch Kunst, new from Black To Comm’s ever perplexing Cellule 75 label.
Bruce Gilden, eat your heart out?
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Squint your ears a little and it’s not hard to hear seeds of Príncipe’s modern batida, kuduro, tarraxho and all that good stuff in these liquid rhythmelodic grooves from the equatorial isle, touching on Semba, Merengue, Kompa, Soukous, and Coladeira
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New from World Of Echo: pristine, stripped-down, tape-dubbed intimacies from Field Commander Ali, tipped if yr into Maxine Funke, Anne Briggs, Vashti Bunyan
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Eliane Radigue
Asymptote Versatile (1963-64)
Éliane's oldest surviving composition, faithfully interpreted by Rhodri Davies and an ensemble with a close understanding of her music’s radical, infinitesimal subtlety
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Pugilist does early ‘90s ambient jungle styles, finding that crucial balance of rufige and lushness inherent to the best ’95 gear in thee spirit of classic DJ Crystl, 4Hero, DJ Fokus
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Charles Tyler Ensemble
Voyage from Jericho (1975)
Remastered from the original tapes, a standout album from Albert Ayler collaborator Charles Tyler, an almost forgotten side of NYC loft skronk from one of the '70s free jazz scene's great horn players
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Digging Central Asia:
Musical Archaeology Along the Silk Road
Killer survey of synth-gilded sore thumbs from 1970s-90s Central Asia, big one for the Finders Keepers crew, Uzbek Disco, Tajik Folk, Uyghur Rock & Tatar Jazz
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this is really special: the sole chamber ensemble LP recorded by a self-taught Luciano Cilio in 1977 when in his mid 20s - quietly unmissable work for followers of Jim O’Rourke, Talk Talk, Arvo Pärt, Jan Steele, Nikos Mamangakis
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Strong clutch of slow sloshing sea shanties and dubbed out weird ones from Accidental Meetings - big tip if yr into Tapes, Mark Jenkin, King Midas Sound, Bullion
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snapshot of legendary mid 1990's proto-gqom and amapiano from South Africa on this first time vinyl issue of 8 kwaito bullets from Doctor House, also mirroring strains of street soul from the era 🔥
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Mark Van Hoen's trip-hop crossover record 'Morning Light' (1997), featuring Slowdive’s Neil Halstead, among others, finally gets a long-overdue vinyl re-up
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Underground Resistance
Hi-Tech Dreams (2007)
Mad Mike does 2-step? Well aye!
a real sore thumb in the UR canon, one of those numbers, like James Pennington’s runs into D&B, that possibly betray a return influence from the UK on the Motor City template
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Eliane Radigue
Opus 17
Radigue’s visionary, subliminal 1970 masterpiece; beautifully wilting, palpably transportive, transformative work
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New from TTT: Crackshot DJ Qoso with a bulldozing industrial dancehall x drug chug dembow mixtape, in a style and pattern shared by fellow french dons Low Jack and Iueke, but served with his own swivelling sidespin
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Carla dal Forno
Confession
Intimate, raw and emotionally unsettling, Carla Dal Forno's eagerly awaited fourth album chews over fantasy and reality over a sequence of rattly, dub-inflected DIY pop vignettes, recorded in an abandoned hospital.
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