Sally Rodgers and Steve Jones, as A Man Called Adam, have been making records about the natural world since before it was the done thing...
They bring their Remember Nature project to Tate Modern as part of Gathering Ground:
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Elsewhere:
Call Super and Parris's CAN YOU FEEL THE SUN
Dalston Superstore
DIALLED IN
DON'T TOUCH MY FRO!
HARMONY REC. X STEP BALL CHAIN
HERAS
LOW END DREAMS
SYPHEN
UHAUL DYKE RESCUE
ZEOZONE
Field Maneuvers the beloved Norfolk festival, now heading into its thirteenth year, returns from 21–23 August this year has announced the labels, parties and collectives takeovers and hyped to announce that our very own Music To Watch Seeds Grow By will be taking the helm in the ambient tent.
With the current climate doing its best to grind things down, sometimes making music with your people is all you can do & LA’s underground is responding in kind.
Point Winona Sound Library Vol 1 gathers some of LA’s finest under one roof @ Los Feliz hilltop:
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"Music that makes you feel deeply human, as you’ve never felt before." @theransomnote.com @joshuaidehen.bsky.social.
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Paraiso: Portugal’s Rave History.
Making its UK premiere at Rio Cinema, Dalston 28 May 2026 as part of Dock N' Roll the 81-minute documentary/love letter digs into the decentralised, DIY rave scene that swept the country in the 90s...
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Inner Rhythm Mysticism and R$N are joining forces for a new series of intimate London parties.
The first one lands at Vespers Club on April 18th with Trystero (live) Salon des Amateurs affiliate Philipp Otterbach, Tia Cousins & Manuol Bone.
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In shadowy Arch Groves where the Stranded did dwell,
With sub-bass that rumbled like a low midnight bell,
The guitars they did scrape at the edges and hover,
While dusty beats floated from one side to the other.
Laurent Garnier, A Love From Outer Space, Decius, Tia Cousins, Pete Herbert's Music for Swimming Pools and many more join Heidi Lawden, Luke Una, Jimpster and Greg Wilson for this year's Campo Sancho edition...
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Deep in the woods at the Bush of Ghosts stage @ Watching Trees, Scottish producer Brian d’Souza, aka Auntie Flo brought his ‘Plants Can Dance’ project to life in a 5-hour ambient set.
Brian’s ode to the Sunflower is out on the 19th Feb, launch party on the 21st
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Craven Faults, North Yorkshire's enigmatic answer to Tangerine Dream, favourite of 'the gothfather' Robert Smith + remixer of The Cure curates a special playlist ft. Can, Laurie Spiegel, The Velvets & more ⚙️ 🎛️
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Between innocence and anger, Ghazi Barakat’s Pharoah Chromium project delivers a devastating meditation on Gaza on his latest work, Chronicles on Discrepant
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The Berlin University of the Arts' Master’s program in Sound Studies & Sonic Arts, faces elimination amid budget crisis for Berlin’s only university-level degree program in a field where the city has international renown.
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When two generations of Lisbon’s underground collide, the result is visceral, raw & uncompromising. Scam Dust is Tiago
Lux Fragil resident and ‘DJ’s DJ’) and Shcuro of Discos Paraiso channel Detroit filtered through Sheffield with a distinctly Lisbon sensibility www.theransomnote.com/music/mixes/...
Since founding Plus Instruments in Eindhoven in 1978, Truus de Groot has carved an uncompromising path through the experimental underground.
Five decades into her restless creative journey, her 9th album as Plus Instruments, ‘Unnoticed,' lands on Feb 11th.
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Raw, rhythmic, intricate percussion and off-kilter melodic ideas woven into proper post-punk territory from the Bogotá producer.
The opening salvo from Dance On The Volcano, a mini-album for Natural Selections.
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Scottish producer Brian d’Souza aka Auntie Flo is launching Season Two of Music To Watch Seeds Grow By ambient/seed series.
The release explores recent botanical research revealing how sunflowers navigate cooperation and competition through their root systems.
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Madrid-based Italian producer @bawrut.bsky.social is relaunching his SILENCIO imprint nearly a decade after it delivered the underground hit “Ciquita,” this time with a deeply personal project, bridging electronic music and social activism.
Matthias Kremsreiter and Christian Schoppik combine for a new collaborative album exploring the liminal space between waking and sleep on @quindirecords.bsky.social
After more than a decade of mainly navigating instrumental territory, Kristian Craig Robinson aka Capitol K has circled back to where it all began...
He talks us through his 10th album track by track...
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Taking a sharp detour from the dancefloor, Bozzwell returns with something altogether more mysterious...
'Like Holy Tongue playing a marathon set in the enveloping Königsforst of Wolfgang Voigt’s GAS project'
Audio-visual trio Plants Heal recently released their new album 'Forest Dwellers'. Check out their enlightening playlist of music inspired by healing plants 🌿
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Jonathan Kusuma strips the excellent Strange Fruit’s original back to its essence and rebuilds it as something altogether more hypnotic.
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Gone To A Rave: @phatmedia.bsky.social pres UK Rave Flyers 88/89
Before the algorithms, before the Instagram flyers, there were photocopies. Crude, urgent, immediate. Flyers thrust into sweaty palms outside record shops, stuffed into pockets of the initiated
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Post-punk provocateur Autumns has been catapulting angular weapons over the ramparts since 2014. As he joins R$N with the ferocious EP ‘Through the Construction of Grace’ EP the “lanky, ginger man from Derry” offers up a mix for us...
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A surreal, darkly luminescent world 🎛️ 🔬 🌌
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OUT NOW! Underground hero, Autumns brings us a selection of rhythm and bass work outs on his latest EP, Through the Construction of Grace! 🌀😵💫
Out now exclusively via our Beatport / BandCamp - link below!
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FLAVOUR OF THE LABEL MIX
Anna Logue Records has been a beacon for those who understand that the early 1980s represented a golden age of electronic music – a brief, brilliant window when artists armed with synthesisers, drum machines, and raw creative vision crafted something genuinely revolutionary
Seeds Mix #5: Openmind's "Leave your phone at home & discover paradise after a forage in the forest"
Telepathic Fish co-founder DJ Food aka one part of Openmind takes us on a trip into the world of 90s chill out.
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Recorded in a small village on the Costa Brava – surrounded by seagulls, tramontana winds, and sea urchin-covered rocks – this mix comes from Parisian-born Antoine Harispuru, better known as Golden Bug....
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