On an 80s tip, plus new music from Subexotic

• Syncbeat - Peel Session - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HIZZLpMwuE: A 1984 A Certain Ratio spinoff that recorded a single, several tracks under different names for the first UK Electro compilation and this Peel session. Funky digital breakbeat before breakbeat was …

Haven't got myself together to do this recently, so here's a catch-up.

• Snowbeasts - The Snow 2025 - https://snowbeasts.bandcamp.com/album/the-snow: A freebie from GetMusic - an industrial techno cover of Coil's haunted 1991 track. I'll be exploring what Snowbeasts do more.
• Shirley and the Pyramids - Maid of Time - https …

• Underworld - Dark & Long - https://www.discogs.com/release/15659-Underworld-Dark-Long: Sometimes only a bit of Underworld will do. All the versions of Dark & Long collected from the EPs. There are a lot, but the variations between them keep it interesting.
• Lost Harbours - In the Direction of the Sun - https://cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp …

• Whirling Hall of Knives - Blown Vestige - https://cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/blown-vestige: Fuzzed out, largely beatless, ambitronica from a now seemingly inactive Irish duo. Switches between atmospheric blooms and distorted guitar keyboard textures.
• GNOD R&D/Whirling Hall Of Knives - GNOD/WHOK - https://riotseasonrecords.bandcamp.com/album/gnod-whok: Going off …

• Isan - Winter Chimes - https://isan.bandcamp.com/album/winter-chimes: Everyone's favourite remotely collaborative analogue duo make a Christmas EP, a gentle mix of very analogue glockenspiel, bells and chimes, an ideal accompaniment to a glass of nog, egg or otherwise.
• Hladowski/Hampton/Strachan - They All Were Looking for a King …

• Dace Merryweather - Magnapinna/Phantom Jelly - https://dace.bandcamp.com/album/magnapinna Epic (11 minute!) prog paen to a squid, it says here. It goes many places and does many things. The b-side sounds like a soundtrack for jellyfish swimming in a tank.
• D-Fried - "Images Sur la Mer" - https://www.phonocake …

• Tomoroh Hidari - 12 Months of Mornings - https://ivorybunkerrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/12-months-of-mornings Final release from Hidari, whose death was announced yesterday. A two year long project in which he took pictures of the morning sky, posted them to social media, selected the ones that got most engagement and used the …

• Cathode Ray Tube - Overworld - https://conditionhuman.bandcamp.com/album/overworld : Extended dub industrial techno workouts that evoke images of people in leather jackets with those sunglasses with wind guards on hanging around factories, or possibly Camden's Underworld in 1992. We knew how to party back then. I think I might …

• Ordos Mk.0 - Sunset Shore - https://ordosmarkzero.bandcamp.com/track/sunset-shore: An evening walk along a stretch of water, lost in thoughts.
• Ordos Mk.0 - In My Watery World - https://ordosmarkzero.bandcamp.com/album/in-my-watery-world: a thematic EP from a composing jam that evokes a video game set underwater. Gentle …

• Stuffed Foxes - Standardized - https://stuffedfoxes.bandcamp.com/album/standardized-2: Newest LP from French psych-rock/shoegazers, dynamic epic squalls of guitar that evoke all the bits you like in the recent history of (alt)-rock.
• Keygen Church - Tenebre Rosso Sangue - https://keygenchurch.bandcamp.com/album/tenebre-rosso-sangue: Saw this last night and …