Today I am blaming the wind.

• fields we found - resolve / relate 01 - @fieldswefound@mstdm.social https://fieldswefound.bandcamp.com/album/resolve-relate-01: a restful and immersive 20+ minute drone piece with slow changes and drifting tones. Check out his subscription as well.
• fields we found - Paths - https://fieldswefound.bandcamp.com/album …

A bit of a unfocussed kind of a day, and some Mirlo trail following.

• Andres Garcia VS Floating Mind - gva ufo - https://www.clongclongmoo.org/2025/01/22/andres-garcia-vs-floating-mind-gva-ufo/: Minimal techno single from the Monokrak netlabel (http://www.monokrak.net/). Garcia's 'La Noria' has a 125 bpm chunky bassline backed …

• Schema - Schema - https://schemaschema.bandcamp.com/album/schema: I really should take a note of who posts these pointers. Turn of the century experimental fuzz that bridges the surprisingly narrow gap between Sonic Youth and Stereolab, with added experimental electronica. It feels like some friends getting together to make a …

Busy with my daughter's birthday yesterday so...

• Kosmicher Laufer - Track Club EP - https://kosmischerlaufer.bandcamp.com/album/track-club-ep: A collection of Martin Zeichnete's other work besides the East German Olympic Programme. Five more tracks of beautiful period electronic kosmische from a world that really should have existed.
• Polygonia - Living Patterns …

Not much yesterday, I was busy and really shouldn't have looked at the news.

• Xylander - Happy New Dystopia! - @xylander@mastodon.social https://xylander.bandcamp.com/album/happy-new-dystopia: New and aptly if unconsciously timed from Xylander, rattly but understated breakbeats, lush but brooding synths and found voices that form a soundtrack …

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 …