Simon Greenwood

• frans asthma - wait outside - https://fransasthma.bandcamp.com/album/wait-outside: A Getmusic freebie. Four track EP of small quiet songs - the longest is 2:20 - that nevertheless attract and enfold the listener in their own little worlds.
• Rhys Mwyn - Recordiau Rhys Mywn - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0028b8w - This week’s Monday night (mostly) sioe gerddoriaeth Cymraeg ar BBC Radio Cymru 2. Rhys was singer and bassist in Anrhefn and runs the label Recordiau Anrhefn, and he knows his stuff. This week includes a chat with actor Gareth Potter, who also happened to be involved in a quite a few influential Welsh bands, such as Clustiau Cŵn, Traddiodiad Ofnus and Pop Negatif Wastad. It’s an education every week.
• Sulk Rooms - Take A Look At God’s Face (Music From The Original Soundtrack) - https://thomasragsdalemusic.bandcamp.com/album/take-a-look-at-gods-face-music-from-the-original-soundtrack: New from the highly productive Thomas Ragsdale, a soundtrack for a short film by Jack Laurance which sounds rather desolate, if atmospheric, and probably makes more sense with the film.

• B. Bravo x DFF Sound System - Bluzzed - @DFFSoundSystem@ravenation.club https://dffsoundsystem.bandcamp.com/album/bluzzed: A full remix of B. Bravo’s LP Vizionz (https://bbravo.bandcamp.com/album/vizionz) for a competition entry that got a bit out of hand. Urban funk circuit bent into dub, ambient and electronic shapes. I’ll give the original a listen to compare.
• Quaeschning & Schnauss - Synthwaves - https://quaeschningschnauss.bandcamp.com/album/synthwaves-2: Three full on kosmiche but ambient tracks from the 2017 LP by current Tangerine Dream members Thorsten Quaeschning and Ulrich Schnauss. On the laid back ambient side of the Berlin School (the sixth form common room probably).
• B. Bravo - Vizionz - https://bbravo.bandcamp.com/album/vizionz: The original release that inspired the remix LP above. My references for this kind of electro-funk are broadly Jimi Tenor and and the instrumental bits of OutKast, and it’s closer to the former than the latter but has that big band 70s feel with electronic instrumentation. Chill.
• Tel Quel - Mirage - https://telquelsounds.bandcamp.com/album/mirage: A GetMusic freebie. Percussive industrial ambient techno that has elements of early FSOL into Front 242 and other European electronica of the time as well as acid overtones and contemporary (?) neon cityscape vaporousness.

• Pictor Sivia - Beauty and Needs - https://pictorsivia.bandcamp.com/album/beauty-and-needs: Atmospheric ambience from Ukraine with an air of Boards of Canada about it.
• Karl Henningson - Metta (The Eno Sessions) - https://monstersofkattegat.bandcamp.com/album/metta-the-eno-sessions: Pieces inspired by prompts given by Brian Eno at a creative workshop. There is very much an early Ambient vibe to the pieces and I’d quite like to attend a workshop now, please.

• Scott Gordon - Metals - https://soundcloud.com/scottgordon-music/sets/metals-453640995: HT to @pivic@kolektiva.social

• Freight Cell - Damaged Projections From An Abstract Source - https://freightcell.bandcamp.com/album/damaged-projections-from-an-abstract-source: a 35 minute field recording/drone (that I’ve naturally lost the credit to again) that sounds like distant trains passing in the rain, heard from an attic room. Oddly conforting.
• Ippu Mitsui - Shift Down - https://www.discogs.com/master/1535664-Ippu-Mitsui-Shift-Down: An EP of beat driven tunes that are in part chiptunish and part guitarish that passes 15 minutes pleasantly.
• Modular-Station - https://modular-station.com: Streaming station specialising in modular synth which has some well-known names from that scene involved. AN interesting range of music.

Random selections from Navidrome

• Sandrom - Utopia - https://sndrm.bandcamp.com/album/utopia: From GetMusic, actual Berlin school electronics from Berlin with additional techno inspiration drifing into vaporwave. Big and shiny without forgetting its roots. Did Tangerine Dream ever make a techno record? I can imagine it sounding like this.
• School of Language - Old Fears - https://schooloflanguage.bandcamp.com/album/old-fears: David Brewis from Field Music’s occasional alter ego. This LP from 2014 has a decided 80s funk feel for nodding out to, as well as Brewis’ trickery with voice loops and clever arrangements, plus a penchant for letting his inner Prince out.
• Uli Federwisch - Hurricane of Passion (theme from Psy-Chopper Team 12) - https://strategictapereserve.bandcamp.com/album/hurricane-of-passion-theme-from-psy-chopper-team-12: Strategic Tape Reserve is one of those labels that perplexes but produces some gems. This is a 15 minute collection of themes and incidental music to a European technothriller series of the kind that Channel 4 used to show occasionally, but one that probably didn’t escape the German market. It’s all saxophone and FM sounds and splashy electronic drums and you can see the tense action unfolding. The blurb on the release on Bandcamp is also a joy.
• Limnetic Villains - An Electronic Sinking - @limneticvillains https://limneticvillains.bandcamp.com/album/an-electronic-sinking-ep: Early EP from Irish techno-rocker which grooves and rocks in a most pleasing way.

• Slowdive - Pygmalion - https://www.discogs.com/master/9482-Slowdive-Pygmalion: This LP was the soundtrack to a small but significant part of my life when it was released. It sounded futuristic and otherworldly and showed that the band’s sound could evolve to include electronics and acoustic guitars. There was also quite a lot of Kahlua involved.
• This Occasional Society - scrape the edges - https://thisoccasionalsociety.bandcamp.com: A chamber quartet collaborates with a electronic beatmaker to make a charming collection of small ensemble tunes.
• Early Day Miners - Placer Found - https://earlydayminers.bandcamp.com/album/placer-found-20th-anniversary-edition: We called this slowcore then. Quiet songs stretched out with whispered words and a calm beauty.

• Pye Corner Audio - Where Things Are Hollow: No Tomorrow - https://pyecorneraudio.bandcamp.com/album/where-things-are-hollow-no-tomorrow: A (very) extended version of Pye Corner Audio’s 2017 EP, from four tracks to four LPs. There’s new material from the time and a bunch of remixes, and it all manages to bring out a funkiness that isn’t always apparent in the Head Technician’s work. The remixes extend his minimal into proper bangers.
• Various DiN Artists: - iNDEX 9 - https://dinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/index09-din90: Latest compilation of tracks from recent releases on the DiN label, mixed as a continuous mix, and as always it’s a luscious collection of modular ambience. I’d happily have their whole collection if it wasn’t now north of half a grand.

A bit of relaxed tag chasing through @mirlo today

• Melondruie - Into the Depths - @melondruie@sunny.garden https://mirlo.space/melondruie/release/into-the-depths: Minimalist sequencings that sounds like icebergs calving in the dark. A soundtrack for exploring Camp Century in Greenland.
• Time Rival - Music for Recovery - https://mirlo.space/timerival/release/music-for: Slow, blurry ambience that ebbs and flows into liquid gamelan, slow industrial percussive interludes, tamed static crackle that reflects The Black Dog’s brutalist
• Liota - liotia:normal (Raasclart! dub) - @inpc@go.mxtthxw.art https://mirlo.space/liotia/release/n: A single from Whitstable’s finest purveyors of trip-hobp, dubbed up by the initimatible Matt Smyth. A lovely mix of soulful vocal, spaced out beats and reggae bass.
• s28 - We Sail With the Tide - @s28@musicians.social https://mirlo.space/s28/release/we-sail-with-the-tide: A short thematic EP of oceanic downbeat that seems to document setting out on a voyage. Peaceful but with an air of anticipation.
• The Shining Tongues - This Body of Mine Will Disintegrate - https://mirlo.space/the-shining-tongues/release/this-body-of-mine-will-disintegrate: 80s style post-punk rock that would fit in amongst the likes of Echo and the Bunnymen, The Sound and The Chameleons with some contemporary flourishes embellished with audio explorations. It wouldn’t look out of place in my record collection, and it might even join it.
• Lorenzo’s Music - If I was Alone - @lorenzosmusic@mastodon.social https://mirlo.space/lorenzosmusic/release/if-i-was-a: Wonky lo-fi mamba (or one of those beats on a vintage drum machine) that shuffles and slides with a ba-ba-ba hook and a simple but catchy refrain.
• Oak Sun Gift - Crocus - https://mirlo.space/oak-sun-gift/release/crocus: EP of shoegaze guitar ambience and dubbed out bass that immediately put me in mind of ‘69’ by A.R. Kane, good company to be in.

• Ghostwriter - Tremulant - https://ghostwriter3.bandcamp.com/album/tremulant: Some might call it neofolk. A modern reimagining of turn of the 20th century sprituals from a loose group of hauntology associated artists. Acoustic, sparse and haunting.
• Rassclart! inpc - The Kali Mera Show 290125 - @inpc@go.mxtthxw.art https://video.mxtthxw.art/w/8UA5hKFHAu9kMFwLDH6QJF: The breakfast show that knocks Today into a cocked hat, and tricks Nemone out of her dinner money every single day, today with a few tracks from the upcoming remaster of Stoned Immaculate by Dub Syndicate. Yes thank you.
• Dub Syndicate - Stoned Immaculate - https://dubsyndicate.bandcamp.com/album/stoned-immaculate: so I thought I’d better give it a listen. This LP was originally released in 1991, when the world had caught up with dub again as the soundtrack for ’everybody back to mine’. This is dub taken beyond its roots as versions of existing tracks to something that exists for itself, for meditation, contemplation and altered states.
• If Only the Trees - Drop The Air - @olsugarbread@mastodon.social https://ifonlythetrees.bandcamp.com/album/drop-the-air: wide screen post-rock that does that post-rock thing. The singer sounds like a cross between Peter Murphy and Matt Berninger from the National and the music has elements of (perhaps inevitiably) Mogwai, but also iLiKETRAiNS. It presses a lot of my buttons.
• They Danced Like Programmed Angels - Stay This Way Forever @olsugarbread@mastodon.social https://theydancedlikeprogrammedangels.bandcamp.com/track/stay-this-way-forever: I think you can file this under mostly instrumental acoustic guitar lead black metal. Or post-metal? I dunno, but I’m listening to more now.