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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ian Hawgood - Savage Modern Structures - https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/savage-modern-structures?from=footer-ar-a770426596: More environmental ambience with the cover giving an idea of the sound, of buildings in decay, overcome by the landscape. It’s rather like The Black Dog’s brutalist dronescapes, with loops fading and building in a an organic haze.
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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 by ghostly accordians, which makes me think it’s about the Chilean ghost town of the name. Floating Mind’s ‘Trying to Do the Same, is a 106 bpm bit of moody ambience with a squelchy 303 and a haunted theme with some background paranormal activity.
Rivulets - r i v u l e t s - https://rivulets.bandcamp.com/album/r-i-v-u-l-e-t-s: 2002 debut LP from Denver, Colorado based Nathan Amundson, sparseslowcore acoustic guitar based songs recorded with Low at their studio, which will be the thing that everyone picks up on, and they do add some of their sound to it, but it on first impressions there are elements of Nick Drake, early Shearwater, maybe Sun Kil Moon. He’s still going, and has a subscription, which would be a nice variety to my usual electronic stuff.
Jeff Mills - Exhibitionist 2 Mix 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU-UsvYbIV0: 11 minute solo TR-909 techno workout that would have everyone dancing in a club. A dextrous use of the controls, but I was rather concerned about his knees giving out myself.
12ax7 - Ukumehame - @12ax7@stoney.monster https://12ax7.fm/ukumehame/: Surf rock single from US twangy brothers. ‘Ukemehame’ is a slippy slidy thing like being three beers in in a tiki bar, and ‘Turbines to Speed’ takes on the Batman theme emboldened by those beers and ends up running around a harbour with a bomb, or something.
The Robe - N as in Nina/In Panorama - https://mirlo.space/therobe/release/n-as-in-nina-in-panorama: Even in these digital times, a good sleeve can draw me in. A tribute to Starlog magazine with someone who looks like Dave Grohl in mediaeval dress, or Lawrence Llewellyn Bowen in his normal attire, in front of a planet being predated by a black hole. The tunes are 80s-referencing electropop of the kind that wouldn’t be out of place on Cherry Red or Blanco y Negro in 1986 and charming for that.
Kydia - Holy Grail - @KydiaMusic@mastodon.social https://mirlo.space/kydia/release/holy-grail: 2023 single from the cohabitee of the fediverse’s favourite one eyed cat, modern baroque with a catchy chorus.
Odd Radio Circles - Lunar Sea - @oddradiocircles@mastodon.social https://mirlo.space/radiocircles/release/lunar-sea: Gauzy fragment of soundtrack for a poetry reading, twangy reverbed guitars and distant pads, very calming.