Day 20
Steve Reich and Musicians, ‘Drumming’
Disc 3 of Nonesuch ‘Collected Works’ CD 💿 box set, a 🎁 for my last b’day from @robertbaldock.bsky.social which I’m slowly getting through. This version recorded 1987. I’m about to compare it with the Ictus + Synergy Vocals recording from 2002.
Day 20
Steve Reich and Musicians, ‘Drumming’
Disc 3 of Nonesuch ‘Collected Works’ CD 💿 box set, a 🎁 for my last b’day from @robertbaldock.bsky.social which I’m slowly getting through. This version recorded 1987. I’m about to compare it with the Ictus + Synergy Vocals recording from 2002.
Day 18
Joe Harvey-Whyte and Paul Cousins, ‘In A Fugue State’ (2025)
LP released a few weeks ago on @nonemorerecords.bsky.social - pedal steel and some electric guitar fed into Cousins’ reel-to-reel tape loop set up, then morphed into dreamy soundscapes. Exceptionally beautiful.
Day 18
Joe Harvey-Whyte and Paul Cousins, ‘In A Fugue State’ (2025)
LP released a few weeks ago on @nonemorerecords.bsky.social - pedal steel and some electric guitar fed into Cousins’ reel-to-reel tape loop set up, then morphed into dreamy soundscapes. Exceptionally beautiful.
Day 7
Oceanographer, ‘Regen’ (2025)
Shimmering electronics from this Springfield, MO based producer. Soft pulses supporting bright tone-splashes and ambient wash. I paid a whole $1 for the digital album back in March.
Day 7
Oceanographer, ‘Regen’ (2025)
Shimmering electronics from this Springfield, MO based producer. Soft pulses supporting bright tone-splashes and ambient wash. I paid a whole $1 for the digital album back in March.
Day 3
Various, ‘Été infini’ (2025)
An unseasonal pick today but whatever.
For 12 years now, French label La Souterraine has promoted new francophone indie, synthpop, rap and chanson. With all digital releases free or nominally priced. This themed comp is drawn from the label’s catalogue
Day 3
Various, ‘Été infini’ (2025)
An unseasonal pick today but whatever.
For 12 years now, French label La Souterraine has promoted new francophone indie, synthpop, rap and chanson. With all digital releases free or nominally priced. This themed comp is drawn from the label’s catalogue
Day 8
Surman + Krog, ‘Electric Element’ (2025)
As I was at Jonny T’s groovy fayre earlier, today seems a good day to finally give this Trunk Records LP a spin. Processed voice & bass clarinets + keys/electronics. Recorded in 2013 but unreleased til now. Bought new in Hackney, end of August
Day 8
Surman + Krog, ‘Electric Element’ (2025)
As I was at Jonny T’s groovy fayre earlier, today seems a good day to finally give this Trunk Records LP a spin. Processed voice & bass clarinets + keys/electronics. Recorded in 2013 but unreleased til now. Bought new in Hackney, end of August
Day 29
Avi C Engel, ‘Mote’ (2025)
Eight gorgeous, atmospheric songs from this Canadian artist released on folk and folk-adjacent UK label, Fenny Compton. There are only 2 of these elegant book-bound CDs left as I type, and a few regular CDs (link: fennycompton.bandcamp.com/album/fc8-mote)
Day 29
Avi C Engel, ‘Mote’ (2025)
Eight gorgeous, atmospheric songs from this Canadian artist released on folk and folk-adjacent UK label, Fenny Compton. There are only 2 of these elegant book-bound CDs left as I type, and a few regular CDs (link: fennycompton.bandcamp.com/album/fc8-mote)
A sequel to #SeptAudit : playing unheard albums in my collection (digital & physical)
Day 1
The Music Liberation Front Sweden, ‘Astra Shambotica (Pay No More Than 99p)’ (2025)
Don’t think I paid even 99p for this; the artist likely sent me a code as it’s now behind a subscriber paywall.
A sequel to #SeptAudit : playing unheard albums in my collection (digital & physical)
Day 1
The Music Liberation Front Sweden, ‘Astra Shambotica (Pay No More Than 99p)’ (2025)
Don’t think I paid even 99p for this; the artist likely sent me a code as it’s now behind a subscriber paywall.
Day 9
Andrew Spackman, ‘Milton Keynes Shopping Trip’ (2024)
Excoriating noise featuring saxophone, keys and beats (by turn, skittish and thunderous), maybe some guitar too? Rings the changes with these different elements in a very satisfying way. Not an easy listen but worth the effort.
Day 9
Andrew Spackman, ‘Milton Keynes Shopping Trip’ (2024)
Excoriating noise featuring saxophone, keys and beats (by turn, skittish and thunderous), maybe some guitar too? Rings the changes with these different elements in a very satisfying way. Not an easy listen but worth the effort.
Day 14
MEMORIALS, ‘Memorial Waterslides’ (2024)
CD found in a Fopp sale rack last month. The duo’s debut proper tho’ there was a double LP & tape of film-related music before this. The motorik beat of the opener is a feint; it soon veers into jazz skronk, psychedelia and even torch song.
Day 14
MEMORIALS, ‘Memorial Waterslides’ (2024)
CD found in a Fopp sale rack last month. The duo’s debut proper tho’ there was a double LP & tape of film-related music before this. The motorik beat of the opener is a feint; it soon veers into jazz skronk, psychedelia and even torch song.
Day 27
Mücha, “Skin”/“You Make Me Go Under” (2025)
Just in under the wire today, but it’s a short one: a 12” EP from Amanda Butterworth’s Mücha alias, released on Frequency Domain. Two new tracks, plus remixes by Surgeon and Datasette. Came out in March but I bought my copy last month.
Day 27
Mücha, “Skin”/“You Make Me Go Under” (2025)
Just in under the wire today, but it’s a short one: a 12” EP from Amanda Butterworth’s Mücha alias, released on Frequency Domain. Two new tracks, plus remixes by Surgeon and Datasette. Came out in March but I bought my copy last month.
Day 26
Minimal Drone GRL and Belial Pilgrim, ‘Movements of a Cloud’ (2022)
Collab between Canadian sound sculptor & US electronic producer. The first two parts remind me of the ambient side of 808 State. But then huge strings take the piece more in the vein of US composers like John Adams
Day 26
Minimal Drone GRL and Belial Pilgrim, ‘Movements of a Cloud’ (2022)
Collab between Canadian sound sculptor & US electronic producer. The first two parts remind me of the ambient side of 808 State. But then huge strings take the piece more in the vein of US composers like John Adams
Day 12
onepointwo, ‘Melodies’ (2025)
Received today! Advance copy of a new LP by this Greek electronic musician (not even available for preorder yet so I’m just showing off innit). At the more ambient end of what he does. And yes, melodic.
Released at the end of the month on Subexotic.
Day 12
onepointwo, ‘Melodies’ (2025)
Received today! Advance copy of a new LP by this Greek electronic musician (not even available for preorder yet so I’m just showing off innit). At the more ambient end of what he does. And yes, melodic.
Released at the end of the month on Subexotic.
Day 11
Bendu, ‘Lautner’ (2025)
More electronics from the USA. Melodic, but I like the use of distortion, reverb and sampled voices (used as additional texture) that give the impression each track is being beamed down from an orbiting satellite. A digital purchase but there is 1 CD left 🔗⬇️
Day 11
Bendu, ‘Lautner’ (2025)
More electronics from the USA. Melodic, but I like the use of distortion, reverb and sampled voices (used as additional texture) that give the impression each track is being beamed down from an orbiting satellite. A digital purchase but there is 1 CD left 🔗⬇️
Day 2
The Undisputed Truth - s/t (1971)
Have a ‘best of’ on CD including tracks from this, but I’ve never owned the original LP. Trippy goodness all the way through.
Bought at the Epping record fair last weekend. Sleeve a bit battered & vinyl needs a clean. Dutch pressing acc. to discogs
Day 2
The Undisputed Truth - s/t (1971)
Have a ‘best of’ on CD including tracks from this, but I’ve never owned the original LP. Trippy goodness all the way through.
Bought at the Epping record fair last weekend. Sleeve a bit battered & vinyl needs a clean. Dutch pressing acc. to discogs
Day 25
Ecstasy, Passion & Pain, s/t (1974)
Soul/disco sextet led by Barbara Roy who also wrote most of this, their only LP. Got this cheap but crackly copy at Flashback almost exactly a year ago while hunting for VinylSanta goodies. Which reminds me, better get on with this year’s hunt 😬
Day 25
Ecstasy, Passion & Pain, s/t (1974)
Soul/disco sextet led by Barbara Roy who also wrote most of this, their only LP. Got this cheap but crackly copy at Flashback almost exactly a year ago while hunting for VinylSanta goodies. Which reminds me, better get on with this year’s hunt 😬
Day 22
Jean-Claude Vannier, ‘La Bête Noire’ OST (1983) c/w music from ‘Paris n’existe pas’ (1968)
Vinyl buy from Jelly Records of Clapton in August. Two film scores from the Vannier archive made available for the first time in 2021 by Finders Keepers Records. Came with 16 page booklet.
Day 22
Jean-Claude Vannier, ‘La Bête Noire’ OST (1983) c/w music from ‘Paris n’existe pas’ (1968)
Vinyl buy from Jelly Records of Clapton in August. Two film scores from the Vannier archive made available for the first time in 2021 by Finders Keepers Records. Came with 16 page booklet.
Day 19
Enofa, ‘Rarities’ (2024)
A two-hour+ compilation of Imogen Hayley Baker’s music released (under various names) in the previous 20 years and then lost to the ether. Ranges widely across ‘dance’/‘electronic’ genres, but there’s a grittiness that unifies. The continuous mix also helps
Day 19
Enofa, ‘Rarities’ (2024)
A two-hour+ compilation of Imogen Hayley Baker’s music released (under various names) in the previous 20 years and then lost to the ether. Ranges widely across ‘dance’/‘electronic’ genres, but there’s a grittiness that unifies. The continuous mix also helps
Day 24
Jilk, ‘Fix Your Hearts’ (2025)
“It started with a focus on 60s/70s french pop. Three, four chords. Verses, choruses. The collective's blend of post-rock, glitchy electronica and ambient house pulled and mutated those ideas, forming them into one of their most striking releases yet”
Day 24
Jilk, ‘Fix Your Hearts’ (2025)
“It started with a focus on 60s/70s french pop. Three, four chords. Verses, choruses. The collective's blend of post-rock, glitchy electronica and ambient house pulled and mutated those ideas, forming them into one of their most striking releases yet”
Day 6
Charles Wuorinen, ‘Time’s Encomium for synthesized & processed synthesized sound’
Bleep, bloop! Realised using mainly the RCA synth, completed & first released in 1969. This is the first UK pressing from ca.1970. Instagram sez I picked this up s/h almost exactly 1 year ago (whoops)
Day 6
Charles Wuorinen, ‘Time’s Encomium for synthesized & processed synthesized sound’
Bleep, bloop! Realised using mainly the RCA synth, completed & first released in 1969. This is the first UK pressing from ca.1970. Instagram sez I picked this up s/h almost exactly 1 year ago (whoops)
Day 23
Korb, ‘Korb III’ (2022)
Dreamlord Recordings’ acts - and there seems to be membership overlap across a few of them- mine the catalogue of 1970s Kosmische and synth-tinged psychedelia for inspiration. The results can be mixed, but Korb is probably the best variant of the core idea.
Day 23
Korb, ‘Korb III’ (2022)
Dreamlord Recordings’ acts - and there seems to be membership overlap across a few of them- mine the catalogue of 1970s Kosmische and synth-tinged psychedelia for inspiration. The results can be mixed, but Korb is probably the best variant of the core idea.
Day 4
Sigrid, ‘How To Let Go’ (2022)
Second LP from this Norwegian pop singer-songwriter I’m rather partial to. A moodier affair than either her debut, or the new one released a couple of weeks back. But the singing is first rate. Got this online, new, from an Edinburgh shop last year.
Day 4
Sigrid, ‘How To Let Go’ (2022)
Second LP from this Norwegian pop singer-songwriter I’m rather partial to. A moodier affair than either her debut, or the new one released a couple of weeks back. But the singing is first rate. Got this online, new, from an Edinburgh shop last year.
Day 10
Future Children, ‘A Disorganized Body’ (2025)
Soundtrack by US duo to a short film about the strange case of a 19th century Frenchwoman who claimed to be only skin & bones. The music varies wildly in style, from lyrical pop to ghostly synth jams overlaid with operatic female voice.
Day 10
Future Children, ‘A Disorganized Body’ (2025)
Soundtrack by US duo to a short film about the strange case of a 19th century Frenchwoman who claimed to be only skin & bones. The music varies wildly in style, from lyrical pop to ghostly synth jams overlaid with operatic female voice.
Day 28
سماع [Sama'a] (Audition)
by أحمد [Ahmed]
(2025)
Free jazz quartet who re-imagine the music of Ahmed Abdul-Malik. This is their latest LP, released on Cafe Oto’s in-house OTOROKU label. Four long improvisations that focus on simple elements: an arabic scale or just 3 notes repeated.
Day 28
سماع [Sama'a] (Audition)
by أحمد [Ahmed]
(2025)
Free jazz quartet who re-imagine the music of Ahmed Abdul-Malik. This is their latest LP, released on Cafe Oto’s in-house OTOROKU label. Four long improvisations that focus on simple elements: an arabic scale or just 3 notes repeated.
Day 30 and last
Various Artists, ‘All About HER’ (2023)
As is now becoming traditional, we end with an epic (3 hours+ in this case) fundraiser compilation, this one in support of Hollow Earth Radio in Seattle. Featuring a who’s who of the electronic scene from both sides of the pond.
Day 30 and last
Various Artists, ‘All About HER’ (2023)
As is now becoming traditional, we end with an epic (3 hours+ in this case) fundraiser compilation, this one in support of Hollow Earth Radio in Seattle. Featuring a who’s who of the electronic scene from both sides of the pond.
Day 21
Terminal 11, ‘Suffocating Repetition’ (2024)
Five tracks, initially percussive and busy but which gradually open up and allow in melody. The artist describes the album as an opportunity to question his aversion to repetition, just when Covid-driven WFH had created unwanted routine.
Day 21
Terminal 11, ‘Suffocating Repetition’ (2024)
Five tracks, initially percussive and busy but which gradually open up and allow in melody. The artist describes the album as an opportunity to question his aversion to repetition, just when Covid-driven WFH had created unwanted routine.