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Xylitol – Chromophoria

Xylitol aka producer and DJ Catherine Backhouse shifts up the refinement and musical breadth for her second album Blumenfantasie, which landed earlier this month on Planet Mu. Blumenfantasie draws heavily on the work of Sarajevo-born minimal synth composer Miaux, whom she recognises as “a kindred spirit in terms of her directness and melancholy, as well as her lightness of touch”, rolling through immersive jungle workouts with the occasional dip into beatless ambience.

https://xylitol.bandcamp.com/album/blumenfantasie

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Voice Actor, Coni, Rune Kielsgaard – Life’s a mess

I’m not even going to attempt to interpret the cryptic madness of the Bandcamp description of this track, but any new material from Voice Actor is very welcome. Hopefully this is part of a wider forthcoming project… but who knows.

https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/track/lifes-a-mess

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Mammo – 4.1

Sometimes all you need to start the day right is a nice, fried slice of deep, dubby house; so here’s Mammo serving up the goods. Taken from his new album Lateral which clocks in at an intimidating 99 minutes, but is well worth your time if you’re into stripped back techno, sketchy ambient and a few things in between.

https://mammoworks.bandcamp.com/album/lateral

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Joshua Idehen – This Is The Place

Apparently at Joshua Idehen’s live shows he strongly encourages you to turn to your neighbour and give them a hug / some show of love, which means I’ll probably never see him perform. This song is great though! And his entire album is pretty fun and positive – I just want to listen to it in solitude, without having to interact with other people, thanks very much. I also just found out that he was in Benin City who did some interesting stuff a while back, which has made me like him ever more.

https://joshuaidehen.bandcamp.com/track/this-is-the-place

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OHYUNG – Nevada

Bruce Springsteen had his Nebraska, a bare-bones, notably bleaker record. OHYUNG now has her IOWA; stripped-down and self-produced. Ghostly echoes, mouth sounds, simulated tape hiss, late night gloom. Though beautiful, there’s an illness-of-ease to the music, a fog of threat, numerous points of rupture in otherwise serene tracks, massive subwoofer activations that could be heaven’s kick drum or the slam of a bomb. Sampled choirs in rapture, a fine line between terror and reverence. Happy Friday!

https://ohyung.bandcamp.com/album/iowa

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Caterina Barbieri & Bendik Giske – Impatience, Magma

Caterina Barbieri and Bendik Giske’s collaborative project started during an artistic residency in Milan’s ICA in 2021, by invitation of Swiss artist and curator Jan Vorisek. This meeting, and the preceding closure of sites for cultural exchange, made their work together “feel like springtime” according to Barbieri. Throughout the tour, they continued to develop material live, and their album, At Source, feels true to that ever-evolving process of creation. Impatience, Magma feels like the centrepiece of this extraordinary EP, glowing and languorous, with Giske’s saxophone at its most affecting.

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Maria BC – May this rain

Written and recorded throughout the US West Coast, Maria BC’s new album Marathon is both expansive and intimate, ranging from aerial acoustic songs, to glitchy distorted tracks channeling chaos and disillusionment, all while maintaining a strong lyrical through line. “For this record I decided to spend less time on production and recording and more time on songwriting” she says. “The result, I think, is more thematically consistent, lyrically speaking, and more concise”. On first couple of listens, I agree.

https://mariabc.bandcamp.com/album/marathon

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Niko Demus, Merely, MFM – Oscillate

Dreaaaaaaaamyyyy….

https://nikodemus1.bandcamp.com/album/wade-1

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Placid Angles – Sainte Anne

With over 20 LPs under his belt, John Beltran returns to his much loved ambient / IDM / electronica alias Placid Angles with one of his strongest albums to date. Canada has properly blown me away and I’ve listened to it twice this morning already. Inspired by “everything from the scenery to the people … I decided to dedicate this record to them and that beautiful country”, Sainte Anne is a beautiful opening track and definitely gives you a sense of the musical world he inhabits, but I urge you in the very strongest terms to go listen in its entirety, ideally right now.

https://oathcreations.bandcamp.com/album/canada

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Reinartz – A Point for Everything to Spread

Appendix.files rolls out its second LP with Irradiated, an eight-part excursion from Berlin-based sound artist and producer Kurt ‘Reinartz’ Salgado. If you’re a fan of Barker’s beatless techno deconstructions, you’ll likely find plenty to like here.

https://reinartz.bandcamp.com/album/appx-lp02-irradiated