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2K88, Lauren Duffus, Rainy Miller, Bianca Scout – Salto

A frankly ludicrous amount of talent combines for Everything Always Changes, For We’re Truly Here, a collaborative LP from four of the most boundary-pushing electronic and experimental artists working today. Cult Polish producer Przemysław Jankowiak, aka 2K88, brings together Rainy Miller, Lauren Duffus and Bianca Scout, creating a dreamlike album blending R&B, ambient electronics and fragmented vocals, inspired by the slow, dreamlike dance at the heart of the Polish film Salto.

https://fixedabode.bandcamp.com/album/everything-always-changes-for-we-re-truly-here

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36 – 105.5 Wacky Fm

I’m biased of course I as pretty much love everything that 36 does, but I do think that even among a discography of almost pathological prolificness and quality, his latest album stands out as one of his very best.

Hardcore, Static: Pirate Transmissions From The North Of England, 1990-1994 is Dennis’s celebration of a unique period in the UK’s musical history, when primitive pirate stations run by enthusiastic kids delivered a continuous stream of experimental sounds to Bradford, Leeds, and the surrounding towns of West Yorkshire. Spread across four expansive tracks blending fragments of ambient, drone, jungle, uk hardcore and peppered with the spectral voices of long forgotten pirate DJs, the result is utterly compelling.

https://auxiliary.bandcamp.com/album/hardcore-static-pirate-transmissions-from-the-north-of-england-1990-1994

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Forest Drive West – Tensor

Forest Drive West’s new album Mantis 1920 sits somewhere between Donato Dozzy and Andy Stott, so you know I’m loving it! Right lads? Lads!??

https://forestdrivewest.bandcamp.com/album/mantis-1920

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Flabaire – Summer Sun

This is taken from efflorescence iii, a VA compilation from Dutch label Project Indigo who have been flying the flag for dreamy, emotional house and techno for the last decade or so. Home to TPW favourites like Lb Honne and Hame, Flabaire was a new name to me, but it someone I’ll be keeping a close eye on in the future, as Summer Sun is totally lush.

https://projindigo.bandcamp.com/album/efflorescence-iii

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Boards of Canada – Age Of Capricorn

According to the Guardian the new Boards of Canada album Inferno sounds like Coldplay and is a “big disappointment”. I strongly disagree.

https://boardsofcanada.bandcamp.com/album/inferno

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Lord of the Isles – Venus Flux

Venus Flux is a new four-track EP by Scottish producer Lord Of The Isles, which opens with a beatless ambient piece built from slow-moving analog tones ahead of two live-improvised dub techno tracks which form the core of the EP. But it’s the closing track, Venus Flux, that’s got me; a reflective, broken-beat number right out of the Conforce tradition of plaintive, meandering electro.

https://lordoftheisles.bandcamp.com/album/venus-flux

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Olof Dreijer – Cassia

There’s something about the way that Olof Dreijer bends his synth patterns that makes his music entirely original. Across his various aliases – mostly famously, The Knife, and closest to my own heart, Oni Ayhun – the squirmy, alien sounds he wrings from various bits of hard and software could only have been created by him. Taken from his debut solo album Loud Bloom (ambitious, varied, long-awaited, arguably overly-long), Cassia is Dreijer in peak form; perhaps one of the greatest tracks he’s ever produced. And yes, I know it came out two years ago, but I’d not heard it until last week, so maybe you haven’t either.

https://olofdreijer.bandcamp.com/album/loud-bloom

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STS – Places

The entire Be The Mountain EP from STS is absolutely brilliant, especially the title track which strongly evokes the beatless techno excursions of Barker, and this closing track, which is one of the most beautiful electronic pieces I’ve heard this year. The Detroit-based producer wrote the EP “during a period of sustained physical and mental strain” and while that sounds deeply unpleasant, the results are extraordinary.

https://sts-sts-sts.bandcamp.com/album/be-the-mountain

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The Field – In Our Dreams

It’s been 8 long years since The Field last released solo music, and it is wonderful to have him back. The master of long-form, melodic, looping electronic music seems to exist in a soft-focus parallel universe where time stretches and contorts in unnatural, but always soothing, ways. His new album Now You Exist for Studio Barnhus comprises five new compositions; all luxurious, dreamy, flawless.

https://thefield.bandcamp.com/album/now-you-exist

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1-800 GIRLS – grow

I think this blog definitely leans a bit moody and self-serious at times. 1-800 GIRLS’s debut album LOVE is neither of those things. It is good though, at least, 50% of it is. I really don’t like the first half… but the second half is great! Riddle me that.