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Shinichi Atobe Whispers into the Void 12” now shipping 🔥 bit.ly/46rESLY
this one just landed from Sa Pa via hype label of the moment Short Span - a double album of supreme-tier dub techno wooze x fritzed dub vapours now shipping -->> bit.ly/46scJEI
cult Japanese-Brazilian weirdo Akira Umeda meets Metal Preyers in a febrile, sub/tropical fantasy for Nyege Nyege Tapes - one of the most psychedelic, gripping, deeply sensual releases in the label’s 10 year reign bit.ly/45hGlTZ

Real, low-key AOTY gear from Jasmine Guffond on a suite of muzak for opiated brass and woodwind piped into a reverb chamber - huge RIYL Sam Kidel’s ‘Disruptive Muzak’ x Gavin Bryars' 'Sinking of the Titanic’, now on tape bit.ly/44M01zd
Kara-Lis Coverdale A Series of Actions in a Sphere of Forever ✨ bit.ly/4mcgPp4

New for Unsound festival’s label division; modular synthesist Heinali and vocalist Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko adapt compositions by Hildegard von Bingen, using Ukrainian folk techniques and synthesised medieval polyphony bit.ly/3IIjyIi

have been rinsing this - almost exactly 10 years since Rian's debut 12” for The Death of Rave - this new one is real special, his first work with vocals (from performance artist and vocalist Cara Tolmie) - a sort of missing link between Mark Fell, Hanne Lippard x SOPHIE
jaaaaa bit.ly/3IsPCzX
Príncipe surprise drop 10 infectiously deep and swanging club trax from DJ Narciso, following his killer tweaks of drill-tilted tarraxho and Afro-Portuguese ghetto crud, RIYL Nazar, N-Fox, Nídia, Lycox 🔥 bit.ly/3IHtzp1
Yeah that 1982 Japanese cover version of Joy Division’s ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’, back in print bit.ly/4obWBxx
Al Wootton is on fire atm, his new one is otw via Sähkö, a half hour of hazed rhythmic experiments tracking from vintage, 'blood on my hands'-era Shackleton to rhythm experiments rooted in influence from the Balkans to North Africa...✨ bit.ly/4mbUSXc
gorgeously tranquil late afternoon drift from John Also Bennett for Shelter Press, played on bass flute and synth like some lost ECM-era Jon Hassell via Pan American’s underrated ‘Quiet City’, pressed on wildly iridescent mother of Pearl vinyl...✨ bit.ly/4512eFX
Necessary first time vinyl pressing of one of Pavel Milyakov aka Buttechno's finest self-releases; all bloozy drift and wiry post-punk mantras blessed with Yana Pavlova’s vox and Alex Zhang-Hungtai sax, recalling A.C. Marias via Young Marble Giants bit.ly/4o3mDmg
Pan American and Shimmy Disc boss Kramer reconvene on a gorgeously languid sophomore album, a trip across the ocean floor tipped to fans of Harold Budd, Brian Eno, Stars of the Lid bit.ly/4f4FQQG

The sodden Lancs dub techno clag is charmingly apparent on Andrew Hargreaves’ (The Boats, Tape Loop Orchestra) lesser-known 2009 works as Beppu, now collected and cut to vinyl with bonus cuts by his Burnley bredders Demdike Stare bit.ly/456xtQ5

oh man, this album - following last year’s ‘Backstage Raver’ with Dean Blunt, Joanne Robertson lands one of the most gorgeous records of the year - a real delicate flower tipped if yr into Grouper via Cat Power, w/co-production from Oliver Coates... ✨ bit.ly/46iL353