Seahawks remixed by Laurel Halo, Quiet Village, Advisory Circle, Cos/Mes and more.

Pye Corner Audio's darkling synthetic transmissions had been hovering under the radar for a couple of years before 2012's Black Mill Tapes collection on Type brought them to a wider and grateful audience. Now, Martin Jenkins finds himself equally lauded by the likes of Sandwell District's Juan Mendez and Minimal Wave's Veronica Vasicka as by the UK hauntological set - a testament to the scope and adaptability of his stygian productions. Nonetheless, this album release feels right at home on Ghost Box, and it follows Jenkins' contribution to the label's 7" Study Series last year. If The Bla… Read more

Judging by the frenzied interest in this mysterious new Rephlex release we take it as a given that most of you lot reckon this is the work of Richard D James. Far be it from us to confirm or deny any such rumours (er, that'll be because we haven't been told!) - although clearly everyone concerned is aware of just how much this material sounds like vintage Aphex Twin, seeded with a good dose of Analord style arrangements. Add to this the fact that Tuss is apparently Cornish slang for some kind of physiological obscenity or another and you have yourself a perfectly formed Myth-building ex… Read more

Rephlex's Dave Monolith compiles his two Dopplereffekt-esque EPs as Photodementia alongside "90s funk legends" Victor Beaudet and Ellen O'Maley, together with a grip of new tracks. Originally appearing circa Xmas 2011, the project has attracted a stack of fans to its aquatech intrigues, and if you're not familiar this is an excellent place to get acquainted. They're mostly precise, concise electro stingers, nutrified with the moodiest pads and techno-soulful melodies in tribute to the timeless lab work of Heinrich Mueller and associates, but also with strong traces of classic Rephlex analogs - AFX, Cylob, Ceephax, Urban Tribe. Top tip!

*Remastered Edition With New Packaging And Extensive Liner Notes* What do you mean you've never heard of White Noise? Okay fair enough, they're hardly as widely known as, say, Black Sabbath - but that doesn't mean you're allowed to get away with it, oh no matey. White Noise is the musical lovechild of producer David Vorhaus and a certain British electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire. Yes you heard me right, electronic music fans, this album is the long out-of-press full-length from BBC Radiophonic Workshop's … Read more

*Deluxe 2CD edition comes in an oversized 8-panel digifile* Two years in the making, this 37 track deluxe 2CD edition features two hours of previously unreleased recordings from Daphne Oram's archives. None of this material had been available until the quadruple vinyl edition appeared late last year and is now available on this beautiful double CD edition, compiled and restored from over 400 tapes and mastered at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin. Daphne Oram, founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, died in 2003 leaving a colossal archive of reel-to-reel tapes an… Read more

Hessle Audio's consistently impressive co-owner follows up the forward torque of 'Hex/Fatalist' and 'Inna Daze/Won't Hurt' with his most substantial drop to date. The eight-track 'Release' finds Kevin McAuley aka Pangaea typically eschewing fads and fickle bass whims with unerring vision - a rare thing in the scene he inhabits - to integrate elements of jungle, garage, dubstep and techno with increasingly insoluble results. It's largely fair to say that the scene has swerved well away from darker, grubbier sounds of late, but there's still a resolutely rude energy at the core of Pangaea's music. From t… Read more

*Featuring 23 tracks, including 4 new exclusives and vinyl only tracks* In the space of three years and some 25 releases, Eglo Records has established one of the UK's finest future funk-and-soul-based catalogues. 'Vol.1' collects highlights from their tight-knit roster, starring the best bits by bossman, Floating Points alongside straight aces from Funkineven, Arp101, Fatima, GB: The Abstract Eye, Mizz Beats, and Shuanise. You could hardly ask for a better introduction than CD1s heavy-hitters such as Floating Points' still-anthemic 'Vacuum Boogie' or the rugged bounce of Funkineven's 'She's… Read more

The Broadcast soundtrack to Peter Strickland's award-winning 'Berberian Sound Studio' has finally been given a release via Warp and credited to both James Cargill and the much missed Trish Keenan. Working closely with the film's supervising sound editor, Joakim Sundstrom, James Cargill started work on the material with Trish prior to her untimely passing in 2011, realising some of the uneasiest, phantasmagoric themes and atmospheres in their immaculate oeuvre. In so many ways it's the perfect vehicle for Broadcast to explore their nefarious influences and interests intersecting Italian… Read more

Classic album from KDJ - now at midprice. Some of you will know the inspired slinky jazz House of the mighty "I'm Doing Fine" and "Runaway" 12"s, add the fabulous title track plus Holiday, Roberta Jean Machine, I Need You So Much, Shades Of Jae, Riley's Song, Back At Bakers (on Livernois) and Mahogani 9000 and you have yourself one of the slinkiest late-night vibed albums you'll hear all year.

'Rites' is the chilling solo debut proper by Sri Lanka-born, Bristol-based composer and sound designer, Paul Jebanasam. It arrives via his own Subtext label - home to a series of bracing recent releases by Emptyset and Roly Porter - to deliver a payload of gothic electro-acoustic composition blending neo-classical, black metal and electronic drone traits with an insoluble, elemental alchemy. It should come as little surprise that he's also been known to handle sound design for film, but 'Rites' is concerned with far loftier, artful ideas as the label's press expounds; "Rites brings together a unif… Read more

Refined continental dread from Erik K. Skodvin, with his first offering as Svarte Greiner since 2011's Twin. With its distressed cello parts, plunging doom guitar chords and chasmic reverbs, the title track can't help but call to mind Raime's Quarter Turns LP, but of course Skodvin is no neophyte, he's been honing this sound over many years, and his execution of it here is exemplary - it's 20 minutes go by in a flash, testament to the consummate depth and character of a music that seems so sparse and forbidding at surface-level. 'White Noise' is a more electronic, drone-oriented piece, the hor… Read more

"Marshalling orchestral and choral forces under the direction of Tõnu Kaljuste, this new Arvo Pärt album, produced by Manfred Eicher and realized, like all Pärt's ECM discs, with the composer's participation, is a major event. Sacred music predominates, by turns monumentally powerful and tenderly fragile. Compositions featured, in premiere recordings made in Tallinn's Niguliste Church, are: "Adam's Lament" for choir and string orchestra; "Beatus Petronius" for two choirs, eight woodwind instruments, tubular bells and string orchestra; "Salve Regina" for choir, celesta and string orchestra; "Sta… Read more

**Regular 2CD Edition in a gatefold sleeve** Eighteen months since their first issue, Woe To The Septic Heart!'s long delayed 2nd release finally dawns upon us. Comprising entirely new and previously unreleased Shackleton material - including collaborations with vocalist Vengeance Tenfold and musical spars Andreas Gerth (Tied & Tickled Trio) and Kingsuk Biswas (Bedouin Ascent) - it's also his most shocking and invigorating body of work. What strikes us first and foremost is the newfound vitality and visceral impact of his sound here. Any signature murk is replaced … Read more

Seapunk comes of age with it's first proper full length release from scene imagineer, Ultrademon. In the last year the aesthetics of a genre that was originally a chat-room in-joke has been co-opted by pop stylists and become the subject of "serious" journalism by the likes of NY Times and Chicago Reader. It's essentially a cloud genre, member of the vapourwave rhizome and effectively the legitimate offspring of Rephlexian IDM who young and reckless enough to currently court generation Y. Anyway, this album follows on from that mad 12" with a slightly more electroid and trap tang - as opposed to the… Read more

*Re-press at long last available again* Beguiling, unsettling and deeply mysterious, The Haxan Cloak's eponymous debut album is a riveting experience. In case Demdike Stare hadn't inspired you to read up on the pre-1900 occult, the term "Häxan" is an old German word for witchcraft, a theme shared by the two artists besides their northern English latitude (which would technically intersect with northern Germany, geography geeks!). But for that, and the monotone artwork aside, The Haxan Cloak takes a very different approach to his craft, one rooted in his studies in sound art and more con… Read more

Eight new studies in ascetic digital minimalism from Jon Ogeskov aka Pixel on his fourth album to date for Raster-Noton. His fascination with brutal rhythmic attack has always set him apart, and here he's in especially lively form: the caustic, swaggering Line Level feels like a laptop-era Whitehouse track shorn of vocals and fed through the minimal techno mincer, while 'Steel Tape' nods to Mika Vainio's mercilessly reductionist but assuredly body-swerving experiments; 'Plump Bob' has parallels with the noirish electro fare peddled by Byetone on his last LP, and 'Eric Sandstone' and 'Brown Shirt' come at … Read more

The third volume of electronics-savvy saxophonist Colin Stetson's New History Warfare album series, and if you ask us, the most pungent and poignant of the lot - thanks in no small part to the dab hand of Ben Frost, who recorded its 11 tracks in single takes and has done a splendid job of capturing the molten intensity of a Stetson live performance. Pre-release chatter has focussed on the presence of Justin Vernon, who handles lead vocals on four of the tracks: particularly noteworthy are the pulsating, cyclical opener ‘And In Truth’, which sounds like Philip G… Read more

*2013 Repress* Classic 17 tune overview on double cd dedicated to rare and classic original chicago acid -and actually looking for the biggest, most leading-edge tracks. Knowing none, some or actually many of these tunes is almost irrelevant - when presented with a short history of all the music you first heard going out, like this. Manchester was volatile enough 1985 - 1995, so I wouldn't have even begun to imagine what Chicago was like, but the music gave us a pretty good idea. Heard on a loud system in an echoey cold room, more like a car park than any… Read more

Back in stock. Horsepower Productions finally drop their debut album with a mixed bag of futuristic UK beats and bassline fusions

ahhhh, this is so good. Michigan noise celebs John Olson and Nate Young are joined by new blood James Baljo to coin their new era of mutoid wave music on 'No Answer: Lower Floors'. You freaks will also be pleased to hear that former members Aaron Dilloway and Mike Connelly return to the fold for this slab of cold, zombied meat, converging primal visions of regressed futures previously imagined in records by the likes of TG or The German Shepherds. There's a sense that the group's divergent individual interests - Nate Young with Regression, Stare Case, Moon Pool & Dead Band, John Olson … Read more

A seminal moment in the hard/UK techno canon from the Birmingham-based cabal of Surgeon, Female, Regis and Function (OK, well he's from New York). Surgeon opens the set with a moment of reinforced Millsian futurism, and Female offers two Latin-infused killers. Regis contributes a pair of jacking heavyweights on his own, and a further pair of mesmerizingly rigid killers with Function as Portion Reform. This is a lesson in stone cold techno classicism. Get taught.

Downwards CD reissue of this classic and super-rare Regis LP from 1998. 'Delivered Into The Hands Of Indifference' is a true classic of the industrial techno canon, displaying a sophistication and vision of restrained brutality that's aged remarkably well, considering the sea-change in techno styles since the late 90's. Although he now alternately opts for streamlined reduction and broken offbeat styles, it's still clear to hear this is a Regis production and stands well as a document of a bygone era.

Ron Morelli's L.I.E.S. finally deliver the immense 'American Noise Volume One' compilation featuring 23 tracks ranging from Bookworms' amazing 'African Rhythms' shakedown to the surfer house of Bonquiqui and Jahiliyya Fields' sublime synth ragas - it more or less defines the intersection of raw, analog house and new age electronics which the label has worked towards since 2010. On disc 1 we're sequenced through the expansive drift of Steve Moore's epic 'Frigia' to Legowelt's 'Sark Island Acid' bubbler via Maxmillion Dunbar's tripping EBM jack 'Cassette Arabic' to Torn Hawk's … Read more

*Limited 2CD Edition with a bonus track - includes expanded packaging + artwork on 2 posters* Over its sprawling 100 minute length, 'Shaking The Habitual' is a bold, almost overly self-aware statement from one of the most exciting prospects in pop music. Some of the reviews that have already surfaced have described the 'impenetrability' of the album, and while the originality and non-conformity at play is to be applauded, there is little on this album that would (or should) scare off anyone with an interest in music beyond the mainstream. It's the fact that The Knife's … Read more

1080i electro-pop genius from the indomitable Uwe Schmidt aka Atom ™. Veering sharp right from the resplendent neo-classicism of 'Winterresise' and the lobby vibes of 'Grand Blue', he's obviously having a lot of fun with 'HD', shaping up as some of the poppiest material since his last Señor Coconut outing. The sound design is, expectedly, second-to-none, but more importantly his playful sense of humour and knack for a choon are in full effect, whether he's taking on The Who's 'My Generation', or paying tribute to Prince with Jamie Lidell on the hyperfunky Linndrum flair of 'I Love U (Like I Love my Drum Mac… Read more

*New and expanded edition of this seminal box set from Irdial - now includes a 5th, previously unreleased disc of abstract transmissions from shortwave "Noise Stations", plus an updated 80 page booklet and a set of postcards* Originally issued in 1997 as a 4 Disc set, "The Conet Project" is one of the most unusual and, ultimately, culturally substantial audio artefacts to have been released in the last 20 years. Painstakingly compiled by Akin Fernandez and released on his own Irdial label (for those of you not aware of Irdial - rea… Read more

Back in stock! Probably my favourite of all the Pan Sonic albums, this showed a slight departure from their previous efforts. Instead of focussing mainly on distorted technoid beats and extreme sounds, Altopiiri interspersed the hypnotic analogue techno mainstays with gorgeous atmospheric compositions reflecting influences from early electronic composers such as Pierre Schaeffer and Todd Dockstader. These tracks were all made without overdubs - live recordings pitched by Vaino and Väisänen in the studio and improvised as they went on. Listening through the tracks it is hard to hear how they managed… Read more

Skull Disco reaches it's final catalogue number with the final nail in the coffin on 'Soundboy's Gravestone Gets Desecrated By Vandals', collating the final few 12" releases on the first CD, and a selection of accompanying remixes from the likes of T++, Rupture, Geiom, Brendon Moeller, and Bass Clef on an additional second CD. Over the course of three years the label has come to define a very dark corner of the dubstep related universe, finding fans in unexpected places, from Ricardo Villalobos and Cassy at the housier end of the spectrum and T++ show… Read more

**Expanded CD edition with 14 tracks. Actress-meets-Jeff Mills on this incredible new album from one of the Motor City's most influential and fwd>>> artists** Twelve years since his debut album, cult Detroit legend Terrence Dixon presents the sterling follow-up 'From The Far Future Pt.2' for Tresor. For many listeners, DJs and collectors Dixon's sparse output ranks among the 313's most definitive and influential creations. Whether under his own name or as Population One, his sound is a quintessential application of Afro-futurist, Motor City machine music, at once driven, sleek, … Read more