‘Early Works’ collects his nascent sonic forays with “industrial sound effects” group, Gray in a silkscreen-printed package, including the amazing ‘Drum Mode’ and three much rarer cuts which form a vital and unique part of music and art history. Jean-Michel Basquiat was the darling of the downtown New York arts and music scene in the early ’80s. It essentially proves why he’s hailed as one of the most forward thinking dancefloor producers and DJs around, serving a masterclass in multi-genre & tempo fusions.
They’re fierce and deadly, don’t miss! Ramadanman/Pearson Sound, meanwhile, heads up the latest Fabriclive mix with a 30+ track selection spanning House and Grime to Shangaan Electro. They marked the cusp of a transition in the UK underground from fast HipHop to Hardcore, with an aesthetic which cast an influence over everyone from Autechre to Demdike Stare. The Rephlex label rock up in a pair of British Knights to deliver their most exciting transmission for years with the badboy 2LP and CD compilation of T.C.M.’s two earliest 12″s. It’s bloopy electronics and tape experimentations sound like they could have been made any time between 1960 and last week, and should be checked without delay by fans of Ursula Bogner, D.D. Both limited to 500 copies and utterly essential to all Kosmische obsessives out there.įor the Radiophonic and Hauntological fiends amongst you, Stefan Blomeier’s out-of-the-blue oddity ‘Popular Electronics II’ is a must have. Dredging the depths of the American synth/noise underground, their first two releases from Bee Mask and Fabric are total essentials, the former a super-structured cryptic synth/concrète collage beloved of everyone from Autre Ne Veut to Will Bankhead, the latter a multi-dimensional neo-Kosmiche organism. Spectrum Spools is the highly promising new sublabel of Editions Mego curated by Emeralds’ John Elliott.
Featuring subtly disturbed/inspired/hilarious sleeve art by Anworth Kirk, there’s 400 copies only of this baby… you know what to do! The material edgily shifts from Concrète to spoken word, via Giallo and tape music to create a kind of macabre mediterranean folklore that will give you nightmares. Brought to you by the Demdike Stare/Andy Votel curated Pre-Cert Home Entertainment label, the semi-fictitious Applehead makes his debut this week with a mystifying album of cold modernist-pop experiments referencing everything from Roman Catholicism, corruption, Belgian surrealism and Italian giallo in a suitably unhinged musical odyssey.