In the meantime, a breakdown of participants – as told by Petridisch

Cryostasium – (@Dystopiate777), dark ambient metallic (no guitars!) vibes from Boston! Set consists of all BRAND NEW material, unreleased. Check for a real-life doll incarnation of Cryo

albinotron (@infinitestink) – amazing friend of FP from Louisville has been generating album after album of gold since around 2003 on his own, the latest ‘glitchwave vol. 1’ (releasing on FP) will be premiered partially today

Vylter is a long-standing alum and friend of FP, their set will consist of high-class Vylterisms (I can only call them that) with visuals provided by @AHBLmusic – expect CLASS

Jacuzzi Twins (@jacuzzitwins), two IRL known peeps from the Boston area, are going to KLF/Daft Punk/TCD your brains out with their set consisting of augmented material from their EPs

FP friend Anda Volley (@AndaVolley) makes modular MAGIC out of thin air, and this set is no exception – believe it is improvised! The latest EP, Light Dancer, is a work of astounding space and beauty <3

The last act of KOIFEST 2021 is new FP ‘signee’ a wave, a mouth; (@awaveamouth) from London by way of Austria — they have constructed a true audio visual feast for their musique concrete ‘dance’ ‘space’ ‘vibes’

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FRBH Recordings – experimental electronica/noise/pop/hiphop since 1988. Find us on Bandcamp and ireless/Adel Music Club/The JWA on streaming platforms.

Alpha Chrome Yayo – Open House

Dohnavùr – The Flow Across Borders (Castles in Space)

Helena Celle’s Other World – The Sound of Music (Outlet Archive)

Dream the Dreams So Far Denied: Devotional Music from the Gujarat (Hive Mind Records)

Alice Hubble – Power Play (Happy Robots Records)

Werd (SOS) / Deeko – Sorry We Were Missed

boycalledcrow – Bottletown (Strategic Tape Reserve)

Studio Kosmiche – Alpha 77 / Omega 76 / Peristalith – Drones II (Anticipating Nowhere)

Coming in June

Loraine James – Reflection

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@FreeloveFenner – The Punishment Zone [@MooneRecs ]@DanMelchior – Odes [@cudighirecords ]Preening – Dragged Through the Garden [@ever_never_recs ]

— Auxiliary Out (@AuxOutBlog) April 29, 2021

Spiritual Mafia – Alfresco [ANTI FADE/@ever_never_recs ]Vicious Fence – Dropout [Total Life Society]
Vicious Fence – Primitives [Total Life Society]

— Auxiliary Out (@AuxOutBlog) April 29, 2021

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Acknowledgement of the small bits of electronic music that pop up on Instagram over the course of a week and are enchanting on loop. Instagram doesn’t particularly lend itself to the playlist treatment I do on YouTube. Here are five favorites:

— Marc Weidenbaum (@disquiet) April 26, 2021

Sarah Belle Reid

Orbital Patterns / Abdul Allums

Todd Kleppinger

Electric Kitchen / Mark Lentczner

Ryan Lerigo-Jones

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American Dreams Records

Trouble in Mind Records

Electric Cowbell

Atlantic Rhythms

Deathbomb Arc

via Come Away with EMD

Drunken Sailor Records

Feel It Records

Ever/Never Records

Anti Fade Records

via Smashin’ with Dale

Happy Happy Birthday To Me Records

New West Records

Omnivore Recordings

Kill Rock Stars

Mississippi Records

1972

via Vanessa Briscoe Hay

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Spartan Records

Wormhole World

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Crafted Sounds

Reckless Yes

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Spartan Records is a boutique independent record label in Seattle, Washington that was started by John T Frazier in 2013. Recent releases include The Never Ending Year by VAR (Iceland) vinyl reissue of Singularity by Mae.

Wormhole World is based in UK and specializes in experimental/electronic music of different forms. Recent releases include With Seasonal Affect by mzungu, Cartography by Outside the Glitch and Dejado by Quimper.

Crafted Sounds is an independent record label out of Pittsburgh, PA that focuses primarily on the cassette tape format. Their recent releases include No More Heroes by The Zells, High Fantasy by Flower Crown and Ride Every Day by Merce Lemon.

The Reckless Yes is a British label that put out a double CD anthology by Boston’s Turkish Delight along with releases by LIINES, Captain Handsome, Bugeye and others.

via Jasper PR

Fallen Moon Recordings

Digital only sub-label of Past Inside the Present that explores experimental forms of music and sound creation.

Recent Releases – Tyresta – Easel Music / Jayve Montgomery – Movements for Waiting / Cissi and Yanni – 2746

via Andrew Anderson

Fluid Audio

Record label run by people behind the UK blog Fluid Radio. They put out releases by Moss Covered Technology, Cameron Day and others.

via David M. Falconer

King Pizza Records

Rum Bar Records

Slovenly Recordings

Wild Honey Records

F.O.A.D. Records

Brooklyn-based King Pizza Records is 10% label, 90% community. Releases by Heavy Flow, The Night Screams, Super FM and others.

Rum Bar Records is based in Boston and was described as “the boss sound from the Boss-town.” by Bill Kelly from WFMU. Their recent releases include self-titled LP by The Idolizers, Selfish Propensities by Nana and Take Me Back To Planet Earth by Muck and the Mires.

Active since 2002, Slovenly Recordings made its name on psych/garage records. Recent releases include self-titled LP by Green/Blue,  Selected Outtakes EP by Acid Baby Jesus and Hurting 4 Certain EP by Tommy And The Commies.

Wild Honey Records is an independent label from Italy that likes rock’n’roll and pop songs. Recent releases include
The Benefit of Things to Come compilation and Life’s For Living EP by Tim Timebomb.

F.O.A.D. Records is an Italian label that was started way back in 1986 and specializes in metal/punk/thrash.

via The Rodent Hour

Buzzhowl Records

Hominid Sounds

Cruel Nature Records

Buzzhowl Record is a UK label that’s been bringing it up and taking it down since 2018. Recent releases include Snakebit​/​Unravelling by Typical Hunks, Our Weekend Starts Tomorrow​/​Broken Glass by MASKS and Fantastic Man by Blacklisters.

Hominid Sounds is a London based vinyl & tape label for noise, punk, psyche, electronics, metal, sludge, rock and jazz. Recent releases include Petrichor and Rainbows by Shuck, Punishments by The Shits and The Agony In The Garden by Warren Schoenbright.

Cruel Nature Records is a UK based DIY limited edition cassette label that’s been doing its ting since 2013. Recent releases include Best in Show by Lovely Wife, Absolution by Salisman & His Blessed Eunuchs and Ballpeen by Pachinko. 

via Nate Holdren

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Bad Cake Records

Our own pick! Out of Minnesota comes this misfit, non-elitist cassette label whose first two releases knocked us off of our feet (Witness to an Execution by The Eternal / Majick by The Triangle Man). 

Bad Cake was rather quiet over the last year, but now they’re back in action. 

The Black Editions Group 

Has to be @AllBlackEdition for their work with the PSF back catalogue. The couple I’ve bought sound stunning and look beautiful.

Label group including Black Editions, VDSQ and Thin Wrist Recordings. Based in L.A. presenting new worlds of sound and music both on record and in performance.

Label Roster – 75 Dollar Bill / Chris Brokaw / Acid Mothers Temple / Wendy Eisenberg and more

via Vogon Laundromat

Personal Archives 

Spare No Expanse

It’s in your head, between your ears

PA is run by Bob Bucko Jr. and put out many of his own records + material from Adderall Canyonly (aka Oxykitten), Cop Funeral (Joshua Tabbia from Already Dead Tapes) and others. 

SNE is a private press cassette label specializing in minimalism & avant-garde composition run by leaaves. They put out material by Lost Trail Family Shibe (aka Nonconnah), among others. 

via The Orchid Show

Hello Sir Records

Hello Sir is an independent record label based out of Athens, Georgia. It was formed by the members of the band Cinemechanica as a means to release their own material, and that of their peers. They have put out releases by bands such as Maserati, We Versus The Shark, Ahleuchatistas, The Mercury Program, Ho-Ag, Serka, So Many Dynamos, Tiger Bear Wolf, Antarctic, The Bronzed Chorus, and A.Armada.

via Radiomancy Museum

Audiobulb 

Exploratory music label releasing albums, audio projects, creative software and hardware.

Put out releases by Distant Fires Burning (Belgium), Tomotsugu Nakamura (Japan) and more. 

via Neuro…No Neuro

Subexotic Records

Spun Out of Control

Burning Witches Records

Finders Keepers Records

International Anthem

Brownswood Recordings 

Subexotic Records was formed in 2010 in London and manufactures all its packaging, vinyl cuts & cassette dubs in-house. SR put out records by Simon Klee, Blank Disco and more. 

Spun Out of Control and Burning Witches are UK labels specializing in synth/electronic music and imaginary soundtracks.

Finders Keepers was formed by Andy Votel (Twisted Nerve Records) and Doug Shipton (Cherry Red) with an eye towards reintroducing vintage records to a new audience. Think Suzanne Ciani, Jean-Claude Vannier, Andrzej Korzyński and more. 

International Anthem is one label whose name we keep seeing again and again in different guest mixes (i.e. here and here). And for a good reason – IA seem to be absolutely relentless in their search for new and adventurous music, particularly that written by black composers/artists. 

Last, but not least – Brownswood Recordings, label formed by DJ, record collector and broadcaster Gilles Peterson in 2006.  Much like IA, they specialize in putting out eclectic music from all over the globe – most recently, Songs of an Unknown Tongue by Jamaican artist Zara McFarlane. 

 
via David Soulscorch

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Here at IHN we’re very much aware that music from places other than US and UK exists. Thus, its always a pleasure to see threads dedicated to the subject, like the one our associate Greg Nieuwsma (of Sawak) posted this morning in celebration of Africa Day.

14 albums, one for each African country – collected right here.

Happy listening! But this barely scratches the surface- explore deeper!

Niger

Les Filles de Illighadad – Eghass Malan (Sahel Sounds)

Les Filles de Illighadad present their first ever studio album “Eghass Malan.” The female led avant rock group hailing from the village of the same name bring their new genre of Tuareg guitar mixed with traditional rural folk. Versed in tradition, Fatou Seidi Ghali and her band have created contemporary studio versions that are unlike anything ever before recorded, transporting rural nomadic song into the 21st century.

Ethiopia

Asnakech Worku – Asnakech (Awesome Tapes from Africa)

Ethiopian singer and krar-player Asnakech Worku’s recording with Hailu Mergia during the height of her powers, on a double LP with unpublished family photos and extensive liner notes by Hailu Mergia.

Burkina Faso

VA – Burkina Faso: Volume 1 (Sublime Frequencies)

Sublime Frequencies presents the first of three volumes of contemporary field recordings recorded by Hisham Mayet in Burkina Faso during three expeditions from 2013-2015. Volume 1 highlights the sacred and secular music of the regional balafon or xylophone revered by the Lobi people of southwestern Burkina Faso. In Lobi culture, the balafon performance is not simply music; it is a form of speech that allows master musicians to converse intimately with the living and the dead. This release showcases two tracks that are as thrilling as any Burkinabé music ever recorded. These tracks not only echo but also further some of the greatest examples of Western avant-garde music; imagine the pulsating minimalist motifs of titans like Terry Riley or La Monte Young elaborated into a dizzying maximalism.

Sudan

Abu Obaida Hassan & His Tambour: The Shaigiya Sound of Sudan (Ostinato Records)

Abu Obaida Hassan and the wonders of his five-string tambour remained largely a mystery. In the early 2000s, a prominent Sudanese newspaper declared him dead. Internet forums confirmed his passing. Many in Khartoum, Sudan’s capital, said he had indeed died. But rumors that he was still alive persisted.

Morocco

Maalem Mahmoud Gania – Colours of the Night (Hive Mind Records)

Maalem Mahmoud Gania was one of Morocco’s most famous Gnawa musicians. Gnawa is a musical and spiritual tradition originating in sub-Saharan Africa that has survived as a subculture within Moroccan society for centuries. The roots of the blues can be heard in its hypnotic rhythms.

Congo

Konono No. 1 – Assume Crash Position (Crammed Discs)

“Assume Crash Position” is the second album from Congolese street band Konono No.1, the fourth volume in the Congotronics series from Crammed Discs.

Once again recorded in their home domain of Kinshasa, DR Congo by Congotronics series producer Vincent Kenis, the long-anticipated follow-up to Konono’s 2005 debut sees their trademark thrilling junkyard sonics and relentlessly hypnotic percussive grooves (as created using thumb pianos and drums made from scrap metal and disused car parts) further elevated with electric guitars and bass – played by neighbourhood musicians from a young Konono covers band! – as well as a wider range of vocalists plus guest appearances from guitarist Manuaku Pepe Felly (Zaïko Langa Langa) and members of fellow Congotronics band Kasai Allstars.

Senegal 

Mansour Seck – Teddungal (Baaba Maal)

Mansour Seck is a Senegalese singer and musician born in Podor, in the north of the country. Best known for his collaboration with lifelong friend Baaba Maal, he has also toured and released several solo albums. He is blind.

Nigeria 

Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey & His International Brothers — A Christmas Special By The King of Juju (Awesome Tapes from Africa)

Ho Ho Ho! Christmas, Nigerian juju style by Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey & His International Brothers: A Christmas Special By The King of Juju! Since the 50’s Ebenezer Obey had been crafting his special juju-highlife sound, which is a mix of Yoruba percussion, talking drums, electric guitars and vocals in Yoruba. Later in his life he only started playing Christian gospel music (a fate which many Nigerian musicians seems to befall from a certain age onwards) and he passed away in 2011 in Lagos university hospital at the age of 67.

This tape was recorded sometime in the 60’s with his then-band International Brothers. It was a golden find in one of the many Nigerian stalls around London’s Brixton market last spring. Both sides are filled with heavenly sweet jangling guitars, muffled percussion, talking drums and festive Yoruba singing, with some surprise Christmas melodies played as one continuous medley in lo-fi tropical spheres. As the title already said, the chief was the self-proclaimed king of juju and we can only bow down to his legacy. Listen to these funky Christmas waves and have a great one!

Sierra Leone

S.E. Rogie – Dead Men Don’t Smoke Marijuana (Realworld / CEMA)

Dead Men Don’t Smoke Marijuana is the final album by Sierra Leonean highlife and palm-wine musician S. E. Rogie, recorded at Real World Studios, Wiltshire, England, in 1993–94 and released in May 1994 by Real World Records. Production was carried out by American producer Tchad Blake, who worked in an intimate fashion. In addition to Rogie’s three-piece backing band, the album also features the English double bassist Danny Thompson and guitarist Alfred Bannerman. The album is characteristic of Rogie’s palm-wine material, with his syncopated folk songs, finger-picked acoustic guitar playing style, sulky baritone vocals, often in the Krio language, and African call-and-response vocals.

Benin

Gangbe Brass Band – Togbé (Contre-Jour)

The Gangbé Brass Band is a 10-member Beninese musical ensemble founded in 1994. The word “gangbe” means “sound of metal” in the Fon language. They blend West African jùjú and traditional Vodou music with Western jazz and big-band sounds. Their unusual instrumentation—trumpet, trombone, and sousaphone, along with West African percussion and vocals—is, to some extent, part of West Africa’s colonial legacy; French colonial officers imported brass instruments and trained local musicians to play European-style military and dance hall music.

Mauritania 

VA – Nouakchott Wedding Songs (Sahel Sounds)

Raucous and electrified wedding songs from the desert kingdom of Mauritania. Luxurious overload of micro-tonal scales, phaser pedals, and unpredictable poly-rhythms. Documentation of a little known music scene where disparate influences meet in beautiful permutations. This is desert music as it’s performed – loud and unfiltered. Comes with 12 page full color booklet (PDF in download). Vinyl limited to 1000.

Malawi

Gasper Nali – Zoona Malawi (Spare Dog Records)

Gasper Nali plays a Babatoni – a 3 meter, one-stringed, home-made bass guitar – with an empty bottle and a stick. And makes the most beautiful and catchy original afro-beats possible.

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More playlists in our archives

That’s right folks, five out of five rock stars agree – consuming Gang of Four records will give you a happier life. After the Sex Pistols and the Clash, no other English band of the time would carve a bigger stake for hordes of American hard-nosed funky noise-bands: Rage Against the Machine, Korn and Limp Bizkit would be unimaginable without the territory that Go4 fearlessly staked out in a bold, visionary stance that few bands could have taken. – Perfect Sound Forever

Remembering Gang of Four founder Andy Gill (1956-2020) with a little help from our followers.

Not Great Men (picked by Counterzine)

Contract (picked by Counterzine)

We Live As We Dream, Alone (picked by Nicholas Panagakos)

What We All Want (picked by Burning Witches Records)

Naturals Not In It (picked by Burning Witches Records)

Anthrax (picked by Joel Ebner Will McAlpine and Lord Baden Powell-Peralta

Anthrax might be in my top 3 favorite songs of all time so…

“Anthrax” is still the one. Gill’s guitar on that was just incredible

Armalite Rifle (picked by Will McAlpine)

Ether (picked by Counterzine and Will McAlpine)

At Home He’s A Tourist (picked by Dillon and Coraspect Records)

Damaged Goods (picked by Soulscorch)

I Found That Essence Rare (picked by Audioculture)

Two more things worth of a mention – cover/interpretation of Anthrax by Coraspect Records and a live cover of Damaged Goods performed by our own Turkish Delight during their Middle East reunion show in 2018.

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Mr. Bungle’s self-titled 1991 album is definitely not music for a mass audience. Produced by jazz provocateur John Zorn (as seen above), Mr. Bungle is an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink blend of carnival prog, ska-metal, sea-shanty funk with a heaping helping of Patton’s manic vocal shred, scat and shriek. And there’s a John Wayne Gacy-looking clown on the cover. Frank Zappa more or less paved the way for the group’s brand of weirdo free-form genre mashing, though they certainly took it to an extreme. – Treble Zine

Way back in 2009 we profiled a merry band of freaks known as Mr. Bungle. Back then there was also little hope that messers Patton, Dunn and Spruance will ever go back to performing under that name.

Lo and behold/fast forward to 2019 and…they did. A number of shows were announced in LA, SF and Brooklyn (with Ian Scott and Dave Lombardo joining the main lineup).

Some of the footage from said shows made its way onto Youtube by now. Most peculiar of all – this thrashy new number called Glutton:

But back to our subject at hand…the playlist! It was compiled by our followers via a Twitter thread (hence all the unspooling) in which we asked everyone to name their favorite Mr. Bungle cut. Here are the results (along with a corresponding Youtube playlist):

The one where the evil magic fox chases the row of dancing fluffy chicks. Over and over the hills he runs towards the chicks, dancing in sunshine and blissfully unaware of the fate bearing down upon them. Great band on mushrooms if you’re in a good place emotionally. – Wasp Summer

Stubb – A Dub (picked by Cormac)

Merry Go Bye Bye (picked by Arizona Mayfield)

i love when mr bungle go metal and i love the noise, sounds like a shower curtain scraping back and forth, and the catchy part has some of their best lyrics

Goodbye Sober Day (picked by Robocop Remake / Mrrin213 and Arizona Mayfield)

After School Special (picked by Ya Hoo / Elizabeth Joan Kelly)

Egg (picked by Chunky’s Choice Cuts)

Carry Stress in the Jaw (picked by Ned Watrshed / Sam / oem / Miguel Perez  / Andy Johnston / Vylter and Revenge Technician)

Desert Search for Techno Allah (picked by Ned Watrshed / Tobias Lund / Revenge Technician)

Pink Cigarette (picked by C Money Burns / Tobias Lund / Autolysis Records)

The Air Conditioned Nightmare (picked by David Breather)

Squeeze Me Macaroni (picked by Craig / Ivo Petrov)

My Ass is on Fire (picked by Todd S / Tobias Lund)

Dead Goon (picked by Levi Peckham)

Vanity Fair (picked by Oscar Goff / Ned Watrshed / Levi Peckham)

Travolta (picked by 8-Bit Emily)

Ma Meeshka Mow Skwoz (picked by Burnthouse Lane)

Ars Moriendi (picked by C Money Burns / Gangster Gastino)

And if you still haven’t had enough we got even more playlists in our archives! Think Big Black, Matt Valentine (MV & EE), Roky Erickson etc. etc. etc.

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