Dispatches from the Underground // January 2026 – Pt. 1

New Music

Seljuk Rustum & Friends – Carnival Of Fools / Seljuk Rustum continues to quietly release incredible music from his secret lab in Kerala. Do yourself a favour… – Marc Hive Mind

Hey Colossus – Heaven Was Wild (Learning Curve / Wrong Speed)

Black Hill Transmissions – Transmission #4 Tape / Continuing my end of year #musicsky #Bestof2025 with a fav self released cassette of weird & wonderful Electronic Dub – David Soulscorch

Anna Pest – Dark Arms Reach Skyward With Bone White Fingers II: Be (Not) Afraid / So my first album listen of 2026 is the new Anna Pest – Dark Arms Reach Skyward with Bone White Fingers II: Be (Not) Afraid. Very lovely Tech-death with Progressive elements and electronica – Matt D

Heavy Cloud – Memory is a Winged Horse / meditation of slow, hydrous loops, inspired by the ocean of our brains and echo of água viva

Whirling Hall of Knives – Dauer Stage / From WHOK to you – a free 25-minute harsh droner to see off the old one and set the stage for the new… – The Last Sound

Luke Schneider – For Dancing in Quiet Light (Leaving Records) / Not me starting 2026 with some new age pedal steel – Golden Brown

Cindytalk – That We Must Pass Through This Life (LINE)

The Foamboy Deluxe Archestra – Try Again Tomorrow / aka Geoff Topley – originally released in 2004

Faex Optim – Solar Drift (Touched Music)

NKISI – Anomaly Index (Nyege Nyege Tapes) / I’m in the launderette and I’m listening to ‘anomaly index’ by NKISI – 𝖘𝖊𝖆𝖓 𝖜á𝖗𝖘

Listening Recommendations

Coil – Moon’s Milk (in Four Phases) / Sonic pagan alchemy & pure sensual trip through time & earth, flesh & soul / Proper way to start the new orbit – Blue Astronaut

Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 – The Funeral Pudding (h/t VogonLaundromat)

Horseman, Pass By – All Curses Are Mirrors (h/t The Beka)