Dispatches from the Underground // July 19, 2021

Pre-order via Norman Records – 2X1=4 by F.S.Blumm & Nils Frahm > Quasi Dub Development’s F.S.Blumm teams up with the German modern classical composer for a dubwise collab

Out July 23rd – Hot Dogs and Hot Days by Armageddon Speaking / been some really hot days and some really cold days and some rainy hot humid days and all that

From 2002 > Coil Live at the Barbican Centre (video footage by Robin Rimbaud via archive.org /h/t Creamo Coyl)

Foxy Digital interviews Ben Chasny aka Six Organs of Admittance

Just one left of the following – Ashland by EP (Z Tapes Records) + Toy by Scott Thiessen (Deathbomb Arc)

Out now – blue thirty-nine: Richard Youngs / Strange, hiccupping pop songs made out of tape loops, scraps of voice and 7-string nylon guitar / available digitally or on these lovely cassettes that you definitely think would look good in your home.

Name your price if you can afford it > 10 releases from Other Forms / roughly 8 hours of otherworldly drones, sacred hymns, glassine piano, imaginal field recordings & eremitic music (via cowsarejustfood)

Help Mishka Shubaly’s anthology happen > foreword by Jeff Bezos and introduction by Rich Roll

Chat between Aaron Dilloway and Mike Watt (h/t Tabs Out)

Out on Aug. 3rd via Ryley Walker’s label Husky Pants > Mukqs – In Human Form / Some major influences that informed this whole project were Tetsu Inoue’s fast-scrolling ambient works, Yasunori Mitsuda’s soundtracks for Chrono Cross & Chrono Trigger, the music of Pulse Emitter in all its forms, and the glitch production touchstones laid out by artists like Oval and Nobukazu Takemura

Out this Friday on Invada / Sacred Bones – Change by Anika > The songs offer skittering, austere electronic backdrops reminiscent of classic Broadcast records or High Scores-era Boards of Canada, playing them against Anika’s remarkable voice