Dispatches from the Underground // Nov. 2023, Pt. 1

Bandcamp Friday

Sahel Sounds catalog – pay what you want (via cowsarejustfood)

Amelia Courthouse – Ruby Glass / It’s a bittersweet Bandcamp Friday, given the recent layoffs. I don’t know how much longer small labels / niche artists will be able to do this, but for now you can still scoop my “ruby glass” cassette + anything else from the wonderful Spinster catalog – Leah Toth

Two tapes and a CD from The Modern Folk

Special code from Eiderdown Records

New Music

Kendraplex / Sharkiface Split (No Sides Records) / My falling down the steps vibe on piano. Falling down the stairway from heaven. Absolute mash. Recorded last year and dug up from the archive for today. Sharkiface brings a proper noise jam – Kendraplex

The Eyes and the Mistoids – Frock (Waxing Crescent)

Jacob Brockway – Pornographic Hasheesh Daydream In Heaven / Here’s some pedal steel cosmic Americana vibes for your Sunday morning courtesy of Jacob Brockway. This album, Pornographic Hasheesh Daydream in Heaven, is a total beaut. Give it a listen! – Record Crates United

Gateless Gate – True Winter

Rupert Lally – Teenage Wildlife (Third Kind) / Imagine it’s 1987 and New Order and Tangerine Dream have collaborated on a gritty new soundtrack?! Elements of 80’s alternative indie and electro pop clash with synth drama and the occasional horror atmosphere

goat (JP) – Joy in Fear (via Dalton)

Chatham Rise – Here She Comes / today’s #shoegaze banger is the first track who’s discovery I can credit entirely to Bandcamp- saw all of my follows picking it up, gave a listen and went ‘aw hell yeah!’ / It’s a terrific slab of neo-psych distortion held down by a monstrous bassline – Catbus

epic45 – You’ll Only See Us When The Light Has Gone (Wayside & Woodland)

Die Welttraumforscher – 1981 (Bureau B) / Latest release (on Bureau B) of this enigmatic project by Christian Pfluger. Intriguing enough to make me want to check out his older work – spacediscojeff

rootless – Live III / my third live album is live! including jams with Jesse Sheppard of @ElkhornMusic and another with @seawndofbattery & @tarotplane_ and a bear-conjuring solo jam on the porch in Vt. hope you like it!

black_ops – the regime (via there are no birds here)

Egone – Now Here (Wormhole World)

VA – Eurorack Ruhr: Compilation #2 (Eurorack Ruhr) (via Mr. X)

VA – FADER & Friends: Volume 1 (FADER) (via Matt D)

VA – Future Sounds Of Kraut Vol. 1 – Compiled by Fred und Luna (Compost Records) (via Giornata Nera)

VA – A Compilation Of Tracks... 2023 (Trouble in Mind)

Listening Recommendations

Whettman Chelmets – Koppen (Strategic Tape Reserve) (via Parkas4Kids)

Hyperlink Dream Sync – S/T (Business Casual) / I’m in a band with Mecha Maiko & Phono Ghosts called Hyperlink Dream Sync! Yesterday we released minidiscs of the first album before Hayley joined. Limited to 25! 💽 – SFERRO