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40th anniversary edition of Cinder & Cindytalk’s 1984 debut LP, a chimeric goth and post-punk touchstone, over-easy on the expressive melodrama, and pioneering in its exploration of gender in context of punk and noise musicks bit.ly/3Hl4Juk

fruit of the ‘nuum bit.ly/3H3F5KN

Apartment House take on some of the loveliest John Cage, including "In A Landscape" perhaps best known from that Jan Steele/John Cage 'Voices And Instruments' LP which will forever be the most special Obscure release, innit bit.ly/4mrSGM6

A second volume of hypnotic proto-Raï bangers and romancers from Drissi El-Abbassi - a pioneer of the style who bridged its early roots with synths, drum machines and multi-track techniques during the sound’s rapid evolution. Aye, it’s all killer 🔥🔥🔥 bit.ly/4kx8Vpj

DJ Trystero back with a suite of sleepwalking ambient dub trips for Fergus Jones’ FELT label, primed for admirers of Carrier’s spacious sound design, Huerco S.-type hypnagogia, and Civilistjävel!’s noctilucent glow bit.ly/3GwwIqB

Objekt’s Kapsela label introduces fellow dance mutator Gyrofield to the fold with a smart round of stepping and psyched-out techno bruk bit.ly/43vKCRR

Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force ditch the guitars for a more stripped & deadly take on their Senegalese x Berlin-styled mbalax - their first new album in almost a decade - fuelled by the same Prophet 5 synth he's used since the Basic Channel days ✨ bit.ly/4iYOT6x

wow. incredible, huge haul of work from NWW-list and Creel Pone certified French-Romanian spectralist Costin Miereanu and his legendary, self-released Poly-Art Recordings, 1976-1982 bit.ly/4do627S

Ooooshhhh a full madness compiling unreleased bangers from Surinamese Dutch bubbling legend DJ Shaun-D, built on sped-up 90’s dancehall hybridised with Dutch electro-house and aspects of trap, B-More, and upfront rave, for the good of the dance 🔥 bit.ly/3F2XQNP

Joshua Bonnetta fully commits to his thing with this incredible set of pretty much untouched field recordings taken from a microphone strapped to a tree for a year in upstate New York, each of the discs capturing a season. Sounds dry af but it's a deeply moving slow listen bit.ly/4k0tBpN

Mike Huckaby x CV313 limited edition wax, now shipping bit.ly/42gAyvu

this is p special, an unreleased haul of archival diamonds from Francis Bebey, a legendary Cameroonian polymath perhaps best known for his ahead-of-the-curve embrace of electronic music equipment bit.ly/3S8CX6K

Príncipe celebrate 15 years in the game with a double bomb spanning 38 trax in 2hr 8min, studded with nuggets by label regulars AK Adrix, Nídia, Xexa, DJ N Fox and Marfox, plus stacks of new recruits Diiony G, Mixbwé, Bubas Produções++ 100% 🔥, zero % duds bit.ly/43C09AF

Loidis x Priori bit.ly/43iqJgY

second Good Morning Tape from the expert digger behind the sublime ‘Sky Girl’ comp, this time shifting focus toward 90’s-00’s North Indian film music rooted in Hindustani Devotional and folk traditions, reframed through a downtempo, trip-hop, ambient lens… bit.ly/3GYW68I

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this one back in, A Colourful Storm's tape reissue of a gorgeous 2009 album from cult Japanese acid folk trippers Eddie Marcon, essential listening if yr into Ai Aso, Tenniscoats, Maher Shalal Hash Baz bit.ly/4bBpKfF

what a find; largely unheard 85/86 recordings from Stefan Schneider’s 1st band The Crippled Flower, before he would go on to form Kreidler/To Rococo Rot. big tip If yr into Wire, Scritti, Head On The Door-era The Cure, or that incred Years On Earth LP edition of 100 copies -->> bit.ly/4drhm35

Our thoughts on all this week's releases in one place... bit.ly/3GVX3ie

Michael J. Blood and his pal Samizdat come like Manchester’s answer to KDJ on a sick second collaborative album - big tip if yr into Madteo, Moodymann, Autre Ne Veut! bit.ly/3FjZvym

where were you in ’93? Hardcore, jungle tekno, rave, nutty shit - whatever the f*ck you wanna call it - DJ Persuasion delivers a straight knockout session on his killer contribution to Berceuse Heroique’s crucial mixtape series... out now 🔥 bit.ly/430Wn3J

The Conet Project, Shropshire & Mid-Wales edition ✨ bit.ly/4k034cn

one of the most complete documents of Throbbing Gristle’s twilight run, 2005, now on wax bit.ly/4bcnz1W

really strong new album otw from one of the most underrated bands going, so gorgeous bit.ly/43f6Qr1

calling all Durutti Column freaks - cult Manchester guitarist Kevin McCormick returns with his first album of new material in 40 years (!!) - and it’s a peach, all reverb-drenched guitar glides landing somewhere between Vini Reilly and Andrew Chalk bit.ly/4k4tSIA

Bristol-based rapper/producer (and occasional Klein collaborator) ThisisDA on a new full-length gesturing to drill, grime, electro and trap, feat collaborations with Hakuna Kulala's master beatmaker Debmaster bit.ly/4kiI00j

the first orchestral interpretation of Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru's uniquely melancholy jazz and blues-inflected alltimers, digitals out now, vinyl and CD otw bit.ly/3YO58vv

Grouper’s Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill, one of the very first albums we ever pressed up here, all the way back in 2008...✨ now back in print and our classic this week --->> bit.ly/3ldtoC7

HHY & The Kampala Unit mine apocalyptic '80s horror themes, gqom and horn fanfares on a John Carpenter x DJ Lag tip, new via NNT bit.ly/3GUjhRE

Nico Jaar doing dub techno, or just Nico Jaar releasing Dub Techno, or both bit.ly/3SB0mOf

this one ✨ bit.ly/3RICzLW

oooosh, made for the highest heat, an incendiary album of electro-shaabi from Cairo's Elkotsh, echoing chops from Islam Chipsy’s EEK, DJ Plead, DJ Niraha and mahraganat OGs Figo, DJ El Soweisy and Amr Haha - album of the summer!!! 🔥🔥🔥 bit.ly/3GUq5P3

over a decade since their errant 12”s for PAN and Bunker’s Panzerkreuz sublabel, Helena Hauff & F#X regroup as Black Sites for a debut album of atonal machine crud for Tresor bit.ly/44zhFql

pushing all the tender buttons for fans of Tirzah, Broadcast, Carla Dal Forno, last handful of copies, cop cop cop bit.ly/3dElqSL

An enchanted portrait of pastoral Albion & Éire emerges from Thea HD's ODDA label, using cues from Kirk Barley, Church Andrews & Matt Davies, pq, Flaer, Fohn and others as trig points for a richly atmospheric ramble through her effortlessly lovely roster bit.ly/44y0c1r

Kenyan metal hell-raiser Martin Kanji ov Duma beasts the senses as Lord Spikeheart on his masterful, self-released debut from last year, galvanised by maternal Mau Mau heritage and fierce production from Brodinski, Safety Trance, DJ Die Soon, Ginz++ bit.ly/4k2tZV2

On the occasion of her 90th birthday, the fateful and influential 1959 debut album of folk revival singer Shirley Collins returns to circulation with a first vinyl edition in a generation... ✨ bit.ly/439E1w5

new Biosphere album otw bit.ly/431fue4

Chris McFarlane aka Chris Mack’s 1997 pivot from hardcore and jungle in the early-mid ‘90s as Potential Bad Boy, to UKG by the end of that decade, finally bubbles back to life on wax bit.ly/4jXovuB

Not your usual Merzbow mind-shredder, this augmented reissue of a 1996 sore thumb finds him working to theatric schematics at his most tonally diverse and spatially sensitive, on a tip somewhere between NWW, later-stage The Caretaker, Pan Sonic, Ventolin-era Aphex bit.ly/4j1ekUr

2025 pressing, still kills the old way ✨ bit.ly/41zhoSh

fully spannered and outré blasts of noisy grot by a crack trio of improvisors: Audrey Chen, Julien Desperez & Lukas König, with vocals from Moor Mother & dälek, plus extras from Victoria Shen & Mariam Rezaei. New on Athen's unstoppable Heat Crimes 🔥 bit.ly/42Vkgtl

Carrier's deadly rhythmic pointillism for FELT back on wax with newly inverted artwork, v big tip if yr into Nebuchadnezzar x T++ bit.ly/408GTaG

3 x Eiko's back in print on Black Truffle bit.ly/4mcTAMn

Maria Somerville's excellent 2019 album 'All My People' back on this revised eight track edition featuring an additional track ✨ bit.ly/2EGymlX

Nyege Nyege Tapes investigate the roots of gqom and amapiano with this vital missing node linking ‘90s bubblegum and ‘00s kwaito, straight from Atteridgeville, Pretoria -->> 🔥 bit.ly/3YQcgr1

Elle Andrews keeps shelling killer mixtapes with her first for Benji Semtek’s Ulterior Motives label after drops for houses of illest repute Shotta Tapes and TTT (as half of Souvenir) in recent years bit.ly/3Sx4A9C

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