Yu Asaeda to his mum, Ena to you and I, has been steadily coursing his own path between the shared contours and patterns of techno, electronica and D&B minimalism for the likes of 7even Recordings, Samurai Horo and Hidden Hawaii since 2008. With Distillation, he presents his purest reduction of his ...

Ingenious Greek composer Christos Chondropoulos coins his 2nd suite of imaginative folk arcana and electronic atavism on Glasgow’s 12th Isle after 2020’s standout ‘On Nature’.

Culminating at 430m of altitude, mount Aïdour has been looking over the city of Oran for centuries

Ahead of the Meakusma Festival 2019 Don’t DJ and NWAQ did an artist residency developing new music together from scratch.

The first new solo Shackleton album since 2021, ‘The Scandal of Time’ is a stunning, immaculately produced mix of ghosted German folk songs with piercing subs, psychedelic trip hop signatures and luxurious instrumentation, for our money the strongest Shackleton album to date and perhaps his most memorable work since ‘Blood on My Hands’ laid us to waste almost two decades ago.

Full Bloom is an experimental sound collective traveling through polyrhythmic timezones and psychedelic soundscapes deeply rooted in the aesthetics of Jazz, Hip Hop, Afrobeat and Dub. Whatever happens, we try to convey a feeling that sits deep in your stomach and makes your body move!

Since 2018 João Pais Filipe (on drums) and Burnt Friedman (electronics/synth) investigate into automatic pattern–composition rooted in doubling and halving; the unimpeachable laws of motion.

Searchlight Moonbeam is the new narrative compilation from Time Is Away (Jack Rollo and Elaine Tierney) whose eponymous monthly NTS Radio shows, tinctured fusions of fugitive sounds and reverie-inducing archival speech, have won them an ardent following. It follows from the London-based duo’s Ballads, a remarkable driftwerk released on A Colourful Storm in 2022.

High Ends returns with an EP by Thomas Romain and his mother

Delphine Dora is a prolific composer, improviser and musician who has released on a plethora of labels including Recital, Morc, Sloow Tapes, Feeding Tube, Okraïna and more, and ‘Le Grand Passage’ is her Modern Love debut, a stunning set of songs for piano and voice, recorded in one take without overdubs or edits.

Industrial Electroincs

Japan's Ena joins Mumdance & Logos’ Different Circles crew with an extended dive into deeply abstract grey area/post-Chain Reaction dub incursions that come highly recommended if yr into Porter Ricks, Felix K, Dynamo or Pendant...

Princess Diana of Wales, by London-based Australian Laila Sakini, is A Colourful Storms latest and most curious project

anno returns with a 5 track ep from NYC's K Wata

Lowjack and D.K. double down as Slack DJs with a cranky quartet of Afro-noise-techno joints for Trilogy Tapes.

"Master of ambient spaces and far out places, long-time Finnish producer Sasu Ripatti (aka Vladislav Delay) blesses us once again with another release, this from his 'Visa' period of unreleased tracks.

The Nu Manchester hype train rolls on with this latest production from Michael J Blood, a collaboration with newcomer Samizda

The experimental composer’s new album is a shapeshifting stream of crackling electronics, wordless singing, and gasping breaths. It’s a stark, solitary listen that radiates an unsettling beauty.

‘Keep it simple’ 103636;”Reissue-

Remember that insane 110 track album from Voice Actor, our number 2 Album of The Year 2022 and one of the most impressive debuts of recent years? We've been asked constantly if there was gonna be a physical edition and - finally - here it is, a 16 track version compiled by Voice Actor and Stroom, complete with updated versions of familiar tracks plus 3 brand new songs. If you've no clue what/who we're talking about and yr into anything from Hype Williams to Broadcast, Dean Blunt to Donna Regina, Klein to Mica Levi, just do yourselves a huge favour and cop this now, thank us later.

Raw low slung Techno jams

“MARK VI” is sixth full length from Mr. Price. This stretch of albums - “I Prefer Coca Cola” (2017), “Celica Absolu” (2018), “86’d” (2019), “La Vie” (2019) and “Interview/ Discount” (2020

Flaty & OL’s Serwed return to Huerco S’ West Mineral for their fourth album; straying from their usual bass abstractions into hi-gloss lab experiments with obvious appeal to disciples of Dopplereffekt, Vangelis or the 'Resident Evil'/'Silent Hill' OSTs.

Super heavy keta-dub 12″ by Namahage, DJ ScotchEgg‘s mysterious little side project on Zonedog.

Back in 2020, Light Sounds Dark lifted the first Crossed Wires off a mysterious cassette found in the archives of an unnamed ‘80s synth hobbyist.

It is the Scottish producer's first solo output since the ethereal ‘Touch Absence’ in 2017. The three-track EP arrives after last year’s remix of Björk and an extensive period touring his live A/V show internationally.

Rhythm clusters and constellations.

A total doozy for Slowdive, Carla dal Forno, HTRK fiends - Naarm’s late ‘90s indie-pop darlings Hydroplane are subject of a crucial retrospective with London’s World of Echo, following a reissue of their s/t debut via Efficient Space.

Flora Yin Wong returns with a stunning, highly evocative second album for Modern Love, manifesting her instrumental storytelling in a syncretic bind of supernatural themes. Where her debut album ‘Holy Palm’ catalogued exotic personal and spiritual travels captured over a 6 year period, ‘Cold R...

Baba Stiltz has written and produced the award winning soundtrack for the Swedish Movie „Shame On Dry Land (Syndabocken)“.

Roots run deep on ’Candid’, the first LP by Munich-based producer Polygonia and drummer Simon Popp

‘90s electronica pioneer Mike Paradinas makes a rare away-day from Planet Mu with the typically nostalgic allusions of this properly lovely side for Albert Salinas and Philip Sherburne’s Balmat label.

Glasgow’s excellent Somewhere Press return with their inaugural vinyl release, the debut album proper from Madelyn Byrd aka Slowfoam. Mining the seam between ecology and technology, Byrd offsets syrupy, dissociated electronics with sparse acoustic instrumentation and expressive field recordings, landing somewhere between Ulla, Marja Ahti and Andrew Pekler’s virtual exotica.

Landing in 1998 between the endlessly imitated Chiastic Slide (1996) and the deceptively impenetrable ‘Confield’ (2001), LP5 and the following year’s EP7 feature some of Ae’s most effortlessly fucked rhythm mechanics; less abstract than much of what came after it, more complex and interwoven than what preceded it - just end-to-end brilliance.

Finally, Regis lets his rhythmic noise opus out into the world, a bruising and hauntingly absorbing new album - his first since 2001 - recorded in Berlin with Einstürzende Neubauten’s engineer/producer Boris Wilsdorf and an absolute must if you want a dose of highest grade industrial rhythmic noise or into anything from British Murder Boys to Test Department, Jeff Mills and Cabaret Voltaire.

Proper darkside pressure from Pessimist, invoking the technoid spirits of Dom & Roland, the ruggedness of RZA, and bleakness of Brummie techno for Berceuse Heroique.

Philip Sherburne & Albert Salinas’ nascent label, Balmat embrace Nueen’s shimmering ambient pads and FM synthesis for its fourth release of ambient romance edging onto backroom dance music.

A Colourful Storm begins 2024 with a luxurious suite of daydreaming introspection courtesy of Unchained, the longstanding solo project of Nathaniel Davis who was last seen on vinyl in the final Blackest Ever Black release.

Max Loderbauer’s career in music spans the last 3 decades, yet he’s still managed to keep his listeners hungry by releasing only 3 solo albums to date.

"Coconut Grove started as a secret. I wrote & recorded it in deliberate solitude over the course of a year, in long sessions when I was alone at home or after everyone else had gone to sleep. I had the uncanny sense of discovering something quite old rather than of making something new.