Laidback, melodic lounge vibe and UK garage breakbeat rhythm. Great for relaxing and chilling, also for work.
Yansima – Tweede Cans
Anti-Flag – 20/20 Vision
Good punk rock with a proper average track length below three minutes. And just like any politically charged punk rock in 2020 it’s an all around anti-Trump statement. Coming from Anti-Flag who self-admittedly “have actively chosen to not attack presidents directly”. It’s another record in the long list of such albums spanning now across so many different genres.
Phase Fatale – Scanning Backwards
It sounds like a classic industrial-EBM album from many years ago getting a remaster in 2020 with a techno heart. Sounds like an abandoned factory, heavy beats, greasy and steamy noises, distorted synths, slow marching rhythms. It is something not new but refreshing to hear. This could only possibly come from Berlin, has a cosy home at Ostgut Ton.
Recondite – Dwell
Techno and house in its rhythms but with a slow tempo and with lots of atmospheric sounds. Beautiful music, too, in a blue and moody sense.
When you put on noise cancelling headphones and listen to this in the middle of a busy city it’s like a movie about a civilization in decay and the meaninglessness of everyday life. The scene when you’re watching them run around in their little useless lives and you already know but they don’t that their fraglie mudball planet is on an all-erasing collision course with a huge asteroid. Could be a soundtrack to Melancholia.
Dark Arts – Reflections In A Rear View Mirror
I’ve listened to this album a bunch of times and I’ve got to love it a lot. It is eerie, ethereal, artsy, folk and rock and drone ambient. It’s like the weirdo little sister of Dead Can Dance. And it’s got a lot of soul.
Bohren & Der Club of Gore – Patchouli Blue
Moody ambient jazz and the occasional romantisches saxophone.
Squarepusher – Nervelevers
Acid IDM glitch-core. Took a good ten listens to be able to stop at first encounter. Pretty pretty looking forward to the new album.