Slermpy Fishkins – I WANT TO PRODUCE FOR MY FAVORITE RAPPERS BEFORE THEY DIE

This is a weird one, admittedly, but it has enough charm for me to share it.  Slermpy Fishkins hail from Riverside, California, not terribly far from where I lived in California before moving to China.  They produce a grubby, lo-fi hip-hop laced with some very strange samples and cut-ups.  Interesting Continue Reading

Maâlem Mokhtar Gania & Bill Laswell – Tagnawwit: Holy Black Gnawa Trance

Maâlem Mokhtar Gania & Bill Laswell collaborate on bringing Gnawa music up-to-date in the 21st Century.  There have been a good number of Gnawa-related recordings which have come out over the past few decades, but having Laswell’s thundering bass supporting Gania’s instrumentation makes for quite a pairing.  

Capricorni Pneumatici – Witchcraft

I don’t ever recall using the word haunting to describe the sound of a record on this blog, but Witchcraft by Capricorni Pneumatici deserves that adjective.  There is a horrific, claustrophobic vibe to the album, as though it were made for a movie so frightening that it would give viewers Continue Reading

Loren Connors & David Grubbs – Evening Air

What an absolutely sublime record performed by two legends, released on one of the best labels in operation today.  From Room40’s Bandcamp site: “Evening Air is the result Loren Connors and David Grubbs’s first trip to the recording studio in the two decades since their first duo album, Arborvitae (Häpna). Continue Reading

Bèlènou – Emosyon Tambou​-​a

Today’s release is quite a stunning little gem out of Martinique that mixes both a creole jazz element with a sound reminiscent of Afrobeat in some way.  From the band’s Bandcamp site: “In the early eighties, Edmond Mondésir, professor of philosophy and Léon Bertide, trade unionist, founded the Bèlènou group. Continue Reading

Various Artists – Future Sounds Of Kraut Vol. 3 – Compiled by Fred und Luna

Our friends at Compost Records have the third release in the series Future Sounds of Kraut, but it comes on the heels of some heartbreaking news.  May good Rainer Buchmüller rest in peace.  He has left quite a legacy behind.  From Compost’s Bandcamp site: “Chapter 3 of the successful compilation Continue Reading

高妮妮 (Gāo nī nī) – 红蜻蜓 (1984)

This is a peculiar release.  Electronic music does not have a deep history in China, but composers have been active since at least the mid-1980’s.  Composer Gāo Nī Nī collaborated with the Yangtze River Light Music Band to produce something that, while not comparable to, say, Vangelis or Tangerine Dream, Continue Reading