Twenty Twenty One

eklektoplasmic charts

LP

1. Ducks Ltd. – Modern Fiction
2. Group Zero – Everybody’s Already Come Apart
3. Nightshift – Zoe
4. Ordnance Survey – Field Work
5. April Magazine – Sunday Music for an Overpass
6. Altered Hours – Convertible
7. Eomac – Cracks
8. Massage – Still Life
9. Flowertown – Time Trials
10. Sympos – Sympos

Honorable mentions: Semi Trucks – vs. California, Gustaf – Audio Drag for Ego Slobs, Cindy – 1:2

12″

1. Ducks Ltd. – Get Bleak
2. Somadrone – Series A
3. PEEL -Peel
4. Black Bones – Night Drives
5. London Modular alliance – Cracked Dice

7″

1. Dead Neanderthals – Rat Licker
2. Ghost Woman – Lost Echos
3. Warm drag – Butch Things
4. Partner Look – Geelong
5. Horsegirl – Billy

MC

1. Caution – Caution
2. Landon Caldwell & Flowerhead Ensemble – Simultaneous Systems
3. Lifeguard – Dive
4. Oh No Noh – where one begins and the other stops
5. Present Electric – The Continuous Monument

MP3 only

1. Ikeaboy – Shiver Me Timbres
2. Of One – Feedback Loops 1
3. Highschool – Forever at Last
4. Lifeguard – Taking Radar
5. Just Mustard – I Am You

Compilations

1. The Wormholes – You Never See The Stars When It Rains (1994-1999)
2. The Tangled Shoelaces – Turn My Dial: M Squared Recordings and more 1981-84
3. Linda Smith – Til Another Time: 1988 – 1996
4. Various – Medium Sound: Program 3
5. Mark and Landon – Vol.1

The Bureau de Tunes #03

freeranging #03

https://bndcmpr.co/bd10c9f6

another half hour of bandcamp ear candy

short mix of short tracks

bureau de tunes #02

second show which went out on good friday, few cans were had so it’s a bit shambolic in places!

freeranging #02

https://bndcmpr.co/acd172da

another 30 odd minutes of stuff i like on bandcamp right now

bureau de tunes #01

new show on opentempo, my mate kieran and me messing and spinning discs

freeranging #01

https://bndcmpr.co/0b4a8837

bandcamper jan-mar 2021

A Bunch of Fives for 2020

LPs

1. Mermaid Chunky – Vest [Faith and Industry]
2. Gold Cage – Social Crutch [felte]
3. Arborist – A Northern View [Rollercoaster Records]
4. Lucern Raze – International Breakdown [PNKSLM]
5. Emperors of Ice Cream – No Sound Ever Dies [Fifa Records]

12”s

1. Automatic Tasty – The Future Is Not What It Used To Be [Central Processing Unit]
2. October – Eviction EP [Honey Soundsystem]
3. UVB76 – Iwa Gaaden [Random Numbers]
4. Annie Hall – Fum [Central Processing Unit]
5. Autumns – You Always Taught Me Better [Detriti Records]

7”s

1. Shark Toys – Out of Time [Chunklet Industries]
2. Purple Desert Rain God – Invisible Matter [Höga Nord Records]
3. Warm Drag – Butch Things [Six Tonnes de Chair Records]
4. Partner Look – Geelong [I heard a whisper]
5. Sunfruits – Mushroom Kingdom [Six Tonnes de Chair Records]

Cassette

1. Permits – Time Permits [Tenth Court]
2. Nightshift – s/t [Bandcamp]
3. Ostraaly – misery guests [Tenth Court]
4. Introduction – s/t [Tenth Court]
5. Dummy – EP2 [Bye Records]

MP3 Only

1. Joe Meagher and the Remains of Reason – On Unforgiving Themes [Bandcamp]
2. FBU62 – This Is Not For You [Bandcamp]
3. molotov ape – tacawaca [SeqArp]
4. Ev Carm – Awake [Bandcamp]
5. Skinny Downers – Creature [Bandcamp]

Compilation of the Year

Gash Trax Vol.1 [LP/Art for Blind]

Re-issues of the Year

Ultramarine – Folk [LP/Foam On A Wave]

The Immaculates – Vol.1 & 2 [2×7”/Famous Class]

Best New Old Stuff

Trust Punks – Double Bind [LP/Spunk Records/2016]

Sneaks – Gymnastics [LP/Danger Records/2015]

David Holmes – Smoked Oak [7”/Go! Discs/1995]

The Beatmasters – Burn It Up [7”/Rhythm King Records/1988]

Grauzone – Eisbaer [7”/Welt-Rekord/1981]

Tommy Tucker – Hi Heel Sneakers [7”/Red Lightnin’/1980]

Best Gig

James Yorkston upstairs in Phil Grimes Pub, 25^th January.

Special Mention

Jan St. Werner – Molocular Meditation [LP/Editions Mego]

Eklektoplasm 2019: 44 favourites in no particular order + a mix of some 32 therein

Dinah Brand – Thank You Driver [LP/Transduction Records]

Corridor – Junior [LP/Sub Pop]

Loraine James – For You and I [LP/Hyperdub]

Girl Band – The Talkies [LP/Rough Trade]

Purple Mountains – Purple Mountains [LP/Drag City]

Sleaford Mods – Eton Alive [LP/Rough Trade]

Purple Pilgrims – Perfumed Earth [LP/Flying Nun Records]

Blues Lawyer – Something Different [LP/Mt. St. Mtn.]

Roy Montgomery & Emma Johnston – After Nietzsche [LP/Aguirre Records]

Colin Webster & Mark Holub – Nadir [LP/Raw Tonk]

The Staches – This Lake is Pointless [LP/Les Disques Bongo Joe]

Tim Presley’s White Fence – I Have to Feed Larry’s Hawk [LP/Drag City]

Rozi Plain – What a Boost [LP/Memphis Industries]

A Lazarus Soul – The D They Put Between the R & L [LP/Bohemia Records]

Gross Net – Gross Net Means Gross Net [LP/felte]

Ordnance Survey – Relative Phase [LP/Scintilla Recordings]

A.A. Bondy – Enderness [LP/Fat Possum Records]

Kim Gordon – No Home Record [LP/Matador]

Bleak Engineers – New Frontiers [LP/Six Tonnes de C hair Records]

Oranges – Hey Zeus [MC/Art For Blind]

Sneaks – Highway Hypnosis [LP/Merge Records]

Just Mustard – Wednesday [LP(reissue)/Pizza Pizza Records]

UT – Conviction [LP(reissue)/Out Records]

Conor Walsh – The Lucid [LP/Conor Walsh Music]

Maija Sofia – Bath Time [LP/Trapped Animal Records]

Cignol – Syzygy [2×12”/Lunar Disko Records]

Calibre – Planet Hearth [LP/Signature Records]

Mope City – News From Home [LP/Tenth Court]

Lankum – The Livelong Day [LP/Rough Trade]

The Claque – Hush [12”/Any Other City]

Ikeaboy – Syncardia [12”/Seems Legit]

ASC – The Abyssal Plain [12”/Samurai Music]

Autumns/Verset Zero – Split [12”/SOIL Records]

Just Mustard – Seven [12”/Pizza Pizza Records]

The Umbrellas – Maritime e.p. [MC/Discontinuous Innovation Inc.]

Cannibale – Acceleration [7”/Six Tonnes de Chair Records]

Memes – Blah Blah Blah [7”/Six Tonnes de Chair Records]

Kasenetz Katz Singing Orchestral Circus – Quick Joey Small [7”/Buddha Records]

The Modettes – White Mice [7”/Human Records]

Osees – The 12 Inch Synth [12”/Castleface Records]

Grave Goods – Source [live recording/IMPATV]

Sachet – Nets [MP3/Tenth Court]

Autumns – Shortly After Nothing [LP/Death & Leisure]

Murli – The Intangibles [MP3 LP/Bandcamp]