Since June is almost gone I thought be a nice idea to check in what’s been happening this year. As usual it’s been 6 months packed with amazing releases but all of it underpinned by a dark undercurrent of paranoia and despair in our societies. At the same time we need art to sustain ourselves and our strength to struggle on. Here are a handful of tips on what to listen to – 10 entries in each category and in random order.
Compilations
V/A – Club Formats VA02 (Model Sex)
V/A – VA 2 (Anarchypnotica)
V/A – Dead Symphony (Pure Violence)
V/A – Ils s’embraserent, réduits ensemble (Mama Told Ya)
V/A – pleaseinsert_ILOVEYOU (Purr)
V/A – VA003 (TM8)
V/A – Pulsar Ritual (Ninety Three Collective)
V/A – €VA€MA 2025 (Magdalena’s Apathy)
V/A – Curiosity Pill Vol. 04 (Curiosity Pill)
V/A – LI$040 (Low Income $quad)
Electronic LPs
Yozy – Club F4me (N/A)
Kilbourne – If Not to Give a Fantasy (Hammerhead)
Aya – Hexed! (Hyperdub)
Deköm – жжж (N/A)
Enxin/Onyx – In Rupture (Other People)
Filmmaker – Bloodbound (N/A)
Kiille809 – Euphoria Tunnels (Magdalena’s Apathy)
Silent Spectre – La résurrection des astres maudits (Spectre Noir)
Acidic Male – Flesh Reversal (N/A)
Ayline – Sang Veines (Spectre Noir)
Electronic EPs
Erin Hopes – The Gods (Suram Fortress)
Sanchez Jr. & Spiderwrap – Calisthenic (Spektator)
Isabella Koen – Fine Sounds Good (Synthetic Pleasures)
Gutkein – Rare Rave Energy (Edenn)
Katie Fash – Sellout (Massive Gain)
Valerie Ace – Escape the Algorithm (Boysnoize)
Midnight Climax – Camouflaged Wounds (L.A.U.R.A.)
Nick Jersey – Hater (Letzter Kuss des Engels)
Alex Compton – Euphoria Spell (Magdalena’s Apathy)
Dina – Assembly (Air-Ways)
Other EPs/mini-LPs
Gift Exchange – s/t (Dero Arccade)
The Artists – I Love the Artists (N/A)
Healing – s/t (RoachLeg)
Cortisa Star – E.M.O. (Open Shift)
Harsh Symmetry – On-Screen Death (N/A)
1186 – Histeria (Drunken Sailor)
Kavari – Lost Cuts Vol. 3 (N/A)
Fatshaudi – Feel It All Around You (N/A)
Kaleidoscope – Cities of Fear (LVEUM)
Claire Rousay & Gretchen Korsmo – Quilted Lament (Mappa)
Other LPs
Seudo Youth – Nobody Gets Down Like… (Going Underground)
Self Improvement – Syndrome (Feel It)
Rapid Dye – s/t (Cool Death)
Troth – An Unfinished Rose (Night School)
Daniella Ljungsberg – Do I Care (Orthodox)
Claire Rousay & More Eaze – No Floor (Thrill Jockey)
Body Maintenance – Far From Here (Drunken Sailor)
Voice Actor & Squu – Lust 1 (Stroom)
Fleas of Mercy – The 8th of May (Stucco)
Saufknast – s/t (Erste Theke)
