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We have not had a post-punk mix for ages so again experimenting with my new mixer here is another mix for your listening pleasure – or maybe not! – consisting of post-punk tracks aimed for the dancefloor. The mix title … Continue reading The Darkest Rooms Where We Collide
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I am not sure there will be much call for this amongst readers of the blog but I have been messing around with some new mixing kit and decided to put a mix together of my favourite electronica tunes, mainly … Continue reading Electronica Mix Q1/2021
A bumper crop this month and there is plenty going on in April’s mix. I raid everyone’s favourite French garage and indie label Howlin Banana Records for four tracks this month. Darrin Lee from Subjangle picks a track each from the last two releases on that fine label. We have a few tracks from Spanish acts and also a couple from Japan including that astonishing single from Poco. And with the usual mix of indiepop, janglepop and shoegaze from around the globe you should not be wanting for anything. Well musically at least. As ever enjoy! Full Tracklisting: The Churchhill … Continue reading Records I Like Mix April 2021
Art Form, the new song from London based Lemondaze, is their first recorded track since November 2019s excellent Neon Ballroom track. It’s a shimmering dream-pop track that sounds a bit like Seefeel covering The Pale Saints or Lush. The ethereal … Continue reading Lemondaze – Art Form
Cicatriz is the second single to be taken from the forthcoming debut album from Martes Niebla that is due for release later this year. It follows the wonderful Reykjavík single that was released last December. It’s a fine mix of … Continue reading Martes Niebla – Cicatriz
Has it really been six years since I last mentioned the French band Beach Youth? It seems so. I am not sure how I missed 2019’s Second EP nor last November’s brilliant Love Yourself single but getting back on the … Continue reading Beach Youth – A Changed Man
Toronto’s Ducks Ltd have returned with a shortened name (they were Ducks Unlimited until they had trouble with a wetland conservation organisation with the same name) and a brand new track heralding the expansive reissue of 2019s debut Get Bleak … Continue reading Ducks Ltd. – As Big As All Outside
The latest track from Andy Jossi and Krissy Vanderwoude is a thing of beauty. Whether it’s the guitars of the former or the words and voice of the latter it will leave an imprint etched firmly into your auditory cortex. … Continue reading The Churchhill Garden – Lonely
The Catenary Wires have made another track available from their forthcoming third album The Birling Gap. Titled The Overview Effect it’s the album’s closing track. The Overview Effect is “a cognitive shift in awareness reported by some astronauts during spaceflight, … Continue reading The Catenary Wires – The Overview Effect
This weeks pack of three features three bands with twee (or twee-punk) influences in their music. Star 99 hail from San Jose, California and comprise Saoirse, Chris, Cole and Jeremy. The six-track My Year in Lists is their debut and … Continue reading Something For The Weekend? Twee Tracks
Russian band Peach Gardens delighted these ears on last years self-titled debut EP. I described their sound as “ethereal, shimmering, reverb-laden shoegaze/dreampop” and those colours are firmly nailed to that particuliar mast on new single Sunset Drive. It’s very Pale … Continue reading Peach Gardens – Sunset Drive
