Coil
Musick To Play In The Dark²

In 1985 a wondrous album titled Hemp Is Here was created by the obscure English duo Leven Signs, composed of Pete Karkut and Maggie Turner. Since then, Hemp Is Here has proven to be a visionary recording that holds a special place in the ongoing expansion of experimental music. Through the method of tape collage, an unclassifiable recording was created that consisted of post-punk and avant-pop sounds, tribal rhythms and dub and folklore elements. The result was an unpretentious yet sonically sophisticated endeavour that subconsciously evoked the twentieth-century avant-gardist and minimalist music traditions. While maintaining a distinctly original sound, their output still contributed to local explorations and remained somewhat in line with other genre-dissolving bands from eighties England like Rimarimba, This Heat, Woo, 23 Skidoo or Eric Random and The Bedlamites.

Pearson Sound returns to Hessle Audio with a varied new EP over a range of tempos. Lead track 'Red Sky' combines a euphoric arpeggio and a growling bassline, with tough breakbeat foundations setting the pulse. Equally as effective deployed during peak time rushes as it is soundtracking a sunrise. 'Sinkhole' pairs crisp swung drums with an earworm of a bassline, while dubbed out echoes ping around the stereo field. On the flipside, 'Freefall' features eerie samples from Delia Derbyshire and Barry Bermange's 1960s 'Dreams' BBC radio broadcast, surrounded with droning pads and punchy 909s to hypnotic effect. Finally 'Around in Circles', a 160bpm excursion echoing some of Pearson Sound's earlier 'Autonomic' work for Darkestral, brings the EP to a satisfying close with its yearning melodies and percussive drive.

darkentriesrecords · Thomas Leer - 1979 2xLP PREVIEW CLIPS

Far over on the west coast of the USA we find a room full of drum machines, samplers and keyboards. Hard at work is Israel ‘Iz’ Gravning aka Tone Scientist, who’s been using this Seattle studio to produce genre-defying future music for more than 25 years.

New deep house record from an unknown Arhaus, DK producer.