From the newly minted SWOB label. The third chapter of SW,’s tekkNOthing featuring a dub-oriented collection of five tracks that elegantly double back on the creative foundations from which the tekkNOthingproject emerged. With tempos on the low and analogue effects spilling over valleys of rhythm, the journey concludes with ‘thxJA’, where the sheer weight of dense musical layers unveils another chapter.

TRACK LISTING

A1. ChemicUNKL
A2. JaZZzKY
B1.. DreamCREAM
B2. ReALLorbIT
B3. ThxJA

Secret Soul Society aka Cal Gibson backs up his already assured reputation for being something of an edit maestro here. 'Julians Cabbages' kicks off with dubby downtempo drums and some lovely twinkling arps. 'Make It All True' then refracts a shimmering vocal and some nice musical percussion around a lazy groove and 'Finally Got My Life Together' has a dreamy feeling and widescreen synth architecture. 'Next To You' shuts down with more textured bass and another weird yet wonderful vocal sample.

STAFF COMMENTS

Mine says: Big one from Secret Soul Society who offer up four slices of hands in the air balearic dancefloor melancholia. Cry now or cry later!

TRACK LISTING

Julians Cabbages
Make It All True
Finally Got My Life Together
Next To You

Originally released on cassette in 1984, Borghesia's Clones album now resurfaces on vinyl courtesy of the dons at Dark Entries. It's a fine glimpse into early electronic experimentation from 1980s Ljubljana, all created using borrowed gear and recorded live without overdubs. The results are an album of hypnotic proto-techno and acid-inflected instrumentals intended for video installations and performances, all of which speak to the raw, pioneering spirit of the scene in Yugoslavia at the time. The A-side has driving club energy, while the flip drifts into more immersive ambient territory. It might be four decades old, but this album still has a visceral impact on mind and body.

TRACK LISTING

Side 1:
Pier 46
Graffiti No 1
Graffiti No 2 (We Are Everywhere)
Lustmorder
Secret Affair No1

Side 2:
ZMR
Cindy Sherman
Lini Je Sile
Secret Affair No 2
Secret Affair No 3
Obnova

Coyote and Peaking Lights form a perfect pairing on this latest drop of bliss from Is It Balearic. They are artists who are drenched in dub influences and that comes to the fore on this direct collaboration which marries swirling dub with dreamy vocals and ghostly acid arpeggios to bring to mind a serene sunset after a long, hot and lazy day. 'Love Letters' is pure horizontal bliss, 'So Far Away' gets even slower and will drown you in synth succulence and Coyote's dub mix is laden with soothing delays and warm bass that transports you to an exotic world of weed-laced wonderment.

STAFF COMMENTS

Mine says: Coyote and Peaking Lights are here to carry you off into the sunset. A match made in balearic heaven...

TRACK LISTING

Love Letters
So Far Away
So Far Away (Coyote Dub Mix)

Omid Geadizadeh's solo debut on Wah Wah Wino - three smoked out cuts run the A side, all dripping with the sound of Iranian santur. Morgan Buckley rinses it right out on the flip. Wah Wah Wino records sell out in super quick time - don't dilly dally if you want in on the weirdness.

TRACK LISTING

My Eyes Drank Water
Eight Ways From Sunday
One Day Will Be Your Last
هشت راه از یکشنبه (Morgan Buckley Remix)

'...When I make music, I'm always trying to create a temporary refuge for myself, a refuge from the increasingly frightening world out there. A kind of remote island where I can hide, switch off for a while, feel at peace. In any case, I feel inner peace when making this music, and I hope, in some way, it does the same for you...'

Nurnberg's Lars Fischer returns under his Klangkollektor alias for another unhurried snapshop of horizontal bliss. Perfectly timed for summertime hammock dwelling, the four tracks here epitomize the languid, dubbed-out organic ambience that the Trak Trak drummer has conjured up in his own singular style.

Taking in toybox percussion and smothering it in emotive piano chords and punctuated electrics, opener "Ferry From Torkwrith" sets the harbour-like scene evocatively, while "Morning Hour" - also utilizing piano, drumbox and electronics - is a moving dawn chorus of sensuous moods and delicate melodies.

"Starlings" perfectly balances reverb, echo, atmosphere and space to create its dreamlike sensibilities; before "Isle Of Stonsey" takes on board slide guitar and Balearic flavours that'll keep you resided in your hammock in a semi-awake slumber till the sun drops beneath the horizon and the air turns a little cooler.

So brilliantly constructed with such a delicate yet deliberate hand, "Dubtapes Vol. 2" is a gently shimmering ambient masterpiece. 

TRACK LISTING

A1. Ferry From Torkwrith
A2. Morning Hour
B1. Starlings
B2. Isle Of Stonsey