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January 16, 2026 at 10:45 AM
xavisphone's debut for Modern Love hits with unrelenting energy; a hyper-kinetic, red-lining funk that joins dots between DJ Anderson do Paraiso’s darkside minimalism, Equkinoxx’s riddmic pressure and DJ Ramon Sucesso’s walloping delirium.

limited vinyl, out now

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January 15, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Teresa Winter, Jabu and Birthmark usher a séance-like suite of nocturnal energies, like some phosphorescing ambient-pop fusion dreamt by Svitlana Nianio, NWW, Elodie.

Boomkat Exclusive blue vinyl, now shipping ✨

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January 15, 2026 at 4:45 PM
28-track survey of UK DIY synth-pop, post-industrial, and new wave experiments, 1978-1990, feat aces from 23 Skidoo, The Future, Clock DVA/T.A.G.C., Eric Random, Konstruktivists, Ian Boddy, John Avery, Bourbonese Qualk+++

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January 15, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Touch label co-founder Mike Harding meets fellow exploratory journeyman Mark Van Hoen (aka Locust) in phantom post-industrial wastelands, beautifully riddled with Sissi Rada’s harp and Elisa Faire’s rafter-tickling vocal

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January 15, 2026 at 3:43 PM
January 15, 2026 at 3:18 PM
gorgeous, poetic and folkwise slowcore, big tip if you melted to that feeo album

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January 15, 2026 at 2:58 PM
A crucial and overdue spotlight on Éthiopiques’ lesser-known Armenian godfather, Nerses Nalbandian, bestowed the honorific mantle “The Ethiopian” for bringing the swing to Addis Ababa in the 1950s, where he would remain a catalyst to its renowned scene

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January 15, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Our classic this week - an absolute alltimer, 1990, right on the cusp of hardcore, acid house and street soul, the a-side is a big big staple of Demdike's Miles, the b-side with that infamous purple riff. Remastered + reissued for the 1st time... ✨

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January 15, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Em Records pick up the latest from Yasuhiko Fukuzono aka Aus, gorgeous works for koto, synth and piano - big tip if you've enjoyed Hiroshi Yoshimura's 'Clouds for Alma'

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January 15, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Carrier
Rhythm Immortal

re-press just landed

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January 15, 2026 at 12:46 PM
January 15, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Femke Dekker
Open Field Listening Station

excellent book/thesis on listening, based around a sonic exercise by Pauline Oliveros (pictured on the cover), including listening prompts designed to help focus your listening, aye

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January 15, 2026 at 12:30 PM
ML Buch
Suntub

2026 CD edition, including bonus track, 'Sway walking' ✨

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January 15, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Yeah this is a real stunner from Cairo’s Nashazphone label, supremely screwed DIY blooz landing somewhere on the line between Dome, Wah Wah Wino, Low, Andy Stott, Ghédalia Tazartès, Richard Youngs, Giulio Erasmus. Trust, it’s a good one

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January 14, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Kim Gordon
PLAY ME
March 13th

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January 14, 2026 at 2:16 PM
DJ Sprinkles & Mark Fell
Incomplete Insight (2012-2015)

2CD set including over two and a half hours taken from their collaborative 12-inch releases alongside a second disc of previously unreleased material

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January 13, 2026 at 4:03 PM
next up on Valentina Magaletti & Fanny Chiarello's Permanent Draft label, a new duo from Oï les Ox and poet / occasional Laila Sakini collaborator Lucy Van. Edition of 200 copies, comes with a 56 page booklet

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January 13, 2026 at 3:37 PM
2026 vinyl re-up of an Escho all-timer

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January 13, 2026 at 3:22 PM
a bona fide spiritual jazz holy grail, 1993, finally gets a deluxe remaster and reissue ✨

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January 13, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Sunn O))) - the sultans of sludge - slang a definitive full-length label debut for Sub Pop, just Stephen O’Malley & Greg Anderson howling into the wilds on all instruments, from trusted axes to keys and electro-acoustic sorcery

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January 13, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Touch veteran Rosy Parlane collects up a rich haul of loosies on this bumper anthology of non-album tracks. RIYL Robert Hampson, Fennesz, Jim O'Rourke, Kassel Jaeger, with art by Jon Wozencroft, as you can instantly tell

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January 13, 2026 at 1:17 PM
new from Omen Wapta - a two hour labyrinth of sensual dark ambient and sloshing, offbeat techno scaled between slow sluggers and quicksilver hoof reminiscent of Woody92, Nebuchadnezzar, Floid

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January 13, 2026 at 12:47 PM
a Sakamoto alltimer back in print - possibly a top 3 Sakamoto for us - all oddball, light but emotionally crushing pop interiors made with hi-gloss synths and unexpected edits, from farm animals to percolated drum machines = absolute core curriculum ✨

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January 13, 2026 at 12:15 PM
big new one from Short Span otw, propulsive midwestern biz with heavy, Phylyps Trak stylings

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January 13, 2026 at 11:03 AM