Buy link: https://bandcloud.bandcamp.com/album/bandcloud-presents-missives

"Like many things that are good, I expect BandCloud started with a simple premise to fill a void. The sheer amount of new music appearing on SoundCloud and Bandcamp every day is exhausting to even think about. You get filled with an existential dread trying to navigate Netflix for something even half decent to waste your evening with right? Try wading through the ‘ambient’ tag on Bandcamp. 

"Wise to this, Aidan decided to start a weekly mailing list compiling the best of SoundCloud and Bandcamp. Mostly music with an ambient bent or something that betrayed his youthful love of progressive house. As a discerning fan of the pun, I have to say Aidan killed it with the name. He also put quite a lot of faith in SoundCloud not folding…..

"And its grown and grown, picking up a fancy website, a Dublin Digital Radio show and a killer, irregular mix series along the way. Also some delightful, insightful End of Year lists obviously made all the better for my presence on them. We’ve all discovered new music thanks to Aidan; at the time of writing I’m still picking up bits of my brain after clicking on a @bftt edit of Britney Spears that featured in his mailout.

"Platforms like BandCloud are very important. The music press is folding in on itself to cover the same artists & labels and do so with increasingly smaller humour and personality. Start zines, pick up that tumblr you haven’t logged into for 18 months and write about that odd little EP you saw big Phil Sherburne had bought on Bandcamp. He buys so much stuff! Write about the music you like and keep doing it.  

"Oooer got a bit righteous there.... 

"So, Bandcloud presents Missives marks a self-explanatory but important landmark in fine fashion, collating fresh material from a weighty selection of international artists. Everyone here has featured on Bandcloud in one form or another over the past five years. Moods and sonics vary throughout, but it’s all very Bandcloud."

Words by Tony Poland
Art by Paul Guinan (with photography by Shane Connaughton

Buy here

Bandcloud presents Missives

Six tracks, six artists, no PR, just my own digging, investigation and sharing from friends. Music from Denmark, the UK, the US, France and India.

rizzi - 4 Wind Turbines Geofon And Ambient Sound 
https://soundcloud.com/rizzi/sets/windturbines-recorded-with-lom-audio-geofon-and-usi-pro

James Marrs - Rampant, Rusty
https://lauraliesin.bandcamp.com/album/jm2020

Swaya - SURFER
https://swaya.bandcamp.com/album/appetizer

luumil - Les chambres prêtées
https://uneternalsleeping.bandcamp.com/album/les-chambres-pr-t-es

ALPTRACK X TWOFOLD - VOX DRUMLINE
https://eatdis.bandcamp.com/album/drum-to-drum-communication

Coma Conscience - Wrong Side Of The Tracks
https://soundcloud.com/deep_electronic/sets/de61-coma-conscience-pensive-desolation

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Orange Hexagon Son #12

Back with the first Bandcloud guest mix in a year! What's prompted this return? Who knows. 

https://soundcloud.com/lxv is David Sutton, a Philadelphia-based artist who first came to my attention when he released Sirens, a collaboration with Kara-Lis Coverdale. He also refashioned a track for Emily Berregaard's "Hallowed" release on enmossed.

He's put out something like eight solo albums and a series of EPs/singles/shorter-form releases since 2014, and contributed to the much-loved Blowing Up The Workshop mix series, as well as the "too new to be classic" Beyond/Below series. 

This mix features strange and beautiful music from Mira Calix, More Eaze, Sasha (but not *that* Sasha), Coil and many more artists, most of whom are completely unfamiliar to me. There's an almost even split between haunting melancholy and Italian dream house, perfect for the gorgeous liminality of this particular season.

The Enchanted Sea- Martin Denny
Untitled II- Nikolaienko
BB's Chant- Charles Bernstein
Scmyk- Mira Calix
Priority- More Eaze ft. Ben Bondy
Resounding Seashell- Jacy
Stormfugle- Moniek Darge
A Key to Heaven for a Heavenly Trance- Sasha
Plow Man- Terrestrial Tones
Find What You Love and Let It Kill You- Sylvain Chauveau ft. Myriam Pruvot & Chantal Acda
Sound Holes- Double Leopards
157- Chris Fratesi
Hidden Cove- Forrest Fang & Carl Weingarten
The Worst Idea I Ever Had- Can't (Jessica Rylan)
Ile ma lat?- Księżyc
Amethyst Deceivers- Coil


"Lxv has most recently released “Anxiety Euphoria” a full length available on Bandcamp and Spotify, exploring dream states in process and place, and excavations of exotica and the industrial from the modern era."

Bandcloud Mix October 2021 LXV

Inspired by a rogue tweet, I decided to delve into the back catalogue of Peter Daou, the keyboardist and engineer behind countless 1990s house tracks. Here we have as much as I could reasonably fit into an hour while trying to keep things as smooth and silky as the source material.

The Best Of Peter Daou

Patricia Wolf is an artist based in Portland, Oregon, who describes herself as a musician / sound designer / field recordist / DJ. It’s in the latter capacity that she features here, having put together the first Bandcloud Guest Mix of 2022. We’ve been in conversation a lot over the past year and a half or so, all basically stemming from my playing her track ‘Sauvie Island Wilderness Area’ from the Room40 compilation Particle Count on my radio show. Ducks aplenty.

This mix is a wonderful selection of ~ambient~ pieces from the recent past, ranging from Fennesz and Olivia Block to KMRU and Hiro Kone, Astrid Sonne and Penelope Trappes to William Basinski. It ranges from raucous and overpowering to subtly gentle, with melancholic piano leading into a whirlwind of samples as the mix reaches its conclusion.

Patricia’s got an album called I'll Look For You In Others coming out on Past Inside The Present soon – you can already preorder on Juno but Bandcamp links will be up shortly. I think tomorrow actually. 

https://soundcloud.com/patriciawolf_music

Fennesz - We Trigger The Sun (Touch, 2019)
KMRU - rimpa dusk (KMRU, 2021)
Olivia Block - Through Houses (Room40, 2021)
Hiro Kone - Mundus Patet (Dais, 2021)
Astrid Sonne - Stuck In Pause (Escho, 2021)
Christina Giannone - Glazed Vision (Past Inside The Present, 2021)
Chad Munson - Suspension (Muzan Editions, 2021)
Penelope Trappes - Fur & Feather (Mother’s Blood Version) (Houndstooth, 2021)
Adam Miller - Erosion (Inner Magic, 2022)
Saloli - A Good Rainy Day (Mary Sutton, 2021)
Derek Hunter Wilson - Baby, I mean (Instrumental) (Derek Hunter Wilson, 2021)
William Basinski - All These Too, I, I Love (Temporary Residence Ltd , 2020)

Bandcloud Mix January 2022 - Patricia Wolf

claire rousay - everything perfect is already here (extract)
chelidon frame, discontinuation of treatment - wings in the dark (edit)
c o m t e - beech
jane deasy - mouth of the sound
carmen villain - silueta
urban tribe - covert action
kraftwerk - the robots
alan braxe & fred falke - time out
juneunit - tr-ee
dbacon - west 
space ghost - inner focus
puyain sanati - wrestler
love - andmoreagain
cosmic garden - preoccupata (creta kano remix)
minos - kick drum scum
yourboykiran - futurism
pinkpantheress - all my friends know (anz remix)
phyliss jaxson - wobbly
aryu jassika - hymn one
g man - quo vadis dub
mark hand and neil iceton - beyond the nebula (holiday in beta centauri)
dj deeon - 1112
club style - crazy wild
steve poindexter- computer madness
robert armani - ambulance
dj rush - the reactor 
paul johnson - give me ecstasy
frankie knuckles presents satoshi tomiie - tears (classic vocal)
unknown
debit - 5th day 
perila - heal garden
earthen sea - felt absence
impulse array - photographic feeling
sixto rodriguez - sugar man

Bandcloud on Dublin Digital Radio 27-02-2022

Neglect is an artist based in Tucson, Arizona. It's hard to pin him down, as at times he makes sounds that are deep and dubby, as JMV, at others he makes reflective ambient as Neglect. For Bandcloud he's offered an hour of drifting wonder. 

The mix opens with 'I Only Have Eyes For You' by The Flamingos, sampled by Fugees for their track 'Zealots' in 1996, and brilliantly covered by Laryssa Kim in 2019 (as featured in Bandcloud 278). It moves through other Bandcloud favourites including Jake Muir, wzrdryAV and Roméo Poirier. While he could not have known it, I used the House in the Woods track he features in a mix back in 2014.  All in all it's safe to say it's right up my street and I hope it's up yours too.

https://soundcloud.com/neglectsound
https://neglectsound.bandcamp.com/

The Flamingos - I Only Have Eyes For You (End, 1959)
Jake Muir - Peacocks Tail (Sferic, 2018)
wzrdryAV - Librarian (Line, 2022)
Halftribe - Points In Time (Shimmering Moods, 2022)
Elin Piel - Omsorg  (self release, 2020)
JMV - Online Flex (Best Available Technology unreleased version)(Proxima Rec., 2022)
Imaginary Softwoods - Telefer  (self release, 2020)
Romeo Poirier - Palmaire  (Sferic, 2020)
Strie/Scanner - Odin, Ready  (A Strangely Isolated Place, 2022)
rookas - Snake Island (Northern Electronics, 2022)
The House In The Woods - Severton Pathway (self release, 2016)
Abul Mogard - Along The River (self release, 2022)
Giuseppe Falivene - Echoes, Diffusions III  (Shimmering Moods, 2020)
Raum - Restoration (Yellow Electric, 2022)
Neglect - CHROMA (Proxima rec., 2022)

Bandcloud Mix March 2022 - Neglect

For no reason other than that I wanted to, this month I shone a light on nearly three decades of great music from Róisín Murphy, from her work as part of Moloko to guest spots for Boris Dlugosch and DJ Koze, not to mention her stunning solo work. Two hours of slammers. One hour of disco wonder followed by a more introspective and outré 60 minutes. 

Róisín Murphy - Mastermind
Freeform Five Feat. Róisín Murphy - Leviathan
Róisín Murphy - Murphy's Law
Róisín Murphy - Overpowered
Boris Dlugosch ft Róisín Murphy - Never Enough (Drop Out Orchestra Remix)
Róisín Murphy - Incapable (The Reflex Revision)
Róisín Murphy - Incapable (Dmitri From Paris and Aeroplane Remix)
Róisín Murphy - Let Me Know 
Moloko - Pure Pleasure Seeker (Disco Vocal Version)
Moloko - The Time Is Now (Francois K Vocal Mix)
Moloko - The Time Is Now (Francois K Blissed Out Dub)
Róisín Murphy - Plaything
Moloko - Sing It Back (Mousse T’s Feel Love Mix)
Moloko - Sing It Back (Boris Musical Mix)
Róisín Murphy - Thoughts Wasted 
Moloko - Fun For Me
Róisín Murphy - Night Of The Dancing Flame
Róisín Murphy - Nervous Sleep
Róisín Murphy - Gone Fishing
Moloko - Dr Zee
Róisín Murphy - Movie Star
DJ Koze Feat. Róisín Murphy - Illumination
Moloko - Sow Into You
Róisín Murphy - Shellfish Mademoiselle
Moloko - Knee Deepen
Moloko - Sing It Back

Bandcloud on Dublin Digital Radio 28-03-2022 - Róisín Murphy Special

Yyed (https://yyed.bandcamp.com/releases) is a mysterious character. Known on Twitter for their outré sense of humour and insight into the deepest and darkest corners of ambient and musique concrète, they’re a minor celebrity at this point. 

I featured their Two Reflections in Parallel release in Bandcloud last year, and used sentences like “Woiiii crunchy crunchy noise and sound exploration from Yyed”, and “Burrows under your skin wonderfully”. Brad Rose of Foxy Digitalis said that it was “like being trapped inside a haunted, decaying labyrinth where you have chains tied around your ankles and are dragging them fruitlessly through the mud”, and that “I have listened to this piece a dozen times in the past two weeks and I think it’s infected me at this point, like I stepped on a rusty nail”. 

I asked Yyed for a mix in the hope of getting something equally fascinating and enjoyable, and they sure did deliver. Ambient with a lower-case a, strange songs, crunchy field recordings and plenty of unreleased Yyed, it’s a wonder. 

Staubitz and Waterhouse - Worker’s Drone
Isaiah Ceccarelli - Bourdons
Mark Harwood - Violence (Screaming)
Havadine Stone - Slow Bath
Giovanni Lami/Chemiefaserwerk - Side A
Eyes of the Amaryllis - Aleatoric Memory
Yyed - Untitled
Coppice - Is This The Spot
Simon Whetham & Slavek Kwi - Slaosim
Kuwayama–Kijima - 02.08.31 b
You And Me - Birthyard
Yan Jun - Zhu Wenbo
Yyed - Untitled
Annette Krebs - Untitled
Benjamin Nelson - Miniatures 2
Yeast Culture - IYS*
Afflux - Port-Jerome, Raffinerie
Yyed - Untitled
Shakeeb Abu Hamdan & Sholto Dobie - Banishment
Verdenskang - Untitled
Gregory Whitehead - Twilight For Idols
Andrew Weathers - Spring Spring, Edge of the Llano
Jon Collin - Furniture Maker’s Moan

Bandcloud Mix April 2022 - Yyed

Not sure this even aired as the system was down but here is the recording of what I played for my April show on Dublin Digital Radio. Pic by Eliza.

claire rousay - it feels foolish to say
Arianne Churchman - The Night-Faeries (The Night-Mare)
Children Of Alice - Rite of The Maypole
Grouper - Vanishing Point
Eoghan Comerford - The Golden Apples of The Sun (1969-71)
Slow Riffs - Gong Bath
Irene Buckley - Lost Lake
Central - Expert Luck
Jakojako - Resonanz
Elgato - Zone
Burial & Four Tet - Moth
DJML - Stroll
dbacon - west 
Nikki Nair - Salt
Minos - Eumenides
Snad - Jargon
Larry Heard Presents Mr White - The Sun Can't Compare
Blaze - Lovelee Dae
Fish Go Deep - Dream
Kyle Hall - Full Play
Laurent Garnier - The Man with The Red Face (Svek Remix)
Young Male - Maury 
Stellar Om Source - Elite Excel
Bearcat - Emergency
Phyliss Jaxson - Wobbly
Overmono - Everything U Need
Acemo - Heaven (2020 Mix)
Two Shell - Touchpad
more raze - heartbreaker feat. claire rousay 
Cognition Delay - Count Your Have Nots
2up Down - Teepee
Elijah Minnelli - They Of Many Stomachs
Gav & Jord - Pig Pilot
Kelis – Millionaire (ft André 3000)
FMS-80 - May You Live A Carefree Life Without Worries

Bandcloud on Dublin Digital Radio 24-04-2022

A few years ago, US DJ and producer C Powers made an offhand comment to me on Twitter about their drag background. I was intrigued and asked for more info, and they told me that they had DJed for the “trashtastic” House of Gunt for half a decade before moving from Savannah, GA, to the west coast (they’re currently based in Portland, following a stint in LA). A long time later, I asked them if they’d be interested in doing a mix in the spirit of the House, and after several months of hard work it's here. It’s been worth the wait. To go back to Gunt, you may be familiar with the concept of Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve and Talent, made famous by Ru Paul’s Drag Race. Gunt sidesteps away from the glamour towards Garbage, Uniqueness, Nerve and Talons. Their own description for me reads as follows:

Drop dead scandals from subterranean sutures in middle crust’s culture killing sabotage seek bittersweet repentance.

There’s an interview with the queens here (https://www.wussymag.com/all/garbage-uniqueness-nerve-and-talons-house-of-gunts-southern-swamp-legacy), where they discuss their “southern swamp legacy” (ironically featured in a magazine with Drag Race winner Sasha Velour on the cover).

Outside of music, Cici has been heavily active in anti-displacement work in recent years. When they moved to LA in 2019, they joined the Los Angeles Tenants Union, helping working class and undocumented families organise against unethical landlords and gentrification in North Hollywood. Upon moving to Portland a year later, they became a co-founding member of Don’t Evict Portland, a tenant-lead organisation that is working to build tenant power and delay, reduce, or eliminate the harm and violence of eviction. Their work in the real world blends into their work as an electronic musician and deejay.

The mix is positively uproarious, with themed sections (just look at the tracklist) brought together by some true musicianship and skills, all interspersed with live recordings from a night at Gunt. We’ve got classic acid, Bmore, vogue, club music and even a rare collaboration from Towa Tei and Kylie Minogue. This one puts the dirt in get down and dirty. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Shakedown - At Night 
Bok Bok & Tom Trago - Pu$$y track 
Teanna Taylor - WTP 
KW Griff and Booman - Work This Pussy 
Dukeyman - Doggystyle (Eat This Pussy) 
Schwarz - COLA (My pussy tastes like…) 
Maurice Joshua - I Got A Big Dick 
Helix - Dick Track 
Lil Jay - Get Off My Dick 
Geeman - Bang’t
Mason - Fashion Killa ft Stefflon Don
Dj Delish - TINA 
Robbie Tronco - Walk 4 Me (The Payless Pump Mix)
M&M - So Deep So Good 
B. Ames - Sniffles (The Bump Dub)
Shannell - Fuck Me Daddy 
Dat Oven - Icy Lake (L-Vis 1990 remix) 
Dj Tray - You Name It 
Cousin Cole - Chicken Moose Rhino Monkey
K Hole Kardashian - Chicken Wrapz 
Calvo Music - Can I Pet That Dog? 
Gendered Dekonstruktion - The Future Is Non-Binary (Boy Pussy's 'No Techno TERFs at the Rave' Remix)
Chicago Bad Boys - Menergy
Towa Tei & Kylie Minogue - GBI 
Dj Delish - SNACK DADDY 
MikeQ - Ms. Honey vs Curtains for U
Snappy Jit - Bumpa 
Katie Perry - Plastic Bag edit

In the Mix for BandCloud

Bandcloud Mix May 2022 - C Powers

Back in the studio with a bunch of unreleased tracks (potentially exclusives), a bunch of oldies and some regular new stuff

Alene Marie - If Forward Isn't Away (With Fanciulla Gentile)
German Army - Place In Memory
Elizabeth Parker - The Northern Forests
Katie Gerardine O'Neill - Washing Machine Jam
Minos - Geiger Counter 
Vera Dvale And Psykovarius - Aeg
MOBBS - Tusk
Daywalker + CF - Untitled 
Ngoni Egan - Kalahari To Fingal
Underworld - Cups (Salt City Orchestra Remix)
Fish Go Deep - Space
Kings of Tomorrow - Liquid Interlude 1
Dr Rhythm - Fantasy 
D9FF09 - 212020 B
Blamhaus - Yo Body
Jack Ward - Sotofett Gig Harry Potter
Lighght - Spirit Cuts [May2022 Version]
Pariah - Caterpillar
Wilted Woman - Glossy Center
Scoobz - Dreamcast
Chez Damier & Ron Trent - Sometimes I Feel Like (Mid 80's Feel Mix)
Snad - Gravemobbin
Orbital - Chime (Edit)
Emkay - Cowgirl
Locked Groove - Dream Within A Dream 
Oootini - A Possibility
Maija Sofia - River Summon
Adam Badí Donoval - (G)Listen
Molto - Fumo
Sertone - Bran
Meduna - Nafiltida
Open Casket Sound System - Tomb Riddim (Skeletal Version)
Mosca - You Won't Stop In Time
The Doors - Five To One

Bandcloud on Dublin Digital Radio 22-05-2022

John Loveless and I go back pretty far, at least in internet terms. We were both members of the Erol Alkan Forum, a resource that was a haven for general chat, track IDs and sharing your own music, among other things. John was a day one Bandcloud subscriber, and when we met once in Manchester in 2014, we learned that we had attended some of the same gigs while I was studying in Preston and he was in Manchester. Over the past decade or so he’s firmly established himself as a writer, DJ, curator, promoter and label boss. His label Hot Concept has put out sterling releases from Pokies, Beigean, Bleaching Agent, Yr Lovely Dead Moon (who featured recently in these missives), and Gramrcy, the latter of whom he collaborated with recently for a 12” on, wait for it, Erol Alkan’s Phantasy label. John’s become a big part of that world, mixing and curating A Psychedelic Sensibility to mark Phantasy’s 100-single milestone. It’s a thrilling example of things coming full circle. I must also mention that none other than Mel C (yes, Sporty Spice) played their track ‘Highdive’ in Pacha in Ibiza recently. Wowsers.

The mix he’s done for Bandcloud is a great insight into his eclectic world view, with dreamy ’50s organ music leading into something weird and wonderful from the 2020s. This Heat leads into colourful, unreleased techno. ’80s new wave meets Wilted Woman, while ’00s Jimmy Edgar collapses into an edit of Solid Groove (aka Switch, definitely one for the EAF heads). The late Richard H Kirk makes an appearance before the mix closes out with a glorious double-whammy of Mx Tactful and aya’s remix of the aforementioned Yr Lovely Dead Moon (both of which made recent appearances here). What more can I say?


Ken Griffin - Ebb Tide
Leoni Leoni - A Day Without Headaches
This Heat - Graphic/Varispeed
????? - ????? (Unreleased)
Geo Rip - Underwater Bodycam
Chez De Milo - Bushwa (Smagghe & Cross Version)
I:Cube - Popular Electronics
Electric Party - Tension
Wilted Woman - Close To Stone
Night Stalker - Creepy Autograph
Solid Groove - This Is Sick (DJ T. Edit)
Circuit 900 - Midori
Soso Tharpa - Evolution
Ngoni Egan - Phase 2
Sandoz - Inner Rhythms
Mx Tactful - Soft Sticky Tape
Yy Lovely Dead Moon - Sun Dance (aya Dub)

John Loveless SoundCloud : Instagram

Hot Concept SoundCloud : Bandcamp : Instagram

Photo by Jason Chen on Unsplash

Bandcloud Mix June 2022 - John Loveless

This ain't a guest spot, but I was lucky to have the wonderful @deejaygeejaygee in the studio with me this month. Very little mixing but plenty of good music, some lengthy tracks played out in full. 

Ian Humberstone - A Warning to the Curious - Part 1
Boards of Canada - Amo Bishop Roden
Carmen Villain - A Year Ago
Breeder - Tyrantanic (Slacker's Magic Kingdom Mix)
Chelidon Frame - Thalassa
Azu Tiwaline - Into The Void
Graham Dunning - Unhinge Lower Jaw Assembly
DJ Sprinkles + Mark Fell - Insights (Sprinkles Alt. Mix)
Aban - Efie Nnye 
Luis - Timmy Chalamet
Boards of Canada - In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country
Juneunit - twenty-twenty-three
Meeker - Save Me (Futureshock SOS Mix)
Raff N Freddy – Deep Progress
Signal Flow - Rendezvous with Rama (Northworks Dub Mix)
Akwizgram - Nonn
Debit - The Age of Equitable Nature
Dogs vs Shadows - Reprieve 3
Elika Ostrov - Crater
Parris - springtime flows in three ways
Aurora Halal & DJ G. - Off The Top
Jark Prongo - Wave 2081
Qnete - Exergy
Jamal Moss - When Love Knows No Bounds
Left Hand Cuts off the Right - Stamou Processing Judgkins
Nobuka - Miniatüre 08
Sofie Birch - Ubiquitous
David A Jaycock - Making the Pyre at St Cleer
Terekke - Fandn

Bandcloud on Dublin Digital Radio 19-06-2022

Robyn Charlie is a DJ/producer from Drogheda, Louth (the county my father is from), currently based in London. I featured some of her releases in the mails, referring to their “hefty kicks and claps”, saying that the sound was “as informed by techno and post-club or whatever you want to call it”. In describing her music to someone I wrote “weird but hefty club music - a bit techno a bit ??”, which sums up her non-standard approach to production. 

As a DJ she goes HAM, bonkers you might say. Not bonkers in a bad way, more Bonkers like the ’90s CD compilations. She’s part of the Bitch I’m Fucking Beautiful crew, and the blurb for their gig in Dublin’s Workman’s Club later this month claims she “brings the HARDEST techno this side of hell”. You can judge for yourself with this month’s mix, a proper session of nasty and high-energy tunes. No tracklist, just vibes, but I do recognise the VTSS remix of LSDXOXO in there.

Bandcloud Mix July 2022 - Robyn Charlie

Five years since my last one, I decided to go all out on Ibiza trance for the sunny weather. ALL OUT. And a few new jams for good measure.

Sasha and Emerson - Scorchio (Emerson's Late Nite Dub)
DJ Jurgen Presents Alice Deejay - Better Off Alone (Signum Remix)
Signum Feat. Scott Mac – Coming On Strong
Billy Hendrix – Body Shine
Southside Spinners – Luvstruck
Katcha - Touched By God (Katcha's '4am With Pecker' Mix)
Matt Darey Presents DSP - From Russia With Love (Matt Darey Original Mix)
Matt Darey Presents DSP - From Russia With Love (Solar Stone's Red City Remix)
Lost Witness - Happiness Happening (Lange Remix)
Lost Witness - Red Sun Rising (Lange Remix)
Binary Finary - 1999 (Gouryella Remix)
William Orbit - Barber's Adagio For Strings (Ferry Corsten Remix)
Starparty - I'm In Love (Ferry Corsten & Robert Smit Remix)
Art of Trance ft Caroline Lavelle - Breathe 
Atlantis vs. Avatar - Fiji (Lange Remix)
Three 'N One Presents Johnny Shaker - Pearl River
Mauro Picotto - Pulsar (Megavoices Mix)
Mario Piu' Aka DJ Arabesque – The Vision (Vision 1 Mix)
Push - Strange World (2000 Remake)
 
I. JORDAN - Always Been
Morwell - Nowhere to Run
Huey Mnemonic - Red Alert
Ryan Beckemeyer - sunlight echoes the room ◌—◌

Bandcloud on Dublin Digital Radio 17-07-2022 - Trance Special

Bandcloud is dead, long live Bandcloud. This was the final BC broadcast on Dublin Digital Radio and was an attempt to feature as much music as possible that appeared in the newsletter during its eight-year run.

Ai Yamamoto - Late morning - Remote learning and house chores, remote working (washing machine, vacuum cleaner, printing, typing, clicking, pencil, paper, cup, glass bottle
Alina Sánchez - Waiting for the Miracle
Amanda Feery - How to Breathe
arushi jain - I feel incomplete without sound
beaunoise - Gymnopédie No. 1 (Buchla 200e)
Barrier - Telos
Blacklauren - Psamathe
boygirl - slave 4 u
Broadcast - Microtronics 10
Black Polygons - Diaphane
C. Vadi - Careless Whisper (Wham! feat. George Michael)
Call Super - Coney Storm Drain (Extended Version)
clayhead - smells big
claire rousay + more eaze - 21 Cents Flat And yearning
Coby Sey - Tamesis
Daisy Mae - Symphonic Engines
Debit - 1st Day
Debit - 4th Night
DIVIL A' BIT - What rush is on ye?
Ellll - Runnel [Barbra] 
Elizabeth Joan Kelly - Bowl City
Eromoscape - مشهد قحل - على الحدود Borderline
Ffion - Tubular Bells
Fia Fiell - All In The Same Room
Fulacht Fiadh - Up the Airy Mountain
Forest Management - Actual Night
Gadget & The Cloud - Always
Good Willsmith - I told you to get up and it just happened
Crystal Waters - Gypsy Woman (Gafacci remix)
Halvtrak - Expressions
HVL - Continuum
Hardworking Families - Friday Night I'd Drive You All Around
Hiro Kone - Parting phrase
Ian Humberstone - Part Four
If, Bwana - Freudian Slip 
Innomi - Feedback
juneunit - enwm
Jack Ward - Sotofett Gig Harry Potter
Jane Cassidy - Out On A Limb
JakoJako - Resonanz
JM - Open Wheel
Karima F - Random Loop From Doepfer Site
Kornél Kovács - Dollar Club
Kara-Lis Coverdale - ICON /C
Klahrk - MF.MT (coproduced with Lighght)
kevin sanders - A cormorant dreaming
Kali Malone - Fifth Worship
Klara Lewis - Untilted
Korea Undok Group - Fixed Ending
Katie Gately - Hymncycle
Lina Filipovich - Magnificat
Lighght - And The Snow Decided To Stop Falling And Instead Rise For We Were Not Deserving
Lila Tirando a Violeta - Seeing the Light featuring w. baer
Lara Sarkissian - Geghard (Extended Version)
Morgan Buckley - Heavy Traffic
MACHINE WOMAN - WHEN WE FUCK I THINK ABOUT MACHINES
Maral - Dashti
Mvestle - A
Minced Oath - Racquet Restrung
Nadia Khan - Slight Drift
nothing natural - skin2skin
Norman W. Long - Marsh Filter
Northworks - Lights
Ondo Fudd - Coup d'etat
object blue - Cerco
oMMM - Eyes
Oui Ennui - Viridian Pulse
oootini - lovely arps pt2
Pan•American - the terrace
Pub - Vilees Wideoo
Pauline Anna Strom - Rain On Ancient Quays
Quiet Clapping - A Vague Memory
qualchan. - this too shall pass.
QGB - SENT U A FLOWER
Rachel Ní Chuinn - Only Leaps Into The Dark
Redahan - News
Space Afrika - 217
shn shn - taking time
Teresa Winter - Cannot Look
Tootoosis - tiny flowers grow
Una Lee - 1 fib or no
unii - Breaths
uzala - lw droneOZ
vhvl - rip II
Veryan - INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE
Whettman Chelmets - The Devil DoubleCrossed You
Wizard Of - Childlike
Wilted Woman - Accepting Motten
Xosar - Gnome Circle
Xth Réflexion - 03
XIII - WWWW
Yyed - An Instant Folded Over Itself Into A Knot
Yakui - Harmoyear
Yaroze Dream Suite - In The Moonlight (feat. Hannah Mack)
Zero Gravity Tea Ceremony - slick with saliva, footsteps dampened by fleshy ground - onwards, onwards
Zvrra - Calling
Zhe Pechorin - Show Me That Future Can Be Kind To Me

Photo by Tandem X Visuals on Unsplash

An A To Z of Bandcloud

Holmes Price - The Right To Be Forgotten (Dub)

Chloe Frieda has been behind the various facets of Alien Jams since it started as a radio show on NTS in 2011, broadcasting every Sunday from 5-6pm. Last year Alien Jams the label kicked off with a wonderful realese from oMMM called 'Parallel Lines Converge'. I included it in Bandcloud 20, not saying much other than that I couldn't stop listening to it, closing the entry with "JUST BUY IT". 

On top of that Chloe runs events under the Linear Space banner with our friend DEBONAIR, recently hosting such incredible artists as Karen Gwyer, HOLOVR, An Trinse and Rosen. 

She's put together a wonderful mix for us here, dancing superbly from dank techno and vibrant house to crunching electro, all underpinned by a skyward-leaning mood fitting her chosen moniker.

Subscribe! 

Chloe Frieda (Alien Jams) - Bandcloud Mix July 2015

Check this superb mix from De Leon, the artist who's released two stunning tapes for the /\\ • Aught label based in Philadelphia (that's where their tapes are shipped from, anyway). I talked about both tapes for Truants, and I wondered how those interested in learning more about gamelan and such music could do so given the anonymity and singularity of these releases. I reached out to the Aught crew, and they offered "a mix of gamelan, other southeast asian music, and some other random bits". Naturally, I nearly bit their digital hand off.

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Bandcloud Guest Mix : De Leon
"Thalong Tha Ka-Nying"- Brao Ka-nying men, Southern Laos
“Circular Thoughts”-Gamelan Son of Lion
“Timber: Part 1”- Slagwerk Den Haag (Comp. Michael Gordon)
“Doi Rup”- Bunyong Ketkhong
“Pedat”- Tongtong ensemble, Pamekasan, Madura
"Ile-Ile”- Ropaoen Batoebara
"Untitled"- Unknown
"HorZtial Tracking SyStem”- Omit
“Jipang Walik”- Handoyo, Ali Wijaya, Sujana Arja, Keni Arja, R.Y. Yusef, Sandrut, Sidem Permanawati, Bodong, Darja Ammuddy, Rasita Cas, Masdi, YoYo Andoyo Sudibyo, Wachiono, Sukendri
"Untitled"- Unknown

These are all things that helped inspire /\\08. 

Bandcloud Guest Mix - August 2015 - De Leon

This week we have a wonderful mix from Kit Records (https://soundcloud.com/kitrecords) boss Richard Greenan, who's put together 40ish minutes of oddities — eastern funk, ambient wash, more metallophonic goodness — it's some Kit goodies in there too of course. Speaking of Kit, check out the utterly charming Collages I from Cosmic Neighbourhood, which came out last week. It's been on heavy rotation.

N. Rajam - Darbari (Sarathy Korwar remix)
Machinefabriek - Slapping Dance
The Nag's Head - Gluud Und Scruud
Pergola - Ibis
Mary Lattimore - For PTD
Gavin Prior - 롯데리아
Laurie Nouchka + Auclair - The Shard
Lung Dart - Found Sound
LRAO - Sister
Devon Loch + Antidröm - Untitled
Mariah - 心臓の扉
Biber – Battalia
Nestor Burma - To Turku

Kit Records - Bandcloud Mix

Jessica Ekomane (https://soundcloud.com/jessica-ekomane) really impressed me with her track "To Whoever Shall Inherit the Earth", which featured on the Urban Arts Synthesis Vol 1 compilation last year. Born in France, she's now based in Berlin. Her work is inspired by such subject matter as German expressionism, sex work and Ballard, as well as more abstract notions of space and technology. She has won numerous awards and has presented her work in countries such as Germany, China and Australia. She recently took part in a discussion on the role of women in electronic music that took place at Kantine am Berghain.

The mix she's made for us features sound recordings of marginalised voices, musique concrète and intriguing modern songwriting. It's short, but nonetheless fascinating.

Jessica Ekomane - Bandcloud Mix November 2015

I made this mix because I noticed a lot of tracks coming through with a similar vibe or feeling to that of my favourite compilation series growing up, Global Underground. It kicked off last year with Call Super's Fluenka's Shelf, and then even more so this year with Ploy's Move Yourself. So I made this mix with some classics alongside some new gems, hoping to show a fluency and coherence between then and now.

The pic is of me in a bar on Khao San Road a few years ago, inspired by the many half-face shots on GU covers from around the globe.

PS Sharing on this account because I have the space xx

Aidan Hanratty - Prog 2016

created april 2012

Intro
Clipse - Mr Me Too (ft Pharrell)
Snoop Dogg - Drop It Like It's Hot (ft Pharrell)
Kelis - Young Fresh & New
*NSync - Girlfriend (Remix ft Nelly)
Ludacris - Southern Hospitality (ft Pharrell)
TI - Good Life (ft Common & Pharrell)
Clipse - Grindin'
NORE - Nothin' (ft Pharrell)
Mystikal - Shake Ya Ass (ft Pharrell)
Mystikal - Danger (Been So Long)(ft Nivea)
NORE - Oh No
NORE - Superthug
Jadakiss - Knock Yourself Out (ft Pharrell)
Busta Rhymes - Pass the Courvoisier, Part II (ft Diddy & Pharrell)
Jay-Z - I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me)
Usher - U Don't Have To Call (Remix ft Ludacris)
ODB - Got Your Money (ft Kelis)
Beenie Man - Feel It Boy (ft Janet Jackson)
Jay-Z - La-La-La (Excuse Me Miss Again)
Justin Timberlake - Senorita (ft Pharrell)
Kelis - Good Stuff (ft Terrar aka Pusha T)
Snoop Dogg - Beautiful (ft Pharrell & Charlie Wilson)
Busta Rhymes - Set Your Ass On Fire (ft Pharrell)
Clipse - Trill
Nelly - Hot In Herre
Britney Spears - I'm A Slave 4 U
Britney Spears - Boys (The Co-Ed Remix ft Pharrell)
Fabolous - Young'N
Justin Timberlake - Like I Love You (ft Clipse)

Mixes

Bling Like The Neptunes Sound

Hello! Here we have the first guest mix of the year. It comes from Yorkshire-based act worriedaboutsatan, who make emotive electronic music that defies categorisation. Not doofy enough for the floor, often too urgent to be termed ambient, it's always slightly heartbreaking. Fittingly, they've provided music for Adam Curtis's HyperNormalisation doc last year. This mix features some of their own tracks, a Luke Abbott remix of their old alias Ghosting Season, and one of my favourite ever tracks, the timeless 'Sun Can't Compare' by Larry Heard. I hope you enjoy it!

SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/worriedaboutsatan
Tracklist: http://eepurl.com/cyQYzn

Bandcloud Guest Mix - January 2017 - worriedaboutsatan

Chants – Susurrus (Sim Hutchins Remix) (Astral Plane Recordings)
Elodie Lauten – Reverse (Wilde Calm)
t/e/u/ – To Rescue Things Beyond Recall-Soon-When The Reaper-Time-Has Garnered All-The Ears That Hear Now-And The Feet That Stand-Yet In The Fields Where Once In Fold And Hall-Echoed The Voices Of Our Fathers' Band (Folklore Tapes)
Heavenly Music Corporation – Energy Portal (Astral Industries)
Yamaneko – Any% Teardrop ASMR (Unreleased)
TANS – Hard Left (Forthcoming, Seagrave)
Uon – Superbath (Anòmia)
Mumdance & Logos – Cafe Del Mar (Different Circles)
Little Movies – Gregory(An) Wah (Wah Wah Wino)
Das Glow – Weiss Gas (Institubes)
Doubler – Entrance (Forthcoming, Confused House)
Basement Jaxx – Miracles Keep On Playin' (Red Alert Remix) (XL)
The Funk Junkeez – Got Funk? (Da Mongoloids Funktastic Funk Mix) (Strictly Rhythm)
Chicks On Speed – Wordy Rappinghood (Chicks On Speed Records)
Narcotic Thrust – Safe From Harm (Andy Morris & Stuart Crichton Vocal Mix) (ffrr)
Dream City – Down 2 (Metropol Version) (Blankstairs)
Kretchmer – Light Shift (Unreleased)
Patrick Conway – Orbit (Forthcoming, Rekids)
Iona Fortune – Lakmé (Forthcoming, Lives Through Magic)
Ankle Shards – Back In Start (Forthcoming, Lives Through Magic)
OD – Super Secret Office Party (Wah Wah Wino)
Mr. YT – Ocean In Heaven (Apollo)
Oni-Ki – Darkness Light Darkness (Garage Hermétique)
Gang Gang Dance – Inner Space (Warp)
MJ Cole – Sincere (Talkin' Loud)
Deb n Dizzee – Sirens (Paul Devro Edit) (Bootleg)
KW Griff – Fascination (Unreleased?)
DJ Tameil – Oh Yeah (Unreleased?)
Lil’ Louis – The Original Video Clash (Dance Mania)
Green Velvet – Answering Machine (Relief)
Umfang – Freak Is Out (Allergy Season/DISCWOMAN)
Eric Martin – Fire Alarm (Dance Mania)
Larry Heard Presents: Mr. White ‎– The Sun Can't Compare (Alleviated)
Agnes – 01 (Forthcoming, Chained Library)
Ash Koosha – In Line (Ninja Tune)
Anjou – Greater Grand Crossing (Forthcoming, Kranky)

Bandcloud - DDR - February 2017

Yamaneko is a London-based producer who has released several albums and singles on Local Action. 

https://soundcloud.com/yamaneko

Yamaneko - Dissolving All Ghosts Unknown

"CCL specializes in the liquefaction of rhythmic and melodic matter - combustive phase transitions through cowgirl-breaks, trip-funk, wiggle steppers, drum and face." They are based in Seattle, USA, and they are a core member of the TUF collective. 

https://soundcloud.com/ccl-tuf

Flora FM is also based in Seattle and has released on Argot, Vanity Press, Terrafirm and Kalahari Oyster Cult.

https://soundcloud.com/florafm

CCL X Flora FM - Winding Plod

ACI_EDITS released two tapes on the now-defunct Aught label. 

https://soundcloud.com/aught0101

ACI_EDITS - [untitled]

Gadget and the Cloud is based in Cork, Ireland, and is a DJ, producer and writer.

https://soundcloud.com/gadgetandthecloud

Gadget and the Cloud - Quiescence

Blusher is an Irish producer based in Amsterdam.

https://soundcloud.com/aidowall

Blusher - Snowy B

Violet is a Portuguese DJ and producer whose efforts are too many to name. She's released on One Eyed Jacks and Paraíso as well as establishing her own labels Naive and Naivety. She set up the Lisbon-based station Rádio Quântica with Marco Rodriguez (aka Photonz) and is a part of the queer collective Mina. Her debut album is coming soon on Dark Entries. She also contributed a track to the 2014 Bandcloud compilation.

https://soundcloud.com/violet

Violet - Baby Doll

Lee Kelly (fka Sage) is a Dublin, Ireland-based DJ and producer who has released on Tasteful Nudes and wherethetimegoes, with a forthcoming record due on First Second Label.

https://soundcloud.com/leekellymusic

Lee Kelly - Forever In Doubt

Last month, Bandcloud released Missives (https://soundcloud.com/bandcloud/sets/bandcloud-presents-missives), a compilation marking five years of the mailout. So far it has raised almost €700 for Irish charities Merchants Quay Ireland and Ana Liffey Drug Project.

The music is so special and varied it seemed appropriate to ask someone to mix it all together. The wonderful @ohpeach answered the call, and she's wrapped it all up with charm and style, giving the new music new life and context. Peach plays the Forbidden Fruit festival in Dublin on Sunday, June 2.

ACI_EDITS - [untitled]   
SDDS 3 - HUP [2019 Mix Adjust]   
Motoko & Myers - Leaf Lottery   
Debby Friday - uplookingdown   
Cruel Diagonals - Praxis   
Lee Kelly - Forever In Doubt   
Persuasion - Aidan's Dream   
Doc Sleep - Three Suns   
Violet - Baby Doll   
James N Murray - Silver Dollar   
Blusher - Snowy B   
Gadget and the Cloud - Quiescence   
Yakui - Airycloud   
CCL x Flora FM - Winding Plod   
Yamaneko - Dissolving All Ghosts Unknown

BUY MISSIVES HERE

Bandcloud Presents Missives (Mixed by Peach)

I love ambient and chillout music. I love mixes. I love 90s/00s Ibiza comps like Cafe Mambo, Back to Mine, Chillout Sessions etc. Here's my take.

Para One / Zero 7 / Moby / Jam & Spoon / Brian Eno / Leftfield / Global Communication / Vangelis / Laraaji / Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani / Art of Noise / Handsome Boy Modeling School / Groove Armada / Tangerine Dream / Quincy Jones / Marvin Gaye 

Photo by Declan McGlynn

Now! That's What I Call The Best Ambient / Chillout / Downtempo Mix In The World ... Ever!

We start the year with an exclusive premiere! @Slugabed has a new release out next week and he's given me the chance to share one of the tracks with you. It's called 'root rot' and it's a wonderful blend of blissful melody and strange, distorted noise. It's hip-hop, but it's not. It's weird but beautiful. You can imagine the ghostly creatures on the release's cover dancing to it. He also answered some questions from me. I hope you enjoy reading his words and listening to his music.

Interview: http://bandcloud.org/exclusives#/slugabed-root-rot/

they exist!!!!

Slugabed - Root Rot (Bandcloud Exclusive Premiere)

I've attempted this many times over the years, but finally, in 2020, nearly 20 years after Missy said "me and Timbaland been hot since 20 years ago", I have completed a Timbaland productions mix. Naturally I've had to leave things out so I don't want to hear it!!! DO NOT @ ME! Nearly 50 tracks from the following artists:

702 // 2 Chainz // 50 Cent // Aaliyah // Amil // Beyoncé // Bobby Valentino // Bubba Sparxxx // Cee-Lo // Destiny's Child // Dr Dre // Eve // Ginuwine // Jay-Z // Justin Timberlake // Keri Hilson // Lil' Kim // Ludacris // Madonna // Magoo // Memphis Bleek // Missy Elliott // Mocha // Mr Cheeks // Nas // Nelly Furtado // Nicole Wray // Re-Up Gang // Snoop Dogg // SWV // The Lox // TI // Tweet // Twista // UGK

Timbo The King

A selection of some of my favourite tracks from the Where To Now? back catalogue

https://soundcloud.com/where-to-now-productions
https://wheretonow.bandcamp.com

Nadia Khan - Slight Drift (2015)
Pez - Pt. 2 (2015)
Tom James Scott - Dream of High Water (2014)
Turf Motive - A (2014)
Roger Tellier-Craig - Sightings: Landfall (2015)
H.Takahashi - Nymphaea (2019)
KETEV - Traces of Weakness (2016)
Accem Myomi - DJ Confrontation (2015)
D Hansen - Defacing The Indoor Pond (2014)
Nicola Ratti - W11 (2016)
Ondness - Curfew (2015)
N1L - Chasing The Sun (2017)
CVN - Exposure (2016)
Myriam Bleau - Hidden Centuries (2019)
Eugene Ward - Place (Large Group) (2015)
Beatrice Dillon - Face B (2015)
Timeron – Untings (2015)
Proto - Vitamin A3 (2016)
Hold MC - Málaga (2015)
Machine Woman - I can mend your broken heart (Kassem Mosse Remix) (2016)
Space Afrika - The Way Home (2015)
Kritzkom - Base A (2016)
rkss - Stole Day White (2016)
bergsonist - Conflict In Yemen (2018)
Machinefabriek with Anne Bakker - Schim (2020)
Ten Hyphen Twenty - Still Life With Indoor Water Feature (2013)

where to now?

See also https://soundcloud.com/bandcloud/blog-house-mix-2-because-why-not

Feist - My Moon My Man (Boys Noize remix)
Chromeo - Fancy Footwork (Strip Steve You & I Remix)
Justice - Waters Of Nazareth (Erol Alkan's Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr Re-Edit)
Surkin - Radio Fireworks
Does It Offend You, Yeah - We Are Rockstars
Tomas Anderson - Washing Up (Tiga Mix)
Don Rimini - Let Me Back Up Crookers (Tetsujin Remix)
Kid Cudi - Day 'N' Nite (Crookers Remix)
Larry Tee ft Princess Superstar - Licky (Hervé Goes Low Remix)
Hervé - Cheap Thrills 
HiJack - Hijackin (Herve's Fuck Fuck remix)
Jennifer Delano - Amsterdam (RipTidE Found the Spot Remix)
AC/DC - Thunderstruck (Crookers Remix)
MSTRKRFT - Work On You
The Black Ghosts - Face (Switch Remix)
Laidback Luke Feat A-Trak - Shake It Down
Surkin - White Knight Two
Tiga - Mind Dimension
DJ Rob 3 - The Chase
Steve Angello & Laidback Luke - Be (Laidback Luke Rave Edit)
Les Visiteurs - Snoop's Acid Drop
Spank Rock - Bump (Switch Remix)
Housemeister - INORDERTODANCE
Gossip - Standing In The Way of Control (Soulwax Nite Version)
Simian Mobile Disco - Hustler
Kid Sister - Damn Girl
Britney Spears - Gimme More (Eli & Grayson Mix ft Amanda Blank)
CSS - Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above (Spank Rock Remix)
Annie - I Don't Like Your Band
David Rubato - Circuit (Aeroplane Remix)
Scissor Sisters - comfortably numb (Tiga remix)
Franz Ferdinand - The Fall (Ruined By Justice)
Justice - Phantom

mixes

bandcloud if bandcloud were a thing in the mid-to-late noughties

see also https://soundcloud.com/bandcloud/bandcloud-if-bandcloud-were-a-thing-in-the-mid-to-late-noughties

justice vs simian - we are your friends
digitalism - zdarlight
black kids - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You (the twelves remix)
Nicky Van She And Dangerous Dan – Around The World Again
New Young Pony Club - Ice Cream (Van She Remix)
Feist – 1234 (Van She Remix) 
justice - let there be light (demo)
fake blood - mars
whomadewho - Out the Door (Superdiscount Remix)
tiga - you gonna want me
Les Rythmes Digitales – Jacques Your Body (Make Me Sweat)
kavinsky - Testarossa Autodrive (SebastiAn Remix)
boys noize - & down
goose - bring it on
cut copy - lights and music
klaxons - gravity's rainbow (van she remix)
boy 8-bit - the suspense is killing me
yelle - je veux te voir
tepr - minuit jacuzzi (data remix)
dj mehdi - pocket piano (joakim remix)
lcd soundsystem - get innocuous! (soulwax remix)
dj mehdi - signatune (thomas bangalter edit)

blog house mix 2 because why not

A weekly roundup of Bandcamp and Soundcloud cuts curated by @aidanhanratty. House/techno/ambient/drone etc. 

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