Loving this, real head nodder and will open Tuesday nights show.

A very strong electronic theme this week, starting with the electronic pop sounds from The International Teachers of Pop. The pop theme is picked up by Squid, and carried on by Les Big Byrd, before Last Japan and Inner shift things much more electronic (and drum and bass). Max Cooper then takes over with a track from his new album (on my list), before we take a step back to last year with Perel. Then it's back up to date with some more upbeat pop from Inge van Calkar, before the deep house of Harrison BDP, some gospel-infused from Tom Noble, and finally back to the electronic sounds of Tourist. Best track: I do like Tourist's "Apollo", and Inge van Calkar's "River", but The International Teachers of Pop's new single "After Dark".

Sep 21 - Sep 27 2018

Marijuana

yeah, mud!

Jenny from Thebes

Cleaning Crew

Doreen

On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System

Lonsdale Slipons

Vision Of Me

Love Rudiments

First Look / First Conversation / Walk Home Pt. I

A Hole In The Ground

Pop Seeds

Out 21st Sept on ltd 7" (250 copies) + digital.
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SW025 - Squid - The Dial

New single by INTERNATIONAL TEACHERS OF POP,OUT NOW and available to buy/stream here.
http://hyperurl.co/After-Dark

AFTER DARK - INTERNATIONAL TEACHERS OF POP (SINGLE)

Taken from the new album 'One Hundred Billion Sparks', released 20 Sept.

Buy / stream: https://maxcooper.lnk.to/ohbs

It's hard to know what to say when it's the release day of a new album. So much time and work and thought and joy and pain goes into the process, and then I need to sum it up in a sentence somehow. All I can say is, I put everything I had into this one, and tried to be as musically honest as I could, I hope some of the ideas and feelings resonate with you.

As with my other releases of recent years I've used a visually related theme and collaborated with visual artists for every track to tell the overall story. I wanted to try and link this theme into my process of creating the album as closely as I could. So I chose a theme of the mind, and spent the first month of the project in total isolation with no outside contact, in order to look inwards for what creates us, and me, to provide content for the music and visuals. 

I named the album "one hundred billion sparks" after the one hundred billion neurons in our heads, and their act of "sparking" to create our experiences. It seemed a nice way to visually summarise what the project was about, and lent itself to the album artwork form, beautiful delivered by Tyler Hobbs with his countless networked fragments. 

The individual chapters of the story stray pretty far from the usual ideas around brains, but that's way too much info to include here, so we've made a little website summarising the whole project, which will be updated with each music video as they're released.

So that's it, I hope you find some music or ideas in there which you enjoy, and I'll be touring the new album AV show in 270 surround visual format wherever possible, so hopefully catch you at one of those gigs sometime soon.

Buy/Stream/LP/CD

Taken from Les Big Byrd's second album "Iran Iraq IKEA", out October 12 via PNKSLM Recordings on vinyl, cd and digital. Pre-order at www.PNKSLM.com/store

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Les Big Byrd - "Geräusche"

ASCEND 001 / COLD ASCENT 

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BandCamp: https://lastjapan.bandcamp.com/

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Long-time (3+ years!) curator of a regular weekly 10 track playlist of legit, (mostly) new tracks from Soundcloud, dug up here, there and everywhere. The lists always start out as 10 tracks, but some subsequently get pulled from Soundcloud by the band/artist or the label, so don't blame me for any short lists!

Les Big Byrd - "Geräusche"

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