Serene Wood Sound is proud to announce its inaugural release in the shape of ‘Local Ghost’, the second full length album by genre shapeshifter Thomas Emslie A.K.A T_A_M.

Local Ghost sees T_A_M drawing on a wider pool of influence than ever before across it’s 12 tracks. From the degrading ambience of ‘Mill’; Hazy, screwed machine funk of ‘Grump’; lopsided percussive swing of ‘Okker’; hypnotic piano and scattershot drum programming of ‘Mind Like Milky Eyes’ or the swirling electroacoustic dread of ‘Freezing Rain’, this is the sound of Emslie actively trying to pull the components of his past work apart and force them in a variety of uneasy new directions.

Although the music on display here encompasses a variety of tempos and hints at a multitude of musical styles, a constant throughout is a sound palette which threatens to burn up and become engulfed amongst a sea of tape hiss and knackered machinery at any moment. Even as the synths and drum machines become increasingly unstable and smudged, T_A_M’s ever present melodic and rhythmic sensibilities keeps the scene from being lost in the ensuing fog.

Local Ghost releases digitally and on limited edition cassette on 28th of May 2021 on Serene Wood Sound.

Local Ghost (SWS001)

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Rinse FM Podcast

Hessle Audio feat. Perko - 23 May 2022

Molecular - Skank VIP
>>>Noisia - Diplodocus (Skeptical Remix)
Amoss - Blessy
Workforce - Attention To Suffering
Future Cut - Busted (Submotive Remix)
The Sauce - On A Mission
Myth & Zero T - Read My Mind
Break & Total Science - Blame You
>>>TEED - Garden (Calibre Remix)
FD - Double Drizzle
Alix Perez & DLR w/SP:MC - Keep Up
Mortlock - 99 Flake
Minor Forms - Late Funk
Mirrorman - Chaos Reigns
Sweetpea - Munka
>>>Myth - Defiant
Jubei - Tradition
Rift - Shade
Minor Forms - Watch Out
Molecular - Figure It Out
DJ Fresh - The Gatekeeper
>>>ZeroZero, Kolective & Mauoq - Problems
Trakker - Stabbing Pains
Dr Meaker w/Lorna King - Fighter (S.P.Y VIP)
Total Science - Squash (Break Remix)

July Selection 2022

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Merry Christmas from us to you. Here is a recording of a Fracture & MC System show on Rude FM Thursday 27th December 2001 - 21 years ago to this very day. I loved my time on Rude FM, mainly broadcasting from a bleak, isolated, grey, cold and condemned block in Chingford. Shout to Fugee.

0860.fm MIX #10 FRACTURE & MC SYSTEM 27th DEC 2001 on Rude FM

Wriggly UKG, FM chords and big womps.

Available via Bandcamp :)

A Fascinating Skeleton

as promised to those who pm'd me.

made approx 2006-07

Short Forgotten Produk  Trk Omc

Composer, producer, guitarist and vocalist ML Buch dazzles us with the latest Off-Kilter submission featuring previously unheard, unreleased music and an insight into the gentle makings of her latest album, Suntub. 

A dive into her sonic world and a glimpse of the songwriting processes, this hour long collage meanders through acapella and acoustic versions of existing tracks, sketches, ideas, loops, sound clips and other raw material. 

Blissful intimate pop-tinged electronic soundscapes; playful, glistening harmonies reverberating together, weaving and dissipating into air. It’s like the prequel to Subtub and sequel to the next album; the audio version of looking through an artist sketchbook. A reflection on where this journey began, where it is now and where, at some point, it may belong. 

Don’t let this one pass you by, it’s gold dust.

//

ML Buch is Marie Louise Buch, a Copenhagen-based composer, producer, guitarist and vocalist. Following the EP ‘Fleshy’ in 2017 she released her critically acclaimed debut album ‘Skinned’ on Danish imprint Anyines in 2020. ‘Suntub’ is her second full length release, a double album consisting of 15 tracks released in October 2023 on new label 15 love. 

In her compositional practice ML Buch sketches up her music in an almost architectural way. The raw material is generated through immersion in playing and assembling as a way of triggering random magic. Her live performances, both in solo and group formations, is reflective of her love of combining 7-string electric guitars in open tunings with synthetic instruments and electronic experiments.

Instagram: @mlbuch_
Soundcloud: @mlbuch

OK021 - ML Buch

RADIO MUMDANCE
Season 04 – Episode 17
The Weightless Report

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