Another amazing wild camp on the tops of Crinkle Crags last night. Dow Crag looking stunning…. #thenorthwest #thelakedistrict #crinklecrags #dowcrag #mountains #sunset #wildcamping

Superb show tonight from @factoryfloor.bsky.social in Salford. New material sounded great, bring on the next LP! \m/ #thenorthwest #manchester #livemusic

A great year of music in 2024, hoping for the same this year!

1) Actress: ‘ДАРРЕН ДЖ. КАННІНГЕМ’. Actress marks an auspicious 20th year releasing music with a near hour-long collage or braque of some 100 unreleased cuts trawling his HD and traversing its depths of brisk 313 techno, silver haze synth noise and flashes of neo-classical beauty. #aoty2024

2) Lasse Marhaug: ‘Provoke’. Expansive and hard to categorise, a precision-tooled set of ice-cold tonal productions that heavily lean into Mika Vainio’s rhythm experiments, with extra levels of growling bass and curious noises to send us deep into the uncanny….. #aoty2024

3) Mark Templeton: ‘Two Verses’. Electronic music that seems to breathe on its own, coughing through its spidery rhythms, wonky pitched hits and spiraling oscillations and wheezing into its various saturations and fluttering falls. Lovely stuff…. #aoty2024

4) Loidis ’One Day’. Brian Leeds (Huerco S.) assumes his ultimate deep house and techno form as Loidis with an hour-long album of micro-dosed, dub wise delicacies. Fans of Shinichi Atobe (also in this list) will find much to love here… #aoty2024

5) Shinichi Atobe: ‘Discipline’. Atobe lets the music do the talking in typically emotively nuanced and special style on his 7th album ‘Discipline’, offering further refinements of prevailing, salient ‘90s deep house, dub techno and ambient scenes cultivated and pruned to near perfection. #aoty2024

6) Objekt: ‘Ganzfeld’. Club mutator Objekt mints their Kapsela label with a 10 year reissue of classic ‘Ganzfeld’ reinforced by Djrum, Piezo and Ulla remixes that pull it in all directions. #aoty2024

7) Actress: ‘Statik’. The first of TWO Actress entries on this #aoty2024 list, a superbly hazed set of fractal dancefloor refractions….

8)Beatrice Dillon: ‘Seven Reorganisations’. Beatrice Dillon’s first entirely acoustic composition, performed by the Explore Ensemble. Modern Classical at its best…. #aoty2024

9) Skee Mask: ‘Resort’. A sun-dazed transition between baked ambient, effusive breakbeats, and braindance-type electronica… #aoty2024 ra.co/reviews/36143

Almost forgot to start the #aoty2024 countdown! 10)NPVR ‘33 34’. Four tracks of improv electronica noise therapy for the soul. RIP Peter Rehberg…… boomkat.com/products/33-34