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Hooverian Blur - Lunatic Androids EP
(Discs Of The World, 2025)

¡!MUuzik.. original wildstyle!¡
..xo South London bass💋

www.discogs.com/release/2715...
November 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM
SHXCXCHCXSH - QQQO EP
(Mord, 2025)

A new techno record needs at least one seriously *disorienting* track or gtfo.

www.discogs.com/release/3545...
November 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM
The Cult - Dreamtime LP
(Beggars Banquet, 1984)

Albums by The Cult are always uneven affairs, but now in my dotage, I find this one listenable in a way that my unelderly self did not.

www.discogs.com/release/4173...
November 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
ABC - How To Be A Zillionaire 12" [US]
(Mercury, 1985)

,,Larger than life
And twice as ugly
If we have to live here
You'll have to drug me,,

www.discogs.com/release/5835...
November 24, 2025 at 9:38 PM
"Cryin, hopin' God forgive me for the ones I kill

But until, still, I dry my eyes with hundred dollar bills"
November 23, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"Fly minks with icicles that blink inside Cuban links

Lookin spank, blowin stank,
I own the Vatican Bank"
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Echo & The Bunnymen - The John Peel Sessions 1979-1983
(Korova, 2019)

Gather round and hear the old-timey '70s drum machine!

www.discogs.com/release/1409...
November 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
These Handz & Mikey D - Wake Up EP
(Hip-Hop Enterprise, 2022)

Stop the presses
I'll show ya what fresh is

www.discogs.com/release/2507...
November 22, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Blondie - Parallel Lines LP
(Chrysalis, 1978)

This is the one.

www.discogs.com/release/1286...
October 27, 2025 at 9:41 PM
New Order - Movement LP
(Factory, 1981)

Yeah, I like the New Order album that sounds the most like Joy Division.

www.discogs.com/release/4530...
October 25, 2025 at 11:24 PM
October 24, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Danielle Dax - Jesus Egg That Wept LP / mini-album
(Awesome Records, 1984)

I feel like my '80s teen cohort must've been borderline insufferable, listening to the weirdest shit we could find that still qualified as music.

www.discogs.com/release/3954...
October 24, 2025 at 8:05 PM
October 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Reissued on vinyl at long last.
October 19, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Cabaret Voltaire - Listen Up With Cabaret Voltaire 2xLP
(Mute, 1990)

I was introduced to CV during the Crackdown/Microphonies/Drinking Gasoline glory years and steadily losing interest in the rest of their 80s output. Buying this comp was a hail mary that paid off.

www.discogs.com/release/2515...
October 1, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Automatic - Is It Now? LP
(Stones Throw, 2025)

They're back with a renewed vitality. You always hope an anticipated release doesn't suck, and that expectation is more than met here. Great stuff.

www.discogs.com/release/3519...
September 30, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Juniore - Un Deux Trois LP
(Le Phonographe, 2020)
May 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Jason Leach - Death To Vinyl One 12"
(Death To Vinyl, 2006)

JL's just an exemplar of what do with things that make noise. I'd never not listen to literally any idea he had. This one, comprising 4 live recordings, is for those who think a dancefloor deserves danger.

www.discogs.com/release/6211...
April 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Tubeway Army - Replicas LP
(Beggars Banquet, 1979)

This here and the GN albums up thru Telekon changed popular music irreversibly. Many chased the sound, but nobody could catch him in those glory years.

www.discogs.com/release/4923...
April 22, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Coil - Backwards 2xLP
(Cold Spring, 2015)

For years it was Coil's 'lost album' bridging the span btwn LSD & MTPITD, and I prefer it to both. Interrupted in '93 & finished in '96, it was shelved and the original, unremixed tracks not released till this 2015 edition.

www.discogs.com/release/7379...
April 20, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The Creatures - Wild Things double 7"
(Polydor, 1981;)

I found The Creatures in between the release of their first two albums and got kind of emotional bc I was never the Banshees' #1 fan and now I had a suitable way to change the subject.

www.discogs.com/release/4092...
April 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Tenor Saw - Ring The Alarm 12"
(VP, 2000)

Fifteen years after it first ripped a hole in the dancehall, Tenor Saw's monster 1985 track got the official 12" treatment (w/ a Nardo Ranks flip) from VP. Thanks, VP.

www.discogs.com/release/5178...
April 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Vlaysin - Acid Dedication
(VOITAX, 2016)

Phwooar!
When I hear the words "underground techno," I'm usually thinking of something like this.

www.discogs.com/release/8960...
April 2, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The Creatures - Boomerang
(Polydor/Wonderland, 1989)

My big confession is my loving The Creatures way more than the Banshees.

www.discogs.com/release/2587...
April 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
TFW you're trying not to re-shoot the back jacket artwork, so it credits everyone including the photographer but not the remix artist. And that's how capitalism invented stickers.

www.discogs.com/release/5974...
March 28, 2025 at 6:25 AM