Lakker ‘Tundra’ (R&S)
Berlin-based dark-ambient techno duo filter raw nature through sculpted digital soundscapes
Die Wilde Jagd ‘Die Wilde Jagd’ (Bureau B)
German analogue/digital duo’s debut rouses with an irresistible call to the fray
Blanck Mass ‘Dumb Flesh’ (Sacred Bones)
Fuck Buttons thinker muses on human flaws in fervid fashion
Walls: Get Your Mortar Running
Bringing the Walls trilogy to a conclusion with ‘Urals’, is this the end of the road or just the beginning of a new journey for the Anglo-Italian duo?
Gnod’s Guide To Islington Mill: The Collective Spirit Of The New Manchester Scene
Electronic psychonauts Gnod operate out of Islington Mill, a Grade II listed Victorian cotton mill in Salford that has somehow escaped the gentrification tidal wave and now houses a vibrant community of musicians, labels, artists, designers, photographers and printers. Gnod’s charismatic lynchpin Paddy Shine takes us on a tour of the unique building at the epicentre of a creative revolution
K-X-P ‘III, Part One’ (Om/Svart)
Innovative Finnish post-kraut acid stompers deliver a third set of irresistible weirdosity
Föllakzoid ‘III’ (Sacred Bones)
Proof that we all need a touch of Chilean kraut-psych in our lives
Aero Flynn
Lush textured, psych-folk splashed dreampop
Moon Wiring Club ‘Leporine Pleasure Gardens’ (Blank Workshop/Gecophonic)
Another round of gloriously kaleidoscopic spectral electro from the mysterious hauntologistsÂ
Hans-Joachim Roedelius: With These Hands
He was forced to the join the Hitler Youth and jailed by the East German secret police. He became a musician after hanging out with Hendrix and Beefheart at a nudist camp in Corsica. As a member of Kluster, Cluster and Harmonia, as well as a hugely respected solo artist, he was a pioneer of the krautrock revolution. Meet Hans-Joachim Roedelius, a man whose life has been no less than extraordinaryÂ