#302020s #musicchallenge Day 11 Moonchild Sanelly, “Yebo Teacher” (2021) The one that made me a fan. A song about “putting the work in, not just in school but in life”. Sung in a mixture of isiXhosa and English. youtu.be/bk7aCir_W1Q

LISTENING PARTY // Felix Machtelinckx // DEEP SOUTH // Thursday 13 NOV 2000 GMT Join Felix for the first unveiling of this sun-baked multi-textured masterpiece.. felixmachtelinckx.bandcamp.com/merch/deep-s...

#NovAudit Day 10 Future Children, ‘A Disorganized Body’ (2025) Soundtrack by US duo to a short film about the strange case of a 19th century Frenchwoman who claimed to be only skin & bones. The music varies wildly in style, from lyrical pop to ghostly synth jams overlaid with operatic female voice.

#302020s #musicchallenge Day 10 Wau Wau Collectif, “Salamaleikoum” (2021) A Swedish-Senegalese collaborative project. You can read about in the info section at the Youtube link below. I love the hazy warmth and simplicity of this song. youtu.be/MtnNqXBe4JU

#NovAudit Day 9 Andrew Spackman, ‘Milton Keynes Shopping Trip’ (2024) Excoriating noise featuring saxophone, keys and beats (by turn, skittish and thunderous), maybe some guitar too? Rings the changes with these different elements in a very satisfying way. Not an easy listen but worth the effort.

Next TFEH @fruitmarket.bsky.social is Sunday 9 November, with Aleatory Music Systems, Allison Beattie and Vole Invasion. Hope you can make it along www.ticketsource.co.uk/tfeh/tfeh-pr...

Right, it's Sunday afternoon and therefore time for me to be completely hypocritical again and count down a UK Top 40 singles chart from a year past. This week we're going back 34 years to the chart week ending 9 November 1991. Hold onto that washing machine!

If you’re in the Edinburgh area, this is TONIGHT

#NowPlaying on #CharityShopClassics on @allfm.bsky.social... Beverly & The Green Rappers - Green Rap Spandau Ballet - Chant No.1 Listen here: player.broadcast.radio/allfm

#302020s #musicchallenge Day 9 Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, “Dodonpa” (2021) Not sure if this is sung in Japanese or is simply a few phonemes that sound good when strung together. A total banger either way. Great, sympathetic visuals too. youtu.be/L6xG_zFoE8g

#NovAudit Day 8 Surman + Krog, ‘Electric Element’ (2025) As I was at Jonny T’s groovy fayre earlier, today seems a good day to finally give this Trunk Records LP a spin. Processed voice & bass clarinets + keys/electronics. Recorded in 2013 but unreleased til now. Bought new in Hackney, end of August

We're back on @allfm.bsky.social just after 11am tomorrow with @simongmusic.bsky.social returning to share a stack of chazza 45s he's picked up over the course of 2025. It's no less than you deserve. Join us!

Getting set for final show of this UK touring season, and of the year, tomorrow in Birmingham @hareandhounds.bsky.social Tickets: www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Bir... support: Bryony Williams

#302020s #musicchallenge Day 8 Cour de Récré, “Désolé je ne fume pas” (2021) Self-styled ‘ultra synth pop’ act from Toulouse (tho’ actually based all over and with a fluid membership). On Elefant Records in ‘21 but they’ve just released a fab new single on musique.exe youtu.be/jNuUp8c79BI

And here's the #BPHM8285 B-SIDE FINAL GROUP - exactly the same deal, 32 songs, pick your fave 10 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Young Punctum reaches May 1977, and were I to have known it - I sort of knew it at the time but failed to grasp it fully - that month turned out to be the clear highlight of my younger life: funthirty.blogspot.com/2025/10/may-...

#NovAudit Day 7 Oceanographer, ‘Regen’ (2025) Shimmering electronics from this Springfield, MO based producer. Soft pulses supporting bright tone-splashes and ambient wash. I paid a whole $1 for the digital album back in March.

Next week, Wednesday at 7pm CET, the November edition of the Eclectic Corner is aired @madwaspradiomwr.bsky.social. You lend me your ears for 60 minutes and I’ll facilitate a 12” sonic meeting between you and deep house legend Ron Trent.

HAPPY RELEASE DAY jilk.bandcamp.com/album/fix-yo... Wonderful to get FIX YOUR HEARTS, our new album, out into the world. You can now stream the album in full via Bandcamp. Digital and around a dozen CDs still available.

Overslept and heading into Day 3 vape-free with some new music to share. (😓 apparently normal for cravings to ramp up on day 3-4 I’m feeling that today arghh) Anyway, onward! Hydrology, my debut for DiN, exploring water in all its myriad forms is now live for pre-order 🌊

George Lazenby lounging on an Arne Jacobsen egg chair for Kronenbourg beer (1968-69)

#302020s #musicchallenge Day 7 Sun-El Musician ft. Bholoja, “Esibayeni” (2021) South African genius Sun-El’s songs are typically 4-to-the-floor, so I’ve gone with this hypnotic track in 6/8. Bholoja is from eSwatini and the angry Siswati lyrics are, I gather, pretty personal youtu.be/JRnoUQycMrc

#NovAudit Day 6 Charles Wuorinen, ‘Time’s Encomium for synthesized & processed synthesized sound’ Bleep, bloop! Realised using mainly the RCA synth, completed & first released in 1969. This is the first UK pressing from ca.1970. Instagram sez I picked this up s/h almost exactly 1 year ago (whoops)

#ClassicAlbumThursday Luiz Bonfá, ‘Introspection’ (1972) 8 pieces for solo classical guitar by the composer of “Manhã de Carnaval”. Moody yet full of beauty. All over in just 26 minutes

#302020s #musicchallenge Day 6 Natalia Lafourcade, “Alfonsina y el mar” Into 2021. Another song in Spanish but the performer’s from Mexico, and it’s a beautiful cover of a famous zamba from Argentina (you can read a bit of the background here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonsi...) youtu.be/97QqO0OlMf8

#NovAudit Day 5 Manville Heights, s/t (2016) Side project of the artist who more usually records as Yves Malone (tho’ that’s just two of the many pseudonyms he makes music under). This is melodic electronica made with both hardware and software - including a vocaloid-esque program on a few tracks.

Today we celebrate what the 5th November is really about - Bob Carolgees rapping

#302020s #musicchallenge Day 5 Band à Part, “Templos y Neones” (2020) One of the better 🇪🇸 indiepop acts on Elefant Records. Not prolific, roughly an LP every 5 years (so we’re due!) A bonus here is the video, shot in Japan: gave me major flashbacks to my holiday there in April youtu.be/2cxIH_LRxaM

#NovAudit Day 4 Sigrid, ‘How To Let Go’ (2022) Second LP from this Norwegian pop singer-songwriter I’m rather partial to. A moodier affair than either her debut, or the new one released a couple of weeks back. But the singing is first rate. Got this online, new, from an Edinburgh shop last year.

I really hope this story is true. Vote Phyllis.

Tom Rickey asked me to bring along some of my fave records for his @fromefm.bsky.social show Mixed Bag last week - so I did! Ha ha, that’ll learn him 😁 … www.mixcloud.com/FromeFM/15-m...

#302020s #musicchallenge Day 4 Franchouchou x Dempagumi.Inc, “ZombieLand Dempa!!” (2020) A tie-in to an anime saga. Or is it a manga? Maybe both. Released on a 💿 included within a Zombieland fanbook, but also as a digital single. Anyway, it’s a Bohemian Rhapsody for our times youtu.be/2pVzV6drUFg

#NovAudit Day 3 Various, ‘Été infini’ (2025) An unseasonal pick today but whatever. For 12 years now, French label La Souterraine has promoted new francophone indie, synthpop, rap and chanson. With all digital releases free or nominally priced. This themed comp is drawn from the label’s catalogue

#302020s #musicchallenge Day 3 Juniore, “Soudain” (2020) The opening cut of ‘Un deux trois’; retro 60s in all the ways I like 🎶 We swore we would die of grief/ You see, it seems so far away/ The worst part is that suddenly/ Suddenly everything is fine youtu.be/fM5iO6UTUIM

Yes, indeed. Here’s another photo from the other side of the stage. Enjoyed Sharron Kraus too (first time seeing /hearing her)

#NovAudit Day 2 The Undisputed Truth - s/t (1971) Have a ‘best of’ on CD including tracks from this, but I’ve never owned the original LP. Trippy goodness all the way through. Bought at the Epping record fair last weekend. Sleeve a bit battered & vinyl needs a clean. Dutch pressing acc. to discogs

#302020s #MusicChallenge Day 2 Pongo, “Uwa” (2020) Taken from the Angolan-Portuguese artist’s EP of the same name, the title means ‘step’ in Angola’s Kimbundo language. youtu.be/jsorxwml0wA

#NovAudit A sequel to #SeptAudit : playing unheard albums in my collection (digital & physical) Day 1 The Music Liberation Front Sweden, ‘Astra Shambotica (Pay No More Than 99p)’ (2025) Don’t think I paid even 99p for this; the artist likely sent me a code as it’s now behind a subscriber paywall.

#302020s #MusicChallenge Day 1 Marcos Valle, “Reciclo” I’ve decided to do all NIE songs. This was the first eligible one in my 2020 dump on Spotify 🎶Even in the midst of disgrace/I understand and laugh at grace/That life is still for free…if everything is a cycle, I recycle youtu.be/OV1LS7r7AwA

Right, it's finally time for this week's Young Punctum blog update after a fortnight's absence - this week it's the hits and should-have-been hits of April 1977: funthirty.blogspot.com/2025/10/apri...

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#ClassicAlbumThursday The Wedding Present, ‘Українські Виступи В Івана Піла’ Hey! Since apparently there’s a kerfuffle about 1989 on here (not seen meself), how about a record I said I rated at the time but secretly hadn’t heard til today? (Background to release: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraini...)

"Something wicked this way comes.." New for Halloween // A Portmanteau of Horrors // Drew Mulholland Spooky artwork assisted by @gardengate.bsky.social // 0800 GMT // 31 October Limited edition vinyl DO NOT MISS OUT!!

I got lost in the woods, but was rescued by the national BBC1 Breakfast show...

Topical purchases from the record fair this morning, given the ongoing #BPHM8285 polls (@peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social)

Today is the day! The new London Clay LP is released on LVEUM! There is a surprise translucent purple vinyl edition alongside the standard black version: lavidaesunmus.bandcamp.com/album/private-view If you are in the US: www.sorrystaterecords.com/products/london-clay-private-view-12-pre-order

I was in hysterics in the supermarket this morning. Surely this is not what The Prodigy were singing about!

OUT TODAY! Flowers At The Border - an album of remixes by @mueka.bsky.social, @citizenhelene.bsky.social, @polypores.bsky.social, @matthewjashton.bsky.social, Melinda Bronstein, Tiago De Almeida and Kristen Gallerneaux. objectsforever.bandcamp.com/album/flower... Enjoy!

#ClassicAlbumThursday ‘3 Days Of The Condor: Original Soundtrack Recording’ Music composed and conducted by Dave Grusin (1975) Super slinky / funky jazz score arranged for ensemble and strings. Jim Gilstrap pops up at one point to sing, and there’s also an EZ-listening arrangement of “Silver Bells”

Dave Ball was surely (for my generation at least) one of the most influential electronic musicians of all time: Soft Cell, PTV, Jack the Tab & here’s one of my favourite 12”s from his work with The Grid. REST IN BLEEPS. m.youtube.com/watch?v=LIF7...