Cyclic’s annual sprawling best of, in which we crown no one and come clean that we have no idea what the best music is. It’s pretty helpful

I had some fun with Mark Harwood’s new record.

Cyclic Selects: Horse MacGyver Horse MacGyver is Naarm based media artist and sound designer Timothy Dwyer. He's been making some pretty unhinged music over the last decade or so on labels such as Nice music and Being Intense Records, playing live regularly, touring with Indonesia's iconic duo…

Beautiful new action from @foxydigitalis.bsky.social via our friends at @cyclicdefrost.bsky.social

Was a big fan of Jeremy Dowers music in the early 2000’s. So great to have the opportunity to hear more thanks to Chapter’s reissues.

Zimoun is responsible for probably my favourite album this year so I asked him about it

New Necks!!!!!

A bit of face melting from Ryoji Ikeda

Listen to the weird hyper potpourri that is Polonius Released in April on Discrepant's sub label Souk, we've been really enjoying the work of Egyptian-French artist Seif Gaber aka Polonius. It's weird stuttering stilted funk, odd fragmented of sound that seems to synthesize so many references,…

Revisit Ben Frost’s seminal Steelwound via a forthcoming 20th anniversary edition Can you believe its been over 20 years since Ben Frost released his incredible Steelwound album? Room40 honcho Lawrence English does. As an early champion of Frost's work, he released it initially back in 2004 and…

Lagoss & Abagwagwa – Island Slang (Discrepant) Lagoss are a trio boasting Discrepant label head Gonçalo F. Cardoso, along with Mladen Kurajica and Daniel García (Tupperware), who’s debut album featured these electro acoustic snippets of fantastical island exotica. They’re joined by Abagwagwa (aka…

@ethermachines.bsky.social Steelwound via the good folk at @cyclicdefrost.bsky.social

one of Steve's truly majestic works, remastered and also available with the OG catalogue.

Watch The Bug’s bleak fuzzed up take on Galya Bisengalieva’s Alash-Kala We're pretty taken with this brutal, bleak industrial rework from one of our favourite purveyors of bass music, The Bug. It's his remix/collaboration with Kazakhstani artist Galya Bisengalieva. If you're curious to hear the…

Cyclic Selects: YEARNS YEARNS is Joel Saunders of Spirit Bunny and A Country Practice alongside Andrew Foley of An Heirloom and Grids/Units/Planes. Outside of YEARNS they have separately appeared on releases on Room 40 and hellosquare Records, collaborating with artists including Erik Griswold…

Unsound Adelaide: Fri 11th – Sat 12th July 2025 To call Unsound eclectic is an understatement. It never fails to provoke, confound, seduce or dismay – often in equal measure, and often in the course of one set. Held across two nights in the Adelaide CBD it has become something of a beacon for…

I penned some thoughts about the new Holden and Zimpel that has brought me considerable joy over the last month or so

Ryoji Ikeda to premiere ULTRATRONICS as part of the Now or Never Festival Iconic audio visual artist Ryoji Ikeda is coming to Melbourne this August as part of the Now or Never Festival. The Festival, now in its third year, also boasts the likes of Laurel Halo, Moritz Von Oswald, and Alex Zhang…

Sonar Barcelona: 12th – 14th of June 2025 From June 12th to the 14th we had one of the key events in the electronic music scene every year: Sónar Barcelona. With a tension in the air leading up to the festival, it was a blast and we enjoyed performances from Four Tet, Skrillex, Todd Terry and…

Jim O'Rourke and @eikoishibashi.bsky.social announce new collaborative album 'Pareidolia'; hear an excerpt

That time when Thurston, Kim and Coco appeared on the Gilmore Girls #sonicyouthtrivia

Listen to the unique gamelan music Will Guthrie’s Ensemble Nist-Nah Spilla is the second album from Nantes-based Ensemble Nist-Nah, 48 minutes of music for Gamelan, drum kits, wood and metal percussion instruments, and plucked strings. It was founded by the Australian drummer/percussionist Will…

People Like Us – Copia (Discrepant) The music of People Like Us is a marvellous smorgasbord of disparate elements that have been painstakingly gathered from multiple sound sources and reassembled to create something new, something the original authors never intended. It’s an experimental take on…

Had a great time telling Yellow Swans how they changed my life.

Aki Onda has a beautiful new work in bound....here's the good word from @foxydigitalis.bsky.social ...

I wrote about the great new Francis Bebey comp

Alan Lamb: Singing In And With The Air Alan Lamb passed away on the 19th of April, 2025, at 81. He is one of Australia’s most important sound artists, and a key member of Perth, Fremantle and Dwellingup artists communities in Western Australia. He is considered one of the founders of ‘dark…

Mark Pritchard Interview: Tall Tales a sonic playground Mark Pritchard is a shape-shifting figure in electronic music whose career spans over three decades and consistently pushes against the boundaries of genre. Emerging from the UK’s early ’90s underground, he initially gained acclaim through…

Listen to Erik Griswold’s new prepared piano and synth music Erik Griswold is a composer and pianist originally from San Diego, and now residing in Brisbane. He has collaborated with the likes of Steven Schick, Margaret Leng Tan, Lisa Moore, Ensemble Offspring, Decibel Ensemble, Zephyr String…

Wolfgang Voigt (GAS) “I live and die with my art.” Wolfgang Voigt is a German artist, producer, label co owner (Kompakt) and visual artist from Cologne, known for his work in a ridiculous number of electronic styles requiring numerous aliases such as All, Auftrieb, Brom, C.K. Decker, Centrifugal…

Adventurous music fans! If you dig a wide variety of music, are constantly looking for new things to listen to, and enjoy reading about music you might appreciate, then may I suggest you follow me? I write a weekly blog covering indie music across genres and post/repost tons of music! Please boost!

cheap promo ploy engaged! my annual ARIES sale, everything on my Bandcamp shop is 30% OFF now until April 1. (including additional 30% off my full digital discography package) richardchartier.bandcamp.com use coupon code: aries2025 thank you for the support of my work! 😊

Lawrence English walks us through 25 years of @room40.bsky.social

Some long form chatter here....

🌐🌐 Introducing: Luiz Ser Eu 🌐🌐 Rio de Janeiro outsider-songwriter Luiz Ser Eu unveils Pluvial—a fried & inverted Brasilofuturism, blending tropicofuturist songwriting, concréte-psych, and blurred tape collage. A haunting, unpredictable sonic portal. Out Feb 28. luizsereu.bandcamp.com/album/pluvial

What a delight, thanks @bandcamp.com

Ahead of the release of a documentary film, JR Moores laments Fugazi’s absence yet remains wary of a comeback, offering some “stupid fucking words” on the band that never ceased getting better until they stopped altogether The Strange World Of… #Fugazi https://buff.ly/42Gt7PS

You’ll never guess what Al Pacino did between Cruising and Scarface

Listen to the new work by two of Australia’s best experimental improvisers Two incredible Australian experimental improvisational musicians (yep though they were born elsewhere we're claiming them) Erik Griswold and Jon Rose have teamed up for the first time for Unnamed Road. Recorded in Brisbane…

Two new Hanson Cassettes available now: Aaron Dilloway - Rawhide C-60 Robert Turman - A Day In The Life C-30 Available on BigCartel or Bandcamp. Links in comments. Also… for the heads… some various rare old noise cassettes added to the big cartel.

I have a new release coming out this Friday. Organelles a collaboration with Matt Atkins where we imagine and perform the inner life of cells. It will be featured that evening on Late Junction too so you could take a listen there. flamingpines.bandcamp.com/album/organe...

Watch Pierce Warnecke fix the sound of airports www.cyclicdefrost.com/2025/01/watc...

Monopoly Child Star Searchers – This Year in Coconuts VOL.2 (Pacific City Discs/ Discrepant) www.cyclicdefrost.com/2025/01/mono...

Dude, buy anything On Hotham Sound Recordings — It will be killer hothamsoundrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/univer...

Thank you, Nigel @folkpolice.com!

last day! full LINE digital discography on Bandcamp for 75% OFF. 166 releases for $322 includes the two upcoming Jan releases by William Basinski + Richard Chartier and by Steve Roden go to any release + click BUY DIGITAL DISCOGRAPHY lineimprint.bandcamp.com

new 5 out of 5 star review via chaindlk.com for: ‘Aurora Terminalis’ by WLLIAM BASINSKI + RICHARD CHARTIER (LINE_157) out Jan 10 on all digital platforms. pre-order on Bandcamp and receive 2 advance excerpts. www.lineimprint.com/editions/sou... @musex1.bsky.social

To celebrate fifteen years of New Weird Australia, friends and family select their personal favourites from the catalogue in our new compilation 'New Weird Australia, An Index Of The Modern Era 2009-2024'. Listen now, exclusive to Bandcamp. newweirdaustralia.bandcamp.com/album/new-we...

Holy crap! New Rashied Ali releases!

A random assortment of truly great music that will take months to work thru