🤠 LIVE REVIEW 🤠 Los Thuthanaka at ICA London A Pitchfork Festival patron's bad trip is made worse by the brilliant mayhem of the Bolivian-American duo... with support from Nazar and Pollyfromthedirt listencorp.co.uk/post/los-thu... @pitchfork.com, @jcc-pf.bsky.social

Los Thuthanaka @ ICA

⭐️ EXPLORATION REVIEW ⭐️ Even with friends, this Scottish-Filipino artist channels a beautiful loneliness Time Beyond The Edges – The Lonely Bell released via @shadyridgerecords.bsky.social feat @karenvogtmusic.bsky.social, @clairedeak.bsky.social and more www.listencorp.co.uk/post/the-lon...

🎙️ FEATURE INTERVIEW 🎹 Sometimes, Kelly Moran's piano plays itself... We speak to the musician about her latest album on @warprecords.bsky.social, adventures in disklavier land and playing in Oneohtrix Point Never's MYRIAD tour www.listencorp.co.uk/post/kelly-m...

⭐️ EXPLORATION REVIEW ⭐️ Immersive, silky and drifting dream pop telling a relatable tale of longing for companionship Friend – james K released via @ad93rec.bsky.social www.listencorp.co.uk/post/james-k...

⭐️ RELEASE OF THE WEEK ⭐️ Meaningful memories are stretched and pixellated through sharp Early-Rustie electronic. The sound of your precious camera roll mulched into glitchy beats and melodies Remember, – @korizon.bsky.social korizon.bandcamp.com/album/rememb...

Join us as we celebrate the release of listencorp 007 by playing LUX, the 8.5-hour long masterpiece by @gerogerigaygaygay.bsky.social in full, on @datafruits.bsky.social! This Saturday at 8AM (GMT+1)

You wouldn't exactly hear much like this, at least for this year. Stewing foggy bedroom folk, ambient, and cloud rap-esque sampling as a way to cultivate the memories uncovered and written down. My review of Betty Hammerschlag's album, 'Forever Young', is up now on listencorp!

⭐ EXPLORATION REVIEW ⭐ Candid storytelling through autotuned moans and syrupy trap off-cuts. A fragile cloud folk diary. Forever Young – Betty Hammerschlag released via collerette www.listencorp.co.uk/post/betty-h...

🌃 LIVE REVIEW 🎛️ A UFO hovers overhead as @k-lc.bsky.social creates, sculpts and collages classical-coded electronic for an ICA audience in London, with support from Jennifer Walton. www.listencorp.co.uk/post/kara-li...

Ready for Bandcamp Friday tomorrow?

Neither sleep nor death will sever your connection. But it wasn't always this way... I spoke to the pioneers of dial-up, as well as Dr Lui Gough and @coletteshade.bsky.social about internet nostalgia. And Geert Lovink about how it could all come to an end. www.the-independent.com/tech/gen-z-n...

Seven editions of listencorp magazine, each packed with interesting insights into electronic music. Anybody got them all?

🚨 LISTENCORP 007 IS HERE 🚨 Octa Sheffner (@gerogerigaygaygay.bsky.social) reveals why it's over after 850+ releases and we dive into their 8-hour masterpiece, LUX. Baths (@bathsmusic.bsky.social) gives insight into his new album and its brutal poetry... www.listencorp.co.uk/post/listenc...

🚨 LISTENCORP 007 IS HERE 🚨 Octa Sheffner (@gerogerigaygaygay.bsky.social) reveals why it's over after 850+ releases and we dive into their 8-hour masterpiece, LUX. Baths (@bathsmusic.bsky.social) gives insight into his new album and its brutal poetry... www.listencorp.co.uk/post/listenc...

Happy rapture day! ⛪️ ✝️ @jcz.bsky.social

⭐️ EXPLORATION REVIEW ⭐️ Electronic music as a playground, childhood drawings supercharged with breakbeats or reified by shiny ambient 4EVA – Yetsuby released via Pink Oyster Records www.listencorp.co.uk/post/yetsuby...

⭐️ RELEASE OF THE WEEK ⭐️ Ambient clouds in slow-motion, carrying an angel's voice, clearing for head-nodding, dreamy trip-hop to venture out and cool the atmosphere into sultry ice Josephine Moriko & innerinnerlife – Emociones/Prior Released by OST o-s-t.bandcamp.com/album/emocio...

⭐️ TRACK OF THE WEEK ⭐️ Body meets bionicle. Squelching bass and lyrics describing a horrific chemical possession wrapped around laser-skeletal percussion… Xcavator.03 – @iglooghost.bsky.social Released via LUCKY ME iglooghost.bandcamp.com/album/bronze...

Appreciate the beauty of imperfection… eyetrees by @boycalledcrow.bsky.social is music made by the wabi-sabi philosophy. Released via Hive Mind Records

⭐️ TRACK OF THE WEEK ⭐️ Warm chillwave pulls us into summer days. A wistful look over the water, pads like ocean waves and a voice like a trail into the sky... Black – Hotel Pools & Brothertiger (@hotelpools.bsky.social x @brothertiger.bsky.social) released via Stratford Ct

⭐️ EXPLORATION REVIEW ⭐️ A saccharine pop scrapbook where poppy voices are broken, bent and reconstructed Decadent Stress Chamber – Giant Claw (@giantclaw.bsky.social) released via @orangemilkrecords.bsky.social www.listencorp.co.uk/post/giant-c...

I think one of the best decisions you can make right now is buying @mdc-official.bsky.social’s discography on bandcamp Huge treasure trove of releases

⭐️ RELEASE OF THE WEEK ⭐️ Soft steps through an infinite undergrowth as whirring dreamtone resembles a shared beauty between the natural and the spiritual ヒーリング – 美しい突風 released via @wrldendcllpse.bsky.social wrldendcllpse.bandcamp.com/album/--10

⭐ TRACK OF THE WEEK ⭐ Dour piano somehow pulls silence into focus. A hushed beauty is obscured in melodic phases of mystery and melancholy Turning Multitudes – Kara-Lis Coverdale (@k-lc.bsky.social) released via Smalltown Supersound www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti-_...

⭐️ RELEASE OF THE WEEK ⭐️ Heartening jazz-coded electronic moves from smooth to chippy with refreshing ease, late night tunes at the coolest lounge in a bustling virtual city labor – FLOOR BABA (@floorbaba.bsky.social) floorbaba.bandcamp.com/album/labor

A prolific online visual style brought to life… 🌈 🎠 🏘️ Crossing Bridges’ Dreamcore OST draws out the strange familiarity of nightmarishly idyllic cul-de-sacs and endless green hills. @forestcorp.bsky.social

Wow that's just like the cover art for the upcoming kirby3 album "website" out this Friday

SO TRUE!

A decade ago, Sophie Xeon released PRODUCT and changed electronic music forever... Here we celebrate a release that brings the commercial together with the personal in a way that no one had done before or has done since... www.listencorp.co.uk/post/a-decad...

🛝 🍭 LIFE AS NURSERY PLAYTIME 🥏🪁 What releases match this picture? Collisions of real and play? Albums that revel in early learning in there sound and visual? Maybe… Cosmically a Shambles – @polypores.bsky.social Quark Espresso – Quark Espresso 19999 – @whitegavriel.bsky.social What else?

🍿 FEATURE INTERVIEW 🎥 Several musicians, one film... no plan We speak to @akprecordings.bsky.social and @cykik.bsky.social about the 'Unknown Movie Night' events, ahead of the next instalment planned for this autumn @dublab.bsky.social @2220arts.bsky.social www.listencorp.co.uk/post/embraci...

⭐️ TRACK OF THE WEEK ⭐️ Spritely melodies climb and cavort on trellis-like arpeggiations, guitar and hyper-real bubble tunes caught in an eternally hopeful updraft. Simple and striking Softshell – Holly Waxwing hollywaxwing.bandcamp.com/track/softsh...

Like booting up some strange PC game… w o r l d 2 0 0 0 by International Telecom, out on Deep Sea deepsea-nostalgia.bandcamp.com/album/--6

⭐️ TRACK OF THE WEEK ⭐️ A machine breathes in and out, as pulses of natural wind drift overhead. A peaceful grey scene from a familiar yet elusive master of futuristic ambient FLUID – ARTIST: UKNOWN released via @pureliferecords.bsky.social purelifetapes.bandcamp.com/album/fluid

⭐️ EXPLORATION REVIEW ⭐️ A profound sadness, clearly communicated through ambient compositions and unabashedly sombre melodies The Inner Garden – Hadley Roe released via @pastinside.bsky.social www.listencorp.co.uk/post/hadley-...

The more I return to it, the more this album cements itself as a masterpiece. Brevity, instrumentation – excitable yet modest. The moment Information Superhighway starts to drive forward. The wide open space of World Map. It might be perfect! @trndytrndy.com trndytrndy.bandcamp.com/album/virtua

⭐️ EXPLORATION REVIEW ⭐️ The Grand Canyon’s majesty documented through rippling ambience, inviting one to melt into its swirling, colossal chasms ,,, as long as i long to memorise your sky ,,, – elijah jamal asani Released via @akprecordings.bsky.social www.listencorp.co.uk/post/elijah-...

I spoke to @jcz.bsky.social about his album Horizons™ and what it can tell us about the metaverse and its strange, empty spaces For @digital-frontier.bsky.social www.digitalfrontier.com/articles/metaverse-meta-horizon-worlds-john-zobele

In our new article we presented three tenets of slushwave. What do you think of them? Do you think there’s another sonic aspect that is a necessity when composing slushwave music?

👁️ FEATURE ANALYSIS 👁️ A new dawn arrives. We dive into the new album from t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者 on @geometriclullaby.bsky.social, with the help of @desertsand.bsky.social to understand what it means for slushwave and to explore the beauty of the genre www.listencorp.co.uk/post/spirit-...

WOOOO! listencorp.bandcamp.com/merch/006

⭐️ EXPLORATION REVIEW ⭐️ Astrological faith is explored in a fractured harmony of ancient forces and modern electronica Moon Apple – Four Pillars www.listencorp.co.uk/post/moon-ap...

Big shoutout to @nightclerkradio.bsky.social for exploring listencorp (even as far back as its first issue) on their wonderful podcast. Have a listen to what they make of our explorations of niche electronic music! www.nightclerkradio.com/episodes/lis...

This short film ‘One Ephemeral Mission’ by Piotr Kamler (who made the better-known film Chronopolis) is beautiful. But who would make a perfect soundtrack? Something about the kinetic pace of it leads me to say @activepresence.bsky.social. Any other suggestions?

AUX picks for your Hypersonic Passenger Plane? I’m picking @pizzahotline.bsky.social x Mitch Murder’s Anti-Gravity Tournament, PHOTOPHORE by Frequent, and @dvi-socialmode.bsky.social. dv-i.bandcamp.com/track/accele... wrwtfww.com/album/anti-g... frequentaudio.bandcamp.com/album/photop...

📕 FEATURE INSIGHT 📕 BUY NOW’s BRILLIANCE IS CLEARER WITH EVERY PAGE We look at @jingajik.bsky.social brand new book on @disasteradio.bsky.social’s MIDI masterpiece, and how incredible it is to see it celebrated Released via @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social www.listencorp.co.uk/post/eyeline...

⭐️ TRACK BY TRACK REVIEW ⭐️ A brief ride through Christianity's history, past dredged televangelist adverts and disquieting Gregorian chants 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔯𝔞𝔦𝔩𝔢𝔡 – ツイン・ピークス (US Golf 95) www.listencorp.co.uk/post/tuinpik...

⭐️ RELEASE OF THE WEEK ⭐️ Maximalist mayhem as rambling lyrics and acid-tinged electronic bubble up from the grimiest of city streets. Noughties dance-punk on dirty speed hexed! – aya Released via @hyperdub.bsky.social aya-yco.bandcamp.com/album/hexed