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DOGIFY w/DogPatrol – Rephlex Special 30/04/2026

Frankfurt’s finest Diggi DogPatrol returns to basecamp with a fine selection of music pulled from the catalogue of Grant Wilson-Claridge and Richard D James’ iconic Cornish imprint, Rephlex. Between 1991 and 2014 Rephlex were responsible for some of the most anarchic, life-changing electronic music ever to be created. So join us in our pre-Beltane/May Day celebrations as DogPatrol pays homage to the mighty REPHLEX. Proper Job!

  1. Sam & Valley – Pudding & Pie
  2. Bogdan Raczynski – Ibiza TM
  3. P.P. Roy – Keep Telling Me What To Do
  4. Indigenous Tribe – Flight 313
  5. P.P. Roy – Radio Too
  6. Baby Ford – Normal (Sashay Mix)
  7. Leila – Feeling (feat. Donna Paul)
  8. Cylob – Instant Shrink
  9. Global Goon – Clapping Song
  10. DMX Krew – 17 Ways to Break My Heart
  11. Aleksi Perlälä – Muska
  12. mu-Ziq – Burnt Sienna
  13. Lektrogirl – Tear Tear
  14. Bochum Welt – Greenwich
  15. D´Arcangelo – Looper
  16. Arpanet – Ionic Crystals
  17. Baby Ford – Normal (Is It Normal Club Mix)
  18. Vulva – Birdwatch
  19. Fuschimuschi – Super Sexy Lady (12″ Mix)
  20. Black Devil – Timing, Forget The Timing (Kerrier District Remix)
  21. B.R. Posse – Pump Up The Housing Benefit
  22. The Railway Raver – My Lacoste (557 N Mix)
  23. Cylob – Synek
  24. Drexciya – Aquatic Bata Particles
  25. Slaughter Mob – Fireweaver
  26. AFX – .000890569
  27. Boom BLASTER – Untitled
  28. AFX – .942937
  29. Squarepusher – The Swifty
  30. Lektrogirl – Midnite Mgiev
  31. Aleksi Persälä – Sunbath
  32. Cylob – Cut The Midrange Drop The Bass
  33. Squarepusher – Bioslate (Headstrong)
  34. Fuschimuschi – My Number One (Rephreshed)
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Veils & Valleys w/Jammo 28/04/2026

Jammo returns for another rip-roaring episode of Veils and Valleys. There’s a lot to celebrate this month — this is the first episode to be broadcast from the Farm (as yet unnamed). Featuring noisy stuff from The Bug and Quiet Husband, dubstep classics from Appleblim and Digital Mystics, and in celebration of that long-awaited forthcoming Boards of Canada album, a little selection of BOC classics.

Tracklist

  1. Galya Bisengalieva – Alash-Kala (The Bug Reflection)
  2. Quiet Husband – Rot
  3. Moin – An Utter Stink
  4. David Byrne & Brian Eno – Come With Us
  5. Liquid Liquid – Zero Leg
  6. Appleblim – Cheat I
  7. Digital Mystikz – Eyez
  8. Scientist Vs Kode 9 & Spaceape – Abeng Dub
  9. Boards of Canada – Carcan
  10. Boards of Canada – Pete Standing Alone
  11. Boards of Canada – Music is Math
  12. Boards of Canada – Trans Canada Highway
  13. Brandy Dalton – Dungeon Master
  14. Group Rhoda – White Fur
  15. Autorhythm – Overkill
  16. Mecánica Clásica – Acción
  17. Spider Taylor – Coming Soon
  18. Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan – Renewal & Regeneration
  19. Lemme Kno – The Tie With The Most Stripes
  20. Plaid – Little People
  21. Time Wharp – Ingenue 
  22. J. Wiltshire – Stargazey Pie
  23. Kuntari – Maisch
  24. FFT – Prayer
  25. Marijn S – Under The Lily Pads (Luca Lozano What Is Reality Remix)
  26. Kid Unknown – Nightmare
  27. Hooverian Blur – Double Depths
  28. Hooverian Blur – Wacky Robot
  29. J.O.S.H.U.A – Offence
  30. The Kosmik Kommando – Remember the Feeling
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5 Tewns Vol.23

Read Time: 3 mins

Bom Dia, Bore Da, greetings, earthlings. It’s time for our weekly listening roundup. It has been an absolutely gorgeous week here on the farm, and we’ve been listening to some amazing tunes from the likes of Dead Can Dance and Persian, which I will now summon and share with you. Let us begin:

Persian – Knight Rider Plate

As a chubby dad of a certain age, particularly one who was raised partly in 1980s West Germany, there is a tiny part of my cerebrum entirely reserved for Knight Rider, muscle cars, Hasselhoff, and, of course, Stu Phillips’ Knight Rider theme. Obviously, I love a good version and have, over the years, collected a fair few of them: Panjabi MC’s anthemic “Mundian To Bach Ke”, So Solid Crew’s “Ride Wid Us”, and of course Busta Rhymes’ “Turn It Up, Fire It Up” — and now this absolute belter from the legend Persian, cutting it together with a nice breakbeat. Clocking in at one minute sixteen, you’ll need to loop it up or mix quick, but it’s well worth your money.

Plant 43 – Cloud Monolith

Originally released on the wonderful Future Massive label a few years back and now reissued as part of Plant43’s self-titled imprint, this arpeggio saga is so beautiful it makes me weep. And now, as I sit in the garden, on the farm, watching the clouds move over the mountains, it’s even more epic. I’m a huge fan of Emile Facey’s hyper-emotive take on electro and ambient music, and Cloud Monolith, with its low ominous drones giving way to a murmuration of playful arps, is one of the best examples.

Jannis Carbotta – Pop ( Unter Spannung)

Jannis Carbotta’s “Pop (Unter Spannung)” is released as part of Billo’s new compilation cassette of experimental music, Experimentelle Welt 1, and I can’t get enough of it. Its drifting, lacklustre dreampop guitar, devoid of ego, hangs like a pound shop smoke machine at a school disco, and its scattered percussion layers until it sounds like a fireplace crackling away in the corner of your mind. It sounds like a dream.

QUAGGA – Just Gotta Get Out

I remember the late, great John Peel talking on the radio about how his favourite music always sounded unhinged. When I heard this particular album by Quagga (Joshua Mackie), I thought of John Peel straight away. Supposedly recorded using GarageBand in his basement, this brilliant tape is all over the map, with Velvet Underground-style lo-fi romanticism, kosmische experiments, and post-punk arse-rippers like “Just Gotta Get Out”, which sounds like a musical pile-on between the Stooges, the Ramones, and Devo, with a guitar refrain that sounds like early Pavement. It’s brilliant.

Dead Can Dance – Death Cults

Dead Can Dance return with the hauntingly beautiful lament “Death Cults”. A lone, sparse drum machine runs for a few bars before the iris opens onto undulating synth bass and soaring leads, punctuated with what sounds like a synthesised steel drum, all of which creates a psychological landscape for Brendan Perry’s lush vocals, which invoke the uncanny soul of Sarah Vaughan’s “The Mystery of Man”, while inverting its optimism for our war-obsessed times. The tragedy of man, perhaps.

Bye…

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Fuzzy Frontiers Guest Mix w/ Crooked Mouth

Today, we are blessed to host another incredible guest selection on Fuzzy Frontiers — this time from Canadian/Lithuanian post-industrial folk group Crooked Mouth. Since stumbling across it a few weeks ago, their latest album Cosmic Folklore has been on repeat here at the farm. Their modern take on folk is informed by a broad spectrum of music from across the globe, and so is the mix — stopping off at Cymraeg Gothig, Dreampop, and the legendary Scott Walker. It’s one for your upcoming magic ritual, or indeed Beltane. Check it out here.

  1. Kūlgrinda – Sūns Prēi Mutrīkan Naktin Naktaūwa
  2. Current 93 – Where the Long Shadows Fall (extract)
  3. Tristwch Y Fenywod – Ferch Gyda’r Llygaid Du
  4. Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat – Misere
  5. Dead Can Dance – Avatar
  6. Cocteau Twins – In Our Angelhood
  7. Mariana Sadovska – Shcho Sontse Zakhodyt (As The Sun Sets) 
  8. Sol Abyssorum – Siahońnia Ŭ Nas Kupała
  9. Daisy Rickman – Sunflowers of Your Mind
  10. Wovenhand – Ain’t No Sunshine
  11. Scott Walker – The Old Man’s Back Again (Dedicated to the Neo-Stalinist Regime)
  12. The Sisters of Mercy – Marian (Version)
  13. Kust – Lelijo
  14. Spanxti – Leliumai
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5 Tewns Vol.22

5 tewns cover 12/04/2026

Read Time: 5 mins

Another week ends, another weekend begins, and I’m back with another collection of weekly music picks. It’s been a week of insane highs, in the form of heroes returning and the ongoing lows of continual war and misery beamed into every timeline— mine at least.

Stoker of daddy issues and all-around good egg Wes Baggaley, posted this excerpt from an interview with Shane Embury (Napalm Death) today, which perfectly encapsulates the mood:

“music means everything to people with nothing.”

So, let’s get on with it, shall we?

Boards of Canada – Tape 05

I don’t really know where to start with this one. I’m not even sure if it’s an actual song or just a promo clip, but yesterday, like many other middle-aged serotonin-depleted folk around the world, I spent over an hour repeatedly watching the video for Tape 05, with all the goosebumps and tears you’d expect from someone like me.

I believe strongly in the deification of music. You need to feel small sometimes. And as a long list of my heroes have already passed (James Brown, Andrew Weatherall, Brian Wilson, David Lynch, MF Doom, D’Angelo, Prince, and many more), I’m dangerously deprived of awe. Thank the gods for Boards of Canada

Over 3 minutes and 21 seconds, Tape 05 channels a spectrum of dread, reverence, and hope. If you read this blog, I know you’ve heard it, and I won’t blather on about the music, but even if we find ourselves teetering on the brink of the forthcoming apocalypse, I’m glad we finally have a soundtrack…

Wendy Eisenberg – The Ultraworld

It’s been a folk-heavy week, and one of the tracks that has been living rent-free in my head is this complex folk/prog/bossa nova-ish piece from Wendy Eisenberg. Drawn from her latest self-titled album, this stunning track seems to evoke Slapp Happy, Henry Cow, Jim O’Rourke, Lambchop, Caterina Valente, and a touch of Joanna Newsom all at once. The recording is honest and warm, and the arrangements are sublime. There are many stand-out tracks on the album, but this one is my favourite.

Youngsta – Plastic People

Though I’m undoubtedly the correct age, I never went to plastic people. I regret this now, but my natural aversion to London and the fact that I lived in Kernow at the time meant it never transpired. Back then, I liked to think of myself as a kind of Bumpkin ambassador for the sound — particularly dark garage — regularly playing tracks by Youngsta, Horsepower Productions, Reservoir Dogs Inc., and so on to uninterested locals and chatty posh students around Kernow, Devon and Somerset. So, when dubstep pioneer Youngsta’s homage to the seminal clubnight dropped into my inbox the other week, the dopamine rush was immense. The rhythms are tighter than my wallet, the blips full of strange alien soul, and the bass is a growling serpentine monster. Proper soundsystem music, I’ll have to pull the decks out of storage!

Amos – Vanish / Jai Yeng

Taken from Amos’ forthcoming album, Lost a Letter From The Alphabet on West Yorkshire’s Plague Records, Vanish/Jai Yeng is, as the title suggests, a song in two parts. A mad collage of drum rolls and waltzer-ready Trance synths bombards your ears; it’s big, proggy, and has the aura of a Northern English Cannibal Ox, with Amos delivering visceral lines about modern relationships and social media, “It’s like these people want you to know how much they’re in love, more than their partner.” Then, the turntable dies as do the trance synths, and Vanish transforms into Jai Yeng, a more classic-sounding Italian OST style beat. I won’t play sample spotter, but it’s a cracking album, and it comes out on International Workers’ Day/Beltane, so buy it!

Jake Thackray – The Remembrance

Inspired by this week’s incredible guest selection from Stone Club’s Matthew Shaw, I’ve been dutifully trawling my own folk collection, as mentioned — It’s been a while. June Tabor, Nick Drake, Pentangle, there are too many to choose from, but perhaps the most fitting for us right now is Jake Thackray’s The Remembrance. Though adorned with the beauty of his guitar playing, this song brilliantly portrays the cruel irony of pride and its weaponisation by political leaders in the pursuit of power. Regardless of political bent, they try to divide us and convince us that our imagined borders and our beliefs are ours alone and something worth dying for. Worth killing another human for. They want to trick us into fighting their wars.

Don’t get fooled.

Fight War, not wars. Jake Thackray puts it best in the final verse:

“Remember the shock of the ambuscade,
Remember the terrible fusillade,
And how we all looked up to see
The curious face of the enemy, 

Who was young, and shabby, and seemed to be
About as foreign as you or me…
I never did catch what the poor sod said
When he made sure we were dead.

This was a couple o’ shakes before
We got killed in the war.”

Respect in every aspect x

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Soundtrack your apocalypse / Boards of Canada return

It seems we have real confirmation of new Boards of Canada music. We, at fuzzy frontiers, are falling apart over this. Tears flowing, the whole nine yards. Apocalyptic visuals, epic strings, oodles of saturation. It sounds and looks amazing.

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Fuzzy Frontiers Guest Mix w/ Matthew Shaw (Stone Club)

Through standing stones and dolmens, across Bodmin Moor (Goon Brenn) to the Lizard Peninsula (an Lysardh), we beam over the Celtic sea to Dólmen Chã de Parada in Serra da Aboboreira, and over to Fuzz HQ (we’re all connected).

This week, we are more than thrilled to have a guest mix from Stone Club co-founder (alongside Lally MacBeth), megalithic Moog wizard, poet, and all-round lovely person Matthew Shaw. Join us on a magical trip through traditional and psychedelic folk music, featuring music from Bert Jansch, Hawkwind, Mark Fry, and many more. For more info about the amazing Stone Club, please visit https://stoneclub.rocks/

Tracklist

  1. Shirley Collins – Hal-an-Tow
  2. Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick – Lord of the Dance
  3. Mark Fry – The Witch
  4. Incredible String Band – Witches Hat
  5. John and Beverley Martin – Stormbringer
  6. Fotheringay – The Sea
  7. Dr Strangely Strange – Sign On My Mind
  8. Donovan – Catch the Wind
  9. Bert Jansch – The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
  10. Vashti Bunyan – Diamond Day
  11. Broadside Hacks – Barbry Allen (Stone Club Remix)
  12. Brenda Wootton – The Mermaid
  13. Nick Drake – River Man
  14. Fairport Convention – She Moves Through The Fair
  15. Hawkwind – Hurry on Sundown
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upsammy & Valentina Magaletti – Seismo

Valentina Magaletti - upsammy - Seismo

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The best collaborations tend to be the most unexpected. The ones with a real sense of contrast, friction, and resolve, and upsammy & Valentina Magaletti’s Seismo, for me, is undoubtedly one of those. It is, of course, no surprise to see drum alchemist, formidable solo artist, and serial collaborator Valentina Magaletti colluding with an artist, having lent her considerable talents to a seemingly endless list of projects, including her work with Nídia, Holy Tongue, Moin, Tomaga, Vanishing Twin, and many more.

upsammy, however, has always seemed a more hermetic artist. Her IDM-tinged hypermelodic sound has long ploughed its own furrow. Instantly recognisable, her power is the creation of music that is intentional, MIDI-centric, yet somehow natural-sounding and full of emotion, a feat that only a handful of artists have ever managed (see Boards of Canada, Kraftwerk, Cluster). This is not a path of collaborative effort, but of singular world-building, and although I’m a huge fan of both artists’ work, I have to confess I was concerned that any collaboration risked obscuring either upsammy’s sound or the raw improvisation that is at the core of Magaletti’s work. 

However, I’m happy to report that I was wrong. Terribly wrong. On Seismo, neither artist is rendered obscure; their powers combine Voltron-like to create a remarkable album that runs the gamut of modern electronic music, showcasing the restraint and design of upsammy’s soundworld and the playful jazz-rooted brilliance of Magaletti. 

The wryly titled opening track, It Comes to an End, does a great job of introducing the journey ahead. First, we hear the distant snares, cymbals, and floor toms of Magaletti’s kit, haunted Jazz, a cosmic storm approaching before cutting into an immaculate music-box like sequence that has become a signature sound of upsammy. This combination of dark and light gives the music a totally new edge, as the organic percussion collides, surrounds, and complements the clinical yet pitch-bent MIDI elements. It’s cute and unhinged in equal measure. 

Tracks like Hyperlocalize and Collide create a darker, ominous feel, twitching with nervous energy. The former is like the sound of a dial-up modem playing Jazz, its three-note piano leitmotif looming phantom-like over the fractured minimalist cadences of blips, toms, cropped vocal samples, and panning drums. The latter swaps the piano for bell whispers as the percussion becomes more frantic, more feral.

Mementoes– possibly my favourite track – balances upsammy’s go-slow arpeggios and microtextures with strange warped vocal edits, minimalist drum elements, chirps, and what sounds like a vibraphone. The melody is so heartbreaking, and the rhythmic elements so scattered and playful, that I teared up while listening to it. Serotonin depletion is a wonderful thing. 

Seismo closes in a smoky, melancholic haze, in the form of Some Unimaginable World, where textural tape-saturated pads float around a circular rhythmic base and pitched-down vocal flourishes which waft in and out like an unintelligible farewell, lost in the mist.

_ Valentina Magaletti & upsammy

A little while ago, my partner cooked Albaloo Polo (Persian Sour Cherry Rice) for me. I won’t lie, I was sceptical at first. Though I’m a huge fan of cherries, I didn’t want them anywhere near my rice. But the sweet-sour taste of the cherries, butting up against the other flavours, blew my tiny provincial mind. Now it’s all I can think about. Similarly, Seismo sees a coming together of two very different energies, which I was equally mistrusting of. But the restrained, detail-oriented sound of upsammy combines beautifully with the strange, fractured beauty of Magaletti’s work, and all I can do is hope for another plate.

Seismo is out now on PAN. 

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