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5 Tewns: Vol.5

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Hello again — it’s been a long time (I shouldn’t have left you, without a dope beat to step to). So here are my five tippedy-top tunes for this week:

Cerys Hafana – Carol Mynydddog

Physically, I’m sitting in a town in northern Portugal, on the veranda, staring out at the Marão mountain range in the distance, tears streaming down my face. Spiritually, I’m flying over Borth to Talybont. Saudade? Hiraeth? I tell myself Ceredigion is everywhere. I don’t know, but I wish my Cymraeg were better. Nonetheless, I can’t think of another artist who has moved me to tears more than Cerys Hafana. Heart-wrenchingly beautiful, ‘Sad Welsh Harp Pop’.


DJ Haram – Voyeur

Wild, industrial, and very naughty. If you aren’t moving to this, go see a doctor — you might well be dead.


Horse Lords & Arnold Dreyblatt – Advance

The first track taken from the forthcoming FRKWYS Vol. 18: Extended Field is truly spectacular: ever-growing astral harmonics that will set up your day nicely. It does mine, anyway. I’m looking forward to the full release.


Tin Man – Lucidité

Taken from Tin Man’s 2023 album, Arles on Hamburg label Bureau B, this luscious dollop of acido-tranquillo has been following me around all week and I’m all the better for it.


Dom Salvador & Abolição – Hei! Você

Not a new one, but sometimes the classics are just unbeatable. As my knowledge of Portuguese grows, so does my love for the Brazilian music I’ve been listening to all these years. Taken from 1971’s Som, Sangue e Raça, Hei! Você is a thing of unfaltering beauty.

Cheers my lovers!

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Tom & Jerry – Escape (1993)

Dydd Gwener!!!!! The weekend has landed, this chubby middle-aged man has eaten his body weight in roast fish, and the sun is blastin’. As good a reason as any to revisit some early Apocalypse Now-sampling Jungle brilliance from the mighty Tom and Jerry!


Ghost Dubs – Dub Battle (2024)

It’s Thursday afternoon, 28 °C here, and I’m baking some Laugenstangen while listening to modernist dub deeper than the Mariana Trench, courtesy of Ghost Dubs. Released last year on The Bug’s Pressure Sounds label, it’s minimal, spectral, and about as deconstructed as you can get. A phantom in my headphones.


Bobby Lyle – Inner Space (1978)

Dydd Mercher, and it’s a stunner here: 25 °C, one cloud in the sky — “Nimbo cumulo” vibes for all you Fast Show fans (showing my age here) — and I can see all the way out to Serra do Marão. So, in that spirit, let’s enjoy a gorgeous bit of ethereal soul-jazz noodling from Bobby Lyle’s 1978 album, New Warrior.


Timothy J. Fairplay – I Lay Awake at Night Scheming, 2023

Dydd Mawrth. It’s a beautiful day in the valley, and I’m enjoying this trancedance tape‑house belter from the inimitable Timothy J. Fairplay. Saturated drums, beautiful melodies, and darkly weirdness—what more could you ask for?


Trees Speak – Pyramid (2021)

Lacking sleep and lurching around the studio with a sort of zombie gait… it’s Monday, I suppose. Anyway, I’ve got this bubbling on the headphones: taken from Trees Speak’s magnificent 2021 album, Vertigo of Flaws on Soul Jazz Records. Music is the healing force of the universe and all that. I’m off for another cup of builders. peace x


Ossia – Control, 2016

Hard to believe this one’s nearly a decade old! I remember the first time I heard it was on the dancefloor at Griessmühle (RIP). After eight years of living in Berlin at the time, words cannot express how bored I was with Berlin techno. Hearing this was like being 17 again, dropping acid-laced Mitsis at locals-only dub nights at the Commi Centre on Cowley Road, surrounded by old dudes supping Guinness and local rudeboys. A track that marries metallic industrial power with the Looney-Tunes dancehall of Mister Vegas or Vybz Kartel — and a massive breath of fresh air.