5 Tewns Vol.11

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Greetings, earthlings. Another week has run away from me, and the blog slipped through my fingers once again. Still, like the dependable milkman of legend, I’ve arrived at your door with five tewns to end the week. No rankings as usual — just what’s been rattling round my head. Nowe, let us all join hands and begin…

Tortoise – Axial Seamount [International Anthem]

Shades of Neu! and Harmonia on this multi-layered, spaced-out track from the latest Tortoise album. Goes brilliantly with the epic levels of wind and rain we’re having at the moment.

Schimmel über Berlin – Eisenmund [Billo]

I’m absolutely obsessed with this overtly cinematic, goth-adjacent track from the debut album by the fantastically named Schimmel über Berlin. It’s snarky, it’s epic, and I love it. Forget Berghain techno and Marcel Dettmann’s zara sale black tee mucki-posing — instead look to Berlin for its DIY punk and new wave scene.

Mala x Magugu – Militant Don [Deep Medi]

Dubstep pioneer and bass alchemist Mala returns to Deep Medi for the first time in what feels like an age with this snare-and-bass workout. It has me walking around this little town in northern Portugal, chest puffed out, thinking I’m a badman (rather than the chubby, ageing Celt I am). Featuring the considerable talents of Nigerian-born, Cardiff MC Magugu on vocals, spitting bars like a machine gun. Heavy, heavy business.

Kali Malone & Drew McDowell – The Secret of Magentism [Ideologic Organ]

This distortion-soaked cyclical mantra from Kali Malone and Drew McDowall’s new album has an almost shamanic pull on me. I sit staring out at the Marão mountains in the distance, covered in fog and rain, and for those five minutes and 48 seconds, I’m just molecules floating over those beautiful mountains.

Low End Activist –
Airdrop 06 (Smithy’s Porsche) [Peak Oil]

I’ve long been a massive fan of Low End Activist. I love the narratives, I love his take on bass music, his ability to distil 30 years of UK hardcore energy into a kind of hypermodern musique concrète. I could go on, but I won’t. Listen to this if you know what’s good for you. Have a lovely weekend!

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