5 Tewns Vol.7

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Another week passes by. It’s 28ºC here, and I’m still in shorts. I’m not complaining, but it’s a little odd. I suppose, as long as Taylor Swift can fly for 14 minutes on her private jet, it’s worth it if we never see the rain again. I mean, who needs fruit? Not me — I sustain myself entirely on cake.

Here’s this week’s tip-top five at our frontier outpost in the Portuguese mountains.

Galya Bisengalieva – Alash-Kala (The Bug Reflection) [one little independent]

Apocalyptic dub of the heaviest kind on this incendiary re-imagining of Galya Bisengalieva’s beautifully sparse original. Intense and brilliant.

LSD and the Search for God – This Time [Cellar Door Tapes]

An accidental click threw up this gorgeous, wobbly tape-head shoegaze band, and this tune in particular, which, like a mythical portal, transports this old man back to listening to Ride and Spacemen 3 on a Welsh mountainside, in overly sized trousers. Excellent band name too!

DJ Strawberry – Tekk tekk [Kool Switch Works]

Wile out, high-paced business from Germany’s DJ Strawberry. Complex, fidgety rhythms stutter and spray under a veil of dubbed-out sound effects. Something in this reminds me of Chris Carter’s TCR Productions (the breakbeat one, not the Throbbing Gristle one).

SDK – Ogygia [All City Records]

I wrote an in-depth review of this one here, so I won’t repeat myself, but it’s beautiful and has become my “staring at mountains” tune for the week.

TERM3 – Sha (this) [Termina]

Beautiful, broken dub experiments from Berlin’s Termina Label. I bought the 7″ a few years back and have been bumping it a lot of late.

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