Hailing from Amiens, a city which has produced some of France’s most radical and unique experimentation since the 2000’s, Terrine is Claire Gapenne (Me Donner, Headwar) solo project. From her debut as a solo guitar noise project, Terrine slowly morphed into hypnotic abstract electronic improvisations, whose tense and collaged atmospheres still maintain a mesmeric sense of playfulness. A true iconoclast in the tradition of French luminaries such as Jacques Thollot and Jacques Berrocal, Terrine draws inspiration from the fierce spirit of free jazz and the uncompromising rawness of industrial music. Armed with a drum machine which she’s playing like others would a trumpet, Terrine seems to have quietly formed a highly nuanced reading of electronic music history in her own unique yet empirical manner. In the 20 minutes that this album spans the shadows of Pan Sonic, Carla Bley and Annette Peacock all make appearances amidst field recordings that evoke the sonic palette of an early Chantal Akerman film. These influences all somehow manage to seamlessly fuse together and produce a corrosive yet romantic soundtrack to the madness of our times.

"Alarmante", an oscillating and electrified ride, carried by a dub love and a few eardrums ticklings, conveying the dance to whoever or whatever that would feel to in the merry assembly. Doing so Tresque takes distance with its original formula to turn more abstract by accumulating layers of raw pulses all from circuits in feedback (mixer, spring reverb, filter, tube preamp). Made in Brussesl + Geneva 2021 K7 (Limited 100 hand-numbered tapes edition) released by THIRDTYPETAPES

Live at the Petersham Bowling Club was recorded in January 2023 when Warm Currency supported the great Maxine Funke. This offering includes tracks from Returns, our 2022 album on Horn of Plenty, and some unreleased material. We jettisoned our regular keyboard to grapple with the bowling club's cracked piano.

Tom Mills is an electronic musician based in London. In addition to his solo work he plays Theremin in the group Bobhowler with Alicia Gardener-Trejo and Andrew Woodhead and also played on the album ‘Improvisers Inside Electronics’ alongside Antonio Acunzo, Tony Hardie-Bick and N.O Moore. --- Tom Mills /  electronics --- Mastered by Rashad Becker at Clunk Photograph by Tom Mills Design by Earshots

Don't test the waters; a gut-rigged amalgam of disengaged tape remedies, mouth whiplash and last-limb electronics. --- TracklistA1 untitledB1 untitledB2 untitled --- Regional Bears, 2021

Belgium's Knotwilg Records delivers a heavy duty dose of DIY and out there bangers in celebration of live events they ran between 2016-2019, showcasing frequent collaborators and close friends. Snippets of live sets from favourite Belgian venues such as Les Atellier Claus and Brasserie Atlas plus some exclusives that weren't recorded. --- Mastered by Christophe Albertijn Compiled by DJ Klakke Soirée Knotwilg I at Les Ateliers Claus 14/05/2016: Tracks 14, 16 & 17 are all exclusive since recordings got lost Soiréé Knotwilg II at Les Ateliers Claus 02/06/2017: tracks 6, 8, 9 and 15 live from that night Knotwilg at Donk: 06/07/2018: Track 3 live that night Knotwilg Festival 2019 at Brasserie Atlas: 13/04/2019: livetracks 2, 7, 10, 11,12, 13 and 18 Réveil Kortemark: 01/11/2019: no recordings were made: 1 & 4 are exclusive tracks K-Group recording (track 5) at Les Ateliers Claus on 9/11/2019 during a short weekend playing Claus and Grambacht. --- Released April 4 2020, Knotwilg Records

Truly spannered churned out gunk from the mind of Duncan Harrison. Could possibly be the best Duncan Harrison release to come out in the last 12 months --- Regional Bears, 2021

'I met SUGAI KEN a few years ago in Tokyo, outside the Dommune radio studios. His personality and music, a very special brand, touched me. His music is a coded vision of a dream world. A trade that is progressive yet traditional - in the most positive sense of the word. Recently out of the blue, Sugai San sent me a collection of personal field recordings he made of folklore groups and public performances in Tokyo, Toyama, Kanagawa, Kyoto, Tottori, … The close listener already knows that Sugai San’s aesthetics speak of a great knowledge of these performing arts. An open invitation: “the traditional local performing arts in the 21st century intrinsically conceive “fragility” as they are vulnerable to extinction. The Japanese local performing arts that appear in this recording is no exception, endangered by the declining birth rate and aging population which are typical to the country. (SUGAI KEN)” I bring the original recordings into conversation with new elements (corresponding field recordings and or additional percussion and strings, performed by Antwerp musicians Jeroen Stevens and Roman Hiele) like a ‘monomane’ - tr. imitating – sound game. But when i throw these old and new figurines together on the podium, the objects immediately disappear in the cracks of the stage wood. Thus only the understament of the suggestion remains. And relentlessly the significance of every movement now becomes a question. Furthermore, what’s in focus? The manipulation? Or the content? Or are we zooming in on the aspect of archiving ~ preserving? Dubious. In KAGIROI – tr. heat haze - people coexist for a moment severely carved in time like a high contrast still of dancing flames. When you bring this composition home, it will never boil yet merely evaporate. And when you gaze at the clouds of condensed droplets inside your own darkness, on a soft volume, You complete our puzzle.  . -Lieven Martens --- SUGAI KEN - field recordings, liner notes Lieven Martens - collage, additional sounds and field recordings Jeroen Stevens - additional percussion Roman Hiele - double bass, mastering Kohei Oyamada - liner notes translation Jeroen Wille - artwork --- Edições CN, 2021

Page 29 and Page 44 are part of an iterative text-sound project Hopkins began in 2018. In this ongoing project, text generation software is used to repeatedly alter a page of text. Each alteration is collated in an expanding document that he uses to inform recordings and performances. The pages were read, but not a great deal was said.Flakes 1 and Flakes 2 are collages made from test signals and found audio fragments from Australian television between 1974 – 1979. Anticipating the broadcast, but nothing begins. ---Recorded and assembled in 2021 on Gadigal and Wangal land.Mastered by Renato Grieco.Artwork by MP Hopkins.

Collage for found text 2018-2020 Voice – Claire Bloom, Daffy Scanlan, Duncan Harrison, Josh Peterson --- Regional Bears, 2021

Objects at Hand is the result of an ongoing collaboration between Dirty Electronics (John Richards) and T M Shaw.   Just before lockdown in 2020 Richards and Shaw finished a tour, Points of Failure, which involved building performance-installations in various venues across the UK. These environments, made up of DIY devices and found objects, were constructed in response to the performance spaces, and consisted of sound, light, smell, smoke and other sonic processes.    Objects at Hand was recorded retrospectively in remote locations and then edited and mixed as a memory trace and document of the sounds, physical spaces and objects encountered on the tour.   Action, uncontrollable instruments, unstable systems, performative failures, reimagined affordance of objects, playing with resource, improvising inside electronics, assembling and disassembling sound devices, architectural features are folded into this performance document.   Richards and Shaw see their work as a form of ‘cybernetic wayfaring’, improvising with materials, feedback and new situations, as they continue, and repeat.  --- 1. Praxis [4:34] - coil, circuits, feedback, motors, metal sink, tin can, transducer 2. Imposed_Adjacent [4:35]- rubbing motor, interjections, radical nails, tin can, voice, large glass vessel 3. Opus 25 [3:48] - sparkler, filtered noise/whistle, hacked speak n’ spell, vowels, tin can, Tesla coil 4. Thinking in Time [5:35] - boat, creeky platform, gated noise, thrupenny synth, spring reverb feedback 5. Temporary Needs [7:18] - disposable cameras, large capacitor discharge, circuits, AM radio, prepared speakers, spark gaps 6. newCorpus [1:59] - travel, flights, hotel, coil, Dictaphone, large speech corpus, pd patch (disorderly jukebox --- Opal Tapes, 2021

Mind bending spoken word from the weird brain of Eric Schmid.  Released 2020 by Regional Bears

"Stumbling into the Age of Loneliness I carry cloudy glass bottles to the edge of the Pacific. After 100 years in dirt beneath San Francisco they breathe fresh ocean air, fill with the energy of breaking waves. Microphones inside, ear to conch, I hear shadows: scurrying, wing flaps, chirps and chatters, whimpers and bellows. So many creatures, once emerged from the sea, now gone. How many vessels would the disappeared fill? What is the weight of a lost species? I make an offering of listening to help me carry all these ghosts we made." ⟶ Cheryl Leonard Life through the computer. We all have had to grapple with it over the past year, as we attempt to wring as much meaning, intimacy, experience and variety as we can from our shiny boxes of electronics. Concerts, plays, ballet, meetings, dates, dinners, coffees and conferences all became just a click away. Some of us cocooned ourselves in soundscapes lost, from old streams from noisy bars, to recordings of natural locations we could no longer get to. It was by turns revelatory, empty, full, sad and comforting. In Schism’s title track Cheryl E. Leonard treats us to her own imaginings of the world within her laptop; a pulsating, flickering, stuttering morass of coil pick up recordings, set amid the co-mingling of crickets, squirrels, birds, bats, and sounds played on natural-object instruments. She asks: “What does it mean when our mediating technologies have both the power to connect us to and distance us from the ecosystems we are part of?” Certainly this is a question which predates the pandemic, but it is one which we grapple with now with a set of new knowledges which speak to both the possibilities, and the shortcomings of a life lived digitally.In addition to her laptop recordings Leonard also turns to mics placed inside bottles to render the second piece on this release, Eremozoic. In the context this simple gesture takes on new resonances; a separation, enclosure, limitation which captures and reverberates particular tones, while missing others entirely. When I think of the computer in this era, I think of it like this, it exists as both echo chamber and conversation; alienation and hope. I think many of us have felt the last year, a little like life was lived inside a bottle. With this release Leonard reminds us of what we lost during the pandemic, but more profoundly what we might lose more permanently as we continue into the climate crisis. - Kate Carr --- Composed, performed, and recorded by Cheryl E. Leonard Mastered by Thomas Dimuzio at Gench Studios   Liner Notes by Cheryl E. Leonard Words by Kate Carr  Artwork and design by Juliána Chomová  Stone composition and photography by Ester Sabik  Risograph print by Kudla Press  Photography by Zoltán Czakó Dedicated to Patty Chen-Wei Liu Released by mappa as MAP026 in 2021

Six solo recordings from Aoi Tagami, Li Song and Xiang, three young chinese artists supported and mentored by Zhu Wenbo of Zoomin' Nights to highlight the thriving young experimental scene within China --- Li Song, a native of Xi'an, now living in London, uses his laptop to make improvised music and was active in Beijing's experimental/improvised music scene from 2014-2018. Tokyo-based Aoi Tagami explores songs through the use of her own voice and words. Since 2014 she has been giving performances in diverse locations, from outdoor settings to theatre spaces. Xiang, sound worker, working with field recordings, electronics, improvisation/composition of objects/body, performance based on aural exploration. She lives in Chengdu. --- Released: Zoomin' Night Released: October 2020 Mastered by Xiang Designed by Liu Lu

Anla Courtis: guitar, water, ebow S. Glass: voice, field recordings, tapes, objects, violin --- Recorded, mixed, and edited at Yaguareté Studios, Buenos Aires and at No Spray 205, San Francisco --- Ikusiuus, 2021

Co-released with Unread Records (USA). #272  --- Recorded mostly with Korg Minilogue XD in September-October 2020. S ome additions & mixing & cassette mastering November 2020 - February 2021, Digital version mastering July 2021. Music & artwork by Jani Hirvonen. inspiration: Quantum physics, universe, cosmic vibrations / dimensions / frequencies, spirituality, the unknown... --- Ikusiuus, 2021

The Anaksimandros: Janne Laurila, Jan Anderzen, Markus Mäki, Arttu Partinen, Kevin Regan. Limited edition of 80 copies * Including a hidden bonus track, which wasn't on the original cassette release. Originally released on Huutomerkki in 2000. --- Sleeve artwork and layout by Johannes Schebler --- Ikuisuus, 2021

Jim Strong is a visual artist, painter, performer & experimental instrument builder. Until now his music is released on respectful labels like Vitrine and Crisis Of Taste. He is the one half of Melkings, a collaborative group with T.D. & founder of the experimental label Cor Ardens. im Strong’s music is characterised by a structural complexity, combining amorphous instrumentation and spoken words. His handcrafted instruments, that looks more like artifacts or sculptures, reproduce a big variety of cracking noises, broken electronics & drone sound effects. The outcome is a poetic mix, consist of free improvisation, crank-based mechanisms and sound poetry. Voluntary Letters are probably his most exciting work by Jim until now. This release includes eleven tracks, who successively structure an interior mystery play between paraphernalia & human soul --- More Mars, 2021