World Unknown 8 vinyl

Key to the ongoing World Unknown parties has been the sense of community it engenders as a group of dedicated attendees fill the South London dark room every month, and it's from this lot that Blake and Hart have also hand picked some of the artists that have appeared on the affiliated label. After a year off from the slog of releasing records, World Unknown serve up the second of two new releases that features two such talented regulars in Black Merlin and White Lodge. Both the former Bird Scarer graduate and his less heralded B Side partner seem inspired by the work of John Carpenter here - in the case of the former it's the spiraling synth lines married to the kind of chugging beat that gives Weatherall palpitations. White Lodge adopts a more interesting approach on "Swung" an appropriately titled track paced at 6/4 which is described as the "opening salvo in this year's snare roll revival".

Jane Fitz, Alexis Le-Tan, Steve Macri (s_m Music/Two&Eight), Canyons, Horton Jupiter, Kacper Kapsa Polish Cut Outs, Grimes Adhesif, Ali Renault, Mitchell Goor, Jean Claude Gavri, Michael Ozone, Phil Mison