Records from Eglo, Public Possession, Optimo Music and Emotional Rescue all stood out for their own distinct reasons in July.
Emotional Response will release an album of early productions from L.I.E.S. producer and video artist Luke Wyatt.
Anyone with a firm grasp of the law of averages would understand that in a month where there was far too many good records, a fair proportion also came wrapped in excellent sleeve art.
The central axis field of Secret Circuit mixes the 46th Juno Plus podcast – expect the weird and the wonderful.
American producer Eddie Ruscha has an impeccable underground pedigree, having spent most of his decade-plus career self-releasing hand produced cassettes under the Secret Circuit pseudonym. In recent years he’s embraced the digital age, self-releasing a handful of album-length collections of analogue doodles, hard-to-pigeonhole soundscapes and vaguely Balearic cuts that seemingly tumble from the speakers. There was also a series of collaborative releases with Thomas Bullock under the Laughing Light of Plenty alias.
The imaginary soundtrack work of Jason Letkiewicz’s Alan Hurst project gets the remix treatment on a forthcoming release from Emotional Response – stream the results below.
In discussion with the excellent Test Pressing website recently, Hardway Brothers producer and A Love From Out Of Space resident Sean Johnston described his style of music as “an oasis of slow in a world of increasing velocity,” and further qualified this by remarking on the blandness of much of contemporary house and techno.
Los Angeles based producer Secret Circuit will release an album compiling various cassette-only tracks through London based label Emotional Response, it has been announced.