Track Of The Day

The first song written by Pailhead, an unlikely collaboration between Fugazi‘s Ian Mackaye and Ministry‘s Al Jourgensen from their sole compiled 1988 release Trait.

The holiday season is here and for various reasons I sort of singled out Mick Karn‘s 1982 album Titles as one to soundtrack the festive period.

An oddball, hidden expletive hides under the layers of vocals on this track from the 1971 psycheledic space classic Space Hymns album by Ramases.

One that re-entered my head after quite some time by accident, that being the opening track “Heads Down” from the sole 1998 LP by The Farewell Bend.

November Group were a Boston-based, Europe-leaning post-punk group brought to my attention by a friend I met on tour many years ago.

Of the many one-off italo disco tracks pumped out by Italian studios in the 70s and 80s, it would seem the synths weren’t calibrated for this one!

A magical, icy instrumental number called “Dark River” from Coil‘s third album, Love’s Secret Domain, that has had some lasting power for me.

A space-y yet ominous electro synth number from the only LP of American/German collaboration Jyl, released in 1984 and re-released in 2020.

With darker post-punk music being spoken more and more in many different languages, the band Eirin Peryglus is one of the few I know of sung in Welsh.

The challenging major label debut album Pony Express Record by Washington DC’s Shudder To Think and to me one of the most beautiful oddball signings of the 90s alternative boom.

With the atmosphere of winter kicking in, a re-listen of the work of American composer and sound artist Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe seemed in order.

After connecting with the Finnish synth punk/EBM duo Aus Tears in my travels, I gave their latest release Structure and Collapse a listen.

Currently listening to many things that aren’t electronic music, here I give a little overview on U.S. Maple and their track “Obey Your Concert”.

In discovering a number of soundtrack pieces for giallo films, this uneasy short piece by Italian composer Riz Ortolani came to my attention.

With the recent passing of Sparkmarker guitarist/vocalist Kim Kinakin, this is a look at their 1994 release Products And Accessories and the track “Levi’s Deklein”.

A somewhat new release by prolific UK electronic music producer Chris Gilbert, aka Mild Peril, entitled Body Cosmic under his Paladin moniker.

A revisit to the one and only LP by Regulator Watts (ex-Hoover), a record I hadn’t listened to in over two decades. Atmospheric and dark post-hardcore.

A brief look at the track “My Blues Is You” by the classic Italian dark post-punk/new wave group Neon and their fusion of guitars and electronics.

“Varsavia” is a one-off, melancholy italo/synth classic from the mysterious Ein-st-ein, who received the re-issue treatment in 2012.

A look at the various versions of “Relax” by Frankie Goes To Hollywood, and likely the only article to also mention Fugazi in the same breath.

Michele Musser — also working as Michele Mercure — released a number of albums of experimental and exploratory synthesizer landscapes in the 1980s.