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Brian Eno - Reflection

Brian Eno is due to release a new ambient album on 1st January 2017. You can pre-order it from Bleep and other places.

Brian Eno presents Reflection, his new album on Warp Records.

Reflection follows in the lineage of Brian Eno's long-running collection of 'Ambient' recordings that started with his 1973 collaboration with Robert Fripp, (No Pussyfooting) and 1975's Discreet Music.

Consisting entirely of one long form composition, Reflection mirrors perfectly Brian Eno's idea that 'Ambient' music is a term "to distinguish it from pieces of music that have fixed duration and rhythmically connected, locked together elements".

Due for release on January 1st, Reflection promises to be a much-needed catharsis at the start of a brand new year.

Sandra - The Long Play

Fantastic electro-pop from 1985 produced and engineered by Michael Cretu. The album is a kind of cross between Madonna and Eighth Wonder.

Candida Cosmica

Dark Entries continue the brilliant work they have done of reissuing the crucial electronic and disco work of Patrick Cowley and Candida Cosmica could possibly be the most crucial release from his archive yet. Produced in collaboration with the adult film star Candida Royalle, Candida Cosmica is an escalading journey of visionary cosmic experiments.

Ulrich Schnauss - No Further Ahead Than Today

New album from esteemed German electronic artist issued on Scripted Realities. Available from Bleep and many other places.

Delia Derbyshire and Elsa Stansfield - Circle of Light

Jonny Trunk's ability to dig out the rarest dusty reels and DATs from the archives, basements and attics of the Radiophonic workshop's various entourage has turned up possibly his most unbelievable find yet. Delia Derbyshire and Elsa Stansfield's original electronic soundtrack to the avant-garde film Circle of Light: The Photography of Pamela Bone, directed by Anthony Roland.

Circle of Light was premiered in 1972 and within three months was selected to represent Great Britain in the Art Film class at the Cork International Festival where it won first prize. Surprisingly for a film held in high regard, the nocturnal drones that Delia and Elsa produced to soundtrack it has never been commercially released before on vinyl. Believed to be Delia's longest surviving work, elements of her more esoteric workshop material bleed into the two compositions, Blue Veils & Golden Sand spectral tape loops glow in the midst and unravel a sinister edge to the soundtrack, while the second side's birds chirping casts a dreamlike haze that's both sedating and disorientating in the best way possible.

1991 - No More Dreams

New album from Gothenburg producer, Axel Backman who records as 1991. You can get a copy here. This new album continues his signature low-fi sound with faded 90s techno.

Listen to The Ship

Brian Eno's 'The Ship' is now available for preview. It's only on Spotify so you'll have to download the app just in order to listen to the title track. Alternatively, (and much less hassle), you can hear it on Youtube.

New Order

New Order have announced that their album Music Complete will be re-released as Complete Music with all the extended remixes that were previously only available on the vinyl. It will available on May 13th.

Track Listing is:

  1. Restless (Extended Version)
  2. Singularity (Extended Version)
  3. Plastic (Extended Version)
  4. Tutti Frutti (Extended Version)
  5. People On The High Line (Extended Version)
  6. Stray Dog (Extended Version)
  7. Academic (Extended Version)
  8. Nothing But A Fool (Extended Version 2)
  9. Unlearn This Hatred (Extended Version)
  10. The Game (Extended Version)
  11. Superheated (Extended Version 2)

Scrivener iOS

Can it really be true? Literature & Latte, the company behind the excellent Scrivener word-processing software have announced on their blog that it has now entered the beta stage. It's been a very long wait. I remember when this was first announced back in 2009.

Vintage Fashion

These past three years, I have been increasingly interested in vintage fashion from the 1980s and early 1990s. A good site I recommend is Uneasy Nostalgia. They have some great magazine scans from years gone by.