Bleeding In The Shark Tank

Bookending the week, with a companion to Monday's post, collecting another dozen picks from my May Day music haul, once again a mixture of new releases and new discoveries.

Broken Chanter starts off with a song from latest album This Could Be Us, You, Or Anybody Else, which is just fantastic from start to finish. Birding, the debut from deary, is one that I'd describe as a grower. It's hasn't had the immediacy and impact of Broken Chanter, but it's shoegaze-inspired soundscapes are gradually seeping in and taking over with each listen.

More selections from the PRAH label, by way of their 'Scratching The Surface...' samplers, this time highlighting uh, aka siblings Dominic & Fionnuala Kennedy, and Donna Thompson.

Another compilation (two, actually) that comes highly recommended is The Beautiful Flowers Wait For Peace, issued by Partick Sailing Club via Bandcamp. Each 10-track compilation costs a fiver, proceeds "donated to The Sameer Project, a mutual aid organisation run by Palestinians in Gaza, providing food, water, medical aid and essential supplies to those in need."

Monday's and today's selection features a pick from Volumes 1 and 2, 100 Poems and Cosmikuro respectively. If I add that other artists include Bedford Falls Players, Rude Audio, Airsine, Ben Hunt and Katakana's delightful remix of Cocteau Twins' Cherry Coloured Funk, and everyone donated their music for free, then surely it's a no-brainer. Buy now.

From the archives, a belated EP purchase from Billie Ray Martin's back catalogue, a remix of Steve Jansen featuring brother David Sylvian that languished in the archives for fourteen years, and an unreleased Julian Cope outtake from the Peggy Suicide sessions that has been dusted off for the latest release in the essential Cope's Notes book & CD series.

Happy Friday, everyone!

1) Atrocity/Adverts/Idiocy: Broken Chanter (2026)

2) After All (Original Version): Billie Ray Martin (2014)

3) nostos: uh (2025)

4) Frog Lick: Cosmikuro (2026)

5) Summon (East Coast Love Affair Mix): Joe Goddard ft. Hayden Thorpe (2024)

6) You Remind Me Of You: Julian Cope (1991)

7) Deadman's Cut ('Ballad Of A Deadman' Remix By Rhinoceros): Steve Jansen ft. David Sylvian (2008)

8) Baby's Breath: deary (2026)

9) Sneakanon Pt2 (6161 + Andrew Remix): 6161 (2026)

10) Rapture In Blue (Midnight Version): Daniel Avery ft. Cecile Believe (2025)

11) Matchstick: Donna Thompson (2022)

12) Return To Coney (Attrition Mix By Martin Bowes): Warriors Of The Dystotheque ft. Ella Joy (2016)

2014: After All EP: 2

2016: Return To Coney EP: 12

2022: Deadman's Cut EP: 7

2022: Something True EP: 11

2024: Summon Remixed: 5

2025: pleroma EP: 3

2026: Birding: 8

2026: Cope's Notes 8: Peggy Suicide: 6

2026: Partick Sailing Club PSC#002: The Beautiful Flowers Wait For Peace Vol. 2: 4

2026: 6161 (Remixes) EP: 9

2026: This Could Be Us, You, Or Anybody Else: 1

2026: Tremor (Midnight Versions): 10

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A Glitch Repeats

Sixty minutes, ten tracks, one decade in the life of MAN2.0 aka Mark Bailey.

My recent NEIN Records catalogue buy has significantly boosted the quantity of MAN2.0 music and remixes in my collection, and this is only a good thing as I've been a fan since I discovered Mark via his remixes and releases on Paisley Dark Records a few years ago. Last year, he took the next logical step by launching his own label, Embryonic Soundwave.

Today's selection plucks selections from the past decade, spanning 2017 to 2025 and trying to avoid repeating tracks (or at least versions) that I've previously used elsewhere on this blog.

Starting off with the brilliantly-titled Anti-Chug, the selection takes in remixes for Perry Granville, Tronik Youth and Soft Cell, as well as MAN2.0 releases including last year's superb CTRL ALT DEL and wrapping up with Cosmikuro's stunning rework of 2023 single Red Shift.

May your weekend be full of sunshine, inside and out. I think this is the ideal soundtrack.

1) Anti-Chug (Single Version): MAN2.0 (2017)

2) Fake Robots (MAN2.0 'Counterfeit Machinery' Remix): Ulises Arrieta & Javier Martinez (2019)

3) CTRL ALT DEL (Tronik Youth Remix): MAN2.0 ft. Precious Blood (2025)

4) Turbo Rave (MAN2.0's Cabin Fever Remix): BT COP (2020)

5) It's A Mug's Game (MAN2.0 Edit): Soft Cell (2022)

6) Shake Up Your Mind (MAN2.0 Remix): Steady State (2021)

7) Glittering Lights (MAN2.0 Remix): Perry Granville (2023)

8) Seedling (Single Version): MAN2.0 (2017)

9) Don't Space (MAN2.0 Single White Female Remix): Tronik Youth (2017)

10) Red Shift (Cosmikuro's 'Hold Your Breath' Mix): MAN2.0 (2023)

2017: Abandoned EP: 9

2017: Heavy Machinery EP: 8

2017: Plan Your Journey EP: 1

2019: Fake Robots EP: 2

2020: Turbo Rave EP: 4

2021: Shelter Me: Beats For Beds: The Remix Album: 6

2022: FREEDLS: Sexy Dinosaur From Outer Space: 5

2023: Glittering Lights EP: 7

2023: Red Shift (Late) EP: 10

2025: CTRL ALT DEL EP: 3

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All of these - and more - are available to buy online and if this music pushes your buttons, tickles your fancy or sugars your plum, then I highly recommend MAN2.0's Operator EP, on Embryonic Soundwave, last December.

Every Day It Feels So, Feels So, Feels So Real

A slight change of plan today, as my intended post has now been shifted to Sunday - all will become clear. Instead, I'm having another dip into my 2022 music purchases to bring you a selection of ten tunes, spanning the globe and all with a nod and a wink towards the dancefloor. The BPMs are relatively low on many, but they're damned persistent and infectiously groovy.

Starting off with the wonderfully titled Chuggernaut from Nottingham producers and DJs Disco Rogues aka Nick Kipsy and Dave Holland, followed by Pan In The Flash from Leeds-based Cosmikuro aka Jamie Minto, a highlight from the excellent Paisley Dark Records compilation Shelter Me. All for a good cause, as is the Support Ukraine Compilation on the Toy Tonics label, which I featured recently and represented here by I Think I See by South London duo Athlete Whippet aka Aviram Barath and Robin Braum.

 

Confidence Man's album Tilt continues to be the gift that keeps on giving since it came out in April, whilst John Tejada puts a new spin on an old rave classic to great effect. Humanoid was a solo vehicle for Brian Dougans, one half of The Future Sound Of London, Amorphous Androgynous and a million other aliases.

 

Another legend, Hubert Blanc-Francard of Cassius and La Funk Mob and more recently film composer fame, appears here as Boom Bass with a wonderful remix of Glatson by Nathalie Duchene. 

 

Things close out in a dub-inflected style with one of Raf Rundell's four reworkings of songs from Mattiel's Georgia Gothic album, imbuing the music and vocals with a spaciousness and depth that provides a perfect way to wrap up the hour.

 

Happy weekend, everyone. More - but very different - fun tomorrow!

 

1) Chuggernaut: Disco Rogues

2) Pan In The Flash: Cosmikuro

3) 'The Mayor Of Malt Rave St' (Pete's Give Them Shelter Remix): Pete Bones

4) Luvin U Is Easy: Confidence Man

5) Didgital (Original): Omri Smadar

6) sT8818r (John Tejada Remix): Humanoid

7) I Think I See: Athlete Whippet

8) Glatson (Boom Bass Remix By Hubert Blanc-Francard): Nathalie Duchene

9) Island Avenue: Zillas On Acid

10) Cultural Criminal (Raf Rundell's Salty Man Dub): Mattiel

 

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