Published on
August 16, 2024
Category
Features
Essential weekend listening.
This week’s rundown is by VF’s Kelly Doherty and contributors Annabelle Van Dort, Emily Hill and James Hammond.
Koreless
Deceltica
(Young)
Welsh sound artist, DJ and producer Koreless presents his first project in two years via home imprint Young. Over the last 10 years, Koreless has worked alongside some of the finest vocalists and musical talents such as FKA Twigs and Cosha, even contributing drums to David Byrne’s solo project American Utopia. Deceltica sees a welcome return to his roots featuring an extended version of “Drumshells” previously seen on HAAi’s epic DJ Kicks. Expect experimental techno, warping baselines and everything beyond in this incredibly impressive return.–EH
The Scientists
You Get What You Deserve
(Numero Group)
Working at the intersections of punk and a jilted rock vocabulary, The Scientist’s You Get What You Deserve combined two amped-up sessions recorded in Brussels and London respectively. Released in 1985, You Get What You Deserve is oft overlooked in comparison to the group’s preceding Blood Red River LP but spearheaded by key tracks “Atom Bomb Baby” and “Demolition Darby” (along with a suitably propulsive Creedence cover) this is another solid blast from the group before their eventual dissolution.–JH
K. Yoshimatsu
Fossil Cocoon: The Music of K. Yoshimatsu
(Phantom Limb)
Phantom Limb brings together the 1980s releases of cult outsider K. Yoshimatsu for the first time on Fossil Cocoon. A shrewd distillation of Yoshimatsu’s expansive catalogue–the Japanese artist wrote and released 40 records over five years–Fossil Cocoon grants insight into an extremely varied and explorative body of work. Moving from pop and post-punk to ambient and folk, this compilation is full of oddities and doused in charm. A tumble through the liberated pleasures of outsider music.–KD
Jimi Tenor
Sahkomies
(Bureau B)
From the release of his debut solo album in 1994, Finish producer Jimi Tenor announced himself as a true original, possessing exhilarating eccentricity that makes Sahkomies a thrilling listen. Reissued by Bureau B for the records’ 30th anniversary, Sakhomies sounds as fresh as it did thirty years ago—full of soaring saxophones, squelching sequencers and driving EBM beats. As freaky as it is fun!–AVD
Ekuka Morris Sirikiti
TE-KWARO ALANGO-EKUKA
(Nyege Nyege Tapes)
A master of the lukeme thumb piano, Ekuka Morris Sirikiti gets a unique anthology release here with TE-KWARO ALANGO-EKUKU. With Nyege Nyege Tapes having previously released a collection of Sirikiti’s music recorded from home-taped Ugandan radio broadcasts, this set finds Sirikiti able to listen back to these lo-fi broadcasts, reinterpreting and recording his body of work in a professional studio for the first time. The resulting improvements in fidelity let Sirikiti’s voice and the hypnotic resonance of his lukeme playing emerge out of the static in rich detail and for a wider audience.–JH
Ghost Dubs
Damaged
(Pressure)
Ghost Dubs aka Jah Schulz aka Michael Fielder announces a rebirth with Damaged, his first album on The Bug’s Pressure imprint. Based in Berlin they continue the lineage of the great legacy of Basic Channel’s influence in the sludgy underground world of abstract dub. Across 12 tracks, he invites the listener to a sedated almost hallucinatory trip through chemical experiments in dub, nodding to the innovative beat science of traditional Jamaican dub with the blended ’90s atmospheric disintegration. This is one for the heads.–EH
