Much music is steeped in the history of the place where it was made, and here Jonathan Sharp, the musician behind this project, trawls the borderlands of fiction, imagination, and the real places written about in the Plague Dogs where he went to collect sounds for the album.
Author: Justin Patrick Moore
Everyday Dust :: Assemblance X Sessions (Dustopian Frequencies)
The sounds here are not just the contemporary musique concrète we’ve all come to know and love from Everyday Dust, but musique métaphysique. It’s earthy, its rooted, its physical powerful when blaring through the headphones or speakers and subwoofer, but it contains the ever necessary particles of dust that transport me to the otherworld every time I listen to music from this artist.
Sound Signatures :: Crafting your electronic music identity — by Nick Feldman (Routledge)
By providing a slew of tips for the creative use of the tools, and by really diving into all that is on offer here, the person who uses this book is going to give back new imaginative music electronic music community, just as Feldman shares the knowledge. Put the work in, and have fun while you craft your own sound signature, the sound of your musical imagination, that uses the tools to realize the composition you first heard in your mind and soul. This alone will be what sets you apart from the clones.
Trem 77 :: Reflective (Grape Mod)
Released on May Day 2026, at the halfway point between the spring equinox and the summer solstice, Reflective is a reminder of the potential of our international connections and the world we share. Where do we want to go with what is ahead?
Euan Alexander Millar-McMeeken :: Soundtracking the quiet years
Euan grew up in a mostly quiet, non-musical household where records were scarce and music lived mainly in car rides soundtracked by Fleetwood Mac and Whitney Houston—until a childhood Walkman and Lionel Richie cassette sparked a lifelong, deeply personal connection to sound.
Hollie Kenniff :: For Those Who Stay (Nettwerk)
For Those Who Stay has an extremely meditative sound. Languid sustained tones, whispers of guitar, the humming hush of a quiet vocal wordless breath, murmurs of restrained piano, each song flowing into another like each breath in and out breath flows into another during meditation.
Bette A. and Brian Eno :: Slow Stories: A Collaboration of Storytelling, Music, and Art (Unnamed Press)
Where story, sound, and image meet at an unhurried pace, Slow Stories feels like a quiet return to the ancient art of remembering.
Shane Parish :: Autechre Guitar (Palilalia)
Gratitude feels like the right place to begin—because without a chance introduction decades ago, this remarkable record might never have found its way into the world.
V/A :: Insects (Dustopian Frequencies)
These musical works are a good antidote to the all too prevalent use of insecticide in our world. Even science fiction books, where the thinking one could hope, would be expansive and kindly towards other forms of life, has alien enemies represented as “buggers” like in Ender’s Game or all the invasion of bugs happening across the galaxy in Starship Troopers.
Catharæ, Trem 77 :: Dreams of the Méditerranéant (Adventurous Music)
Captured in a single inspired hour on a humble Casio CT-770, Dreams of the Méditerranéant turns raw immediacy into transcendence—proof that mastery, not machinery, carries the music. With sea-soaked textures from Catharæ and Trem 77 and proceeds supporting SOS Méditerranée, it’s a reminder to create boldly with what you have—and let it flow.
Babs Santini :: The Formless Irregular (Timeless Editions) — Book review
A definitive, full-color celebration of the elusive visionary Babs Santini—whose surreal, erotically charged collages shaped the visual world of Nurse With Wound and its avant-garde circle—The Formless Irregular spans five decades of radical image-making that transforms waste, dreams, and noise into haunting, darkly humorous art.

















