Fresh Batch – May-June, 2023

Hello music lovers! My oh my, has it been a while. Time passes like water under a bridge, as they say. But who are they, anyway?

Anyway! Welcome to the Fresh Batch – an exhaustive list of underground sounds from the past fort-month. There’s something for everyone in the Fresh Batch – so don’t hesitate to have a click around! We’ve tried to make discovering interesting and satisfying new music as easy as possible for you with this quick list.

visit BNDCMPR for a playlist based on these recommendations!

Infinite thanks to all of our readers and supporters – we hope you enjoy these selections.

COMING SOON

July 3rd, 2023 – Dear Visitors, by Rhino Diaries (Ghost City Collective, Italy) – Avant-Garde Lo-Fi Experiments

August 18th, 2023 – Music For The Deck of The Titanic, by East Forest – Mellow Electro Indie-Pop

August 18th, 2023 – lord of the shithouse, by draag me (Doom Trip) – Glitchy & Trippy Alternative R&B

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OUT NOW

O₂O, by Bby Eco
Self-Released
Alternative Pop / Electronic / Hyperpop

If you’re not listening to the new Bby Eco, are you really alive? Emotional falsetto vocals soar over crushed and deconstructed beats to a most satisfying conclusion.

Self Industries, by Andrea Castiglioni
Released by I Low You Records (Japan)
Experimental / Ambient / Lo-Fi

Luscious long-form sounds, lethargically wandering between blissful outsider ambient and deconstructed house with grace and ease.

Haunted Dreams, by Cursed Diamond
Released by Vivarium Recordings
Lo-Fi / Dark Ambient / Ethereal Psychedelic

An appropriate titled – Haunted Dreams is an experimental dark-ambient project with huge haunting energy. The perfect balance of melancholy and melody make for a simultaneously comforting and unsettling ‘dream-like’ experience.

Little Box Cells / Heretic, by ÆTERNA
Released by Sound Museum
Experimental / Bass / Dubstep

Satisfyingly twisted and experimental bass tunes from Sound Museum – featuring back to back bangers, the foreboding and savage Little Box Cells paired with the B Side – a decidedly more Dubsteppy Heretic.

Energeia 23, by personalbrand
Self-Released
Experimental Club / Deconstructed / Abstract Electronics

Marigolds, by MJ Noble
Released by Doom Trip Records (Los Angeles)
Drum & Bass / Psychedelic / Future Bass

After dropping the incredible album Kind Blade, MJ Noble and Doom Trip hadn’t yet had enough! And quite frankly neither had we, the listeners – so thankfully we are graced with a delicious rolling Drum & Bass number in the new Single, Marigolds.

Blackbox Life Recorder 21f [ZWANSOUND REMIX]
Self-Released
Jungle / Experimental / Breaks

Shed, by Fascinating Earthbound Objects
Self-Released
Downtempo / Breaks / Psychedelic Beats

Absolutely phenomenal psychedelic compositions from FEO – swerving between organic drum and bass to glitchy trip-hop and downtempo electro, it’s a smorgasbord of satisfying sounds you don’t want to miss.

formed experiences, by exphound
Self-Released
IDM / Electronic / Experimental

A self-proclaimed “scrapped waavypanda project” – formed experiences comes across as quite the opposite – a deliberate and well-executed collection of playful IDM tracks – build from the fragments of rapacious synths atop carefully calculated percussion.

Ephemera Collection 18 – 19, by Cyrus & Oz
Released by Ramble Records (Australia)
Drone / Ambient / Improvised Guitar

Magnificent and melancholy – this collection of improvised ambient tunes have a heavy focus on mood and atmosphere.

Relic, by NRV
Self-Released
Future Bass / Chiptunes / Drum & Bass

Johnny Mnemonic EP, by Gyazai Gyozo
Released by Engram Recordings
IDM / Electronics / Techno

Gyazai Gyozo presents us a lovely little 4-track EP, Johnny Mnemonic. Boasting his signature sound, while getting quite noisy and energetic in the 2nd half!

Just because you wander in the desert, it does not mean there is a promised land, by Waswas
Released by Ramble Records (Australia)
Psychedelic / Improvised Guitar / Ambient

We Leave Tomorrow EP, by Halogen Star
Self-Released
Synthwave / Vaporwave / Downtempo

Sounds of Nature, by Various Artists
Released by Urban Waves
Instrumental Hip-Hop / Beats / Chillhop

Legends of the chillhop and internet beat-scene Urban Waves presents us with a lovely collection of relaxed beatstrumentals from a slew of talented producers that are guaranteed to set the mood.

Broken Bits of Nostalgia, by Lars Haur
Self-Released
Chiptunes / Dungeon Synth / Lo-Fi

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Spiritual Connection, by emt_dsc
Deconstructed / Ambient / Breakbeat

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