This month has been all about Angine de Poitrine, discovering their music (and unique look) was a bit of a revelation and I immediately hoovered up everything on Bandcamp. There’s a new album coming in April and UK live dates in May. The main problem after hearing their music is that there’s not much of it and not a lot else like it so I’ve found myself going back to earlier King Gizzard albums to get a fix of similar sounds rather than listen to them on a loop. Not to diminish other releases this month but there’s been a nice selection of breaks and acid forthcoming; last month’s Radiamax release finally made it to Bandcamp a few days after BC Friday and good friends Fundamental Frequencies released two long lost UK Breakcore 12″s, my favourite being 2XDEF‘s ‘First & Last’. Two legends of the rave scene teamed up for a 12″ on De:tuned that I had the honour of designing – 808 State vs Humanoid‘s ‘In Place of Language’ is a 4 track release that spans all areas of electronica with standout track ‘Raid’ coming off like the son of ‘Cubik’. Jem Stone is at it again with the 3 track Boneshaker EP, my favourite being the moody ‘Wish Bone’.

There’s another release I can’t add to the playlist for some reason (Buy Music Club does this sometimes when there’s no streamable digital audio as part of the package) and that’s a cassette version of my Kraftwerk Kover Kollektion mix from 2004. First made for Solid Steel and showcasing cover versions, tributes and tracks that heavily sample the German four-piece, it became the first of eight (so far, there will be more) volumes of the weird, wonderful world of music inspired by the band. For this I’ve gone back to the original audio and made a logical split in the middle – not just a fade out – and reworked the original cover art I’d designed to fit the cassette format. Along the way I’ve updated and corrected several track listing errors now that we have the beauty of Discogs at our disposal to check these things. You can pre-order the very limited tape from Delic Records here