The album I listen to more often than any other these days, completed by the band after singer/composer Tim Smith’s death in 2020 and released 26 years (!!) after the previous LP. It’s brilliant, beautiful, surprising, inventive at every turn. Also the best sounding #Cardiacs album. A+++ etc.

LSD, by Cardiacs

17 track album

alphabet-business-concern.bandcamp.com

It’s #Bandcamp Friday! I don’t have anything new (yet), but maybe I can talk you into buying this 2CD released by Chocolate Monk in 2019 & featuring Richard Youngs, Pete Hope, Le Quan Ninh etc. Mashed cassette-tape goo edited w broken teeth, beaten w metal chains then slathered in hiss and murk.

Anathematization of the World is Not an Adequate Response to the World, by Howard Stelzer

9 track album

howardstelzer.bandcamp.com

Morning tunes: 1986 CON-cert CON-ducted in Berlin by Gen Ken! This French label seems to be making large swaths of Schnitzler’s self-released #cassette & CDR archive available on #Bandcamp for super-cheap. Hooray! #Berlinschool #noise #ambient #synth

CONRAD SCHNITZLER / KEN MONTGOMERY - Concert Live Erlöserkirche, by MURMURE INTEMPOREL

2 track album

murmureintemporel1.bandcamp.com

headphone tunes last night & this morning: one of Brian Grainger’s ultra-minimal #modular #drone walls… slow, subtle movements…

Allow Nothing to Remain as It Was, by Limestone Ziggurat

1 track album

weltlandschaft.bandcamp.com

Ancient document of a 2002 concert by me, Jason Talbot and Vic Rawlings. Awkward, angular jolts and blurps… I couldn’t make music like this anymore even if i wanted to, but it’s fascinating (I guess?) to hear the youthful sputtering of my broken brain. Naive and unpleasant. Maybe that’s your bag.

Open, by HS, Vic Rawlings, Jason Talbot

6 track album

howardstelzer.bandcamp.com

Manja Ristić and Pinkcourtesyphone on BBC Radio's Ambient Focus @manjaristic.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 6 Music - Ambient Focus, Two hours of specially selected ambient music to increase your focus

Stay focused with these two hours of specially selected ambient music.

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This week on A 5-Minute Hour, essica goes to her first drag show. We attend an exhibition of art by Evelyn Ackerman. Nicolas Ballet continues his industrial chitchat. Jessica works on her latest doll creation. I share a video of my first attempt at weighing sound! youtu.be/Uj6yVcJ-GKw

Drag Show / Evelyn Ackerman / Shock Factory / Folk Doll / Noise

YouTube video by A 5-Minute Hour

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… this French net-label is offering loads of Conrad Schnitzler’s self-released CDr (and some #cassette) titles for name-your-price at their #Bandcamp page. Are they legit? I hope so!

CONRAD SCHNITZLER - 00/060 - Electric Instruments, by MURMURE INTEMPOREL

11 track album

murmureintemporel1.bandcamp.com

Latest banger from Korm Plastics’ OOP library, released as a 150-copy LP in 1990, now freshly remastered and presented to the public. blackhumour’s work is all made out of human voices; nothing else quite sounds like it. For fans of The Haters, AMK, Hands To, Aaron Dilloway etc.

romance, by blackhumour

4 track album

kormdigitaal.bandcamp.com

RIP FRED SMITH then man who stepped into richard hell's shoes in television, making the band far less chaotic but a whole lot more "musical." later a vintner & animating presence at the great jones. no firewall www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/o...

Fred Smith, Who Left Blondie for the Band Television, Dies at 77

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Just finishing this book. Hal McGee is all over this. Cause and Effect, Viscera etc. He is still at it and I participated in one of his many projects. Connection Cassette #6 in a series of 7 from 2012. #cassunday #books #booksky #cassettes #DIY #experimental halmcgee.bandcamp.com/album/connec...

got some new music coming this season: HS & Sick Days “Sooner Apparent” tape on Kringloop Kassettes in the NL HS & tac “Who Hasn’t Been” tape on Tribe Tapes in the US … also brewing: a new album by Extra (that’s me + Brian Grainger) and a new long-simmering collab by me + Dang. Stay tuned!

… not a complete list (of course), but here’s some relatively obscure German post punk and new wave on Bandcamp. I love this stuff! If I missed anything, leave a link in the comments.

featured: German post-punk & synth-punk

The explosion of creativity opened up by affordable recording gear, electronic instruments and DIY distribution at the dawn of the 1980s has been well documented by now. I’ve long been intere…

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some recent #Bandcamp tunes… great stuff by Roel Meelkop, Rita Revell, Closing…

Guess I should have posted this yesterday, heh. Early homemade noise by a young Roel Meelkop, initially released on cassette in the mid-1980s.

Turntable Tapes, by Happy Halloween

17 track album

naturalsciences.bandcamp.com

… words I never imagined myself saying: Bill Kristol writes a very good newsletter! It’s true.

Totally Brazen. Comically Corrupt. Painfully Dumb.

Trump’s mask-off economic doctrine is on full display: Riches for friends, pain for enemies. Is it any wonder business leaders are falling in line?

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Amazing #Bandcamp reissue of a 1982 obscure #synthpunk cassette! Directly from the artist! So good to be able to hear this in higher quality than the crappy tape rips that have been floating around online.

SPRING DOCH, by Der künftige Musikant

15 track album

bubu-musikverbreitung.bandcamp.com

… nearly done composing my collaborative album with tac (aka Tom A Cox), a musical hero of mine since high school. We’ve been batting this around for more than a year. I think it sounds damn good so far.

… I’m now selling the CD and download of my new album at my Bandcamp page. Not sure how many are left?

Five Thousand Pretenders Who Passed the Test By Luck Alone, by Howard Stelzer

4 track album

howardstelzer.bandcamp.com

Oooh! New album of blistering #noise by the duo of Diagram: A and Steve/+DOG+! So damn good, two giants of Massachusetts noise. #Bandcamp

III, by +D:A+

4 track album

dogdiagrama.bandcamp.com

The new album by PBK & me is now available at PBK’s Bandcamp page! The physical CD can be had for $7 postpaid to anywhere in the world (yes really!!) directly from the label - loveearthmusic.com

SHE THINKS SHE'S THE STATE DEPARTMENT, by PBK & Howard Stelzer

5 track album

pbksound.bandcamp.com

PBK/HS “She Thinks She’s the State Department” CDr out NOW from Love Earth Music! Every CD from LEM costs just $7 postpaid anywhere in the world, which is amazing. Grab one while they last! loveearthmusic.com #noise #drone #ambient #cassette

🌐🌐 Zentai Vol. III is out today! 🌐🌐 The third and final volume of our compendium by cult Japanese musician K. Yoshimatsu collects 3 more rare albums from the early 1980's. New interview: substack.com/home/post/p-... Zentai Vols I-III: phantomlimblabel.bandcamp.com/album/zentai...

Miguel A. García & Frans de Waard - Interior Sounding II A swansong of sorts. Manipulated electromagnetic recordings and household minutiae. Intimate, immersive and dynamic. A calculated drama and sense of stark menace kept at bay... steepgloss.bandcamp.com/album/interi...

Interior Sounding II, by Miguel A. García & Frans de Waard

5 track album

steepgloss.bandcamp.com

2 new tapes! • Ross Scott-Buccleuch, Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson & Andrew Sharpley - Recollections May Vary More interesting woes from the ghosts of dAdA... Condensed detritus & expansive vistas in which to dry out your daydreams on the clothes maiden. steepgloss.bandcamp.com/album/recoll...

… a friend took me to Tree House Brewing the other day, and I finally understand the #NEIPA style. For years, I just didn’t get it… but now I definitely do.

awesome new album of tactile crumble, filthy metallic rumble and jostling clouds of corroded trash by the guy behind the Oxidation label… #noise #drone

Rejection Sensitive, by Marc Benner

4 track album

fusionaudio.bandcamp.com

Some #ambient #noise #drone heavy rotation here at Chez Stelzer’s #Bandcamp stream. Good stuff if you like warped tapes, I suppose.

summer music update: art for the PBK/HS CD is all done! new collaborative albums with Dang. (aka Danielle Jakubiak) and TAC (aka Tom A. Cox) are progressing nicely. A new EP by EXTRA (aka me + Brian Grainger) sounds good so far, and will come out as part of a secret (!!) project this December…