buying one record reviewed in The Wire each month

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#471 shortlist:

Anchor & Burden - Kozmonautic Pilgrimage (Moonjune)
https://anchorandburden.bandcamp.com/alb...pilgrimage

junclassic x giallo Point - snapshots (Classified)
https://junclassic.bandcamp.com/album/snapshots

Genesis P-Orridge & The Hafler Trio - Dream Less Suite (Cortizona)
https://www.juno.co.uk/products/genesis-...927030-01/

various - Solstice: A Tribute to Steffen Basho-Junghans (Obsolete)
https://obsoleterecordings.bandcamp.com/...o-junghans

Chin
coming to the end of #472 now

nearly caught up

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#472 shortlist:

Marie Krüttli - Transparence (Intakt)
https://mariekruttli.bandcamp.com/album/transparence

Namian Sidibé - Namian Sidibé (Sahel Sounds)
https://namiansidibe.bandcamp.com/album/namian-sidib

Uboa - The Origin of My Depression (The Flenser)
https://uboa.bandcamp.com/album/the-orig...depression

Heleen Van Haegenborgh - Squaring the Circle (El Negocito)
https://elnegocito.bandcamp.com/album/sq...the-circle

Chin
months behind on this again

#473 shortlist:

Sarah Cahill - The Future is Female, Vol 3: At Play (First Hand)
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/pr...-3-at-play

Pauline Oliveros / Apartment House - Sound Pieces (Another Timbre)
https://anothertimbre.bandcamp.com/album/sound-pieces

Shapednoise - Absurd Matter (Weight Looming)
https://shapednoise.bandcamp.com/album/absurd-matter

Dwight Trible - Ancient Future (Gearbox Records)
https://dwighttrible.bandcamp.com/album/ancient-future
#474 shortlist:

Illegal Crowns - Unclosing (Out of Our Heads)
https://outofyourheadrecords.bandcamp.co.../unclosing

Dean Rodney Jr & The Cowboys - The Yeehaw Moment (Bandcamp)
https://deanrodneyjrandthecowboys.bandca...haw-moment

JG Thirlwell / Mivos Quartet - Dystonia (Cantaloupe)
https://jgthirlwell.bandcamp.com/album/dystonia

various - Disruptive Frequencies (Nonclassical)
https://nonclassical.bandcamp.com/album/...requencies
^^ I was listening to the John Carpenter "Lost Themes" remixes compilation, also featuring a Thirwell contribution the other week. Very much like the "Dystonia" release too.
#475 shortlist:

John Butcher - The Very Fabric (Ftarri / Hitorri)
https://hitorri.bandcamp.com/album/the-very-fabric

Dirty Dike - Mattress (Melonskin)
https://dirtydike.bandcamp.com/album/mattress

Nakibembe Embaire Group - Nakibembe Embaire Group (Nyege Nyege Tapes)
https://nyegenyegetapes.bandcamp.com/alb...aire-group

Seven)Suns - One of Us is the Killer (Silent Pendulum)
https://silentpendulumrecords.bandcamp.c...the-killer
#476 shortlist:

Izumi Kimura & Gerry Hemingway - Kairos (Fundacja Sluchaj)
https://sluchaj.bandcamp.com/album/kairos

Éliane Radigue - In Memoriam-Ostinato / Danse des Dakinis (Alga Marghen)
https://www.soundohm.com/product/in-memoriam-ostinato

Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Five: In The Garden (Constellation)
https://matana-roberts.bandcamp.com/albu...the-garden

Speaker Music - Techxodus (Planet Mu)
https://speakermusic.bandcamp.com/album/techxodus
#477 shortlist:

Lisa Lerkenfeldt - Shell of a City (Room40)
https://lisalerkenfeldt.bandcamp.com/alb...-of-a-city

Angelika Niescier / Tomeka Reid / Savannah Harris - Beyond Dragons (Intakt)
https://angelikaniescierintakt.bandcamp....nd-dragons

Rozenhall - Dance of the Aberrant (ADAADAT / Firework Edition Records)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq89QQue06s
#478 shortlist:

Cybotron - Maintain the Golden Ratio (Tresor)
https://tresorberlin.bandcamp.com/album/...lden-ratio

Steve Lehman & Orchestre National de Jazz - Ex Machina (Pi)
https://stevelehman.bandcamp.com/album/ex-machina

Mendoza Hoff Revels - Echolocation (AUM Fidelity)
https://avamendozamusic.bandcamp.com/album/echolocation

Shackleton / Zimpel with Siddhartha Belmannu - In the Cell of Dreams (7K!)
https://samshackleton.bandcamp.com/album...-of-dreams

Silver Apples & Makoto Kawabata - Mirage (Important)
https://imprec.bandcamp.com/album/mirage
#479/480 shortlist:

Alternative TV - Direct Action (Fourth Dimension)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g8QTw62ZO4

Barry Bermange / Delia Derbyshire / The BBC Radiophonic Workshop - Inventions for Radio (Silva Screen)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H84khAjv3zc

CZN - SSS (Trilogy Tapes)
https://thetrilogytapes.bandcamp.com/album/sss

Kate Gentile - Find Letter X (Pi)
https://kategentile.bandcamp.com/album/find-letter-x

Jim Haynes - Inauspicious (Helen Scarsdale Agency)
https://helenscarsdale.bandcamp.com/album/inauspicious

Kid Acne - Hauntology Codes (Lex)
https://kidacne.bandcamp.com/album/hauntology-codes

Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit - Mass Hysterism in Another Situation (Black Editions)
https://masayukitakayanagi.bandcamp.com/...-situation

seven because it's a double (actually 1½) issue and I have to pick two
#481 shortlist:

George Crumb - Complete George Crumb Edition Vol 21 (Bridge)
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/pr...ion-vol-21

Madison Greenstone - Resonance Studies in Ecstatic Consciousness (Relative Pitch)
https://relativepitchrecords.bandcamp.co...sciousness

Agustin Pereyra Lucena - Agustin Pereyra Lucena (Far Out)
https://apereyralucena.bandcamp.com/albu...a-lucena-3

Techno Animal - The Brotherhood of the Bomb (Relapse)
https://technoanimal.bandcamp.com/album/...3-remaster
months behind again

#482 shortlist:

AMM - Last Calls (Matchless)
https://www.soundohm.com/product/last-calls

Ben Richter - Aurogeny (Infrequent Seams)
https://benrichter.bandcamp.com/album/aurogeny

Lord Spikeheart - The Adept (Haekalu)
https://lordspikeheart.bandcamp.com/album/the-adept

Soundtracks and Head - Daga Daga Daga (Glass Modern)
https://glassmodern.bandcamp.com/album/daga-daga-daga
#483 shortlist:

Asmaa Hamzaoui & Bnat Timbouktou - L’Bnat (Ajabu!)
https://open.spotify.com/album/5X9e67VcuKJCryPcoixd2A

Liz Helman - The Colour of Water (Flaming Pines)
https://flamingpines.bandcamp.com/album/...r-of-water

NOUT - Live Album (Trost)
https://trostrecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-album

Sean Ono Lennon - Asterisms (Tzadik)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OL...o6lC5_g1IY

Organum Electronics - Darcknes (Die Stadt)
https://coldspring.co.uk/Die-Stadt?product_id=11253
#484 shortlist:

Misha Faulty - [incoherent imaging] (Multibody)
https://multibodyrecords.bandcamp.com/al...nt-imaging

Malconfort - Humanism... and the Universe Keeps Silent (Transcending Obscurity)
https://malconfort.bandcamp.com/album/humanism

Sandwell District - Where Next? (Point of Departure)
https://boomkat.com/products/where-next

Mark Wastell - Vibra Trilogy (Confront)
https://confrontrecordings.bandcamp.com/...ra-trilogy
#485 shortlist:

Ernest Berk - Diversed Tapes (HCR / NMC)
https://open.spotify.com/album/3cbwjU7dl5bRZk4Dsmzzzk

Rhys Chatham & Z’EV - Rhys Chatham & Z’EV (Entrefer)
https://entrefer.bandcamp.com/album/rhys-chatham-zev

Agnes Haus Everything Is Resurrection Opal Tapes
https://opaltapes.bandcamp.com/album/eve...surrection

various - Blackspot I (Blackspot)
https://blackspotrecords.bandcamp.com/al...-records-i
#486 shortlist:

Christians - S/Z (Fort Evil Fruit)
https://fortevilfruit.bandcamp.com/album/s-z

Iztok Koren - Spaces XIII: Iztok Koren, String Instruments & Percussion (Zavod Murmur)
https://tapes.bandcamp.com/album/spaces-...percussion

The Sea Trio - Live in Munich and Bonn (Confront)
https://confrontrecordings.bandcamp.com/...h-and-bonn

Thuluth - One Third of the Sun (Al Maslakh)
https://almaslakh.bandcamp.com/album/one...of-the-sun

nearly up to date
#487 shortlist:

Aerial M - The Peel Sessions (Drag City)
https://aerialm.bandcamp.com/album/the-peel-sessions

Patricia Brennan - Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic)
https://patriciabrennanpyroclastic.bandc...ng-stretch

Helen Gillet - Tonnerre (Yes We Cannibal)
https://yeswecannibal.bandcamp.com/album...ive-at-ywc

Jeff Mills - The Eyewitness (Axis)
https://www.axisrecords.com/product/jeff...yewitness/

compiled after listening to at least part of *every* record reviewed (all 138 of them)
miles behind on these again...

#488 shortlist:

Sophie Agnel / John Edwards / Steve Noble - Three on a Match (Otoroku)
https://sophieagnel.bandcamp.com/album/three-on-a-match

Wendy Eisenberg - Viewfinder (American Dreams)
https://wendyeisenberg.bandcamp.com/album/viewfinder

KK Null & Joel Gilardini - Psychic Drones 3 (Give/Take)
https://kknull1.bandcamp.com/album/psychic-drones-3

Rrose x Polygonia - Dermatology (Eaux)
https://rrose.bandcamp.com/album/dermatology
#489 shortlist:

William Basinski - September 23rd (Temporary Residence)
https://williambasinski.bandcamp.com/alb...ember-23rd

Nick Dunston - Colla Voce (Out of Your Head)
https://nickdunston.bandcamp.com/album/colla-voce

Elephant9 with Terje Rypdal - Catching Fire (Rune Grammofon)
https://elephant9band.bandcamp.com/album/catching-fire

Alan Lamb - Night Passage (Room40)
https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/night-passage

Pharmakon - Maggot Mass (Sacred Bones)
https://pharmakon.bandcamp.com/album/maggot-mass
#490 shortlist:

MF Clarke - Arrays (Oxtail)
https://mfclarke.bandcamp.com/album/arrays

Ekoplekz - Dirtbokz (Selvamancer)
https://ekoplekz.bandcamp.com/album/dirtbokz

Oranssi Pazuzu - Muuntautuja (Nuclear Blast)
https://oranssipazuzu.bandcamp.com/album/muuntautuja

Severed Heads - Ear Bitten (Dark Entries)
https://severedheads.bandcamp.com/album/ear-bitten

shit, have I really done that in two days?!

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