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04/25/2026

New Releases—>April/24th
French producer Jonnnah returns to his own label with a headphone-ready set of sculpted ambi-techno, churning dub and boiled-down trip-hop.

After a string of records on International Anthem, Resavoir launches his own label with a solo release that fully taps into his ambient side.

On-U Sound reissue a long-lost classic from Little Annie (aka the Crass Records’ alum Annie Anxiety), an album that would unwittingly be an opening salvo for trip-hop.

Ak’chamel return with another bout of their post-Sun City Girls psychedelic exoticism.

Nagisa Ni Te have their first three albums reissued, though we’ve only managed to secure one so far, which happens to be a favorite, so it’s highlighted here!

On the Japanese psych tip, our unabashed love of Black Editions’ P.S.F./La Musica reissues continues with their pressing of Bibiotheca Hermetica’s 1996 cassette, One.

While we wait for Galcher Lustwerk to follow up 2019’s Information, his last proper full length, he teases us with another EP. We’ll take what we can get.

Stack of new books in this week, with the Alice Coltrane biography being the big one. We’ve also got the newest 33 1/3 genre explainers, taking on Plunderphonics, NDW, Death Metal, and 20th Century Ambient! Plus a biography from Cocteau Twins’ Simone Raymonde, a deep dive into Texas Punk, and a huge photo book Lee Perry’s legendary Black Ark studios!

Brownswood returns with a new EP from Zena, who take on Ethiopian jazz, updating it with a modern touch.

Second volume of DJ Amir’s mix series of Detroit’s legendary jazz/funk imprint Strata Records, not to be confused with Strata East.

A rare appearance of a Bruiser Wolf album graces our shelves this week, after a string of albums released only via his own Bruiser Brigade imprint, one of the most distinct rappers of the 21st century teams up with Harry Fraud.

Charlotte rapper Lord Jah-Monte Ogbon finally lands on a label with wide distribution after a string of albums (over a dozen!) largely released via that network of European Bandcamp-only imprints who trade in self-imposed scarcity.

Loads more in this week! Hit the site for all the rest—>
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04/24/2026

Record of the Week—>Misha Panfilov, Shawn Lee “Paradise Cove” (Funk Night)
A key album released during the breakout years of Misha Panfilov is finally back in print, his 2020 Paradise Cove collaboration with fellow prodigious polymath Shawn Lee. It was only the second full length release to bear Panfilov’s name after years spent swimming amidst the Estonian underground in groups like jazz-funk ensemble Estrada Orchestra and the space-age bachelor pad wizardry of Centre Électronique Muusa. While Panfilov has become a sought after collaborator and globally recognized figure over the past few years, at the time of release Shawn Lee was undoubtedly the recognizable name here. The decades previous for Lee were spent dipping in and out of the mainstream, playing guitar with the Spice Girls and the Sugababes to name just a few, while he chipped away at a seemingly endless amount of solo and collaborative projects that would explore the outer reaches of jazz, funk, psych, and global groove, usually all at the same time. This meetup with the burgeoning talents of Panfilov would prove to be a turning point for the Estonian virtuoso, who would embark on a legendary run that has continued to this day. The pair’s dovetailing interests are incredibly well-matched, flipping from the dreamy library-psych of “Deep Sea Oddities,” the tropical-lounge of “Camel Sands,” and the spacey funk grooves of “Gyroplane,” it becomes difficult to see where Lee starts and Panfilov ends. An early triumph for Panfilov!

04/18/2026

It’s RSD today, but we’ve got plenty of other New Arrivals this week fresh in shop and online…

Hoavi dips into bedroom gamelan for his bonkers new set.

Elsewhere, ELUCID drops his most accessible album to date, teaming up with Backwoodz mainstay and Alchemist affiliated Sebb Bash.

The hype behind Cancer House has been a bit overwhelming the past few weeks, most of our copies tied up in pre-order, though we did save a good grip for the site this week, with a second and final repress due in May. Entrenched in the classic Chicago/Kranky post-rock sound, not to mention the cracked end of 90s Bristol, Cancer House might also please fans of Jabu and Jemima’s most recent LPs.

Japanese imprint EM unearth a little discussed gem from the 80s NYC underground, Yasuhtio Ohno’s auto-didactic synth/wave oddity, Music In DNA.

Jonny From Space returns, offering up the debut proper from his percussive-centric duo Crespi Drum Syndicate.

Dream team-up between Felicia Atkinson and Christina Vantzou, coming courtesy of those scene connectors over at RVNG.

Shop fave Kathryn Mohr returns to Flenser with a blast of her moody, grunge-inflected dreampop.

Doo Records is back at it with the new 12” from Sentena, probably best known as a member of both SnP 500 and SnPLO.

Florian T M Zeisig has an early album reissued, the new age-coded Music For Parents returning to vinyl after years OOP.

The hotly anticipated collab of two shop faves, upsammy and Valentina Magaletti, lives up to the hype that the pairing conjured when this was first announced.

Harlan Silverman, member of the Cosmic Tones Research Trio makes his solo maiden voyage, staying with Mississippi Records for an extraordinary set of new age bliss and soothing ambi-jazz.

Massachusetts experimental mainstay Wendy Eisenberg goes full chamber-folk for her newest, a sweeping suite of pastoral strings, rustic guitar and her sweetly cherubic vocals.

Check all the rest at —>audiopile.ca

04/17/2026

Record of the Week—>Paperclip Minimiser “II” (Peak Oil)
Listening to ‘II’, we find ourselves asking: “Has intelligent dance music somehow gotten more intelligent AND more danceable?” This is an album that makes us feel like we’re at the apex of an ongoing IDM revival with no locatable beginning and no clear endgame. And with labels like Peak Oil and artists like Paperclip Minimiser on the case, it barely feels like a revival. Rather than indulging in late-90s/early-2000s retreads, this scene seems to be progressing to new heights of brain-, ear-, and foot-boggling rhythmic and textural ecstasy. Maybe this progression is merely logical. After all, wouldn’t a genre so tied to technology naturally progress as the tech got better? But two surprising aspects of ‘II’ muddy those waters up a storm. First, it was recorded with a deliberately primitive, options-limiting set-up. Second, it’s a collection of tracks culled from 15 years-worth of recordings. We’re tempted to say this is timelessly brilliant music founded on human imagination rather than software or gear. But it’s also a hyper-specific example of the Peak Oil vibe at its absolute best. ‘II’ feeds all manner of bass-heavy dance music styles into the digital woodchipper, which spits out a barrage of skittering rhythms and hissing atmospherics that are at once claustrophobically compressed and cinematically psychedelic. The functional titles (‘II A1’, ‘II A2’, and so forth), along with the instantly recognizable Peak Oil graphic design aesthetic give us little clue what all this is supposed to evoke. It is deeply affecting in a way that defies easy description. This is neither some kind of critical engagement with dance music history nor is it any kind of trite attempt to evoke ‘relatable’ human emotions. The music itself is the thing and that thing forces the listener to engage with its rhythmic and atmospheric power completely on its own terms. Clever stuff, in other words. And you can dance to it.

04/11/2026

New Releases—>April/10th
Joshua Abrams dials things back a bit on his newest, a longform drone piece for trio. Obsessed with the Sirat soundtrack, so we’re glad to finally have that in physical form.

Rafael Anton Irisarri hits some emotional crescendos with Points of Inaccessibility.

Black Editions’ La Musica reissue series hits upon the Musica Transonic and Mainliner collab, issuing the rare CDr to vinyl.

Very excited to have a long lusted after cornerstone of Ethiopian Jazz on vinyl, Muzikawi following up their recent reissues of Ibex Band and Dawit Yifru with the lone release credited to Tilaye Gebre, the saxophonist who played on numerous classic Ethio-Jazz albums.

Crippling Alcoholism rep the Flenser imprint well with their crushing hybrid of post-hardcore and shoegaze.

Local imprint Bent Window land a bit of a coup, offering up a new collab between Emil Amos (Grails, Holy Sons, Om) and Steve Moore (Zombi, Goblin), the pair soundtracking a film with proggy movements of dark synth and ambient jazz.

A posthumous release from the archives of the legendary Ras G lands, the first “new” music we’ve heard since he left this mortal plane in 2019.

Impressive new album from German-Palestinian artist Pharoah Chromium (aka Ghazi Barakat), who channels a bit of Muslimgauze here with militant percussion and buzzing synths, filling out the space with trumpet and vocal samples.

Fun new comp in from France’s Favorite Recordings, Endless (Universal Cosmic Sounds) compiles a killer set of cosmic jazz and funk from the personal collection of label head Pascal Rioux (aka Charles Maurice).

Pair of new reggae reissues this week from Solid Roots, including the funky roots LP The Money Makers by Jackie Mittoo and a legendary album from Boris Gardiner.

Plus rare library reissues, tons of new hip-hop and soul, stack of funk 7”s…
audiopile.ca—>for the rest!

04/10/2026

Record of the Week—>Misha Panfilov, Tomo Katsurada “Eternal Almost” (Funk Night)
Former Kikagaku Moyo guitarist Tomo Katsurada sidles up to eternal shop fave Misha Panfilov for a surprising collab that bridges their two worlds seamlessly. While you’re all probably quite familiar with our ongoing obsession with Misha Panfilov, the delightful psych-folk and pastoral blues of Kakagaku Moyo have been a mainstay here at the shop since their 2013 debut, though we surely would never have predicted this pair coming together. Yet, their Venn diagram ends up overlapping more than you might be thinking, Panfilov perhaps taking less of a lead here as the polymath largely draws on the psych-funk side of his expansive palette (think Penza Penza) to compliment Katsurada’s acid folk. Kikagaku Moyo fans will undoubtedly be drawn into the founding member’s sweetly lysergic guitars, not to mention his signature hushed vocals, while Panfilov’s instantly identifiable warm analog synths and the subtle funk of his low slung drums buoy it all with a gentle bump. While the relatively formal songs here, like “Cymbal Symbol” and “Mokuba,” are radiant, library-coded versions that sound like leftovers from Kikagaku Moyo classics House In The Tall Grass or Masana Temples, they really get us swooning when they loosen up and jam. “Mosaic Memory” is a cosmic trip of watery washes of guitar and starry synths, while “Private Party” is the style of luxurious psych-jazz that wouldn’t be out of place on Panfilov’s The Sea Will Outlive Us, Katsurada adding a scorched-blues vibe with an extended solo that runs throughout. Yet another must from Panfilov, but we’re also happy to see Katsurada back in action after the indefinite hiatus of Kikagaku Moyo.

04/04/2026

New Releases—>April/3rd
Mark Nelson’s Pan•American project continues onward, offering up a refined work that finds the long-running artist in a notable era of maturity.

[Ahmed] enter the studio for the first time, their new 2xLP set deconstructs the debut album of their longtime muse Ahmed Abdul Malik.

City-2 St. Giga re-emerge after a 4-year hiatus, tapping the talents of K Wata for a rhythmically complex set that’s shrouded in the label’s penchant for ambi-fog.

Sunn O))) chase that EP from a few months back with a massive new set for Sub Pop.

New Swiss label Fabrique D’Instrument unearth some unreleased recordings from a pair of apparently well-known British composers/electronic musicians.

One of our fave Muslimgauze albums is reissued (again), Mullah Said probably the best entry point for Bryn Jones’ massive discography.

Carlos Niño pulls out the Rolodex and invites everyone in it for his newest, a percussive bliss sesh that could only come from LA’s “all-genre” melting pot of jazz, ambient and worldly vibrations.

A post-punk classic, Scritti Politti’s debut, is finally back in print!

Shackleton delivers a solo proper after spending the past few years collaborating with a wide variety of artists, now arriving on the unstoppable AD 93 with Euphoria Bound.

Freedom To Spend continue to unearth some seriously sublime bits from the US home-fi underground, this time putting together a compilation of synth works created by Midwestern musician Larrison Seidle.

Lush debut EP from SY3 (pronounced ‘sigh’), an LA trio of Chinese-American artists, notably featuring Music From Memory alum Alex Ho, joined here by his frequent collaborator Phil Cho and vocalist Kelly Guan. Fluttering dreampop in the vein of Poison Girlfriend’s earliest 90s efforts, but also undeniably tied to the current resurgence of trip-hop.

Japanese producer Tasho Ishi entrances on his sophomore album, the commercial sound designer traversing across climatic post-rave electronics and neon-lit hyper-pop.

Plus new Thundercat, 90s indie rock reissues, Mark Ernestus represses, Nightmares On Wax boxset, new Damaged Bug, and a few more in there…
—>audiopile.ca
for all the rest

04/03/2026

Record of the Week—>Unknown Mobile “Field Work” (Pacific Rhythm)
Unknown Mobile makes a notable yet understated return to Vancouver’s Pacific Rhythm, his first for the label since Daucile Moon, Field Work marking a new chapter for the former Vancouverite. Now stationed up in the Yukon, Levi Bruce’s Unknown Mobile project was unmissable during the mid-late 10s lo-fi house explosion here in the Pacific Riviera, but his steady string of 12”s always landed on the inward-facing expression of dance music. Last year’s highly limited, blink-and-you-missed-it Aurora full length retreated further, his feathered breaks and stuttering rhythms bathed in a low-lit ambience, getting close to horizontal without fully plunging in. Field Work finally lands in that place of serenity he’s been dancing around since inception, an album of quiet solitude and fragile introspection so featherlight it’s practically caught in the breeze. With a pocket full of field recordings culled over years travelling abroad, Bruce commits to an ambient album in the truest sense of the genre. The interlaced sounds of water dripping, traffic flowing and the wind rustling are about as zen-like as it gets, the occasional loop of creaking strings, painterly piano notes or muffled percussion reminding you that there is indeed someone behind the wheel, steering it all with a patient hand. Landing between the rustic quietude of Ernest Hood and the contemplative Kankyō Ongaku sound, Field Work balances neatly between a highly personalized statement and carrying on hallowed traditions. A truly special release.

03/28/2026

New Releases—>March/27th
The legendary John Beltran dons his Placid Angles guise for a triumphant 2xLP set for Oath.

WRWTFWW go deeper into the legendary Japanese IDM imprint FORMA@, reissuing two of the label’s comps that surveyed the late 90s scene in Japan.

Stroom’s impeccable run as of late continues on, this week we’re captivated by the sophomore LP from Ciro Vitiello, a folk-infused take on fraactured dreampop that teams up the producer with a set of vocalists.

The legendary Robert Henke (aka Monolake) has a 20-year old album of textural drone reissued via Astral Industries.

Loris S. Sarid continues to wow us, teaming up once again with Innis Chonnel for a glitched take on fourth world, honestly not too far off from Mouse on Mars or the recent album from Gregory Uhlmann.

On the topic of glitch, Rosy Parlane, a mainstay of the Touch imprint, re-emerges after a 20 year hiatus with a set of odds and ends culled from the past two decades.

Also going very deep, Wewantsounds’ reissues Brion Gysin’s notorious Dreamachine.

Danish avant-pop imprint 15 Love (ML Buch, Raisa K, TLF Trio) with a new project from the wildly prolific more eaze, forming a new duo of glitchy dreampop alongside Lynn Avery.

C3D-E serves up another dose of his heady minimal-dub for his own Midi_bug label (very limited!).

Thought Leadership’s cassette reissue series for Be With marches onward, As usual, always tipped for fans of 80s bedroom post-punk à la Durutti Column and Felt.

Springing right off his two albums last week, Fabiano do Nascimento teams up with E Ruscha V for a watery exploration that combines do Nascimento’s lyrical guitar licks with Ruscha’s rich synth tapestries.

A lovely, hushed set of sophisti-ambi-jazz from Masahiro Takahashi lands with aplomb, gathering up a host of Toronto musicians for this sterling set that notably raises the bar on his ambition.

So many more in this week, hit the site for all the rest, or sign up for the weekly email (link in bio) to get our full rundown on everything.
—audiopile.ca

03/27/2026

Record of the Week—>Anthony Naples “In Studio Magic” (ANS)
In what might be best considered as a victory lap, shop fave Anthony Naples rounds out his recent hot streak with the supine In Studio Magic, a digital release from last year that has thankfully made it to vinyl. Our weekly email subscribers are, by this point, surely well aware of Naples and our ongoing obsession with the NYC producer, so seeing this slotted here should be zero surprise—the man is now a four-time ROTW champion! And, just as equally unsurprising is the fact that Naples continues to create outside of codified genre guidelines, In Studio Magic living up to its name with a heavy-lidded session that cuts across styles and scenes with a dreamy weightlessness that’s become his calling card. The dusted Balearic vibe of “Harmonie” eases us into the proceedings with live drum breaks, bleary-eyed sax and ringing guitar tones, “Dustos” carrying that warm breeze onward while topping it with smeary synths and an off-centre rhythmic pulse not too far from his associate DJ Python. Elsewhere, “Fragment Memory” slips into gaseous synth-soundtracking akin to Daniel Lopatin’s home-fi era, “Whisper” loads up on shuffling breaks and reclined guitar solos, with “May” sending us off into the cooling dusk air with spinning folk guitars, starry synth movements and lulling drums. Yet another truly sublime trip from the inimitable Naples. Cannot recommend this enough.

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