South England Hate Club became one of my favorite labels this year. 9
releases orbiting breakcore aesthetics with really solid production values
& ideal level of wicked humor to balance the aggro/dark mania.
https://southenglandhateclub.bandcamp.com/album/grimesthorpestyle is a good
place to start imo.
On Thu, Nov 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM Eric Sorenson <eric@explosive.net> wrote:
quoted 54 lines The Black Dog releases this year have been a revelation. The new "Loud
> The Black Dog releases this year have been a revelation. The new "Loud
> Ambient" record and all of the Brutal Life stuff.
>
> Daniel Avery's "Tremor" - nice departure and some great vocal collabs here
>
> Barker "Stochastic Drift" - his sound design is so so good.
>
> Eusebia "Undertones" - modern drum n bass
>
> outside of electronic I mostly listen to sludge, doom, and black metal.
> Death-doom fans were feasting this year : Sunn O))) , Stygian Bough II,
> Evoken "Mendacium" , new Hooded Menace, the Mizmor/Hell split, and "Teeth
> to Sky" by Guiltless have all been on heavy rotation.
>
> > On Nov 25, 2025, at 20:59, Chris Taylor <christaylor415@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Getting a jump on the most important question of the year - what was
> good that came out this year?
> >
> > Seems like the biggest thing would be the Autechre tour (which I didn’t
> catch any chatter about here?!) - got to see them three times, each very
> different, two of them extremely sick.
> >
> > NHKyx did a good ep for Skam.
> >
> > Ghost Dubs stuff from this year and last is very good - elegant, fresh
> and musical.
> >
> > Foodman did some crazy releases. I caught him live doing an Electribe
> set. Very hype and mental - reminded me of 00s minimal at a happy hardcore
> tempo?
> >
> > Cool seeing Topdown Dialectic do some gigs. Definitely melon twisting
> stuff that sounds great on a big system.
> >
> >
> > Not IDM but I also dug Sissy Spacek “Entrance” on Shelter Press, Ryu
> Hankil’s 8 Rhythm Machine, Rafael Toral’s “Traveling Light” and Takuma
> Kuragaki’s “Cleave” were all novel sounding and intense electronics
> records. Oh have to mention Nick Forte’s new harsh noise project Green Tea
> - brilliant.
> >
> > Big year for familiar names impressing me massively on the dancefloor -
> DJ Sprinkles, Theo Parrish, Appleblim and Mark Ernestus all delivered.
> >
> > Was it this year that a friend put me onto Guitar - Sunkissed? Positive,
> headnoddy, almost twee computer version of MBV. So sick.
> >
> > Ok your turn
> >
> >
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