Hip-hop, glitch, dub, bass, jungle, hardcore… rhythmic acoustic & electro-acoustic, drone-folk, experimental folk, sound-art, ambient techno… Here we are, let’s go. LISTEN AGAIN, you deserve it! Stream on demand @ fbi.radio, podcast here. doseone & Height Keech – Human Satan [doseone Bandcamp] Following his brilliant album All Portrait, No Chorus with Steel Tipped Dove earlier this 2025, veteran alt.hip-hop mouth doseone swung right back into the swing of things with an EP produced entirely by Baltimore beatmaker Height Keech. Wood Teeth was laser-focused on the current moment, and from the sound of the first single, its sequel (Wood Teeth II, natch) is too – once more it’s about the descent of the USA into fascism, and it’s as “scathing” as the copy says. Saul Williams – Conspiracy (feat. Moor Mother) [Big Dada/Bandcamp] The king of conscious rap, of experimental collaboration, the poetic philosopher of politics, Saul Williams is back with a new album this year, Leap Life. Out on August 28th on Big Dada no less, the Ninja Tune subsidiary that in 1998 released his mind-blowing debut EP Elohim (1972) (“Like kyah kyah kyah, sha klak-klak, get me the FUCK off this track!“). With that history, who could be more appropriate to guest on the new album’s first single than Moor Mother? “Death is a conspiracy”, folks. Anysia Kym & Tony Seltzer – Speedrun – umru & username flip [10k/Bandcamp] Anysia Kym & Tony Seltzer – Picture This – Black Noi$e flip [10k/Bandcamp] Not long after her lush little collaborative EP Clandestine with Loraine James last year, New York-based experimental hip-hop/r’n’b artist Anysia Kym released her Purity album with Tony Seltzer, whose recent production credits include underground luminaries like Princess Nokia, Eartheater, Pink Siifu and Dua Saleh. This week they’ve dropped Purity (Flips), which prepends the original album with 12 reworkings from well-known names like Loraine James (of course), Traxman and AceMo, and newer names too. I mean, who am I to say who’s well-known? Anyway, umru & username are super-online folks from what I can tell, presenting some nicely glitched-up sheets of synth, and who’s this bringing the jungle bumps a la PinkPantheress or Nia Archives? It’s only Black Noi$e, who we heard at the beginning of the year doing some insane “inversions” of Earth‘s sludgy debut Extra-Capsular Extraction (original collected here). The music has disappeared from Bandcamp, but you can find it at Boomkat, or streaming wherever. In any case, there’s a fair share of jungle and experimental sounds among the “flips” here. AVA RABIAT – Znak Zapytania [FUU/Bandcamp] Due on July 10th is the second album from Polish sound-artist, singer & composer AVA RABIAT. It’s also her second on Berlin-based label/platform/collective FUU, home also to artists like Ah! Kosmos aka Başak Günak, Büşra Kayıkçı and Hara Alonso, and it continues her interest in emotive, but highly technologically degraded songs, songs which mess with text in both Polish and English. The album’s titled Szał Wirtualnych Ciał, which translates as “Frenzy of Virtual Bodies”, a phrase that smears the physical and organic into the digital and artificial, and the music does so too. House of Skin – U Turn [Jeopardize/Bandcamp] Vienna-based musician Clemens Posch makes music as House of Skin, which is also the title of his new album released by Viennese label Jeopardize. I love that it’s got something of the heft and character of contemporary bass music and experimental electronic production, but also somehow references the postpunk era and 1980s electronic pop experimentation. Posch is fairly anonymous – his Instagram is private, even. Props to him really! Spitbender – Nothing Here But the Recordings [Perf/Bandcamp] Francisco Antão’s Spitbender is a confounding proposition. On Spin, the Porto-native released on Porto label Perf jumps right in with a skittery piece of ’90s slow-fast jungle, but the modulated drones in the background give a small indication of what’s to come: by the second track, we’ve got distorted riffs and looped rock drums, doom-dub style, while the third track is a kind of chaotic funk-metal. The jungle never quite returns, but the dub feel is a constant, channeled through trip-hop, hip-hop & live sampling. A fantastic oddity. WAAASS – Tight Joe [WAAASS Bandcamp] WAAASS – Dial 808 [WAAASS Bandcamp] WAAASSUP! I’m not sure, as I don’t speak French (very well), but Parisian (I think) duo WAAASS make bass, breakbeat & dancefloor-ready IDM using heaps of hardware, and it’s tweaked, highly rhythmic stuff that touches many genres without quite settling in any – jungle, dubstep, techno, trap… Some of the most creative, out-there bass music is coming out of France lately! Sebaas – too much of that [not on Sebaas Bandcamp] Much like when he didn’t drop his massive tune “No Plastic” last year, I’ve ...
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