“How about some dark edged art rock, driven by rock steady rhythms, washed with gazer guitar and dappled with electro trimmings.”

Max Tundra (or Ben Jacobs as he’s known around the house) is a London-based electronic producer/multi-instrumentalist whose last album, the brilliant Parallax Error Beheads You (Domino), took six years to make. His music runs the gamut from Scritti Politti-like pop to prog-rock in the vein of Gentle Giant …with a lot in between.

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Another beauty from this 70s cult all-star.

Dean Wareham from Galaxie 500 and Britta Phillips rock the soft sounds of a longing from another time.

“In 1977, Gary Wilson set up in his parents’ basement in Endicott NY with a TEAC reel-to-reel 4-track and self-produced ‘You Think You Really Know Me’. Over the ensuing years, he failed to gain popular attention, completely disappeared, and joined a hotel lounge band. But ‘You Think You Really Know Me’ never went away – in fact it’s been continuously rediscovered by musicians and collectors ever since.”

“The Tudor Consort is a Wellington, New Zealand-based choral group that brings the music of the late Medieval and Renaissance eras to life. Active since 1986, the group has expanded their repertoire far beyond their initial focus of 16th-century Britain, to now encompass choral music from every century that followed.”

“…trance-inducing kraut-rock grooves flow like lava. The four piece consist of three Columbia expats — Cooper Crain (guitars/organ), Dan Browning (bass) and Rex McMurry (drums) — plus Chicago native Rotten Milk (also of Stress Ape and the Terry Plumbing label) on synthesizer.”