Playlist 13.11.22

IDM to jungle & breakcore to Indian-British jazz to various unsettling ambient and sound-art veins tonight. LISTEN AGAIN, new & old, greatest & greatester. Stream on demand via FBi, podcast here. Plaid - C.A. [Warp/Bandcamp]<br /> Plaid - Return to Return [Warp/Bandcamp]<br /> A new Plaid album is like putting on a familiar pair pf pyjamas. It's comfy, you know what it's like. And yet, analogies aside, they can still surprise - like the jangly guitar number in the middle of new album Feorm Falorx (didn't play it tonight sorry) that still manages to sound like Plaid thanks to those sweet chord changes. And honestly it's the melodies and harmonies that Andy Turner and Ed Handley are so expert at that make every Plaid listen a little joy - which is not to say that they're not rhythm masters too. There are tracks here in 7/8, there's lots of syncopation and head-nodding and booty-rocking. It's Plaid. It's good. Gimmik - Circles [n5MD/Bandcamp]<br /> Gimmik - Floppy Disk [Toytronic/Bandcamp]<br /> Gimmik - Modulated Youth [n5MD/Bandcamp]<br /> Because I am old, I remember when the ?!Load-Error EP came out from Martin Haidinger's Gimmik, on the Toytronic label he co-founded - co-released with the legendary Worm Interface, based out of the Berwick St, London shop Ambient Soho. Bouncy drill'n'bass and acid that in 1997 marked him as second-gen IDM, but only just. He released a number of albums following this, and migrated gradually to more ambient climes, with n5MD handling his releases for a while now - although Load Error got an expanded CD release in 2005 and is now on Bandcamp. Earlier this year the Sonic Poetry album reprised some of those bouncy beats with new productions from Haidinger, but new release News From The Past takes us right back to those early days, '94-'00. Some of the material was released by Toytronic around the same time as the Load Error reissue, but it's expanded itself now digitally, with a vinyl version also available. It's lovely stuff for thoes who enjoy crunchy beats and melodies à la µ–Ziq - indeed, it's notable that ?!Load-Error EP came out the same year as µ-Ziq's currently-celebrated Lunatic Harness, so, you know... It comes complete with a beatless faux-classical gem of the type Mike Paradinas would've been proud of. Pixl - Chimes (2015) [Pixl Bandcamp]<br /> Leeds-based junglist Laurie Smart has been releasing tunes since around 2015 as Pixl or Pix