Karen Gwyer's ambient pools and whirling techno dervishes

[alan nagsworth]

In the last six months or so I've become really really familiar with this music. She's just released a new EP, Man On Mountain, and as with everything else she's done, it's brilliant.

Here is the lead track off that: Faces on Ankles

Here's a more subdued tune off her album Needs Continuum: Sugar Tots

Here's a big immersive gorgeous 10 minute long fucker: Free Food/One Men Striper

And here's a couple of bangers off Rembo, one of my favourite things she's done: The Workers Are On Strike / He's Been Teaching Me To Drive

This is the exact sort of stuff I look for electronic music right now. That AFX quality of insistent analog-sounding beats and abstract non-melodies that spiral round in my head and makes me daydream both listless but also constantly compelled to move like I've got one of those parasites in my brain that inhabit the bodies of praying mantis and make them walk into water and drown so they can reproduce. That one weird chord that permeates most of "The Workers Are On Strike" is fantastic. Absolutely love her music.

[alan nagsworth]

Bump, you knobheads

[BlodwynPig]

The world is super-saturated with music like this. Pleasant, but I've not really re-listened to her records that I have.

[popcorn]

Have to agree with Blodwyn that it doesn't sound particularly unlike loads of other music, but I am enjoying it. Onto the Spotify playlists she goes.