London’s neo-jazz wreckin’ cru Sly & The Family Drone step up to the session with a fierce and capricious mixtape.

Before that, music from Skee Mask, Skudge, Thraa, Kerrie, JakoJako, Rob Mac, G Flame, Emptyset, The Bug, King Cannibal. And, Ancestral Voices.

An uninterrupted music only version of this episode is available. All the tracks, none of the chat.

DARKFLOOR
Skee Mask – Breathing Method [Ilian Tape]
Skudge – Buchlam1000 [Repitch Recordings]
Thraa – Contre-Courant [Into Earth]
Antonio Ruscito & Luigi Tozzi – Alodrone [ARTS]
KOTEC – Ir5. [Shedo Lab]
Kerrie – Act of Resistance ?[Blueprint Records]?
Pascal Hetzel – RBBRMN (JakoJako remix) [Arkham Audio]
Rob Mac – Flicker [Takeover Recordings]
G Flame – Ignacio [Truncate]
emptyset – Aether [Thrill Jockey]
The Bug – Buried Dub [Relapse Records]
King Cannibal – Stone Tape Theory [Ninja Tune]
Ancestral Voices – Annwn [Samurai Music]

SLY & THE FAMILY DRONE
Endon – Prelude For The Hollow [Thrill Jockey]
Bob Dombrowski – Synthesis [Default Standard]
Saint Abdullah & Eomac – Old Enough To Log In [Drowned By Locals]
Yhwh Nailgun – Tear Pusher [AD 93]
Scotch Rolex, Shackleton & Omtaba – Ring Dirt [Nyege Nyege Tapes]
Germ Lattice – Ground Truth [Horn of Plenty <O]
Agathe Max & Natalia Beylis – She Should Be The Queen Of All The Flowers [Fort Evil Fruit]
Tomaga – Malintesi [Hands In The Dark]
MOPCUT – Ceasefire [Heat Crimes]
Sly & The Family Drone – Going In [Human Worth]
Økse – Amager (feat. Billy Woods) [Backwoodz Studioz]
Merzbow / Sissy Spacek – Coronado/ 1-9 [Helicopter]
Nina Simone – Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out [Colpix Records]

DARKFLOOR
JK Flesh – Veneer of Tolerance (Samuel Kerridge remix) [KR3]
LDS – Portal Merge (Peak Mix) [Peder Mannerfelt Produktion]
Karim Maas – Dimensions [Droogs]
ScanOne – Ice Cold [Yellow Machines]

Featured Guest

Starting as a solo cassette tape manipulation project by Matt Cargill, Sly has expanded to incorporate layers of electronics and live drums. Sometimes with saxophones. Or in Liverpool recently at the inaugural edition of local festival Outer Waves, violin. The band sit somewhere between noise, free jazz, and all out drum warfare.

Cargill says

imagine Boredoms soundtracking an experimental noir thriller and you might be getting close

They’ve shared the floor with the likes of Lightning Bolt, Wolf Eyes, Dälek, and Swans. You get the idea. Moon Is Doom Backwards, their latest record, is available through UK charitable label Human Worth. Sly and the Family Drone are a band best experienced live. It’s hard to explain the catharsis they as a band and you as a witness go through. In place of that, Cargill has put together a mixtape of some of their music, and that of others.

They’ve some UK shows coming up this summer, including at New River Studios in London, on June 6. At The Holloway in Norwich, on July 25. And At No90 Hackney Wick, back in London, on July 26.