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It’s not surprising that CoD’s music is a chaotic mash pot of different cultural influences, what would a Maltese, a Macedonian, an Anglo-Indian, a Maori, and a Pakistani living in Australia have in common other than a postmodern aesthetic and a whole lot of energy, which the band is well-known for.

A selection of tracks & mixes, including folktronica by Kettel courtesy of kracfive, electrodub from Sardinia Bass Legalize, free download on A Quiet Bump netlabel, electro acoustic guitar processing from Mark Templeton, soundscapes from Tauchsieder (free download album from their own website)

* Viva Flexipop shares all of the iconic flexipop disks.
* Amral’s Trinidad Cavaliers cover Tito Puente/Santana’s Oye Como Va
* Cosmic Disco Charts for July
* Wobbly, Porest and Peter Conheim & Don Joyce from Negativland get together as Chopping Channel

A respected member of grandpa-electronics, one of the first moog musicians, one half of the Perrey-Kingsley duo and a composer for TV, ballet, dolphins and insomniacs in need of musical theraphy… good old J. J. Perrey is no less an inspiration for all electronic musicians of our era.

Goodbye the Band is an electronics-infused epic pop-rock band in the vein of Fiery Furnaces, Stereolab, Magnetic Fields and Of Montreal. The band is the brainchild of John Acquadro, you can download the free EP from Archive.org. Highly recommended.

Porest is a one-man collage terrorist from Oakland, CA aka Mark Gergis. This is his fourth album and I’m really curious about his past work and most of the stuff from this small label called Abduction.

Don’t you just love the politically incorrect UK guerilla humour? Don’t you love the accent? I sure do, and I’ve laughed countless times listening to this tape Dead Horse, and their previous bootleg with DJ Rubbish – Inside a whale’s cock!.

What can I say about the music, It’s a strange and unique album, Daghoti has definitely let out what flew through his mind, strange time-signatures, vocal samples here and there, a breakbeat entering when you least thought of it, definitely eclectic sound collages.