Eleh / Pauline Oliveros: The Beauty Of The Steel Skeleton / Drifting Depths (Important Records) - LP originally released 2008

Discovered the works of Eleh through Jon Wozencroft; graphic design supremo, one half of Touch and currently Senior Tutor in Art and Design at the Royal College of Art. I attended one of his 'Sound seminars' one night; a darkened room with the lights out. Students sitting on chairs in a disorganised fashion. Jon playing records on a loud system punctuated by brief verbal anecdotes.

Oozing vinyl fetishism (heavyweight pressings, drop dead gorgeous artwork, limited numbered editions) means that getting hold of the actual records is a total bitch. It's as if the label print up severely reduced amounts so that the lucky few can boast about or eBay them. This was the first thing I managed to get hold of and its a split 12" with drone-queen Pauline Oliveros. Her contribution sounds jagged and manevolent; like Sunn O))) in suspended animation. But Eleh's slow tonal drift will do funny things to the enclosed space that you inhabit and piss off your neighbours simultaneously.

If you've not got the appropriate playback device and attention span, don't even bother.

Kim Cascone: Anti-Musical Celestial Forces (Storung) - CD originally released November 2009

Stunning release from Kim Cascone; an early pioneer in computer music and microsound. A single thirty-minute montage of spoken word narrative, DSP, radio interference and field recordings. Narratively engaging with some incredible sonic detail; the closing phases introduce middle eastern atmosphere to wonderful effect.