MCPM018 Compilation Album
Soundtrack to accompany the next issue of the Moolakii Club Audio Interface magazine mcpm.bandcamp.com
An absolute whopper of an album showcasing some of the finest Merseyside peripheral underground experimental electronica.
And its here for you - come and get it.
mcpm018 magazine and compilation album
Preorder now - release 1st Feb
Artists, architects of the unknown, bend waveforms like dreams, their sounds crawling through the subconscious, mapping out the unsaid, the unheard. Drones stretch like memory, fractured beats syncopate the rhythm of breath, a half-forgotten phrase caught between waking and sleep. Distortion speaks the language of doubt, while the hiss of static is the mind’s whisper— a million thoughts disintegrating into white noise.
Here, soundscapes are psychic terrains, peripheral yet intimate, dark yet illuminating. Each track, a portal to the places we bury deep, as voices glitch, flicker, then fade, only to resurface as echoes in the brain’s tangled pathways. Electronic waves become emotion, and in the buzz, in the thrum, you find yourself unravelling.
A selection of tracks from artists we love and friends of the label
This episode is a Merseyside love-in with tracks by some of the finest peripheral underground experimental electronica artists from the region.
Merseyside is a collection of the more chilled tracks - beautiful, haunting and occasionally dark - it features artists we have discovered this year along with some old flames.
B-side the Mersey is chock full of beats, grooves and glitches with more new finds alongside familiar faces.
This collection shows the talent that is blooming across the region and foretells a scene that is creeping into the venues and spaces where the cool kids are hanging out. Go chase them down on their pages and give all your love and vibes. Creativity can be a lonely thankless place and artists feed of positivity so tell them you love them and they will give you it back in audio spades.
We set off with a gorgeous piece of electronica Volatile Power from The Metamoprph’s forthcoming album From Cobalt To Aquamarine.
Then we fall gently into an artist new to me with Sea Birds taken off the Autumn Shore album from Empty House - local field recordings set against melodic cinematic instrumentals recorded over 3 days in October 2025. The inspiration for the album came during long walks along the North West coastline and low tide. The sky at that time was a perpetual greyness, no clouds as such and no sun.
From here we enter some crackling glitchy warmth from friend of the label Freddy Francké under his moniker Mighty Cloud Parade who brings Cloud parade1, a free time composition, combining analog and digital grits into an emotion led soundscape. Suggestions of optimism, mania and sorrow in three micromovements. Developed indelicacy in improvisational synth performance and tape looping. This track contains explorations from his visual art practice into sound.
Wooden Tape take the torch here with Saturday Morning from their latest release Wool, weaving pads and guitars into a weekend meander through damp fields and mossy woodland.
Another new discovery Neil Young and Munich Platform (Night Music) fills us with soundtracks to memories and landmarks, hiding in the shadows, hovering or whispering close-to; sometimes minimal, sometimes not.
Lo-Five brings Ordinary Things - an absolutely gorgeous work of crisp lo-fi beats and melancholy melodic ambience that perfectly encapsulates his brilliance.
As we draw closer to the end of side A, James Binary delivers Xanthophyll, originally released on South Korean label Extra Noir, it is a track inspired by Binary’s horticultural studies through the lens of decaying organic matter; recorded and mixed in the Production Room Liverpool, a vintage synth emporium hiding in the city centre.
We finish with another great find - Echoes Of Neon and In The Back Alley - a drone infused soundscape for a city entrenched in mystery. prolonged isolation amongst the crowds of faceless bodies can drive a man to the wildest of fates. along the dark street corners is a society hidden from plain view and left to its own devices.
BeSide The Mersey flips us up and into the left-field beats, grooves and glitches of the DIY scene. Put your cup of tea down and your biscuits back in the tin - things are going uptown.
Cooper Vane sent his track Short Waves and we loved the build and bubbling percussion from The Radio New Brighton EP that narrates an audio tale about memory and place, inspired by the seaside town of New Brighton, on the Wirral peninsula in the UK, in the 1980s.
Then we up the discordance with Myth from Roscoe Fox - built from drawn-out pitch-shifted acoustic guitar alongside an off-kilter beat, Myth mixes contemporary club & ambient, breathy vocals & big kicks.
We carry on cranking with an excerpt from the collaboration between two firm Moolakii Club favourites of noise and glitch - VX & Subtle Internal from their live improv set Creature Let Me Be Your Teacher recorded in session at Future Yard Rehearsal Rooms.
From here we dive into some free form live drumming amidst freak-out synth work on Maybe This by Silent Numerisation.
And I had to include a track of mine - Snorra Edda under my defunct Loopatronica moniker - which was my first track to get recognised by BBC 6 music when Stuart Maconie played it as part of his Freakzone back in 2022 - a track filled with big beats and grizzly synth lines.
And still we go deeper into the dark glitch with Mitch Koobski and Malachite - pulled together through a mutual thread of swapping and mutating beats, synths, effects and techniques, sonically loose and eclectic but ultimately birthed from the same angle of approach.
Back over to the Wirral with Burn Is Burn who flicks the minimal soft beats switch with Smeuro before oXo closes proceedings with Free. I met oXo at a Live Soundtracks evening at Future Yard and was made up when she sent over her latest EP on bandcamp so I had to add this vocal led house-garage track to our compilation.
An absolute whopper of an album showcasing some of the finest Merseyside peripheral underground experimental electronica.
And its here for you - come and get it.
mcpm018 magazine and compilation album
Preorder now - release 1st Feb
Track listings
Merseyside
The Metamorph - Volatile Power 03:28
Empty House - Sea Birds 04:58
Mighty Cloud Parade - Cloud Parade1 05:01
Wooden Tape - Saturday Morning 03:08
Neil Young - Munich Platform 2 (Night Music) 07:04
Lo-Five - Ordinary Things 03:18
James Binary - Xanthophyll 08:21
Echoes Of Neon - Too Close To The Side Walk 06:09
BeSide The Mersey
Cooper Vane - Short Waves 04:25
Roscoe Fox - Myth 02:54
Silent Numerisation - Maybe This 05:49
VX & Subtle Internal - Creature Let Me Be Your Teacher 03:18
Loopatronica - Snorra Edda 07:00
Mitch Koobski - Malachite 04:06
Burn Is Burn - this is This 05:51
oXo - Free 04:46