Sunday Sampler

Around the grounds for some peripheral underground experimental electronica

Another selection of Sunday Sundry from around bandcamp that have been discovered this week. Have a listen to some peripheral underground experimental electronica and if you like what you find - give some love out to these fab artists.

Dave Welder – Wave Delder

Wave Delder is a stitched together rogue’s gallery of sonic experiments formed into a cohesive and compelling mess. Equal parts avant-garde synth squelch, jazzy sax riffs, aggressive beat science, and hypnotic acid decay.

Opener “No More Albums” sets the tone with buzzing squelching synths and off kilter avant-jazz sax meandering. From there, it splinters: “Dan HAAAg” unloads a barrage of distorted, hammering beats that punch like a hypnotic riot in an oil drum warehouse. Meanwhile, “Forages” slinks in with loopy acid basslines and psych-electro riffs.

Welder never sits still. One moment you're in a malfunctioning piano-sax jazz vibe of "Fortseasons", the next you’re floating in a lo-fi psych-glitch acid bath with edges that hiss and crackle in "Odessa eyes". There’s a sense that everything is being improvised and performed with half-broken gear and full creative freedom—glorious, glitchy, and unfiltered under a blanket of proper musicianship and crafted ideas.

This is not a record that wants to be liked. It wants to be explored, misunderstood, occasionally danced to, and maybe feared a little.

Fingerwolf – At The Mountains Of Madness

I’ve been waiting with much anticipation for this ever since Jon told me about his plans for a Dustopian Frequencies release - Dark mythology meets funked up jazz. My breath was baited in his snair.

Fingerwolf is a storyteller and this album soundtracks the same titles HP Lovecraft story with all the cinematic expanse you’d expect with the grooves moulded between jarring darkness.

Picture this: you're navigating an endless Antarctic void, but instead of creaking glaciers, your companion is a pulsing, subterranean audio current. At the Mountains of Madness isn’t a literal soundtrack to Lovecraft’s classic novella—it’s a chilling, immersive soundscape that channels its cosmic dread through dark ambient synths and shadowy field-recording passages.

From the eerie exploration of opener McMurdo Sound, with its suggestions of wind howls and expansive longshots, Fingerwolf builds slowly, carefully—like explorers descending into fossil-strewn caverns beneath the ice. Fiendish Violations reverberates with low drone and ripping, rattling percussion, evoking ancient horrors half-buried in the dark. The painting of a scene into a visceral immersive experience.

Moments like They Were Men Like Us shimmer with glacial echo, while Nothing Can Erase builds tension that hangs between curiosity and terror.

Fingerwolf has once again created a sonic archaeology: bits of ice crack, machinery hums, and subterranean life stirs in the half-light. The result is an album that's both meditative and claustrophobic—time stretches, walls shrink, and a sense of cosmic insignificance creeps in.

SHOUK – Mind Calibration

Change gears for come glorious chill house for the lazy summer evenings.

SHOUK's Mind Calibration is a masterclass in minimal deep house, where every element serves a purpose. The opener, “there's that look again”, sets the tone with its hypnotic groove and subtle intricacies. Tracks like Olive Craving and 2 or 3 songs showcase SHOUK's ability to blend rhythmic precision with emotive undertones, creating an immersive listening experience.

The bonus track, Little Blonde Barmaid, adds a touch of twitchy UKG and quirky vocals and synth stabs, rounding off the album with a sense of completion.

27 ARCHES – Once

Manchester’s 27 Arches delivers a sophisticated and immersive experience on Once, blending breakbeat, drumfunk, neurofunk, and ambient textures into a seamless whole. The album moves fluidly between crisp, intricate rhythms and lush, atmospheric soundscapes, creating a dynamic balance that keeps the listener hooked. Magnetic Boots opens with drama and melds into smooth 70s fuckadelic vibes before What You Said Before brings in deft production skills with complex house and chill techno beats and melodic layers, while “Deja Mis Sueños” adds rattling atmospheric jungle breaks to spice up the journey. These first three tracks tell you you’re exploring a dub inspired world of breaks, beats and house adjacent sounds.

Once feels like a deep dive into electronic music’s multifaceted possibilities—sometimes futuristic and punchy, sometimes reflective and textured. It’s an album that rewards repeat listens, revealing new details and nuances each time. For anyone craving electronic music that brings grooves and cross those underground club genres whilst hitting hard on atmosphere, 27 Arches offers a compelling, well-crafted proposition.

and I’m still shouting out our next release coming 25th July…

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If you like what you hear, always give the artists some positivity - it can be a lonely business throwing out your music into the ether.