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First released in the year 2016, Strange City was one of the weirdest collabs in noise music, as one of its collaborators had been dead since the early 90s. Basically, it is a noise/ jazz cross over utilizing elements from two Sun Ra albums- 1967’s Strange String and 1966’s The Magic City- which the king of Japanese noise, Merzbow, bent, mangled and corrupted to wonderful effect. Here’s a double CD release of the album, which collects together everything recorded for the album- you see, different tracks appeared on both the CD ( which I originally reviewed) and vinyl, which I didn’t review…so now it’s all helpfully in one place. Instead of re-reviewing the tracks I’ve already commented on, I’ll just review the unheard/ unreleased tracks- so if you want to find out about the others, head here.
10 Nov 2026
The Hauntological Film
“Cinema plus psychoanalysis equals the science of ghosts.”—Jacques DerridaAlthough the field of hauntology emerged from philosophy, the social sciences, and literary criticism, its progenitor, critical theorist Jacque Derrida, seemed most comfortable using cinema to explain and broaden the ontological and epistemological boundaries of his concept. For Derrida, movie-making was not only an aesthetic experience but also a shared exorcism, a synergetic séance, “the art of allowing ghosts to come back.”
10 Nov 2026
The Nar Mattaru Curses is a fourteen-track CD compilation bringing together unreleased or barely released work from Swedish Black Industrial pioneers MZ.412. The collection's tracks date back from the late 1980’s to the 2010s, bringing together demos, extended tracks, etc.
Prarajekt are an intriguing duo based in Vienna, who take up the city’s lineage of creepy, dark, minimalist electronic experimentalism first promoted on Mego and later exemplified by the likes of Christian Fennesz, Radian, and others. While Parajekt share the almost surgical approach to microtexture and sound design of these predecessors, their voice is very much their own. Espérance II is a four-track EP that seems to have emerged organically from the material presented on their debut album, which appeared at the beginning of the year.
The Monster Squad — The Monster Squad( UHD/ Blu Ray)
5 Nov 2026Contrite Heart — Idolatry
5 Nov 2026No Fun HNW — Painial
5 Nov 2026Raté — La Terreur HNW
5 Nov 2026It Ends — It Ends(VOD/ Blu Ray)
5 Nov 2026Destination Moon/ Flight to Mars — Destination Moon/ Flight to Mars( Blu Ray)
5 Nov 2026Olion & Silver Dove — All The Pretty Little Kittens II
4 Nov 2026Pink Wool / Hana Haruna — The Mad And Macabre
4 Nov 2026
Severin
2026 is the twentieth anniversary of Severin- one of the best-known and respected labels in cult/ b-movie circles. At M[m], we’ve been reviewing the label's output for around ten years now- racking up around one hundred and fifty of their releases covered on the site. So, we’ve decided to look back and select our top twenty releases to date!... These include releases from the sub-labels InterVision & Severin Kids, with indepth reviews for each!
Olion Interview
Active since the early 2020’s, Olion is one of the key projects within the euro wall-noise scene. To date, it’s put out around seventy releases- taking in both physical and digital form- with stand-alone releases, splits, and collaborations. Sound-wise, their output moves between pummelling, thick-yet oddly soothing. To more texturally layered, and forays into ANW. Behind the project is Olek Browiński from Olsztyn in northern Poland, and he kindly agreed to give us an email interview
A Julian Cope Primmer
Erupting into the mainstream on February 19th 1981, The Teardrop Explodes’ debut ‘Top of the Pops’ television performance featuring their brassy, bouncy hit ‘Reward’ is to this day probably the moment from which most people recall Julian Cope. If your image of Julian remains that of an earnest young budding pop star sporting a fleece-collared flying jacket and a shaggy bowlcut of shoulder-length tresses, if you failed to maintain pace with his entry into the cosmos, if you dismissively describe him (as I’ve seen thereabouts) as “a Smash Hits pin-up”, you have one hell of a lot of catching up to do. Musique Machine have tasked me with leading their readers through the psychedelic jungle and beyond, here, and I have to say that Julian probably merits the ‘beginners’ guide to’ / ‘recommended records’ treatment more than just about any other artist in the music sphere, at least in terms of how public perception and the ‘reality’ (if such a word is appropriate in this extreme case) have a near-unbridgeable gulf.
Orchestra Of The Upper Atmosphere Interview
Early this year, the band released their most recent album Theta 7, on Discus Music-which is sadly to be their last. Band leader Martin Archer kindly agreed to give us an email interview, discussing the project's history & why they’ve decided to call it a day.
