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Lo-fi post-punk electronic record label - cassettes & occasional vinyl - SE London
Harold Turgis / London Clay / Hygiene / Viscount

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Big thanks to London Clay @nlannuities @gema.face for choosing BAG in @thewiremagazine top 15 list.

Check out London Clay if you haven’t! If you’re reading this you’ll love them.

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Singles, EPs, tapes and comps of 2025:
Out of nowhere, the Norm Dogs 7" blew my tiny, frazzled mind into the cosmos. Great to have Peter Bonneman back, with a killer new band. Heather the Jerk coming heavy with the catchiest earworms of the year, Don Howland and Cheater Slicks combining to use the blues with some serious force, annoying only grabbed one of the two Cheap Fix 7"s released this year but Soul Tune is a killer. Very hyped for their LP
next year. F(r)iends of GG was a very welcome surprise, a bunch of bands orbiting the GG King supernova release a compilation.

* Norm Dogs - s/t ((Flexidiscos)
* V/A - F(r)iends Of GG (Scavenger Of Death)
* Don Howland/Cheater Slicks (Morbid Web)
* Heather The Jerk - Very Motorcycle EP (Goodbye Boozy)
* Beats Unlimited - 2 (Hypno Discs)
* Dru The Drifter & The Back Alley Hookers - The Intimidator (Goodbye Boozy)
* Roberta Lips - En plein coeur (Flexidiscos)
* Big Break - Exile On Exchange St (Wrong Speed)
* Suzie Marlowe - Esplanade (Noble Lowndes Annuities)
* Cheap Fix - Soul Tune (Hook Or Crook)
* Nice Smile/Pissed Off Zombies - split (Total Punk)
* Gold Cup - The Piss Has Been Taken (Sour Grapes)

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LPs of 2025:
A solid year for music, even if it took a long time to get going. It's in no real order, other than the first four are the best four. Tracing The Sand By The Pool is a masterpiece, just a modern classic by the best band in the world. Laundry Bats mining the sound you'd imagine from their pedigree (Oblivians, True Sons of Thunder, Compulsive Gamblers) with unhinged relish, Added Dimensions building on that incredible 7"
from last year and Midnight Mines still excavating the ghosts of garage dub damage. Music, it's fucking class isn't it?
* Lavender Flu - Tracing The Sand By The Pool (In The Red)
* Midnight Mines - Feel I'm Slipping Away (Minimum Table Stacks)
* Laundry Bats - Hangin On A String (HoZac)
* Added Dimensions - Jane From Preoccupied America (Domestic Departure)
* Worst Worry - s/t (Heart Out)
* Puppet Wipes - Live Inside (Siltbreeze)
* Swami John Reis - Time To Let You Down (Swami)
* Gino & The Goons - s/t (Slovenly)
* London Clay - Private View (La Vida Es Un Mus)
* Wesley & The Boys - Rock & Roll Ruined My Life (Sweet Time)
* Open Mike Eagle - Neighborhood Gods Unlimited (Auto Reverse)
* Actress - Grey Interiors (Smalltown Supersound)

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2025 in art: I did my first two record covers this year (Beats Unlimited - 2 (@hypno_discs and London Clay - Private View (@lavidaesunmus). Thank you to @glenn_astro & @docsleeps and @gema.face & @nlannuities for the trust. I'd like to do more of this next year so if you're making weird stuff (no squares!) keep me in mind.

I also put out three zines of my work, Jupiter Zero, A Covering and Nowhere Blossoms. All still available if interested (forgot to add a photo of JZ though)

Only one exhibition this year (thanks @photomafiastudios!) but it's not been something I've really focused on. If you run a gallery and want to show my work, get in touch.

2026 plans? I'm really getting tactile with it. What are the limits of reproducible media?

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BONUS ANNOYANCE! I worry about punk singles going away, but 2025 eased that a smidge. Honors to…

NORM DOGS - In The Stains 7”EP (Flexi Discos)

THE OBLIQUES - St.Petersburg b/w Cigarettes (Hozac)

EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING - Shapes And Forms 7”EP (Cool Death)

SUZIE MARLOWE - Esplanade b/w Les Amours De La Pieuvre (Noble Lowndes Annuities)

CHRONOPHAGE - Musical Attack: Anarchist / Communist Friendship 7”EP (Post Present Medium)

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2025 is DONE. I am closing next Thursday 18th and won’t be back until January 15th. I need a break and I am taking it. If you need anything from me let me know ASAP. I’m aiming to have every order shipped before Thursday. All orders placed from Wednesday 17th will be shipped upon my return Mid January.

This year I turned 50. Had health issues and still managed to have 25 releases out.

Last year, around this time, I wrote about how hard it was to have any sort of self promotion amidst the world situation. I can extend the same feeling to 2025, with the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and with close friends behind bars, the last thing on my mind has been to punish you with label crap every other day. With the current media blackout about what is happening in British prisons I could not let this space go without mentioning the current wave of Hunger Strikes, which are being silenced by the media but are happening as I type this. Please check @freethefilton24 and @da3m.support for info and consider donating to them, or buying the solidarity T-Shirt

As is only right, I need to thank every band on the label for trusting me again with their music. Every distributor, promoter, designer, recording engineer and shit-worker for their help. Also to every single person who has spent their time and/or money supporting the label. I know how much music is out there, and how hard things are at the moment, so you deciding to give us a chance is extremely humbling. We are nothing without you.

But not everything is gonna be great. I need to, much like every year, apologise to anyone whose email got unanswered or felt wronged by me. I can only apologise. My days have only 24 hours, and there is only so much I can do on my own. This year highlighted many issues in the way I operate, and made me reconsider what the ceiling is operating as DIY. I have decided to hire someone part time next year, to help me with the daily workload. I’m hoping this will free some time for me, which hopefully will benefit both my health and the better functioning of the label. More on that later.

Wishing most of you the best for the rest of the year.

FREE OLA.
FREE PALESTINE.
LONG LIVE DIY HARDCORE PUNK.

2k

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London Clay "Private View" LP (La Vida Es Un Mus Discos)
Que provoque l'écoute de ce disque? Peut-être de lever la tête, de regarder le mauve orangé du ciel d'automne irradier les fenêtres d'un environnement urbain étouffant, broyeur de poésie à grande échelle. S'appuyant sur l'énergie infinie de pulsations électroniques qui constituent un convecteur fiable de créativité artistique de Cabaret Voltaire à Autechre en passant par Powell ou Holy Balm, London Clay - duo comprenant un échappé du lettré combo post punk anglais Hygiene - confectionne avec habileté un univers mi-dramatique mi-fascinant. Le chant féminin distant voire discret semble symboliser d'interminables questionnements quotidiens ne trouvant pas réponse. Les compositions s'avèrent souvent assez minimales, variant subtilement les motifs rythmiques et les intensités, entre mélancolie et danse libératrice. Les lignes synthétiques se croisent comme des marquages au sol qui onduleraient finalement au gré de la volonté au lieu de suivre leurs habituelles destinées rectilignes. Il y a un dépouillement qui évoque autant la claustrophobie que l'agoraphobie car il y a un silence commun qui se maintient là, tapis derrière la musique comme un inconfort stimulant. Ce fécond noyau contradictoire parcourt tout l'album comme une boule d'énergie sourde, lustrant un anti-hit club comme "Straphanger" et éclairant d'une blancheur rasante l'intriguant "The Midnight Bell". Une imprimante matricielle surchauffe dans un immense gymnase hanté par des murmures de fond d'enceinte ("The Obelisk") alors qu'un jour nouveau se pointe doucement derrière ce grand hangar aux vitres brisées ("Clifton Rise").
Ecoute/achat: https://lavidaesunmus.bandcamp.com/album/private-view (lien cliquable dans le linktree de la bio / link in bio's linktree)
#LondonClay #LaVidaEsUnMus #CritiqueMusicale #Nouveautemusicale #MusicReview #RedlightSanatorium

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Oi! from South London!

Our November show for @voices_radio is available to listen back to NOW NOW NOW on the website, Soundcloud, Mixcloud, etc. Slide through for the tracklist - spanning the obscure, the libidinal and the liturgical. November's newsletter just hit inboxes with additional technofun: subscribe to get that every month at the usual place. 📖📖📖

Of course this is also to remind you: We host your beverage drinking at @multistorypeckham on Thursday for a relaxed FREE ENTRY wriggle and then on the 4th we have @blue__zero over from the US! Nothin' like it, T. 🪱🪱🪱 A video of Repetitive Strain DJing. The poster for their event this Thursday at Multi Story is waved infront of the camera.

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MUS325 LONDON CLAY - Private View LP OUT NOW. Available to stream with physical pre-orders shipped already.

“Certain amount of urban claustrophobia and late night paranoia, there’s also a lightness of touch that illuminates the dark corners - the gentle tone of a human voice and memorable repeating keyboard motifs offsetting the industrial chug. And whilst you can locate this music on a broad spectrum of post-punk (that most malleable and co-opted of genre terms), particularly the sounds of early 1980s Sheffield, there’s a more varied sonic palette at play than that might suggest. At various points as you listen to this record you can hear: the looped sound of a dot matrix printer as percussive texture; a delay-blasted guitar weaving in and out of arpeggiated synth bursts; a descending piano line that sounds like it’s haunting the corridors of a deserted school hall; a cluster of distorted loops building to a crescendo that wouldn’t sound out of place next to mid-period Autechre; the jacking drum machine intro to one track almost verging on acid house; the terms and conditions of a marketing offer repeated to the point of hypnotic trance.” @d_i_s_c_i_p_l_e_s

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LONDON CLAY first LP is out for pre-order today. Check the first single Desire Lines. It is available already in Bandcamp, as well as other streaming sites. Release date is October 24th.

This record is another personal obsession. I’ve been listening to it non stop for months while walking to and from work, and it is one of the most organic London records I’ve encounter in years. A DIY bedroom electronics project from South East London which sounds like London itself. It was very hard for me to do justice to this records with words, so I asked my dear @d_i_s_c_i_p_l_e_s for a review. It is as great as it is long so I had to post it in the comments and on the record review online.

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LONDON CLAY are visual artist Gema Oliver and musician Pat Daintith.

The duo formed during the pandemic after experimenting with old/ found instruments and free online synths. Due to the fleeting nature of free/unofficial software, the pair often find themselves using obsolete tools/ or having to make changes to songs because of the removal of synths from the internet. This is all part of the songwriting process where the pair pass songs back and forth, adding layer upon layer, until a song is finished. All songs are recorded at home.

Their music explores the sounds and visuals of South East London, alongside lyrics discussing suburban voyeurism, urban spectres and the nocturnal city.

Other themes include post-war London noir, the detached flâneuse, personal historic fixations, and day-to-day occurrences such as fragments of music from passing cars, silent West End Mews, passing Richard Seifert buildings, empty pubs, etc.

The name London Clay was inspired by south London’s geology and the ceramic work created by Gema.

Pat is the drummer in Hygiene and also writes music under the name Harold Turgis.

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Mastered by Jonah Falco @jonahjonahfalco
Cover art by Al Palmer @al.palmer
Cover layout by Tesco Holocaust @tescoholocaust
Everything else by Gema Oliver & Pat Daintith

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2 years after I put my songs on the internet x this month @electronicsoundmag put in in their 101 favourite underground electronic artists on bandcamp proving time is an elastic band. I’m still not on Spotify- the viscount on there ISNT ME so listen my stuff on my bandcamp page! (Link in bio)
I have sold out of tapes but you can still get them from @nlannuities
I’m currently collecting stories, sounds and characters in other realms for my second release, I’m in no hurry but I have 2 videos and 3 songs almost done. When they are ready, meet me outside at 10 past 10 x

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Today on @rinsefrance radio, 2 hours of music with @viscount_account a London artist,singer, solo musician who plays paranoid goth wave & has a great tape album “10 past 10” out on @nlannuities records, and also a great selection of songs for “Les Témoins du Futur” show this month , slide right for track listing👉🏻
#tunein today #linkinbio midi-14h or 11am-1pm for UK listeners

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