Anticipating Nowhere: Invisible City Records Special

Hello, welcome to a special edition of Anticipating Nowhere focussing solely on the wonderful Invisible City Records label, run by Craig Johnson. I can’t remember when or how I first became aware of ICR but bloody hell am I glad I did.

A stunning roster with a clear focus and, for want of a better, less commercial word that escapes me right now, brand.

All releases follow the same design aesthetic. Most releases are on tape (some exclusively hence you will see no Culver here), some CDr, and ALL (bar Culver!) available as digital downloads, Name Your Price

I purchased the whole collection digitally about a month ago – I already had some physical releases – many are no longer available – and I wanted to represent the label in my own way. (Plus I am an obsessive completist so it’s have them all or have none!)

You hear authors say that a book wrote itself, or musicians say a song came to them fully realised and all they had to do was play it? Yeah? Well, this isn’t really like that but in my head I like to think of it in a similar vein.

I knew the tracks I wanted to open and close the show with and pondered how I would make this a coherent journey through the ICR catalogue – something strange happened. I copied all the tracks into ole faithful Audacity, lined them up and pressed play to see how things could and would flow……..and I didn’t need to do anything. The tracks I had chosen over hours and hours of listening curated themselves. Aside from blending the tracks and levels together that was it! It ran, to me, seemlessly from beginning to end just as it was.

So here you are; apart from the first and final tracks, my first ever alphabetical playlist. It is also my longest at over 2 hours but trust me, every second will be worth the time you take to listen deeply.

If you like what you hear please check the label out on Bandcamp and support each and every one where you can.

You can also follow Craig on Twitter to see what is happening (if you are in the North of England he and other artists are touring – see, it’s not all happening down here in London!)

Please enjoy.

Peace : Respect : Compassion

Simon

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1. Artist – Track – Album

2. Morbid Debasement – Charnel Temple – Abhorrence

3. Chlorine – We stopped to watch the shallows burn. – We stopped to watch the shallows burn.

4. Claus Poulsen & Stuart Chalmers – Hinterlands – The Universe Unmasked

5. dARM – Ritual de_bug – Deus Generator

6. Death Register – Q – Phonaesthesia

7. Depletion – Broken Doll – Final Exit

8. Dunning and Brosamer – Underlandet (Live with Lisa Schlenker) – Glocken

9. Ivy Nostrum – Hollow Joy – Self Own

10. Luciernaga – See The Trees – To The Centre Of The City In The Night

11. Matthew Atkins & Peter Marsh – Icon 4 – Paper Wasps

12. Mudguts – Pretty Slipping – Sabrina Fourtyfives

13. Muster – Distal Ear – Find A City To Live In

14. people-eaters – dull sunset – The Only Thing Left To Fear

15. Philipp Bückle – Interior With A Young Couple And People Making Music – Drawings

16. Saturn Form Essence – Nebula NGC 7000 H Alpha – Stratospheric Tower

17. see monsd – Part 4 – BOTHBOTHBOTH

18. Shit Creek & Tremelo Ghosts – Crystal Fruit – SHRDLU’s Adventures In Blockworld

19. Star Turbine – Coachwerks II – Night Sky Isolation

20. Stuart Chalmers – Gothic – Imaginary Musicks Vol. 5

21. The Skull Mask – Cuervos – La Muerte Es Sabia

22. The Will of Nin Girima – Spell Two – The Bone Knife – Two Cycles of Incantation

23. Vampyres – Sacred Lake – Century Scars

24. Wound – Patterns of Exposure – Concrete / Wound

25. Xtematic – Second Deleted Memory – Deus Generator

26. Fordell Research Unit – The Wrong Train – Etches of Pain

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