New releases last eight weeks: Leftfield

Notes: Inside the brand new issue:

Haruomi Hosono: The exotica explorer and YMO founder has found his voice in a late career renaissance. By James Hadfield.

Plus: Japanese exotica: A user's guide by David Toop

Bromp Treb: Film maker and musician Neil 'Cloaca' Young has learned from the possibility of failure. By Matt Krefting

Christer Bothen: The Swedish multi-instrumentalist and onetime Don Cherry associate has continued along his own path. By Clive Bell

Crystabel Efemena Riley: The close listening of free improvisation offers vital moments of human connection for the London percussionist. By Abi Bliss

Blackhaine: Stockport's industrial hiphop head is making waves on the world stage with his choreography collaborations. By Hugh Morris

KASAI: Footwork folk. By Daryl Worthington

Use Knife: Rhythms of refuge. By Xenia Benivolski

Nina Garcia: Doppler-like effects. By Milos Hroch

Invisible Jukebox: DJ Scotch Egg: Will the bassist and breakcore pioneer crack The Wire's mystery record collection? Tested by Daniel Neofetou

Global Ear: Experimental music in the Bangladeshi capital thrives under the government's radar. By Simon Coates

Unlimited Editions: Dusty Ballz plugs the Chinese diaspora into the global avant garde. By Daryl Worthington

The Inner Sleeve: Djrum on Svarte Greiner's Knive

Against The Grain: Underground music must urgently defend its trans and queer communities, urges Rosie Esther Solomon

Epiphanies: Joy Guidry finds true freedom in the life lessons of Sun Ra

Soundcheck: Ellen Arkbro, Rashad Becker, Bios Contrast & Nilotpal Das, Elvin Brandhi, Anthony Braxton, Caspar Brotzmann Massaker, Raven Chacon, Chepang, Column258, Content Provider, Melaine Dalibert & David Sylvian, Kevin Drumm, Egg Girl Girl, Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe, Mark Ernestus' Ndagga Rhythm Force, Escape-Ism, Everything Is Psychedelic, Ben LaMar Gay, Gnaw, Georg Graewe/Brad Jones/Hamid Drake, Georg Graewe & Sonic Fiction Orchestra, Joy Guidry, DJ Haram, Herbert & Momoko, Alan Jenkins, kodiki, Hampus Lindwall, Lippard Arkbro Lindwall, Maurice Louca, Matmos, Rainy Miller, Moin, Mourning [A] BLKstar, Nazar, Stephen O'Malley, Osmium, Daniel O'Sulllivan, paszka, Rufige Kru, Schmitz & Niebuhr, Sensor Ghost, Ursula Sereghy, Mark Stewart, ThisIsDA, MK Velsorf & Aase Nielsen, Zosha Warpeha & Mariel Teran, Larry Wish

The Columns: Avant Rock by Edwin Pouncey; Critical Beats by Misha Farrant; Dub & Reggae by Steve Barker; Electronics by Steph Kretowicz; Global by Francis Gooding; Jazz & Improv by Daniel Spicer; Noise, Industrial & Beyond by Louis Pattison; Size Matters by Byron Coley

The Boomerang: Freddie Hubbard; Iration Steppas; Bennie Maupin; Charles Mingus; Repetition Repetition; Gruff Rhys; Arthur Russell; Pete Shelley; David Van Tieghem; To Live And Shave In LA; Various: All The Young Droids: Junkshop Synth Pop 1978-1985; Various: Disk Musik: A DD Records Compilation

Print Run: TRIP MAGAZEEN: The Complete Collection 1992-1994 by DJ THREE, Grumptronix
& Peter Wohelski; The Uncanny Muse: Music, Art, And Machines From Automata To AI by David Hadju; Philosophy Of Jazz by Daniel Martin Feige (translated by Nathan Ross); Meredith Monk: Calling edited by Anna Schneider, Beatrix Ruf & Peter Sciscioli; Monk In Pieces directed by Billy Shebar & David C Roberts; Relational Improvisation: Music, Dance And Contemporary Art by Simon Rose; Songs In The Key Of MP3 by Liam Inscoe-Jones; Sex Is No Emergency: Adventures In A Post Punk Wonderland by Dorothy Max Prior; Alien Water: Six Decades Paddling In Unpopular Music by Ian A Anderson

On Screen: Isaac Gale & Ryan Olson Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted; Alex Ross Perry Pavements

On Location: Mappa Live, London, UK; Sun Yizhou + Zhao Cong + Zhu Wenbo, London, UK; Mosquito Farm & Zhao Cong + Wenbo/Barker/Betteridge/Mai/Zhu/Shaoyang/Zhuo + Rory Salter & Sun Yizho, London, UK; IZ, Shenzhen, China; AD LIB > 66VOCALISTBODIES,NOT, London, UK; Container, London, UK; Reading Group Residency, London, UK; Apartment House, London, UK; Thawed Out, Chicago, US; Kumio Kurachi, London, UK; Long Play Festival, New York, US; Wolf Eyes + Sly & The Family Drone + Soborgnost, London, UK; Vanessa Rossetto + Matthew Revert + Tom Betteridge, London, UK

On Site: Sound And Silence: An Exhibition Of Contemporary Bells, Bovey Tracey, UK

Notes: Inside the brand new issue:

Cosey Fanni Tutti: The industrial music icon has been to Hull and back with her new album 2t2. By Claire Biddles

Quinton Barnes: The Montreal rapper and producer flips the script in a new project with free musicians. By Emily Pothast

David Van Tieghem: The New York percussionist who has played with everyone on the Downtown scene receives a dedicated collection of his own work. By Robert Barry

Happy Family: Over four decades the Japanese group have moved from rigorous prog to euphoric harmony. By Daniel Spicer

Amina Claudine Myers: Honing her skills on the old school nightclub circuit, the keyboardist is now forging ambitious suites for choir and pipe organ. By Stewart Smith

Quade: Landmark album. By Lucy Thraves

Milk Eyed Sigh: Let it bleed. By Misha Farrant

Liu Zhenyang: Language games. By Josh Feola

Invisible Jukebox: billy woods: Will The Wire's mystery record collection be recognised by Backwoodz Studioz's main man? Tested by Mosi Reeves

Global Ear: Bratislava's LGBTQI+ scene creates safe spaces amid repressive policing. By Chiara Rendekova

Unlimited Editions: LA's Colorfield label creates spontaneous studio magic. By Daniel Spicer

The Inner Sleeve: Circuit Des Yeux on Weyes Blood's Titanic Rising

Against The Grain: Jo Hutton celebrates radiophonic art as a unique field of creative endeavour

Epiphanies: Daniel O'Sullivan steps outside of himself via the ambiguous, understated moods of library music

Soundcheck: Al Karpenter, Anika, Black Arches with Sexton Ming, Blind IO, Ivor Callin, Rex Casswell, Nels Cline, Coffin Prick, Cosmic Ear, Angel Bat Dawid, Angel Bat Dawid & Naima Nefertari, Demonologists, Deradoorian, Peter Evans & Petter Eldh, Adam Fairhall & Johnny Hunter, Fatboi Sharif & Driveby, Flying Lotus, Mary Halvorson, Jenny Hval, IOM, Evan Johnson, Eleonora Kampe, Kelan, Phil Langero, Ingrid Laubrock, Annea Lockwood, David Longstreth/Dirty Projectors/s t a r g a z e, Lullahush, Sue Lynch & Regan Bowering, Mamuthones, Gabriele Mitelli: Three Tsuru Origami featuring Camila Nebbia, Mopcut, Moundabout, Bill Nace & Evan Parker, Maggie Nicols & Dan Johnson, Paal Nilssen-Love Circus with The Ex Guitars, Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet, Kory Reeder, Marc Ribot, Crystabel Efemena Riley, Scanner & Nurse With Wound, Ferdinand Schwarz, Nadah El Shazly, Sleep Unhealed, Alan Sparhawk, Spellling, Stereolab, Surgeon, Territorial Gobbing, Luca Tilli/Sebi Tramontana/Steve Beresford, Julia Olehla & Dalava, Kamasi Washington, Water Damage, billy woods, Youth Code, Various Marc Urselli's Best Of Ramones Redux, Various Marc Urselli's Ramones Redux, Various Only sounds that tremble through us, Various Planet Mu 30

The Columns: Avant Rock by Tony Rettman; Dub & Reggae by Steve Barker; Electronics by Emily Bick; Hiphop & R&B by Richard Stacey; Jazz & Improv by Bill Meyer; Modern Composition by Julian Cowley; Noise, Industrial & Beyond by Raymond Cummings; Size Matters by Byron Coley

The Boomerang: Ash Ra Tempel, Henry Badowski, Cindytalk, Julee Cruise, Purple Trap, Various Born In The City of Tanta: Lower Egyptian Urban Folklore & Bedouin Shaabi From Libya's Bourini Records 1968-75, Various Eli Roth's Red Light Disco: Dancefloor Seductions From Italian Sexploitation Cinema, Various Roots Rocking Zimbabwe, Various Secret Superstar Sounds: Scraping Bubblegum Off My Soul 1977-80

Print Run: America's Greatest Noise by Frans de Waard; Music In Orbit: Satellite Radio In The Streaming Space Age by Brian Fauteux; The Capitalist Imaginaries Of Popular Music by Charles Fairchild; Feel Like Going Home: Portraits In Blues & Rock 'N' Roll by Peter Guralnick; Krautrock Eruption: An Alternative History Of German Underground In The 60s And 70s by Wolfgang Seidel; Dub: The Sound Of Surprise by Helmut Phillipps (translated by Ursula Munch); Studio Electrophonique: The Sheffield Space Age From The Human League To Pulp by Jamie Taylor; To Hell With Poverty! A Class Act: Inside The Gang Of Four by Jon King

On Screen: Harmony Korine Baby Invasion; isold Uggadottir Cornucopia

On Location: Tribute To Maryanne Amacher, Paris, France; Hamid Drake & Michael Zerang Winter Solstice Concerts, Chicago, US; Rewire, The Hague, Netherlands; Only Connect, Stavanger, Norway; TLF Trio + CTM/Frederik Worm, Los Angeles, US; Wendy Eisenberg & Ryan Sawyer, London, UK; Counterflows, Glasgow, UK; From The Lips To The Moon, London, UK; MaerzMusik 2025, Berlin, Germany; Maher Shalal Hash Baz, London, UK; Big Ears, Knoxville, US

On site: Kathe Kruse, It's All Good Now, Berlin, Germany