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This year will be the 16th and final instalment of Bleep's 100 Tracks - our definitive guide to the best music of the year. Available to buy as a high-quality download or gift to a loved one for Christmas. The full tracklist will be announced and available to download on Tuesday 24th December. Until then, make your guess on what this year's compilation has to offer! Pre-Order Now at bleep.com/100-tracks-2024

It’s hard to find a contemporary artist who Björk hasn’t influenced. Over thirty years of restless, daredevil sonic experimentation and exploration (almost fifty if you count her career with The Sugarcubes, Icelandic postpunk and jazz bands, and her very first self-titled album at age 11) have sustained her position at the forefront of the modern pop and avant-garde landscapes. With each entry in her discography so excitingly different from the rest, deciding on a favourite album is almost tantamount to forging one’s identity; this bundle collects some of her most time tested and blueprint setting work. Build Your Own Bundle: Add 3 or more physical formats from Björk’s discography and use code BJORKESSENTIALS at checkout to get 10% off. Read more at Bleep.com

2024 has brought us yet another incredible year of music from a myriad of genres and fields. Here’s our look back at some of our favourites from the year which have brought us escapism and rejuvenation, space to reflect and space to move together. We hope you discover your next favourite album in this list. Enjoy!⁠ ⁠ View our list and End of Year exclusives at Bleep.com - 🔗 in the bio!⁠ ⁠ Design by @pointless_illustrations_james

Welcome to the Bleep Weekly Roundup, our guide to the best new releases and warehouse arrivals.⁠ ⁠ Our featured releases of the week: @kimletgordon’s The Collective, one of our Top 10 of 2024, is now available as an expanded deluxe edition, experimenting to singular effect folding bass-worshipping trap rhythms into her overdriven guitar palettes, @tresorberlin dusts off a lost classic of 90’s Detroit machine funk with this reissue of Scan 7’s debut LP Dark Territory, available on Bleep exclusive white cassette and @lapsus_barcelona celebrates 20 years in the business with a new compilation featuring some of their most frequent flyers as well as friends and influences alike including Kettel, @Kode9, Marina Herlop, Plaid, Simo Cell, Suzanne Ciani, Wordcolour and μ-Ziq to name a few.⁠ ⁠ Once more, Japanese digital dub legend Takafumi Noda, aka @mysticatribe, and Dutch synth wizard Danny Wolfers aka @legowelt_official reunite for their highly anticipated second album under the Noda & Wolfers project, a unique concoction of digital dub, raw lo-fi electro and acid hall influences while @thenational continue their hot streak of late with a new live LP for @4AD simply entitled Rome.⁠ ⁠ We have the sultry new @bambounouu & @priori_tize collaboration on @bambelabel and Dr. Pit of Primitive Art lands on Relaxin Records with a hazed out, chopped up version of Lolina’s ‘Music Is The Drug’.⁠ ⁠ Highlighting the last of the @stereolabgroop Expanded 3×LP reissues soon to be replaced by new 2×LP versions, as well as Bliss Out: For Days, the @thenumerogroup guide to private issue new age and @coki_dmz's deadly dubstep classic available again with remix update by Hamdi.⁠ ⁠ Our download of the week is from Dekmantel whose whose Best Of series is back with a very special 2024 edition after the label celebrated a decade of its unparalleled festivals. Rounding up some of their most necessary releases, like Olof Dreijer’s stormy Latin club collab with Diva Cruz ‘Acuyuye’ or the Burial remix of L.B. Dub Corp’s ‘Only The Good Times’ with slowburning fog machine sonics pacing out subtly euphoric hardcore thumps and celestial melody.⁠ ⁠ Enjoy!

@bleep chose my new album Breve on @seilrecords it as one of their top ten records this year! That is an unexpected honor that made me very happy. They asked me if I was up for a little BTS on the making of it, so here we go! Checkout the special blue edition they have of it for sale. #ambient #musicproduction #vinyl

Stereolab have announced new 2LP reissues of their classic albums Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements, Mars Audiac Quintet, Emperor Tomato Ketchup, Dots and Loops, Cobra And Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Night, Sound-Dust, and Margerine Eclipse to replace the most recent 3LP editions which will no longer be in print once stock has sold out. To accompany each of the new reissues, Stereolab have recreated vintage merchandise alongside some new designs, available separately or in a bundle with the 2LP. Pre-Order Now at Bleep.com

Live Studio Performance: Félicia Atkinson “The recurring dream is an improvised track for a Fender Rhodes Seventy three Mark 1 piano and Paste gong, played at my home studio in Normandy. The gong was played just before recording and we can only hear its vibration. It’s a slow and static Rhodes melody played as the imaginary opening titles for a hypothetic recurring dream.” - @felicia_atkinson Curated exclusively for Bleep Order Félicia Atkinson’s latest LP ‘Space As An Instrument’ now at Bleep.com

Paris documents Nils Frahm's March 21, 2024 performance at the Philharmonie de Paris following Day and Music For Animals, where melismatic piano tiptoes light as a feather, then thrusts into rhythm with watery beats and melodic ripples. As lacustrine synth textures cruise throughout, Frahm asks the audience to “transform into wild animals”, their rainforest of calls reused throughout while classical chamber music swerves progressive electronic swerves kaleidoscopic electronica with scattered, trilling organ notes and sophisticated beat patterns.⁠ ⁠ Shipping Now at Bleep.com

Four Tet’s 2023 live residency, which featured immersive light installations by Squidsoup, is now immortalised on Live At Alexandra Palace, which also coincides with the venue’s 150th anniversary and encases tracks spanning his discography. Following their recent mini-album, Everything Squared, the band’s first new release in thirteen years, Seefeel have shared Squared Roots, a collection of seven tracks from the same recording sessions, drifting further out on a dreamy ambient tip. The term “modern classic” gets thrown around often but would not be out of place to describe Still House Plants’ defiant belter of an album, a staggering achievement already noted in many end-of-year lists including our own. Our Bleep Top 10 exclusive edition on grey vinyl is just landed, limited to 100. Our featured Albums of the week: Fennesz drops his most reflective album to date with Mosaic, Roberto Musci’s Goodbye Monsters explores themes of travel, ethnicities and mysticism and on KMRU’s OFNOT label, inspired by the sound design of Kubrick’s 2001 we have the drifting ambience of Blake Lee, the main consigliere for all things Lana Del Rey. Our featured Singles and EPs of the week include CHAOS, the first release on LuckyMe® for London-born R&B singer and songwriter TYSON music the daughter of legendary artist Neneh Cherry and Portishead release two tracks left out of the remastered Roseland NYC Live album. Our featured Comps and Reissues of the week include: 30th Anniversary Edition of Plastikman’s Musik, arguably Richie Hawtin’s most beloved of aliases and still some of the most inventive techno ever laid to wax, Disciples’ collection of rare dubs, roots and lovers rock from the legendary producer Dennis Bovell, clear vinyl version of Superior Viaduct’s cLOUDDEAD reissue and CD version now available of billy woods and Kenny Segal’s classic 2019 album Hiding Places. Our download of the week is the continued documentation of Autechre’s unique and improvised recent live shows now compiled as AE_2022－. Enjoy!

Just Announced: Seefeel - Squared Roots (Warp Records)⁠ ⁠ Following their recent mini-album, Everything Squared, the band's first new release in thirteen years, Seefeel are now sharing more new music in the shape of Squared Roots, a collection of seven tracks from the same recording sessions.⁠ ⁠ + Bleep retail exclusive CD⁠ + 4 panel digipak⁠ + Limited to 500⁠ + New merchandise⁠ ⁠ Available now at Bleep.com

Autechre - AE_2022－(Warp Records)⁠ ⁠ Download Now at Bleep.com

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