Tokyo's expat dance label Diskotopia has released a free 2015 round-up compilation via Bandcamp. The 20 track download “is an end of year survey of the past, present and future output of the label and we hope you enjoy it this winter season”, say label co-founders Matt Lyne and Brian Durr. The label’s output has been vast since its inception in 2011. This year alone saw the release of Silvestre’s Frank Pike EP, Computer Graphics’ CCCP and Durr as BD1982’s Salience. “The 20 track compilation will be available for free as a thank you to all the support this year,” added Lyne aka A Taut Line.

Diskotopia F/W 2015–2016 FC features 14 exclusive tracks alongside a select few picks from the label’s previous releases. Artists include Computer Graphics, Tetsuro Fujimoto, Shy One, Fotomachine, Silvestre, Filter Dread, Am Rhein, Rigly Chang, A Taut Line, BD1982, Greeen Linez, Mau'lin and Myakkah.

You can listen to the compilation below.

Holly Herndon and Jennifer Walshe have launched a project to crowdsource a database of sound and music works related to the internet since its inception. The pair state, “Artists have been working with the internet for decades. As we see archives and critical writing about this work emerge, we noticed that there is a strong focus on visual work. In an effort to promote more critical writing, vocabulary development and analysis in our field, we are attempting to put together an archive of sound and music works dealing with the internet since its inception. We would like this to be a resource everyone can draw on.”

“This is a messy topic,” they continue, “but we hope that by creating a databank of works and writings on this topic, we can support the sound and music community in understanding how the internet is shaping our field and how artists have been and are currently responding to this integral part of our lives.”

The database, which is called Post-Internet Sound, is open access and welcomes both academic and non-academic contributions, be it in the form of writing or a source of sound. Anyone can contribute via Google docs.

US vocalist Linda Sharrock has announced her first major release of studio material since her work with Austrian electronic musician Wolfgang Puschnig and others in the 1990s. Sharrock is best known for her distinctive and adventurous collaborations with former husband, guitarist Sonny Sharrock, on 1969’s Black Woman, 1970’s Monkey-Pockie-Boo and 1975’s Paradise.

Sharrock kept a low profile after suffered a debilitating stroke in 2009 but returned to action with 2014’s part-live, part-studio release No Is No: Don’t Fuck Around With Your Women on Improvising Beings, as well as a series of live performances.

Credited to Linda Sharrock/The Abyssity Of The Grounds and released as a limited edition of 300 triple vinyl sets by Manchester label Golden Lab, Gods additionally features Theresa Eipeldauer (voice), Mario Rechtern (soprano, alto, baritone, saxoline and voice), Max Bogner (guitar, electronics and voice) and Didi Kern (drums). Rechtern also wrote the sleevenotes.

“I was gobsmacked to receive an invitation on Facebook to a performance by Linda Sharrock,” says Golden Lab founder Nick Mitchell. “Especially as it was in the back room of a tiny Sheffield pub and the entrance fee was only a fiver. Just seemed too incongruous with the general drabness of cultural life in the north of England. Anyway, I went and there were only around 30 people there, surprisingly or unsurprisingly, dependent on your perspective. It was magical. Linda was in such powerful form. Her voice lurched forward over and over again until it finally soared like an air raid siren. Charlie Collins (ex-Clock DVA guy) who I know through Jon Marshall (Singing Knives) was there playing drums with her. I talked to him after the show and said, ‘If there are any recordings from the tour, I would love to put them out.’

“That came to nothing,” he continues, “but, recently, Linda's sax player Mario Rechtern contacted Jon Marshall about releasing some new studio recordings on Singing Knives. Jon didn’t have the funding to do it and, so, referred Mario to me and we picked it up from there. The email dialogue alone has been kinda transitory, because Mario writes in this quasi-mythological style with English as a second language. It’s a very psychedelic conversation and hard to keep track. Even getting the name of the band and the title of the record has been a challenge, but it’s an amazing trip and really just an extension of the way he and the rest of the group play.

"Linda’s voice is incredibly prominent on the record, which I know has been a key question on the minds of interested parties. Post-stroke, she is of course exploring a different range and style, but, I guess, much like Robert Wyatt was transported into an unexplored musical realm as a result of forces against his will, Linda is now in the thick of this rich, scattergun swarm of sound that bores into your brain and does not allow you to escape it for a single second of listening. And that's a whole two hours across these three discs. I'm, of course, beyond honoured to be able to play a part in putting this music out into the world.”

Gods will be released in February 2016 and is available to pre-order now from www.goldenlabrecords.com

Following the recent launch of Resonance Extra in Brighton, Resonance FM has set up a brand new digital signal for its regular programming for Greater London. Resonance is still broadcasting from its South London HQ in Borough High Street, but in addition to its regular 104.4 FM signal, you can now find it on the digital band – a scan for new stations on your DAB radio should let you lock in to Resonance’s groundbreaking mix of sound, art, documentaries, community programming and experimental broadcasting in crystal clear audio. You can find more information on how to pick it up on the Resonance website here.

If you’d like to help Resonance get this new digital operation up and running smoothly, do them a favour by emailing them to let them know you can pick it up – write to info@resonancefm.com including your post code. Their DAB venture uses new technology and their engineers are eagerly monitoring the progress of the project.

Meanwhile, if you want to check out Resonance Extra, and its rolling roster of programmes and shows from the archive, but you don’t live in Brighton, you can tune in online here.

Power Vacuum has announced a new collaboration between the label’s founder Milo Smee aka Kruton and the New York rapper Sensational. The duo’s first collaboration is a six track EP, You In The Right Spot, consisting of productions from Smee’s archive. It includes one new re-work and a host of demos ranging from 1997–2003. Talking about Sensational’s style and how their collaboration came about, Smee muses, “His sonorous voice with that vital yet floppy delivery, beautiful production – the bass work, hats, keys, the mood he achieved and so on – for the things I appreciate he’s a super talent. To me he has parallels with Mark E Smith and Captain Beefheart. Without trying he out-punks anything contemporary.

“I got a swift response from Colin [Bobb aka Sensational] about doing a Bintus/Sensational collab, and wanted to send him material straight away to keep the momentum going,” Smee continues. “I hadn't written the new stuff to send yet, so found some old Kruton demos that might be a useful tempo for him to work with. Then I could reconstruct new tracks around his vocals. The record cut was booked, but a misjudgment meant I ran out of time, bar one new track – which in the end he didn't seem to like as much as the original version anyway. So at that point I let go and went ahead to release the tracks as they were – including that one re-work.”

You In The Right Spot is released by Power Vacuum on 9 February 2016. You can listen to an advance preview of “Turn The Page” from You In The Right Spot below.

Sensational was on the cover of The Wire 310. Subscribers to the magazine can read it here.

Stereolab’s co-founder Tim Gane and their former drummer Joe Dillworth have joined forces with Holger Zapf in a new group called Cavern Of Anti-Matter. So far, the trio have released a handful of limited edition EPs and 12"s, 2013's Blood-Drums and You're An Art Soul among them. However the group insist that the forthcoming Void Beats/Invocation Trex is their debut album proper. It also features contributions from Deerhunter's Bradford Cox, Jan St Werner of Mouse On Mars and Spaceman 3 member Sonic Boom aka Pete Kember.

Void Beats/Invocation Trex will be released by Duophonic on 19 February, but it is possible to pre-order it now. Stereolab were featured on the cover of The Wire 149. You can hear a preview of the album’s fourth track “Melody Of High Feedback Tones” below.

Swans are reissuing two key albums from the early 1990s as a vinyl box set and triple CD package. Bringing together the double album White Light From The Mouth Of Infinity (1991) and its successor Love Of Life (1992), the collection also includes an additional CD of rare tracks and special outtakes from that era. The music has been freshly mastered, and the limited edition box comes with Deryk Thomas’s original artwork and two rare posters.

The set is available from Michael Gira’s label Young God.

Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry‘s secret laboratory has burned down. The studio based in Switzerland, where the artist currently lives, caught fire after Perry forgot to put a candle out. On 3 December the dub pioneer posted photos of the wreckage on his Facebook account, stating: “Hallo my fans. Something very very sad happened. I forgot to out a candle and my whole secret laboratory burned out. My whole life collections, arts, my magic hats, my magic boots, all my crazy show outfits and costumes: king, pope, general, magician… all my electronics and studio equipment and my magic mic, books, musik, CDs… everything gone!!!! I am so sad and my wife is so mad. To my angels that always give me perfect things, if you have made something for me to bring it to the show when I'm in your area, it would be super if you send that to me in advance by post so I can have it before I start with shows in March, because now I’m going to Jamaika and will not have the time to look or make special outfits. Send me a private message and I will send you the address. Also write me where you are located then i will put you + ? on the guestlist when I come to your area and with backstage acsess so I can thank you personally. God bless, love £$p”.

This isn't the first time one of Perry's studios has caught fire. In 1979 the renowned Black Ark studio in Kingston, Jamaica, burned down in a fire which Perry claims to have started in a fit of rage.

The Islington Mill event space Fat Out’s Burrow has made a successful bid for Arts Council funding to launch the Phase Two event of its two year residency programme in March 2016. The funding will support the redesign of parts of Islington Mill's interior, a five day series of events, and the hiring of a new marketing assistant. Fat Out’s Burrow will be working alongside a range of collaborators including Bristol’s event programme Carcocaphagus Sarcophagus, Supernormal Festival in Oxford, Glasgow label Optimo Music, Manchester promoters Now Wave and the London/Manchester events organisers High Hoops.

Islington Mill is a community arts space based in Salford, UK.

Get On Down have reissued Raekwon’s solo debut Only Built 4 Cuban Linx. First released on a lavender coloured cassette 20 years ago, it was dubbed The Purple Tape by Wu-Tang members and his fans. After its first edition of 10,000 copies sold out, later issues came in the usual plain, seethrough cassette. To mark the 20th anniversary of its release, the reissue comes in the same purple cassette casing as the original. The complete package, designed by Raekwon himself, consists of a watch display case with white stitching, an embossed silver-on-black Raekwon logo, a 118 page book featuring lyrics, photos and sleevenotes by Chris Faraoone and Raekwon. Limited to 1995 copies, the 20th anniversary edition is available to order now via Get On Down.