Swedish electronic project Sluta Leta started in the late 90s and has gone through a series of lineup changes, resulting in all of the founding members being replaced. The current lineup of producers Andi Pieper and Ramon Bauer, with vocalist Gerhard Potuznik, has been consistent since their debut full-length in 2003. After a long hiatus, they've returned in the 2020s. Their 2nd album this decade, Drift Decoder, is a collection of charmingly analogue, acid-inflected electro, funky breaks, and synth pop, a short forty-one-minute album of two-to-five-minute songs.

Here’s another in a long line of superlative Kleistwahr releases from Fourth Dimension Records, this one collects up two previous albums by the Gary Mundy vehicle; if memory serves Winter was part of the amazing looking - but expensive - tape boxset put out by Helen Scarsdale Agency some years back, whilst Music for Zeitgeist Fighters was released on Nashazphone, on vinyl, in 2017. The two CDs come in a card wallet, with the album artworks on display, and the usual neat presentation that Fourth Dimension delivers. The CDs present each album respectively, and add some additional tracks, bringing each CD to over 70 minutes of music.  

Over their fifty-plus-year career, The Residents- those infamous yet unknown avant-popsters have always created their own distinctive/ weird takes on others' material. Going from their noise up  ‘n’ churning take on the Rolling Stones' Satisfaction, though to their melted Dada take on 60’s pop that was The Third ‘n’ Reich and Roll album.

Mondo Keyhole is a monochrome roughie from the mid-60s regarding an LA-based serial rapist and his heroin-addicted wife. It weaves together noir atmospherics, uneasy/ troubling sleaze, moments of all-out derangement, and porn business parody/send-up. Here, as part of VCI Entertainment’s Psychotronica Collection, is a dual DVD and Blu-ray release of the film, featuring new and archival commentary tracks.

Video Psycho is a SOV serial killer movie from the early 1999’s. It features a fairly decent/ believable young cast, some rewarding moments of both tension & unease, with an effective score that blends psycho ambience with post-industrial disquiet. Here from SRS Cinema- the main/ key labels releasing SOV films, is a recent Blu Ray release of the film, taking in a director's commentary & a few other things.

H.M.S. Defiant is a 1962 historical adventure movie directed by Lewis Gilbert (Alfie, Educating Rita, and Moonraker). The film was also notable for being co-written by Nigel Kneale (Beasts, Quatermass and the Pit and Halloween III: Season of the Witch) alongside Edmund H North (The Day the Earth Stood Still, Patton and Sink the Bismark) and Frank Tilsley (a TV writer best known for his work on BBC Sunday Night Play, BBC Sunday Theatre and Champion Road). The film also had a pretty strong cast of actors including Sir Alec Guiness (Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Bridge on the River Kwai and Kind Hearts and Coronets), Dirk Bogarde (Death in Venice, A Bridge Too Far and The Night Porter), Maurice Denham (The Day of the Jackal, Animal Farm and Countess Dracula) and Nigel Stock (The Great Escape, Young Sherlock Holmes and Cromwell).