Anamchara collects 9 cuts from Woodleigh Research Facility’s vast archive and presses them across 4 sides of vinyl.* These treasures have been selected from tracks recorded between 2016 and 2019, and previously released digitally in 2023, under the banner Apparently Solo. 

Several of the tunes are dance floor directed numbers, with dynamic drum programming that blurs the boundaries between motorik, house and electro. Crack-Ed and SHLAP, for example, boast bass-lines and TB-303 touches that pay homage to the classic sounds of 80s Chicago, the pounding Yacidik is a little more progg-y, while Heat To Meat Ratio tips its hat toward Neu! and La Dusseldorf. Andrew Weatherall adds a similarly kosmische kick to his remix of the beautiful Borderland. Originally a kinda classical collaboration – based on Johann Pachelbel – with post-punk viola virtuoso Sarah Sarhandi, the late icon’s rework is an emotional machined march in the mode of New Order. A battered TR-808 is what gives Rattly Old Puffin its name. The weary old rhythm devil duetting with Erick Legrand’s psyche guitar. 

Away from the strobes and the mirrorball things get a little bit weirder. The wobbly, wonky We Two welds a morphing metallic melody to a hammer and anvil beat. Hidden Watchers – Part1 – weaves percussive, wordless vocals around slow tribal tom toms. Dropping the lot into dubwise, while its synths sigh a seductive siren’s song – paving the way for the otherworldly ambience of Alma. A beatless waltz of ghostly harmonies, twisted chimes and treated strings, composed for a performance at 2018’s Gordon Burn Prize, this final 13-minute epic concludes the compilation in a haunting collision of Coil and Joe Meek. 

Woodleigh Research Facility’s Anamchara can be ordered directly from Circuitry.

*Clear crystal “coloured”, if you catch the limited edition from Bleep.