On Repeat: Drumpcorps, Grouper, Corruption

On Sundays I try to at least quickly note some of my favorite listening from the week prior — things I would later regret having not written about in more depth, so better to share here briefly than not at all. ▰ Drumcorps (aka Aaron Spectre) has been bashing together drum’n’bass and metal and whatever happens to be in his spam folder for at least 20 years now (my first item on him is from October 2006), churning out head-banging glitchmetal, or grindcore, or breaknoise, or whatever amalgam terminology you want to apply to it. And it’s as awesome as ever, and there’s an advance track, “Midnight in America,” now streaming from his forthcoming album, Breakdown, due out October 2. ▰ Short murky heavenly — murkheaven? — clip of Grouper performing at Casal de Catalunya in Buenos Aires just yesterday, September 26. Instant glimpses of faraway events keep the internet excellent. ▰ Been three months since the most recent SoundCloud uploads from the prolific Japanese noise/dub/techno artist…