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Packing 3 tracks onto their first piece of vinyl for Trensmat, the ultra-prolific Ashtray Navigations bring 20 years of recording experience to the table for you, the discerning listener. A-side 'Monkey Music/Throw Money At The Monkeys' marries gentle melodic guitar twanging to intense trebly arpeggios and ascending/descending sweeps of synth. An effect at once calming and unnerving, the ride lasts for almost six minutes, giving ample time to get lost before snapping back to reality long enough to turn the record over. 'Dinshan P Ghadali' the shorter of the two tracks on the B, is a seemingly momentary snapshot where melancholic pads and fretwork intertwine beneath a slow electronic pulse. 'Rocket Dust Slipping Out Of Your Mouth Some Afternoon' begins with a clean analogue synth line that is soon accompanied by multiple layers of soaring guitars and white noise - all of which is held together for a time with sparse electronic percussion before the layers are eventually peeled back to a serene finale...and the rocket dust settles. Of course we wouldn't just leave you hanging like that -on the sleeve is a URL to take you to an exclusive digital extra piece, 'War Is Like A Cake'. This near 20-minute blowout features soothing ambient waves throughout, though it does contrast with the relative calm of the vinyl tracks - the noise war begins 55 seconds in and is served slice by slice for much of the remaining duration. VERY limited edition 7" in full colour wraparound picture sleeve. Trensmat Records.

Black to Comm is Dekorder label owner Marc Richter, an expert manipualtor of adventurous and unusual drone studies. 'The Soba Noodle Shop Incident' unfurls clouds of reverberating tones, thick billows of metallic shimmer, deftly crafted into muted melodies. Chimes and bells are smeared into blurs of warm melodic drone, distant percussive twinkles, all wrapped up in gorgeous dreamlike sprawl. The sound is intensely immersive and almost dizzying and underpinned by subtle rhythms - a swooning and swaying and woozily hypnotic whole. Flip over for 'The Convenience Store Incident' where vocoded fragments deliver something sonically mysterious and impenetrable, churning and shimmering, buzzing and whirring, twisting into strange shapes, offering up incidental melodic overtones. Microscopic squeaks and creaks are twisted and tangled until the constituent parts became something alien & new, and are reborn into new sonic shapes - cool, moonlit and otherworldly. Limited edition 7" in full colour picture sleeve. Trensmat.