The first day back in the office at tQHQ is often a frantic time of panic and anxiety as every single year the staff reassemble with the bleak notion that music has "gone rubbish" during their two week break.
However, no such fear this year as 2018 is already shaping up to be a vintage year for sonic emissions from the weird and wonderful. tQ Ed John Doran was a guest on the Freak Zone late on Saturday night and chose an entire show of exclusive (and amazing) new music to play to the listeners of BBC 6Music – and you can listen to the show in full here.
The full playlist is as follows:
Anthroprophh – ‘Oakmoll’ (from Omegaville out on Rocket Rcordings March 23)
Eric Chenaux – ‘An Abandoned Rose’ (from Slowly Paradise on Constellation March 9)
East Man & Killa P – ‘Mission’ (from Red, White And Zero on Planet Mu February 16)
Årabrot – ‘Sons & Daughters’ (from Who Do You Love? on Pelagic April)
Shabaka Hutchings – ‘Black Skin, Black Masks’ (from We Out Here on Brownswood February 9)
ILL – ‘Stuck On A Loop’ (from We Are ILL on Box date TBC/Spring)
Cucina Povera – ‘Mesikaammenen Veisu’ (from Hilja on Nightschool January 26)
Sly & The Family Drone & Dead Neanderthals – ‘Flesh Logics’ (from God Unknown date TBC)
Guy One – ‘Nongre, Nongre – Sugre, Sugre’ (from #1 on PHILOPHON January 26)
******* (fka Guinness) – ‘The Drink’ (from ******* on Weird World January 26)
The Skull Defekts – ‘Clean Mind’ (from The Skull Defekts on Thrill Jockey February 26)
UKAEA – ‘The Rake, The Loam’ (from UKAEA/Basic Vanilla split on Extreme Ultimate date TBC)
