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Next event! New site! New newsletter!: Hello! Quite a lot of news to get to, but I’ll put the biggest / most important announcement up top - the next meet-up of the Really Strange Record Club will take place on Thursday 21st May 2026, 7:30-10:30pm, as usual at the wonderful Dreamhouse Records on Francis Road in Leyton. Put the date …

What We Listened To - March 2026: A capacity crowd braved weirdly strong winds to descend on Dreamhouse Records for the very first Really Strange Record Club of 2026. We had some amazing debut appearances, immaculate vibes throughout and of course some incredible musical discoveries. If you have any questions or corrections to the …

What We Listened To - December 2025: As with last year, December’s session had a non-compulsory Christmas theme, which we’d more or less abandoned by the end of the first hour. I opened things up with some Christmas-adjacent cuts from the Yellow Magic Orchestra extended family, along with an 8-bit IDM take on a festive …

What We Listened To - November 2025: I opened things up with a selection of 80s art pop and global experimentation. Laurie Anderson - Bright Red Tau Ea Lesoto - S/T Coldcut - Haruomi Hosono remix Jean Michel Jarre - Zoolook Various Artists - Methods of Dance compilation Tom A brought us some deep electronic zones and tones. Prins …

What We Listened To - September 2025: September’s RSRC might have been one of the most wide-ranging meet-ups yet, taking in everything from deconstructed hip-hop and deep-cut machine funk to soap opera themes and even a record by a Welsh wrestler. For reasons of both legibility and efficiency, I’m experimenting with a …

What We Listened To - July 2025: I opened proceedings with Hochono House by the legendary Haruomi Hosono - a playful self-cover album in which Hosono revisits his late-70s songs with a minimal electronic palette. I followed with selections from El-Mir’s incredible Malik Adouane compilation, showcasing his hi-energy raï jams in a …

What We Listened To - May 2025: I opened this blockbuster session with some selections from Wrong Way Up, the collaborative album between Brian Eno and John Cale from 1990. I’ve always loved the contrarianism of these two titans of experimental art producing a plasticky synthpop album - but have a look at Pitchfork’s deep dive to …

What We Listened To - March 2025: I kicked things off with a side from Awa Poulo’s Poulo Warali, a gorgeous 2017 album from the Malian singer on the always-reliable Awesome Tapes From Africa label. Afterwards, Ben stepped up with Sleepy For Life, a melancholic slide of retro-acid by AAAA from 2018’s Acid Avengers 010 release. Then …

What We Listened To - December 2024: December had a non-compulsory Christmas theme that was reflected in some but by no means all of the records we played. We opened with a track I brought along - an excerpt from Tuluum Shimmering’s hour-long psyche jam based on Linus and Lucy from the classic Peanuts Christmas soundtrack. Tom kicked …

What We Listened To - October 2024: Tom kicked us off with Bruce Haack’s Electronic Record For Children from 1969, taking us back to a time when at least part of the intended audience for wiggy electronic weirdness was kids, via the somewhat harrowing Spiders. Then we enjoyed the strangely affecting MIDI-folk of Thomas Bush’s Old And …

What We Listened To - May 2024: Last night the Really Strange Record Club met at Dreamhouse Records to make a beautiful May evening on Francis Road a little bit weirder. And as the drinks flowed from the newly-inaugurated Dreamhouse bar, we enjoyed some truly amazing sounds. First up was Gareth, who took us back to the new wave of …

What We Listened To - March 2024: It was another evening of weird and wonderful musical discoveries at Dreamhouse Records last night as The Really Strange Record Club met for the fourth time. We enjoyed some truly incredible music gathered from around the globe and from the deepest recesses of Leyton’s most adventurous record …

What We Listened To - September 2023: What a night! It was a capacity crowd for the third meeting of the Really Strange Record Club, as Dreamhouse Records filled with old friends and new eager to hear some truly out-there sounds. It was probably also the widest and wildest range of records we’ve listened to at an event yet. Josh opened …

What We Listened To - March 2023: What a brilliant night that was. Thanks so much to everyone who came down to Dreamhouse Records last night and made the inaugural meeting of The Really Strange Record Club such a special evening. It was fabulous meeting everyone, and the range of music you all brought with you was truly …