Next event - Thursday 12th November!:
Hello everyone,
Just the briefest of notes to announce that the next meet-up of the Really Strange Record Club will be on Thursday 12th November, 7:30-10:30pm, as always at the wonderful Dreamhouse Records at 177 Francis Road in Leyton.
If you’re thinking of bringing a record and want to …
Thursday, September 10, 2026 →
Closing up with some Mexican dream pop from Tom!
Thursday, September 10, 2026 →
Radiophonics and classic Axelrod from Chris B!
Thursday, September 10, 2026 →
A rare break, some wiggy keyboards, a dog called Sebastian and a recording promoting Northampton (!!!) from Chris!
Thursday, September 10, 2026 →
Scandi hip hop from David!
Thursday, September 10, 2026 →
Finnish and Memphis rap plus a disco re-edit from Lasse!
Thursday, September 10, 2026 →
Nigerian juju and funk from Opey!
Thursday, September 10, 2026 →
Dancehall, Nigerian psyche and a new wave soundtrack classic from Dan!
Thursday, September 10, 2026 →
German punk and British new wave from Johnny.
Thursday, September 10, 2026 →
Opening proceedings with some early 90’s Jon Hassell!
Next event - Thursday 10th September!:
Hello everyone - hope you’re enjoying the summer!
This is just a quick intrusion into your inbox to let you know that the next Really Strange Record Club will take place on Thursday 10th September, 7:30pm - as usual, at the mighty Dreamhouse Records on Francis Road in Leyton.
The usual drill …
Closing with some wonky foley LA beat stuff from Barney!
My favourite warm weather ambient LP…
Outernatipnal sounds from Jim!
Heatwave vibes from Ollie
Chris answered the call and brought us some dub!
A selection of (occasionally unrecognisable) covers from Josh.
And we’re off! Warming up with some classic Japanese house.
Next event - Thursday 9th July 2026!:
Hello everyone,
Just a quick reminder that the next meeting of the Really Strange Record Club is one week away - on Thursday 9th July, 7:30-10:30pm, at the wonderful Dreamhouse Records on Francis Road as usual. We’ve still got a few slots available - so if you’ve got a record you’d …
Tonight! It’s the Boards of Canada listening party at Dreamhouse. Me and Chris are repping Really Strange Record Club by spinning classic Warp and woozy IDM in-store beforehand; tickets are sold out but you can hear the warm-up live on Leyton’s community radio station The Ditch from …
What We Listened To - May 2026:
Hello everyone,
Thanks so much to everyone who came down on Thursday. It was a really beautiful night - lovely weather, great vibes and some of the wildest (and oldest!) sounds we’ve heard at a Really Strange Record Club yet. Scroll down for a full account of everything we listened to, and do …
An uncompromising closer from Ben. Thanks so much to everyone who came down! See you in July!
A KLF classic from Tom.
Elise hypnotised us into giving up smoking!
Finnish jazz, Swedish hip hop and Japanese house from Lasse.
Killer free jazz selections from Mark.
Beautiful selections from Paul!
A selection of oddball French psych/prog/disco from Dan.
Matt has brought a selection of Mogwai-adjacent Scottish indie-psych 7”s.
Gus claims this could be Singapore’s first ever hip hop record?
A selection of truly ancient sounds from Geoff!
Some deeper-cut Yukihiro Takahashi from me to kick us off!
Next event: 21st May 2026! Leyton community radio!:
Hello everyone, hope you’ve all had a great week.
Here’s a little reminder that we’re just over a week away from the next meet-up of the Really Strange Record Club. Join us on Thursday 21st May, 7:30pm-10:30pm, as always at the wonderful Dreamhouse …
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.
Tom A brought us some deep electronic zones and tones.
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 …
Thursday, September 28, 2023 →
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 …
