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Studio Upgrade

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Morgue Studio: New Modular Additions Morgue Studio has expanded its analogue sound capabilities with a new installation of modular synth racks. This upgrade brings a more tactile, hands-on approach to sound creation, moving beyond virtual instruments and into real-time, physical signal shaping. The new system incorporates modules from Moog , Doepfer , Behringer and Rakit — each contributing its own character and design philosophy to the studio’s evolving sound palette. Moog Moog’s modules carry the unmistakable warmth and musicality that helped define the early landscape of electronic music. Their oscillators and filters add weight, presence and analogue authority, grounding new recordings in the physical circuitry that shaped entire genres. Doepfer Doepfer, the company behind the Eurorack standard, brings precision and structure. Their modules are known for reliability and clarity, enabling complex patching, detailed signal routing and an architectural approach to modula...
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Crash '87 by This Window (2025 Video)

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Crash ’87 is more than a track—it’s a node in a network of ideas about fragility, control, and collapse. The Kimura Gallery (University of Alaska) exhibition amplified this by situating the work in a space where sound, image, and philosophy converge, turning a small mouse into a profound meditation on power, vulnerability, and the genetics of art. This video was made in homage to that exhibition in 2025. Get Track Here The remixing of a 1981 track Crash ’26 channels the enduring DIY spirit of home taping into a deeply reflective and time-warped experience. It approaches the past not as mere nostalgia but as fertile raw material: the gentle hiss of ageing tape, the textured grain of home-built studio experiments, and the fragile warmth of recordings first captured in 1981 are all resurrected and reimagined under the luminous glow of 2026’s digital era. Crash '26 stands as a quintessential This Window homage to the homemade, artscape music of the 19...
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Lay Back - Beautiful Losers

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A Space You Step Into  “Lay Back” has always been one of those tracks that doesn’t simply play in the background — it occupies space. It unfolds like a half‑lit confession, its pulse slow and deliberate, each beat a breath taken between memories. The track first appeared on the 2025 album This Is War, a release that pushed This Window further into the territory of intimate minimalism and emotional stillness. The track doesn’t just reference Leonard Cohen’s Favourite Games and Beautiful Losers ; it seems to inhabit their rooms, borrowing the scent of their cigarette smoke and the weight of their silences. The vocal delivery is intimate yet detached — a voice speaking from the edge of a bed at 3 a.m., where desire and disillusionment lie tangled in the same sheets. Sparse synth tones and low, percussive murmurs form the backbone of the piece, like the hum of a radiator in winter or the faint static...
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Homage to the Roland SH-101

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The Roland SH-101 is an analogue synthesiser made by Roland between 1982 and 1986. It became widely used in the 1990s, especially in electronic and house music. The SH-101 is monophonic, meaning it plays one note at a time. It features a single oscillator, sub‑oscillator, low‑pass filter, mixer for blending waveforms, noise generator, arpeggiator, and sequencer. An ADSR envelope controls the filter and VCA, while an LFO can modulate the filter, VCA, pitch, and pulse width. Its sound is often described as “snappy and razor‑sharp” bass, “squelchy and expressive” leads, and a “piercing yet smooth” filter. The SH-101 appears on many Finish The Story songs and is frequently used on This Window tracks. At launch, it cost $495 in the US and £249 in the UK, making it relatively affordable compared to other analogue synthesisers of the time. Their Gods – Limited Free Mix – Homage to the SH-101 Pre-release mix · 5 minutes · Instrumental version Their Gods appear...
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Fractured Messages and the Art of Interference

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Broken signals in horror and paranormal TV turns static into meaning—messages arrive warped and never whole, inviting viewers to finish the sentence.  Never finish the story - what is the narrative?  Every genre has its shortcuts to emotion. Horror films lean on shadows. Paranormal TV leans on suggestion. But one device cuts across all of them: the broken signal. A message that arrives damaged, incomplete, or warped — something that feels like communication but refuses to settle into certainty. On shows like Help! My House Is Haunted , the technology is half the theatre. Scanners sweep radio frequencies, software isolates static, and investigators listen for anything that might resemble intention. A clipped syllable becomes a warning. A hiss becomes a sigh. A burst of interference becomes a voice from the dead. The audience is invited to finish the sentence, to supply the missing pieces, to believe that meaning can be extracted from noise. The message is never whole. That’s th...
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Black Bikini

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This video is made using a piece of home movie 8mm film from the 1970's. The Girl in the Black Bikini is a wistful vignette wrapped in sunlit melancholy—a sonic and lyrical meditation on fleeting beauty, memory, and the quiet rituals of observation. The track unfolds like a slow-motion snapshot, where every detail is imbued with symbolic weight: fluttering deckchairs, sand scattered with tiny stones, and the ephemeral imprint of a towel on the shore. Lyrical Atmosphere: The lyrics evoke a cinematic stillness, reminiscent of British seaside nostalgia filtered through a lens of existential longing. Phrases like “She lays on her towel like a ribbon drawn with sunlit ease” and “The English rose reclines into time’s indifferent cradle” suggest a delicate tension between presence and impermanence. The girl in the black bikini becomes both muse and metaphor—her beauty reigning briefly before being erased by the tide. Musical Texture: While the l...
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Extractivism - The New Album From This Window

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Extractivism by This Window New Download Album Released Extractivism by This Window Listen Here 11 tracks for only £4.00 This digital album brings together a collection of new tracks that have never been released before, alongside rediscovered pieces and fresh remixes. It offers a new chapter in the long, shape‑shifting story of This Window — a project that has existed on the fringes of experimental music since the 1980s. Formed within the UK’s cassette‑culture underground, This Window has always operated in the borderlands: part post‑industrial, part minimal synth, part sound‑art, part lo‑fi experimentation. Across decades of tapes, vinyl, CD‑Rs and digital releases, the project has remained defiantly independent, favouring texture, atmosphere and emotional undercurrents over conventional song structures. The sound has shifted with each era — from raw four‑track recordings to more sculpted electronic work — but the ethos has stayed constant: intimate, handmade, exploratory. This coll...
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