This Window

Triumphant Adventure The track Triumphant Adventure has had several lives. First released in 2007, the piece returns here in a new form — recorded live at Plac.Art.X in Regensburg, Germany, later reshaped and remixed at Morgue Studio (Devon) in 2026. What emerges is both a performance and a reconstruction, a work that carries its past inside its present. Technology has changed but the world appears to be stuck in the same loop... At the centre of the piece lies a single fragile artefact: the spoken line “triumphant adventure” — a phrase echoed by several astronauts during the 1960s and ’70s as they tried to articulate the surreal exhilaration of travelling into space at the height of the Cold War space race. That line was recorded onto a  1/4" tape loop , mixed with other material and then transferred onto a cassette in 1981 , where it gathered the hiss, wobble and mechanical drag that now define its character and the era. More Here Extractivism by This Window ...

There is a persistent human impulse to claim a flag or banner as proof of belonging — to hold it aloft as if symbolism alone could settle questions of identity, purpose or ownership. Yet the weight of such emblems comes from those who carried them before us: people who walked, fought, endured, or simply held a line so that a place, a culture or a way of life might continue. In that sense, a banner is never really “owned” by the present moment. It is inherited, weathered by history, a responsibility that is always heavier than it first appears. Procession With Cross and Banners — Track Notes Track title: Procession With Cross and Banners Source: Adaptation of Onward, Christian Soldiers First appearance: Jig‑Saw Man CDr (M4TR 005) Credits: From Extractivism 2 . Track originally released 2007. Extractivism 2 by This Window This piece takes the familiar Victorian hymn and bends it through a modern, more unsettled frame. The forward‑m...

  Extract From The Goat — A Fragment of Tape Culture Revisited “Extract From The Goat” is more than a reissue, a nostalgic glance backward. It returns to a very specific moment in the early 1990s cassette underground — a moment when DIY culture thrived on tape hiss, hand‑spliced edits, and the stubborn belief that sound could be shaped with whatever tools were at hand. Download Here The track originates from the 1991 compilation The Goat , released by the UK label M4TR Productions , a home for outsider, experimental, and mail‑art‑aligned soundwork. On that cassette, This Window contributed “A Collection Of Pieces Of Tape Edited Together” — a title that was both literal and perfectly aligned with the era’s aesthetic. Tape wasn’t just a medium; it was a material to be cut, rearranged, reversed, and reassembled into new forms. Extractivism 2 by This Window A constellation of underground experimenters The Goat brought together a small but distinctive group of artists working at the ...

  This Window confirmed today at No. 27 in a UK Alternative Chart Downloads This Window has been officially confirmed today as reaching No. 27 in a UK Alternative Chart — a position earned entirely through listener plays, page visits, and genuine engagement , not marketing muscle or algorithmic trickery. It’s a quiet but meaningful milestone, the kind that signals a growing audience tuning into the project’s darker, more introspective sound world. Each rise in the chart feels like another small acknowledgement that these shadow‑leaning tracks are finding their people. At the centre of this momentum is the featured chart track: Hopeless 1989 - 2026 by This Window Between Two Waves Between Two Waves opens like a horizon just beginning to move — a slow analogue swell, synth tones rising and folding back on themselves with the patience of a tide gathering intent. The early moments feel suspended, almost weightless, as if the track is holding its breath. Gradually, the elements tighte...

“The Ashtray” feels like one of the purest distillations of This Window’s long‑running fascination with analogue decay and the musicality of malfunction.  Buy Here Built from a 1/4" tape loop and shaped within the project’s cassette‑culture ethos, it sits somewhere between art‑project minimalism and a sci‑fi horror vignette. It plays like a fragment of a lost soundtrack cue — the kind you’d stumble across on a degraded VHS of an experimental film, its edges softened and half‑erased by time. The loop’s mechanical churn becomes a kind of heartbeat, steady and indifferent, while the added layers smear into a synthetic fog that feels both intimate and alien. There’s tension in its restraint, a quiet pressure in the repetition, and an unsettling stillness that suggests the machinery itself might be breathing. Within the wider context of Extractivism — an album built from newly uncovered pieces, rediscovered fragments and reworked material — “The Ashtray” stands as a reminder of the pr...

Jig-Saw Man from Extractivism 2 by This Window Originally released on the 2007 CD of the same name, Jig‑Saw Man is one of those brief, surgical fragments that distils the core of This Window’s cut‑and‑splice aesthetic. Just over a minute long, it behaves like an opening incision: a jagged, flickering sound‑collage built from a dripping tap, a distant distorted guitar, and a boxed‑in vocal that feels half‑buried. Extractivism 2   Extractivism 2 by This Window Drawn from the project’s familiar palette of tape‑age textures, art‑rock abrasion and lo‑fi interference, Jig‑Saw Man plays like a puzzle assembling and unravelling in the same breath. It’s a miniature statement of intent — a reminder that This Window’s world is made of fragments, recovered moments, and ideas caught mid‑transformation. Appearing as Track 1 on the 2007 Jig‑Saw Man CD (M4TR Productions, m4tr005).