This Window

Extractivism 2 — This Window Extractivism 2 gathers a new set of unreleased material from This Window , alongside rediscovered fragments and freshly reworked pieces. It marks another turn in the long, shifting trajectory of a project that has lived on the outer edges of experimental music since the early 1980s. Born out of the UK’s cassette‑culture underground, This Window has always occupied the margins: part post‑industrial, part minimal synth, part sound‑art, part lo‑fi experiment. Across decades of tapes, vinyl, CD‑Rs and digital releases, the project has remained stubbornly independent, favouring texture, atmosphere and emotional undercurrents over conventional structures. The tools and surfaces have changed—from rough four‑track recordings to more sculpted electronic work—but the ethos has never moved: intimate, handmade, exploratory. Extractivism 2 continues that lineage. These tracks—newly uncovered, re‑edited or reimagined—trace the project’s ongoing evolution while retainin...

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 1990s 'Cassette Culture'....

  “ Is This Custer’s Last Stand? ” arrives like a warning flare — a jam‑packed jamboree of big, room‑shaking drums and overdriven guitars, all pushing forward with a kind of ragged determination. The vocal doesn’t shout; it asks. Almost under its breath, almost to itself: is this truly our last stand. The track sits somewhere between protest song and apocalyptic chant. The lyrics circle around collapse, identity, and the uneasy sense that history repeats whether we want it to or not. "as bottles on the racks are all full, inscribed with names but all faceless…” — a line that feels like a whole civilisation has been preserved, catalogued, and depersonalised. Extractivism by This Window The title nods toward the Battle of the Little Bighorn — Custer’s Last Stand — a moment mythologised, misremembered, and endlessly repurposed. But here it’s not about 1876. It’s about now: the sense of being outnumbered by events, outpaced by change, pushed to the edge of something we can’t quite nam...

This Album is completely free - no registration or email address required Hopeless 1988 - 2026 by This Window Hopeless 1988 - 2026 - Free!! Free Download This free digital compilation on Bandcamp, created as an open‑door introduction to the world of This Window. It gathers material recorded across nearly four decades, tracing the project’s evolution from its earliest cassette‑culture experiments to its current digital work. The tracks span sessions made on compact cassette and ¼‑inch reel‑to‑reel tape through to computer‑based recording and rendering. Heard together, they form a quiet documentary of changing methods, technologies and aesthetics — from analogue hiss and tape saturation to the cleaner, sculpted edges of digital production. Rather than a “best of”, it’s a cross‑section: fragments, sketches, finished pieces and recovered moments that map the shifting sound of This Window from 1988 right up to 2026. As a free download, it offers a simple way for new listeners to step into t...

  The Goat — A Study in Outsider Compilation Culture Buy On Discogs A Various‑Artists Release With a Curatorial Edge Although technically a “Various Artists” release, The Goat feels curated rather than assembled. Each track contributes a distinct texture — from abrasive electronics to lo‑fi guitar sketches, from rhythmic experiments to atmospheric drift pieces. The sequencing is deliberate: the compilation moves like a mixtape made by someone with a deep affection for the obscure and the overlooked. Rather than smoothing the edges, the release celebrates them. The result is a portrait of a scene that doesn’t quite exist in one place, but emerges through shared sensibilities: independence, experimentation, and a refusal to conform to commercial expectations. Side A   A1. Mike Shirra with P.B. – Tonight A2. This Window – A Collection Of Pieces Of Tape Edited Together Side B   B1. Selfs Without Shells – Lived You Before B2. Selfs Without Shells – 2000 Years B3. S...

Cassette Culture transferred to CD in 2005 This is a genuine, factory‑pressed CD — not a CDr.The material was first issued in 2005; this edition is a strictly limited run of 50 copies. The cover artwork is a stripped‑back variant of the original commissioned design, created specifically to echo the minimalist, hand‑assembled aesthetic of the early This Window cassette culture releases.  Buy Here Tracklist & Recording / Release Dates Trapped In The Hometown - FTS - 1990 (3.45) Don't Think I Can Make It - TW - 2002 (1.55) Ciao Again - TW - 2005 (2.50) A Moment Longer - TW - 1996 (3.21) Crash87 - TW - 1989 (0.48) Playing At Life - FTS - 1985/86  (3.08) Solace - FTS - 1990 (4.06) Like A Sickle Runs Through Corn - FTS - 1985 (3.02) Naked - TW - 2005 (3.25) Nepal - TW - 1989 (4.37) Ripples In The Water - FTS - 1985 (1.15) Reviews “Finish The Story are one of Worcestershire's lost bands. Sinister, brooding, icy, haunting and ethereal - their music was like nothing else at the tim...