This Window

Their Gods This track, available as a (pre‑release) free limited edition mix , is an early preview of a forthcoming album planned for late autumn or early winter—a collection of new tracks shaped around memory, place, and the small moments that stay with you long after they’ve passed. It’s the kind of record that feels less like a statement and more like a return: to streets you used to know, to rooms where a certain light still lingers, to the quiet turns of life that don’t announce themselves as important in the moment, yet keep echoing anyway. Forthcoming Album: Introducing This Window At its core, the collection gathers ideas and half‑finished projects that were never resolved, set down, and in some cases nearly forgotten across the decades. These are fragments without spectacle—never dramatic or life‑altering, but quietly significant. The songs move through photographs that held more than what was captured, walks that changed nothing on paper but shifted ...

Available on eBay and Bandcamp The Sampler #05 was first issued in 2005 as a promotional release. Never intended as a formal album, it offered a glimpse into a collection of studio sketches, experiments and musical doodles gathered from the archives. This limited pressing of just 50 copies is housed in a simple cardboard sleeve, helping to keep both production and postage costs to a minimum. The recordings themselves have been rescued from ageing and obsolete formats, preserving a small but significant piece of underground music history. There is something fittingly ironic about these archival fragments surviving on another increasingly obsolete medium: the compact disc. The circle continues. Limited Edition Sampler CD — Finish The Story & This Window — Only £5.00 Factory-Pressed CD — Not a CDr • Limited Edition of 50 Available on eBay This scarce sampler CD brings together material from the archives of Finish The Story (FTS) and This Window, two projects w...

Breaking down the elements of a track has always been at the heart of the process. By splicing together both related and unrelated sounds, the goal is to create a soundscape that gradually evolves into something tangible: a piece of music with its own identity and atmosphere. A fragment of a message becomes a source of fascination, sparking the desire to decode, understand, and uncover meaning. It carries the belief that, if you listen closely enough, the truth might eventually reveal itself. Sounds stretch and collide against time, forming rhythms that blur the line between structure and abstraction. As the imagery becomes more fragmented and elusive, the experience takes on an increasingly otherworldly quality. A broken signal exists in a space between revelation and obscurity; it suggests that meaning is there, waiting to be found, while simultaneously reminding us that it may remain forever out of reach. Solace Dead Heart A new ...

2027 is shaping up to be a landmark year for This Window . If everything continues on schedule, TW will unveil a major new release across all streaming platforms — the most ambitious digital launch to date. This upcoming release marks a significant step forward, bringing decades of underground experimentation into a fully modern distribution landscape and opening the door to a wider global audience. You can still download our music for free on Bandcamp This Window has a long history of releasing music across Europe and the USA, with formats ranging from vinyl and cassette to CD and modern streaming platforms. The catalogue includes material recorded for Microsoft, Beggars Banquet and other labels. This Window is a hybrid space where sound, poetry, art-thinking, experimental method, and deliberate absurdity coexist. The poetic side provides intuition, metaphor, and atmosphere; the artistic side shapes form, perspective, and texture; the scientific impulse contrib...

HomeMovies – a starting point for an improvisation.  The video below comes from an 8mm home movie shot on the Isle of Wight in the early 1970s. Super 8mm cameras, introduced by Kodak in 1965, were designed for everyday use: lightweight, cartridge‑loaded, and simple enough for families to document holidays, gatherings, and the small moments that would otherwise disappear. Because the film stock was only 8mm wide, the resulting images were soft, grainy and unstable — a fragile analogue record of memory itself. This imperfect, flickering quality aligns beautifully with This Window ’s long‑standing process of using degraded media as a creative catalyst. The piece accompanying the footage, The Blue Lilo , was recorded live at Morgue Studios (Devon) on 16/10/2025. It is an improvised experimental work built around the Cre8 Audio East Beast and Moog Mavis, both of which trigger and interact with a wider modular synth setup. The performance drifts between structure and acci...

Morgue Studio Devon: East Beast Modular Upgrade Another module has been added to the expanding studio rack. This little machine is a dynamite addition to the synth arsenal – it has made an instant difference to the rest of the synth bank and will be a prominent feature of future recordings. Cre8 audio's The East Beast is a compact, East‑coast–style subtractive monophonic synthesizer designed to bridge classic analog character with modern modular flexibility. Whether used as a standalone desktop instrument or integrated into a Eurorack system, it offers a deep, hands‑on workflow that encourages exploration, patching, and generative experimentation. Control and Playability At its core, the East Beast is controllable via MIDI , CV , and its own integrated button keyboard , giving players multiple ways to interact with the instrument. The onboard keyboard doubles as a performance tool and a sequencer inter...

 Philips EL1976/00 Dynamic Microphone This Philips EL1976/00 was recently rediscovered in a garden shed, decades after first being supplied with a Philips reel‑to‑reel tape machine. Its original wiring has now been replaced with coaxial cable and a 1/4" jack plug, giving the microphone a new lease of life in the studio. Despite its modest design, this mic has become a reliable choice for recording vocals. Its naturally narrow dynamic range lends itself to rough, raw vocal takes—perfect for capturing ideas quickly or adding a gritty, unpolished character to a track. The Philips EL1976/00 is a compact dynamic table microphone produced around 1970 by Philips in Eindhoven. Designed for use with Philips tape recorders and other domestic audio equipment, it reflects the company’s move toward lightweight, modern plastics rather than earlier bakelite or catalin housings. The microphone has a distinctive small block shape, slightly leaning backwards when placed on a surface. On t...

Solace Dead Heart is a new visual piece created as an homage to the collage and assemblage work of Robert Rauschenberg . His approach to layering fragments, distressed textures, found materials and half‑erased memories has always resonated with the ethos of This Window . This video follows that lineage: a drifting collage of surfaces, glitches, shadows and emotional residue, 8mm home movie, stitched together in a way that feels fragile. Listen to more The soundtrack is an excerpt from a longer electronic composition that will appear on a new This Window release in 2027 . The full piece moves through cold pulses, analogue drift, and slow‑burn tension, but this short extract captures the heart of it — a sense of suspended time, mechanical breath, and the quiet ache of repetition. Solace Dissected Sonically, the track sits somewhere between synthwave minimalism , goth electronics and darkwave a...

...from Extractivism , track released April 28, 2026. An excerpt from This Window, recorded at Morgue Studios in 2026. “Gone Like the Whispers of Silent Clouds” Musically, it occupies the borderlands where darkwave, minimal synth, post‑industrial and experimental gothic overlap. The foundation is a slow, deliberate pulse: brooding synth beds, cold atmospheres, and vocals that lean toward spoken word rather than song. The arrangement stays sparse and intentional — minimal electronics, icy textures, and non‑pop structures that echo the ethos of the 1980s cassette‑culture underground. Extractivism by This Window Listen on Bandcamp “Gone Like the Whispers of Silent Clouds” unfolds like a drifting, half‑remembered dream — a fragment that feels discovered rather than composed, as if recovered from a damaged tape. The video blends AI‑generated imagery with Super 8 home‑movie fragments, forming a collage that ...

This track is about how, when relationships turn sour, criticism sometimes becomes the weapon of choice. When relationships turn sour, criticism often mutates into something far more corrosive than simple disagreement. It stops being a way to understand each other and becomes a way to score hits, a quiet kind of warfare waged in kitchens, bedrooms, and text threads. What once was tenderness turns tactical; every flaw becomes evidence, every misstep a chance to reclaim ground that feels lost. People who once protected each other’s soft spots start aiming for them instead, not always out of malice but out of fear — fear of losing control, fear of being the one who cared more, fear of admitting the hurt underneath. And so criticism becomes the weapon of choice: easy to reach for, quick to deploy, and devastating in its accuracy, because no one knows where to cut like someone who once loved you. ...

This snippet from an interview reveals the experimental methodology of This Window. Early encounters with Roxy Music’s art‑school disruption and The Faust Tapes ’ radical tape collage showed that sound could be treated as raw material — something to manipulate, fracture, and rebuild. These moments shaped a way of working where process mattered as much as outcome. As the project developed, modest home‑taping equipment became central to that approach. A reel‑to‑reel and budget cassette recorder encouraged experimentation through limitation, turning noise, accidents, and mechanical quirks into creative tools. This introduction sets the stage for understanding how those formative influences evolved into the distinctive, hands‑on methods explored throughout this article. Extraction 1989 by This Window Published on: The Living Archive of Underground Music " If you sat me down and asked me what were the main reasons for getting involved in this emotionally draining and so...

“The Dark Ages” began life as nothing more than a test track—an excuse to fire up the studio’s evolving synth setup and see how the new modular configuration behaved under pressure. What started as a technical experiment quickly grew into something far more evocative, with the patching centred around two modular Eurorack banks loaded with Moog, cre8audio, Datapoint and Doepfer modules, each adding its own flavour of instability, warmth, and controlled chaos. A revised version of this track is due for release in 2027 There has always been a darker side to This Window ’s music, perhaps influenced by its association with the Goth scene and being in a support band for Bauhaus . The Dark Ages The track is a nostalgic look back to the old days—some of them good, and quite a few of them best forgotten. Alongside the modular synth sat the Panasonic SX‑KC600, a humble keyboard/synth that had been dragged out of retirement. Despite its budget‑friendly origins, the SX‑KC600 still de...

Limited Edition Sampler CD — Finish The Story & This Window — Only £5.00 Factory‑Pressed CD — Not a CDr • Limited Edition of 50 Available on eBay This scarce sampler CD brings together archive material from Finish The Story (FTS) and This Window , two projects rooted in the UK’s early 1980s post‑punk and cassette‑culture underground. Finish The Story formed in Evesham in 1981 and quickly became known for their intense, unpredictable live shows. Their debut performance at The Phoenix Club, supporting The Dancing Did, was reviewed in ZigZag magazine: “Finish the Story’s debut gig was better than the second coming of Jesus Christ.” Despite only a handful of gigs, FTS headlined in cities like London, Birmingham, Bristol and Exeter, and supported The Cure at Hammersmith Odeon . Their first official release appeared on Gunfire and Pianos (SITU 17), alongside Psychic TV, Jazz Butcher and All About Eve. A version of this release, Like ...

Free Download Albums from This Window Hopeless 1989 – 2026 is a free five-track digital compilation from This Window, offering an accessible introduction to the UK-based project’s distinctive world of experimental electronics, darkwave, synthwave, and cassette-inspired sound. Download For Free Spanning recordings made between 1989 and 2026, the release brings together early analogue experiments, tape-based fragments, and newer digitally produced material. Tracks such as “Sweet Charity,” “I Shimmer,” “Between Two Waves,” “Gone Are the Days of You and I,” and “Morning” reveal a project shaped by shifting technologies and decades of creative exploration. Rather than presenting itself as a conventional greatest-hits collection, Hopeless 1989 – 2026 works as a sonic cross-section of This Window: part archive, part sketchbook, and part contemporary statement. The contrast between tape hiss, saturation, atmospheric textures, and cleaner digital production gives t...

Snake Oil? Modular synthesis promises freedom, but it also hides a minefield of inflated pricing, brand-driven hype, and unnecessary premium modules. Morgue Studio in Devon—home of This Window— has spent decades navigating those traps, choosing a hybrid path that blends affordable modern Eurorack with rugged CV/Gate machines from the 1980s. Brand Tax and Overpriced Utilities One of the biggest problems in modular synthesis is the extortionate pricing some companies attach to simple utilities. A module that does nothing more than split a signal, invert a CV, or provide a basic mixer can cost several times more than an equivalent unit from a smaller manufacturer. This isn’t about quality; it’s about branding. Many boutique makers charge premium prices for modules that are functionally identical to cheaper alternatives. The Illusion of Exclusivity Some manufacturers cultivate exclusivity through limited runs, artist panels, or modules marketed as essenti...

 „This Is Not The Way It Should Be“ — Eine langsam brennende Klage mit Reggae‑Puls „This Is Not the Way It Should Be“ ist um eine warme, reggae‑gefärbte Basslinie gebaut, gespielt von Peter Bright. Das Tieftonfundament rollt mit leiser Beharrlichkeit nach vorn und drückt gegen ein Arrangement, das sich ansonsten in Richtung gothischer Minimalismus neigt. Diese Spannung – Wärme unter Kälte, Bewegung unter Stillstand – wird zum emotionalen Motor des Stücks. Die Instrumentierung ist bewusst spärlich gehalten. Skelettartige Percussion hält die Zeit wie ein Herzschlag, der durch eine Wand dringt. Schattenhafte Synths treiben hinein und hinaus, mehr Präsenz als Melodie. Ein wütender Klavierakkord durchschneidet den Mix, ein Aufblitzen menschlicher Frustration in einer ansonsten gedämpften Klanglandschaft. Darüber liegt ein Gesangsvortrag, der traurig, karg und unverkennbar Cohen‑esk ist: halb gesprochen, halb gesungen, getragen vom Gewicht dessen, was längst verloren...

„This Is War“ wurde zwischen 2025–2026 im Morgue Studio (Devon) geschrieben und aufgenommen. Das Album setzt auf analoge Rauheit, minimale Synth‑Impulse und die strenge Ästhetik des Darkwave. Seine Lo‑Fi‑Texturen – Rauschen, Brummen und spröde Drum‑Machines – sind bewusst eingesetzt und verstärken Themen wie Desillusionierung , instabile Realität und den psychologischen „Krieg“. Im gesamten Album nutzt This Window fragmentarische, tagebuchartige Texte, um spirituelle Unruhe, Machtverhältnisse und emotionale Erschöpfung zu erforschen. Stücke wie „Lay Back“ , „Blue Eyes“ und „Where Is My Jesus?“ vertiefen das Gefühl von Konfrontation und Resignation. Review: “This Is War” – This Window  This Is War distils the tension between love and hate into a stark, two‑minute confrontation. Relationships fracture when dreams diverge, and the song captures that moment when compromise becomes impossible. It’s emotional conflict rendered with the brevity of a warning shot. Written...

Download Here  There has always been a darker undercurrent running through This Window’s music, shaped partly by its early association with the Goth and post-punk scenes — including time as support act for Bauhaus , whose shadowy theatricality left a lasting imprint. Tracks like Where Is My Jesus show how that influence persisted: devotional unease, a sense of spiritual dislocation wrapped in cold, minimal structures. Morgue Studio amplifies that atmosphere. Its analogue machines introduce grit and instability, its digital tools stretch voices into spectral shapes, and its modular systems generate pulses that feel more like heartbeat and ritual than rhythm. The result is a sound that is unmistakably This Window — intimate, unsettling, and carved from both circuitry and memory. “ Where Is My Jesus? ” by This Window is a haunting, experimental track recorded in 2008 at Morgue Studio. The song is known for its stark, minimalist instrumentation and emotionally raw...

Between Two Waves  Between Two Waves drifts in on a slow analogue swell, its synth tones rising and folding like a tide gathering intent. The opening carries that familiar Woolacombe hush — the suspended moment before a set rolls in, when the sea seems to inhale. It’s a weightless pulse, the same poised stillness felt sitting on a board just beyond the break, waiting for the Atlantic to decide what comes next.  Hopeless 1989 - 2026 by This Window Download For Free Gradually, the pulse tightens. Layers thicken. The sound begins to lean forward, mirroring the way a wave starts to steep and harden, pulling its energy into a single line. Living in Woolacombe — a place where the ocean doesn’t simply arrive but asserts itself — teaches you to read that shift. Calm surface becomes gathering power, and the track follows that same physics. What begins as a drifting shimmer locks into a 120bpm surge , the moment where the wave stands up and everything accelerates. A...

Review: “Lay Back” – This Is War “Lay Back” unfolds like a half-lit confession, its pulse slow and deliberate, as though each beat is a breath taken between memories. 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. It feels less like homage and more like a continuation of the same emotional architecture: a place where intimacy is always shadowed by doubt, and where desire is never cleanly separated from the ache that follows it. 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. There’s a sense of someone trying to articulate something fragile without letting it break in their hands. The instrumentation is sparse but deliberate — synth tones and low, percussive murmurs that feel like the hum of a radiator ...