‘Altnow’ by Govrmint

Day 22 of PopLib’s May Month of Madness Marathon for NZ Music Month comes from Dunedin’s experimental electronic underground and a track called “Altnow” from the brilliant Govermint album “Pipe DRM”

PopLib discovered the Pipe DRM album a few months ago and also managed to snare one of the 12 copies of the album cut direct to vinyl. It is an absolute treasure.

There may be no more vinyl version around, but it is still worth your time and dollars for a download. It is one of my favourite albums of 2015.

“All These Conditions” by Govrmint

“All These Conditions” is a sweetly dislocated slice of ambient glitch sound-collage from Dunedin ensemble Govrmint.

Dunedin’s experimental/electronic music underground is a clandestine world of of it’s own. A new generation of sound-makers operate as Charisma Collective. The Charisma Collective Bandcamp page is where I stumbled across Govrmint’s “Pipe DRM” but Govrmint also have their own Bandcamp.

The whole album is wonderful. A familiar reference point may be Boards of Canada, but Govrmint operate like a futuristic laptop glitch advancement of that kind of oddly dislocating (mis)use of sound and samples. Check out the glorious “Altnow” for another poke in the third eye.