As well as the annual Audioscope all-day festival, which will this year take place on Saturday 10 November at the Jericho in Oxford, the Audioscope team have put together a new compilation which will be released on 1 October.
The compilation, called Music For A Good Home 2, follows up on two previously-released Audioscope compilations, and this time the collection will be available exclusively as a digital download costing just a few pounds. The 40-track monster compilation features new and exclusive tracks from a wide selection of artists who have played at and supported Audioscope over the years.
As well as some of Oxford’s top talent such as Gunning For Tamar, Message To Bears, The Cellar Family, The Half Rabbits, The Rock Of Travolta and Listing Ships, Music For A Good Home 2 features tracks from internationally-renowned artists including Four Tet, Wire, Karma To Burn and Beak>.
The full track listing is as follows:
- Four Tet – Audioscope (exclusive)
- Wire – Moreover (live in Lausanne) (exclusive)
- Listing Ships – American Steam Company (exclusive)
- Boxcutter – Cheetah Dub (exclusive)
- Felix – Circus (exclusive)
- Warm Digits – Sleep Thieves (exclusive)
- Fujiya & Miyagi – Coe’s Toes (exclusive)
- Beak> – 0898
- The Telescopes – Dead Already (exclusive)
- Richard Walters – Something Once Beat (exclusive)
- Deco Child – Southpaw (exclusive)
- Karma To Burn – Jimmy D (Slight Reprise) (exclusive)
- Ride – Moonlight Medicine (Portishead remix) (deleted and unavailable elsewhere)
- Rome Pays Off – I Can’t Take You Home… (exclusive)
- SJ Esau – Why Angry? (exclusive)
- Action Beat – Toad (exclusive)
- Coloureds – Ted Nelson (exclusive)
- Mugstar – Bardo Head (exclusive)
- Karhide – Rough Sleep (exclusive)
- The Workhouse – Before I Go To Sleep (exclusive)
- Gunning For Tamar – Astronaut/Abort (LukuS remix) (exclusive)
- The Half Rabbits – Mayday (exclusive)
- Laura Moody – Oh Mother
- Kogumaza – Sevens (deleted and unavailable elsewhere)
- Flights of Helios – Dynah & Donalogue (Message To Bears remix) (exclusive)
- Phil McMinn – The General (exclusive)
- Dethscalator – Aids Atlas (exclusive)
- Kill Murray – Pheromones (exclusive)
- Ice, Sea, Dead People – Styes In My Eyes (live at Lost Toys) (exclusive)
- The Rock of Travolta – Loose Lips Sink Ships (exclusive)
- Caretaker – Yeehah (exclusive)
- Alright The Captain – Honey Badger (Karhide Sleepless Nights remix) (exclusive)
- The Cellar Family – Someone New (exclusive)
- Magnetophone – All She Could Find (exclusive)
- Spectrum – Feels Like I’m Slipping Away (remastered) (exclusive)
- Talons – St Mary Will Be The Death Of Us All
- ute – Dissolve (exclusive)
- Message To Bears – Opus 1 (exclusive)
- Sennen – Fucrates (exclusive)
- The Victorian English Gentlemen’s Club – I Want You Dead
Music For A Good Home 2 will be available through Bandcamp from 1 October. Join the Audioscope mailing list at their website to be informed as soon as it’s released, and also to keep up with plans for the all-day Audioscope festival in November.
There’ll be a launch gig for Music For A Good Home 2 at the Wheatsheaf in Oxford on Friday 14 September, featuring Felix, The Cellar Family and The Half Rabbits. Tickets are £5 and all profits will be donated to Shelter. Tickets are available here.