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A Moment Longer

2026-06-05T12:27:58.695+01:00

Hopeless 1988 - 2026 by This Window

A Moment Longer is now available to download.

An analogue fantasy

"A Moment Longer" unfolds from that simple description into something far more evocative and immersive: a slow‑breathing rhythmic synth pulse acting as the heartbeat, a bass line laid across it like a warm weight, and a guitar that drifts in and out of the frame, sometimes melodic, sometimes textural, always slightly out of reach. This sonic tapestry creates a sense of suspension—neither fully grounded nor entirely dreamlike—imbuing the track with a soft, ethereal pull toward intimacy that draws the listener in.

The composition reads as a quiet confession, a tender nod to love and the act of making love, capturing those fragile seconds where time seems to stretch and the body becomes its own landscape. There’s an undeniable tenderness woven into the arrangement, evoking a sense of holding on to a fleeting moment that’s already slipping away, a delicate balance between presence and longing.

Originally captured on an 8‑track analogue tape machine, the piece carries the warmth, hiss, and physicality characteristic of its era. The mixdown to a Revox PR99 preserved that analogue depth—slight saturation, rounded transients, and the organic imperfections that define early‑90s cassette culture, lending the track an authentic vintage texture.

Remastered - a punchier bass

Digitally remastered in 2026, the track now sits with enhanced clarity and spatial definition, yet it retains the tactile, hand‑made quality of its original form. This careful restoration allows the emotional core of the piece to shine through with renewed vibrancy, bridging the gap between past and present while honouring the track’s timeless essence.

A Nice Big Cock

2026-06-03T14:11:04.362+01:00

The Cock by This Window

Taken from a forthcoming album, The Cock blends together audio source material recorded throughout the 1980s — fragments captured on compact cassette, ¼‑inch reel‑to‑reel tape, and even a VHS handheld video camera.

In 2026 these elements were pulled back into the light and rebuilt inside a new project using an older DAW, Cubase Studio 4 (version released in 2007) giving the piece a strange mix of analogue grit and early‑digital workflow.

Pumping synth pulses throb like a buried heartbeat, while a lone cockerel crows somewhere in the background — a ragged echo from a world long gone. It feels like an archaeological dig in sound: the unearthing of a chicken that once was somebody’s lunch, now elevated to relic status. A forgotten scrap of everyday life, resurrected through tape hiss, broken circuitry, and the accidental poetry of decay.

Free downloads and more music: https://thiswindow.bandcamp.com/

The Cock feels like opening a sealed time‑capsule from the British underground—except the contents aren’t neatly preserved; they’re warped, sun‑bleached, and beautifully contaminated by the decades they’ve survived. The video description notes that the piece is built from audio fragments recorded throughout the 1980s. The tape medium isn’t just the container here—it’s the instrument.

Sound & Texture

The track is a collage in the truest sense:

Tape hiss becomes rhythm
Dropouts become punctuation
Mechanical noise becomes atmosphere

Rather than smoothing the edges, This Window leans into the abrasions. The result is a soundscape that feels both archival and alive—like something that shouldn’t still exist, yet insists on doing so.

There’s a sense of accidental music, but it’s too intentional to be accidental. The pacing, the layering, the way certain frequencies bloom and collapse—this is someone who understands how to sculpt with decay.

The mood is unsettling in a way that’s oddly comforting. It evokes:

abandoned industrial spaces
late‑night pirate radio
the private, unfiltered experiments of early DIY culture

It’s not nostalgic; it’s haunted. The piece doesn’t recreate the 1980s—it resurrects the ghosts of its machines.

The accidental poetry of decay...

This Window has always occupied that liminal zone between post‑industrial, sound‑art, and lo‑fi experimentation. The Cock fits squarely into that tradition, but with a clarity of intent that makes it feel like a summation of decades of practice. It’s a reminder that the underground wasn’t just a scene—it was a method, a way of listening.

Extractivism 2 — This Window

2026-06-02T12:44:56.894+01:00

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 retaining the unmistakable fingerprints of This Window’s world: shadows, static, memory, and the quiet intensity of ideas caught in the moment.

Extractivism 2 by This Window

The Girl in the Black Bikini

from the album

Here the lyrics carry the emotional weight, while the music (as heard in the accompanying YouTube video) holds back with a kind of deliberate restraint. Sparse instrumentation lets the words breathe, the imagery settling like sand on skin. The pacing mirrors the poem’s rhythm—unhurried, reflective, quietly cinematic.

Symbolism & Tone

This Window draws on distinctly British motifs—the English rose, striped deckchairs, the pink bow—to summon a cultural memory of beauty and seaside nostalgia. But the tone avoids sentimentality. Instead, it leans toward reflection and gentle mourning, aware that the moment described is already dissolving, like the sand imprint that “soon [is] erased.”

Background on early recordings

Several of the tracks on this release began their journey on cassette tape. The experimental music project This Window developed during a period when compact‑cassette recorders and ¼‑inch reel‑to‑reel machines were central to underground music production. These devices were widely available, affordable, and adaptable, forming the backbone of home‑studio culture. Cassette recorders ranged from simple portable units to more advanced multitrack systems such as the Tascam Portastudio, which allowed musicians to layer tracks, bounce recordings, and shape sound with a degree of control previously limited to professional studios.

For artists like This Window, these machines were not just tools but creative partners. The limitations of tape — hiss, saturation, drop‑outs, mechanical noise — became part of the aesthetic. Cassette recorders, including portable mono units and more sophisticated multitrack decks, offered a tactile, hands‑on approach to sound. Their accessibility meant that recordings could be made anywhere: bedrooms, kitchens, rehearsal rooms, or improvised studios.

Alongside cassettes, ¼‑inch reel‑to‑reel recorders provided higher fidelity and greater dynamic range. Many musicians used them for master mixes or for capturing performances before transferring material to cassette for duplication and distribution. The combination of reel‑to‑reel clarity and cassette‑based texture created a hybrid sound characteristic of the era’s DIY experimental work.

The availability of these machines — from consumer cassette recorders sold through mainstream retailers to more advanced multitrack units found on second‑hand markets — helped sustain a vibrant culture of low‑cost production. Listings for devices such as Tascam Portastudios, Yamaha MT‑series decks, and various portable cassette recorders show how widespread and varied this equipment was, reflecting the tools that shaped the sonic world in which This Window operated.

Through these technologies, This Window produced recordings that captured the raw, intimate, and often textural qualities of analogue tape. The project’s sound — shaped by the quirks of cassette mechanisms and the warmth of ¼‑inch tape — stands as a document of an era when creativity thrived on constraint, and when the simplest machines could open the widest experimental possibilities.

Free Music Downloads!!!

2026-05-29T13:33:09.787+01:00

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Hopeless 1988 - 2026 by This Window

Hopeless 1988 - 2026 - Free!!

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 the catalogue and for long‑time followers to revisit the project’s long, strange arc.

Free Music

2026-05-28T15:10:42.984+01:00

Limited Offer...

Click the button below for a free download of This Is War — the new 2026 album by This Window, provided exclusively via Bandcamp. This is a limited giveaway, so it’s strictly first come, first served.

This Is War is a nine‑track darkwave/post‑punk release built from analogue electronics, stark minimalism, and the unmistakable DIY edge that has defined This Window since the early cassette‑culture days. Written and recorded at Morgue Studios (Devon) between 2025–2026, the album captures a raw, restless energy: fractured beats, cold synths, and a sense of tension that never quite resolves.

Featuring tracks such as “This Is War,” “Lay Back,” “Blue Eyes,” “Where Is My Jesus?” and the 2026 re‑imagining of “Is It A Dream”, this release sits firmly in the lineage of experimental UK underground music — uncompromising, atmospheric, and fiercely independent.

This free‑download offer applies to the album here: This Is War

Going Crazy Video

2026-05-25T13:59:25.891+01:00

Here is a promo video for a forthcoming release called:

An English Eccentric – 1980/81: Contextualising Early Cassette Works by Peter Bright

An English Eccentric – 1980/81 comprises a series of cassette recordings presented in their original, unedited form. These recordings were not conceived as works for public dissemination; rather, they functioned as working notes, provisional sketches and exploratory fragments. Their preservation of tape hiss, mechanical instability and environmental noise situates them within the material conditions of early domestic recording practices, offering insight into the creative processes that preceded later formal outputs.

Between 1980 and 1981, Peter Bright was simultaneously involved in several experimental music projects, including T.34, In A Glass Darkly, and Finish The Story. The recordings gathered here were produced in the interstices of these activities — often late at night or in the liminal hours surrounding rehearsals and performances. As such, they occupy a space between documentation and experimentation, reflecting the porous boundaries between projects and the fluidity characteristic of the period’s independent music practices.

These works emerge from, and contribute to, the broader cassette‑culture underground, an international network of musicians, artists and small‑scale distributors who utilised home‑dubbing, mail‑order catalogues and fanzines to circulate sound outside the commercial music industry. Scholars have noted that cassette culture enabled a decentralised mode of production and exchange, privileging immediacy, informality and material contingency. Bright’s recordings exemplify these dynamics, foregrounding the aesthetic and social significance of low‑fidelity media.

The period also coincided with the flourishing of the mail‑art movement, in which artists exchanged sound, text, collage and ephemera through postal networks. Many of the recordings included in this collection travelled through these same circuits: tapes, notes and experimental fragments were mailed between collaborators across the UK, particularly between the Midlands and the South West. The temporal delay inherent in postal exchange — the anticipation, the physical handling of materials, the incremental accumulation of correspondence — became an integral component of the creative process. In this sense, the recordings function not only as sonic artefacts but also as documents of a communication system that shaped artistic production.

All tracks have been recorded using a Tascam 144 Portastudio, a domestic Philips reel‑to‑reel, and a basic cassette recorder.

This Is Not the Way It Should Be - Download

2026-05-23T13:27:09.989+01:00

This Is War by This Window

A track from 'This Is War' an album that was written and recorded at Morgue Studio (Devon) between 2025 and 2026. All tracks were mixed down April - May 2026.

“This Is Not the Way It Should Be” — A Slow‑Burn Lament with a Reggae Pulse

“This Is Not the Way It Should Be” is built around a warm, reggae‑inflected bassline played by Peter Bright, the track’s low‑end rolls forward with a quiet insistence, pushing against an arrangement that otherwise leans toward gothic minimalism. That tension — warmth beneath coldness, movement beneath stillness — becomes the song’s emotional engine.

The instrumentation is deliberately sparse. Skeletal percussion keeps time like a heartbeat heard through a wall. Shadow‑leaning synths drift in and out of frame, more presence than melody. An angry piano chord punctuates the mix, a flash of human frustration in an otherwise subdued landscape. Over it all sits a vocal delivery that is sad, stark, and unmistakably Cohen‑esque: half‑spoken, half‑sung, carrying the weight of something already lost.

Lyrically, the song traces the slow collapse of a relationship through repetition, erosion, and emotional weathering. The refrain — “This is not the way things should be” — becomes both mantra and indictment, a line that shifts meaning each time it returns. The imagery is intimate and domestic: fading footsteps, creaking floors, whispered truths swallowed before they can reshape the air. Silence becomes a force in the room, a pressure that neither person can name without breaking the fragile peace.

By the final verse, the song abandons any pretence of repair. Shame settles like dust; honesty arrives stripped of comfort. What remains is a portrait of two people standing in the ruins of something once held with tenderness.

“This Is Not the Way It Should Be” is less a conventional song and more a mood‑piece — wounded, intimate, and quietly confrontational. Its subtle reggae pulse gives the darkness a heartbeat, a reminder that even in emotional collapse, something still moves, still breathes, still refuses to disappear.

Top 100 in the World Charts

2026-05-22T11:10:25.684+01:00

There's plenty of life left in these old dogs...

This Window has been around the block more than a few times on this mad, decades‑long creative journey — from cassette‑culture experiments to digital‑age reinventions. Yet somehow, against all logic and trend cycles, this eccentric, outsider strain of sound still resonates. Proof landed today: This Window has broken into a global Top 100 chart of alternative artists, a reminder that true independence and stubborn originality can outlast entire musical eras.

Not bad for a project that was never supposed to fit neatly anywhere.

This Is War by This Window

This Window returns with This Is War, a compact, bruising collection that condenses the project’s restless experimentalism into nine tracks of darkwave, post‑punk, and analogue electronics. The album moves quickly — nine songs in just over half an hour — but each cut is carefully sculpted, trading immediate hooks for atmosphere and a sense of controlled unease.

The majority of This Is War was written and recorded at Morgue Studios in Devon across 2025 and 2026. The sessions yield a record that feels both intimate and deliberately claustrophobic: synth textures and analogue grit sit close to the listener, while guitars and percussion are often mixed to accentuate tension rather than release. All tracks were mixed down in April–May 2026, and the album was released in late May 2026.

Download or Listen

Available on thiswindow.bandcamp.com

Extraction 1989 - Download - Cassette Culture

2026-05-19T10:34:03.243+01:00

Extraction 1989 by This Window

Extraction — originally released by EE Tapes (ET06) in 1989 — returns here as a digital transfer from the original master tape. The material itself has a strangely archaeological quality: fragments literally gathered from the studio floor, lengths of ¼” tape spliced together, threaded through whatever machines were at hand, and mixed in a semi‑random, instinctive manner. Some of these sounds reach even further back, with source elements dating to 1978.

This download is sourced from the original master. Extraction pt.1 has been edited for language compliance, making this version suitable for all ages.

Review of original cassette release:

★ THIS WINDOW – “EXTRACTION” (EE Tapes, Belgium, 1989)

C60 / experimental electronics, tape‑manipulation, post‑industrial ambience

There’s a peculiar tension running through Extraction, the sort of uneasy stillness you only get when someone has spent far too long alone with a reel‑to‑reel machine. This Window (UK) works in that grey zone between sound‑art and song‑form, but never commits fully to either. Instead, the tape becomes the instrument: loops grind against each other, fragments of voice drift in like intercepted transmissions, and the whole thing feels as if it’s been assembled in a room where the lights keep flickering.

The production is raw in the best possible way—close‑mic’d hiss, mechanical hum, and the sense of physical tape being pushed to its limits. EE Tapes have been curating some of the more interesting European underground electronics lately, and this fits their aesthetic perfectly: minimal, slightly claustrophobic, and quietly obsessive.

Side A leans toward rhythmic decay—patterns that almost become beats before collapsing back into texture. Side B is more atmospheric, with long stretches of treated guitar and environmental noise that suggest abandoned industrial spaces or late‑night shortwave drift. Nothing here is flashy; everything is deliberate.

What makes Extraction stand out is its restraint. Where many home‑tapers throw everything into the mix, This Window pares things back to the essentials: tone, texture, repetition, and the slow erosion of sound. It’s music that doesn’t try to impress you; it just sits in the room and alters the temperature.

A strange, absorbing little document from someone clearly committed to the craft of tape.

The early experiences of the audio mail art scene by Peter Bright (artist, 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 sometimes very unrewarding ARTFORM called ‘home taping’, then I would say two things:

In the early 1970’s when I was about 13 or 14 years old I loved ‘Motown’ and ‘Led Zeppelin’ (my music tastes were very eclectic). In the UK there was a TV show called ‘Top of the Pops’, which shaped the adolescent pop culture. The stars appeared on a Thursday night and lip-synched to their hits. Then one night (1972) a band called ‘Roxy Music’ appeared and turned the whole thing on its head. I can still see the performance in my mind’s eye. I had suddenly been exposed to ‘Art School Rock’. They were remarkably radical, different musically and visually.
Around the same time (1973) an album was released on ‘Virgin Records’ called ‘The Faust Tapes’. This was a marketing experiment which had a retail price of 49 pence (UK) – so lots of people bought it and a lot of people threw it into the trash. The German band Faust were without a record deal and their producer Uwe Nettlebeck gave these tapes to Virgin for free. These apparently thrown together bits of tape noises, sounds, songs etc. were all mangled together – well, that is what most people thought. In reality it was an exceptionally well crafted piece of work and was the inspiration for my EEtapes release ‘Extraction’ in 1989.

These two things combined with going to Art School eventually got me involved in experimenting with recorded sound. The first machines I used were a Phillips reel to reel and a budget priced cassette recorder.

Extractivism by This Window

2026-05-17T20:12:27.423+01:00

Extractivism by This Window

She Wolf by This Window is a haunting, powerful anthem of feminine strength and primal loyalty. With the evocative line “Not born from God but from the earth. I am a she wolf and I protect my family,” the track channels the spirit of a woman forged not by divine decree but by raw nature—fierce, grounded, and unapologetically protective.

Extractivism by This Window

Formed within the UK’s cassette‑culture underground, This Window has always operated in the borderlands: part post‑industrial, part minimal synth, part sound‑art, part lo‑fi experimentation. Across decades of tapes, vinyl, CD‑Rs and digital releases, the project has remained defiantly independent, favouring texture, atmosphere and emotional undercurrents over conventional song structures. The sound has shifted with each era — from raw four‑track recordings to more sculpted electronic work — but the ethos has stayed constant: intimate, handmade, exploratory.

She Wolf by This Window

This is the story of a beautiful young woman who stands guard over those she loves, not out of duty but instinct. Her strength is not ornamental—it’s elemental. The music pulses with tribal rhythms and cinematic tension, echoing the heartbeat of someone who knows what it means to fight for love, to howl against injustice, and to remain wild in a world that demands tameness.

Extractivism by This Window

New Download Album Released

Extractivism by This Window

12 tracks for only £4.00

This collection continues that lineage. These tracks, newly uncovered or reworked, map the project’s ongoing evolution while retaining the unmistakable fingerprints of This Window’s world: shadows, static, memory, and the quiet intensity of ideas captured in the moment.

Cet album numérique réunit une collection de nouveaux titres encore jamais publiés, aux côtés de pièces redécouvertes et de remixes inédits. Il ouvre un nouveau chapitre dans la longue histoire changeante de This Window — un projet qui évolue aux marges de la musique expérimentale depuis les années 1980.

Né au sein de la scène underground de la cassette-culture britannique, This Window a toujours œuvré dans les zones frontières : à la fois post-industriel, minimal-synth, art sonore et expérimentation lo-fi. Au fil des décennies — cassettes, vinyles, CD-Rs et sorties numériques — le projet est resté farouchement indépendant, privilégiant la texture, l’atmosphère et les courants émotionnels plutôt que les structures de chanson conventionnelles. Le son a changé à chaque époque — des enregistrements bruts sur quatre pistes aux travaux électroniques plus sculptés — mais l’éthique est demeurée la même : intime, artisanale, exploratoire.

Cette collection prolonge cette lignée. Ces morceaux, nouvellement exhumés ou retravaillés, tracent l’évolution continue du projet tout en conservant les empreintes reconnaissables de l’univers de This Window : ombres, statique, mémoire, et cette intensité silencieuse propre aux idées saisies sur le vif.

crédits paru le 12 mai 2026

Gone Like The Whispers Of Silent Cloud - Download

2026-05-16T18:59:16.845+01:00

Extractivism by This Window

Gone Like the Whispers of Silent Clouds began life as a soundtrack fragment — an extract recorded at Morgue Studios in 2026 for a short experimental video. Built around flickering Super 8 home‑movie footage and digital imagery, the piece mirrors the film’s drifting, dreamlike collage: half‑memory, half‑hallucination, always on the edge of dissolving.

Gone Like The Whispers Of Silent Clouds

from Extractivism by This Window

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.

Instead of building toward a hook, the track unfolds like a mood‑study: an audio vignette shaped from shadows, static, and negative space. It’s less a traditional composition and more a fragment of a larger world.

from Extractivism, track released April 28, 2026

Misogynist - Download

2026-05-15T17:13:31.270+01:00

Extractivism by This Window

Misogynist, a track by This Window, was recorded around 2010, and the piece sits in that uneasy space where affection, resentment, and misread intentions blur into one another. Relationships often carry that dual charge — love and frustration, tenderness and volatility — and when the emotional weather turns unclear, people can end up misjudged or mislabelled.

The weight of the word

The title carries its own history. Misogynist comes from the Greek misogynḗs — miso- meaning “hatred” and gynḗ meaning “woman,” with the English suffix -ist indicating “a person who does something.” In modern use it can describe entrenched prejudice against women, but the track plays with the tension between accusation and misunderstanding. It hints at how quickly a person can be branded with a word that may not reflect the deeper, more complicated truth of a relationship’s dynamics.

Extractivism - a 2026 album from This Window

credits: released May 12, 2026

Anna Logge (I.L.Y.) - Download

2026-05-13T05:29:00.000+01:00

Extractivism by This Window

Anna Logge (I.L.Y.) first surfaced in 1987 on Insane Music For Insane People Vol. 16, part of the long-running Belgian underground series curated by Insane Music. Even in that eclectic context, the track stood out — a strange, affectionate salute to the world of analogue tape recorders and early synth culture, delivered with both grit and a crooked smile.

At its core, the piece is a love letter to the machines themselves. The wobble, the hiss, the mechanical drag of ageing tape — all of it becomes part of the composition. There are clear nods to dub reggae’s spacious low-end and Ballard-esque post-punk rock minimalism, but the hybrid that emerges is its own creature: dirty, gritty, whimsical, and slightly unstable in all the right ways.

The recording process is inseparable from the sound. Built on a Tascam 144 Portastudio and a domestic Philips ¼" reel-to-reel, the track carries the fingerprints of its tools — saturation, uneven edges, and that unmistakable analogue warmth that can’t be faked. It feels handmade, improvised, and alive, as if the machines are collaborators rather than equipment.

More than a period piece, Anna Logge (I.L.Y.) captures a moment when DIY electronics, cassette culture, and experimental pop were all bleeding into one another. It’s a small but enduring fragment of that world — imperfect, charming, and defiantly analogue.

Context within Extractivism

The 2026 digital album Extractivism brings together newly uncovered material, rediscovered fragments, and fresh remixes from across the long, shape‑shifting history of This Window. Formed in the UK’s cassette‑culture underground of the 1980s, the project has always lived in the borderlands: part post‑industrial, part minimal synth, part sound‑art, part lo‑fi experimentation. Across decades of tapes, vinyl, CD‑Rs and digital releases, the ethos has remained constant — intimate, handmade, exploratory.

Within this collection, Anna Logge (I.L.Y.) acts like a small but enduring artefact from the project’s early DNA. It captures a moment when DIY electronics, cassette culture, and experimental pop were bleeding into one another, long before those aesthetics were rediscovered or re‑branded. Its imperfections are its identity; its charm lies in the way it refuses to behave.

Why it endures

More than a period piece, Anna Logge (I.L.Y.) embodies the spirit that still runs through This Window’s work today — the fascination with texture, the embrace of artefact, the sense that sound is a physical material to be shaped rather than polished. It’s a reminder of a time when experimentation was not a genre but a necessity, when the studio was a kitchen table, and when the machines had personalities of their own.

A fragment, yes — but a living one. Defiantly analogue, defiantly handmade, defiantly This Window.

Anna Logge (I.L.Y.) tauchte erstmals 1987 auf Insane Music For Insane People Vol. 16 auf, einem Teil der langjährigen belgischen Underground‑Reihe, die von Insane Music kuratiert wurde. Selbst in diesem eklektischen Umfeld fiel der Track auf — ein seltsamer, liebevoller Gruß an die Welt der analogen Tonbandgeräte und der frühen Synth‑Kultur, vorgetragen mit einer Mischung aus Rauheit und einem schiefen Lächeln.

from Extractivism, track released January 1, 1987

New This Window Album Released

2026-05-13T01:30:00.006+01:00

Extractivism by This Window

New Download Album Released

Extractivism

by This Window

11 tracks for only £4.00

This digital album brings together a collection of new tracks that have never been released before, alongside rediscovered pieces and fresh remixes. It offers a new chapter in the long, shape‑shifting story of This Window — a project that has existed on the fringes of experimental music since the 1980s.

Formed within the UK’s cassette‑culture underground, This Window has always operated in the borderlands: part post‑industrial, part minimal synth, part sound‑art, part lo‑fi experimentation. Across decades of tapes, vinyl, CD‑Rs and digital releases, the project has remained defiantly independent, favouring texture, atmosphere and emotional undercurrents over conventional song structures. The sound has shifted with each era — from raw four‑track recordings to more sculpted electronic work — but the ethos has stayed constant: intimate, handmade, exploratory.

This collection continues that lineage. These tracks, newly uncovered or reworked, map the project’s ongoing evolution while retaining the unmistakable fingerprints of This Window’s world: shadows, static, memory, and the quiet intensity of ideas captured in the moment.

credits

released May 12, 2026

Dieses digitale Album vereint eine Sammlung neuer, bislang unveröffentlichter Stücke mit wiederentdeckten Aufnahmen und frischen Remixen. Es eröffnet ein neues Kapitel in der langen, wandelbaren Geschichte von This Window – einem Projekt, das seit den 1980er‑Jahren an den Rändern der experimentellen Musik existiert.

Entstanden in der britischen Cassette‑Culture‑Underground‑Szene, bewegte sich This Window stets in den Grenzbereichen: teils Post‑Industrial, teils Minimal‑Synth, teils Sound‑Art, teils Lo‑Fi‑Experiment. Über Jahrzehnte hinweg – auf Kassetten, Vinyl, CD‑Rs und digitalen Veröffentlichungen – blieb das Projekt kompromisslos unabhängig und setzte auf Textur, Atmosphäre und emotionale Unterströmungen statt auf konventionelle Songstrukturen. Der Klang veränderte sich mit jeder Ära – von rohen Vier‑Spur‑Aufnahmen bis hin zu stärker geformten elektronischen Arbeiten – doch die Grundhaltung blieb unverändert: intim, handgemacht, forschend.

Diese Sammlung führt diese Linie fort. Die neu entdeckten oder überarbeiteten Stücke zeichnen die fortlaufende Entwicklung des Projekts nach und tragen zugleich die unverkennbaren Fingerabdrücke der Welt von This Window: Schatten, Rauschen, Erinnerung und die stille Intensität von Ideen, die im Moment eingefangen wurden.

Avocets - Download

2026-05-12T02:30:00.001+01:00

Avocets by This Window

Avocets is now available to download.

Grow Tired In Long Grass

Avocets comes across as a small, self‑contained anomaly in the This Window catalogue — a piece that feels both minimal and quietly disorienting. Originally released in 2009, it revolves around a hypnotic beat, the kind that feels like it’s pulling you forward even as everything around it stays eerily still. Over that pulse, a single church bell tolls like a fragment of some half‑remembered ritual, while a feeding‑back guitar threads through the mix in thin, needling arcs.

The restraint is the point: nothing explodes, nothing resolves, and yet the tension never drops. It’s edged, unsettled, and slightly uncanny — a study in how little you need to create a mood that lingers long after the track ends.

L’Avocette est un échassier noir et blanc au plumage très distinctif, doté d’un long bec recourbé vers le haut ; le morceau Avocets est une chanson dont le texte frôle volontairement le surréalisme.

Ayant collaboré avec des labels tels que Microsoft, Beggars Banquet et Cherry Red Records, This Window demeure pourtant farouchement indépendant.

Au fond, This Window est moins un groupe qu’un cadre créatif : une plateforme mouvante et anarchique dédiée au son, à l’image et à l’idée. Il incarne l’esprit de la culture DIY, l’expérimentation authentique et le refus de se plier aux attentes commerciales.

Blue Eyes - Download

2026-05-11T09:02:00.000+01:00

Blue Eyes by This Window

Blue Eyes is now available to download.

Blue Eyes — A Love Story Written in Shadows

Rain can be heard as crashing guitars and driving bass sit nicely within the steady drum beat.

In Blue Eyes by This Window, desire is not a gentle tide but a riptide—pulling the narrator into a love that feels as much like possession as it does devotion. The song’s central image—“she stole my soul in her lipstick case”—is a perfect encapsulation of its mood: glamour edged with danger, intimacy laced with theft.

The woman at the heart of the story is no fragile muse. She is strong, independent, and entirely self-possessed, her beauty sharpened by the knowledge of her own power. She is the kind of figure who could walk out of a Bronte novel and into a neon-lit city street—equal parts Catherine Earnshaw and a heroine from a glossy chick-lit paperback, the kind who wears heartbreak like perfume.

Love or Hate?

The narrator’s voice trembles between worship and accusation. Is she a saviour or a destroyer? The song never answers outright, and that’s its brilliance. The “blue eyes” are both sanctuary and snare—windows to a soul that may never truly be his. The romance is painted in chiaroscuro: moments of tenderness lit against the looming shadow of loss.

Der Regen ist zu hören wie krachende Gitarren, während der treibende Bass sich angenehm in den stetigen Schlag des Schlagzeugs einfügt.

In Blue Eyes von This Window ist Verlangen keine sanfte Flut, sondern eine Rückströmung – sie reißt den Erzähler in eine Liebe hinein, die sich ebenso sehr nach Besitz anfühlt wie nach Hingabe. Das zentrale Bild des Songs – „Sie stahl meine Seele in ihrem Lippenstiftetui“ – fasst die Stimmung perfekt zusammen: Glamour mit einer Kante aus Gefahr, Intimität durchzogen von Diebstahl.

Die Frau im Zentrum der Geschichte ist keine zerbrechliche Muse. Sie ist stark, unabhängig und vollkommen selbstbewusst, ihre Schönheit geschärft durch das Wissen um ihre eigene Macht. Sie ist eine Figur, die ebenso gut einem Brontë‑Roman entsteigen könnte wie einer neonbeleuchteten Großstadtstraße – zu gleichen Teilen Catherine Earnshaw und eine Heldin aus einem glänzenden Chick‑Lit‑Roman, eine Frau, die Herzschmerz trägt wie ein Parfum.

Morning - Download

2026-05-10T10:08:00.001+01:00

Morning by This Window

Morning is now available to download.

Morning is a complex mix of vocals, guitar, bass and distorted synth chaos (which only slightly imposses itself in the mix) - all of this over a steady drumbeat.

Originally released in 1989 on the cassette album Jude The Obscure (M4TR Productions), the track sits within the project’s early blend of experimental electronics, art‑rock edges, and emotional understatement. Like much of the album, it feels handmade and human: a moment captured on tape rather than polished for effect.

Missing a loved one while they’re away—a post‑punk love song stripped back to its bones, where distance sharpens every small memory. There’s a sense of waiting threaded through the piece: the quiet hours, the half‑formed thoughts, the way longing becomes its own rhythm.

This is War - Download

2026-05-09T00:30:00.003+01:00

This Is War by This Window

This is War is now available to download.

This Is War — A Signal Flare From the Next Phase of This Window

‘This Is War’ lands like a warning shot from This Window—a project whose history runs from four‑track cassette grit to the sharpened edges of digital remastering. It’s not nostalgia; it’s continuity. A legacy carried forward with teeth.

We live in a world where conflict has slipped its old boundaries. It’s no longer limited to frontlines or uniforms. It unfolds in offices, in households, in markets, and in the private chambers of the mind. Preparing for warfare—global or personal—isn’t about aggression. It’s about readiness. It’s the refusal to be caught off‑balance when the ground shifts.

To prepare is to accept three uncomfortable truths:

The world is unpredictable. Systems collapse, alliances fracture, and stability is always temporary.
People are unpredictable. Loyalties bend, tempers ignite, and even the closest bonds can strain under pressure.
You are unpredictable. Your own impulses, fears, and blind spots can ambush you more effectively than any external threat.

‘This Is War’ doesn’t simply play. It confronts. It bleeds. It breathes. It’s a piece of sound that feels lived‑in—an artefact of tension, vigilance, and the quiet discipline of staying ready.

Catalogue Number: 261m4trprod
Released: April 30, 2026
License: All rights reserved

Obvious - Download

2026-05-07T00:30:00.001+01:00

Obvious by This Window

Obvious is now available to download.

Recorded on a sunny Sunday morning...

The sound of birds and traffic going by, an introspective vocal, an overdriven guitar lament and a broken heart.

Originally released in 1989, Obvious captures This Window at their most raw, intimate and instinct‑driven—a moment when DIY recording wasn’t an aesthetic choice but the only honest way to get the work into the world. Tracked on a Tascam 144 and mixed down to a Revox PR99, the sound carries the grain, hiss and voltage‑shifted atmosphere of late‑80s cassette culture: fragile, immediate, and unfiltered.

Remastered by not destroyed

Digitally remixed in 2026. Obvious stands as a snapshot of a band working outside the mainstream, shaping their own language with whatever tools were at hand. It’s a reminder of how much can be said with limited means, and how the imperfections of tape can become part of the message itself. This 2026 digital release doesn’t rewrite history—it lets the original speak more clearly.

Lay Back - Download

2026-05-06T13:14:00.001+01:00

Lay Back by This Window

Lay Back is now available to download.

Review: “Lay Back” – This Window

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. The instrumentation is sparse but deliberate — synth tones and low, percussive murmurs that feel like the hum of a radiator in winter, or the faint static of a radio tuned just off-station.

The emotional core

The song carries the atmosphere of a late‑night monologue: a voice half‑present, half‑elsewhere, speaking from the edge of a bed where desire, regret, and detachment all occupy the same space. There’s a literary quality to it — the Bandcamp page explicitly nods to Favourite Games and Beautiful Losers, and you can feel that influence in the tone: smoky, slow, and quietly bruised. [^1]

Sound and texture

The production is sparse but intentional. Soft synth tones drift like the hum of a radiator in winter; low percussive murmurs slip in and out like an overheard conversation. Nothing is ornamental — every sound feels placed to deepen the sense of interiority. It’s minimal, but not cold; dark, but not theatrical. The track sits comfortably within the project’s darkwave/analogue/gothic palette while still feeling personal and unguarded. [^1]

Why it works

“Lay Back” succeeds because it doesn’t try to impress. It leans into mood, into stillness, into the quiet tension between wanting connection and wanting escape. It’s a small track in length — under three minutes — but it leaves the impression of something larger, like a fragment from a longer emotional narrative. [^1]

References: [^1]: Lay Back. https://thiswindow.bandcamp.com/track/lay-back

Barnwood Nashville Telecaster

2026-01-09T23:54:00.000+00:00

🔥 Nashville Barnwood Telecaster – Rat Bait Guitars (UK) 🔥

This isn’t a factory clone. It’s a resurrection: a Tele-style body carved from reclaimed barnwood, old roofing timber, and even a salvaged garden bench. Raw, characterful, and impossible to repeat. Built in the UK by Rat Bait Guitars.

Inspired by the classic Nashville Tele, but with its own swagger. Right-handed, 6-string, 22-fret maple neck, lightly nitro’d for that broken-in feel. Comes with a gig bag.

This one isn’t pretending to be a museum piece. It’s built the way a real working guitar should be: rough‑edged, smooth‑playing, and ready for sweat, gigs, and long nights. No sterile perfection. No factory gloss. Just a solid, honest instrument with the kind of attitude you only get from reclaimed timber.

Electronics:

Tele bridge pickup + single-coil middle + Tele neck pickup
3-way switch
Grey pearl pickguard with real battle scars from its previous life

Specs:

Scale length: 25.5
Nut width: 42mm
Body thickness: 44mm
Weight: 3.6kg
10mm machine heads, strap buttons

A soulful, eco-friendly, reclaimed Tele with a nod to 60s/70s Japanese oddballs like Jedson. If you want something unique with stories built into the wood, this is it. This Nashville‑style Telecaster, one of those builds that always feels right from the moment the parts come together. There’s something about this configuration — the versatility, the bite, the way it sits in the hands — that makes it a favourite to assemble and an even better guitar to play.

👉 eBay listing: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/127613628225

UK Made Telecaster – Black Ashtray Bridge

2025-12-04T13:58:00.000+00:00

One-Off Barnwood Guitar – Salvaged, Rewired, Reborn

This isn’t a factory replica. It’s a resurrection. A Telecaster-inspired build carved from salvaged roofing timber, an old bookcase, a 1970s table leg, a strip of vintage skirting board, and whatever else the workshop offered up. A true Rat Bait Guitars original—raw, unrepeatable, and loaded with soul.

Specs & Features

Body: Tele-style, hand-built entirely from reclaimed materials
Neck: 22‑fret maple with an old‑school profile; lightly nitro-finished for that played‑in, vintage feel
Electronics: Crunchy Tele bridge pickup + warm neck pickup, 3‑way switch, black scratchplate
Bridge: Black ashtray bridge with six individual saddles for precise setup
Hardware: Brand new 10mm machine heads and strap buttons
Dimensions:
- Scale length: 25.5"
- Nut width: 42mm (1.656")
- Body thickness: approx. 44mm (±0.5mm)

Build Notes

Hand‑assembled using recycled timber and new‑old‑stock components
Mid‑range pickups chosen for tone, not price—expect proper vintage grit and Tele twang
Natural barnwood finish: honest, imperfect, and full of character
Subtle traces of old paint and light nitrocellulose accents for extra texture
Designed for players who value feel, story and soul over sterile perfection

Identity

This Barnwood Telecaster isn’t just an instrument—it’s a statement piece. UK‑made, eco‑conscious and unapologetically individual, it delivers classic Telecaster attitude with a sustainable edge. Ideal for musicians who want a guitar with history, grit and genuine personality.

Rat Bait Guitars

Built in the UK from recycled materials, this solid‑body electric guitar embodies the Rat Bait ethos: sustainable, characterful, and made to be played. With its natural finish, maple neck, 22 frets and classic 6‑string Telecaster configuration, it’s perfect for right‑handed players seeking something with a story behind it. Supplied with a gig bag, it’s a practical, versatile and eco‑friendly choice for guitarists who want more than another factory‑fresh clone.

UK Made - Recycled Mahogany Stratocaster

2025-12-02T08:18:00.002+00:00

A Guitar with a Story

The Mahogany Stratocaster by Rat Bait Guitars is not just another electric guitar—it’s a piece of reclaimed history. Built in the UK, this instrument embodies the ethos of sustainability and individuality. Its body is crafted from salvaged mahogany, repaired with reclaimed pine from a 1970s kitchen cupboard, giving it a unique character that mass-market guitars simply cannot replicate.

Construction & Materials

Body: Solid Stratocaster-style, light reliced finish, sealed with tinted nitrocellulose for a vintage look.
Weight: 1.85 kg unloaded, making it mediumweight and comfortable.
Neck: Maple with a rosewood-type fretboard, 21 frets, 25.5″ scale length, nut width 42 mm.
Hardware: New machine heads, complete tremolo bridge with arm, strap buttons fitted.
Electronics: Three single-coil pickups (likely early 2000s Squier), 5-way selector switch, reclaimed triple-ply scratchplate.

This combination of new and recycled parts ensures both reliability and character, while the relic finish makes it visually striking.

Rat Bait Stratocaster-Style Electric Guitar is a handcrafted UK-made instrument that blends reclaimed history with modern playability, offering musicians a sustainable and soulful alternative to mass-produced guitars.

Sustainability Meets Style

Rat Bait Guitars are known for their punk-inspired philosophy of reclamation and rebellion. By using recycled materials, each guitar becomes a statement against disposable consumer culture. The mahogany and pine body, paired with aged components, creates an instrument that is both environmentally conscious and aesthetically raw.

Playability & Appeal

Right-handed design with Stratocaster compatibility.
Versatile sound thanks to the adaptable HSH routing, currently fitted with SSS pickups.
Unique relic finish makes it as much a piece of art as a playable instrument.
Includes gig bag, making it ready for musicians on the move.

This guitar is ideal for players who want something authentic, soulful, and rebellious—a guitar that looks as good on stage as it does hanging on a wall¹.

Final Thoughts

The Rat Bait Stratocaster is more than an instrument—it’s a manifesto in wood and wire. For musicians who value sustainability, individuality, and raw character, this guitar offers a chance to own something truly unique. It’s not about perfection; it’s about soul, history, and rebellion—qualities that make music unforgettable.

Pentax Espio 120mi

2025-10-28T01:30:00.000+00:00

Through This Window: A £1.50 Pentax and the Poetry of Film

The Pentax Espio 120mi isn’t a marvel of modern engineering—but that’s precisely its appeal. A compact 35mm point-and-shoot camera from the late 1990s, it was built for spontaneity, not spectacle. I found mine in a charity shop for £1.50, loaded it with Ilford HP5 Plus, and let it wander.

Despite its humble price, the Espio 120mi is no toy. It features a 38–120mm f/4.8–12.5 zoom lens constructed from 7 elements in 6 groups, offering a versatile range from wide to short telephoto. The autofocus system uses a passive 5-point array, locking focus from 0.65m to infinity, aided by a low-light assist lamp. Exposure is fully automatic, with a shutter speed range from 2 seconds to 1/400s and DX-coded ISO support from 25 to 3200.

It’s equipped with a built-in flash, red-eye reduction, backlight compensation, and a 10-second self-timer. Panorama mode crops the frame for a cinematic sweep, while the automatic film loading, advance, and rewind make it a true grab-and-go machine. At just 208g and measuring 110 × 63 × 46mm, it slips easily into a coat pocket or glovebox.

This camera doesn’t compete with DSLRs—it doesn’t need to. It’s a reminder that beauty often lives in imperfection, and that sometimes, the best lens is the one you have in your hand. The Espio 120mi doesn’t just take pictures—it captures the mood, the texture, the light between moments.

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Sources: Camera-Wiki¹, Kamerastore²

Is Blogging Still a Thing

2025-10-27T01:30:00.001+00:00

Is Blogging Still a Valid Way to Promote a Business or Idea?

In the ever-shifting landscape of digital communication, one question continues to echo through marketing departments, creative studios, and entrepreneurial minds: Is blogging still a valid way to promote a business or idea? With the rise of social media, AI-generated content, and short-form video, it’s tempting to declare blogging a relic of the past. But the truth is more nuanced—and surprisingly hopeful.

A Brief History of Blogging

Blogging began as a digital diary. The term “weblog” was coined by Jorn Barger in 1997, and by 1999, platforms like Blogger (launched by Pyra Labs and later acquired by Google) made it easy for anyone to publish their thoughts online¹. Early blogs were personal, raw, and often philosophical—spaces for reflection, commentary, and connection.

As the 2000s unfolded, blogging evolved into a powerful tool for journalism, education, and marketing. Businesses began to see the value in publishing regular content that could attract search traffic, build authority, and foster community. By the mid-2010s, blogging was a cornerstone of content marketing strategies worldwide.

The Social Media Disruption

Enter social media. Platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok offered faster, flashier ways to reach audiences. The algorithmic nature of these platforms rewarded brevity, virality, and visual appeal—qualities that traditional blogs often lacked. Many predicted the death of blogging, citing declining attention spans and the dominance of video.

Yet, while social media changed the game, it didn’t end it. Instead, it forced blogging to evolve.

Blogging in 2025: Reinvention, Not Obsolescence

Far from obsolete, blogging in 2025 is thriving—just in a different form. Today’s blogs are strategic, integrated, and goal-driven. They serve as the backbone of SEO, fuel email campaigns, and provide shareable assets for social media². AI tools help creators optimize content, identify gaps, and tailor posts to audience needs³.

Successful blogs now blend storytelling with utility. They’re not just about broadcasting ideas—they’re about building trust, offering value, and creating depth in a digital world often dominated by surface-level engagement.

Why Blogging Still Works

Search Engine Visibility: Blogs are indexed by search engines, making them powerful tools for organic traffic.
Thought Leadership: Long-form content allows businesses to showcase expertise and build credibility.
Content Ecosystem: Blog posts can be repurposed into newsletters, social media snippets, podcasts, and more.
Community Building: Blogs foster deeper engagement than fleeting social posts, encouraging comments, shares, and dialogue⁴⁵.

Blogging That Converts: Substance, Strategy, and Sales

In ecommerce, popularity alone doesn’t pay the bills. A blog with high traffic but low trust won’t move product. What drives revenue is authority—content that earns backlinks, gets quoted, and builds credibility across your niche.

If your product lacks quality, no amount of blog buzz will convert attention into income. Visibility without substance is just noise.

Performance indicators like blog charts and domain authority aren’t vanity metrics—they’re strategic tools. They influence your search engine rankings, shape customer perception, and open doors to organic growth. A well-ranked blog can become a powerful sales channel—but only if the content earns its place.

Publishing weak content sends the wrong message: that your customers don’t deserve better. If your blog reads like filler, expect your brand to be treated the same.

Successful ecommerce blogging isn’t about volume—it’s about clarity, intuition, and flow. Great content feels effortless, like a skilled maker working with their tools. It’s not just writing—it’s crafting trust, one post at a time.

Final Thoughts

Blogging isn’t dead—it’s matured. It’s no longer the scrappy upstart of the early internet, nor is it overshadowed by the glitz of social media. Instead, it’s a foundational tool for those who want to build something lasting: a brand, a movement, a philosophy.

In a world of noise, blogging offers clarity. In a culture of speed, it offers depth. And in a market obsessed with novelty, it offers continuity.

So yes—blogging is still a valid way to promote a business or idea. Perhaps now more than ever.

References:

1The Evolution of Blogging: Why It’s Still Going Strong in 2025. https://www.dailyblogwriting.com/archives/18014

2Why Blogging Still Works in 2025 - To and Fro Digital. https://toandfrodigitalmarketing.com/why-blogging-is-still-a-powerful-tool-in-2025/

3The Evolution of Blogging in 2025: Trends, Strategies & AI Tools. https://aleck.ai/blog/evolution-blogging-2025-trends-strategies-tools-success/

4Does Blogging Work in 2025? Clear Analysis of Its Relevance and .... https://zorgle.co.uk/does-blogging-work-in-2025-a-clear-analysis-of-its-relevance-and-benefits/

5Blogging in 2025: Are Blogs Still Relevant? — Charlotte Content .... https://www.charlottecontentmarketing.com/knowledge-center/blogging-in-2025-are-blogs-still-relevant