Accidental Records

01/08/2025

Matthew and Momoko signing some records

It’s Bandcamp Friday today. You could get Clay on LP or CD from Bandcamp

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18/07/2025

Matthew Herbert & Momoko Gill have announced a series of exclusive & intimate shows across the UK.

The duo will bring their new album, CLAY, to life on stage in London, Birmingham, Bristol & Sheffield. Tickets are on sale now.

02/05/2025

Empty your basket 🛒 Bandcamp friday is back.
Use bcfridays for 10% off today across our shop. Music from Sam Underwood & Graham Dunning, NikNak, Neil Luck, Berk Offset and 4 packed label compilations...
https://accidentalrecords.bandcamp.com/

31/03/2025

Happy Monday! Listen back to the latest episode of Kerem Gokmen's Dubmission: mixcloud.com/dubmission/dubmission-1352/ Kerem Gokmen

The show on 91.3 WYEP (Pittsburgh) features Jake Mehew – R-9A Arrowhead out as part of our compilation 'Composed with Sound' in collaboration with Sound of the Year Awards / The Radiophonic Institute: https://lnk.to/ComposedwithSoundpt.1

New music this week from Flying Lotus, Hector Plimmer, Whatever the Weather, Annie & The Caldwells, Lonnie Holley, Little Barrie & Malcolm Catto, Medlar, Vaudou Game, Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvarson, Balaphonic, Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek, Elsa Hewitt, Gratts, Hyldon & Adrian Younge, Twel...

28/02/2025

Looking for some sounds?

Discover the artists and their unique soundscapes featured in our first compilation, bringing together the most outstanding entries from Sound of the Year Awards’ Composed with Sound category.
https://shorturl.at/0Oi9D

Last chance! Submissions for the next round of the Sound of the Year Awards close TODAY at 6 PM GMT. Don’t miss out! 📩 soundoftheyearawards.com

14/02/2025

Here is something we love doing and hope to do it again sometime soon…

two months ago on Dec 14th when we had our first Accidental all-dayer in years.

Thanks again for coming and to for making it happen at , it was a great way to end the year for many of us…

A day full of bona fide experimental: kicking off with soft selections of our , we were then taken from the soothing sounds of ’s trumpet 🎺 - sorry it was so good that we haven’t got any videos but we look forward to hear more of his collaboration with - to the mechanical, electro acid-infused bass of via special performances from , , and our very own Accidental DJs (cheeky eh) 🧢 🧢

While we’re now slowly back to business we look forward to share some exciting news this year from M (shhhhhhhhh 🤫)

In the meantime, we wish you a happy Valentine’s Day spent what you love doing most 🧡💚🖤♥️💙💛🩷

14/12/2024

Today we head over to Strongroom Bar for a free alldayer curated by Accidental Records. Unfortunately Sam Underwood can't make it anymore so Graham Dunning will be performing solo to finish things off.

Doors at 3:00, DJ's for first couple of hours, first live act 5:00 sharp.

06/12/2024

Accidental all-dayer spotlight:

flywheel is an alias for London-based producer Finn Page, who explores varied processes to create kinetic, ebullient music with a natural lilt despite its explicitly electronic nature.

Often found matching analogue synthesis with multi-track tape experimentation in a live setting, Page’s flywheel release for Accidental Jnr follows up the self-released Caustic EP and Hot Topics EP, released under his own name on .

In 2023, for the ’s Room 2 series flywheel serves an EP of fractured, melodic electronica called Cracked Plastic (slide left to listen to an extract) which is followed this year by an equally enthusing EP ‘Writ Large’ on .

will perform a live show on December 14th at our all-dayer with - don’t miss it (register at 🔗 in bio)

03/12/2024

Submissions are now open!

Categories this year include:

* Sound of the Year
* Children’s Category in collaboration with Sound and Music
* Disappearing Sound
* Best Natural Sound in collaboration with EarthDay.org
* Sound of the City
* Best Sound Innovation in collaboration with National Science and Media Museum
* Composed with Sound in collaboration with Accidental Records
* Best Imagined Sound in collaboration with National Poetry Library
* Most Unpleasant Sound

Submissions forms available on the site: https://www.soundoftheyearawards.com/

Deadline: 28.02.25

20/11/2024

Available now via Bandcamp - Antechamber 1, 2 & 3 Cassette Bundle ✨

Our annual Antechamber compilation probes at the intersection between avant-garde, neo-classical and electronic music - featuring expansive overviews of experimental work from distinct artists across the globe.

We marked each release by producing a limited edition cassette tape, all three versions available now as a bundle (digital download included)

A continuous play of Antechamber #3 has been added also following its airplay on / show

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