Extractivism 2 — This Window
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 retainin...
