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Fruit Bats added to the Archives at Wud Records? After all these years? Surely not!

Yes, it’s true! Two songs by the Exeter duo Fruit Bats have been added to the Wud Records Archives. You can find them as a sub-page of Critical Error.

In case you only happen to find one track there, it is because you have been very fast! We like to spread out the release times a little at SoundCloud due to the way new tracks are discovered at that platform. Fear not! Thinking About You will be released within 48 hours of The Mad Song‘s release.

Fruit Bats were Rosie Mullin on voice and Aidan Whiteley on guitar. They formed after Critical Error disbanded. Fruit Bats performed a handful of shows around the Exeter area in the late 1980s.

Rosie believes that the Fruit Bats wrote five original songs. Two of them are here. The other three have been lost to the vortices of time and space, sadly.

Should they ever happen to reappear in such a way that we are able to bring them to you, we shall do our best. Perhaps one day, something like “more Fruit Bats added” will be a news headline at Wud Records!

In other Critical Error news, Rosie recently sent us some photos of a Critical Error reunion beer that took place at the Double Locks in Exeter. We have added them to the Critical Error gallery and you can enjoy them by clicking right here.

Critical Error even jammed some songs together, with Paul Bateman playing the late great Steve Mavin’s role. Paul was the engineer for the band’s eponymous eleven-track album and a wonderful musician.

If there are any significant developments on the Critical Error front, we shall of course let you know in our News service and on Twitter.

If you would like to listen to Fruit Bats here at the Wud Records website, you can do so by clicking here.

Should you prefer to listen to them over at SoundCloud instead, please click here.

If you would like to listen to the fabulous Critical Error and read all their fascinating tales, backstories and lyrics, please click here.

The top ten SoundCloud tracks for October 2021 from Wud Records have been published in a new playlist.

Tracks are arranged from one to ten according to their popularity. The algorithm we use gives greatest weight to reposts, then likes and comments (active engagement) over plays.

When somebody reposts a track, that gives it the opportunity to be heard by a potential new fan. This is always a tremendous help for creative souls!

Songs published at Bandcamp and other platforms are omitted from the SoundCloud statistics because they would require separate treatment.

Archive tracks and bonus tracks are also ignored, as are likes and comments from people who clearly didn’t listen to the music.

Only you, the listener, can influence our November 2021 playlist. So if there is a track you particularly like, keep playing it! Leave a comment, repost it and share it to your social media feeds!

Massive thanks go out to everybody who helped to support all of us during October 2021 by listening to, commenting on and reposting our bands’ tracks on SoundCloud, as well as other platforms.

All the wonderful fans of our bands who supported us with downloads from Bandcamp are especially appreciated because they genuinely help us keep the fires burning. May you be blessed by the gods of rock n roll! :)

We would also like to say a special thank you to all the splendid people on Twitter who have been enjoying and reposting our tracks to their followers. All the support and positive feedback has been incredibly heartwarming for us all. It makes our endeavours here seem worthwhile.

Congratulations to Dark Company! New this month at the top of our chart is Horizontal Hold, a very wonderful song that is still work-in-progress. It features the thought- and smile-provoking lyrics of Speedy Pete Greatorex and was reworked on the subsequent Mind Dance album with guitars as Broken Tubes.

There are five songs in total by Dark Company, who enjoyed a dominant month for Wud Records on SoundCloud during October 2021.

Exploding back into the new chart at number two is the suitably spooky Seeing, We Should. This is a very weird song and vies with Future Sadness Past from Signmaker to be Dark Company‘s oddest track in the public domain.

Seeing, We Should was created by Pete recording a number of different sounds from his old Korg analogue keyboard, then the band arranging them into a coherent pattern. The vocal was recorded as a stand-alone and is completely atemporal.

Still at number three is their awesome alternative / hard / psychedelic rock and funk song Dancing In The Dark. The version you can hear is still work-in-progress.

Pete wrote the lyrics in 1989 and the song was originally performed by Alien Heat. Dancing In The Dark describes his memories of going nightclubbing in the West End of London after being revved up by his good friend Billy.

Pete was not actually terribly keen on the song and would always refer to it as “Farting in the Park”.

Back in the days of Alien Heat, Dancing In The Dark included Graham’s drum solo. This was when everyone in the band would roll a cigarette (or something a little more flavoursome) while he performed it, hopefully having the deed done and the object lit in time to carry on with the song at the drum solo’s conclusion.

There has already been, and will also be, further news published regarding upgrades to other songs from Dark Company’s Alien Heat album in the coming days. We are busy fixing these in the hope of being able to repair broken gear and finish the guitars very soon.

The other two Dark Company songs to be featured in the October 2021 chart are Cover Up from the Can of Worms album and Please Try Later, from Noir. Both are work in progress, even though they sound pretty good already. Cover Up is at number six and Please Try Later rounds off the new chart at number ten.

Flicker had a good month on the new chart, occupying two of the positions. Both of the Flicker tracks are from their wonderful 2002 album At Least 1000 Words.

Beautiful Wings is back in the charts again, at the number four position. Beautiful Wings is a splendid melodic folk rock or world music instrumental. It has been a tremendously popular piece of music and showcases the wonderful virtuoso multi-instrumental musical skills of the band.

Welcome to the Family returns to the new chart as well, at position five. This is a latin-jazz-rock-fusion track that builds from its acoustic guitar beginings to a heady climax of guitar feedback and noise. There is a lovely bass solo from Dave, who also plays the keyboard parts most admirably.

Flicker‘s second album, HappySad, is under construction and you can listen to it as it stands right now by clicking here. Several more tracks are likely to be released in the coming weeks and months, so please keep an eye and an ear on our News service and Twitter.

Two tracks by The Ug Brothers feature on the latest chart. Wibble and Bling from the 1995 Cute But Weird album is a rumbustious feel good funk rock romp with brilliant and under-rated virtuoso playing. It can be found at number seven, followed at eight by a live instrumental jam of a track called Homeless and Boneless. This comes from the lofi cassette salvage collection of Ugstrumentals, the name given to instrumentals by The Ug Brothers. Homeless and Boneless is slated to appear on a Flicker album sometime in the future.

Last month’s chart topper, Alchemeon‘s Castrol GTX a-Go-Go, drops eight places to this month‘s number nine. Besides being a work of insane genius, there is a tremendous backstory behind the composition of Castrol GTX a-Go-Go. You can read it at any of the song’s own web pages, such as on Bandcamp, SoundCloud, and Explicit Music.

None of our other acts made it onto the chart this month.

If you would like to go to SoundCloud to hear the top ten songs from Wud Records in October 2021, as played, liked, commented upon and reposted by listeners, please click here.

If you prefer to listen right here at the Wud Records website, you will find that it is the new default music player. You will find it on all non band-specific pages at the site, including our Links collection and homepage.

Recently we have added a few more of the previous charts as pages to their section of this website. We are still three years behind in this work, but at least a little catching up has been done. If you’d like to see all our old charts, they can be accessed easily by clicking here. More pages will be added soon, when there is time.

A brand new playlist of all the favourite musical discoveries of the Wud Records team has been published at SoundCloud. All of the artists on it are amazing independent or unsigned artists who are making great music that simply aches to be heard.

These artists are not associated directly with Wud Records in any way. We simply accumulated songs that we all liked during October 2021 into one agreed playlist and published it on the first day of the new month.

This October 2021 playlist is the 63rd musical discoveries compilation. It represents over five years of amazing music and a remarkable voyage of listening enjoyment.

There are over 2000 wonderful independent artists and more than 250 hours of independent music to listen to. We hope you find some new favourites among them as we have. These compilations represent some of the very best music we’ve heard in the last five years.

Tracks have been arranged according to the number of plays at the exact moment of publishing, starting with the fewest. Tracks that are early in playlists tend to receive more plays than later tracks. We are inclined to believe that the music which has had the fewest streams needs the best chance of exposure.

If you find some new favourites on there, why not shout about them on your social media channels? It costs you nothing to do so. The artists responsible for creating the music will welcome such word-of-mouth exposure. Many of your friends and followers would enjoy hearing the music too. At the very least… you might end up making an independent musician’s day.

Sharing is very, very important!!

Sharing is a massive help for independent artists. They don’t have big corporations and mainstream media saturating every channel with their product. Every independent share counts.

Giving something a ‘like’ is nice, but sharing exposes the artist to your followers. This means that anybody in your community can see and click on what you shared. They can potentially enjoy it as well. It enables somebody new to discover the artist and become their newest fan. You create the chance for that to happen.

Are you a musician whose SoundCloud track we liked, shared or tweeted during the last month or so? If you are, there is a possibility that one of your tracks might be on this new playlist.

Can you complete the challenge of listening to every track on a musical discoveries compilation? If you manage it, tell us! Tell the music makers involved. Tell the world on social media how you feel about what you heard. The people concerned would love to know your thoughts.

We appreciate the fact that in 2021 not many have the time, patience or attention span to listen to even one track all the way through, let alone 45! Anybody who listens to even half of a musical discoveries compilation is somebody of exceptional stamina. We tend to big up on Twitter the people who do listen to a whole playlist, so if you want a bit of free promotion…

Towards the bottom of the page is a list of the featured artists and tracks. The artist name is clickable and links to an external website where you can find out, hear and see more of the artist in question.

This is for future-proofing. If the artist decides to leave SoundCloud or removes their track from that platform, you might still be able to enjoy hearing them elsewhere with a cunning click of the mouse.

If you are the artist and would prefer us to use a different link to the one we added, or if we got something a bit wrong, please send an email to info@wudrecords.co.uk so we can fix it for you.

Generally we try to use the artist’s own site where possible. This helps drive a little traffic to the artist’s website, which may not receive many visits compared to e.g. facebook or spotify. We also tend to link to something a bit more future-proof than “Listen to our latest single!” as we hope these playlists will be around for a long time to come.

We only linked to SoundCloud as a last resort when we were unable to find anything else, as users can already click the track and go to the artist’s SoundCloud page for themselves.

We hope that a lot more people will find and listen to the wonderful songs on this new playlist of musical discoveries. Each and every track has something that we felt was special or interesting in some way. In many cases it was a tough job to choose just one track from an artist.

The playlist is very eclectic, so there is probably something on there to suit every taste. If the track you are listening to isn’t quite doing it for you, skip to the next one and perhaps that will please your ears more. Sometimes similar tracks end up next to each other, and sometimes extremely different tracks do, so we recommend you just try it for yourself.

In addition to the latest compilation being our pinned tweet on Twitter, every week on Twitter we boost a previous Musical Discoveries playlist and a featured track from that playlist. The featured track is chosen by the Wud Records team and is one which is a real favourite amongst us.

We also encourage people to vote for the next featured track on Twitter. These votes are added to the votes cast by our team. All the featured tracks form an additional compilation which we also tweet frequently. We generally try to have a full tweeting day at least three days each week.

All of the featured tracks can be found on a separate page at our website by clicking here, or on SoundCloud by clicking here.

If you would like the opportunity to be included in a future compilation, first you need to follow us on SoundCloud so we can follow you back. You can even enjoy hearing some of the music by our fabulous bands whilst you’re there. :)

We follow everyone back who follows us on SoundCloud, providing:
1. you have original music and
2. you are not some kind of phony pointless scamming account

There are many scammers who can allegedly make it seem that people have been listening to your music. The ‘plays’ come from bots and click farms. Nobody will engage with the music or even hear it. It is very easy to spot a track that has been boosted in this way, so just don’t do it. Spend your hard-earned musical coins on something useful!

Our people listen to everyone we follow at SoundCloud on a first-in-first-out basis. It may take a few weeks for us to reach the newest additions. We always have a massive amount of music to listen to, so please be patient and eventually you will be heard.

If you would like to listen to the new playlist of October 2021 Musical Discoveries over at SoundCloud, please click here.

To enjoy the new playlist of great music here at the Wud Records website, please click here.

If you would like easy access to all of the previous musical discoveries playlists, please click here and bookmark the page. Remember that we publish a new playlist absolutely full of largely undiscovered musical treasures every month and who knows – one might even include you!

Richard Davies, session saxophonist extraordinaire, has been helping out at Wud Records by blowing some long awaited and delightful saxophone lines for Dark Company. We’re very grateful to him. They sound amazing!

Richard is a wonderful saxophonist from the south coast of the uk who has collaborated with many musicians over the years. His own music has a unique style and depth. We wholeheartedly recommend you listen to some of his fabulous music on Bandcamp. You can do so by clicking here.

His latest album, Blue Sketches, is a wonderful collection of cinematic jazz instrumentals. Very chilled and charming and approved by the Wud Records team! Click here to listen and download your copy of Blue Sketches by Richard Davies from Bandcamp. Enter the code ‘poetry’ to receive a 20% discount.

There is also a linktree, where you can visit a variety of the pages of Richard Davies across social media and the internet. Click here to open it in a new tab.

So far he has contributed parts to Jigsaw, Bodyfire and Traveller, all from Dark Company‘s forthcoming Alien Heat album.

We plan to work with Richard Davies on a few more tracks in the coming weeks and months. We shall of course let fans of our bands know about any such developments via our News service and on Twitter.

To listen to the work-in-progress Alien Heat album as it stands right now, please click here.

If you would like to listen to Jigsaw, please click here.

To listen to Bodyfire, please click here.

Please click here to listen to Traveller.

If you happen to be in need of somebody to play some sax parts for your projects, we recommend Richard very highly. He’s a great guy to work with as well as a fabulous player.

When Dark Company first formed in 1991, the band featured the wonderful musical talent who was Rowena Parsons on saxophone and flute. She was classically trained and a tremendously versatile multi-instrumental virtuoso. You can hear a little of her in the early recordings released by Dark Company on their Signmaker album.

Rowena retired from the band in 1992 and her parts in the songs were approximated with our old sampler, the Akai S900. Although it was good and worked reasonably adequately, it was never going to be as good as real human player.

A few years ago several of the Wud musicians gathered and made a list of all the tracks that would benefit from players of instruments we collectively don’t cover. Slowly, we’ve started crossing off some of the items on that list.

How would you like to feature on one of our forthcoming albums? We are looking for additional musicians who can play on some of our bands’ tracks.

If you can record a good quality lossless .wav file and send it to us via dropbox or wetransfer or something similar, we will be delighted to welcome you into our musical family and, of course, credit you for all your contributions.

We are looking for musicians who can play trumpet, trombone, violin, flute, piano/keyboards (Grade 8 or higher) and backing vocals.

If you fancy working with our awesome team on some fabulous music, you can email Sam on info@wudrecords.co.uk to find out more. Being able to read musical score would be a big help.

In other news, there have been a number of upheavels to routines that have caused us to be unable to spend much time on social media recently. We believe that once things have settled down, a new ‘normal’ will come into being. Please bear with us! Meanwhile, the beat still goes on.

The top ten SoundCloud tracks for September 2021 from Wud Records have been published in a new playlist.

Tracks are arranged from one to ten according to their popularity. The algorithm we use gives greatest weight to reposts, then likes and comments (active engagement) over plays.

When somebody reposts a track, that gives it the opportunity to be heard by a potential new fan. This is always a tremendous help for creative souls!

Songs published at Bandcamp and other platforms are omitted from the SoundCloud statistics because they would require separate treatment.

Archive tracks and bonus tracks are also ignored, as are likes and comments from people who clearly didn’t listen to the music.

Only you, the listener, can influence our October 2021 playlist. So if there is a track you particularly like, keep playing it! Leave a comment, repost it and share it to your social media feeds!

Massive thanks go out to everybody who helped to support all of us during September 2021 by listening to, commenting on and reposting our bands’ tracks on SoundCloud, as well as other platforms.

All the wonderful fans of our bands who supported us with downloads from Bandcamp are especially appreciated because they genuinely help us keep the fires burning. May you be blessed by the gods of rock n roll! :)

We would also like to say a special thank you to all the splendid people on Twitter who have been enjoying and reposting our tracks to their followers. All the support and positive feedback has been incredibly heartwarming for us all. It makes our endeavours here seem worthwhile.

Congratulations to Alchemeon! New this month at the top of our chart is Castrol GTX a-Go-Go, a very wonderful and rather odd song composed by Pok the Bard in 1992.

Besides being a work of insane genius, there is a tremendous backstory behind the composition of Castrol GTX a-Go-Go. You can read it at any of the song’s own web pages, such as on Bandcamp, SoundCloud, and Explicit Music.

In a reasonably dominant month for Alchemeon, we also see three further songs from their Live In Session Spring 2009 compilation album.

The Winged Man is this month’s number four. It is a splendid piece of classic rock that tells the legend of Icarus. This particular performance features its new experimental grandiose ending that just about worked.

At number five is It’s A Blue Sky Don’t Hold No Rain, a wonderful progressive rock epic which laments the terrible slaughter of indegenous peoples by the conquistadors. There is a fabulous rifftastic instrumental section in the middle as well as remarkably aware lyrics for such a young composer.

The Freaks (Shall Inherit The Earth) is a song about the destruction of the landscape by successive british governments for their profit and the inherent foolishness and pointlessness of their schemes. One such acrimonious ongoing legal battle is where the british people wish to save the uk’s most famous World Heritage site, Stonhenge, and the british government want to bulldoze it and build a road. Duh.

Flicker had a good month on the new chart, occupying two of the positions. Both of the Flicker tracks are from their wonderful 2002 album At Least 1000 Words.

Moonpath is back in the charts again, at the number two position. Moonpath is a splendid melodic progressive rock instrumental. It has been a tremendously popular piece of music and showcases some of the wonderful virtuoso multi-instrumental musical skills of George and Dave.

Oily Road Hideaway drops six places to the number eight position. Oily Road Hideaway is the only track from Flicker‘s first album with programmed drums.

Flicker‘s second album, HappySad, is under construction and you can listen to it as it stands right now by clicking here. Several more tracks are likely to be released in the coming weeks and months, so please keep an eye and an ear on our News service and Twitter.

There are three songs by Dark Company on the September 2021 chart. After several months at the pinnacle of the Wud Records charts, their awesome alternative / hard / psychedelic rock and funk song Dancing In The Dark drops down to number three. The version you can hear is still work-in-progress.

Pete wrote the lyrics in 1989 and the song was originally performed by Alien Heat. Dancing In The Dark describes his memories of going nightclubbing in the West End of London after being revved up by his good friend Billy. Pete was not actually terribly keen on the song and would always refer to it as “Farting in the Park”.

Back in the days of Alien Heat, Dancing In The Dark included Graham’s drum solo. This was when everyone in the band would roll a cigarette (or something a little more flavoursome) while he performed it, hopefully having the deed done and the object lit in time to carry on with the song at the drum solo’s conclusion.

There has already been, and will also be, further news published regarding upgrades to other songs from Dark Company’s Alien Heat album in the coming days. We are busy fixing these in the hope of being able to repair broken gear and finish the guitars fairly soon.

The other two Dark Company songs on the September 2021 chart are both very interesting and fabulous songs in completely different ways. Both of them sound very basic and rough, but we love them. They have a delightful and curious charm all of their own.

Failsafe comes from the work-in-progress Old Hands album and is little more than a demo. One of Pete’s funniest lines lurks within: “Take a blender from the kitchen and a stick from the hall, Tell them you’re going to the Woodcutter’s Ball”. The man was a genius. The twin wailing lead guitars make up triads with the bass which gives the song a certain space. It needs a lot of work but it’s going to be immense when it’s finished.

Blue Blue Sky is in fact an actual demo of the song and appears on the new chart at number nine. It has a very odd, quirky sort of rhythm to it. This particular version of Blue Blue Sky features the beautiful alluring voice of Sammi, whose presence and enthusiasm was key to Dark Company reforming for a third incarnation in the late 1990s.

All of the Mind Dance demos were recorrded live onto two tracks of a four-track cassette portastudio. Bass and lead guitar or keyboards were added afterwards on the remaining two free tracks.

We are working on another version of Blue Blue Sky that will eventually appear on the finished Mind Dance album. Click here for a sneaky listen to the work-in-progress mix.

Also appearing on this month’s chart we see the first track from the delightful Cherry Smoke Empire album by The Bastard Sons of Dennis. The Furniture / Los Muebles (part 1: overture) falls five places from five to ten.

None of our other acts made it onto the chart this month.

If you would like to go to SoundCloud to hear the top ten songs from Wud Records in September 2021, as played, liked, commented upon and reposted by listeners, please click here.

If you prefer to listen right here at the Wud Records website, you will find that it is the new default music player. You will find it on all non band-specific pages at the site, including our Links collection and homepage.

Recently we have added a few more of the previous charts as pages to their section of this website. We are still three years behind in this work, but at least a little catching up has been done. If you’d like to see all our old charts, they can be accessed easily by clicking here. More pages will be added soon, when there is time.

A brand new playlist of all the favourite musical discoveries of the Wud Records team has been published at SoundCloud. All of the artists on it are amazing independent or unsigned artists who are making great music that simply aches to be heard.

These artists are not associated directly with Wud Records in any way. We simply accumulated songs that we all liked during September 2021 into one agreed playlist and published it on the first day of the new month.

This September 2021 playlist is the 62nd musical discoveries compilation. It represents over five years of amazing music and a remarkable voyage of listening enjoyment.

There are over 2000 wonderful independent artists and more than 250 hours of independent music to listen to. We hope you find some new favourites among them as we have. These compilations represent some of the very best music we’ve heard in the last five years.

Tracks have been arranged according to the number of plays at the exact moment of publishing, starting with the fewest. Tracks that are early in playlists tend to receive more plays than later tracks. We are inclined to believe that the music which has had the fewest streams needs the best chance of exposure.

If you find some new favourites on there, why not shout about them on your social media channels? It costs you nothing to do so. The artists responsible for creating the music will welcome such word-of-mouth exposure. Many of your friends and followers would enjoy hearing the music too. At the very least… you might end up making an independent musician’s day.

Sharing is very, very important!!

Sharing is a massive help for independent artists. They don’t have big corporations and mainstream media saturating every channel with their product. Every independent share counts.

Giving something a ‘like’ is nice, but sharing exposes the artist to your followers. This means that anybody in your community can see and click on what you shared. They can potentially enjoy it as well. It enables somebody new to discover the artist and become their newest fan. You create the chance for that to happen.

Are you a musician whose SoundCloud track we liked, shared or tweeted during the last month or so? If you are, there is a possibility that one of your tracks might be on this new playlist.

Can you complete the challenge of listening to every track on a musical discoveries compilation? If you manage it, tell us! Tell the music makers involved. Tell the world on social media how you feel about what you heard. The people concerned would love to know your thoughts.

We appreciate the fact that in 2021 not many have the time, patience or attention span to listen to even one track all the way through, let alone 45! Anybody who listens to even half of a musical discoveries compilation is somebody of exceptional stamina. We tend to big up on Twitter the people who do listen to a whole playlist, so if you want a bit of free promotion…

Towards the bottom of the page is a list of the featured artists and tracks. The artist name is clickable and links to an external website where you can find out, hear and see more of the artist in question.

This is for future-proofing. If the artist decides to leave SoundCloud or removes their track from that platform, you might still be able to enjoy hearing them elsewhere with a cunning click of the mouse.

If you are the artist and would prefer us to use a different link to the one we added, or if we got something a bit wrong, please send an email to info@wudrecords.co.uk so we can fix it for you.

Generally we try to use the artist’s own site where possible. This helps drive a little traffic to the artist’s website, which may not receive many visits compared to e.g. facebook or spotify. We also tend to link to something a bit more future-proof than “Listen to our latest single!” as we hope these playlists will be around for a long time to come.

We only linked to SoundCloud as a last resort when we were unable to find anything else, as users can already click the track and go to the artist’s SoundCloud page for themselves.

We hope that a lot more people will find and listen to the wonderful songs on this new playlist of musical discoveries. Each and every track has something that we felt was special or interesting in some way. In many cases it was a tough job to choose just one track from an artist.

The playlist is very eclectic, so there is probably something on there to suit every taste. If the track you are listening to isn’t quite doing it for you, skip to the next one and perhaps that will please your ears more. Sometimes similar tracks end up next to each other, and sometimes extremely different tracks do, so we recommend you just try it for yourself.

In addition to the latest compilation being our pinned tweet on Twitter, every week on Twitter we boost a previous Musical Discoveries playlist and a featured track from that playlist. The featured track is chosen by the Wud Records team and is one which is a real favourite amongst us.

We also encourage people to vote for the next featured track on Twitter. These votes are added to the votes cast by our team. All the featured tracks form an additional compilation which we also tweet daily. Sometimes we have a day off, but we tweet most days.

All of the featured tracks can be found on a separate page at our website by clicking here, or on SoundCloud by clicking here.

If you would like the opportunity to be included in a future compilation, first you need to follow us on SoundCloud so we can follow you back. You can even enjoy hearing some of the music by our fabulous bands whilst you’re there. :)

We follow everyone back who follows us on SoundCloud, providing:
1. you have original music and
2. you are not some kind of phony pointless scamming account

There are many scammers who can allegedly make it seem that people have been listening to your music. The ‘plays’ come from bots and click farms. Nobody will engage with the music or even hear it. It is very easy to spot a track that has been boosted in this way, so just don’t do it. Spend your hard-earned musical coins on something useful!

Our people listen to everyone we follow at SoundCloud on a first-in-first-out basis. It may take a few weeks for us to reach the newest additions. We always have a massive amount of music to listen to, so please be patient and eventually you will be heard.

If you would like to listen to the new playlist of September 2021 Musical Discoveries over at SoundCloud, please click here.

To enjoy the new playlist of great music here at the Wud Records website, please click here.

If you would like easy access to all of the previous musical discoveries playlists, please click here and bookmark the page. Remember that we publish a new playlist absolutely full of largely undiscovered musical treasures every month and who knows – one might even include you!