A warm welcome to this month's roundup and hello to any new birdwatchers that have started following the blog. If there's something you'd like us to cover, we'd love to hear about it (and you can email us at hi@mirlo.space)!
Let's take a look at what's been happening this past month:
As if to confirm our thoughts on interoperability and open source being the way forward, a list of Bandcamp alternatives is being tracked on The Social Music Network, many of which are closed in terms of both their code and their links with other services. This means more admin for musicians to appear across multiple places and scattered music collections for listeners. However, we are doing a lot of thinking and exploring in this area, along with other folks in the space, which brings us nicely onto the next point...
Guest Interview: FairPlayer x Mirlo. Catalan translation is also here, accompanied by an excellent illustration showing a meeting of mascots.
Also, here's a question for musicians to ponder: How do you use stats on other platforms? Let us know on our socials, on the Social Web, Bluesky or Instagram.
And now it's listening time! Here's what we found for our Mirlo Mondays recommendations this month.
July 6th 2026: We've talked a lot about how collaboration is essential to the health of independent music. And we've made it the theme of today's #MirloMondays pick, which is a collaborative song by EscΓ³rpora & l'Acqua Frizzante, featuring songwriter Carme Vives.
Listen to "A les palpentes" on Mirlo. π§π¦ββ¬
July 13th 2026: We're keeping last week's collaboration theme going for today's #MirloMondays post, with "K4KUS3I θ¦ι", an EP by Revengeday and friends.
For fans of eerie, dreamlike sound palettes and glitching, time-hopping beats. ππ¦ββ¬
20th July 2026: If you're into noise, doom, shoegaze and experimental music with strange, distant voices and you're partial to a harp or a saxophone, then we've found the perfect #MirloMondays release for you. πͺπ¦ββ¬
This is "cut" by Nadja.
27th July 2026: It's time for another #MirloMondays recommendation and today calls for the brooding, building techno sensibilities of C.Circo's "Samhainbach", which uses Hainbach's "Isolation Loops" as its starting point. ποΈπ¦ββ¬
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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://mirlo.space/team/posts/721