Weekly Electronic Music Tips – DECEMBER/JANUARY #01 – 23
PICKS OF THE WEEK:
- Cutups – Italian Danse 1990 [MIX]
Pittsburgh‘s veteran electronic DJ Geoff Maddock, resident at Lazercrunk @Brillobox, delivers an intense and energetic mix of New Beat, Italo Disco, Industrial Danse, and Electronic Body Music. The sound of the future is now!
- Frankfurt am Main slow techno /downtempo /tribal /breakbeat /psych /wave /trance /electronic producer Tassilo Vanhöfen – “Kashmir” from V/A “Unreleased Territory vol. 4” compilation on Electric Shapes
German sound explorer delves, as usual, into the downtempo psychedelic side of dance music, drifting off seamlessly into a tantalizing and sultry ethnic-tinged drive of hypnotic snares, chug-filled groovy percussions, swelling percolating basslines, airy esoteric breaths, fluting flutters, and glittering synth drips that transport the listener on a trip down the rabbit hole of uncanny exotic hypnotism. Check out the additional huge cast of producers delivering a rich smorgasbord of trippy workouts.
- The Hague native ambient /Balearic /breaks /acid /techno /analog electronic producer, DJ, live performer and visual artist Cris Kuhlen, AKA Dazion – “Glasgow” from V/A “Driving Blind (Vol.3)” compilation album on Les Yeux Orange
Dutch producer with a nostalgic-bent smooth jam that sways amid steady lashing rhythms, scattered crisp percussions, blissfully melodic wistful synth drifts, flashing chiming chords, and groovy guitar glimmers to build an immersive sultry and sensory aural Balearic-tinged affair that dances somewhere between the shimmery magic hours of sunset and twilight.
- Florida based industrial /minimal wave /acid /breakbeat /electro funk producer and co-owner of Vanguard Sound, Chris Mitchell – “The Rail” from upcoming cassette album “Rip Run Ride Die” on Dead Channel Records
Chris Mitchell returns on Dead Channel label, ‘delivering 7 tracks of mutated psych-apocalyptic acid, icy minimal wave, and blown-out machined rhythms’. Centered on an urgent and hypnotic rhythmic foundation of slamming snare beats, entrancing hi-hats, muffled tight percussions, raw acidic droning and swelling basslines, muted euphoric vocal loops and lilting tinny chimes, “The Rail” obsessively throbs and wobbles in a circular trance charged with relentless energy and dancing vibrations.
- Swedish ambient /IDM /ethereal electronic artist Ludvig Cimbrelius (aka Illuvia), aka PURL “Livet Vänder Inte Åter” single
- UK ambient /drone /electro-acoustic /soundscape sound artist Ray Robinson AKA Wodwo “Veils” title track from the album “Veils” on Whitelabrecs
- Turkish lo-fi folk, dream pop, ambient, electronica female artist (one half of Proudpilot) from Istanbul, Ekin Üzeltüzenci AKA Ekin Fil “Hidden Place” from the upcoming album “Rosewood Untitled” on re:st
- Los Angeles/Melbourne ambient /drone /ethereal /meditative /soundscape collaboration between musicians-producers Marine Eyes (Cynthia Bernard) & IKSRE (Phoebe Dubar), aka MARINE EYES + IKSRE “Bones Knowing” from the upcoming album “Nurture” on Past Inside the Present
- Taiwanese ambient /classical /chamber music ensemble, Cicada “Raining on the Tent” from “Seeking the Sources of Streams” album on FLAU
- Scottish ambient /spiritual jazz /neo-classical /chamber folk composer and producer (former member of Idlewild and Hazey Janes), Andrew Wasylyk “Fugitive Light Restless Water” from the upcoming mix album “Parallel Light” on Athens Of North Records
- Prague, Czechia ambient /chill-out /analogue /synth /electronic producer Binaural Space “Twenty Three Once More” single
- Northern Germany ambient /analogue synthpop project of Stefan Bornhorst, AKA The Silicon Scientist “INSELWINTER I” (2022 Version)
- Hong Kong‘s experimental /ambient /techno/breakcore /electronic producer 0rt 場所 “cage0d11”
- Frankfurt am Main experimental /ambient /dub /downbeat /breakbeat /wave /techno DJ-producer Benedikt Frey “Recall” from the incoming “Recall” EP 12″ on Malka Tuti
- Offenbach, German techno-pop /electro master Anthony Rother “The Supreme” from the new double album “AI SPACE” on PSI49NET
- Berlin-based, Vienna bass /electro duo /DL/MS/ “Play With Us” off upcoming “Halo” EP 12″ on Mechatronica
- UK bleep /techno /electro /breakbeat DJ-producer DAWL “System Check” off upcoming “Hyper Charged” EP on Craigie Knowes
- Berlin, Germany psych /synth pop /analog electronic duo AFAR “low high (Benedikt Frey Remix)” on Laut & Luise
- Düsseldorf‘s experimental /house /techno /kraut /afro /electronic project of Salon Des Amateurs, Stefan Schwander AKA Harmonious Thelonious “Soft Opening Machine” from upcoming LP “Cheapo Sounds” on Bureau B
- UK experimental /ethnic /psych /tribal /dub /downtempo /electronic producer Will Flisk – “Seven Seven” from “Syberia” EP on Elephant Gait Music
- Frankfurt am Main experimental /ambient /dub /downbeat /breakbeat /wave /techno DJ-producer Benedikt Frey “Recall” from the upcoming EP “Recall” 12″ on Malka Tuti
- Italian dark ambient /experimental /noise /techno /electronic audio-visual artist CAMILLA PISANI “Tales For Violent Days” off the album ” Phant[as]” on Cyclic Law‘s sublabel Aesthetical
- Berlin-based Italo house /acid /EBM /trance collaboration between Philoxenia Records founders Luigi Di Venere and Neu Verboten, AKA Affekt Unit – “Dust Off” off upcoming EP on Dischi Autunno
- German psychedelic cosmo funk band Takeshi’s Cashew – “No Harmony (Lorikeet‘s Cursed Remix)” off V/A “Music Lovers Club #004” charity compilation on Laut & Luise (MLC004)
- Amsterdam based Dutch experimental /leftfield /dub wave /mutant dancehall /electronic multi-instrumentalist and producer Nic Mauskovic AKA Nicolini “Sopratutto ft. Madba” off upcoming album “Sopratutto” on South Of North
- London based industrial /EBM /dark wave /acid /psych /electro /dance artist – BIRDS “Living With Liars” from upcoming EP “Rain Dance” [Feed The Void]
- Balkan experimental post-industrial collaboration between Saša Rajković (Zarkoff), Jasmin Mahmić (Le Chocolat Noir) and Lidija Andonov (Sixth June), AKA Involucija – “Ideološka Fatamorgana” off “Crna Formula” EP [aufnahme + wiedergabe]
- Ljubljana, Slovenia industrial /electro /techno producer Lowrander – “Seeing Other Cities (Chris Mitchell Remix)” from “Streets Of My Town” EP on Italo Moderni
- Italian acid /breakbeat /psych /electro /downtempo /experimental production duo Alessio Costantino and Marco Segato AKA NARVALOS “Solid Snake from the cassette album “DHIKR” on SONS OF TRADERS RECORDS
- Chicago-based industrial /EBM/ electro musician Beau Wanzer “Warm Waterboarding” from the upcoming 12″ EP on iDEAL Recordings
- New York electronic experimentalist Lawrence Lui “Seafelt (Facets Remix)” off “Seafelt remixes” EP
- Belgian electronic /EBM /darkwave band The Arch – “Blood Crystals (Israel Padilla Remix)” off V/A “Tributo The Arch” tape album [Banshees Records]
- Utrecht-based electro /minimal synth DJ-musician-producer Roberto Auser – “Man With Dead Leg” from “Roberto Auser / Melting Dogmas” split EP 12″ via Enfant Terrible
- Stockholm-based EBM /no wave /electro-funk duo Johan Skugge & Martin Thomasson AKA Harlem Electronics “Tracer” off upcoming “Tracer” EP [Body Musick]
- Texas industrial /dark electronics /EBM solo project of Keaton Khonsari (Razorbumps, Narrow Head), Semantix “Like a Dog” from the upcoming sophomore cassette album “Violent Protocol” on DKA Records
- Derry-based industrial /experimental electronics /EBM project of Christian Donaghy, AKA Autumns – “Still In The Thick Of It” title track from the cassette album “Still In The Thick Of It” on Antibody Label
- Leipzig-based industrial /EBM /dark techno /electro project by Daniel Myer & Rinaldo Bite, LIEBKNECHT “Voula” from upcoming LP “Fabrikat” on ant-zen
- Barcelona, Spain EBM /synthwave /techno /electro producer Asymetric 80 – “Blood Lines” off upcoming mini-album via ORACULO RECORDS
- Paris based electro /industrial /techno /EBM project Continental Mafia “Plastic Surgery”
- Berlin-based Irish industrial experimental techno electronic producer Simon Hayes AKA Swarm Intelligence “Shrapnel” from V/A “WICKED LIFE I” [KDC238] compilation tape on KINDCRIME
- Italian industrial /horror /EBM /techno producers Francesco Baudazzi of Violet Poison/Diana Berti (Veleno Viola) and Andrea Riberti of Unconscious (Detriti, X-IMG), AKA Inconscio Viola “The Exorcist III” from “Klack / Inconscio Viola” Split EP on SYNTHICIDE
- Paris based EBM /industrial techno producer Termination_800 – “Cybernetic Torture” title track from upcoming EP on WIE EIN GOTT
- New York experimental /EBM /dark electro industrial project of Michael Renfield (aka Soilodge and Noise Process), aka R010R – “Psychosomatic Density” off the forthcoming double CD album “Total Disinformation Awareness” on Electro Aggression Records
- French hard techno producer Rorganic “Mom gonna be a ghostman”
- French dark techno /EBM producer from Le Mans, Xavier Malleret, AKA Nasdrowie – “Versus (NZM 99 Remix)” from “Versus” EP upcoming on Nu Body Records
- Moscow-based EBM /dark techno /electro DJ-producer, GEGEN MANN “My Moon” from “La Chic” EP on Maxima Culpa
- Spanish dark electro /proto-techno /synth-wave /disco DJ-producer from Bilbao, WLDV “Master Of Disguise” off “The Fourth Kind” EP 12″ (a tribute to Valencia’s ‘La Ruta del Bacalao’ or ‘Ruta Destroy’) soon on Aspecto Humano
- German Electro Industrial Noise project from Hamburg, STAHLSCHLAG – “Auditory Stimuli” title track from the new EP “Auditory Stimuli”
- Berlin based industrial techno producer SPIRITUAL VOICES “D Devil´s Witch [Elizar Mel Remix]” from “Devil´s Witch” [EP] on Vumantra
- Russian dark disco /industrial /EBM /electronic DJ and producer, Anton Komarov aka Yansyet “913 Notes (Sanyanameste Remix)” from “Tears of the Motherland Remixes” EP on Khoinix
- Greek industrial /electro /dark electronics /experimental artist Boris Barksdale “US KUS D”
- Argentina‘s speed post-punk /electronic project of Thissperso and Wachita China AKA Suicidio “Sniff Sniff” from the second album “Corre Sangre” on Aperitif de la Mort
- Athens, Greece psyambient /downtempo /psychill /darkwave /cyberpunk producer Side Liner “Cyber Dystopia” from “Cyber Dystopia” album on Cosmicleaf Records
- Russian experimental / witch house / dark electro / synthwave project of Alexandr Koyt aka CRASPORE “Parallel” [KRYPTA]
- ’80s French new wave /synth-pop duo, Deux “Let’s Go (BBB Trash Mix)” from 4-song EP “Let’s Go” 12″ on Minimal Wave
- Buenos Aires based, Brazil-born atmospheric techno DJ-producer Diego Azambuja Siehe aka DAS – “Unwavering Issues (Pfirter Remix)” off the “Unwavering Issues” EP on Argentina’s Unterwelt Records
- São Paulo, Brazil leftfield /hypnotic /techno producer ASKE “Apace” EP on A+audio
- Lyon based breaks /electro DJ-Producer Lost In Material ‘RDV Souterrain’ off V/A “Solstice d’Hiver 2022” cassette compilation on Lyon‘s label L’Enfant Pneu
- Phoenix based acid techno /breakbeat DJ-producer Osutin – “Fux It Friday” from V/A “Native Boundaries” compilation on Native Boundaries
- Lyon/Marseille breaks /bass /techno DJ-producer RAVL – “Fausse Monnaie” from V/A “Brighter Days FM” compilation album on JEROME
- Miami, FL bass /electro funk duo DJ Wreck & A-Sides aka GUCCI BASS – “Artificial Immunology” from V/A “Elektro Magnetico” EP [Ovelha Trax]
- Rotterdam‘s electro-disco noir producer Silas Schletterer, aka Machinegewehr “Shivver” off upcoming EP on NEIN Records
- Colorado‘s industrial /techno /electro-funk /electro graffiti writer-DJ-producer Johan Sebastian Bot, aka DVS NME “Comeuppance“ from V/A “Fanzine XIV Years Compilation” album on Fanzine Records
- Dutch experimental /drum & bass /techno DJ-producer (aka Vector Trancer), Aa Sudd – “Pselum” from “Pushedd” EP on Midgar Records
- Goa, India techno /trance /breaks /electro producer Pulpy Shilpy “Greaser” [OCL Records]
- Belgian dub /trance /techno /rave old-school production duo Olivier Abbeloos & Analog Devices ‘Baghwa’ from “Acid-A-Gogo” EP forthcoming on Tripalium Corp
- Tokyo based Japanese rave /tribal /reggaeton /trance /bass DJ-producer WRACK “Grasshopper (100 – 150)” from “Scorpion” album
- Serenades Edit #22 – Yulduz Usmanova – “Hur Qiz (Quasar Edit)”
- Berlin-based EBM /synth wave /Italo body disco Toulouse‘s DJ-producer (half of Imperial Black Unit, aka Lapse Of Reason), Pablo Bozzi – “Seventh Heaven” from upcoming V/A “La Danse du Gouffre” compilation on Toulouse Gouffre Club
- Berlin‘s Italo trance /synthwave /cosmic disco producer Tallac – “Pulsar” off upcoming V/A “Epifania Part I” on Ritmo Fatale
- Mon A Q “Stay In Love” [Jordan Nocturne Edit]
- Spanish indie dance duo of writer and DJ Luis Costa and producer Fernando Lagreca, AKA LagreSca “Mostro” from V/A “Sagan Series Vol.1” compilation on Cenital Music
- Greek EBM /midtempo /psych folk /kraut /slow techno /electronic producer Aggelos Baltas (aka Dream Weapons and Fantastikoi Hxoi), Anatolian Weapon “Dragon” from “Day Three” EP on Nubians of Plutonia Records
- London-based, Lithuanian ambient /goa /slow /trance /shamanic /electro /psych /electronic producer Tadas Majeris, aka TADAN “Metamorph” from V/A “CLUB TERRAM” compilation 12″ on Terra Magica Rec.
- Brussels based trance /dark disco DJs & producers duo Sylphomatic “Dark Places” from “Push & Rush” EP on NEIN Records
- Dutch born/Berlin based dark disco /downtempo DJ-music producer Enzio Etchaberri – “VoW (Original Mix)” from V/A “Muy Duro Vol. 9” on Duro
- Spanish downtempo /dark disco collaboration Sandro Bianchi & Stylic – “Raver In The Booth” from upcoming EP [Espacio Cielo]
- Guadalajara, Mexico dark cosmic disco DJ-producer Flight Status “Dice” from V/A ” Cosmic Memories vol.2″ album on Rare Wiri Records
- Berlin based acid /house /electro /trance-Italo duo Kiara Scuro – “Don’t Haunt Yourself” off upcoming V/A “Epifania Part I” on Ritmo Fatale
- French Italo disco /cosmic synth producer based in Toulouse, Brandski – “Moonrider (Original)” from the upcoming “Moonrider” LP on Mélopée
- Belgian cosmic dark disco /psych /indie dance producers Dimitri Andreas and Spacid, AKA Marching Machines – “Seraphic” off V/A “Boots & Legs Vol.4″ EP 12” [Boots & Legs]
- Dark-dance electronic side project by Adriano from the Parisian duo Echoberyl, AKA Fluid Ghost “Sweat” single
- Boys From Brazil – “We Don’t Need No World War III (Facets Edit)” off V/A “ITALO MODERNI EDITS (III Xmas Edizione)” album [ITALO MODERNI]
- Lorella Cuccarini – “La Notte Vola (Fabrizio Mammarella Lullabye Edit)” [Slow Motion Records]
- 1984 Italo classic DARIO DELL’AERE “Eagles In The Night (Flemming Dalum Remix)”
- Russian indie Italo disco duo Arash & Quasar “Cross On Which To Nail Me (Arash & Quasar Remix)” from V/A “Extinct Melodies From The Mud” on Fauve Records
- Italian Trance /Indie Dance /Italo-Disco DJ-producer Matteo Pepe aka UABOS “Magico Infinito (Fabrizio Mammarella Remix)” off “Magico Infinito” EP 12″ [Taste Rec.]
- Portugal‘s ambient /deep techno producer Floating Machine – “Aurora” from “Rituals” EP (ST053) on Secuencias Temporales
- Spanish ambient /deep techno producer Halos “II/III (Qeel ‘llamada’ Edit)” from “The Hyplusionist” EP on Annulled Music
- Australian ambient electronic sound artist Robert Hughes, AKA Sanguine “Mood Neutraliser” from V/A “Mirinae 미리내” compilation [HNC003] on Huinali Recordings
- Rzeszów, Poland IDM /ambient /drone /leftfield /dub /electronic musician and part of the RDNTSVRF label/collective Mateusz Musiał, AKA Musley – “All Intrusive” off upcoming V/A ” VOL. 3″ compilation trilogy on Nü Kvlture
- Brooklyn, NY‘s experimental /ambient /tape loops /electronic sound artist Tyler Gilmore, AKA BlankFor.ms “Inside” from the upcoming album “In Part” on Mystery Circles
- UK ambient/ ambient electronic producer from the UK, zarr. “Flux” from the LP “Archive Drive”
- Californian experimental /ambient /drone /folk /electronica composer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer, William Ryan Fritch “Storm” from the upcoming LP “Polarity” on Lost Tribe Sound
- Chilean ambient musician and sound collagist Iván Aguayo AKA Bahía Mansa “Canto yubarta” from V/A “Migraciones” fundraising album
- Warsaw-based Polish ambient /neo-classical pianist, composer and musician born in Gdansk, HANIA RANI “Spring” from the upcoming LP “On Giacometti” on Gondwana Records
- Ireland‘s ambient /electronic /experimental /modern classical sound artist (one half of Autumn Of Communion), Mick Chillage “Neuro Cosmos” from “Before & After Silence Year Two Compilation” on his own Before & After Silence Recordings
- Taiwan experimental /ambient /drone /electro-acoustic sound artist A Wave, A Mouth; “Shake Me Gently Call Me Names” from the album “First Beast” on Whitelabrecs
- UK neo-classical 4 string quartets composed by Katie English (Isnaj Dui, Busy Microbes, Littlebow, The Doomed Bird Of Providence) and Mark Kluzek (The Doomed Bird of Providence), Katie English & Mark Kluzek “Fire” from “BEL” EP [performed by Maria Grigoryeva and Natalia Nazarova] on Eukaryotic
- Italy ambient /experimental /drone /soundscape /guitar-synth project Far away Nebraska “Sogni d’autunno” off of “Sogni” EP
- South German drone /noise duo DRNTTCKS “CELESTIAL IRGENDWAS” from the cassette album “OKBOOMER!” on Feathered Coyote Records
- Italian dark ambient /drone /experimental sound artist (member of Autumn Of Communion, Moss Garden, Ishqamatics, Angling Loser, Memex and The Ashes Of Piemonte), AKA Nacht Plank “Unthejiv Forest” on Neotantra
- Kentucky dark ambient /noise /drone /experimental project of Jason T. Lamoreaux, AKA The Corrupting Sea – “Float” CDr via NCTMMRN