WL//WH Weekly Electronic Music Tips

Weekly Electronic Music Tips // JANUARY 2025 #01-26

Lina Bo Bardi, São Paulo’s SESC Pompéia, 1977-1986

PICKS OF THE WEEK:

Manipulations of DUNKELTIER

Being socialized in the GDR himself, Dresden‘s Dunkeltier (German for ‘dark beast’) aka Lupo and Sneaker DJ delivers a recording of two and a half hours of German, Austrian & Swiss synth music from the early 80s, commonly dubbed as Neue Deutsche Welle (the commercial tag), and from the Kassettentäterszene (underground DIY tape scene).

Stockholm, Swedish veteran experimental techno DJ-producer (Fka The Subliminal Kid, and 1/2 of Roll The Dice), Peder Mannerfelt “Fire is a Drug” from “10 YEARS – V/A Vol. 4” LP, 10th anniversary and fourth instalment of the Berlin-based label’s compilation series [Herrensauna]

A sweeping, mesmerizing slice of looping techno deepness with a striking, futuristic edge from Swedish experimentalist.

Malta-based acid /techno /breaks /electro producer Neil Hales, aka Acidulant “Nomuntakasa” from “Let The Acid Move Your Body” EP [Who Is Paula]

A nostalgic dystopian meandering of bouncy and raw mechanoid, liquid futuristic soundscapes comes courtesy of Maltese acid electro sound dealer ACIDULANT, whose robotic vocals suggest ‘let your destiny unfold’

Italian ambient /minimal /breakbeat /hypnotic /deep /techno experienced producer and live artist Dino Sabatini, aka Ness “Iridium” off “Chromadelia” EP [The Third Room]

A bassy, crunchy, sizzly and deeply pulsing magnetic dive into the sharp essence of textural techno inwardness, meticulously treading on a slackline between restraint and emotion.

Dutch ambient /drone /meditative /soundscape /electronic creative composer Líom “Filleadh” single
Upstate New York-based ambient /electronic /experimental vocal artist Leslie Lowder, aka idiiom “Real Sad” from the debut LP “Neural Network” [Audiobulb]
Ibero–American ambient /drone /modern classical /experimental composer Rafael Anton Irisarri “Signals from a Distant Afterglow ft. Karen Vogt” from the upcoming album “Points of Inaccessibility” [Black Knoll]
Torre Annunziata, Naples ambient /folk /modern classical /experimental /dream pop /electronic artist Giuseppe Federico Pastore, a.k.a Ciro Vitiello “+days ft. Heith” from the second “notes from the air” LP [STROOM.tv]
Japanese-Australian ambient /shoegaze /dub /downtempo /electronica producer Takeo.K “Call me (when yr heart is empty)” first single from “Home Is Everywhere and Nowhere at Once” LP [Theory Therapy]
UK ambient /modern classical /experimental composer and producer Phil Tomsett, aka The Inventors of Aircraft – “Night Birds” from V/A “Sleeplaboratory6.0” compilation series LP [whitelabrecs]
Spokane, WA experimental /ambient /drone /soundscape /electronic sound artist Drew Sullivan, aka Slow Dancing Society “I Had a Dream About This Place” from upcoming LP “The Disappearing Collective Vol. II” [Past Inside the Present]
Portland, OR-based Canadian–American ambient /ethereal /dream pop artist Hollie Kenniff “Of Quiet Beauty” single [Nettwerk]
Ostrava, Czech Republic ambient /drone /electroacoustic sound artist blochemy – “eim” from V/A “Isla’s Calm Cloud” LP [whitelabrecs]
Experimental /tape loops /field recordings /ambient collaboration between Berlin-based Sean Galloway and San Francisco‘s James Key, Ave Grave x Unlearn “Untitled 01” off the collaborative album “Ave Grave x Unlearn” [We All Speak In Poems]
East London, UK ambient /drone /field recordings /modular synth producer Wil Bolton “Linear Park” from “Concrete Botany” album [Home Normal]
Greece/Vietnam ambient /drone /elettroacoustic /modernclassical /experimental collaboration between Chania‘s sound artist Maria Papadomanolaki and Hanoi‘s pianist Nhung Nguyen, aka Dalot & Sound Awakener “Tone in A Minor” from upcoming LP “Ianos” [DRONARIVM]
New York ambient /experimental composer and pianist (leader of the ensemble Bing & Ruth), David Moore “Rush Creek” from the album “Graze the Bell” [RVNG Intl.]
Santiago, Chile ambient /drone /field recordings /modular synth /experimental musician and sound collagist Iván Aguayo, aka Bahía Mansa “alas anchas” from “objetos de campo, parte I” LP
Paris-based ambient /drone /noise /electronic /guitarist Guillaume Blache “I” from “Fragments oubliés” LP [attenuation circuit]
Derby, UK ambient /drone /electro-acoustic /soundscape /guitarscraper musician Ray Robinson, aka Wodwo “Eclipsara” from the album “Veridream”
Italian ambient /experimental /drone /soundscape /guitar-synth project Far away Nebraska “Ultimo ballo” from “Un luogo che avevo lasciato” LP
Minneapolis, Minnesota ambient /drone /electronic experimental project of Jon Mulville, PAPERBARK “Light Behind Me” title track of the album “Light Behind Me” [laaps]
Baltimore, Maryland ambient /drone /kraut /psych /Berlin school /synth musician PJ Dorsey, aka Tarotplane “Transitions Of Possibility” from “Light Self All Others” LP (originally released May 12, 2022)
De Wijk, Netherlands ambient /drone /Berlin school /soundscape /electronic producer DTime “A Day Inside One Moment” from the album “The Shape Of Slowed Time”
Los Angeles groove /psych /free jazz /experimental sessions by drummer Jared Marshall (aka Primary Mystical Experience), musician Raquel Bell (Galecstasy), and former bassist of the legendary Minutemen bassist Mike Watt, aka Galecstasy & Mike Watt Trio “Walk the Talk” from “Wattzotica” LP [Mystery Circles]
New Zealand-based ambient /cinematic /neoclassical/post-rock composer/multi-instrumentalist Micah Templeton-Wolfe, aka Stray Theories “Catalyst” from the upcoming fifth album “Falter” [n5MD]
Lyon, France ambient /drone /techno /experimental electronic DJ, producer, and composer Lilou Chelal, aka Tauceti “Khit Errouh” from the upcoming “Guanyin” LP [Denovali]
Hudson, NY ambient /IDM /drone /dub /leftfield house /deep techno /electronic producer Griff Fulton, aka Aspetuck – “Song for Peebah”
German ambient /drone /space /dub /deep techno /electronic DJ-composer and Affin label owner, Joachim Spieth “Residual” taken from the upcoming “Vestige” LP [Affin]
US-based ambient /dub /downtempo /electronic Colombian duo of Mónica Mesa (Doris Dana) & Domingo Castillo Flores (Power Dynamics), aka Bad LSD Trips – “Eno River” from upcoming V/A “Soak vol 2” compilation [soak]
Berlin-based ambient /bass /breakbeat /dub techno Mexican sound artist and producer Kurt Reinartz Salgado, Reinartz “Empty Time (A Flowing Out)” from “Irradiated” LP [appendix.files]
Bangkok, Thailand ambient /IDM /psych /tribal /downtempo /electronic DJ-producer and co-founder of Siamese Twins Records, Sunju Hargun “F9” (previously unreleased) from “Extans Mantra : The Final Trip” EP
UK ambient /glitch /IDM /experimental /downtempo /electronica production duo Jon Worsley and Kayla Painter, aka Sarno Ultra “Glacis” from V/A “Paradigm (10 Year Label Sampler)” collection [Bricolage]
Krakow, Poland based ambient /IDM /glitch /electronic Spanish producer, Veelargo – “Breeze Out” from V/A “C O L O R S Q U A D 0 1 9” LP compilation [Color Squad Records]
Russian jackin’ house producer Liminal 8 – “Keep On” from “Escapist’s Lair” EP [DO THE RAW]
The Hague, Dutch minimal /deep /techno producer Troy “The Hague wormhole” from the double EP “Echoes of Ancient Life” [Infrastructure New York]
Berlin-based ambient /drone /minimal /techno UK-born DJ-producer Anil Chawla, aka Amotik “Subah” off “Raat” EP [Delsin Records]
Chicago‘s influential Puerto Rican-native house music DJ-producer since the mid-90s, Dj Sneak – “Acid Nation” from V/A “Post Office 6 [Part.1]” EP [Logistic Records]
Italian acid /house /techno production duo FLML “Heavy Land X” off “Heavy Land” EP 12″ [Alley Version]
Berlin-based psych /acid house /techno Midwest producer Jaundice – “Lark” from “Jaundice” EP [Kontour Visions]
London ambient /experimental /psych /cosmic /techno /electronica project of Andrew Weatherall & Nina Walsh, aka The Woodleigh Research Facility “Garden Shed 3″ from “Maximum Vaultage Vol. 12” EP (Maximum Vaultage series recorded in Youth’s garden shed studio in 2015) [Facility 5]
Madrid-based, Chilean acid /house /techno /leftfield /indie dance /dark disco producer Julian Garcia-Reyes aka JGR “Blurry Night (Thomass Jackson Remix)” from “Blurry Trip” EP [Rotten City Records]
Torino, Italy ambient /drone /acid /dub /noise /leftfield /techno enigmatic producer hawaii8 “-20000” from “X1” EP [IVREATRONIC]
Zagreb, Croatia-based acid house /psych /slow techno /percussive /downtempo /electronic DJ-producer MIMI “Irma’s Disko” title track of the “Irma’s Disko” EP [Casabianca]
German acid /house /downtempo /hip-hop /electronic artist Paul Traeumer “Eau (Japanese Limo Boys Remix)” from “La Vaca Cega” remix EP [Kontrapost]
Koh Chang, Thailand shamanic acid /trippy techno /downtempo /tribal /slow psy trance /psych /cosmic dub /electronic Swiss producer and Sphearic Records head Jérôme (mastermind behind the Mogambo Duo on Siamese Twins), aka The Dude Of Stratosphear – “Staaradast (Zillas On Acid Remix)” from “Staaradast” EP [Les Yeux Orange]
Miami-based bass /techno /machine funk /electro producer Gosub “BEAMS REACH” first release in Gosub’s BL Concepts Series [Isophlux Records]
Lithuanian acid /techno /electro producer 5ZYL – “Need To (Electro Mix)” off of “PLAY YOUR ROLE” EP
Ibiza-based, French experimental /industrial /techno /psych /dark electro producer from Bordeaux, Jauzas The Shining “Next Galaxy” from upcoming V/A “3/4 Denial” compilation LP [Ratflak]
Russian techno /electro /breakbeat /electropunk collaboration RWD, WASAP MOS x ANY ACT – “APACHE” single [GESTALT.PROMO]
Polish breaks /raw electro producer from Szczecin (aka MROCKI), Robodrum “Metalhands” from upcoming split “Machine Mayhem” EP by Robodrum & Nasty Boxes [Ovelha Trax]
Dutch experimental /IDM /acid /breakbeat /dark electro producer Johnny Hoorneboeg, aka Nachtwald “Gehaktbal”
Chicago-based industrial /EBM /raw electro /leftfield techno musician (De-Bons-en-Pierre, Mutant Beat Dance), Beau Wanzer “Cathartic Catapults” from S/T EP 12″ [b.w.]
Toulouse, France EBM /techno /analog electro funk producer Mascarpone “Nanochrome” from the forthcoming V/A “First Transmission compilation” LP [Meteors Recordings]
UK electronic music collective centred around Belfast DJ & producer David Holmes, The Five Techniques “Resistance In The Dark (Autumns Remix)” from “Resistance In The Dark (Remixes)” EP [Heavenly Recordings]
Alicante, Spanish EBM /industrial /breaks /electro duo Arusa and Devil’s Day, aka Another Code – “Tension protocol (Pvta Miséria Remix)” from “Ritmos de Combate – Round 1” EP by Pvta Misèria VS Another Code [Neurovision]
Ukrainian industrial /EBM /breakbeat /dark techno /electro producer Lvcerate “East Dystopia” from V/A “LABEL SAMPLER ’26” LP [mystictrax]
Brussels, Belgium Retro-Future /EBM /Electro-Industrial producer Analog 80 “The Last Age” single
Rouen, France experimental /industrial /electronic /synthetic music solo project of Isthmaël Baudry, aka MORPHOEX “Black and white lines” from “Méta Langages” LP
Brussels-based experimental /noise /industrial /techno producer and performer, Peter Adriaenssens aka 6SISS “None Will Guess” from the split EP “CONTROL & COLLAPSE” by 6SISS & ELAINA VIERCE [MUTANT MODALITY]
Italian ritual ambient /industrial /dark techno producer Symvolia – “Initiation (2+2=5 Remix)” from “Catharsis” LP [VūMantra Records]
Berlin-based industrial body music producer and X-IMG Records owner, Emad Dabiri, aka SARIN “FATAL EXCEPTION” from the LP “SEARCHING HELL” [X-IMG]
Sofia, Bulgaria electro /minimalwave /postpunk trio Les Animaux Sauvages “ZBEAT-RMX” from “Dance Floor Skeletons” EP
Barcelona-based acid techno /modular synth producer Julia Bondar “Pain & Please (Acid rework)” [Endorphines Production]
Moscow-based EBM /avant-garde /dark wave duo of producer Disco Morato and singer Varvara Pavlovna, Disco Morato & Varvara Pavlovna “Джинн (Etane Remix)” from “Джинн (Remixes)” EP [Maxima Culpa]
Prague synthwave /indie dance /dark disco producer De Mode “Sensual Echo”
Montreal, Québec Italo disco /synth-pop /electronic French-born artist Douce Angoisse ft. Juno Martian “Pourquoi (Olgha remix)” single
German experimental /witch house /electronic artist Mater Suspiria Vision “Chloroforme” from “Siamnesia” LP featuring Violette de Lestrange and Anna Luisa Syversen [Phantasma Disques]
Tears for Fears “Shout (Random House Project Remix)” UK-based Gez Dewar (former member of Doi-Oing, Heliotropic, Tenth Planet, The Experiment), aka Random House Project Remix of Tears for Fears Classic
Russian new beat /house /Italo disco producer (aka Transcendent Experience), Orchid “Belgium used to be calmer” single
Parisian acid /house /indie dance /dark disco producer SKAHR “Captain Guts (Fargo Devianti & Vongold Remix)” off “Interaction” EP [Side Up Works]
Italian electro /dark disco producer CR HERZ – “Cosmogonia – Original Mix” from “UNIVERSO” EP [Analog Disorder]
Iranian-born, London-based progressive house /trance /nu-disco artist Amirali “Endless High (Original Mix)” from “Endless High” EP [Mélopée Records]
French house /techno /indie dance /nu-disco /electronic DJs-producers Darlyn Vlys & Panthera “Come With Us (Musumeci Remix)” from V/A “Sincopat 2025 Day – Vol 1” compilation LP [Sincopat]
Berlin-based trance /breakbeat /tech house producer Blu:sh “1000″ off upcoming “Yapping After Dawn” EP [Kalahari Oyster Cult]
Paris/Stuttgart ambient /deep techno /experimental electronic production duo Adhémar + Nils Edte – “Lumière Lunaire (Adhémar‘s Nocturnal Wandering)” from “Full Moon Reshape” EP [Indefinite Pitch]
Los Angeles downtempo /ambient electronica sound artist Pre Polar “Resident Resonances” from “Drift Machine” LP [Kalamine Records]
Kansas City-based experimental /ambient /drone /field recordings /tape collage /electronic collaboration, Austin Williamson + Blanket Swimming “Temporary Utopias” from “Horizons” LP [Dragon’s Eye Recordings]
Chiba, Japan noise /drone /tape loops /experimental music producer and drawing artist, Teruyuki Kurihara “Before Silence”
German ambient /cosmic /meditation /space music /electronic sound artist Jana Rockstroh, aka Jaja “In the face of the divine” from “Cathedrals of the stars” LP
Athens, Greece ambient /drone /experimental electronic sound artist Aris Hatzidakis, aka Craün “Memoir” long-form piece [Neotantra]
UK drone /ambient /field recordings /modular synth sound artist, fields we found “landscape 01” long form piece