WL//WH Weekly Electronic Music Tips

Weekly Electronic Music Tips //  JANUARY 2025 #02-26

photo by Gorka Manterola Lillo

PICKS OF THE WEEK:

  • PAX-SERIES – XXII // HUMAN SPACE MACHINE

Amsterdam-based Dutch trance /deep hypnotic techno producer Human Space Machine delivers an immersive yet vibrant mind-altering “adventurous ride through club music I resonate with at the moment within this tempo range. Music is how I express myself and process life’s experiences and emotions, like a form of therapy”.

  • Argentinian deep /percussive /psych /organic /mystical house producer SidiRum “You (Original Mix)” from “Hip Hip” EP [Playground Records]

Transcendent yet earthy, as it is meditative yet vibrant, percussion-layered, organic house journey from Argentine producer, where the inner spirit resonated with the outer in a profound, blissful harmony of senses.

  • Adriatic Trance /Hi-NRG Italo disco DJ-producer and Hell Yeah Recordings affiliated, Verdo “Let In The Light (Fango Remix)” (bonus track) from upcoming “Gratis Club” LP [Hell Yeah Recordings]

Italian Fango bonus remix is a heady, lush expansive fusion of high-energy pumping disco, groovy house, and cosmic bliss with a drawn-out transcendent flair, triggered by an infectious chugging bassline to levitate the dancefloor into a perpetual euphoric momentum.

  • Italian industrial /EBM /techno DJ-producer Francesco Tella, aka NGHTLY “Different Interactions” off V/A “Various Artists Vol.4” [Vives]

A violent dystopia of churning bass-driven industrial techno with hellish cinematic resonance, merging icy clanking, surgical rhythmic precision with buzzing emotive rawness, to surround a medical dispatcher conversation about evacuating a soldier who was shot in the head.

  • US ambient /experimental /neo-classical /electro-acoustic collaboration of composers and musicians Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore – “The Four Sleeping Princesses” from “Tragic Magic” LP recording supported by Philharmonie de Paris [InFiné]
  • Florida  ambient /meditation /field recordings /new age /electro-acoustic producer Brannan Lane “Tears Fall Like Rain” from “Melancholy Moments” EP [Ambient Soundscapes]
  • Brighton, UK ambient /dreamscape /space /new age /nature /electronic sound artist Ben Curzon, aka Theddra “Almira from “Inland Sea” EP [Mare Nostrum Label]
  • Tokyo-based, Japanese electronic /drone /ambient music sound artist and gagaku musician, Hiroshi Ebina “Hokokuji Bamboo Forest” from the upcoming album “On Solitude” [KITCHEN. LABEL]
  • Regensburg-based, German veteran drone /experimental electronica /ambient pioneer Markus Guentner “The Silver Path” from upcoming “On Brutal Soil, We Grow” LP [Affin]
  • UK ambient /drone /space /synth electronic producer Dennis Huddleston, a.k.a. 36 “Beyond The Hyperreal” from “Threewave” 3xLP, the complete 36’s synth trilogy (2020-2024) [Past Inside the Present]
  • Melbourne-based ambient /modern classical /synth /electronic producer Ruby Ester Mae, aka Clariloops ”Stellar Drift” from V/A “Sleeplaboratory6.0” compilation series LP [whitelabrecs]
  • Richland, WA /Gothenburg ambient /atmospheric /electro-acoustic /electronic collaboration of Drew Sullivan (Slow Dancing Society) and Ludvig Cimbrelius (Purl), aka HALLOW UNDER “Quiet North” title track of the sophomore album “Quiet North” [LILA लीला]
  • Canada/Italy, ambient /drone /experimental /soundscape /electronic collaboration between Brad Deschamps and Alessio Bertuzzi, anthéne & Far away Nebraska “The loneliest place” from “Great Plains” LP [Home Normal]
  • Cologne, Germany ambient /drone /field recordings /tape loops /sound artist Jens Pauly – “Naab” from V/A “Isla’s Calm Cloud” LP (sleep playlist curated by Isla and Harry Towell) [whitelabrecs]
  • Spanish/Japanese ambient /drone /minimal /electro-acoustic /soundscapes /organic /sound artists David Cordero & Rhucle “Muku” [Noray Records]
  • Sheffield, UK-based ambient /drone /folk project of Scottish musician and composer Gayle Brogan, aka Pefkin “The dissonance” from upcoming LP “Unfurling” [Morctapes]
  • UK ambient /drone /glitch /field recordings /minimal /electronica artist Kayla Painter “Lesu Mai” from the album “Tectonic Particles” [quiet details]
  • Berlin-based German ambient /electro-acoustic /deep house /electronic producer Lawrence “Angels (Ambient Version)” from “The City Of Tomorrow IV” EP series dedicated to Berlin’s modernist neighbourhood “Hansaviertel” [Dial Records]
  • Japanese ambient /drone /field recordings /soundscape /electro-acoustic /experimental sound artists, Morimoto Naoki “Inside VI – Fold” from “Still Inside” LP [Lᴏɴᴛᴀɴᴏ Series / Rohs! Records]
  • UK ambient /drone /field recordings /modular synth sound artist  Wil Bolton “Turquoise Artifice” from upcoming LP “Barbican” [Home Normal]
  • UK ambient /ethereal /cosmic /soundscape /electro-acoustic /electronic music artist and Handstitched* label curator, Tim Martin, aka Maps and Diagrams “Baobab” from the upcoming LP “Music for Trees” [ato.archives]
  • Massachusetts-based ambient /minimal/generative /modular electronic musician A. Campbell Payne “Hop Brook” from the upcoming LP “Flow Control” [Oxtail Recordings]
  • Antwerp, Belgium ambient /field recordings /electro-acoustic /experimental techno /modular synth /sound artist Gregory Geerts, aka Strangebird~Sounds “Mesolite” from the LP “Minerals Form The Crust” [Audiobulb]
  • Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK ambient /experimental /soundtrack /leftfield /prog synth /electronic project of Simon Bowler (aka Natures Revenge), aka Pyramids Of Phobos “Antarktika” from the album “Astronotes” [Wormhole World]
  • Jacksonville, FL ambient /drone /cinematic /kosmische /downtempo /dark instrumental synth producer Severed+Said “Aetheric” from the upcoming “Seer” LP [Image Research]
  • Lancaster, UK experimental /ambient /field recordings /drone /analogue synths / electronic project of producer Mark Burford, aka Field Lines Cartographer “Rain Through Fog” from “XXi” 7″ EP + Live Set [Signals]
  • UK ambient /drone /experimental /modular synth composer and producer LOULA YORKE “The Hidden Messages in Water (Live at the Mount Without)” from “Live Compendium 2” CD album [Truxalis]
  • UK ambient /hauntology /soundtrack /generative /electronica musician Foster Neville “Antlers of Water” from the album “Through Lands Of Ghosts” [Subexotic Records]
  • Amsterdam ambient /braindance /IDM /glitch /leftfield /experimental /modular /electronic producer Roel Funcken “Culpt” from the upcoming “Kine 2” LP 
  • Berlin-based Italian ambient /deep /dub /techno DJ and electronic music producer Claudio PRC “SIDE B – Submerged (Version)” from 2-track 7″ EP “Submerged” [rohs! records]
  • French ambient /dub /hypnotic /deep techno producer Knay – “NineFive” from V/A “Zarge” LP [Aedi Records / Hypnus Records]
  • Berlin-based, UK atmospheric /deep techno producer Ben Parkin, aka Astrover “Schaden (Forest on Stasys Remix)” from “Expectation” EP [Spira Records]
  • French dark ambient /psy-trance /mental /deep techno production duo and Tustance label founders Mattdemon and Karmal, aka Racoon Brigade “Radar” from “Psy Passage” EP [Tustance]
  • Seoul, South Korea ambient /trance /techno producer k.o.p. 32 – “the boy that never sea” off “the boy that never sea” EP [Beyond The Bridge]
  • Berlin-based dark ambient /abstract /psych /glitch /dub /deep /d&b /techno Hungarian DJ-producer (a.k.a. Infinity), Saša Delimar “Undefined (Mirror Lake remix)” from “SEQMENTS: PULSE” EP [FRGMNTS]
  • South African-born, New York-based ambient /dubstep /psych /drum & bass /deep /dub techno electronic music composer & performer Brendon Moeller “Shadow Language” title track of upcoming “Shadow Language” LP [Samurai Music]
  • Portugal raw /hypnotic /deep techno producer Re:Axis – “Midjourney (Claudio PRC Remix)” from “Ancient Ways” remix EP [Derailed Records x Planet Rhythm]
  • France ambient /psych /techno /downtempo /drum & bass producer Aerae “Lenis” from “Terrā” EP [QEONE]
  • La Alcarria, Central Spain-native ambient /downtempo /psy /dub /deep techno /slow trance producer and Sendero label head,  Antonio Muñoz, aka Emesh “Rega” from “Teva” EP [Electric Eden Records]
  • Basel, Swiss ambient /techno /deep house producer Ben Kaczor “Feeling Of Wind & Home” from “Peace In Mind” EP [Stólar]
  • Bolton, UK instrumental /library music/lo-fi 60s pop musician and composer (aka Ballard), Darren Riley “Cairo Mystery” off “Library Music” LP, a collection of instrumental music inspired by the library music labels of the 1970s [wiaiwya]
  • Oakland-based electronic artist Jerod S. Rivera feat. Cat LauiganFalse Aralia-Time to Erase” (micro-house remix by Bay Area dub-techno-leftfield producer Izaak Schlossman (IS), aka False Aralia) from “Seamstress Clock Remixes” EP [Cone Shape Top Imprint]
  • Netherlands-based retro-futurist electronic duo Mule Driver and Markey Funk, aka Group Modular “Sharon” from the double A-single “Hecker / Sharon”, the second release in its new 7inch series [Confused Machines / Delights]
  • UK ambient /acid /jangle /funk /proto house /breaks producer Peter Reilly, aka Persian “Questions 1” from “Questions” EP [[Emotional] Especial]
  • Zürich, Switzerland acid /cosmic disco /psych /techno /electronic trio of ELi LiNE, Neu Verboten, and Piero Scherer, aka Jack Pattern “Fugitive Drums” from “Mystery Of Life” EP (Unreleased Tracks 2016) [Lustpoderosa]
  • Parisian experimental electronic producer (member of rock band Poni Hoax), Nicolas Villebrun aka Tite “Orange (Benedikt Frey Remix)” [Comet]
  • Marseille, France ritual /bass /dub /drum & bass /downtempo /percussive /druidstep producer and Blue Night Jungle label head Smogo “God Is Shaking” from “No Edges” EP [95 Open Tabs]
  • West Yorkshire, UK industrial /wave /cosmic disco /dub house producer and Crying Outcast label head, Miles Henry aka Miles J Paralysis “Come On Fleet” from “Don’t Forget The Ritual” EP [[Emotional] Especial]
  • Koh Chang, Thailand downtempo /tribal acid /slow trance /psych /ethnic /electronic producer The Dude Of Stratosphear – “Staaradast” from upcoming “Staaradast” EP [Les Yeux Orange]
  • Poland-based Belarusian ambient /deep house /breaks /electro DJ-producer, Viikatory “Time Machine” from upcoming “Into The Unknown” EP [Unknown To The Unknown]
  • Montreal, Québec IDM /R&B /trip-hop /pop /electronic producer Maara “I’m The One You Want” 3rd single off the new album, “Ultra Villain” [NAFF Recordings]
  • Barcelona-based Italian-native synthpop /house /electro /techno DJ-producer and Orior label founder Luca Cazal, a.k.a. LVCA “Surrender” from “Shadows of my mind” EP [22recordings]
  • Stockholm-based acid house /techno producer Mikael Nybom, aka Yomi One “Mass Consensual Hallucination” from “Code Awakening” EP [DEEP ACID RECORDS]
  • US/Portugal IDM /techno /electro production duo b0t23 + inoperative system – “Binary” from V/A “Point Central 2” LP [Science Cult]
  • Netherlands ambient /sci-fi /breaks /electro side project of Mseq, aka RT759 “Harbinger” from the album “Monoceros” [M-seq]
  • Berlin-based acid /machine funk /electro duo of Sammy Goossens and Pascal Hetzel, aka CYRK “Not Human” from “Not Human” EP [Time Zero]
  • Madrid-based breaks /ghetto /techno /electro DJ-producer Robert Cosmic “Door Mir” from “ElectroVision” EP [Mars Frequency Records]
  • Berlin-based 8-bit /chiptune /techno /electro enigmatic electronic entity pdqb “Frontera Extraterrestre (Hardfloor Remix)” from “Mutations, Modifications, and Other Alterations” remix LP [Synaptic Cliffs]
  • Prague-based techno /electro producer Project Germs “MacGuffin” from “Savagerin” EP [invisible industries]
  • Granada, Spain techno /breakbeat /electro producer Calagad 13 – “Tech Grooverz” from “From Here To Fame” EP [Cosmic Tribe]
  • Italian breakbeat /machine funk /electro producer LDWG – “Onething from “Hollow Bones” EP [New York Haunted]
  • A Coruña, Spain techno /breaks /electro DJ, producer & Co-founder of Fanzine Project, aka Roi “Noiz” from “Between Faith And Noize” EP [Fanzine Records]
  • Paris-based post-industrial /noise /percussive /post-punk /experimental artist Lisa Burek – “Nausée” from the debut LP “Écailles”
  • Argentina EBM /techno /breaks /electro producer Saigg “NeonVoid” from upcoming V/A “3/4 Denial” LP [Ratflak]
  • Charleroi, Belgium experimental industrial /IDM /electro producer and Roulette Rekordz head, Poladroïd “The Anarchist” from upcoming “Accelerate” EP [Selvamancer]
  • Northern Ireland/Belgian industrial /percussive /noise /techno /experimental electronics collaboration between Derry‘s Christian Donaghy, aka Autumns & Brussels‘ Antibody label head Yannick Franck, aka Amháin – “False Flags” from V/A “Fatal Strategies II” LP [Antibody label]
  • Belgian cinematic industrial /techno producer and performer, Peter Adriaenssens aka 6SISS “Think of Something (Swarm Intelligence Remix)” off “CONTROL & COLLAPSE” EP [Mutant Modality]
  • Prague-based EBM /industrial techno producer C4AT “Rotten Scepter” from “Illusion of Choice” EP [Rapture]
  • Mar Del Plata, Argentina EBM /industrial techno producer and Bloody Electronics label co-owner, 909distortion “Bodily Destruction (Darkmix)” off “Bodily Destruction” EP
  • London-based, South Korean industrial techno producer Limbo Slice – “Fragment” [Hypnovizion]
  • Berlin-based industrial /noise experimental /improvised electronics artist Grid Noise “Wir bauen einen neuen Stadt” (Palais Schaumburg cover) from “Redefine Cyberpunk” LP [Brutal Forms]
  • 1983 Spanish post-punk classic Parálísis Permanente “Te Gustará (Disco Radical Rework)”
  • 1998 French electro wave classic Miss Kittin & The Hacker – “1982” (Arpatronic Rework)
  • Russian dark wave /dark disco /indie dance singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Sonya Black “Sometimes” from upcoming “I Feel Like” EP [Nein Records]
  • Manchester, UK synthwave /indie disco /neon noir synthpop project of Chris Massey with Sally Summers (aka Lady Lady), Thief Of Time “Cosmic (Frederik Hendrik)” from “Cosmic” EP [Sprechen]
  • Chamonix, France acid house /techno producer Magnus Asberg – “Sound Of The Suburbs Remix” from “Recovered Vol 1” EP [When Disco Goes Wrong]
  • Rostock native, Frankfurt transplant indie dance /dark disco /new wave /electro producer Stefan Haag (aka SFX), aka Chinaski “Energy 1 (DJ Overdose Remix)” from “Energy” EP
  • Italian indie dance /acid techno producer Csk (aka Cisky), aka DOG.MA feat. Miss Zagato – “Chemtrails” [Dogmatraxxx]
  • Madrid, Spain groovy /psych /house /dark disco collaboration, Alvaro Cabana & Sosandlow – “No More Questions (ft. Julia Konor)” from upcoming V/A “Muy Duro Vol. 13” LP [Duro]
  • Parisian acid /house /indie dance /dark disco producer SKAHR “Captain Guts (Original Mix)” off “Interaction” EP [Side Up Works]
  • Paris, French electro /indie dance /neo-disco DJ-producer Captain Mustache feat. dynArec – “Cracks In The Glass (PRZ Remix)” off upcoming EP [Iptamenos Discos]
  • Argentina/Mexico dark disco /indie dance production duo Cosmosolar & Tierra de Ovnis – “Baila Conmigo” [Modula]
  • French dark disco /indie dance collaboration Damon Jee & Kimshies “On Fire (Original Mix)” from “On Fire” EP [Family NAME records]
  • French Italo-Disco /Wave /EBM producer Belaria – “Mind improvement (Kendal Remix)” from “Dynamic State” EP [Binding System]
  • New York indie dance house duo Fcukers “L.U.C.K.Y” from the upcoming debut Ö LP [Ninja Tune]
  • UK experimental /ambient /chill /drone /dub /electronic musician and producer (Techno Animal, King Midas Sound, The Bug), Kevin Richard Martin “The Beast (2026 Remaster)” from “Sub Zero (2026 Remaster)” LP [Pressure]
  • Portuguese ambient /drone /off-kilter /modern classical /experimental pianist and composer Tiago Sousa “Becoming a Landscape” from cassette LP “Sustained Tones Vol.1” Organic Music series [Discrepant‘s sublabel Sucata Tapes]
  • UK drone /ambient /field recordings /modular synth sound artist and Quiet Details label head, fields we found “resolve / relate 01” long form piece
  • Athens, Greek ambient /drone /cinematic /dub /minimal /downtempo /techno producer Substak – “Empty Halls” long-form piece [See Blue Audio]
  • US ambient /drone /doom /Americana /post-metal /shoegaze /avant-garde collaboration project of Dylan Desmond (Bell Witch) and Magpie Corsa (Nonconnah), Alliance Rose Croix “Awaiting Transit To Sirus” from the 2-track long-form cassette s/t album [Cruel Nature Records]
  • Bay Area ambient /IDM /experimental /field recordings /electronica sound artist Ryan Watts, aka Akira Film Script “Alviso (suite) [Part 2]” from “Alviso (suite)” LP, a live-recorded, long-form ambient composition in two parts

photo by Gorka Manterola Lillo