WL//WH Weekly Electronic Music Tips

• Feed Your Head Guest Mix: TENIENTE CASTILLO                                                                                                       

Madrid-based producer, DJ and Play Pal Music head, Teniente Castillo with a dark, low-slung, hypnotic mix to explore Acid, Techno, Cosmic Disco, and all around, sultry slow burner psychedelic realms.

• Berlin-based psych /deep house techno /electronic producer Alexander Krueger (aka Dub Taylor, aka Korsakow), aka Tigerskin “E.L.I.” from “Hard Sync Life” EP [Forms & Figures]

I didn’t usually miss, at the start of the ’00s, the eclectic Mr. Alex Krüger‘s impressive releases under his Dub Taylor moniker on mighty labels such as Raum…musik and Force Tracks. I’m very pleased he is still alive and kicking with a ‘batch of three very dance floor oriented tunes for sweaty disco nights’. The immersive and mesmerizing “E.L.I.” triggers steady punchy drum kicks, droning basslines, shamanic didgeridoo fills, echoing exotic vocal clips and hypnotic synth leads that swirl into unearthly realms of trance-inducing spiritual energy.

• Belfast electronic pop noir duo Dark Tropics – “I Bet You Can (Mr Myth‘s ‘I Bet You’ Dub)”
  

Dublin‘s DJ and producer Graham Smyth, aka Mr Myth (of 2FM), with an Andy Weatherall-eque dub style remix to ignite dazzling Screamedelica fireworks, propelled by crispy and shuffling drum patterns, groovy rolling round basslines and euphoric soulful vocalizations, haloed in ecstatic choruses, that will make you fly ‘higher than the sun’

• Veteran Xiamen, China-based, Bulgarian experimental /industrial /electro dark mastermind Petar Tassev (aka Sam Lowry), aka MANASYt “Angellust” from the upcoming “Zero Plague” EP 12″ [Specimen Records]

Dynamic Bulgarian ‘nuroelktro’ ace with an alienating and unbridled compulsive snare-driven ride fueled by clattering kicks, along with droning and draining low-end oscillations, circled by eerie distant synth flashes, menacing shivering spindly flitters and agonizing vocal cuts, to haunt the listener in a nightmarish headspace of psychological tension and visceral turmoil.

• 1981 Yugo pop/rock classic Rezonansa – “Mirno Idem Krivim Putem (Korak Remix)”
  

Crisp, knocking beat-driven electro rework of a Yugoslavia-era classic wabbling on the wings of nostalgia.