WL//WH Weekly Electronic Music Tips

Weekly Electronic Music Tips // FEBRUARY #07-24

by Alexander Ternikov

PICKS OF THE WEEK:

STELLA GALACTICA – Mix#3

First mix of 2024 from Stella Galactica, a former member of the band Merci Beaucoup, co-creator of Waves parties in Marseille and Club Bovary in Paris, seamlessly bouncing over Italo /Dark Disco /Synth-Pop /Cold Wave /Indie Dance electrifying vibes.

Belgian/Iraqi post-industrial /percussive /Arabic /experimental /analog-modular electronic project of Stef Heeren, Kwinten Mordijck and Saif Al-Qaissy, aka Use Knife “Coupe d’état (Muqata’a مقاطعة remix)” from “Peace Carnival” EP 10″ via Morphine Records

Palestine‘s artist Muqata’a cuts an achingly heartfelt bare-boned and immersive rework in edgy, glitchy and crispy percussive-laden Muslimgauze militant style, topped by vibrant cries and weeping forlorn ritual Arabic motifs, to resonate with visceral grief on the ongoing carnage fully obscured by the mainstream media.

Romanian IDM /industrial /dub /psych /downtempo /electronic producer (one half of Khidja), Andrei Rusu – “Hedesch (feat. Decha) (Black Merlin Remix)” off upcoming “I’ve Lost Control” EP 12″ [Malka Tuti]

Longtime Mancunian visionary electronic musician George Thompson strips down the original of its menacing industrial tones, while maintaining its innercore intensity, ceaselessly swaying on trippy aquatic, sultry and exotic dubwise realms through a mesmerizing loop of subtly intricate crisp percussion patterns, shrouded in eerie breathes, brief rippling drones, swishing reverberations and esoteric deeply magnetic vocalizations, making for an all-encompassing, immersive and mind-blowing listening experience.

Berlin-based EBM /darkwave /electroclash /indie dance /dark disco Portuguese/Brazilian collaboration between Porto-based artist with the São Paulo spoken word electronic duo, Madd Rod & Noporn – “Tropicalismo Dark” [Inner Shah Recordings]

Noporn‘s Liana Padilha recites with her charismatic voice a poem about her heartfelt poignant inner ‘dark tropicalism’ over a throbbing, buzzing and percussive organic/synthetic instrumental backdrop, to build on a thought-provoking and electrifying magnetic Dark Disco-induced dancing climax.

Japan‘s ambient /modern classical musician and composer Kosuke Anamizu, aka moshimoss “Minasoko” from the upcoming EP “Land” [Moderna Records]
L’Anse, Michigan ambient /drone /electronic musician, writer and founder of Special Species Records, Haunted Ghost “Asleep At the Party” from the cassette album “To the Shore” Immersion Ambiente Series #007 [NO PROBLEMA TAPES]
Valencia, Spain ambient /drone /new age /soundscape side project of sound artist known as Warmth, SVLBRD “Refraction” from the album “Extents” [Faint]
Berlin-based ambient /piano /modern classical /electronics /spoken word /classically trained cellist, composer and storyteller Lih Qun Wong, aka Lihla “Disperse” from the upcoming debut album “Socha’’ [A Strangely Isolated Place]
UK ambient /field recordings /experimental /fourth world /jazz /minimalism /electronic /spoken-word sound artist and composer Church Andrews, aka Kirk Barley “Apricity (ft Ugnė Uma)” the album “Young”
Belgium ambient /soundscape /electronic /experimental sound artist Adriaan de Roover “Homebound” from the second album “Other Rooms” [Dauw]
San Diego-based, UK experimental /ambient /drone /meditative /electronic film composer, recording artist, Auxiliary label owner, James Clements aka ASC “Song For Christine” from upcoming album “Loss” [Past Inside the Present]
Southern Germany ambient /drone /electro-acoustic /chamber music composer Luis Miehlich “Schlummern…pt. 1” from the album “Re-Cartographies” [Whitelabrecs]
Denver, CO ambient /drone /cinematic /soundscape multi-instrumentalist and composer Marshall Usinger, aka Be Still The Earth & Sloer “Integration” from the double-single “Integration, disintegration” [Slow Echo]
Melbourne‘s ambient /cinematic /beats /electronic multi-instrumentalist, producer and sound healer Phoebe Dubar, aka IKSRE “Ripples” from the cassette album “Abundance” [Constellation Tatsu]
San Francisco ambient /drone /psych /slowcore /folk /electronic project of Anthony Boruch-Comstock assisted by Texan multi-instrumentalist Joe Knight (aka Rangers), Swanox “Old World” from the upcoming cassette album “Rhodyrunner” [Not Not Fun Records]
Akron, OH ambient /jazz /experimental quartet Lemon Quartet “Absence of Appropriate Affect” off “The Lemon Law” EP CD [Dead Currencies]
North Country, New York-based ambient /cinematic /analog electronics //neo-classical musical project of artist Timmi Meskers (of Brown Recluse, and White Candles), aka Garden Gate “Sea Legs (Main Theme)” from the upcoming CD/12″ vinyl LP “Magic Lantern” [Clay Pipe Music]
Dublin-born, Malmö based ambient /dub /techno /folk /experimental /electronic artist J. Cowhie, aka KAJA ” IVORY SILK” from the album “MRNG TRX”
Ambient /minimal /dub project of project of Hungarian electronic producer Tamás Olejnik (also Antendex, Nordena, Astral Travel Agency, Organit), Dublicator “Hypnogram” from “Fading” EP
South Yorkshire-based Northern minimalist /ambient /drone /electronic experimentalist and Woodford Halse tape label head, Mat Handley, aka Pulselovers “Pomegranite” from the upcoming cassette album “Day Zero” (originally recorded anonymously for the Colander Studio Group project in late Autumn, 2021) [Woodford Halse]
New York-based Irish-bred ambient /psych /kosmische /radiophonic /modular synth project of drummer and electronic musician, David Mason, aka Listening Center – “Molex Crimpers” from V/A “This Is Not The End: Music For Iklectik” compilation supporting IKLECTIK crowdfunder after its closure [Castle In Space]
Weimar, Germany ambient /IDM /drum & bass /leftfield /electronica Bogdan Marx “DDD-F” from “EP.002” [Tulpa Ovi Records]
Montreal, Quebec jazz noir /chanson /minimalism /electro-acoustic /spoken-word artist, Danielle Boutet “En attendant l’aube” from the vinyl 12″ album “Piéces” originally self-released in 1985 [Freedom To Spend]
Brooklyn, NY-based ambient /deep house production duo Francis Harris & Anthony Collins (Tony), aka Frank & Tony ‘’Olympia (with Eliana Glass)‘’ single off upcoming “Ethos” LP 12″ [Scissor and Thread]
Quito, Ecuador ambient /IDM /downtempo /electronica project of DJ & producer Alejandro Romero (aka Amalgama), aka Ópalo “Procesos feat. Rod” from the fourth LP “Psyche”
Italian electronic /synthpop trio Eva Geist (aka Andrea Noce), Donato Dozzy (aka Donato Scaramuzzi) and Pietro Micioni, aka Il Quadro di Troisi “La Terra” from the upcoming sophomore LP “La Commedia” [Raster]
Tunisian dub /leftfield /hypnotic /psych /polyrhythmic /techno electronic DJ-producer Azu Tiwaline “Amen Dub (Digital Bonus Track)” from the 2xLP album “The Fifth Dream” [I.O.T Records]
San Francisco acid /cosmic /downtempo /electronic /ambient music composer Marshall Watson “Astro Pan” single
Dublin-based ambient /techno /electro /IDM electronic music producer Sleep Underwriter “Fat Days” from upcoming V/A “Into The Luminous Future_Cottage Industries 12” 3xCD compiled by Metamatics [Neo Ouija]
London-based sample-based bedroom pop musician, Chinless Wonder “The Seagulls” from the album “Layover”
San Francisco industrial /cosmic electro producer, E-Male “Return Ov Thee Cosmick” from “Genesis Callin” EP [Squirrels on Film]
L.A./NYC techno /electro hardware production DJ-duo Ole Mic Odd & Alonzo – “And We Rock” off upcoming “Various Artists Vol. 2″ EP 12” [Source Material]
Belgian acid /house /bass /electro /breaks artist SAMEE “Need Me” from S/T EP [BROKEBOI RECORDS]
German ambient /drum & bass /breakbeat /electro funk producer (Ahmad / Kodama), Acid_Lab “Valkyrie” single
London-based sci-fi /acid /breakbeat /electro DJ & producer EKATA “Kilonova” from the upcoming V/A “Planet Reborn” compilation LP [Avoidant Records]
Lyon, France ambient /ghetto /breaks /techno /electro producer and Jade label head, S T R K T U R ‘’STYUP (Cyberflex Remix)’’ from “Do You Need Some Energy?” EP [Jade]
French New Beat /Acid House /Dark Electro artist Jean Bruce “A Trip Back Into Time (Vondkreistan Remix)” from the forthcoming EP “A Trip Back Into Time” [Nocturbulous Records]
St. Petersburg, Russian industrial /minimal electronics /acid /techno /electro producer ЯTRA “Transition” off “Liberation” EP [Freedom Club]
Frankfurt-based, Italian lo-fi industrial acid /techno /electro producer Antonio Barbetta (aka Antonio), aka Raw Ambassador – “Panic” off upcoming split EP “Acid Avengers 028” [Acid Avengers Records]
Italian IDM /breaks /industrial /techno duo Davide Di Bernardo (Mystics) and Erminio Granata (11xxx27), aka 11xxx27 & Mystics “Warp and Woof” from the CD LP “Paradise Collapse” [Repulse Xplosif]
Aruba-bred, Amsterdam-based Industrial /Letfield /Electro /Techno /Dub /Acid /Breaks veteran producer-DJ Bertram Croes, aka Bertram “Drone Thugs & Harmonies” from upcoming V/A cassette compilation “MRG016” [Marguerite Records]
French industrial /EBM /noise esoteric act from Paris, The Fifth Stigma – “Arising From Ashes (In All The Grief, I Burned)” off upcoming V/A “Various Artists Vol.3” LP cassette [Vives]
Düsseldorf based cyberpunk /electro /breaks /techno duo BORGBORG & HIDONASH “Gram (The Dark Wasp Remix)” from “Bergan” EP [VūMantra Records]
Veteran Italian industrial /EBM /techno producer Gionata Bettini, aka Jørgen Thorvald – “Downward Spiral (Crystal Geometry Remix)” off the upcoming 14th EP ”State Of Agitation” [Still Distant Records]
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia EBM /electro /techno producer Boogie – “Sinner” [Vortex]
Tbilisi, Georgia EBM /industrial techno producer Downwell “Under The Flood” from the upcoming V/A compilation “Hound Vol. 3” EP [Hound]
Chiapas, Mexico industrial /techno /EBM duo Red Deviil “Rush” from the cassette EP “Vida Bandida” [SYNTHICIDE]
Turin, Italy/Denver, US rave /industrial /synthwave /dark techno collaboration Matteo Tura & Mobiius “IMMERSION” from “RESILIENCE” EP
French industrial /dark techno producer Assalm – “Dominion” off “New Order” EP [Moretin]
Athens-based EBM /new beat /trance /techno DJ-producer ЯTRA “1990” off upcoming debut EP, “Sacred Winds” [Samo Records]
Berlin-based EBM /Italo disco /electro /analogue electronic DJ-producer Italo Brutalo – “Dark Knight (Radio Mix)” from upcoming “Dark Knight” EP [Bungalo Disco]
Aarhus/Copenhagen, Danish techno /breaks duo Adlas & Circuit 900 “Tunnels” off “MP04″ EP 12” [Magic Power]
French/Russian trance /house /breaks /acid collaboration Kubebe & Apollon Telefax – “Forever Yeah! (Romain FX’s Dirty Remix)” from “Forever Yeah!” EP [Kaputt.wav]
Paris-based Tunisian Arabic /tribal /electro dance leftfield experimentalist producer and DJ, Deena Abdelwahed “Violence for Free (DJ Plead Remix)” from “Jbal Rrsas Remixes” EP [InFiné]
Brazilian body music /indie dance /acid /cosmic /disco producer ROTCIV “Mythology” off the EP “PnoPBBB” [Freeride Millenium]
London-based Balearic /house /acid disco /electronic project of members of Trashmouth Records, Fat White Family & Paranoid London, aka DECIUS “Satisfy Desire” from “DECIUS TRAX EP IV” [Trashmouth Records]
Mexican dark /cosmic /disco /indie dance production duo, Rigopolar & Disto Disco – “Spaced Out” from “Spaced Out” EP [Tour De Infinite]
Jakarta, Indonesia psych /percussive /dub /cosmic /house /electronica DJ-Producer Andra G. Yoseph, aka Saturn “Titan Express” off “CosmoSpeaker” EP [Akamady Records]
Astana, Kazhastan world /house /trance /downtempo DJ-producer Pluzhnik – “Mushrooms Call Me” off the “Emergency Call EP [SHANGO RECORDS]
Parisian house /electro /dark disco DJ & producer Captain Mustache “About Love feat. Speakwave (Kadosh Mix)” from “The Super Album (Remixes)” EP [Kompakt]
Copenhagen based cosmic disco /acid house /house /techno /electronica Icelandic producer Sexy Laser – “Mid Life Crisis (Theus Mago & Colossio Remix)” off ” Mid Life Crisis Remixes”EP [Riotvan]
Marseille-based funky /disco /downtempo /house producer Fred Berthet, aka Dj Steef – “Quand Tu Me Fais De La Peine (Tronik Youth Remix)” off “Quand Tu Me Fais De La Peine (Remixes)” EP [Biomix Records]
Mexico City minimal techno /indie dance / dark disco artist part of Veneno Records and Cintas Clandestinas, Vekan – “Descontrol (Specter Remix)” upcoming “Rica” EP [Veneno Records]
Catalan dark disco /indie rock /acid /indie dance DJ and producer (aka Coyu), Esprit Divers “Diversion (TAPIIA Remix)” from “Diversion” EP [Phisica]
Madrid, Spain disco/ indie dance production duo JGR & Yahaira “Fluor” off upcoming V/A “Headliners – Compilation 2024″[Melómana Records]
Buenos Aires, Argentina techno /dark disco /indie dance DJ & producers duo Favio Inker & Rodrigo AM – “Chaos Ignition (BadWolf Remix)” off “Chaos Ignition” EP [Slow Cycle]
Wigan, UK acid prog melodic house producer VORA – “Late Night Acid”
Parisian acid /house /Italo disco duo Teenage Bad Girl “California Wang (Captain Mustache Remix)” single
Russian Italo /indie dance /cosmic disco /synth wave Dj-producer from Samara, Astore – “Glow” off “Glow” EP [Nein Records]
Italian indie dance /neo-Italo /disco /synth wave producer based in Bari, Francesco Strippoli, aka Armonics – “Future Echoes” off “Future Echoes” EP [Bordello A Parigi]
1977 dance classic Roy Ayers – “Running Away (Raw-Artes Edit)” [Raw-Artes]
Munich, Germany Balearic acid /house /disco /electronic producer and Permanent Vacation label co-founder, Benjamin Fröhlich “I Forgot My Mantra (Tech Support Remix)” from “Mantra Remixes” EP [Permanent Vacation]
Buenos Aires, Argentina EBM /psych /house /techno DJ-production duo Djs Pareja – “You & Me” off “You & Me” EP [Do the taboo]
Hungarian disco /techno /experimental house duo and Secret Fusion heads, Secret Factory “Neon Jaguar Odyssey” off “Neon Jaguar Odyssey“ EP [Feines Tier]
London-born-and-raised ambient /dub /percussive /house /techno DJ and producer Dwayne Parris-Robinson, aka Parris “Why can’t rabbits wear cowboy boots” off upcoming new EP “Passionfruit” [can you feel the sun]
Dutch dark ambient /leftfield /glitchy techno /experimental electronic artist artist Renée Van Trier “Harlekijnenmeuk” from upcoming “HUMBLE” LP 12″ [CAF?]
Long-running Glasgow-based British experimental musician and No Fans Records head, Richard Youngs “80 chords I” long-form title track of the new album “80 chords I” [No Fans Records]
Drone-trance-psych collective from the US West Coast, Ecstatic Music Band “Neon Love Devotionals” long-form CD/cassette [Debacle Records]
Audubon, NJ ambient /cinematic /experimental /neo-classical /electronic sound artist E-Clark Cornell “Nuit Souterraine” from the album “(S Sontag” [Kalamine Records]
Chicago-based experimental /ambient musician and longtime member of trio Zelienople, Matt Christensen “5” from “Put Together” album
Salt Lake City, UT experimental organic ambient /folk /lapsteel /electronic project of Chaz Prymek, aka Lake Mary “A Rumor Of Breaking Lilac” from “It’s okay, You Can Open Your Eyes Now” split long-form cassette album by Lake Mary & pinyonpine [Aural Canyon]
London, UK-based ambient /drone /ethereal /electro-acoustic /slow-mo long-form elegiac ballad by artist, Romance “Endless Love” cassette [Ecstatic]
Recently departed, New York-based Greek-native music creator, specialising in celestial, heavenly, inter-dimensional, higher consciousness music (one of the original founders of New Age music), Iasos “Sighs From Heaven” long-form [Longform Editions]