Weekly Electronic Music Tips // MARCH 2025 #10-25
PICKS OF THE WEEK:
- LAYER #414 | Mandruvá
Dark and trippy vibes from up-and-coming Brazilian selector and producer Murillo Faleiros, a.k.a. Mandruvá, delving into an organic intoxicating brew of Downtempo, Acid, House, Techno and Dark Disco suggestions.
- Italian Balearic /ambient /groovy /psychedelic /downtempo /deep house production duo Fulvio & Treasure Island “Endryu’s Love Theme” from V/A “Medusozoa Vol. IIII” compilation series [Tartelet Records]
Italian trippy experimentalists with a sun-dappled, pulsing and groovy downtempo excursion into hypnotic, sultry blissed out sonic realms, shrouded in a lilting Balearic breeze.
- Polish Retro /Disco /Kraut /New Romantic /Disco /New Wave /Downtempo /Dance Pop synth artist Matt Brzeźny, aka TAMTEN – “Sam” from the upcoming album “Wschodnia Fala / Eastern Wave” [The Very Polish Cut Outs]
Polish synth maestro takes the listeners on a whimsical prismatic trip through his reimagined vision of Eastern European Wave Music, a retrospective break loose through paths of memory that lead to bygone yet still tangibly vibrant timeless sonic echoes of an enthralling emotionality. A dizzying array of driving, at times downtempo, rhythms, pulsing bass grooves, glaring swirling synths and bewitching vocal loops build a freshly creative merry-go-round of genre-bending nostalgia that is absolutely mesmerizing.
- French minimal tech /house veteran production-DJ duo Romain Lolio & Clément Bourdon, aka SPRSLT “Driftled” off “Destination” EP 12″ [Brique Rouge]
90s-infused minimal percussive tech-house jaunt from the experienced French duo triggered by subtly thudding, rolling drum grooves, hypnotic crispy claps, enveloping swelling atmospheric pads and pulsing and wavering glowing harps, to lift the listener into a loose hang of weightless mesmeric headspace.
- Portland, OR-based experimental/ambient /field recordings /soundscapes /electronic sound artist Patricia Wolf “Beneath the Aspens” from V/A “For Los Angeles: A Relief Compilation from Preference Records & The Village” charity double cassette compilation [Universe Brain / Preference Records]
- Synthesizer folksongs by The Hague-based, Dutch experimental electronic duo of Danny Wolfers (Legowelt) & Dim Garden, aka Smackos & Dim Garden “Lac Leman” from the album “The Art of DX7” [Nightwind Records]
- Ambient /drone /dub //folk /experimental /electronic trio of Philly’s Pontiac Streator (Slunty), Brooklyn’s Shiner, and Berlin-based Ben Bondy, aka Shinetiac “Billie” from the second album “Infiltrating Roku City” [West Mineral Ltd.]
- Bristol, UK experimental /ambient /field recordings /electro-acoustic /minimal electronic musician Kayla Painter “Rulers of Darkness” from the third album instalment of the series “Ambient Owl Core vol.3”
- Portland, OR ambient /neo-classical /violin /piano of Maine-born multi-instrumentalist and composer Keith Kenniff (Helios, Mint Julep), aka Goldmund “Darnley” from the upcoming LP “Layers of Afternoon” LP [Western Vinyl]
- Netherlands ambient /drone /cinematic /soundscapes guitarist and composer, Christian Alsemgeest “Falling” single [Mare Nostrum Label]
- Denver, CO/Memphis, TN ambient /soundscapes collaboration of musicians Marshall Usinger & Kirk Smith, aka Be Still the Earth & We Dream of Eden “Soma” from “Som” EP [Slow Echo]
- Swedish soundscapes /field recordings /organic ambient duo Center of Attention “Forest Haze” from “Lost In Green” EP
- Moscow, Russia IDM /ambient /electronic musician Nick Zavriev, aka Ambidextrous “Unspoken Word” from the upcoming album “Quiescence” [Neotantra]
- California-based ambient /drone /field recordings /guitar loops /electronic multifaceted experienced musician and composer, Kenneth James Gibson “Upon The Arrival Of The Sun (For Tyler & Jesse)” from the album “The Texas Tapes (1993-1997)”
- Hiroshima, Japan ambient /drone /field recordings /soundscapes /electronic artist and composer Hidekazu Imashige, aka Gallery Six “Geshi” from the upcoming cassette album “Kisetsu” [Le Mont Analogue]
- Bretagne-based ambient /ethereal /electro-acoustic /instrumental project of Scottish guitarist, legendary Cocteau Twins act co-founder and Harold Budd collaborator, Robin Guthrie “Prayer” single
- Berlin-based, German ambient /drone /modern-classical /electro-acoustic /cello /piano composer and sound designer, SVEN LAUX “Here and Now” from upcoming “The Undefined Feeling of Discomfort” [Whitelabrecs]
- Japanese-born, Melbourne-based ambient /drone /abstract /electroacoustic composer and sound designer AI YAMAMOTO “Playful Pinky Clouds” from the cassette album “Less Hype More Hyphae” [Le Mont Analogue]
- Vienna, Austria ambient /electro-acoustic /experimental electronica project of husband-wife duo Wolfgang and Beate Lehmann, aka Voyage Futur “Secret Gardens” from cassette album “Inverted Land” [Not Not Fun Records]
- Glasgow-based ambient /aquatic /experimental electro-acoustic musician from Rome, Loris S. Sarid – “Tum-Tum” from V/A “Emerald: New Sounds from Moon Glyph Records” compilation cassette [Moon Glyph Records]
- French soundscape /drone folk /ambient Americana improvisational composer and musician Caleb R.K. Williams “So Far Away (MMXXV)” from “For The Time Spent In The Valleys” 10 years collective anniversary compilation [The Eagle Stone Collective]
- Osaka, Japanese analog synth /minimal /experimental electronics composer, Takahiro Mukai “#572” from the album “Combine one two three” [Underwater Computing _]
- UK ambient /jazz /chillwave /hauntology /dream pop /dreamwave /electronic project of Ben Holton (epic45, My Autumn Empire, Birds In The Brickwork), The Balloonist “The Open Fields” from the upcoming LP “Dreamland” [Wayside & Woodland Recordings]
- New York ambient /country /cinematic /cosmic pastoral /psychedelic multi-instrumentalist trio numün “Reverence (Basic Design‘s Reverent Roller Disco Remix)” [rmx by guitarist Matt from London drone-pop combo The Leaf Library] from “Opening (remixes)” EP [wiaiwya]
- Asheville, NC ambient /improvisational jazz trio led by pianist Steve Okonski, aka Okonski “Dusk” off the album “Entrance Music” [Colemine Records]
- Rome, Italian ambient /experimental modular synth musician Giulio Fontana, aka OGLE “Moonrise” from the upcoming album “Moon Ritual” [Moolakii Club Audio Interface]
- UK/German ambient electronica /Berlin school /experimental collaboration between synthesist Ian Boddy and veteran Krautrock/Kosmische/Prog drummer and keyboardist Harald Grosskopf (Wallenstein, Ashra, Lilli Berlin, and Klaus Schulze collaborator), Ian Boddy & Harald Grosskopf “Diodengesang” from “Doppelgänger” LP [DiN]
- Lima, Peru ambient /post-rock /shoegaze solo project of Antonella Mercedes, aka Everynell “Illusion pieces” from the album “Self”
- Danish ambient /drone /chillout /downtempo project by Kalle Christensen & Henrik Laugesen, aka Lauge & Baba Gnohm “Boarders” from “Perspective” EP
- Brighton, UK ambient /chillstep /shoegaze /future garage /downtempo producer Lewis Broad-Ashman, aka Luga “You’re Free” from “Forgotten Smile” EP
- London-based ambient /electronica /neo-classical collaboration between soundtrack composer David Julyan and string quartet led by James Underwood, David Julyan & Iskra Strings “Wave Transmission” from the upcoming “The Orrery” EP
- Thessaloniki, Greece ambient /krautrock /psych /motorik /experimental electronica producer Konstantinos Giazlas, aka Onepointwo – “Opaes_raw mix” from upcoming cassette album “Rec.Collapse” [Astra Solaria Recordings]
- Scotland-based, English veteran ambient /dub /experimental /electronica musician active since 1988, Ireless “Ill Moon” from “Foretrax 1” EP (recorded in Leeds between 1992-1994) [FRBH Recordings]
- Westfalia, Germany-based ambient /minimal /dub techno producer Tim Kossmann “Black Ice” title track of upcoming “Black Ice” EP [spclnch]
- UK dub /house /electronic producer CORAL D “Tree Guide” [Tears]
- Montreal, Quebec based experimental /psych /dub /improvisational electronic collective MOAB “Bateaux” from the cassette debut album “Laws Ov Nature” [Knekelhuis]
- UK ambient /drone /dub /chillout /experimental veteran electronic producer/musician (one half of The Grid, and Beyond The Wizards Sleeve), Richard Norris “Earthsea Dub” from “Oracle Sound Volume Four” EP [Republic of Music]
- Toronto, Ontario ambient /reggae /dub electronic project N1_SOUND “Joy” from “DIN SYNC DUB” LP [Spiritual World]
- Peruvian ambient deep hypnotic techno producer Andrea Zapata – “Encuentro profundo” from “Mundo oculto” EP [CINUS]
- UK ambient /drone /analogue synth electronic producer Martin Jenkins aka Pye Corner Audio “The Deep Cut” single
- 80’s seminal London‘s experimentalists born from the ashes of This Heat, Camberwell Now – “Speculative Fiction (Benedikt Frey Enhancement)” [Originally released in 1986]
- Vancouver, BC acid /deep minimal house/ dub techno DJ-producer Jay Tripwire “AXIOM_1212” from “Tonality and Modality” LP
- Dutch ambient /IDM /percussive /glitch /percussive /techno producer si’nedd “Null Bloom” from “Fog” EP [Somnia Records]
- Dutch ambient /IDM /bass /electroacoustic /experimental electronic DJ-producer Thessa Torsing, aka upsammy “Open Catalyst” title track of the EP “Open Catalyst” [Dekmantel]
- Brooklyn, NY ambient /psych /techno /progressive /house /breaks production duo jfix & Jek – “Coyote Club (Human Space Machine Remix)” off “Planatek” EP [Earth Dog Records]
- UK enigmatic ambient /drum & bass /breaks /experimental /breaks /techno producer ♾️🔳 “O4woeb833hwwx’22” from “01100110 01101111 01110101 01101110 01100100 00100000 01100110 01101111 01101111 01110100 01100001 01100111 01100101” EP
- UK acid /electro /chug /psych /techno /electronic project of Andrew Weatherall & Nina Walsh, aka The Woodleigh Research Facility “RIDING THE MISTRAL” from “Maximum Vaultage Vol. 2” EP series [Facility 5]
- London, UK ambient /dub /percussive dark techno producer Jay Duncan – “Mondariz ft. Cha Cha” off upcoming “Infinite Mass” EP [TRULE]
- Berlin-based electro /house /leftfield /percussive /downtempo /bass music producer Monibi “Boss Bish” title track of “Boss Bish” EP [YUKU]
- California-based kraut /psych /dub electronic project of Glasgow‘s producer Stu Evans, aka Sordid Sound System “Inanna (Album Edit)” from the album “Gimme Fever” [Invisible, Inc.]
- Perùvian house /dub /breaks /psych /percussion /techno producer, co-founder of Lima-based party collective Casa Locasa and non-profit Behua Icara label, Aristidez “Amniotico (Multi Culti Dub)” from “Uncultured Remixes”EP [Multi Culti]
- Philadelphia psych /acid /electro duo Thomas Roland & James Weissinger (aka Girls Chat Room and Peyton Farquhar), aka Zillas On Acid – “Drones Go Home feat. Matt O’Hare (Zillas On Acid Remix)” off “Mars Hum Remixes” EP (original tracks from the 2024 EP via NEUBAU)
- Xalap, Mexico groovy /funk /psych /disco producer JaasRoo “Fantastic Mr. Fox” from “Sound” EP [Riotvan]
- Reims-born, veteran acid /techno /house /funk /disco experimental French electronic producer, Pierre-Alexandre Busson (aka Yuksek), aka DESTIINO – “Pulsar (feat. Inigo Vontier)” from the second “ii” LP [Lumière Noire]
- Moscow disco /bleep /techno /acid house veteran DJ-producer Leonid Lipelis, aka Beard In Dust – “RoRyaRe” off “Music Of The U” EP [Tunes Delivery]
- Brighton, UK indie dance /psychedelic /percussive /acid house /dance electronica producer Airsine “Like Fire (The Machine Soul Morning Chord Mix)” off “Like Fire” [Paisley Dark Records]
- Berlin-based ambient /IDM /breaks /downtempo /techno /experimental electronica duo of Loz (black snake whip) and Jorge (vase), aka Games “bib (feat. MCRD)” (unreleased) [INDEX:Records]
- Tilburg, Netherlands techno /breaks /garage /dubstep producer Anecho – “Step Out” off “Spiritual Blitz / Step Out” EP [DIMESHIFT]
- French rave /acid /house /breaks /techno DJ-producer Elise Mercier, aka Dylan Dylan – “Natural High” from “What More Do You Want?!” EP [Pont Neuf Records]
- London, UK dubstep /bass /psych /breaks /electro /melodic techno DJ-producer GLYNY “Shaman” off upcoming debut LP “New Dawn” [Dionysian Mysteries]
- Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK ambient /IDM /jungle /techno /electro /breakbeat /downtempo producer The Jaffa Kid “Anora” from the upcoming double 2×12″ album “A Teq Approach By” [Macadam Mambo]
- “The Prophet (ELEKTROTECHNIK Edit)”
- Nantes, French ambient /acid /electro producer Tom Ferreira, aka FASME “Focus” from V/A “Sixty /ˈsɪk.sti/” 3×12″ compilation to celebrate the 60th label release [Analogical Force]
- Greek techno /electro-funk /electro DJ-producer Fro – “When a Man Loves a Computer” from the EP “Subconscious Elektronik Spaces” [Microm Records]
- French/German sci-fi /techno /electro-funk /electro duo DJ MELL G & Unklevon – “Mechanic Feels” from V/A “Constellations Vol. 2” EP [Mechatronica]
- New York hardcore /jungle /techno /breakcore /electro-punk duo of founder Matt Stephenson and Sean Kelly, aka Machine Girl “Ass2Mars (Squarepusher Remix)” from “MG Ultra Remixes” EP [Future Classic]
- Miami, FL IDM /breaks /electro /techno /jackin’ house /experimental producer Louis Khashayar Diaz (aka DJ FEET, 1/2 of Rental Snakes), aka Girlcop “Buffalo Girl Shania Taint Görnt Mix” from “Buffalo Girl” EP [Schematic Music Company]
- Greece progressive /techno /electronic project (aka DJ Loser, Magdalena’s Apathy), Ahirzaman “Red Dagger” single [M.A.]
- Helsinki-based hard-groove hypnotic techno producer SARELL “Seize The Control” off upcoming “Victory Awards The Patient” EP [INCENDIARY]
- Antioquia, Colombia experimental /industrial /raw electro /breaks /EBM /techno producer Faunes Efe, aka Filmmaker “Locked & Loaded” from archival LP collection “Various IV”
- French acid /techno /electro duo (aka HR101), Human Rebellion – “Endless Day (L.F.T. Remix)” off “Exploration” EP [Hilltown Disco]
- Rochester, NY-based, Chicago-born EBM /industrial /acid /electro producer Jordan Lieb, aka Black Light Smoke “Last Song Before Sunrise” from “Control” EP [Turbo Recordings]
- Brussels, Belgium EBM /new beat /retro-future /synth wave /electro-industrial act Analog 80 “O.T.T.” single
- Dark ambient /industrial /dark techno producer COAX – “The Truth” off the debut “Dreams Shall Flesh” EP [VūMantra Records]
- Greek industrial /noise /techno /experimental electronic artist Unified Method “Optimized for failure” from “Hedonic Adaptation” EP [Brutal Forms]
- Sede Nova, Brazil EBM /industrial /techno DJ-producer DOVGLASS – “Blood Devotion” [self-produced]
- Ukrainian industrial /EBM /dark techno DJ-producer Lvcerate “Aggression & the Self” from the “Clouds of Sin & Terror” EP [X-IMG]
- US-raised EBM /industrial techno artists, Statiqbloom + Blush Response “Rosemary Kennedy” from upcoming “Folding In” EP [HANDS]
- Polish new beat-industrial-trance-techno-body music DJ-producer and half of the project Uncarnate, Adam Radziszewski, aka Adam Rå – “Cold Steel” off “The Poisoned Chalice” EP [X-IMG]
- Spanish industrial techno /EBM /new beat /dark disco producer David Hernández, aka Accelerated Corrosion – “Time To Go (Extase Urbaine Remix)” off s/t EP [Banshees Records]
- Polish industrial-techno-EBM DJ-producer Adam Radziszewski, aka Adam Rå – “Scars” off “The Poisoned Chalice” EP [X-IMG]
- Stockholm-based new beat /no wave /electro-funk duo Johan Skugge & Martin Thomasson, aka Harlem Electronics “Dummy Up” from the cassette album “Cage” [VEYL]
- Ahmad Gohar “Shabakny Al Hawa (Zaatar Edit)” (originally from 1993) from Zaatar’s “Lost Edits vol. 01” EP
- Bucharest, Romania EBM /indie dance /techno /dark disco DJ-producer Walentin Pauer “Sexted” from upcoming EP “Sexted” [Nein Records]
- Swarsaktya – “Run Long” New Beat /Techno edit from Jakarta-based label’s collaborator and peak-time specialist DJ, Swarsaktya [Talking Machine Edit 003]
- Mexican EBM /indie dance /dark disco DJ-producer featuring with French singer Mystery Kid, Valmaiin ft Mystery Kid – “Sinistre (Original Mix)” [Manta Recordings]
- Mexican dark disco /indie dance /electronic collaboration Roliva & Marito Ramirez “LEGO (Original)” from “Lego” EP [NATIVO]
- French dark disco /indie dance producer Mylo Salté aka MMYYLO “Complex” [Polaris]
- French Italo /cosmic disco /indie dance /electronic DJ-production duo Darlyn Vlys & Panthera – “Age Of Heroes” off upcoming “Come With Us” EP [SINCOPAT]
- Madrid‘s dark disco /indie dance /Italo DJ-producer David Campos, aka Pumuki “Magia En Tu Cabeza (Teemon Poomba Remix)” off “Magia En Tu Cabeza” EP [Burning Synths]
- Italian house /indie dance /Italo disco producer Volantis feat. Hiroko – “La Kappa (Fabrizio Mammarella Italorama Mix)” off upcoming “Yokai Parade” EP [Alzaya]
- Brazilian acid /indie dance /techno /house producer and DJ, Renato Cohen “Roaring” title track of the new EP [skylax records]
- Lisbon-based indie dance /trance /prog house /techno DJ and producer, Anastasia Zems – “Hypnotic” off “Human Nature” EP [Ulla Records]
- 1983 Stevie Nicks classic “Stand Back (Roliva Restorer Edit)” [NATIVO]
- Norfolk-native, British neo-classical /experimental folk composer and improvising recorder player and violinist Laura Cannell “The Otter Swims at Night” from “A Compendium of Beasts Volume 2” EP [Brawl Records]
- Montreal, Québec ambient /soundscapes /ethereal /cinematic /electroacoustic /electronic sound artist Elaine Christine Gallant, aka Gallanitte “Universe Emerging” long-form EP
- Lancaster, UK experimental /ambient /drone /field recordings /space music /modular synth project of Mark Burford, aka Field Lines Cartographer “Live at Make Much Wenlock Weird Pt2″ from “Live at Make Much Wenlock Weird” LP (Improvised & performed live at The Edge Arts Centre for Make Much Wenlock Weird 15-2-2025)
- London, UK ambient /experimental /techno /electronic producer Darren Cunningham, aka Actress “Grey interiors” long-form LP (originally an installation piece for the Berliner Festspiele together with Actual Objects) [Smalltown Supersound]
- German experimental /electronic /cybernetic music composer [1933-2011], Roland Kayn “Sezarytes” long-form piece (2006)

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