WL//WH Weekly Electronic Music Tips

• RADIO RITUEL 69 // GAVELMAN
  

Killer raw and corrosive mix from Glasgow-based DJ, producer & Lifeforms label head honcho, Gavelman tripping seamlessly between Acid, Electro, Techno and Noise.

• French experimental /synth electronic artist from Bordeaux, VOLCAN “Bisan” from V/A – “S4R001” SOUNDS4RESISTANCE‘s Palestina fundraising cassette compilation [S4R]

SOUNDS4RESISTANCE is a solidarity fundraising project to gather musicians and creatives together for community support in this case “the Palestinian people that have been subject, for over 75 years, to incommensurable violence by the hands of the Israeli settler colonial state and the western imperial war machine.” In recent compilations, I don’t understand if out of ignorance or stupidity, I noticed several NGOs linked to well-known nefarious warmongers of US Imperialism like H. Clinton or G. Soros, as if the same ones who openly or sneakingly provide all kinds of lethal weapons to slaughter civilians, were asking for funds to save them., in this case you can go safe. The French synth musician concocts an intricate bouncy and hypnotizing rhythmical groove of clattering metallic percussions, ceaselessly thudding kick drums and rubbery pulsating basslines, over which mesmerizing Arabic ceremonial chants and swelling stirring bright atmospheric synth epics emphasize the emotional mood amongst tragedy and hope.

• French electro /wave DIY pioneer Alexis A. since the 90s and founder of the seminal Planète Recordings label and lately of the Heathen Electronic Rec., LE SYNDICAT ELECTRONIQUE – “RAFAH RESISTS” from V/A “61 + 1 HYMNS FOR THE CHILDREN OF MYNAS | TEARING OF THE TEMPLE” 61 Artists Unite to Break the Silence: Charity VA Supporting Palestine Children Relief [GLANZ + ELEND]   

Same thing as above, even if I have serious doubts about the last well-known NGO, the huge 61 artist charity compilation more focused on Dark Sounds such as Industrial, Techno, EBM, Darkwave and all around, even if is not missing Trance (Fairground of Tears), Ambient (Vanity Productions) and Italo (Alen Skanner), through the highly passionate Berlin-based avant-garde DIY Record label GLANZ + ELEND.  Who better than an early pro-Palestinian militant as Le Syndicat Électronique, to embody that fiery spirit of resistance, with a hypnotic sharp-edged slab of raw, gritty, dissonant and true-to-the-core electro menace.

• Toulouse-based French/Lebanese Italo /EBM /Techno /Electronic producer Psaum, aka Arabian Panther “El Oddz” from the upcoming “The Death Of The Panther” EP [Ritmo Fatale]

A staple of our Toulouse dance scene for over a decade, the French-Lebanese solitary warrior for peace and justice keeps the beats boiling with his uncompromising intersection of diverse styles from Italo-Disco to EBM and Techno flecked with Trance and Acid hues and swirling Arabic flourishing, imbued with heartfelt strains of pain, passion, melancholy and rebellion that echo from his heritage, that underlie the buzzing and gripping rhythms, to hypnotise the body and mind.