Weekly Electronic Music Tips // MARCH 2025 #12-26
Banks’s Brewery, Langley, Worcestershire by Eric de Mare
PICKS OF THE WEEK:
- VLADIMIR IVKOVIC B2B IVAN SMAGGHE – at Baan Bardo, Thailand (December 11, 2025)
Boundless, tripped-out, genre-defying back-to-back South East Asian set by revered Belgrade-born, Düsseldorf’s Salon Des Amateurs resident and Often Music label boss Vladimir Ivković and veteran UK-based, French producer, DJ by chance, composer and Kill The DJ & Les Disques de la Mort labels co-founder (1/2 of Black Strobe), Ivan Smagghe.
- Oslo, Norway acid electro /deep house producer and Boring Crew Records co-founder, Anders Hajem “Solina Acid” third single out from the upcoming V/A “SmåSnacks Vol. 3” compilation [Snick Snack Music]
Expansive, evocative, and atmospheric, “Solina Acid” drives a hypnotic, emotional meandering of slinky minimal drum loops, rubbery bass lines, pulsing acid-burnt electro sequencies, and swelling spacey melancholic strings, peppered with sultry, mystifying female vocals, to evoke radiant visions of urgent cosmic angst.
- Bradford, UK legendary experimental dub innovators since the 90s, The Rootsman “When The Eye Opens (Miles J Paralysis ‘Eyes Closed’ Remix)” from “Roots Return” EP [Crying Outcast]
Label boss Miles J Paralysis serves up a heady dubbed-out percussive rapture, springing effortlessly along with heart-pulsing, rubbery basslines, distant, echoing melancholic synth chords, and shivering, exotic devotional vocal hymns, to loosely swing in and out of a fluctuating, soothing, transcendent dizziness.
- Antwerp, Belgium acid /bass music /dub /psych /percussive /leftfield /techno producer and quỳnh label head, Emily Jeanne “Fire Lily (ophélie Remix)” from the remix EP “Versions Vol. 1” [quỳnh]
French, Berlin-based ophélie’s re-magination ‘upping the ante in metre and intensity’ is an hypnotically charged, uncanny and haunting slow-slung trip through surreal untamed territories, building over wavy layers of neck-snapping rattling percussion, clicking drum loops, sludgy and croaky, droning low frequencies and tensely tinkling arpeggios to seep a relentless sensory sultry groove, both mental and physical, that perturbs, just as much as it calms.
- Portland, OR-based Canadian–American ambient /ethereal /dream pop artist Hollie Kenniff “The World Can Wait” from “For Those Who Stay” LP [Nettwerk]
- New York ambient /field recordings /devotional /psych /acoustic /folk guitarist Herb Lore “Approaching the Throne of the Outsider” from the album “Mysticism” [Inner Islands]
- Norfolk, UK ambient /improvised medieval /folklore /neo-classical /chamber folk musician and composer Laura Cannell “THE MYTH OF THE ALPHA WOLF” off the upcoming EP “AURORAE” [Brawl Records]
- Toronto-based ambient /drone /cinematic /electro-acoustic artist Jics “What Brings You Here” from the mini album “New South Wales” eRecords digital record series [Whitelabrecs]
- Kanagawa, Japan ambient /drone /electro-acoustic musician Yu Ogu – “A Gentle Ceiling” from V/A “Ephemeral & Fleeting – Modular Music of Japan” compilation LP [ato.archives]
- Ambient /drone /experimental transatlantic collaboration between British dark ambient guitarist Linden Pomeroy & US droner Zachary Corsa (Lost Trail, Nonconnah), aka Sleep Chrysalis “A Sketch For Winter Children” from the 2016 first album “Sleep Chrysalis” 10th anniversary remastered edition [Third Kind Records]
- North of France ambient /drone /glitch /electronic producer Erell Ranson (Nicolas Petitjean), aka Nosnar “Nidelva” from “Trondheim” album [Neotantra]
- Rotterdam-based ambient /drone /field recordings /minimal /improvisational /experimental composer and sound designer, Ard Bit “The Outlet” from upcoming “Juxtaposed” LP [DRONARIVM]
- North Carolina-based ambient /liminal /meditative /soundscapes /multi-instrumentalist and producer, M. Cross Dougherty “Expectations” from “Oceans” EP [Ambient Cat]
- Canadian ambient /drone /field recordings /experimental solo project of musician Aidan Woollard, Absence “Breathing and Vibrant” from “Names of Unknown Places” LP [Imaginary North]
- Boston, MA ambient /drone /soundscapes /electronic musician, Wreath “Actually, it will be okay” from “Familiar Feeling” EP [Ambient Soundscapes]
- UK ambient /drone /experimental /modular synthesist composer and producer LOULA YORKE “The carrier bag theory of fiction” from “Salix” EP [Truxalis]
- Amman, Jordan-based experimental /ambient /neo-classical /electronic composer and musician of Syrian-Palestinian-Jordanian-Lebanese heritage, Faten Kanaan “إكليل ikleel” from V/A “Land 03 (أرض ٠٣): A compilation for the displaced in Lebanon” fundraising compilation [Tunefork Studios]
- German veteran drone /experimental electronica /ambient pioneer Markus Guentner “Sund” from the compilation “Aeris” LP [Affin]
- Chicago ambient /drone /glitch /dub /folk /experimental /electronica solo project of Mark Nelson (former guitarist and vocalist of ambient drone-rock legends Labradford), Pan•American “Silver Tramway (In Snow)” from the album “Fly the Ocean in a Silver Plane” [Kranky]
- Germany IDM /acid /breaks /electro funk /downtempo /electronica producer Florian Förster – “Certainty” from V/A “Full Spectrum 3” 3xCD charity compilation [Touched Music]
- England ambient /drone /hauntology /techno /folklore /spoken words /leftfield electronic producer and sound artist, Warmfield “The Gallows and the Spire” from V/A “Puzzles of the Psyche” compilation [Trevlad]
- New York-based, Javanese experimental electronic recording artist, producer, and experimental composer, Izak Jerasimo (founding member of trio Asa Tone), aka Kaazi “Glass Mallets, Dawn” from “Incidental Scenes” LP collection of music made for film, documentaries and shorts [LEAVING RECORDS]
- Ann Arbor, Michigan ambient /field recordings /dub techno /cosmic electronic producer Stephen Hitchell (aka Intrusion, and Soultek, part of Echospace), Variant “Someplace Else” from “The Setting Sun” 2xLP Field Records‘ 2009 album vinyl reissue [Echospace]
- Stuttgart, Germany ambient /minimal /deep techno producer and Predawn Records co-head, Nils Edte – “Actus” from V/A “Affinity 7” EP by Arsène Martinet & Michal Basar | Nils Edte | A Ras (seventh installment of the Affinity series) [Affin]
- Stuttgart, Germany ambient /tribal /minimal /deep techno producer and Predawn Records co-head, Nils Edte – “Affect” from the upcoming double album “Cogitat” [Predawn Records]
- Netherlands/Finland ambient /minimal /dub /deep techno collaboration between Samuel van Dijk and Rasmus Hedlund, aka Dialog – “riddim (Javier Zalazar remix)” from “riddim” EP [Klape Knudsen]
- UK ambient /hypnotic /dub techno producer Ajnkana “Flight 01” from “Frequency Resolve” EP [Cold Tear Records]
- Milan, Italy ambient /halftime /breaks /drum & bass /tribe /deep techno production duo and Stagno Records co-founders, Hagva “Varkha” from V/A “Entropy” LP compilation [SousTraitance]
- Dutch ambient /IDM /dark drum & bass /halftime /deep techno producers Spekki Webu and Human Space Machine, aka SW & HSM “Untitled 002” from “cycle0.6” EP, 6th instalment of the collaborative “cycle bender” series [MIRROR ZONE]
- UK dub legend Neil Fraser, Mad Professor & Bobby Harris “Father of Creation” 2-track 7″ single [Ariwa]
- Saint Paul, Minnesota ambient /drone /new wave /noise /krautrock /jazz /psychedelic rock experimental collective American Cream Band “Leda and the Swan” from upcoming LP “Twin” [Quindi Records]
- Venezia ambient /jazz /dance electronic trail-blazing Italian composer and multi-instrumentalist, Gigi Masin “Lost” from the upcoming LP “Movement” [Sacred Bones Records]
- Detroit techno pioneering collective Underground Resistance – “When Angels Speak f. Saul Williams” from V/A “When There Is No Sun” LP, a reimagination of the universe of Sun Ra, curated by Ricardo Villalobos [Omni Sound]
- Sweden experimental psychedelic techno production duo Anthony Linell & Evigt Mörker “Kedja de ofödda” from “Ett anständigt liv” EP [Northern Electronics]
- Bradford, UK-based ambient /downtempo /minimal /spectral electronica project of Gavin Miller, aka worriedaboutsatan “Piece By Miserable Piece” from the 20th album “No Knock No Doorbell”
- Nice, France minimal /organic /percussive /tribal /techno producer Aawadh “Ewa” from “Nerea” EP [Sungate]
- North Berwick, Scotland-based, Leeds-bred ambient /dub /experimental electronic musician active since 1988, Iress “TARANTULA CHASER” from “FORETRAX 4” EP (recorded to Fostex 280 4-track in Leeds between 1992 and 1994) [FRBH Recordings]
- Cologne, Germany atmospheric /experimental /g-house /jungle /d&b /drum & bass producer SubMarine “Something Special” from “Runna” EP [1985 Music]
- Paris-based Franco-British bass /dubstep /deep techno DJ-producer and Bait label head, Beatrice M. “Disco Corner” from the debut LP “Sinking” [Tectonic Recordings]
- Bristol, UK bass music /house /drum & bass /breaks /techno /acid /dub veteran electronic producer Jim Cole, aka Om Unit “Remember” from upcoming “Oracles” EP [Local Action]
- London acid house concept group created by Chris Coco in the early 90s, Coco Steel & Lovebomb “E1 AC1D0” single [DSPPR]
- Bristol, UK-based dark /world /tribal /psychedelic /hypnotic /techno producer Josef Kašpar aka Memory Play “We Used To Speak The Same Language (Mor Elian & Gramrcy Remix)” from “We Used To Speak The Same Language” EP [Control Freak Recordings]
- Bristolian IDM /ambient /house /techno /electronic producer A Sagittariun “67879” from the 2-track EP “Illusion Confusion” [Elastic Dreams]
- Leeds, UK-based dubbed-out psychedelic no-wave /spaghetti-western orchestral dance maximalist project The Group For Action & Dance, aka Group A.D. “Forza A.D.” title track of the debut EP
- UK ambient /radiophonic /shoegaze /indie dance /minimal techno /cosmic house /analogue synth electronic producer Martin Jenkins, aka Pye Corner Audio feat. Andy Bell – “Cycle” first single from the new PCA’s album “More Songs About The Sun” [Sonic Cathedral]
- Early 80s French Kraut ‘Ethno-Industrialists’, Vox Populi! “Zen-Dub (Krikor OverDub)” from “In Dub” EP [Emotional Rescue]
- Italian psych /death-disco /tribal house /electronic duo of Claudio Brioschi (aka Brioski) and Andrea Barbiera, aka Tamburi Neri feat. Hiroko Hacci “Niente di Personale” from “Connessioni II” EP [Danza Tribale]
- Italian acid /drone /leftfield /psychedelic /trance /electronic producer (1/2 of Future Island and Eurospeed), Treasure Island “Treno Di Canne (Trance-A-Lento Edit)” from V/A “Hash Charity Foundation Vol.2” EP
- Ambient /shoegaze /electronica collaboration between French post-industrial experimentalist Geins’t Naït, highly influential British ambient musician Robin Rimbaud, joined by LØ, aka Geins’t Naït + LØ & Scanner “Chut(e)” from upcoming album “Behind The Door” [Offen Music]
- Helsinki, Finland acid /dub /beatdown /trance /cosmic /house producer Jonne Lydén, aka 53X – “Sanctuary” from “Cyan Haze” EP [Emotional] Especial
- French veteran house /psychedelic /percussive /versatile experimental dance electronic producer, encyclopedic DJ and Versatile Records label boss, Gilbert Cohen (half of Chateau Flight with I:Cube), aka Gilb’r – “Où Mènent les Rêves” from V/A “Multi Culti Equinox III” LP [Multi Culti]
- Mexico City-based indie dance /trance /psych /acid house Argentinian alien DJ-producer and Calypso Records head, Thomass Jackson “Rough Times” from V/A “Calypso Vol II” LP compilation [Calypso Records]
- Osaka, Japan acid /dub /psych /percussive /leftfield house DJ-producer and Chill Mountain Rec curator, Ground “あなたとけた Anatatoketa (Tushen Rai & Warum dub Remix)” [Chill Mountain Rec]
- Paris, France acid /electro /dub /house producer Tim Paris feat. Foremost Poets – “That Boy (Red Axes Remix)” from “That Boy Remixes” EP [Live At Robert Johnson]
- Leeds, UK dub /chug /percussive /psych /bleep /techno /house /electronic DJ-producer Bleaching Agent “Hollis (Miles J Paralysis Remix)” from the split EP “Double Vision” by Bleaching Agent and Miles J Paralysis [Dream Space]
- Lecce, South of Italy psych /glitch /percussive /acid house producer Andrea Mangia aka Populous – “Glitch 2000 / Rave Down (Simple Symmetry Conjoined Twins Remix)” off “Glitch 2000 / Rave Down” EP [Playground Records]
- French ambient /cinematic /hypnotic /electro /techno /analogue electronic artist Molécule “Utah” off of “A:R” EP [Lumière Noire]
- Detroit-based techno /electro producer (1/2 of Symptoms of Love), Ben Christensen “Here Come the Lions” off “Here Come the Lions” EP [Bar Part Time]
- Le Mans, France ghetto-tech /techno /breakbeat /bass music producer Swooh “Ggget Me” from “Fluctuations” EP [TETE VIDE]
- London-based acid /breakbeat /electro producer Keith Tenniswood (Two Lone Swordsmen), aka Radioactive Man “Ode To The Bassment (18-20)”, second of a one-side single series
- Berlin-based techno /electro producer Sascha Dornhöfer, aka bdqb “The Short Reign of Jelisaweta VIII (Detectro Remix)” from “Future Traumatic Stress Disorder” EP [Synaptic Cliffs]
- Netherlands-based Ukrainian techno /electro producer Alex Gordiy “AZURE (ROI RMX)” from upcoming EP “AZURE · ISOLATOR” [COSMIC TRIBE]
- Germany techno /breakbeat /electro producer Elektrotechnik – “V.I.P.” from “Sequence” EP [Prbit Records]
- Colombia‘s Filmmaker‘s leftfield electro side project, Renderer “Overload” from “Infodynamics” EP [BODY MUSICK]
- Italian rave /techno /electro producer RVRSRVR – “Storm Masks” from V/A “Electro Noir Chronicle / First Foundation” EP series [New Flesh Records]
- West Palm Beach, FL industrial /glitch /electro producer and CHP Recordings head, Grow “Dirty Carrots (Dirty Dub Mix)” from “Dirty Carrots” EP [CHP Recordings]
- Hull, UK analog Bass Music /Punk /Techno /Electro producer James Orvis, Druum “Hustle” from “Signal Threat” LP |Dionysian Mysteries|
- Stockholm electro project of veteran Swedish techno producer Cari Lekebusch, aka Mystic Letter K “Eschatologia” from the LP “Occulimus” [Oráculo Records]
- Salzburg, Austria acid /old-school techno producer BONDE – “Let It Go” off “Lost Moments” EP [Nachtmusik]
- French industrial /breaks /techno collaboration between Samy (aka Kmyle) and veteran Rave Or Die/New Flesh Records boss Umwelt, Kmyle & Umwelt – “Sparks of resilience” EP, first of Kmyle’s special collaboration series [KMYLE RECORDS]
- Berlin-based Dublin-native industrial techno /experimental electronic DJ-producer Simon Hayes, aka Swarm Intelligence “Forever Empress” from the split EP by Swarm Intelligence & Neuroclash “False Vacuum” EP [Depth.Request]
- Mar Del Plata, Argentina EBM /industrial /electro /techno producer 909distortion “Fallen Dolls” from “Horror” EP [D21]
- Belgian EBM /post-punk /darkwave /electronic project of co-founder of The Neon Judgement, Dirk Da Davo, featuring longtime collaborators Glenn Keteleer (Radical G) and Pieter-Jan Theunis, aka Neon Electronics “Justification Unknown (Ancient Methods Remix)” from “Liberation” [Oráculo Records]
- Glasgow, UK hardcore /drum & bass /industrial techno DJ-producer Kenny Campbell – “Demoralised Singularity” from V/A “VOLUME ONE” EP [Acid Reflux]
- London-based French EBM /cinematic /industrial techno artist and co-founder of Depth. Request label, G.XIST “Apricity (OTTOMAN GRÜW Body Rework)” from the upcoming EP “Process” [OMEN Recordings]
- Portland, OR-based EBM-industrial-techno project of Court Knight & Dancing Plague, CENTRIFUGAL FORCE MACHINE “INCINERATE /” from “OBLITERATE / COLLAPSE” EP [X-IMG]
- Paris-based computer music /electro /electro-clash /electronic Latvian producer Geneva “Crush My System” single [Fauve Records]
- Argentina-based indie dance /disco /psych /mushroom house DJ-producer, Balam “Disco Mutanta” off of “Mambo Negro” EP [Natural Selections]
- Marlow, UK dub /acid house /electro DJ-producer Ian Crabtree, aka Krabberz “Engage (10:40 remix)” off “Engage” EP [Paisley Dark Records]
- Mexico City disco /acid /Latino /electro-house /indie dance producer and Duro Label co-head, Theus Mago ft. Zol Ekaterina “CA$H BEIBY (Original Mix)” [Duro label]
- Cannes, French rave /Italo /techno /trance /indie dance /electronic DJ-producer Panthera “Sunburst” off “Ashes” EP [Mélopée Records]
- Italian indie dance /dark disco /melodic techno DJ-producer Vicky Montefusco “Reprise” from “Dance Contemporanea” EP [Analog Disorder]
- New York acid /retro house /indie dance producer Nackley – “Human Destruction” from “Pump & Dump” EP [Feinstoff]
- Athens, Greece Italo disco project Milano Flash “Electric Eyes” single
- Leicester, UK-based ambient /minimal /electronica /post-rock solo project of guitarist Jon Attwood (1/2 of Jarr), aka Yellow6 “you can’t swim here” from the 2-piece long-form album “eyes and ears / you can’t swim here”
- Canadian electro-acoustic/drone /field recordings /ambient duet project by brothers Jordan Christoff & Stefan Christoff, Anarchist Mountains “Belém Rains” from the long-form album “Waterways” [Slow Tone Collages]
- France dark ambient /cinematic /cosmic /fantasy /dungeon synth /modular electronic project Weress “Visages” from upcoming cassette album “Éveillé” [Ancient King Records]
- Denver, CO ambient /drone /experimental /kosmische /new age /synth ‘inner-dimensional’ musician Paul Riedl “Celestial Horizon” from upcoming LP “Orbital Resonance” [SFI Recordings]
- Tulsa, Oklahoma, ambient /drone /experimental /synth /electronic multi-instrumentalist and visual artist Brad Rose, aka Charlatan “The Architecture Falls Away” from the long-form two-track LP “The Mutual Blur” [The Jewel Garden]
- Barcelona atmospheric /deep listening /ambient /space music veteran producer Max Corbacho “The Gentle Continuum” from “The Gentle Continuum” LP
- Collaboration between experimental musicians New York‘s cellist Leila Bordreuil and Stockholm‘s organist Kali Malone, Leila Bordreuil & Kali Malone “Intersecting Planes II” from the album “Music for Intersecting Planes” recorded at night by candlelight in the Temple of La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland [Ideologic Organ / La Becque Editions]
- Illinois ambient /tape music /experimental electronica project started in 1986, Fossil Aerosol Mining Project “After Los Angeles” from the archival compilation “Disassociated” (2013-2023)
Lionel Bruneau – Photographer
