WL//WH Weekly Electronic Music Tips

• April Mix 2025  // MORNING PATROL
  

 A dark, trippy and hypnotic mix of Dark Disco, Indie Dance and anything in between by the enigmatic UK DJ/musician from Manchester.

• Indian/Russian kraut /leftfield /psychedelic /techno /electronic collaboration, The Kayron & Panorama Channel – “Cold Trail at Sundown” from “No One Rides For Free” EP [Jigsaw Lovers Club]

An epic resonant, enveloping and hypnotic trip, opens onto a vast, raw emotional landscape of untethered sweeping edges, fluctuating on turbulent, clanging drum patterns, hearty bass throbs, ominous droning distortions and exotic piercing Middle Eastern strings, imbued with a magnetic mystique arising from a startling clash of choral sonic elements at once intricate and mesmerizing, utterly visionary.

• Bordeaux, France breaks /trance /downtempo /electronic producer Radion – “Essential Force” from “Trascendence” EP [Self-Released]

Bordelais producer combines crisp broken rhythms and shuddering bass pulsations with emotional and uplifting trancey synth flows, to cast a sense of boundless melancholy, expanding the mind towards transcendent horizons.

• UK ambient /jungle /drum & bass /electronic producer Unsyncopation “Seduction” from “Retrograde” EP [Unsyncopation 01]

Immersive, lush, rarefied and intensely alluring syncopated drum & bass realms pervaded by a groovy jazzy vibe, underpinned by a lingering sense of unsettling emotional depth.

• Urbana, Illinois drone /field recordings /ethereal /minimal ambient artist Innesti “Crosscurrents Through Nuances” from the album “Fragility and Circumstance”
  
• German ambient /drone /post-rock /neo-classical musician and composer Maximilian Schmitt, aka Arrival In Eden “Walk With Me” from the upcoming LP “Field Of Memories” [Ambient Cat]
• Valencia ambient /drone /soundscape /electroacoustic Spanish sound artist Agustín Mena, aka Warmth “Spherule (Slowed)” from the album “Parallel (Reflection Slowed)” [ARCHIVES]
• Toronto-based ambient /drone /neo-classical /electro-acoustic /piano /electronic musician D Kirk, aka JICS “Rainfall In Limerick City: High Country Ghosts” from “Quadrants” a collection of 4th albums [Imaginary North]
• UK ambient /electronic /modern classical /experimental project of guitarist, modular synth and piano musician Stuart Smythe, aka The Eyes and the Mistoids “Luna Terra Sol” from the album “Luna Terra Sol” [Waxing Crescent Records]
• Italian ambient /drone /dub /deep /minimal /electronic musician Rocco Biscione, aka Ocralab “Omicron Tau” from the upcoming LP “Basic Ultraworlds” [rohs! records]
• French ambient /drone /minimal /neo-classical /electronic (founding members of Lightwave), Christian Wittman “Veil of SIlence” from the album “Akousmata” [Driftworks]
• Bristol, UK instrumental ambient /drone /post-rock /electronic project, Trem 77 “Over These Dark Ages” from “Blacklight Sunset” EP
  
• Germany-based ambient /drone /field recordings /harp /jazz /electro-acoustic artist (aka Andy Aquarius), Andy Ozbolt “Harkerville Coastal Trail” from the upcoming LP “Chasyng Drakens” [Whitelabrecs]
• London, UK ambient /drone /post-rock /electronic /experimental musician and composer (part of Transatlantic Alliance), Tom Squires, aka rhubiqs “Chronicle #1” (Drone Chronicles series)
  
• UK ambient /drone /field recordings /electronic sound artist Samsuo “Slip from the Island” from “For the Beyond” LP [Florina Cassette]
• Nottingham, UK-based folk /experimental /ambient musician and multi-instrumentalist Ben McElroy “The Howling” from the upcoming album “Elkwort” [laaps]
• UK ambient /IDM /glitch /broken beats /electronica new collaborative project (previously known as Jilk) of Jon Worsley and Kayla Painter, aka Sarno Ultra “Glacis” from upcoming cassette s/t album Sarno Ultra [Bricolage]
• Italian ambient /drone /IDM /eletronica composer (The Child of A Creek), Fallen “Pond Of Blurry Reveries” from the album “Late Night Verses Of Fragmented Dreams” [Neotantra]
• Lancaster, UK experimental /ambient /drone /analogue synths /field recordings project of Mark Burford, aka Field Lines Cartographer “Irradiance” from upcoming “Solar Maximum” album [Woodford Halse]
• Dark ambient /drone /cinematic /soundtrack /field recordings /soundscapes /electro-acoustic collaboration of Bogota-born DJ, sound artist and co-founder of TraTraTrax label, Nyksan with Mexican composer and violinist, Gibrana Cervantes, aka Colombian Drone Mafia and Gibrana Cervantes “Desolación feat. Alliyah Enyo” from “Memoria” EP [TraTraTrax]
• UK ambient /experimental /field recordings /folk collaboration of Nick Keech & Stephen Lawrie (One Unique Signal), Cedres & The Telescopes “June East South East” from upcoming “The Signalman” EP [Rhyo Recordings]
• UK ambient /dream pop /post-rock /guitar project of Ben Holton (epic45, My Autumn Empire), AKA Birds In The Brickwork “Piebald Fence” from “Suburb Study #2” EP CDr+ postcards set [Wayside & Woodland Recordings]
• UK ambient /IDM /electronica artist and producer Cate Francesca Brooks “The Scissors Cut the Silk” title track of the upcoming album
  
• Osnabrück, Germany ambient /krautrock /kosmische /electronic duo of Stephan Otten and Oliver Klemm, aka Sankt Otten “Geweint wird nur zum Schluss” from the upcoming 14th album “TOTE WINKEL” [Denovali]
• Runcorn, UK ambient /hauntology /Radiophonic /experimental /electronic /synth project of musician Gordon Chapman-Fox, AKA Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan “The People Of The Town” from “Overspill Estates” EP 12″ [Castles In Space]
• Normandy-based, ambient /Berlin school /space ambient French electronic composer Georges PANO “DÉCONSTRUCTION” from “STRUCTURE” LP
  
• Osnabrück, Germany krautrock /kosmische /downtempo /electronic duo Sankt Otten “I Feel Love” (Donna Summer) from the upcoming bonus cover album “HYMNEN UND HELDEN” [Denovali]
• Mexican cinematic /jazz /hip-hop /Afro /Japan /percussive /funk /groove resident DJ-producer, LowSignal “Caught Me By Surprise” from “The Spirit of Nemuri Kyoshiro” EP tape [FROUFROUFROU]
• Cosmic lo-fi electro /acid hall project of Japanese digital dub legend Takafumi Noda (aka Mystica Tribe) and Dutch synth wizard Danny Wolfers (aka Legowelt), Noda & Wolfers “Cabal of Puppeteers” from “Jahtarian Dubbers Vol. 5” [Jahtari]
• German ambient /deep dub techno producer and Affin label head, Joachim Spieth “Chain” off “Deep Sessions” EP [Balders Audio]
• Spanish/Japanese ambient /downtempo /deep techno producers Pablo Bolivar & Celestial Sphere “Context” from “Context” EP [Seven Villas Music]
• London-based ambient /deep /low-slung /tribal /hypnotic /electronic /deep techno producer Avsluta – “Black Mamba” from upcoming cassette “ACCENTAPE009 – Avsluta / Adhémar” split album [Accents Records]
• Italian ambient /IDM /bass /breaks /hypnotic /deep techno producer Formant Value – “D0” from V/A “Rizoma Granulare” [Decadance]
• Amsterdam, Netherlands ambient /minimal /dub /techno producer Tammo Hesselink – “Harbour Launch” from “Mantis 16” EP [Delsin Records]
• Berlin-based French ambient /IDM /dub /techno electronic music producer Léo Naït Aïssa, aka Quelza “Pensa Poetico” title track of the upcoming EP [Dekmantel]
• Warsaw-based, Ukrainian ambient /IDM /glitchy /psych /trance /electronic DJ-producer Shjva “Zumi Tek” from upcoming “The Message” EP [Neptune Discs]
• Florence, Italy-based ambient /psy /trance /techno producer and co-founder of DE RIO collective, TOMO “Guidance4” from “Polly Magga” EP [Mana Abundance]
• Polish ambient /IDM /glitch /breakbeat /psych /percussive /organic /electronic producer and Dans Records founder, Tomasz K Zajac, aka Cafe de la Jungle “Mandarin Duck” from the EP “Ginso” [QEONE]
• Melbourne-based leftfield /techno /breakbeat /bass-electro producer Hedchef “Fool’s Errand” from “Only Time Will Tell” EP [YUKU]
• Paris, France ambient /drone /techno producer Ħāl – “Therapeutic Activity” from “The Beauty Beyond Measure” LP [Diffuse Reality Records]
• Cheshire, UK Acid /Techno /House producer and Non Stop Rhythm label head, Tom Carruthers “Evolution (Edit)” from “CRUV 1 (White Label E.P.)” [Non Stop Rhythm]
• Germany-based dark ambient /experimental /breaks /psychedelic /percussive /techno /electronic collaboration between Dutch producer Ruben Üvez (aka Konduku) and the enigmatic Aa Sudd, aka Konsudd – “Firefly Guarantees Bliss” from “Mantis 15” EP [Delsin Records]
• Montreal‘s ambient /dub /bass /deep house DJ-producer and NAFF founder Francis Latreille, aka Priori “Hazard (Forest Drive West 85 Remix)” from the “Pareidolia Remixed” remix EP [Midgar Records]
• Mexican acid /chug /tribal /psych /indie dance /dark cosmic disco DJ-producer and Calypso Records head, Iñigo Vontier – “Bo Ni Ke (Iñigo‘s “Unwanted” Remix)” off “Bo Ni Ke Remixes” EP [Duro]
• Ireland acid chug /house /psych /dark disco producer Signa Rust “Ion Storm Ritual” from “Gravity Bloom” E.P.
  
• Milan, Italian acid /dub /psych /chug /percussive /cosmic disco veteran 80s original Afro-cosmic movement DJs Roberto Intrallazzi and Dario Piana, Intrallazzi & Piana “Out of Control” from “99% Stories” EP [Leng Records]
• Tech /Funk /Deep /Electro House avant-garde Brazilian duo Criminal Issues & Sisto, aka Criminal System “Psycho factory” from the EP “Perpetual Disorder EP [Outdom]
• Frankfurt am Main slow techno /dub /downtempo /tribal /breakbeat /psych /wave /trance /electronic producer Tassilo Vanhöfen “Flow my tears” from upcoming V/A “Altered States Vol.12” fundraising compilation EP [Sinchi]
• London-based breaks /electro /techno duo Luke Ollivere and Christopher D. Ashley, aka Pain Struck Stanley Dumb “Breakfast At Brian’s” from upcoming “Breakfast At Brian’s” EP [Radioactive Man]
• Berlin-based techno /breaks /electro /jazz /drum & bass /downtempo producer Serge Geyzel “I was late cause I was doing music” from “Visions I Lost” EP [EC Underground]
• French ambient /techno /acid house producer LutchamaK “Isotopes” from “ISOTOPES” EP [S.C.A.R.]
• Frankfurt am Main, Germany breaks /house /electro producer Martin Merz “A Million Eyes [Credit 00 Remix]” from “A Million Eyes” EP [Vordergrundmusik]
• Croydon, London IDM /electro producer Interweave Electronics “Darklight” from “Decayed Matrix” LP [Strange But Dance Music]
• Ukrainian newcomer techno /electro producer, Traptor – “Illuminathorn” from upcoming debut label compilation V/A “Neural Matrix VA” LP [Connectome Records]
• Granada-based, Spanish techno /electro producer José María Moreno Vega, aka Spectrums Data Force “7H3 F4M1LY” off “Trinity EP” [New Flesh Records]
• 2015 dark ambient /glitch-noise /post-techno /experimental collaboration between Finnish electronic music luminary Mika Vainio (Pan Sonic) and French experimental music pioneer Franck Vigroux (Push The Triangle, Transistor), aka Vainio & Vigroux “Mutant” from “Peau froide, léger soleil” 2x 12″ LP 10th anniversary reissue [Aesthetical Records]
• Hungarian ambient /acid /IDM /broken beats /electro /experimental duo Anna Makay (MA’AM) and Juhász Tamás, aka Yinna + S Olbricht – “A Way to Slow Light Down” from upcoming “Werner Sees Constellations in Marble Caves” EP [Dalmata Daniel]
• Bangkok-based short-lived IDM /jazz /trip-hop /tropical /experimental electronic project conceived in 2007 by Ivan Pavlov (CoH) and Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson (of Coil), SOISONG “Dtorumi” from the debut “xAj3z” 2xLP [Dais Records]
• Corfu-based, Greek industrial /experimental techno /electronic project of Dimitris Doukas, aka Restive Plaggona “Desire For Revenge from the ltd. cassette edition of the 2023 album “Ignis” [Btx3R/F01101/Exe.]
• Bristol, UK experimental /leftfield /noise /industrial /electronics producer Max Kelan Pearce (Bad Tracking, Salac), aka Kelan “A Win To Sin ft. Piezo” from s/t album [Bellyache]
• New York-based EBM /industrial /noise /electro /drone /experimental /electronic music project of Michael Renfield (aka Soilodge and Noise Process), aka R010R “PSYCHIC DRIVING” from “R04” EP
  
• Paris-based dark ambient /cinematic /industrial /techno /electronic artist Substencia “Vertigo” from the upcoming “Swamps of Melancholia” EP [Venaeform]
• Berlin-based post-industrial /techno producer Arthur Bdt (1/2 of ATT Corp), aka Incendie “Staples, Bones and Loss” from upcoming “Drowning” LP [HANDS]
• Canadian techno /industrial /EBM producer (Front Line Assembly, Conjure One, and Delerium), Rhys Fulber – “State Circus” from V/A “30 Years : Sonic Groove” compilation 2×12″ [Sonic Groove]
• London-based Rhythmic Noise /Industrial Techno DJ-producer and co-owner of Depth.Request, G.xist “Many will be the victims” from “From Cradle to Grave” EP [Brutal Forms]
• New York/Berlin EBM /industrial /noise /techno duo Statiqbloom + Blush Response “Rosemary Kennedy” from upcoming “Folding In” LP [HANDS]
• Greece EBM /acid /electro /techno producer Fragedis – “Disco Nicotina” from V/A “Mellow Bangers Vol.2” compilation [ITALO MODERNI]
• Dutch-Surinamese industrial /rock /techno producer, songwriter and DJ, Parrish Smith “TECHNOSTARS [ORIGINAL]” single [Enter The Darkbeat]
• Stockholm-based Anglo-Swedish space dark disco /new wave /retro synth producers and songwriters James Brook (ex Pardon Moi Band) and Josefine Larsson, aka Sex Kino “U-bahn” off upcoming “DEFCON ONE” EP [SOIL Records]
• London-based acid-house /gothic synth-pop artist Michael Georgian “Fantasy” single [Strong Island Recordings]
• Barcelona Italo disco /synth-pop artist Caseti “La Noche” single [Hielo Rojo Records]
• Bucharest, Romania EBM /indie dance /techno /dark disco /noir electronic producer (Eddie Lanzat), Walentin Pauer “Sexted (Kay-Chi Remix)” from “Sexted ” EP [Nein Records]
• South Korea acid /indie dance /space electronic /cosmic disco producer Shubostar – “Galaxy Walker (Italo Brutalo Remix)” from the upcoming “Galaxy Walker” EP [uju Records]
• London, UK-based Disco /Electro Noir Synthpop synth diva Valeria Valuyskaya, aka Velvet Velour “ Corals (Neu-Romancer Remix)” off “Corals Remix” EP [Jardin de Bliss]
• Latvia-based electro /synthpop /electronic producer Dmitry Distant, aka Comme Un Coeur – “Get Closer (The Populists Remix)” (Italo Disco classic originally released by Valerie Dore back in 1984)
  
• Madrid-based acid /house /indie dance /techno Italian-born electronic producer Bawrut “Gallop” from “Papa Bawrut 1” EP [Pets Recordings]
• Spanish acid /indie dance /dark disco producer Calystarr – “Synthetize (Size M Remix)” from “Synthetize” EP [Espacio Cielo]
• Mexican Synth Wave /Neo Italo Disco producer Absentia “Magia Oscura” from”Seduction” EP [Feinstoff]
• Magneto – “Vuela Vuela (Whitesquare Club Edit)”
  
• Rotterdam-based ambient /drone /fourth world /field recordings /dub /jazz /spoken word project of multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer Hanyo van Oosterom (founder of CHI and the Chi Factory), Son Of Chi “We Carry Eden (Part I)” from “We Carry Eden (Feat. Omar Ka)” two parts long-form album [Music From Memory]
• UK ambient /experimental /drone /electronic producer Xqui “The Colour Of Spring” title track of the upcoming LP “The Colour Of Spring” [Wormhole World]
• French drone ambient space music musician Alex Ringess “Toward The Pleiades” from the long-form album “Voyage”
  
• Sardinia-based ambient /drone /minimal /field recordings /soundscapes /tape loops /piano /experimental project of Italian composer Andrea Porcu, aka Come Le Onde “Dove finiscono le cose invisibili” long-form piece [ROHS! RECORDS]
• Berlin-based ambient /drone /electronic project of veteran percussionist Volker Lankow “Calm Movements” from the long-form album “Drifting Experiments” [iapetus]
• UK ambient /drone /deep /electronica music producer State Azure “Stillness” long-form piece
  
• Dayton, Ohio dark ambient /drone /minimal /noise /electronic producer Brian Grangier, aka Limestone Ziggurat “Chrysopoeian Waves IV” long-form album [Milieu Music Digital]

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