Weekly Electronic Music Tips // APRIL 2025 #14-26
PICKS OF THE WEEK:
- Groove Room #028 | ROLANDO PORRO |
Zurich, Switzerland-based experienced DJ and soon producer Rolando Porro began his journey in the 90s, spinning vinyl at local venues with a sound deeply rooted in the New Wave, EBM, and Industrial music of the 80s, alongside the vibrant Techno of the 90s. These days, he’s known for his dynamic dark sets filled with modern Cold Wave, Dark Electro, and Dark Disco grooves.
- Bristol, UK, ambient /IDM /techno /dubstep /bass music influential veteran electronic DJ-producer and Skull Disco label co-founder, Laurie Osborne, aka Appleblim “Neolithic Neon” title track of the upcoming album ”Neolithic Neon” [Sneaker Social Club]
Bristol‘s Bass Music pioneer delves in the spiritual roots for a wide range of electronic languages, from IDM, jungle, dubstep, techno, to electro, and acid, recomposed and interlocked through a harmonic conflagration into a heady, kaleidoscopic sound narrative made of a multifaceted yet cohesive textural whole, rife with buoyant energy and fervid imagination. The first IDM-tinged teaser is an ever-evolving and exhilarating trippy rambling into an intricate, sizzling layering of deep syncopated percussive grooves, and buzzy, glitchy and babbling convulsive low ends cloaked in swelling airy pads, fizzling and floating with such effortless organic urgency that it pricks the senses with soothing and clarifying mind and body connection.
- Biarritz, French acid /house /chug /psychedelic /downtempo /leftfield techno musician Sebastien Tex “God Gave Me Bad Acid” off upcoming V/A “Calypso Vol II” LP compilation [Calypso Records]
From the trippy kaleidoscopic spirit of the incoming long-awaited compilation from the label headed by visionary producers Thomass Jackson & Iñigo Vontier, is perfectly embodied by the veteran French artist Sebastien Tex‘s stifling and groovy surreal psychedelic immersion that obsessively bounces around heavy stomping percussions along with grumbling droney bass pulses, circled by the quirky feral, swirling environmental disturbance from broken down glitchy effects and stirring primal sounds, whilst a swirling mantra urges “Slow it.”
- Leipzig-based industrial /acid /electro-funk /electro-wave producer and Clear Memory crew affiliated (Dog Balls, and Westlake & Hayter), Hayter “Voices From The Crypt” from the upcoming “Digital Digits” EP [Hilltown Disco]
Grubby, sinister and shadowy electro brooding-ness from Leipzig producer trudges obsessively through hypnotic pounding beats, ominous buzzing low ends, and a swirling, scratchy and edgy array of sharp neurotic stabs and icy doomy strings, to create an unhinged and decaying, unsettling dystopian narrative spewed by “Voices from the Crypt.”
- Berlin-based ambient /drone /field recordings project of St. Petersburg-native artist, DJ, and radio.syg.ma co-founder, Sasha Zakharenko, aka PERILA “electrolytes” from “a étude” EP
- Rome, Italy electronics /modern classical pianist, composer, visual artist, Luca Longobardi “Repetition” from upcoming “Tempo Fugit” LP [Just Music]
- Lithuanian ambient /ethereal /field recordings /synth /electronic composer Teatre “Perseide (feat. sloe)” from the upcoming album “All Constellations Weaving Into One” [Amulet of Tears]
- Toronto, Canada IDM /ambient / field recordings /post-classical /experimental /electronic recording artist Jen K. Wilson, aka Buildings and Food “Geese” from upcoming LP “Yutori”
- Cambridge, UK ambient /drone /chillout /field recordings /tape loops /electro-acoustic sound artist Tim Martin, aka Maps and Diagrams “Electric Blues” from upcoming “Tone Isolation” album [Home Normal]
- Canadian-American/Georgian ambient /meditative /chillout /space /electronic collaboration between musicians Hollie Kenniff & Human Is Alive “Truth Be Told” single [Nettwerk]
- Japan ambient /drone /field recordings /improvisation /minimal /experimental musician Saito Koji “Like A Rolling Stone” from “Archive 25” EP
- French ambient /drone /devotional /experimental musician and virtuoso violinist, Agathe Max “A Thousand Petals” from “Kurama” album [GOLDEN RATIO FREQUENCIES]
- UK dark ambient /drone /hauntology /experimental sound artist Epimyth “Cloud Drain (CD2)” from the double album “Benzalkonium” [Facture]
- US experimental ambient /electronica trio of zakè (Zach Frizzell), Ossa (Kaiton Slusher), and ASC (James Clements), aka zakè, Ossa, ASC “Microlith 7” from the LP “Microliths and Momentary Drifts” [Zakè Drone Recordings]
- US ambient /drone /experimental /modular synth split EP between Taipei, Taiwan-based interdisciplinary artist Ryan J Raffa, and Chicago-raised multi-instrumentalist Sam Prekop with Milwaukee‘s composer Steve Zydek (Wavefiler), Ryan J Raffa & Sam Prekop – “Wide Open Spaces” from upcoming Ryan J Raffa & Sam Prekop / Wavefiler “Area Flood” split EP 7″ [Mystery Circles]
- Tokyo, Japan ambient /drone/field recordings /tape loops sound artist Pallette – “Just saying your name makes me smile” from the album “ I care about you so much” [Lontano Series / Rohs! Records]
- London, UK ambient /drone /noise /post-rock /electronic /experimental musician and composer Tom Squires (part of Transatlantic Alliance), aka rhubiqs “Ashes” from “Ashes//Embers” 7″ single [Skew Note]
- Danish experimental /ambient /drone /electronic project of Posh Isolation co-founder & one-half of Damien Dubrovnik, Christian Stadsgaard, aka Vanity Productions “The Penlight Publication” from “The Vanity Project” LP [Northern Electronics]
- Edinburgh-based ambient /drone /modular synth music project of Scottish musician John McRitchie, aka The Lost Past Society “The Notes In Between” from the album “Transmissions From The Edge Of Nowhere” [Frosti]
- Rome, Italy improvised avant-garde quartet TellKujira “Walking on the beach / what to love and fight for” from the upcoming LP “La lucha es un poema colectivo” [Superpang]
- Experimental ambient project of Toronto-based music producer, composer and sound designer Jordan Czamanski (aka Jordan GCZ, member of Juju & Jordash, and the Magic Mountain High project), and Amsterdam-based legendary US saxophonist Jeff Hollie (Frank Zappa and Ike Willis collaborator), Mei Honeycomb “Squeaky Eye Syndrom” from the album “Clairvoyant Dimensions” [meakusma]
- French ambient /field recordings /drone /harmonium /church organ /improv collaboration between sound artist Jérôme Bouve and composer-performer Delphine Dora, JÉRÔME BOUVE & DELPHINE DORA “Opus Divinum” “Le Vast IV” from “Vents d’aether” LP [Hallow Ground]
- England, UK ambient /field recordings /hauntology /tape loops /techno /electronic /spoken word project of Paul Broome, aka Warmfield “Barnstorming” from V/A “Celebrating The Bat Chapter 2: Into The Night” compilation [Dustopian Frequencies]
- US ambient /field recordings /dub techno producer Sebby Kowal “Love Above” from “Details” LP [ROHS! RECORDS]
- Spain ambient /dee dub techno producer Nitrile Affair “Meta (Markus Masuhr Reinterpretation)” off “Osaka” EP [insectorama]
- Toulouse, France dubstep /dub techno producer Stacktrace – “Prospections” from V/A ” Vision Pro Dubs” album [Comic Sans Records]
- London-based ambient /dub /drum & bass /experimental techno production duo Forest West Drive & Voytek, aka Terrain “Barossa Dub” from “Scatter” EP [Livity Sound]
- Amsterdam-based Dutch trance /percussive /deep /hypnotic techno producer Human Space Machine “The Field” from “Perception Field” EP [Midgar Records]
- Detroit-born, London-based ambient /experimental /leftfield-bass /polyrhythmic /techno producer Tristan Arp “Shapeshifting Dub” from the “(re)weave” EP [Kapsela]
- Japanese ambient /bass /techno /dub /breaks beat-smith Stones Taro “Eye Drop” from upcoming “Crevasse” EP [Fast At Work]
- UK ambient /deep techno producer and Vysyon label head, Night Garden – “Ceaseless” from “Slego” EP [vysyon recordings]
- German techno /electronic duo from Hamburg, Extrawelt “¡No Pasarán!” from “¡NO PASARÁN!” EP [Cocoon Recordings]
- Lisbon-based hardgroove /deep techno producer Rene Wise “Flow” from “Johnson’s Theme” EP [Dekmantel Ufo Series]
- Swiss atmospheric /experimental /hardgroove /techno DJ-producer Maeksll “Sometimes I Feel a Little Broken” off of “In Search of Something Meaningful” EP [boisha]
- Vilnius-based Lithuanian psychedelic /trance /techno producer Tadan – “Otis (Alien mix)” from V/A “Movie Below” LP [Terra Magica Rec.]
- Warsaw-based, Ukrainian ambient /IDM /psych /trance /electronic DJ-producer Shjva “Forerunner” from V/A “Make love, dark-browed” EP [Noneside]
- Los Angeles-based ambient /bass /dubstep /halftime /breaks /techno DJ, producer, sound designer and founder of the label Delusional Records. Maude Vôs “Orr Kore” from upcoming “Medicinal Properties” EP [Gravity Pleasure]
- Goa-based Indian ambient /dub /psychedelic /hypnotic /deep techno producer Sitara – “Chromatic Flow” from “Sitara (IN) – Nazaara (A Vision)” EP [Observant]
- Polish IDM /abstract /breaks /experimental electronic producer Signal_Black “Higher Ground” from “Disruptive Event” LP [EVEL]
- Danish ambient /IDM /electronica musician Jonas Munk, aka Manual “Iso” from upcoming LP “True Bypass” 16 years after the last Manual full-length [Darla Records]
- Cardiff, Wales acid /electronic /soulful /deep house /Balearic outfit led by South Wales‘s Cal Gibson, The Secret Soul Society “Down By The Deep Blue Sea” single
- Stockholm, Sweden atmospheric deep house producer Axel Boman “Spooky” from “From Riches to Rags” EP [Aus Music]
- Los Angeles acid house /cosmic dub /breakbeat producer Photay “Always Cosmic” from “Always Cosmic” EP [Multi Culti]
- Stockholm acid house /psych /indie dance /breakbeat producer 10:40 “Winner” single [RetroFit]
- Philadelphia-based psych /acid /leftfield house /electro /downtempo /quirky electronica duo of video artist-anti-influencer-psychedelic elf queen Babystar and producer-DJ James Weissinger (Zillas on Acid, Making Time), Girls Chat Room “It’s Really Easy (To Spend A Lot Of Money)” off upcoming “Dracula’s Daughter” LP [Byrd Out]
- California-based kraut /tribal /psych /dub /downtempo /electronic project of Glasgow‘s producer Stu Evans, aka Sordid Sound System “The Sky is The Sea” from V/A “The Beautiful Flowers Wait for Peace vol. 2” Palestine fundraising compilation LP [Partick Sailing Club]
- London-based Balearic /world /acid house /tribal /chug /cosmic disco DJ-producer (aka Tech Support), Asa Tate – “Box Fresh” from V/A “Safe Travels” LP compiled by Ariane V [Nervous Records]
- Bristol, UK bass music /house /drum & bass /breaks /techno /acid /dub veteran electronic producer Jim Cole, aka Om Unit “Rustt” from “Oracles” EP [Local Action]
- Ravensburg, Germany, leftfield UK bass /garage /footwork /tribal /grime /dubstep /breakbeat artist Artisoma “Myndra” from “Mobilya” EP [YUKI]
- London-based garage /breakbeat /house /techno Italian-born producer and Nervous Horizon label co-head Guglielmo Barzacchini, aka TSVI “Kataklisma” from “Dance Tripping” EP [Nervous Horizon]
- UK dubstep /funky garage /breaks /UK bass music producer Chungo “Almost Home” off “Almost Home / Graze” EP [Scuffed Recordings]
- Granada, Spain techno /breakbeat /electro producer Calagad 13 – “Atarax” from “Certified Danger” EP [COSMIC TRIBE]
- German breakbeat /electro producer Moogie Fox – “Irrelevant Conversation”
- Lithuanian acid /techno /electro producer Ement “Driven” from V/A “FOSFOR – SUBSTANCES II” LP [Fosfor]
- Medellín, Colombia-based experimental /techno /dark wave /electro solo project of artist Faunes Efe, aka Filmmaker – “Intel Mantle”
from V/A “Cold Voltage Vol. 1” EP [Mechatronica] - London-based, Singapore-native techno /dark electro producer SIIIO “Cut The Future” from “BORN2LOSE” EP [Connectome Records]
- Mullingar, Ireland sci-fi /techno /breaks /electro producer and Warehouse Manifesto label boss, GAMADON – “Reprogrammed (Parand Remix)” off “We Come In Peace Part III : Reprogrammed” EP [Warehouse Manifesto]
- UK-based bass /hip-hop /breakbeat /electro punk producer and live act James Orvis, aka DRUUM “Signal Threat (Umwelt Remix)” from “Signal Threat” EP [Dionysian Mysteries]
- Moscow-based Rave /New Beat /Electronic Body Music /Acid House /Electro DJ-producer Gelainheim – ” Acid! Acid!” from “Deco” LP [Raflak]
- Amsterdam industrial /minimal /post-punk /avant-garde /electronic /experimental /poetry /spoken-word new project of Dutch artist Menko Konings (aka EM, S.M. Nurse, Plastic Croon and No Honey From These), The Phil Spencer Project “Beyon Everything” from “The Phil Spencer Project (Vol. 1)” EP [TOP TAPE]
- Australia industrial /electro /EBM producer Twin Victim “Plane Crash” single
- Moscow-based Rave /New Beat /Electronic Body Music /Electroclash /Acid House DJ-producer Gelainheim – ” Acid! Acid!” from the upcoming “Deco” LP [Raflak]
- Berlin-based industrial /hard techno producer Axciid – “Void Addiction” [Exaltation]
- Dresden, Germany industrial /rhythm ‘n’ noise /electronic duo, Heimstatt Yipotash “Hadal” from upcoming “Abyss” LP [HANDS]
- Warsaw-based Ukrainian industrial /EBM /Cold Body Music producer Revolt “Revealing Wraiths in the Afterlife” from “Netherworld Glow” LP [X-IMG]
- Mexico City EBM /noise /industrial /techno producer Christian Cassale (aka Toloache), aka Datura Inoxia “Forget Myself” from upcoming mini-LP “Whispers” [Miseria Records]
- Argentina‘s acid /industrial /EBM /new beat /techno /electronic producer, Ludmila Fuks feat. Coeur V. – “Ardores” from V/A “Neurovision – 1 Year Anniversary” album [Neurovision]
- 1991 German trance/techno classic Metropolis – “Time Of War (A.C. Mix)” from “Next Wave Acid Punx TROIS – DJ Sampler” EP by Berlin-based romantic post-punk /body music musician and DJ, CURSES [Eskimo Recordings]
- Mexican Italo /indie dance /dark disco production duo Leonor & Chinosynth ft. Adri Vinchira – “Panthera (Original)” from “Panthera” EP [Roam Recordings]
- Colombian psychedelic /indie dance /house music artist Kabinett – “Don´t Be A Sim (Simple Symmetry Remix)” from “Dance On The Volcano Remixes Vol. I” EP [Natural Selections]
- Melbourne-based dark disco /post-punk /chug /psych /indie dance duo Future City Punks “It’s Personal (Original Mix) ” off “Fuel Injected” EP [Play Pal Music]
- Derry, Northern Ireland acid /techno /chug /dark disco /indie dance new side hustle from Warriors of the Dystotheque‘s (WotD) Jonny Mac and Steven Reid, aka L.A. DYSTO – “L.A. Gangbangers” off upcoming “Covortex” E.P [NEIN Records]
- Oviedo, Spanish veteran EBM /cosmic Italo /dark disco /indie dance DJ, producer and Espacio Cielo label owner, Parissior “Smoke and Mirrors” from upcoming “Human Control” LP [Espacio CIELO]
- Berlin-based wave /Italo disco /indie dance /electronic duo and live act Gats “Die Grillen – “Pleasure (Vintage Version)” from “Pleasure” EP [Suçuarana Records]
- Berlin-based electro /acid /house /synthpop /new beat French artist Romain Frequency aka Electrosexual “Body Work (Akrav Remix)” off “Body Work” EP [Mélopée Records]
- UK-based Italo /synth wave /electroclash /cosmic disco producer Louis De Tomaso “Don’t Let Me Go (Franz Scala Remix)” off “Don’t Let Me Go Remixes” EP [Rewind it]
- New York‘s house /wave /funk disco production team led by Chuck “Da Fonk” Fishman, FSQ, Moniquea, XL Middleton “Feeling Wide (Prins Thomas Diskodub)” from “Feeling Wide (Prins Thomas Diskomiks Versions)” EP [Soul Clap Records]
- Belgium cosmic Italo disco DJ-producer Pianopoli “In Any Way” from V/A “A Retro Futuristic Collage, Vol. 3” compilation LP [Club Mackan]
- Mexico 90s house music collaboration, Zombies In Miami & Mystery Affair – “So Love In You” from the upcoming V/A “10TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY COMPILATION – VOL.2” LP [HOMIES]
- Portland, OR dark ambient /drone /hauntology /horror/ modular synth project of Robert Hunter (Conversations About the Light, Occulted Sound, Self Spiller and Snares of Sixes), aka Missing Scenes “Fading and Sputtering” from the LP “Do the dead sing?” (one song every week album)
- Collaboration between Barcelona musician, producer and composer and Indian raaga music master musicians, Pedro Vian meets Ustad Nawab Khan & Naved Nawab Khan “Meditation II” from “The Bubble of Love प्यार का बुलबुला” LP [Modern Obscure Music]
- Cleveland, Ohio veteran ambient /IDM /minimal /drone /psychedelic sound musician Brian Grainger (aka Coppice Halifax), aka Milieu “Isotoxal Fugues (Phrase 1a)” from the long-form LP “Isotoxal Fugues” [Milieu Music Digital]
- Italy ambient /drone /minimalistic /cosmic music sound artist Aglaia “Ferusa” from the long-form 3-track album “Nemesi”
- Ambient /drone /meditative /post‑rock /electronic project of Texas‑based composer Damien Duque, City of Dawn “Muted Colors Collide with Silent Screams” from the 2-piece long-form album “Silent Portrait” [Past Inside the Present]
- Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK ambient /experimental /soundtrack /leftfield /prog synth /electronic project of Simon Bowler (aka Natures Revenge), aka Pyramids Of Phobos “A Door Which Doesn’t Exist – The Directors Cut”
