WL//WH Weekly Electronic Music Tips

• Strange But Dance Music #202: EENDRACHT
  

Rooted in rave techno, electro, and up to hardcore techno, French Electronic music enthusiast and co-founder of Ethos Records, Armen Crew & resident of ÖND in Rennes, Eendracht, distils his sonic vision into a bouncing mix of razor sharp twisted electro, crunchy breaks, buzzy ghetto samples, wicked basslines, and trippy frequencies, to unleash a throbbing unrelentless energy from start to finish.

• South London-based Ambient /IDM /Chillwave /Dreamwave /Muzak /Hauntology /Library music /Electronica DIY project Made By John “Downward” from cassette EP “Electronics Generics” [Self-Produced]

Based on 1970s/80s/90’s Library Music with mesmerizing suggestions from the Boards Of Canada’s longing yesteryear intimacy, and soothing Vaporwave hisses, the brief 4-tracker is deftly balanced between rarefied contemplative atmospheres, nostalgic melodies of stirring melancholic depth, astral resonances and shifting rhythmic intricacy, to build a sequence of vivid and vaporous sketches imbued with a sensorial and emotional enveloping of idyllic warmth in which it is precious to engross yourself.

• Cologne nu-disco /funk /electro producer Claus Casper – “Shades&808s (Johannes Albert Metro Mix)” from “Shades&808s” EP [Frank Music]

Frank Music label’s boss tints crisp Detroit nu-disco flair to the already stunning potion of sultry, sense-warming rubbery bass pulses, crisp cowbells and bewitching, lush strings from Claus Casper‘s original Electro groove, to melt the most sophisticated dancefloor.

• Melbourne/Naarm ambient /IDM /bass /breaks /deep house /downtempo /techno sound designer and Body Verse label head, Kate Miller – “Fenced Fringes” off upcoming V/A “traversée 04 – moving silhouettes” EP 12″ [traverse]

Aussie sound experimentalist delves into subtly crackling and hissing glitchy realms of mesmerizing atmospheric abstraction, at times vaguely restless, but finds in the cosmic resonance of nature a comfortable, enveloping oneiric dimension.

• Sweden ambient /drone /avant-garde/minimalistic /experimental project of language artist/poet Hanne Lippard, organist Hampus Lindwall and composer Ellen Arkbro, aka Lippard Arkbro Lindwall “Did you know?” from upcoming LP “How do I know if my cat likes me?” [Blank Forms Editions]
• Los Angeles ambient /drone /shoegaze /ethereal /ambient pop sound artist and singer Cynthia Bernard, aka MARINE EYES “Long Horizon” from the upcoming album “Quiet Circle”
  
• Iceland ambient /drone /field recordings /experimental /electronic musician and sound artist (part of the trio Stereo Hypnosis), Pan Thorarensen “Ljósadúnnurt feat. Patricia Wolf” from the upcoming “Ljóstillífun” LP [U Know Me Records]
• Sardinia, Italy ambient /drone /neo-classical /electro-acoustic /piano /electronic producer Federica Deiana “Now and Then” from “Fragments” EP [Home Normal]
• Portland, OR-based ambient /ethereal /piano husband-wife duo Hollie Kenniff & Goldmund, aka Harbors “Where the Light Falls” [Nettwerk]
• Belgian ambient /drone /field recordings /pedal loops /electro-acoustic sound artist Erik Sevenans, aka First Snow of The Year “Rain” from the album “Hibernation” [Whitelabresc]
• Russian ambient /drone /chillout /glitch /field recordings /downtempo /electronic collaboration Heavenchord & Infinity Dots “Chorus Evening” from “Phos Hilaron” LP [Secret Domain]
• Nagoya, Japan based folktronica /botanical ambient electronica duo of Shawn James Seymour (planting) & Yoshimi Seymour (pruning), Lullatone “Cellular Chemistry” from the upcoming LP “Music for My Friend’s Flower Shop” [Mystery Circles]
• US ambient /cinematic /electro-organic /experimental electronic musician Belial Pelegrim “TAFFETA | 229” from the upcoming album series “TAFFETA VOL. 14”
  
• San Francisco-based ambient /drone /electroacoustic /field recordings /electronic project Celestial Trails “Pacific in Tender Motion” from the second album “Observation of Transcendence” [Fluttery Records]
• New York-based ambient /drone /loops /soundscape /psych project of Colombian guitarist, composer, and improviser, Jan Esbra “Lullaby” from V/A “Psalms” 20th release anniversary compilation [Spirituals / Phantom Limb]
• Québec ambient electronic sound artist Arbee “Une Promesse” (released on the UNBØUND label)
  
• Finnish-Swiss ambient /field recordings /soundscapes /electroacoustic /experimental musician, sound designer, and Heald label co-head, Henrik Blomfelt (aka Blomfelt), aka Evigt “Medallion” from “And Then Came The Evening” LP [Shimmering Moods Records]
• Lisbon-born, Portuguese ambient /drone /experimental guitarist and composer Rafael Toral “Layers” (single)
  
• Australian-based ambient /aquatic ambient /plunderphonics /experimental producer Ravagre “Cane” from the album “I Miss You” [Vivarium Recordings]
• Italian ambient /drone /experimental /electronic sound artist  (aka Gy0, 祭司, Leik, Buried Marie), Emanuele Liguori “Groundless Cathedral” from “Early Jobless Day” LP [Neotantra]
• Danish ambient /experimental /electronic artist Glemt “Forhåbning from the cassette EP “Ikke Se Tilbage” [Janushoved]
• Helsinki, Finland ambient /drone /field recordings /classical /electro-acoustic /electronic experimental sound artist Jussi Hertz, aka Romance Relic “Manifold Light Being” from the EP “Hundred Petals of Suffocation” [Eastern Nurseries]
• Switzerland-based prolific ambient /experimental /synth /electronic musician Rupert Lally “Maple Sunrise” from upcoming V/A “The Beltane Tape” [Third Kind Records]
• Washington, DC ambient /glitch /experimental /electronic producer Alex Roldan “b_f1fc” from “Laps” LP
  
• Los Angeles-based ambient /fourth world /field recordings /experimental electronic producer, audio engineer and co-founder of Bathysphere Records (member of the duos Fog Net, and Volcano Lazerbeam), Justin Longerbeam, aka Alan Graves “Leeward Vantage” from “A Possible Wind” LP [Bathysphere Records]
• Mumbai, India ambient /drone /space music /electronic music producer Rishi Bhatia, aka Spacecraft “Remembering the Blue Sky” from upcoming “Quiet Mirror” LP [Ambient Soundscapes]
• Nijmegen, Netherlands cinematic /ambient jazz musician and composer Rindert Lammers “Thank You Kirin Kiki” title track of the debut album, “Thank You Kirin Kiki” [Western Vinyl]
• Philadelphia-based ambient /drone /field recordings /electroacoustic experimental project by multidisciplinary artist John Moletress (aka kraftwitch), Jake Cassavetes “Diary” from the upcoming album “For Laura” [Dragon’s Eye Recordings]
• Peru-based, Swedish ambient /drone /ethereal /drum & bass /electronic artist Ludvig Cimbrelius (aka PURL, Eternell and Abraço de Vapor), aka Illuvia “Nirmala Sundari” from the album “Mauna Kea” [LILA लीला]
• German pop ambient /drone /deep techno collaboration of Regensburg-based Markus Guentner and Affin‘s Joachim Spieth, aka Guentner | Spieth “Apastron (Leandro Fresco rework)” from upcoming “Overlay Reworks” album [Affin]
• Greek experimental collaboration between electronic sound artist and producer Dimitris Papadatos (aka Jay Glass Dubs) and Athens-based multifaceted classical artist and harpist Sissi Rada, aka Even “The Shades” from upcoming s/t EP “even” [Electroménager]
• Cologne, Germany ambient /house /dub /percussive /minimal techno producer Patrick Keuthen (Pawn Shop People, Dualton, 8281), 82J6 “Aero (Maison Mix)” from “Aero” EP [Offen Music]
• Athens, Greece ambient /drone /experimental /deep techno producer Kostas Staikos, aka Substak – “Spectral Apparatus” from “Neural Collapse” EP [CHRONOS RECORDS]
• Netherlands ambient /drone /Berlin school /space music /electronic musician Harald Gramberg “Sequence C, In The Afternoon (In de namiddag)” from “Sequences” LP [Cyclical Dreams]
• Athens, Greece ambient /deep techno /dub techno producer Kostas Staikos, aka Substak – “Above the Stars (Marek Bartunek‘s Hyperspace Remix)” off “Above the Stars” EP [Insectorama]
• Mexican ambient /psych /organic /dub /deep techno producer MirrorLake “Pulsos” from “Crateria” EP [Osmura]
• Lisbon, Portugal ambient /breaks /dark techno DJ-producer Rita Maomenos “Bate” from”água pedra bate fura” EP [Diffuse Reality Records]
• Leipzig, Germany ambient /hypnotic /techno producer Marvin Hoyer, aka Vanta – “Blackout” from upcoming LP “Between Life And Death” LP [IO]
• Brooklyn, NY psych /progressive /trance /techno producer Gbar “Awakened G” title track of the debut LP “Awakened G” [Earth Dog Records]
• French bass /psych /leftfield /breaks /drum’n’bass /techno producer and label co-founder Fluid Matter – “Sway & Loom” from “Soap” LP [Virtual Forest]
• Antwerp, Belgium-based ambient /IDM /bass /drum /experimental /electronic UK producer Guy Alexander Brewer (Shifted, Covered in Sand, Commix), Carrier “Slow Punctures” from “Tender Spirits” EP series 
  
• Malmö, Sweden ambient /leftfield /dub /downtempo /experimental electronic producer Klofink – “Triple Tundric Vision” from V/A “TRACKS IN THE MUD” LP Malmö’s Retreat Radio‘s first-ever compilation [Retreat Radio]
• North Berwick, Scotland-based, Leeds-bred ambient /experimental electronic musician active since 1988, Iress “PING PING PONG” from “FORETRAX 2” EP (recorded to Fostex 280 4-track in Leeds between 1992 and 1994) [FRBH Recordings]
• Paris, France ambient /bass /dubstep producer Argo – “Metropolitan Flip” (Free Download)
  
• Danish Hi-NRG /trance /tech deep house producer S.A.M. – “Crush” from “Mastermind” EP [Kalahari Oyster Cult]
• New Jersey breakbeat /house /club music duo OSSX “336” from “Liquidation” EP [Night Slugs]
• Berlin‘s breakbeat /dub /house /jazz /electro /outkast techno experimental producer Stefan Wust, aka SW. “ds8bachSACHx1” from cassette double LP “TekkNOthing I & II” [Acid Test / SWOB]
• Dutch industrial /broken beats /experimental electronic producer Boris Post aka EINDKR∀K “Gut String Mailorder”
  
• Ireland acid chug /house /psych /dark disco producer Signa Rust “Black Magic Kiss” single
  
• South London-based house /leftfield /chug /dub trio  Mark Ratcliff, Gordon Rutherford and Duncan Gray, aka Rude Audio “Running Wild” from “Sounds From The Flightpath Estate” 2×12″ compilation celebrating people and places, the outlook, aesthetic and music Andrew Weatherall was known for [Golden Lion Sounds]
• UK electro /deep /percussive /acid house producer King Cosmic “Reach For Your Love [LutchamaK Remix]” from “Reach For Your Love” EP [Brique Rouge]
• Augsburg, Germany ambient /breaks /hip-hop beatmaster Vincent Semlinger, aka Snares “29” from “Fusion” LP [Ilian Beat Series / ILIAN TAPE]
• London-based post-hardcore/punk /jazz /electronic /experimental trio of Joe Andrews, Tom Halstead (Raime/Blackest Ever Black) and visionary percussionist Valentina Magaletti (Tomaga/Vanishing Twin), aka Moin “See (feat. Sophia Al-Maria & Ben Vince)” off upcoming EP “Belly UP” [AD 93]
• French rave /acid /cosmic /house /techno influential producers The Hacker & Endrik Schroeder Project “Puissance 4” from “Puissance 4 / The Voyagers” EP [Phantasy Sound]
• South of France acid /electro /techno producer (aka Liryc NonStop, aka LnS), Liryc303 “Radiance” off “Acideep Manifeste” EP [Deep Acid Records]
• Ambient /IDM /cyberpunk /electro-funk /electro producer from Hungary, MetaComplex “Nexus Protocol” single
  
• French machine funk /electro producer KafkaCtrl ”Hades Syndrom” from V/A “Neural Matrix” debut label compilation LP [Connectome Records]
• Argentina techno /breaks /electro producer Saigg “Shambastic (Robert Cosmic Remix)” from V/A “Retransmision” EP 12” [Mars Frequency Records]
• Boston, MA industrial /techno /electro modular synth producer SIGNAL 72 “Fear Effect” single
  
• German dark ambient /cinematic /experimental /electronic artist (aka Dr. Drone), EISENLAGER – “Gazastreifen” from V/A “Complexity 6” LP [Thee Instagon Foundation]
• NYC-based ambient /electro /synth wave /experimental electronic music producer Balázs Tamoga, aka Guinaepig “Withdrawn” from the album “Anatomy” [TONN Recordings]
• 1982 UK post-punk classic Sad Lovers & Giants – “Things We Never Did (Benedikt Frey Edit)”
  
• Italian industrial /bass /breakbeat /psych /dubstep /world /downtempo /experimental production duo Alessio Costantino and Marco Segato (La Serpiente), aka NARVALOS “Dakini” from “Selkis / Dakini” EP [XCPT]
• Berlin-based industrial noise /breakcore /halftime drum & bass collaborative project of Danish techno producer Mads Lindgren, aka Monolog (Ad Noiseam, Murder Channel, Hymen) and Dublin-born producer and DJ Swarm Intelligence (Acroplane, Voitax, 47), aka Diasiva “Galvanised” from “Prop Your Shattered Failing Engine” EP [Onset Audio]
• UK-New Zealand rave /industrial /tribal techno producer and head of HAVEN label, James Barrett, aka Keepsakes “Impossible (Eating The Sun)” title track of the upcoming EP [Turbo Recordings]
• Ukraine EBM /electro /indie dance /techno artist Pymin – “Touch” off upcoming “AXIOMATIC” EP [Hybrid Moment]
• Leipzig, Germany dark ambient /IDM /cinematic /electro-acoustic /electronica producer Kai Hahnewald aka TALVEKOIDIK “A Singular Moment Of Bliss” from upcoming LP “Ambivalence” [HANDS]
• Berlin-based breakbeat /noise /techno producer Chris Cornelius, aka CTSD “Drowned In Vapor (Original Mix)” from “Midrange Mafia” EP [Void+1 Recordings]
• Los Angeles industrial /EBM /techno producer SACRA “Liber Resh” from “Saturn Rising” EP
  
• Antioquia, Colombia experimental /industrial /raw electro /EBM /techno producer Faunes Efe, aka Filmmaker – “Golem Commander” from upcoming V/A “A Benumbed Waiting” LP cassette [Selvamancer]
• Buenos Aires, Argentina EBM /electro /techno DJ-producer Chemical Pulp – “Al Hueso” from “Reflejos de Ambiciòn” EP [NEUROVISION]
• São Paulo, Brazil EBM /dark disco /techno /electronic producer Lucas Novaes “Violet Poison” from upcoming “Power Relations” EP [SISHI]
• Berlin/Detroit industrial /noise /techno collaboration Eve Schwarz & Veldt – “Battement (Cranya Remix)” from upcoming “Danse Sombre” EP [Brutal Forms]
• Prague-based trance /dark techno /EBM duo Fractions “Fallback” from the upcoming V/A “Echoes” EP [Midnight Mana]
• 1985 Argentinian classic hit single, Soda Stereo “Nada Persona (Rework)” from Colombian via New York dark analog synth pop artist Daniel Olarte aka Fiero [SYNTHICIDE]
• Italian acid /drone /leftfield /psychedelic /trance /electronic producer (1/2 of Future Island and Eurospeed), Treasure Island “Bakery House” from upcoming V/A “VARIOUS WORLD WIDE V” compilation [Belly Dance Services]
• Israel Balearic /exotica /acid /house Adam Ten & DvirNuns “Comisa” [Life and Death]
• Antwerp’s indie dance /house /synth wave /cosmic disco producer Hola Olas “Inquisitive Nature” from V/A “Rainbow Railway: VA Pt.II” LP [Regulardisco]
• US/Mexico psy-trance/ techno /indie dance analog production duo Estero & TAPIIA “Hypnosis” from “Genesis” EP [Octopus Recordings]
• Miami-based Nu Disco /Indie Dance /Dark Disco Detroit-native DJ-producer and Manta Recordings head, Idoru “Memory (Original Mix)” [Manta Trax]
• Migos “Bad And Boujee (Edit)” by Parisian acid /deep /melodic house producer INVŌKER off INVŌKER‘s “Bad” EP
  
• Paris-based indie dance /trance /melodic house producer Ary Sya – “Nikita (James Harcourt Remix)” off “Nikita” EP [Sincopat]
• Berlin-based French disco /house Franco-German DJS/producers Franz Matthews / Johannes Klingebiel – “La Traversée” from the upcoming “Ce Moment” EP [Feines Tier]
• Baltimore, Maryland electro /new wave /techno producer NEU REEVES “WISH ME LUCK (S.O.S)” single
  
• Hastings, UK-based, Dundee-born ambient /drone /field recordings /piano sound artist Euan Alexander Millar-McMeeken, aka Glacis “The soft entrance (Edinburgh, Scotland)” from V/A “Sonic Heritage” compilation [Cities and Memory]
• Detroit‘s space ambient /cosmic /flotation /dub /electronic producer Stephen Hitchell (aka Echospace), cv313 “cv313 plays forever in the sky” from the long-form album “plays sequential space” (written + produced by variant and redesigned and reshaped by cv313) [variant]
• France-based dream pop /shoegaze collaborative music project started by British musician Andrew Rose in 1984, Callière “All The Places She Wasn’t” experimental /drone /icy ambient long-form piece
  
• Japanese neoclassical /experimental /new age /electronic music artist SAB – 夢の石（Yume-no-ishi “marble”) – from the vinyl 12″ reissue of the classic Kankyō-ongaku environmental music album ”Crystallization” (originally released in 1978 on the legendary Osaka label Vanity Records) [Em Records]
• UK ambient /drone /tape loops /voice improv collaboration, Laurel Morgan & Yorkshire Modular Society – “Becoming” [Lᴏɴᴛᴀɴᴏ Series / Rohs! Records]

photo by Henry Wessel