Weekly Electronic Music Tips // MAY 2025 #18-25
PICKS OF THE WEEK:
- Sure Thing Mix 140: REFRACTED
Berlin-based producer and Paral·lel co-curator and resident has cultivated a devoted following over the years with his uncompromising vision developed through a remarkable catalog of releases for labels such as Silent Season, Bitta, Sublunar and his own Mind Express. The Maiorca-born serves us a seamless, spellbinding listening session of his distinctive, immaculately sheer textured Techno sound, laced with a deep, subtly psychedelic, atmospheric vein to stir the imagination.
- Amsterdam-based acid /bass /techno /electro DJ-producer Wessel Janssen, aka The Spy “Searching” from upcoming “Spiral” EP [Hilltown Disco]
Electrifying, edgy exploration of futuristic synth-laden wave-y electro territories, laced with barren industrial tones, “Searching” layers insistent and urgent minimal breakbeat rhythms, circular droning bass loops, and desolate hallucinatory strings with anxious robotic vocals, searching for a door in the spiral.
- Brussels ambient /drum & bass /bass music /downtempo /dub /percussion /polyrhythmic /electronic Algerian live act Kamoun – “Souk” from “Bambou Ring” split EP by Kamoun & BPZ [Sketchy Lines records]
As the title suggests, the French/Algerian producer transports us into a bewitching and electrifying surrounding through a melting, sinuous, dub-infused wandering, where crisp groovy percussions, warm bulging sub-bass pulses and vibrant exotic echoes interlace into sultry inebriating and surreal Middle-Eastern scents.
- Valladolid, Spain EBM /acid /leftfield /noise /electro artist and promoter ALF “Edorr” from upcoming cassette album “Viscolastica” [Gravitational Waves]
“Short-circuited electro, blown-out acid, freaked noise…9 cuts bleeding distortion and jack madness.” Encrusted by a splintered yet intricate brawny electro groove of slantwise erratic mutability, “Edorr” refracts spindly stuttering acidic flutters, droning drilling low ends and urgent mechanical slapping rhythmic oscillations into dizzying, mind-altering jiggly escapes.
- Paris-based Australian ambient /drone /hauntology /dream-pop /experimental artist, vocalist, musician and half of the longstanding Dream-Pop duo Heligoland, Karen Vogt “Love Comes (feat. Hamish Mackintosh)” from the upcoming CDr album “Haunted Woodland Volume Five” [Wayside & Woodland Recordings]
- UK/US ambient /drone /electronic collaboration between Dennis Huddleston (head of 3six Recordings) and Zach Frizzell (founder of the Past Inside the Present label/imprint & Healing Sound Propagandist), aka 36 & zakè “(Blue New World 2)” from the album “Stasis Sounds For Long-Distance Space Travel III” [Past Inside the Present]
- US/Germany ambient/drone /minimal /soundscapes /deep electronic collaboration between Indianapolis-based, Past Inside the Present label head Zach Frizzell, Regensburg-based Markus Guentner, and Affin‘s Joachim Spieth, aka zakè | Spieth | Guentner “Serenity” from upcoming LP “Arcadia” [Affin]
- Swedish ambient /drone /ethereal /electro-acoustic /electronic artist Ludvig Cimbrelius (aka Illuvia, Eternell, and Abraço de Vapor), PURL “Seafarer” from upcoming double album “A Quiet Awakening II” (double compilation of the remastered edition of 2011 “A Quiet Awakening” LP plus unreleased tracks) [Stereoscenic Records]
- Paris, French ambient /soundscape /ethereal /atmospheric /drone /space ambient project of film music composer, electronic producer and multi-instrumentalist, Philippe Deschamps “Shapes of the Sea” from “Endless Vanishing Lines” EP [Ambient Soundscapes]
- Bari, Italy ambient /drone /soundscapes /electronic sound artist Domy Castellano “Fresche Frasche” from “Homage To The Woodlands” EP [Valley View Records]
- Aberdeenshire, Scotland ambient /drone /electro-acoustic sound artist Samuel Death, aka Tides “From Dust” from the album “Where Her Flowers Still Bloom” [whitelabrecs]
- UK ambient /jazz /chillwave /hauntology /dream pop /dreamwave /electronic project of Ben Holton (epic45, My Autumn Empire, Birds In The Brickwork), The Balloonist “Look At Us Then” from the LP “Dreamland” [Wayside & Woodland Recordings]
- Tokyo-based UK ambient /guitar /electronica musician-producer Late Night “Space Bliss” from “Dream Out” EP
- Rome-based, Italian ambient /drone /experimental/electronic musician Guido Zen, aka Abul Mogard “Following a dream” from upcoming LP “Quiet Pieces” [Soft Echoes]
- San Francisco‘s IDM /experimental /ambient /electronica veteran producer Brock Van Wey (aka Earth House Hold, East Of Oceans), aka bvdub | Brock Van Wey “Someone to Call Your Name (III)” from “Someone to Call Your Name” LP
- Danish ambient /drone /synth electronic project, Internazionale “Islas” from the cassette album “Hearts In Freefall” [Janushoved]
- Nova Gorica-based, Japanese ambient /drone /tape loops /minimal /analog synth /piano musician, Aiko Takahashi “La Ligne Verte” from upcoming LP “The Grass Harp” [laaps]
- Spanish ambient /drone /field recordings /electro-acoustic /soundscapes /organic /sound artist and Noray Records head, David Cordero “El olor del verano” from the upcoming LP “Los recuerdos dormidos” [Noray Records]
- Tokyo-born ambient /Brazilian music /jazz /soundscape /electro-acoustic /guitarist, composer, and music producer Tatsuro Murakami “1-11-5 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo” from “Mita Koyama-cho” LP [Mystery Circles]
- Copenhagen, Denmark ambient /experimental electronic artist Hercegovina “Gabriele Vive” from the cassette album “Perseverance” [Janushoved]
- Toronto, Canada ambient /IDM /field recordings /experimental independent electronic recording artist Buildings and Food “Maps II” from upcoming “Provincial Park” album
- Taiwan-based ambient /ethereal /organic /experimental /electronic artist Imryll “A Knit Of My Own Fibers/Concussion” from the album “Obscure Blood & Love” [Theory Therapy]
- Seattle-based ambient /drifting /ethereal /electronic producer and Hush Hush flagship artist Kid Smpl “Forever Light” from the upcoming full-length album “Finding the Sky” [Hush Hush Records]
- London-based lo-fi /ambient /field recordings /neo-classical /electronic composer and musician Mike Lazarev “Faded Glimpse of Drifting Sundays” from upcoming “Tarnished Tapes and Saturated Signals” LP [DRONARIVM]
- Nashville, TN ambient /drone /Berlin school /live space music pioneer multi-instrumentalist and composer Tony Gerber “Life Electromagnetic” from “Plank and Strings” LP [Cyclical Dreams]
- US ambient /IDM /glitch /cinematic /electro-organic /experimental electronic musician Belial Pelegrim “Canticles for the Dead Mirror”
- Glasgow, UK ambient /IDM /minimal techno /electronic producer PUB “Watts Magic” from “Processed” EP rendition and companion piece to last year’s “Process The Wise” album
- UK ambient /drone /cinematic /tribal /deep house /analogue synth electronic producer Martin Jenkins aka Pye Corner Audio “Galaxies” single
- Bournemouth, UK ambient /acid house /jungle /drum & bass / electronic musician Chris Moss Acid “SBCS” from The Bassbin Bureau” EP
- Goiânia, Brazil ambient /deep /hypnotic techno DJ-producer Laerte Marçal, aka Marçal “Glasshouse” from “Nature Of The Future” EP [Spazio Disponibile]
- Berlin, Germany experimental /halftime/deep /hypnotic techno DJ-producer Toxido Mask – “Sekhmet” from upcoming V/A “[𝙰𝙱𝚃-𝚅𝙰⁰⁰⁷]: Faded Mystical Journey” LP [Art Bei Ton]
- Bay Area-based dub /house /techno DJ-producer Hart Thorson “Alternate Timelines” from “Alternate Timelines” EP [Lempuyang]
- Naarm/Melbourne, Australia ambient /slow /mental /percussive /trance /ritualistic /techno /psych /electronic producer bluhol – “Recondition” from upcoming V/A “Okareh” compilation LP [Siooqh]
- Paris, France psych /techno /progressive trance producer and sound artist, Tewo Rina – “Neo Genesis” from V/A “More French Fries” compilation LP [Dürüm Records]
- Germany-based ambient /experimental /breaks /dub /psychedelic /percussive /techno /electronic (1/2 of Konsudd), Aa Sudd – “Skein” from “cycle0.3” EP [MIRROR ZONE]
- Utrecht-based ambient /psych /progressive /trance /deep techno Dutch producer Shoal “Temporal Blend” from “Temporal Blend” EP [Animalia]
- Manchester, UK-based ambient /Balearic /dub /techno /psychedelic /downbeat /electronic solo project by the drummer of the Nurnberg’s Psych Cumbia band Trak Trak, Lars Fischer, aka Klangkollektor “Isle of Stonsey” from “Dubtapes Volume 2” EP
- Berlin/Amsterdam-based ambient /fourth-world /electro-acoustic /downtempo /experimental project by David WIlkie, Till Hormann and Zeno Poggioni, aka Pittori Locali “Ricordo Occulto” from s/t album [Paesaggi Records]
- London, UK 4th world ambient /industrial /tribal /minimal /proto-techno /dub house electronic producer and Trule label head, Al Wooton – “Slow Rock” from “Rhythm Archives” LP [TRULE]
- New acid house collaborative project by Belfast DJ and music producer, David Holmes featuring Keith Tenniswood (Radioactive Man/Two Lone Swordsmen), The Light Brigade “Shuffle The Deck” from the upcoming “Shuffle The Deck/Only Love Can Save Us” EP [Mystic Arts]
- Belgian Balearic /cosmic disco /downtempo DJ-producer Manner Of Speaking – “Unseen Events (Rayko remix)” off V/A “Cosmic Memories vol.9” LP [Rare Wiri Records]
- Marlow, UK ambient /acid /dub /electro /house /electronic producer Ian Crabtree, aka Krabberz “Equilibrium” off “Equilibrium” EP
- Ireland acid chug /house /psych /dark disco producer Signa Rust “Friction” from “Friction” E.P.
- German ambient /acid /psych /breaks /house /electronic producer (aka Neuzeitliche Bodenbeläge, one half of AngstLust), Niklas Wandt “Mehr Phett” [Viscera Transmissions]
- Rome, Italy cosmic house /chug /psych /groovy downtempo DJ-producer Mondocane “The Machine” from upcoming “The Machine” EP [Random Collective Records]
- Parisian acid /Italo /techno /mutant digi-dub duo and Delodio label heads, Froid Dub “Control” from upcoming LP “Tears Maker Chant” [Ransom Note]
- Antioquia, Colombia acid house /electro producer Gladkazuka – “Tatami (Original Mix)” from the LP “Acid Floresta” [Discos Nutabe]
- Bulgarian jungle /2step /halftime drum & bass /breakbeat producer Impérieux “Fena” off “Fena” EP [Hessle Audio]
- Italian experimental /percussive /minimal /techno /bass music /electronic DJ-producer Seta Loto – “Complete Walkthrough” from V/A “GTVA01” [Ghosttown]
- South West, England ambient /cinematic /jungle /drum & bass producer Seb Uncles, aka Eusebeia “Root Out” from upcoming LP “Undertones” [Samurai Music]
- German ambient /techno /drum & bass DJ-producer Torn “Painkiller#3” from “Painkiller” EP [Samurai Music]
- Moscow-based grime /funk /UK bass /breaks /drum & bass /electronic producer Diuragga – “Tears (Pholo Remix)” from “77th” EP [Dionysian Mysteries]
- Leipzig-based Rave /Electro /Funk /House /Techno producer, painter, Rat Life label boss, Alexander Dorn a.k.a. Credit 00 “Brazilian Butt Lift” off the EP “Put The Funk Back In 2 Techno” [Uncanny Valley]
- Goblin – “Flashing (Amarcord Edit)” (1982)
- Bristol-based techno /electro producer Portway “Iridium” from “Supercharger” EP [Typeless]
- San Francisco-based ambient /IDM /electro Peruvian-born producer-musician Renzo Gorrio, aka Hydroplane “Zlip” from “Zquidvazion” EP [Nebleena / Schematic Music]
- Geneva, Switzerland IDM /acid /techno /breakbeat /electro DJ-producer Owelle “P10” from upcoming “RDX_CLB” EP [Creaked]
- Tokyo-based, French IDM /electro sonic craftsman Franck Collin aka Fleck E.S.C. “Cold Turkey” from “Nerd Talk” EP [Science Cult]
- Scotland, UK rave /acid /bass /breaks /electro project of Mike Smith (aka E.L.I.), aka Crossover Network “Accept No Imitations” from “Neural Rave Harmony” EP [Rotterdam Electronix]
- Colombia‘s Faunes Efe, aka Filmmaker‘s leftfield electro side project, Renderer “Reticulation” from “Computer Visions” LP [Chromaudio]
- Hamburg, Germany horror soundtrack /industrial /EBM /techno /electro DJ-producer and live act L.F.T. “Missing Cranes” from upcoming V/A “All Stars Vol. II” EP [Discos Atónicos]
- Granada, Spanish techno /electro DJ-Producer (aka C-System), Spectrums Data Forces – “Darkness In My Head” from V/A “XTRICTLY ELEKTRO” EP [Cosmic Tribe]
- Vienna-based post-industrial /techno /electro Trust-affiliated production duo /DL/MS/ – “Regressive Behaviour” from V/A “AX/{v1}” EP [Furatena]
- Cleveland, OH dark ambient /experimental /techno industrial producer, distance prefix “V. CHIMERA” from “VARIANT” LP
- Romanian industrial noise experimental project of Ev3linDaBoi aka The Explosives Factory “Empathy” from “Empathy” EP
- Berlin-based Dutch techno /rave /electro producer Maurice Hermes (aka Neugeborene Nachtmusik), aka Auva Duhr “CTRL-GEN-Z” from V/ “Refusal” EP [Freedom Club]
- Tbilisi, Georgia EBM /Industrial /Techno /Cold Electronics collaboration between club KHIDI resident DJ Levan (Leon) Lolishvili and producer Alex Nadiradze, aka Boyd Schidt & Hecate Legacy – “Things Getting Harder” from upcoming “Things Getting Harder” EP 12″ [Persephonic Sirens]
- Hamburg-based Swiss–German electronic /techno /darkwave project SIIE “2113 (feat. PHACE)” from the debut LP “ACMÉ” [Cold Transmission Music]
- Argentinian EBM /industrial /techno producer producer 909Distortion – “Muilav” from V/A – “Ruido De La Plata” compilation LP [D21]
- Berlin/UK industrial techno /EBM project of Sarin & Qual, aka General Dynamics – “Chasing The Scream” from the second “Where Animals Play” LP
- Brooklyn, NYC techno /EBM /post-industrial electronics brainchild of Fade Kainer, aka STATIQBLOOM – “Sharp Silhouettes” from the album “Bled From All Sides” LP (compilation of rare tracks)
- Lyon, France industrial /EBM /techno producer NZM 99 “Revenge” from “Implexus” EP [Persephonic Sirens]
- French industrial /hard techno producer and Midnight Mana label head, ROÜGE – “Easy Does It” from V/A “Echoes Quest 1” EP [Midnight Mana]
- UK rave techno collaboration between Ali Wells (Perc) and Danny Passarella & Emilie Albisser (PDS), Perc & Passarella Death Squad “Temperature’s Rising (2025 Mix)” [originally released in 2010] from “Temperature’s Rising 2025” EP [Perc Trax]
- Berlin-based IDM /dub /drone /industrial /techno DJ-producer Headless Horseman “Dread” from “Eclipse” EP
- Mexican electro rock duo from Monterrey, PLASTILINA MOSH “NALGUITA (RICHARD MODE & ALTS EDIT)” (originally from 2004) [Controlla]
- London-based new beat /progressive trance /techno duo, CLOSE PROXIMITY “Internal Vision” from “Internal Vision” EP [Italo Moderni]
- Melbourne-based electro /dark disco /indie dance artist (1/2 of Future City Punks), Sam In Space “Late Night Conversations (Colossio Revision)” off “Mind Machine” EP [Roam Recordings]
- French electronic /dark disco /indie dance production duo Damon Jee & Demian “A night in 2006” off “Memories” EP dedicated to the sadly passed away Parisian producer Demian [Polaris Records]
- “Revenge (Mufti Edit)” from “EDITS 7” EP 80s/90s New Wave/Disco /House new batch of edits by Mexican multi-instrumentalist producer and DJ based in Guadalajara
- Brooklyn, NY cosmic disco /techno /melodic house producer and Melodize label boss, Beartrax – “Opaque (Massimiliano Pagliara Remix)” off “Opaque” EP [Melodize]
- Parisian indie dance /dark disco /synth-pop /western disco producer Mon Cher Guy – “Le Chant Des Coyotes” single
- Danish disco-funk /electro-house project from founding member and drummer of the genre-blending trio WhoMadeWho, Tomas Barfod – “1995 (Remaster)” from “1995 (Remastered)” (originally released in 2004) [Get Physical]
- Berlin-based, Australian retro disco /techno /house DJ-producer Kristin Velvet “Treat Me” from “Treat Me” EP [Arms & Legs]
- Milan, Italy funk /house /Italo disco producer Tamati “Pazzo Italiano (Extended)” off “Pazzo Italiano” EP [Polyamore Recs]
- Grace Jones – “Slave To The Rhythm” (Sgt Slick‘s Melbourne ReCut) (1985)
- French acid /jazzy deep house DJ-producer Sylvain Creton, aka DJ Psychiatre “Those DJs” off upcoming “Moving Into Jazz” EP [Oaph]
- Monet – “My Heart Gets All The Breaks (Facets Edit)” [1987]
- UK ambient /improvisational/experimental musician, field recordist and producer Poppy H “love kills” from “Circular Falls” LP
- Los Angeles-based harpist Mary Lattimore “Evening Song” long-form piece
- UK drone /ambient /field recordings /modular synth /sound artist and Quiet Details label curator, fields we found “resolve / relate 04” long-form piece
- Northern Connecticut-based ambient /drone /field recordings /minimal /tape loops /electronic /experimental composer-sound artist Jeff Düngfelder, aka Ümlaut “Earth to Pluto” from “The distance between two points” album
- Vienna, Austria ambient /drone /guitar /electronic experimental musician Fennesz “Live at St James’s Church, Piccadilly” [Touch]
