WL//WH Weekly Electronic Music Tips

Weekly Electronic Music Tips // JUNE 2025 #22-25

PICKS OF THE WEEK:

PHILIPP OTTERBACH // @Swim, Basel / Switzerland , May, 03 2025

Krefeld-born, Berlin-based artist Philipp Otterbach deliver an untamed free-flowing assortment of electro, psychedelic techno, tribal and trance, to take the listener into a mind-bending and transformative voyage through time and space.

Brooklyn-via-Alabama acid /house /psych /cosmic disco veteran producer and Wonder Stories boss, Aimes “Wah La (Thomass Jackson Remix)” from “Fals” EP [Natural Selections]

Electrifying, sultry, groove-laden remix by the Argentinian-born ace producer Thomass Jackson, through a vibrant coalesce of heart-pumping beats, crisp percussive inserts, relentless humming bass pulses and paranoia-inducing call & response echoing vocal clips, brimming with a bracing and infectious feral energy that compels the rhythmic grit to burstle throughout.

Chicago-based lo-fi /EBM /techno /acid /broken beat /leftfield /dark electro L.A.‘s DJ-producer Michael Padgett, aka Ole Mic Odd “Nebula” from “No Hope, No Fear” EP [KRI]

Imbued in the gloomy spirit of the EP, through its tight, mechanical lashing rhythms, scattered murky kicks, and menacing and uneasy droning textures, “Nebula” unfolds with dramatic intensity, as icy cinematic string melodies and gritty robotic vocal clips intertwine to create a foreboding sense of relentless tension and danger.

Koh Chang, Thailand based, Geneva-born downtempo /tribal acid /slow trance /psych /ethnic /electronic producer Jerome Doude, aka The Dude Of Stratosphear – “Vikaar (विकार)” from “Vikaar (विकार)” EP

In a busy week of releases for the Thai producer, the title track is a mesmeric and entrancing downtempo excursion into heart-thumping tribal percussive bounces, psychedelic shimmers, gurgling bass grooves, and sinuous exotic invocations, swaying into a vibrant trippy daydream, intrigued by a sense of introspective exploration and ancestral healing.

Russian lo-fi /ambient /drone /field recordings /electronic producer Astropilot “The Way Leaves Speak” from “Among Quiet Things” EP [Echoes in the Valley]
Vienna-based ambient /drone tape loop /experimental electronic musician and composer, Andreas Berger “2_2” from “Tape II” LP [Room40]
California ambient /drone /ethereal /meditative /cinematic /soundscape folk /electro-acoustic first collaboration between musician and producer Kenneth James Gibson and the husband-and-wife duo James and Cynthia Bernard (aka Marine Eyes), aka Almost An Island “What Got Us To Our Feet” from upcoming s/t album [Past Inside the Present]
Brighton, UK guitar-drone-ambient project of Home Normal label head, Ian Hawgood “Yes, you are” [folk reels]
Japanese ambient /drone /field recordings /minimal /piano singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalist, Kohei Okutani, aka Crane “Drifting Hours” from “Quiet Corners” LP [Driftworks]
London-based ambient /experimental /modular synth /electronic music composer from France, Franz Kirmann “Le reve de Marie” from the LP “Heures Indues” [Courier]
Rome-based, Italian ambient /drone /experimental/electronic musician Guido Zen, aka Abul Mogard “Through whispers” from the LP “Quiet Pieces” [Soft Echoes]
Ambient /electronic project Stewart Keller “Coloring Book” from “Short Pause” LP
French ambient /drone /abstract /electro-acoustic /electronic sound artist Karl Schoenberg “Sound Sculpture 10” from “Spectre” LP [Cyclical Dreams]
Berlin-based ambient /exotica /field recordings /electro-acoustic composer Andrew Pekler “Cumbia Para Los Grillos from upcoming LP “New Environments & Rhythm Studies” [Faitiche]
Mid-’80s Los Angeles “two-man electric minimalist band” of Ruben Garcia and Steve Caton, aka Repetition Repetition “Bells and Bells” (1987) from the archival compilation “Fit for Consequences: Original Recordings, 1984–1987” [Freedom To Spend]
Montreal-based ambient /fusion /jazz /house /electronic artist Phoebé Guillemot, aka RAMZi “Balmini” title track of the upcoming LP “Balmini” [FATi Records]
New York-based ambient /ethereal /field recordings /post-rock /electronic musician aka Mis+ress (Elika, Measured, Thee Koukouvaya), Brian Wenckebach “Strange Attractions” from upcoming LP “Memory & Anticipation” [Somewherecold Records]
London-based ambient /exotica /orchestral /soul /psychedelic /dub electronica /dark pop /downtempo trio of Molinaro, Moreiya and Wendy Lavone, aka Rest Symbol “6” from the debut self-titled album [FO]
Pakaa, Finland Ambient /IDM /Experimental /Techno /Electronic music composer and producer Aleksi Perälä “FI3AC2512607” from “GRACE 6” LP
Estonian ambient /IDM /braindance /electronica producer Taavi Laatsit (1/2 of the dream-electro duo Uni, member of Kulgurid and Kismabande), Galaktlan “Commando” from “Helemental” LP [Touched Music]
Milan, Italian experimental /ambient /IDM /acid /dub /trance /techno /breakbeat /electronic trio of Piezo, Aitch and primordial OOze/xàr num, aka Cortex of Light “Taycan” from “ILLUMINOTECNICA” LP [３ＸＬ]
Tokyo, Japan ambient /IDM /techno producer Yasutaka Sato, aka Virgo “Old Aspect” from “Unreleased 1996 – 2000” album [FORM@ RECORDS]
UK ambient /IDM /dub /Detroit techno /breakbeat producer (aka M-Paths), Reverb Delay “Head Down” from “The Ghosts Of Dawn” LP [Mighty Force]
Lithuanian ambient /techno /breaks /electronic producer DJ JM – “shoplifting” off V/A “uu012” EP [unknown – untitled]
Japanese ambient /drone /cinematic /soundscape /ethereal /deep techno /electronic music producer and Cosmic Signature label founder, HIROSHI WATANABE : KAITO “Phantom” off “Phantom Mirage” EP [InFiné]
Auvergne, French ambient /psych /deep techno /experimental producer and Accents Records head, Johan Bonnefoy, aka Sub Accent “Fake Assembly” from “Shades Of Night” EP [Concrete Records]
Lyon, France ambient /dub /deep techno producer Sanjib “Lost Universe” from the upcoming LP “Lost Universe” [Huinali Recordings]
Osaka, Japan-based ambient /deep hypnotic techno Chinese producer and GSXS label founder, Sun Dawei “Chéng Hè” from “Four Mass by” LP [GSXS]
Berlin-based, Italian ambient /percussive /experimental /deep techno DJ-producer Guliver – “Calypso (Claudio PRC Remix)” off upcoming “Whispers of the Sea” EP [Circular Limited]
Milan, Italy ambient /drone /dub /deep techno producer Riccardo Campanale aka Biocym – “Wadis (Biocym deep vision)” from “Wadis Variations” EP [Melifera Records]
Dutch ambient /IDM /bass /dub /tribal /techno producer Sun Genam – “Groyorg” from the split EP “Groyorg / Tachyon Tunnel” with Ocyra [Module]
Leeds, UK ambient /leftfield /dub /electronic /post-punk /psychedelic side project of Brian Moss from Vicious Pink, along with late Steve Dixon and vocalist Hayley Windsor, Drug Free America “Ransacking the Ethernet” from “Baby Doll and the Dolphin Burger” LP (originally released on CD in 1995) [Noir Age]
Fontainebleau, France ambient /drum & bass /half time /trance /hypnotic techno DJ-producer Drawbridge – “Arrival Of The Giants” off upcoming “Peregrination” EP [10.60 Hz]
Ukrainian ambient /IDM /acid /trance /dub /downtempo electronic producer Volodymyr Gnatenko “Hiisi” from “Mershiy” LP [Kalahari Oyster Cult]
German experimental ambient /trance /techno /electronic live band duo Lucas Brell and Marvin Uhde (aka Qnete), KINZUA “More Wood For The Fires” from the upcoming “The Current Thing” EP [Confusion is next to happiness]
Milan-based, Italian producer Joseph Tagliabue’s newborn ambient /deep techno /prog psy trance project, Joves “Silver Nymph” from the upcoming first “Silver Nymph” EP
Norwegian ambient /techno /progressive trance /breaks producer and Ute Records co-founder Teo Bachs, aka Ekkel – “Hradec Fog Fever” from “Drum Ring” EP [Seismic Records]
Melbourne-based dubstep /downtempo /broken beats /techno /bass DJ-producer, Pugilist “Mannequin” from the upcoming “Monument” EP [Ruff Kutz]
French ambient /halftime /tribe /drum & bass /techno artist Solma – Valentino [Virtual Forest Records]
Brussels-based ambient /drum & bass /bass music /downtempo /dub /percussion /polyrhythmic /electronic collaboration Kamoun & BPZ – “Bambou Ring” from “Bambou Ring” EP [Sketchy Lines records]
Ufa, Russia hip hop /Oriental /leftfield /disco /acid /house /eclectic electronic duo Arash & Quasar “Round Dance” from “Неадекват” EP [System 108]
Leeds, UK disco /techno /acid house /indie dance producer Bob Salmond, aka Mr. BC “A Message From Jonestown” from the second LP “Smart Dust” [Tici Taci]
Koh Chang, Thailand downtempo /tribal acid /slow trance /psych /ethnic /electronic producer The Dude Of Stratosphear – “Nara (NCR Edit)” from “Door Jaana (दूर जाना)” LP (2021 demos, and re-shaped versions) [Sphearic Records]
Percussive /Afro /exotica /polyrhythmic /dub /psychedelic /cosmic free jazz group collaboration between Tenerife‘s Lagoss and Kampala‘s Abagwagwa (aka Nihiloxica), Lagoss & Abagwagwa “Dog Star Man” from the upcoming LP “Island Slang” [Discrepant]
Rennes, France ambient /IDM /industrial /bass /electro /techno /psych /breakbeat /electronic DJ-producer and member of the ÖND collective, Eendracht, aka Lemon Schaden “April Flower” from upcoming “April Flowers” EP [Armen Crew]
Breton electro /jungle /breaks producer PARADISE777 – I Loved U” from V/A “Cloud Assets 2” EP [Armen Crew]
Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK ambient /IDM /techno /breakbeat /electro producer The Jaffa Kid “The Resident” from the LP “Interactive Composition” [Waxing Crescent Records]
Helsinki-based Dutch ambient /dub /techno /electro producer Samuel Van Dijk (aka Mohlao, Multicast Dynamics), aka VC-118A “Ritmo” from “Back To Life” LP [Apnea]
Annecy, France spacey /techno /electro producer Emeric Di Paolo aka Luxus Varta “Broken Tube” from “Magnetic” EP [Specimen Records]
Moscow-based Detroit-influenced cyber funk /electro producer SINITSIN “Obsolete Technology” from “Obsolete Technology” EP [Electro Music Coalition]
Spanish techno /electro producer and Madrid‘s Distrito 91 label owner Fabio Vinuesa, aka Protocolo Sysex – “NotTheFuture” from V/A “Beats On Wax” EP [Gladio Operations]
The Hague-based, Dutch breaks /techno /electro-funk /electro music producer, Cliff Dalton “Black Leather” from “Dissolve” EP [New York Haunted]
Lyon, France experimental /dub /percussive /hypno-industrial /psychedelic /downtempo electronic producer Gil.Barte “Machaon” from the upcoming LP “Claviceps Purpurea” [Teenage Menopause Rds]
Taiwan-born, Berlin-based ambient /industrial /field recordings /glitch /techno /experimental /dark electronics /spoken word artist, Jing “You Don’t Know How To Let Go” from the upcoming LP “Artificial Salvation” [Mannequin Records]
UK dark ambient /drone /ritual percussion /electronic audio/visual performer (A.R.C. SOUNDTRACKS, Last Harbour), K Of ARC “Pursuit Zones” from the LP “Antidrome” [Cruel Nature Records]
German Industrial Breakcore /Dark Modular Funk project of Candy Schlueer, aka 16Pad Noise Terrorist “Mangogirl VIP” from upcoming “Return” LP [HANDS]
Southport, UK electronic /minimal synrh /tape loops /industrial /experimental group led by Simon Crab, formed in 1979, Bourbonese Qualk “Ton Ton Macoute” from the remastered reissue of the 1989 album “My Government Is My Soul” [Mannequin Records]
Manchester, UK underground techno production duo TRAXSHNN “SURKHI” from “TACTILITY” EP [Powerful Recordings]
Australia‘s Novocastrian techno /industrial electronics project of J Campbell, aka Collector “Mercury Bath” title track of the new LP “Mercury Bath” [Eternal Solitude]
Mexico City darkwave /dark electro /techno /electronic solo project SUNNES “Wear & Tear” single
Cinematic /breakbeat /industrial techno collaboration between Turin-based, Serbian producer and Void+1 Recordings head Nikola Grebovic and Kyoto, Japan-based KWAIOTO Records founder Cam Lasky, Scalameriya & Cam Lasky – “New Rose Hotel (Original Mix)” from “Burning Chrome” EP [Void+1 Recordings]
Winnipeg, Canada ambient /EBM /techno artist Viva Non “Encircle – Filmmaker Remix” from “Natural” EP
French IDM /bass /industrial techno producer Eue – “Pensée Transversales” off “Pensée Transversales” EP [VūMantra Records]
Providence, Rhode Island industrial techno producer and Synthetic Pleasures label owner, Midnight Climax – “Fallen” off “Camouflaged Wounds” EP [L.A.U.R.A. Recs]
Brest, France industrial techno producer Noctam – “Impel Down (Tommy 47 Remix)” off upcoming “Impel Down” EP [Persephonic Sirens]
Los Angeles EBM /industrial /breakbeat /electronic trio INVA//ID “Sinner (Acid Ghost remix)” from “Sinner” EP
Armenian industrial techno artist Alexandra Zakarean, aka XANDRA – “Tetris” [Beryllium]
Lyon, France industrial /EBM /techno producer NZM 99 “Awareness” from upcoming “Implexus” EP [Persephonic Sirens]
Canadian veteran EBM /techno /industrial producer (Front Line Assembly, Conjure One and Delerium), Rhys Fulber “Only Love Will Save Us (feat. Barkosina)” from the upcoming album “Memory Impulse Autonomy” [Artoffact Records]
The Cure “Drone:Nodrone (Daniel Avery Remix)”
Estonian disco /indie dance /dark disco duo Parasex – “I see your fire” off upcoming V/A “Discompilation Volume 2” LP [Disco Pastors]
Saint-Petersburg-based melodic house /indie dance /dark disco producer Cortex Power – “Life in Techno (Radio Edit)” off “The Energy” EP [Slow Cycle Records]
Paris-based Prog House /Italo Disco /Trance producer Austher “Memory Code” from “Whispers of Time” EP [Ritmo Fatale]
New York-based Italo disco /indie dance /house Australian-born production duo Kate Stein & Lord Fascinator “Horse House (Fabrizio Mammarella Remix)” from “Horse House (Remixes)” EP [Eskimo Recordings]
Spanish acid /bass /cosmic /downtempo /slow rave /dark disco electronic producer Señora – “Antiarmónica” off upcoming “Práctica de límites” EP [OPENTHENEXT]
London, UK acid /house /breakbeat /techno DJ-producer MAN2.0 “Saint Ciccone” [Embryonic Soundwave]
Belfast acid house /chug /indie dance /slow techno producer Viper Patrol – “Stickem” from upcoming “Slow is Smooth” EP [Nein Records]
Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes – “Peaceful Ones (Mercatale in Val di Pesa Atrice Edit)” (originally from 1974) off “credits” EP [Atrice]
Leeds, UK EBM /indie dance /acid /house producer Bonar Bradberry (PBR Streetgang, Magari), aka Vyvyan “Desperate Liaisons” from “I Have Specific Needs” EP [Sound Du Jour]
Tokyo-based US acid /ambient /minimal /deep house producer and Two Acorns label head (aka Celer), Will Long “Acid sh101-3” from the acid mini-album “Acid Tape”
UK dark ambient /drone /electronic music film score composer, sound designer, and producer Daljit Kundi, aka SINIUS – “Burning Desires (feat. Atmospheric Research)” from the album “The Silence Before the Haunting”
Spanish ambient /field recordings /abstract /drone /electronic sound artist Susana López “Mundus Imaginalis” from upcoming LP “Materia Vibrante” [Elevator Bath]
UK drone /ambient /field recordings /modular synth /sound artist and Quiet Details label curator, fields we found “resolve / relate 05” long-form piece
Charlotte, NC field recordings /modular ambient drone soundscapes project, D York “Villa Rioddi Pt. 1″ long-form piece off the five-part volumes “The Italian Chronicles Vol. 2”