
Edificio Arrecifes, Rodolfo López Rey 1974, Punta del Este, Uruguay. Photo by Eduardo Mazzeo
PICKS OF THE WEEK:
- Uncompromising Invites 029 – SEK
For Den Haag‘s DJ SEK is all about exploring minimal, hypnotic, deep sounds. From dub and techno to house, it’s where he lets loose with his fresh and old fave vinyls.
- Utrecht-based dub /techno /deep house /electro-funk producer Michiel Eskes, aka M.R.E. “Plausible Placebo” from “Plausible Placebo” EP [Something Happening Somewhere]
Dutch producer churns out a heady swaying daze between soulful and smooth, deep house infused, electro funk and string-laced crisp dub techno. Steady punchy beats and incredibly velvety syncopated, subtly bouncy, bass grooves layer with blissful, lushly enveloping warm pads and trembling, chime-like synth stabs, to build a heady, laid-back immersive listening of compelling, vibrant energy.
- German dark techno /electro producer Nasty Boxes “Tief in meiner Seele” from “Der Kern” EP
An emotionally charged journey that keeps it imperfectly real, rather than polished, with grimy, harsh, unfiltered analog dark electro sounds from the German producer, whose hypnotic rhythms, and gritty droning low ends meet with harsh, eerie yet melodic synths and distorted, shadowy vocals to create raw, personal, immersive soundscapes shaped by thoughts, fears, and internal sensations.
- Rotterdam-based ambient /deep /house /dub techno producer Seb H. “Do Something” from “Untitledtoo” EP [LOCH INN]
The first of the three glowing cuts for the sunrise hours unfurls shining, fizzy and atmospheric light impulses, to rouse glitchy and hissing textures and resonant space, flourishing fluidly through limber warm bass pulses and smooth thudding kicks, smeared with hazy reverberating emotional pads, punctuated by woody crisp, percussive rattles and spinning discordant FXs, into a subtle swirl of vivid sensorial stimuli in which to chill and immerse yourself without reservations.
- Experimental /ambient /pop /folk collaboration between Mexican txompe and violin musician and Lithuanian kanklės player and singer, Eli Wewentxu & Indrė Jurgelevičiūtė “Cuerpos de agua – Lyja” from “Después de llover” LP [STROOM.tv]
- Georgia-based ambient /drone /piano producer Pavel Lipatov (Human Is Alive), Reflections of the Past “Quietud” from “Resquerdo” EP [Valley View Records]
- Portland, OR ambient /drone /cinematic /electronic music producer Retland “Where the Soul Rests” single [Korbai Records]
- Northern Germany ambient /drone /soundscape sound artist Christoph Vogel, aka Ghostloop “Whiteout” from “Radial” EP [Ambient Soundscapes]
- Bariloche, Argentina ambient /field recordings /loops /soundscape /elettronica sound artist Lumtz “Un camino luminoso (ft. Lucía Masnatta & AEMIA)” from upcoming LP “Tesoros” [We All Speak In Poems]
- Nantes, France ambient /drone /field recordings /loop /soundscape /electronic /sound artist CIRC “Quiet Light” from “Rite” EP
- Quebec ambient /drone /field recordings /meditative /electronic sound artist Mathieu Lamontagne, aka Arbee “Étriqué” from “En vain” LP [Chitra Records]
- Regensburg-based, German ambient /drone /experimental /electronic composer Markus Guentner “Untitled Live Excerpt” part of Markus Guentner’s last March performance at the Spectaculare Festival in Prague [Affin]
- Cambridge, UK ambient /drone /chillout /field recordings /tape loops /electro-acoustic sound artist Tim Martin, aka Maps and Diagrams “Gigue” from “Volta” LP [Lᴏɴᴛᴀɴᴏ Series / Rohs! Records]
- Canadian ambient /drone /field recordings /jazz /modern classical /electro-acoustic artist Grant Gard, aka landtitles “They wondered,” from “Geographic beings, phosphorus mountains” LP [Whitelabrecs]
- Bordeaux-based ambient /drone /cinematic /neo-classical /electro-acoustic artist Franck Zaragoza, aka Ocoeur “Lumières” from the LP “Greener Grass, Clearer Water” [n5MD]
- Chicago experimental /ambient /field recordings /looping /improv /piano / interdisciplinary artist and musician Zander Raymond “What I feel and see” from cassette album “diary#9″ [sonic-dialogue]
- Honolulu, Hawaii, ambient /emo /experimental electronic musician Luca Young “Ethiopia” from the LP “Infinite Lovers, Pt. I” [Lōʻihi Records]
- Experimental ambient solo project of Swiss musician, composer, and performer Catia Lanfranchi, Junge Eko ” June17th (ft. Tapiwa Svosve)” from upcoming LP “Pierced (June17th)” [Warm Winters Ltd.]
- Brooklyn, NY-based lo-fi /ambient /folk /electronica /instrumental post-rock musician Christian Banks, aka Walrus Ghost “Way Home” from upcoming third album “If You Could Be Here Now” [Hush Hush Records ]
- Berlin-based French ambient /experimental /leftfield /collage /electro-acoustic musician ARC RAE “Mosaic” from upcoming album “Bow and Arrow” (based on a series of freely improvised recordings by cellist, vocalist, and composer Mathilde Vendramin) [Mystery Circles]
- Zürich, Switzerland ambient /experimental /electronic /folk duo Xueyan Chen and Nicolas Balmer, aka Gūsū “Broad Desert, A Single String Of Smoke” from the second LP “Inhabiting Me” [Subject To Restrictions Discs]
- LA-based ambient /drone /acid /minimal /electronic sound artist and audio engineer, James Bernard “A Eyes Closed” from “In A Small Room, Decades Ago” LP [Past Inside the Present]
- Italy/Spain ambient /atmospheric /hypnotic /deep /dub techno collaboration Owl & Marimon – PPP3A ” from V/A “V.A.03” EP [Grabaciones Perpendiculares]
- Spain-native dark ambient /dub /slow trance /hypnotic techno artist Antonio Muñoz, aka Emesh – “Avodá” from V/A “VA Solstice Dub 7534, Vol. 3” LP [PIRANHA SIBERIA DUB]
- Belarus ambient /tribal /deep /dub techno producer Special Zip – “Dust (Toki Fuko Remembrance Mix)” from “Dr. Caligari’s Experiment” LP [spclnch]
- Paris-based dark ambient /experimental /groove /dub /hypnotic /modular deep techno Tunisian artist and Warok Music head, Clotur – “Mirage Dub” from “One Touch” EP [Sublunar Records]
- Rome, Italian ambient /atmospheric /organic /psychedelic /percussive /hypnotic techno production duo Worg & Sunday Bath – “Aenēas” from V/A “Pignora Imperii, Capitolo I – Lo scettro di Priamo – V/A – LYKOS VII” LP [Lykos Records]
- Brussels, Belgium raw /deep /hypnotic techno DJ-producer Border One – “Photon Decay” off “Spectral Tension” EP [Token Records]
- Leipzig-based atmospheric /minimal /hypnotic / dub /deep techno producer Kontinum – “Vibrating Vision” from “QB004: Kontinum” EP [Qilla Records]
- Berlin-based bass /broken beats /techno Colombian producer Retter “L_R Mono” from “Palindro” LP [Técnica]
- British ambient /IDM /neo-classical artist Andrew Dobson, aka Digitonal “For The Birds” from “The Night Album” LP [Just Music]
- Runcorn, UK ambient /new wave /folk /experimental /electronic /synth project of musician Gordon Chapman-Fox, aka Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan “Standard Industrial Classification” (bonus track) from the deluxe special vinyl 12″ edition of the second album “People & Industry Special Edition” originally released in September 2021 [Castles In Space]
- Australia ambient /drone ambient /field recordings /melodic techno producer Clay Teeth “Shadows Like Smoke” from “The Fading Light” LP [Bush Meditation]
- Greek ambient /IDM /techno /downtempo /modular synthesist Bakis Sirros, aka Parallel Worlds “Soundwise” from “Explorer” LP [Neo Ouija]
- Berlin-based ambient /glitch /dream pop /trip hop /electronic musician Madelyn Bird, aka Slowfoam “In Perfume, Remember” debut single from Slowfoam’s forthcoming album “Night Rider” [Somewhere Press]
- Brighton, UK IDM /acid house /braindance /future funk /electro duo of Third Kind boss Nicholas Langley and long-time electronic music collaborator Stephen Cousins (aka Fisty Kendal), Hz & Fisty Kendal “Relaxing Breaks” from the upcoming debut LP “Now What?” [Third Kind Records]
- German veteran techno /electro producer and co-founder of the label SolarOneMusic, The Exaltics “Space Travellers” from the upcoming “A New Chapter” EP [Clone West Coast Series]
- French rave /acid /wave /techno /electro producer Chris Kalera from Strasburg, DynArec “Secret Tactics” from “Vaporwave II” EP second part of the collection EP series [Clone Records]
- UK acid house /techno /old-school electro duo Rich Bevan and Joshua Doherty, aka Posthuman “Chronophobe” from “Gang of 404” LP [I Love Acid / Balkan]
- Paris-based IDM /leftfield /electro /techno DJ-producer and Lumière Noire label head, CHLOÉ “Once” from “Drifter” EP [Lumière Noire]
- Berlin-based kraut/psychwave /electronic duo AFAR “Born and Die (Acid Pauli Relab)” off the third Acid Pauli-produced album “Changing Rules (Acid Pauli Relabs)” [Laut & Luise]
- Berlin-based ambient /techno DJ-producer Alisa Chernysheva aka Inox Traxx “Love Letter” [Ostgut Ton]
- Mysterious acid /breaks /electro /house /leftfield /techno producer Glasgow Sound System – “Cocaine” from “Spells” EP [Craigie Knowes]
- Brittany kraut /downtempo /psychedelic /coldwave /electropop musician Sarakiniko “Terre Brûlée” single [La Maison des Corbeaux]
- Belfast psych /chug /acid house DJ-producer John McIver, aka Viper Patrol “What Is” off “EN-EM-ME” E.P. [NEIN Records]
- Tel Aviv experimental /breakbeat /acid /post-punk /wave /disco /techno duo Red Axes “Sun My Sweet Sun (Love Version)” originally released in 2016 [Permanent Vacation]
- Switzerland-based, French industrial /EBM /electro /techno producer Terence Fixmer “Prag” from “ This Dark Galaxy” EP [Planete Rouge Records]
- Edmonton, Canada EBM /electro-industrial music project by musician Philip Traikovski, Visitor – “Thiaoouba” from the split EP “INVA//ID & Visitor” [FORKHA]
- Chicago electro /EBM /techno producer and Death Decay Magic label head, Jordan Lieb, aka Black Light Smoke “The Basement (EBM Mix)” from “The Basement” EP [Death Decay Magic]
- Puerto Rico EBM /industrial /dark electro /techno producer La Sanguijuela ” The Devils Business” single
- Yaroslavl, Russian EBM /electro /techno producer USTILLGROUND – “Load My Rhythm” from “UNSAFE” EP [Neurovision]
- Greek EBM /industrial /techno producer Sunday Drive “Μασάτι” off “Μασάτι” EP [Vives]
- Veteran Canadian dark disco /electro /techno /electronic producer Marc Houle – “Was ist Das (The Hacker Remix)” from “Was ist Das Remixes” EP [Meant Records]
- French/Sweden collaboration between veteran Grenoble EBM /electro /electroclash producer and Mälmo‘s dark wave vocalist, songwriter, and producer, The Hacker & Rein “We Come Alive’”single [Rekids]
- US/France indie dance /dark electronic /electroclash /body music collaboration Idoru & Back From The Wave “Love Is Not Enough” [Iptamenos Discos]
- French experimental /house /kraut /psych /bass /death-disco /dub /downtempo DJ-producer and La Belle label owner, Antoine Harispuru aka GOLDEN BUG feat. Truus de Groot “ Sans Soleil (Asa Moto Remix)” from “Sans Soleil (The Remixes)” EP [La Belle Records]
- French dark disco /chug /dark electro /electronic producer BLACK BOILER “NEIPA NEIPA feat LIVA” single
- Argentinian acid /psych /tribal /house artist Balam “L2DBass (Original Mix)” from “Dancefloor Tools” EP [Playground Records]
- Dutch veteran house /electro /nu-disco versatile producer Alden Tyrrell, aka Tyrell Corporation “Midnight Machines Pt. 1” off “Midnight Machines” EP [Bordello A Parigi]
- Barcelona, Spain balearic /disco /deep house producer Mattia Bison – “Ibiza Sunrise” from V/A “10TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY COMPILATION – VOL.3” LP [HOMIES]
- London-based hardcore /garage /house /breaks duo Kassian “Break Cycle” from “Overtone III” EP [Unknown To The Unknown]
- Rome/New York ambient /drone /experimental /minimal /modern classical /guitar /synth /electronic collaboration Abul Mogard and Rafael Anton Irisarri – “I In a Quiet Radiance (feat. Andrea Burelli & Martina Bertoni)” from second album “Where Light Pauses in the Silence of the Sun” [Black Knoll]
- Kent-based soundtrack /experimental /folk /hauntology /electronica composers Richard Bundy & Anna Phoebe “The Immersion” from the 2-piece LP “From the Edge” long-form musical work shaped by the acoustics, history, and atmosphere of Dover [Clay Pipe Music]
- US experimental /new age /orchestral /minimalism / contemporary classical Daoist composer Michael F. Hunt “Passage of Time”
from long-form compilation “Passage of Time: The Music of Michael F. Hunt” LP [Phantom Limb]

Edificio Arrecifes, Rodolfo López Rey 1974, Punta del Este, Uruguay. Photo by Eduardo Mazzeo
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