Weekly Electronic Music Tips – June/July # 26-21
PICKS OF THE WEEK:
- [SOMETHING SPÆCIAL VOL 223] by LOVE THE MACHINE
Barcelona bred, Tuscany denizen, TONN Records-affiliated, DJ & analog synthesist Jonjo Obon, aka Love The Machine, delivers a compelling almost 3 hours set of vinyl gems made of entrancing dancing layers, enhanced by esoteric vocalizations, of bewitching, enveloping, icy, edgy, robotic, soothing, obsessive, ominous, dazzling, synths forever synths!
- South Korea indie dance /electronic /cosmic disco producer Shubostar – “Spiegel Feat Justine Forever” from upcoming “Spiegel” EP 12″ on Norwegian label Internasjonal
Up and coming South Korean interstellar disco stalwart unveils an irresistible tasty preview from her incoming eponymous EP, with the assistance of the alluring French chanteuse Justine Forever, infusing twinkling horizons, propelled by hypnotic lashing beats, that bloom in bright spirals of entrancing synth swaths over bouncing bass pulse progressions, shooting star effects, and swelling lush pads, while seductive female vocals release breathless tensions, depth defying echoes, and desperate wishes into the dancing flow of outer space dark disco flair.
- Frankfurt am Main electro /downtempo /wave /trance /electronic producer Tassilo Vanhöfen “Cold Ratchet” from V/A “Seismic Wave Propagation” compilation on Seismic Wave
Inspired by the oppressive automation of modern society’s fragmented existence from Gaia and her tribes, the “Seismic Wave Propagation” compilation offers a form of resistance, a glimpse of hope for the future. Imaginative Frankfurt producer with one of his distinctive atmospheric, sultry and trance-inducing downtempo affairs, to stack winding slow chugging beats, crispy percussive inserts, sizzling, hypnotic rotations and creaking outer dimensions with vibrant jiggly bass tones and swelling airy esoteric synth pads to open inner doorways of the mind by layering levels of earth expanding seismic frequencies into a heady sonic catharsis of subconscious bliss.
- Lithuanian psych /techno /electronic producer John Patter – “Obsidian” from upcoming “Cuatro Lados” EP on Melómana Records
Vilnius based multi-faceted off-kilter techno DJ /producer John Patter, AKA Calli, unleashes sinister groovy vibes to ignite edgy, scratchy swirling icy bright synth frequencies around distant echoing dimensions of bouncy, warbling, acidic basslines, slashing, clanging beats and heavily distorted, sparse demented vocalizations, slurring into a treacherous trippy journey of chopping mechanical rotations digging intoxicating gritty tunnels of crooked high-energy dance rhythms through the “Obsidian” underground.
- Australian ambient /ethereal /piano musician (Fka Anna Shelley), Anna Papij “Above” (Single)
- London-based, Lithuanian ambient/goa /slow /trance /shamanic /electro /psych /electronic producer Tadas Majeris, aka TADAN “Pleiadian Message feat. Baltų Gyduolė” from upcoming “Neoshamanism” album [Electric Shapes]
- Bologna-based, Sardinia-bred Italian experimental /ambient /psych /downtempo /techno /electronic producer/DJ and Random Numbers label co-owner Carlo Mameli, aka BXP “In Un Altro Loop” from upcoming V/A “Second Wave” compilation [Random Numbers]
- Utrecht’s ambient /leftfield /breakbeat /house /electro producer Tala Drum Corps – “Rattlesnake” from the upcoming EP “Carillon” on BAKK
- Rennes, France electronic duo Gabriel Renault and Antoine Talon, aka ATOEM – “Precious Land (Dombrance Remix)” off “Precious Land” EP
- French experimental /electronic artist Maxime Dangles “Chatillon Montrouge (Arnaud Rebotini Remix)” from “Chanfleury Remixes EP Part 1” on Skryptöm.
- Israelian psychedelic /dark disco /electronic project created by Tel- Aviv based producers/DJs Dori Sadovnik & Niv Arzi, aka RED AXIS “Maztomeret” from V/A “Multi Culti Solstice I” EP on Multi Culti
- Lithuanian experimental /industrial /techno /EBM producer from Kaunas, TEATRE “Priešistorė” title track from upcoming “Priešistorė” an album of experiments, b-sides, noises and mirrored reflections (recorded from 2019 to 2021).
- Veteran Parisian experimental electronic artist Madrange Michel, aka M Nomized – “Change Fuzz” off the upcoming vinyl 12″ album compilation “UK ELECTRONICS 1988 -1994 – A compilation from the British label Mindscan Tapes” via Delodio
- Dutch wave /post-punk /electro /analog synth wizard Pascal Pinkert (aka De Ambassade), a.k.a. Dollkraut “Vuile Leugenaar” from “Vuile Leugenaar” EP vinyl 12″ on Viewlexx
- Colombian cyberpunk /electro /EBM /techno DJ /Producer CRRDR “Hackers Cave” off upcoming EP “Anticyber” [Sonidos Subterraneos]
- Casablanca, Morocco industrial /techno /trance solo electronic music project of producer and Rhadâb label co-founder Othman Cherradi, aka Prophän “Al Wafa” from V/A “Various Artists II – 5TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION” album vinyl 12″ on INSTINKT
- Italian experimental /industrial /noise /techno punk producer Andrea Natale, aka ANNA FUNK DAMAGE – “For this Love” from upcoming V/A “The Belligerents Vol.3” cassette compilation on Gravitational Waves
- Italian Industrial / EBM / New Beat /Italian Wave /Dark Electronics project of Francesco Baudazzi, aka VIOLET POISON “Shadowland” from Diana Berti VS Violet Poison “Shadowland” EP via Marguerite Records
- Frankfurt am Main-based lo-fi raw electro Italian producer (aka Raw Ambassador) Antonio Barbetta aka ANTONIO “Auftrag” from upcoming “Aquatica” EP 12″ on ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE
- Amsterdam-based industrial /dark electro wave German artist and performer Sophie Hütten aka “Vrouwe Fataal”, aka Sophie du Palais “Up To No Good” from “Endurance Of Pain Is The Power Of Being” LP on Btx3R/F01101/Exe.
- Unknown Artist – “La Solitude (Nomenklatür Edit & Cut)” off “Edits & Cuts 006 (Rare French & Soviet Synth Punk Tracks Re-Edited)” EP on Mosaique Records
- US body music /acid /techno /proto-electro producer and co-owner of Vanguard Sound and Anunnaki Cartel, Chris Mitchell – “What (Dim Deck Remix)” from cassette EP “Lost Voices” [Pildoras Tapes]
- Worldwide experimental /ambient /drone /breaks electronic collaborative project, 00970 – “Khatim Sulaiman” from – Khatim Sulaiman / خاتم سليمان – EP on Mediteranos
- Latvian EBM /post-industrial /darkwave /dark electronics producer CRYING SKIES “Time”
- Parisian darkwave /electronic producer Icy Lust “Megamüter”
- UK Industrial /EBM /Synth /Electronic duo from Sheffield, Randolph & Mortimer “The Light (Ancient Methods Remix)” from the double remixes album “Systems, Souls & Societies”
- Paris-based EBM /industrial /techno electronic DJ /producer Mind/Matter “Des Echos Dans La Nuit” from upcoming V/A “Deviate VA003” on DEVIATE rec
- Kraków, Poland based EBM /Italo /acid /techno /electro multi-disciplinary artist CHINO “Tigerman” from V/A “Driving Blind (Vol.2)” compilation on Les Yeux Orange
- US experimental /acid /breakbeat /electro producer Jentlemen – “Ladies and Jentlemen” from upcoming V/A “WEUSEDTOGOOUTTOPARTIES” compilation on Lo Fidelity Music
- Italian techno /electro producer Davide Piras – “Cassius Chrome” from V/A “Abyssal Void” [SAV017] 12″ EP on Rome-based Suburban Avenue
- Budapest‘s techno /electro producer Sobek – “Cuarantena Furiosa” from upcoming EP “Monza” [Duro]
- Colorado‘s electro DJ/producer Johan Sebastian Bot, aka DVS NME “Character Mask”
- Lithuanian ethnic /psych /techno /electronic producer John Patter – “Ealamium” from V/A “8 Years of Whypeopledance” compilation
- Tel Aviv-bred, Berlin-based Middle East/psych/deep/slow techno/electronic producer Yotam Russo, aka LOTT – “Misunderstood Theory (Cornelius Doctor Remix)” from “Wrong Buttom” EP on New Day Everyday
- Saint Petersburg based wave /disco /acid /Balearic /electronic producer Konstantyn Isaev aka VOLTA CAB “Shujumi (Anatolian Weapons Remix) from the upcoming EP “Balearic Balsam” [MM Discos]
- Venice-born, Ibiza-based Balearic /chill-out /downtempo /house duo Residentes Balearicos – “Simplemente” from the single “Simplemente Cachonda” [Balearic Ensemble]
- Italian Electro House project, Psycho Radio – “Oh No Please Don’t Let Me Down (Musumeci & Dodi Palese Remix)” off new EP “Oh No Please Don’t Let Me Down”
- Nijmegen, Netherlands Italo disco /electro /electronic producer Luca dell’ Orso – “Tomorrow’s Already Here” from the upcoming “The Jolisa” EP on Bordello A Parigi
- Barcelona‘s Italo /cosmic disco /electro producer and Italo Moderni label boss, Adrian Marth “Disorder (Fabrizio Mamarella Remix)” from the new EP “Red Nights” [Wrong Era / Italo Moderni]
- Berlin-based Italo/funky disco Italian DJ/producer and creator of the podcast series In Dark We Trust, Berny – “Playing With Dogs” from upcoming V/A “Make Italo Disco Great Again Vol.1” compilation on Fauve Records
- Berlin-based indie dance /dark disco /house /electronic producer Semodi “Next Summer (Feat. Maïlys)” from “Next Summer” EP on THISBE Recordings
- Argentina/Lithuania dark disco /indie dance collaborative project of Lucare & Aurum Miles “Demonomania (Marching Machines Remix)” off “Demonomania” EP [Espacio Cielo]
- Barcelona-based dark disco /indie dance collaboration between Argentinian DJ /producer Diego Montiel and DJ /production duo Ninemøøns & MankiZa, aka Diego Montiel & Moonkiza – “Thundertruck (Edit)” from upcoming “Classics Goes To Techno #1” EP on Side UP Works
- UK electronic/ dark disco /electroclash Producer/Remixer/DJ and Nein Records label boss Neil Parnell aka TRONIK YOUTH “Inhuman Nature (Stockholm Syndrome Remix)” from “Inhuman Nature” EP on Paradiso Records
- Stockholm-based cosmic/dark disco/indie dance/electronic producer (aka Fabian Kash), Leo Af Ekenstam “Stress” from upcoming V/A “Pals Vol. 5” on Play Pal Music
- Dutch dark disco /house /indie dance /electronic producer Tom Zeta “Merry Go Round (Renato Cohen Remix)” off upcoming “From Now On In” EP [SINCOPAT]
- Lithuanian dark disco /electronic music producer and DJ from Vilnius, Karolis Drėma a.k.a Shkema “Ola (Simple Symmetry Remix)” from upcoming “Kronikos Pt. 1” EP first of a double release with four originals and four remixes.
- Austin, TX ambient /experimental /electronic project lead by Neil Lord, Future Museums “Hum Body” from the upcoming album “Harpoon of Sunlight” on Aural Canyon
- London based experimental /ambient /electronic performance and sound Chinese artist Li Yilei – HUO / 惑 – from the upcoming album – 之 / OF – on Métron Records
- Danish experimental/ambient /drone/electronic solo project of Posh Isolation co-founder & one-half of Damien Dubrovnik, Christian Stadsgaard, aka Vanity Productions “Diamond Nights” from 2-track single “Eyes Like Angels” on Posh Isolation
- Leeds, UK ambient /electronic solo project of former Hood co-founder Richard Adams (Memory Drawings, Great Panoptique Winter and Northern Exchange), aka WESTERN EDGES “Love Is Contagious” from the album “Dependency” on Sound In Silence
- Swedish ambient /drone /electronic project by Krister Mörtsell, aka Permafrost AC “Infrastruktur som hämnd” from the upcoming LP “Isen ligger kvar” on Somewherecold Records
- VIC, Australia experimental /ambient /noise /minimal musician Timothy K Brown “Hairless” from the album “Neglected Practices”
- French ambient /neo-classical pianist and multi-instrumentalist composer based in Brussels, Wilson Trouvé – “And They Closed Their Eyes” from V/A “Perceptions Vol.2” compilation on bigo & twigetti