Weekly Electronic Music Tips // JULY #30-24
PICKS OF THE WEEK:
- Counterterraism Guest Mix 340: JËAN FiXX
Honoured by hosting his last week’s slasher-inspired nightmarish “Serial Killer” video premiere, here is A Coruña bred Félix Fernández, a.k.a. Jëan Fixx, with a dark and highly energetic ‘monstrous concoction’ of Indie Dance, Dark Disco, Techno, Electro, Synth Wave and Psychedelia, to dance at the edges of sanity.
- Amsterdam-based acid electro DJ & producer Dirk Wiertz – “Tubular Balls” off upcoming split “Crossed Paths” EP with Bitum [Tiger Woods]
Dutch producer with a deftly honed stirring acid-laced electro drama, replete with emotive swirly 303 lines, buzzing low ends, and lashing tinny snares, blasting you off to synth-swept hopeless forsaken horizons.
- Frankfurt am Main slow techno /downtempo /tribal /breakbeat /psych /wave /trance /electronic producer Tassilo Vanhöfen – “Cauchereves” off “Cryo Sleep Distortions” EP
Two lysergic slow-slung jams of percussion-laced hypnosis, a sort of ‘bad trip’ the flip, as the title suggests, drifting through taut knocking and metallic hits, drawn-out bass chug, spiralling twinkly layers of cosmic synth melody and shivering eerie resonances to enclose in a lingering impending doom.
- Swedish ambient /minimal electronic collaboration Livmødr & Majestoluxe, Øx – “Pyrosomes Ostinato” from V/A “SVÄRTA” EP cassette [åtåmåtån]
Six Swedish Acts Interpreting Northern Darkness on the boutique label åtåmåtån‘s cassette sampler. Stockholm’s duo blend Dark Ambient, Minimal Electronics, Tape Hiss and ethereal droning esoterism through a hypnotic crackling and tinny percussive carpet into an obscure and esoteric spectral trance.
- Los Angeles-based harpist Mary Lattimore “I Spent the Day Inside”
- Japanese neo-classical /improv /piano collaboration Martin Martyn & Hideyuki Hashimoto “Apricot” from the album “Coral”
- Hyogo, Japan-based ambient /field recordings /piano artist Masakatsu Takagi “Marginalia #172”
- US ambient /drone /ethereal /soundscape /electronica collaboration between Past Inside the Present label head zakè (aka Zach Frizzell) and vocalist Angela Winter, zakè & Angela Winter “Gale” from the upcoming album “Mid Sky” [Past Inside the Present]
- Portland, OR-based Ambient Drone /Field Recordings /Tape Hiss /Synth project of London-born multidisciplinary artist Sam Ashton, aka Fortresses “Our” from the 2-track single “Are” [Dragon’s Eye Recordings]
- Dutch ambient /electro-acoustic /modern classical collaboration between pianist Joep Beving and Berlin-based producer and cellist Maarten Vos, Joep Beving & Maarten Vos “Penumbra” from “Vision of contentment” album 12″ [LEITER]
- Paris, France ambient /modern classical /piano musician and composer Lofi Girl “Underwater ft. Anemoia.” from the album “Memory Card” [Lofi Records]
- Denver, CO ambient /cinematic /soundscape multi-instrumentalist and composer Marshall Usinger, aka Be Still The Earth “Mood 4” from “Moods” LP [Slow Echo]
- UK ambient /drone /acoustic /experimental producer Sevenism “Hm” from the album “Fivehundred”
- Norfolk, UK ambient /drone /esoteric /synth /experimental sound artist Luke Sanger “Terraform” off upcoming “Dew Point Harmonics” LP 12” [Balmat]
- Preston, UK ambient /drone /space synth /electronic project of Stephen James Buckley, aka POLYPORES “It Vanished Right In Front Of Your Eyes.” from “Moonbuilding Summer 2024” CD album included in the latest Castles In Space‘ Moonbuilding Issue Five magazine
- Reykjavík-based experimental /ambient /soundscape /synth composer Mikael Lind “Shortwave” teaser for the album “Scraptools”
- UK ambient /dreampunk /downtempo /electronic producer The Microgram “Adverse” from “Hz” EP
- Oslo, Norway lo-fi /ambient /field recordings /electro-acoustic sound artist Erik Mowinckel “Dusty Wings Up” from “Root System” EP
- London-based, Latvian expat ambient /field recordings /experimental producer mu tate “one by one these desires are wiped away” from “wanting less” LP 12″ [Warm Winters Ltd]
- Glasgow-based ambient /minimal /downtempo /electronica producer and INDEX:Records co-owner Conna Haraway “Drench” from V/A “Diving Headfirst Into The Sun” cassette album [Eastern Nurseries]
- Oxford, Mississippi ambient /drone /psybient /electronic multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer and Chitra Records head, Dionis Afonichev, aka Dionisaf “Shambhala” from “Shakti” EP [Ambient Cat]
- Italo/Dutch ambient /psych /tribal /hypnotic techno collaboration Feral & Spekki Webu “Exitlude (Floating Version)” from “Kentaga” EP [Aube Rouge]
- Mendoza, Argentina ambient /experimental /IDM /electronic multimedia artist Hugo Granzner “Flusterrsplot” from the remastered edition of last January’s self-released album “Flower Preview [Re-Mastered]” [EQ / EC Underground]
- Germany based ambient /deep techno /dub techno producer Peter Fanai a.k.a. Basicnoise “This Vortal Coil” from the CD album “Phenomena” [Greyscale]
- Barcelona, Spain ambient /drone /dark deep techno production duo En.ka “Mantra (Original Mix)” from “Paradigma” EP [Aurora Mística Records]
- Belgian ambient /deep /dub techno producer V’NZ “Alveole 3” from the “In The Hive” EP [Insectorama]
- London, UK melodic techno /psytrance /progressive house producer Simon Berry, aka Art Of Trance “Mariana (Original Mix)” from “Mariana” EP [Platipus]
- UK ambient /breaks /downtempo project of Simon Huxtable (aka Aural Imbalance), aka Inhmost “Surface Tension” from “Breaks and Dreams” LP [Tonights Dream Records]
- Brooklyn, NY-based IDM /electro /experimental audiovisual artist and electroacoustic musician Second Seasons “E/C” from the album “Density of Traction” [Schematic]
- German experimental IDM /electro /ambient music collaboration started in 1997 by Christoph Abert, Ingo Zobel, and Frederik Dahlk, aka Drøn “Graviton (Karsten Pflum Remix)” from “Graviton Remixes” CD album [Touched Music]
- Ukrainian Ambient /Acid /Electro /Techno /Experimental producer Andrey Kiritchenko, aka Kiritchenko “Locomotion” from “Acceptance” EP 10″ [Intellitronic Bubble]
- Southport, UK ambient /IDM /acid /distorted beats /breaks /electro /downtempo producer AND/OR/NOT “IF ONLY...” from the split 7″ EP “MOA141” by NATURES REVENGE vs. AND/OR/NOT [Móatún 7]
- Parisian experimental /house /death disco /dub /psych /electronica producer Antoine Harispuru aka GOLDEN BUG “Boomerang” from the upcoming 5th LP “Piscolabis II” [La Belle Records]
- London-based Balearic /indie dance /jazz /folk /psychedelic /electronica project of Jean-Gabriel Becker and Susumu Muka, aka Becker & Mukai “Moon High” from “Spirit Only” LP 12″ [SaS Recordings]
- Portugal acid /breakbeat /electro /techno producer PEDRO SNK – “Number One” from PEDRO SNK & XCI‘s “The Suffering Continues” EP [SELF RELIANCE]
- Barcelona-via-Melbourne-based breaks /dub /techno producer Xav “2 squared” off “In a Weird Cube” EP [The Space Between Us]
- Florida electro /leftfield /techno /house /percussive production duo Danny Daze & Jonny From Space – “Sweet Spot Radio” off “Tumbadora” EP [Craigie Knowes]
- Barcelona-based ambient /acid /bass /house /breaks /trippy /downtempo /trance Dj-producer oma totem – “Choreos” from the upcoming “The Trick (OK EG Rework)” EP [Kalahari Oyster Cult]
- NYC experimental electronic pop musician and visual artist James K “Blinkmoth (July Mix)” [AD 93]
- Uruguay experimental electronic producer Lila Tirando a Violeta “Mooncoin” [Hyperdub]
- Mexico City dark techno /electro producer Laura Coch “Don’t Let That Wolf Bite You Twice” from the upcoming “Nightcrawlers” EP [Unknown To The Unknown]
- Copenhagen techno /electro producer Brain Enterprise – “Nexx” from V/A “Copenhagen Electro Alliance Volume 9” EP [Copenhagen Electro Alliance]
- Hamburg-based bass /breakbeat /electro producer and DJ, Beam Control “DISTORTED MINDS (feat. Jetson G)” from “MOVING ELECTRONS” EP [JUICY GANG RECORDS]
- Boston-based experimental /techno/ electro artist Angel Attack “Sharpening” off EP “New Frontiers” [House of Reptile]
- Berlin-based ambient /techno /breaks /electro Italian producer and Evighet Records label head, Marco Bruno “Storyteller” from the upcoming “Sharp Focus” EP [Return To Disorder]
- Antwerp, Belgium ambient /industrial /Middle East /ethnic /dub /drone experimental /electronic producer BedouinDrone – “Qiṭāʿ Ġazzah”
- US industrial /experimental /noise /dark electronics project GRANITE MASK “Lost Hills” title track of the album “Lost Hills” [OPAL]
- Athens, Greece industrial noise /techno /doom electronics project The Hanged Man “σήψη” from “σήψη /εμμονή” 2-track single
- Belgium EBM /industrial /darkwave /electronic artist Obscure Dana “l’intelligence artificielle fait du porno” from “Hardcore: Obscure Compilation” album
- Austin, TX-based electronic /post-punk /synth-pop band fronted by Nicolas Nadeau, Single Lash “What Time is it There? (Xander Harris Remix)” from the collection “Archaeopteryx: Ladida Remixes + Demos”
- US goth /industrial /dark electronic /darkwave artist BESTIAL MOUTH “Vast Murmur (Broken English Club remix)” off “Backbone (Remixes)” EP [SOIL]
- Parisian dark-cold-electro-wave act led by Amandine Stioui, aka Minuit Machine “Honey (RAUMM Remix)” from “Honey Remixes” EP via Synth Religion
- Mar del Plata, Argentina-based industrial techno /EBM DJ-producer 909distortion “Test Positivo (Nyxloid remix)” from “Hasta el ultimo dia” EP
- Southern Brazil EBM /industrial /techno producer DOVGLASS “Essa Noite Eu Te Esperei V2” single
- Mexican post-punk /EBM/Techno noisemaker Datura Inoxia “Perdiendo la Razon (Efe Ce Ele Remix)” from the upcoming “Masacre” EP [Of Dolls and Murder]
- Dark electro /EBM /post-industrial techno producer Metakross “Body Control” from “Body Control” EP [Oberwave Records]
- Amsterdam‘s dark electro /minimal synth wave collaboration Raderkraft & Adam Tristar “Viewer Discretion Is Advised” single via Out Of Sync Records
- Berlin-based Italian industrial /techno /electro /dark synth electronic DJ, Producer, Remixer and head of Mannequin Records, Alessandro Adriani “Fever Dreams” single
- German–Italo 1986 classic The Laser Cowboys – “Killer Machine (Alberto Melloni Edit)” ‘A UFO’ series [Slow Motion Records]
- 1993 Italian house/trance classic (Joy Kitikonty & Francesco Farfa) Hoyos Corya – “Oyo (Valerj ‘Samba’ Re – Edit)” Bon Vivant series 009 [Epicure Records]
- Scissor Sisters – “Comfortably Numb (KMITL EDIT)”
- 1989 Belgian Techno/House Classic, Petra & Co.“Just Let Go (Cole Medina Edit)”
- Lyon, France EBM /techno /dark disco producer Anomalie Magnetique – “Self Control” off “Self Control” EP [Nein Records]
- Madrid-based acid /house /techno Italian-born electronic producer Bawrut “ Que Quiere Usted (Marc Romboy Remix)” from “Remix Pack” EP [Ransom Note Records]
- Berlin-based EBM /Italo Disco /Indie Dance British producer Jimmy Horton, aka Radondo “Release” from upcoming V/A “Volition” compilation LP [Volition]
- Moscow Italo /EBM /Avant-Garde /Dark Wave collaboration, Disco Morato & Varvara Pavlovna “Hate Epoque (Orchid Remix)” from “Hate Epoque (Remixes)” EP [Maxima Culpa]
- LA-based Detroit native Electro /Indie Dance /Dark Disco producer Idoru “After Hours Angels feat. David LeSal (Original Mix)” from “After Hours Angels” EP [Manta Recordings]
- Berlin/Tel Aviv acid /indie dance /psychedelic /dark disco collaboration Radial Gaze & Mishell – “Last Night (Kimshies Remix)” off “Last Night” EP [Kaputt.wav]
- Russian trance /progressive house producer Circle Audio – “Slaider (Anastasia Zems Remix)” off “Fairy” EP [39 Records]
- “Dampness” from upcoming “Edits Vol 01, 02 & 03” EP by Japanese Balearic /house /cosmic disco producer Daichi [MM Discos]
- NYC indie dance artist project of singer, songwriter, and producer Bryce Connolly, aka Mindchatter “Brain Pills (Familiar Faces Remix)” from “Brain Pills (Familiar Faces Remix)” remix series [Foreign Family]
- Leeds, UK nu-disco DJ-producer Bonar Bradberry (one half of duo PBR Streetgang), aka VYVYAN – “Experiments In Faith Pt2” off “Experiments In Faith” EP [Paradise Palms Records]
- UK Balearic /calypso /house /electronic duo Psychemagik “The Way It Is” from “Undercover Lovers Vol.5” EP [Undercover Lovers]
- UK chug /disco /house production duo Bill Brewster & Alex Tepper (one half of Futureshock), aka HOTEL MOTEL – “Going To A Go Go” off “Frottage Pie” E.P. [SPRECHEN]
- Ambient experimental music producer, visual artist and DJ based in Zurich, Switzerland, Shayu – “Zolli” from the split cassette “029/030 – Shayu & Kagami Smile” [DISPLAY]
- Mozambican field recordings /acid /world /tribal /chug /exotic /psych /electronic live artist and producer Nandele – “Cardi0″ from the cassette concept album “1994” [Already Dead Tapes and Records]
- Wellington, NZ based Iranian experimental minimal electronic sound artist Mo H. Zareei, aka mHz “Brass (Loscil)” from the “Material Prosody” series of six new works composed for different editions of his sound-sculpture “Material Sequencer” [Room40]
- UK ambient /drone /techno /electronic sound artist Veins Full Of Static – “C’mon And Burn” from the split album “Torn” by Veins Full Of Static & Two Way Mirrors [Frosti]
- US dark ambient /drone /experimental /electronic sound artist Chris Weeks “Vampire Drain” from the album “con·sol·i·data” [Neotantra]
- UK experimental musician Charlotte Keeffe “Sound Brush & Shell Mobile (Simon Fisher Turner Subway Remix)” from “LF21 / Sound Brush & Shell Mobile” Life Files series [Mortality Tables]
- Los Angeles based improvised ambient guitar project of former The Smashing Pumpkins and The Lassie Foundation guitarist, Jeff Schroeder “Retour – Part I” from “Metanoia” 2×12″ LP [Clerestory AV]
- French drone /experimental /avant-garde musician Shantidas Riedacker (known for his work with Aluk Todolo, Diamatregon, and formerly Blacklodge), aka Shantidas “Voyage” from the first solo album “Musique pour Ombres Mécaniques” LP 12″ [WV Sorcerer Productions 巫唱片]
- Berlin-based, Nairobi, Kenyan experimental /ambient /drone /field recordings sound artist Joseph Kamaru, aka KMRU “Natur (extract)” from “Natur” long-form album [Touch]
