Weekly Electronic Music Tips // AUGUST #31-24
PICKS OF THE WEEK:
- ‘DO THE RAW‘ MIX001: LVRIN
Russian producer LVRIN demonstrates his love for industrial electronic sounds and his affinity for time travel.
His pure love of hardware combines a modern vision with the minimal & gritty electronic sounds of the 80s and psychedelic landscapes, blending Industrial, Electro, Techno and Wave elements.
- Australian experimental /ambient /post-rock /neo-classical composer, and multi-instrumentalist from Wollongong, Gregory Paul Mineeff “Advancement” from upcoming album “I Knew You Once” [Whitelabrecs]
Prolific Australian composer and musician concocts an emotional and intricate, smoothly beat-driven, electro-acoustic narrative painstakingly woven within each vivid instrumental timbre, coloured with glistening echoing guitar brush strokes, flowing seamlessly alongside tinkly keys and airy bright synth washes, sculpting an immersive, reflective and intimate journey to stir the imagination.
- Russian acid /chillrave /psych /downtempo /electronic DJ-producer ManojPuri “Circle” from “Filter Systems” EP [SHANGO RECORDS]
Russian artist explores mesmerizing chill-out and organic downtempo realms through clattering hypnotic percussive grooves, rippling acid wiggles and obsessive plucking synth lines, to ceaselessly sway into loose and uplifting mystical states of mind.
- LA-based ambient /chilled /breaks /house /synth /electronica DJ-producer Choopsie – “Shimmer” from V/A “CHANGES || VOL 1” compilation [CONDUIT]
The first CONDU||T’s “features a wide-ranging yet cohesive array of vibey, synth-driven dance tracks”. An immaculate sampler of the above-mentioned is Choopsie’s lush, immersive ambience of shivering crisp breakbeats, rubbery organic bass pulses, invigorating cascades of deep atmospheric pads, house-piano chords, and honeyed vocal lures, to coalesce effortlessly into radiating sun-kissed dancefloor bliss.
- 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 “Mid Sky” the title track of the album “Mid Sky” [Past Inside the Present]
- London-based ambient /neo-classical /piano /vocal duo of Rick Leigh and Genevieve Dawson, aka Loa “Hard Down Low (The Vernon Spring Rework)” rework by London-based composer and producer Sam Beste [Lima Limo Records]
- Hyogo, Japan-based ambient /field recordings /piano artist Masakatsu Takagi “Marginalia #173”
- LA-based ambient /drone /field recordings /electro-acoustic /synth /electronic sound artist and audio engineer, James Bernard “Act of Gratitude” from “Only Now” LP [quiet details]
- Portland, OR based Canadian–American ambient /electroacoustic /electronic musician (one half of husband-wife duo Mint Julep), Hollie Kenniff “Sea Sketch” via Nettwerk
- Seattle, WA ambient /drone /neo-classical musician Kyle Preston “The Pull of the Deep” from the album “Fear Not the Water”
- Vermont-based ambient /drone-project of Andrew Shaffer (aka Go Outside), Little Forest “Glow” from the debut “Little Forest” EP
- North Bay, Ontario ambient /psych /electro-acoustic project of Allister Thompson (aka Sons of Birches, Twilight Fields, and Khan Tengri), aka The Gateless Gate “Dénouement” from the album “Ephemera”
- Austin, TX ambient /drone /meditative /soundscape /experimental collaboration between sound artists Joshua W Bruner (Drift Meditation), and Damien Duque (aka City Of Dawn), aka Cura “Swaying in the Breeze” from the album “In the Hush” [Awareness / Heart Dance Records]
- New York-based ambient /drone /loops /soundscape /psych project of Colombian guitarist, composer, and improviser, Jan Esbra “Returning” from the upcoming album “Suspended In A Breath” [Phantom Limb]
- Pittsburgh-based ambient /chill /electronic producer Headphone Activist “Arrakis” from the upcoming album “9,125 days” [Valley View Records]
- Regensburg-based, German ambient /IDM /drone /deep techno /electronic producer Markus Guentner “While Hunting Nightmares And Dreaming For Peace (Feat. Abul Mogard)” from upcoming collaborative album “Kontrapunkt” 2x LP [A Strangely Isolated Place]
- UK/Iran ambient /IDM /experimental /electronic collaboration, Lee Anthony Norris & Porya Hatami “Moon(Silentwave)” from the album “The Longing Daylight(Rí_blandað)” [Neotantra]
- Tijuana, Mexican ambient /drone /modern classical /experimental electronic musician Fernando Corona aka Murcof “Valle Del Bove” from the upcoming LP “The Etna Sessions” [Facade Electronics]
- Osaka, Japan ambient /minimal /folk /folktronica music composer (member of FANCLUB), Noda Yûki “ddd” from the upcoming lathe cut vinyl LP “ddbb” (originally released digitally June 30th, 2020) [Sweet Chunk]
- Argentina ambient /world /organic /minimal /electronic /folk /experimental group led by composer Emilio Haro, Clan Caimán “Tulipán” from the third album “Pica-Pau (woodpecker)” [EM Records]
- Estevan, Saskatchewan lo-fi /ambient /tape loops /pastoral /electro-acoustic producer and sound artist (member of the free jazz outfit Peace Flag Ensemble), Michael Scott Dawson “Present Day (feat. Jairus Sharif)” from the upcoming album “The Tinnitus Chorus” [We Are Busy Bodies]
- East Midlands, UK experimental /ambient /drone /electroacoustic /guitar collaboration between Whitelabrecs owner Harry Towell and his brother Stuart, aka Paper Relics “Only A Moment” from the album “Time To Start” [Whitelabrecs]
- West Texas native ambient /kosmische /hauntology /slowcore /electronic music composer Justin Sweatt “Naked Lake” from the upcoming cassette album “North Texas Electric” [Aural Canyon]
- Brittany, France ambient /krautrock /Berlin school /synth project Fodboldklub “Signal 83 Part. I” from the CDr album “Collection 01”
- Hong Kong-based ambient /deep techno /electronic Glasgow-born producer Ryan Doherty, aka Cortecx “Atmosphere” from the upcoming cassette EP “Above The Clouds” [Bricolage]
- Berlin-based ambient /field recordings /IDM /minimal techno /electronic composer, visual artist and software developer Robert Henke, aka Monolake“Global Transport” from the upcoming LP “Studio”
- Kaifeng born, Vancouver based ambient /dub /experimental electronic artist Yu Su “Avanvera” single [Music From Memory]
- Glasgow ambient /deep techno producer John Fernie aka Fernie “Dominum” from “The Jovian System” EP [Indefinite Pitch]
- Warsaw-based experimental IDM /dub /trance /minimal /psychedelic /hypnotic techno Ukrainian musician, producer, and EMAHO! label owner, Archypness “Heliconia” from “Velrith” EP [EMAHO!]
- Leipzig, Germany ambient /minimal /dub techno producer Markus Masuhr “Infinite Currents” from the CD album “Echoes Of The Abyss” [Insectorama]
- Ambient /electronic pop /spoken word collaboration between Berlin-based French producer Cosmo Vitelli and California-based Dutch experimental electronic musician Truus de Groot (Plus Instruments), Truus de Groot & Cosmo Vitelli “Dopamine Dreams” title track of the upcoming album “Dopamine Dreams” [I’m a Cliche]
- UK electronic/ Balearic /tech house music producers Justin Deighton and Leo Elstob (Leo Zero), aka Totem Projects “_and one” from “Totem 001” EP
- Secret Potions #038: Australia lo-fi house /exotic /psych /electronic producer Funboys – “Fish Knuckles (Original Mix)” [Playground Records]
- Balearic dub mix by Stockport’s producer Synkro of 1983 masterpiece from London, UK Post-Punk/Reggae band, Khartomb “Swahili Lullaby (Synkro‘s Balearic Dub Mix)” from “Swahili Lullaby/Teekon Warriors/Daisy High – Before I Die Edition” EP 12″ [BiD label]
- London, UK mid-90s reggae /dub /jungle project of duo Dougie Wardrop (of Conscious Sounds fame) and Nigel Lake, aka Jungle Neck “No Wicked” from the album “8 COFFINS” 2xLP [Mental Groove Records / Musique Pour La Danse]
- Reggae /roots /dub project of veteran London-born UK techno pioneer DJ-producer Kirk Degiorgio, aka Khokhmah “Horns Of Jericho” from “Khokhmah I” [Khokhmah Records]
- Sydney-based, La Plata, Argentina-native ambient /IDM /cinematic /techno /house sound artist Francisco Sonur “By a little stream” from “Blurred Cities” EP10″ [Móatún 7]
- London-based ambient /IDM /techno /electro producer Emile Facey, aka PLANT43 “Raw Vectors” from “Concrete Echo” EP 12” [Plant43 Recordings]
- Krasnodar, Russia house /techno /indie dance /breaks /electro producer Anatoly Ponomarev, aka Atakta – “Kto Ya” off “Eternal Echoes” EP [Logia Records]
- Slovenian breaks/electro producer Zeta Reticula – “Dial That Number” from V/A “Constellations Vol. 1″ EP 12” [Mechatronica]
- Kursk, Russia acid /techno /breaks /punk producer vdm – “Red Pill” from “Dead Fish” EP [DAMASQ]
- Belgian acid electro producer Dragan Zaranoff “Work Me” off “SUNBURN” EP
- Vilnius-based, Lithuanian acid /wave /breakbeat /techno /electro producer 5ZYL “31 Sezonas” from upcoming LP “Respekk” [collection of tracks recorded over 2022–2024]
- Russian acid /rave /breaks /electro producer Яблочко Зелёное “The Boy From Koptevo” from “Stickers, Cans & Cigarettes” EP [Dionysian Mysteries]
- Warsaw-based, Polish EBM /breaks /techno /experimental dark electronic producer Wydma “Low Kick” from the cassette album “Okrucha” on Mangel
- French hard techno producer Rorganic “FEELING SO LONELY”
- Berlin-based noise /techno producer Chris Cornelius, aka CTSD “Death by Drums” from “Vortextual” EP 12″ [RENEGADE METHODZ]
- Belgrade, Serbia cinematic /EBM /industrial /breakbeat /techno producer Tarens “Protagnonist” title track of the new EP [Kibernet Kriminalität]
- Warsaw, Poland hardgroove /witch house /techno producer Sorokin ft. FLORA – “Ja Gałąź”
- German gothic /soundtrack /witch house /electronic collaboration Mistress Bella Lugosi X Mater Suspiria Vision “Ecstasy of the mind” from the album “Liaisons Dangereuses X” music inspired and from the Cosmotropia de Xam motion picture [Phantasma Disques]
- German techno industrial /dark electro act Deutsche Zickzack – “Hafenbauer” 2nd single [CANCELLED]
- New York experimental /EBM /techno /dark electro /industrial project of Michael Renfield (aka Soilodge and Noise Process), aka R010R – “Null Parameter” off of the forthcoming [EP R03]
- Athens, Greece industrial noise /techno /doom electronics producer Michael Vasilas, aka The Hanged Man “Οι Συμβουλες Κομμενες – Το Μερος Εδω...Σπερνει Αδιεξοδα” single
- Ukrainian EBM /Cold Body Music producer Revolt “Frozen Heart” from upcoming EP “Frozen Heart” [S H I S H I]
- Industrial /sci-fi /cyberpunk /cinematic /techno /dark electronics collaborative project, founded in 2013 in Toronto, by SARIN & Matt Cangiano, aka Human Performance Lab “Sadist” from the upcoming “Extrasensory” LP 12″[X-IMG]
- Dark electro /EBM /post-industrial techno producer Metakross “Under The City” from “Body Control” EP [Oberwave Records]
- Nitzer Ebb – “Murderous (Disco Radical Rework)” 1987 Belgian New Beat classic reworked by Colombian producer.
- Mexico City-based EBM /noise /industrial /techno artist Datura Inoxia – True Lies” from “Masacre” LP [Of Dolls and Murder]
- UK indie dance /electropop artist Miss Zagato “Black Pantera” single
- London, UK-based Disco /Electro Noir Synthpop synth diva Valeria Valuyskaya, aka Velvet Velour “Dense Ocean” single [Jardin de Bliss]
- Mexican organic /psychedelic /indie dance /downtempo /electronic producer Alejandro Veneno – “TRAICIÓN O CAPRICHO” [Música Sensación]
- Madrid/Cadiz, Spanish Italo /house /techno /prog /dark disco producers David Campos Torres and Adrian Pena Sanchez, aka Pumuki & Calystarr “Retroiluminate” from “Retroiluminate” EP [Astrolead recordings]
- Parisian acid techno /dark disco /indie dance /psychedelic rock producer IBÄ – “Magic Woodland (Extended)” from “Magic Woodland” EP [Elektric Bazaar]
- Parisian acid /indie dance /wave /prog trance /dark disco DJ-producer SLTBQ “Ifs & buts & maybes” from V/A “Proton Waves 002” compilation [Nubians of Plutonia Records]
- Singapore/Jakarta based, Indonesian indie dance /Italo /progressive artist CYDA “Alpha” from “Can’t Stop This Feeling” EP [MINITEL]
- Spanish dark disco /house /Italo /techno /indie dance /electronic production duo Gameboyz “54321!” single [Octopus Recordings]
- Argentinian indie dance /dark disco artist Yerno Vil – “Especulate (Parissior Remix)” off “Especulate” EP [Espacio CIELO]
- Berlin to Lisbon via Cork nu-disco /house producer Brian Ring (Feat. K.P. Ring) “Big Town Boy Small City Dreams” from upcoming remix EP [Clutching At Straws]
- Dutch breakbeat /dubstep /electronic producer Bastian Benjamin – “Mycelium (Om Unit Remix)” [Who’s Susan]
- Amsterdam-based, Dutch pop /indie dance /house band, comforter2 “14 (Peach Remix)” from “Tell Me Something Happy (Remixes)” EP 12″ [Nous’klaer Audio]
- San Francisco-based late ’70s-early ’80s hi-NRG disco music artist Patrick Cowley “Kickin’ In featuring Loverde” from “Kickin’ In (2024 Remaster)” EP 12″ (1979 –1980) [Dark Entries]
- “F8” from “Bandcamp Re-edits 5” album by Brazilian body music /indie dance /acid /cosmic /disco producer ROTCIV [Mister Mistery]
- Prince “Erotic City” (edit) from “Mom’s Spaghetti Volume 5″ EP 12” (Club ready groovy edits and remixes from Glasgow‘s DJ-producer) [Mom’s Spaghetti]
- 2008 hit single by Norway hip-hop duo, Madcon – “Beggin (Mussy Afro House Remix)”
- San Diego, CA-based ambient /minimalist /concrète music /found sounds multidisciplinary artist Brandon Tani “Instructions For The Next Year” from the debut album “The Road Was Bent From The Way We Took It” [laaps]
- UK ambient /improv /modular synth /electronica live collaboration, Ian Boddy & Dave Bessell “Polarity Part 1” from the live CD album “Polarity” (live at the Awakenings, Lea Hall Pavilion, Rugeley on 25th November 2023) [DiN]
- Shelbyville, Kentucky ambient /drone /experimental sound artist Jason T. Lamoreaux, aka The Corrupting Sea “ONTOS VIII Machine” from the album “Ontology II” [Healing Sound Propagandist]
- Charlotte, NC modular ambient drone soundscapes project, D York “Reunion 2024″ long-form piece for “Music for Long Attention Spans Vol. 21″
