Weekly Electronic Music Tips // AUGUST #33-24
PICKS OF THE WEEK:
- ANATOLIAN WEAPONS DJ set at Nothing Special Berlin, w/ Budino and Liad Krispin 29/06/2024
A night where everything felt at the right place from the very beginning’, a groovy, trippy and heady infusion of Trance, Techno, New Beat, EBM and World Music suggestions from the eclectic Athenian DJ-producer.
- Swiss space /electro /experimental hardware /analog synth electronic musician Ok Matthew “MIDI Delay” from “Control Voltage” EP [CAF?]
Kraut-tinged loose electro experiments rooted in hypnotic and obsessive reiterations from analog synthesizers to hardware sequencers, which tinkle, wrinkle, crackle and shuffle with acidic tones and discordant space-out resonances.
- Vienna, Austria acid /house /techno producer Mike Inzinger – “Subsequent Logic” from “Ice Age” EP 12″ [MIR Records]
Fourth acidic platter from Viennese producer on his own MIR Records is a heartfelt homage to 90s Plastikman/Plus 8 epic, replete with droning low-end oscillations, thickened thudding kick drums and twisting 303 lines.
- Leipzig acid /indie dance /psych /dark disco veteran duo Peter Invasion & Gregor Habicht – “Kasalina” off V/A “Lifesaver 5 Compilation – Tell Me Something Good” 25 years celebrative 4×12″ compilation [Live At Robert Johnson]
One of the countless standout featured tracks from the huge 25th-year celebration of the mighty Offenbach‘s club, which I visited a couple of times in the very early 00s, is a highly energetic bouncing and buzzing trippy dark disco affair, scattered with streaks of acid hypnosis and eerie Teutonic vocals, to trigger ghostly and uncanny dancefloor compulsions.
- Kanagawa, Japan ambient /modern classical pianist (aka Gecko), Wataru Sato “Mawaru” [INNI]
- California ambient /field recordings /minimal /experimental /manipulated piano project of Kyle Parker, aka Infinite Body “Goner” from upcoming cassette album “My Bright Abyss” album
- Stockholm ambient /drone /modern classical composer and cellist Henrik Meierkord “Tonalitet II” from the album “Falling” [Projekt Records]
- Tokyo, Japan ambient /drone /dreamcore /electro-acoustic /minimal /electronic music sound artist Hiroshi Ebina “The darkness of the night” from “Into the Darkness of the Night” LP 12″ [KITCHEN. LABEL]
- Spanish ambient experimental project of Madrid-based electronic producer David Elpezs, aka Navaja Opinel “Neighbours Don’t Like Fentanyl” from “Everyday Situations Of My Neighborhood” album [Neotantra]
- Berlin, Germany ambient /experimental /organ /electronic music composer and performer Hainbach “Glass Heart” from “Circle of Violence” EP
- Brooklyn, NY ambient /drone /experimental /electronic musician, singer-songwriter Thomas Meluch, aka Benoît Pioulard “Op. 448, Adagio (Hallucination Archive)” lathe cut 7″ [Whited Sepulchre Records]
- Aarhus, Denmark experimental /ambient /drone /electronic project Rime Trails “Dawn Embers II” from “Dawn Embers”
- Shenzhen, China-based ambient /ethereal /shoegaze /techno /electronic project of Ryan Hill, aka KAGAMI Smile “Expanding River” from the upcoming album “An Image of You Below” [VILL4IN]
- English ambient /drone /guitar /electronic music artist David Hughes, aka Cousin Silas “Sunday Mourning” from the album “Guitar Etiquette – An Introduction With Free Candy”
- UK ambient /dreampunk producer Sangam “Orange Bliss” single from the upcoming ”Inside at Night” LP 12″ [No Problema Tapes]
- Rome-based Italian ambient /ethereal /drone /soundscape /electronic artist CHANTSSSS “(swan)” from “Shyness” LP 12″ [co:clear / Theory Therapy]
- Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK-based ambient /drone /neo-classical /electro-acoustic /electronica musician and composer Scot Ewan Mackenzie, aka Dextro “Inseparable” off the fifth album, “Respire”
- Belgian Ambient /Vaporwave /Barber Beats producer Timeshare’94 “Returning Home” off “HORIZONS 地平線” LP 12″/cassette [My Pet Flamingo]
- England, UK ambient /IDM /experimental /drum & bass /electronic project of Lee Norris (aka Norken, Nacht Plank and part of Ishqamatics, Autumn of Communion, Moss Garden, Memex, 2xirtam, The Angling Loser), aka Metamatics “A Second Chance Is Rare” from the CD album “Transcendental Jazz Against The Void”
- Honley, UK ambient /drone /breaks /drum & bass /electronica composer Thomas Ragsdale (aka FFION), aka Sulk Rooms “Justice” from the album “Fallen”
- Japanese Ambient /Techno /Trance /Electro-Drone producer Silentwave “Oriental Blue” 7″ single [Móatún 7]
- Italian ambient /IDM /glitch /electronic producer Emanuele Liguori (Gy0, 祭司, Buried Marie), aka Leik “Our Little Secret Spot” title track of “Our Little Secret Spot” EP 10″ [Intellitronic Bubble]
- Switzerland-based, England-born dark ambient /film score /electronica /synthesizer /soundtrack music composer & author, RUPERT LALLY “FIND THE PATTERN” from cassette LP “Profiler” [Spun Out Of Control]
- Ambient /drone /Berlin school /electronic brainchild of Dutch producers Cyance and BS-1, aka Moons ov Mars “Seq (drøn remix)” from the remix album “Seq: Resequenced” [sterrenstof]
- Somerset, UK based early ’90s founded, ambient /worldbeat /progressive /downtempo /electronica project of Toby Marks, Banco de Gaia “Mir (Darkly A.M. Remix)” from “Mir” EP [Disco Gecko Recordings]
- UK ambient /breaks /downtempo project of Simon Huxtable (aka Aural Imbalance), aka Inhmost “Signs From the East” from “Breaks and Dreams” LP 12″ [Tonights Dream Records]
- Anglo/American/Australian ambient /indie /folk /neo-classical /post-rock /electronic collective led by Minneapolis-raised, Casablanca-based hammered dulcimer player Joel Hanson (Judgement of Paris), Memory Drawings “A Necessary Fiction – Yellow6 Remix” from “Deathbed Requests Remixes” EP
- Glasgow psych /acid techno producer Fluffy Inside “Added Vinegar” from “Mushroom Harmonics” EP [Mighty Force]
- Iceland jungle /techno /breakbeat music act Tranquil “Disko Thang” from “Disko Thang / Destruction” Ltd. 7″ single [Móatún 7]
- Moscow ambient /trip-hop /techno /dub production duo Прощение / Forgiveness “Chaga (Чага) (tape)” off “Chaga (Чага)” EP
- Paris-based, German kraut /tribal /chug /dub /psych /downtempo /electronic solo project by Kreidler member Detlef Weinrich (aka DJ Sport) aka Tolouse Low Trax “A Song And A Photo Novela (Simo Cell ‘Fabulous Santa’ Edit)” off upcoming compilation of seven edits “Kiosque Versions” [Bureau B]
- Reykjavík, Iceland ambient /IDM /techno /electro /electronic music producer Kosmodod “Pseudoscience” title track of the “Pseudoscience” EP 10″ [Intellitronic Bubble]
- Amsterdam bass /dubstep /psych /percussion /techno producer Jasmín fr. Whitner FaGo – “Ea Ninkkanwe” from the cassette EP “Wihtner FaGo – Non Axebo Redit” reworks from the album by Indigenous Peruvian activist and rapper Withner FaGo [Behuá Icára]
- Perùvian house /dub /breaks /psych /percussion /techno producer, co-founder of Lima-based party collective Casa Locasa and non-profit Behua Icara label, Aristidez “Spiritual Playboy” from the upcoming “Uncultured Rhythms” LP [Multi Culti]
- Parisian acid techno /dark disco /indie dance /psychedelic rock producer IBÄ – “Magic Woodland (Cornelius Doctor Dance Like 99 Remix)” from “Magic Woodland” EP [Elektric Bazaar]
- Barcelona-based experimental /ambient /tribal /psych /acid /downtempo /house /electronic duo IRO AKA “Blue” off V/A “Mambo Number Five” EP 12″ [Terrazzo]
- Italian ambient /grey area /psychedelic techno /organic electronic conceptual project by Davide Perrone (Primal Code), aka Pianeti Sintetici – ” Steppa Plain” from the upcoming “Bioma” EP [QEONE]
- Wroclaw, Polish drum & bass /breaks /psychedelic tribal techno producer Filip Olszewski (half of Come Meditate), Entire – “Midnight Circles” from “Midnight Tribes” EP [SPLOT]
- New York jungle /bass /dubstep /experimental /electronic duo Enayet + K Wata (50% of SLINK label), aka E Wata “U D S2S” from “EP 1″ 12” [SLINK]
- Montevideo, Uruguay acid /breaks /techno /electro producer and U’re Guay Records co-head, Imanol – “Ciencia” off “U’re Guay Vol. 76” [U’re Guay Records]
- Vilnius-based, Lithuanian acid /wave /breakbeat /techno /electro producer 5ZYL “Jack From House Nation” from upcoming LP “Respekk” [collection of tracks recorded over 2022–2024]
- Berlin-based hardgroove /techno duo disguised “Euro Runner” from “Euro Runner” EP
- German industrial /hard techno producer 7SiNS – “Failed To Live” from “Despair” EP [OMEN Recordings]
- Dutch industrial /minimal electronics /electro music veteran DJ-producer Roberto Auser “Bring It Round” from the forthcoming EP “Data Desire Disorder” [Dalmata Daniel]
- Ukrainian EBM /Cold Body Music producer Revolt “Sudden Whiplash Injury” from upcoming EP “Frozen Heart” [S H I S H I]
- Balkan experimental post-industrial /metal /body music /techno collaboration Involucija & Le Chocolat Noir – “naša žudnja” off upcoming “Zelja Masta Strah” EP 12″ [aufnahme+wiedergabe / INVOLUCIJA·ORG]
- Phoenix, AZ goth /techno /industrial /post-punk trio TASSEL “X” from the upcoming LP “A SACRIFICE: UNTO IDOLS”
- Berlin-based breaks /dubstep /noise /EBM /industrial techno collaboration between German duo Mathis Mootz (The Panacea/Squaremeter) & David Frisch with Greek producer Manos Simotas, New Frames & Unhuman – “Commander” off upcoming 10th anniversary π project split series “Split#3” EP 12″ [Pi Electronics]
- Berlin-based dark disco /new wave /electronic project of Greco–German duo Local Suicide and German producer Kalipo, Dina Summer ‘Halkidiki’ new single via Iptamenos Discos
- New England prog /indie dance /cosmic /dark disco producer Carlo Sine – “Duty (Rigopolar Remix)” off “Mr. Undercover” EP [Tour De Infinite]
- Dutch Italo-house DJ-producer DOCTR “Gold (Freudenthal Remix)” off “Lucy’s Dream” EP [Feinstoff]
- Spanish indie dance /progressive house /techno /electronic producer and Sincopat label founder, Marc Martinez Nadal aka AFFKT – “Bodypa” off “Bodypa” EP [Polaris]
- Berlin/New York indie dance /dark disco duo, BERNY & REFRAKT “PURPLE (Original Mix)” from “PURPLE” EP [CONTROLLA]
- Mallorca, Spain Balearic /nu disco /house /indie dance /cosmic disco DJ-Producer & Spa In Disco and Boite Music Records boss, Fran Deeper “Groovin On Disco (Ilya Santana Space Remix)” from upcoming “Grooving on Disco” EP [Astrolead Recordings]
- COR Edits: 1998 UK house/breakbeat classic Sonique – “It Feels So Good (Ben Evers Sunrise Moment)” [CORRESPONDANT]
- Offenbach, German ambient /breaks /leftfield psych /trance /downtempo DJ-producer (aka Ajo, Steppin’ Wolf and 1/2 of Recht Auf Rausch), Kalocain – “Couleur 3″ from the upcoming EP “Big Fun” [Codek Records]
- Berlin-based electro /acid techno producer Bloody Mary “REALITY ONE (ACID MIX)” off “Alternate States Of Reality” EP [ Dame-Music ]
- Saint-Etienne, French acid /trance /techno /downtempo /psychedelic producer Jacques Satre – “Sacred Staff” off V/A “EDF (Electronique De France)” compilation [Les Yeux Orange]
- Baltimore, Maryland ambient /drone /field recording /noise /experimental artist Austyn Wohlers “An Angel’s Emerald Wing” from cassette album “Bodymelt in the Garden of Death” [Geographic North]
- Austin, Texas ambient /noise /drone /tape collage sound artist Patina Lush “Summer Lies In A Bed Of Moons” from the album “Upon The Tender Blade” [Language Instinct]
- Brighton, UK ambient /drone /field recordings /experimental sound artists Ian Hawgood and Ben Jones, sea + i “Drone for a flower I knew” long-form single [Home Normal]
- UK ambient /drone /space /synth electronic producer Dennis Huddleston, a.k.a. 36 “Trench Heart” from the long-form collection “Dreamloops” 4xLP [Ba Da Bing Records]
- New York-based ambient drone folk guitarist and songwriter Steve Gunn “Clean Floor” [Longform Editions]
