WL//WH Weekly Electronic Music Tips

Weekly Electronic Music Tips // AUGUST #34-24

Bernard Rudofsky & Luigi Cosenza, Casa Oro, Posillipo, 1934-37

PICKS OF THE WEEK:

Operator Radio [09-08-24] // swærm

Amsterdam-based, Scottish DJ/producer Swærm delivers his usual intoxicating deadly dose of pumping Techno, clattering Industrial, electrifying Electro and gritty EBM.

Grenoble, France industrial /downtempo /post-punk /dub electronic collage punk project of Julien Viallet, aka HLM38 “A Challenge To Dark” from the upcoming self-titled cassette debut album “HLM38” [PLAQUE/Notte Brigante]

Grenoble’s finest collage-punk artist broods his way through angsty plaintive vocals, wandering like a ghost over smouldering, stifling and restless dubwise territories punctuated by bouncy scattered dry rhythm patterns, deep slinky, sonorous Jah Wobble’s like bass grooves, and swirls of strident resonances and clattering blows.

West Coast industrial /distorted hardware electro wizard and The New U.S. Government label head Michael Padgett, aka Ole Mic Odd “Body” off upcoming V/A – “Northern Nightmares IV” tape compilation [Up North Records]

Pulsing through hypnotic and obsessive rhythmic patterns, menacing gritty churning basslines, creepy synths flutters, and droning squalls, the West Coast hardware wizard conjures up twisted electro-esque grooves and haunting industrial-bent dystopic atmospheres.

Hamburg ambient /percussive /cosmic /kraut /leftfield /electro-acoustic band of Thomas Korf (electronics + vocals), Sebastian Kokus (Bass) and Manuel Chitka (Percussion), Love-Songs “Ein Hamburger Hund” from the upcoming cassette album “Passive Progressive” [Phase Group]

A hypnotizing meandering iteration of swayed crisp percussive grooves, vivid and tinny electroacoustic frequencies, eerie synthetic abstractions and enigmatic lilting Teutonic spoken words, envelops in a seductive mesmeric spiral to get lost in.

Hyogo, Japan-based ambient /field recordings /piano artist Masakatsu Takagi “Marginalia #176”
Montreal, Québec ambient /modern classical /analog electronic project of composer, orchestrator and musician Mathieu David Gagnon, Flore Laurentienne “Les oies III” [Secret City Records]
Tokyo, Japan ambient /drone /tape loops sound artist Pallette – “Here and Now” from the album “Everyone Is An Island” [Lontano Series / rohs! records]
Portland, OR-based Canadian–American ambient /ethereal /electroacoustic /electronic musician (one half of husband-wife duo Mint Julep), Hollie Kenniff “Amare (feat. Helios)” single [Nettwerk]
Fernie, Canada ambient /drone /field recordings /synth /electronica producer Trees Can Talk “Notes From A Distant City” single
Swedish ambient /drone /field recordings /soundscape /cinematic electronic composer & producer Niclas Lundqvist, aka LUNIQ. “Sirimiri” from the new EP “Tranquility Moments” [Echoes in the Valley]
Ambient /field recordings /modular synth /electronic solo project of Tokyo-based experimental artist Gen Yamada, aka Mindflower “Layered plastic” from “Flotsam” album (based on musical experiences and life in Perth, Australia) [Burnt Seed Records]
Quebec, Canada ambient /drone /meditation /atmospheric /field recordings /electronic sound artist Mathieu Lamontagne, aka Arbee “Dans une ruelle, suite (Norvik & Arbee)” from the upcoming album “Coalescence” [Imaginary North]
London-based, Scotland-born ambient /modern classical /electronic artist Erland Cooper “Haar over Hamnavoe – Bill Ryder-Jones Rework” from “Holm (Variations & B-sides)” compilation album
New York-based ambient /modern classical /experimental improvised cellist Kirin McElwain “Desiderate” 30th release for the Mystery Circles Singles Series [Mystery Circles]
London-based ambient experimental electronic multi-instrumentalist Oliver Richards, aka Please Close Your Eyes “Nibiru” from “Nibiru / Heaven On The Fourth Floor” single [Mortality Tables]
Berlin, Germany ambient /drone /space music /soundscapes /instrumental rock /post-rock trio AUSKLANG “Pulsar” from the sophomore album “Kairos” [Past Inside the Present]
UK /US transatlantic postal collaboration between hauntological mischief-maker Drew Mulholland, and baroque psych-horror savant Timmi Meskers (Garden Gate), Drew Mulholland & Garden Gate “Will-o-the-wisp” from the vinyl 12″ album “Night Blooming Flowers” [Subexotic Records]
England, UK ambient /drone /hauntology /cosmic horror /soundscape /modular electronic artist Giants of Discovery “Bruna’s Stronghold (brunburg)” from the CD album “Two Arrow Falls (From Chester City Walls)” [Woodford Halse]
Scotland ambient /drone /abstract /downtempo /soundscape /minimalistic elusive female instrumental electronica musician Veryan “Grasp The Sparrow’s Tail” from the CD album “One Universal Breath” [quiet details]
Wales, UK ambient /minimalism /avant-garde /experimental /analog synth electronics project of Paul Brookes and Matthew Beckingham, aka Maes Y Circles – “Oereacet” from the cassette S/T album [GOTO Records]
Berlin-based ambient /dreamy /psych /downtempo electronic producer Der Opium Queen – “Extra Wet” off upcoming V/A “Orsova” compilation album [12th Isle]
Seoul, South Korea ambient /ethereal /Balearic /house /progressive /downtempo /electronic producer Cosmo – “Misty Memories” off “JIN 09” EP [JIN Records]
London, UK chillout /Balearic /indie dance /breaks /eclectic producer Framewerk “Inamorata (Framewerk Poolside Rewerk)” from “The Poolside Selection Part Three” album
Knoxville, Tennessee IDM /chillwave /breaks /indietronica /electronica producer Qualtagh “Ciardi (Essential Symbols)” from “Essential Symbols” EP
Russian acid /experimental /psych /leftfield /disco /house /electronic duo of brothers Sasha & Sergey Lipsky aka Simple Symmetry “I Must Not Fear (Iñigo Vontier Mix)” from “Sorry! We Did Something Different (Remixes Part 2)” EP 12″ [Calypso Mexico]
Paris-based ambient /dub /techno /deep /Afro house analog synth producer and keyboardist Jean-Phi Dary, aka MIND “For Peace I:Cube En Direct Remix” from “For Peace Remixes” EP [Comet Records]
London, UK bass /leftfield /minimal /techno /downtempo producer Big Hands “Girde Maye / Astere (Notte Infinita remix)” from “Girde Maye / Astere remixes” EP 12″ (originally released on the 2021 ‘Ossario’ EP) [Blank Mind]
UK-based ambient /IDM /electro /techno /electronic musician Oli Love, aka Lovetrip “Soft Touch” from V/A “Heiladans ܠ” CD album [Móatún 7]
Amsterdam-based ambient /IDM /glitch /dub /techno producer Tensen Park “Dub Doob” from “Jurassimo” EP [Never Late]
Brussels IDM /glitch /experimental electronic duo SUUMHOW “D” from upcoming 5th LP “5ILTH” [n5MD]
Berlin-based, Dresden-bred ambient /IDM /breaks /electro /experimental producer, Crux Axul label co-owner & sound designer Florian Sankt (aka Shō), aka Sankt “Underglow” from “Canopy Drift” album [Crux Axul]
Brighton, UK based experienced experimental techno musician and Mille Plateaux label affiliated, Ibrahim Alfa Jnr, aka Alfa Electronics “858W0GA” from the album “CENTAURI” [ÊT/RE]
Swedish electro producer from Stockholm, Maschine Brennt “It’s More Fun to Compute Home Computer” (Kraftwerk cover)
Mexico City bass /electro producer Undefined Pattern “WRMW” from “Mexican Latin Electro” EP [Posse Up!]
Russian ambient /acid /breaks /electro producer Ruksby “Open Yo Mind” from V/A “I” first compilation album [traxual]
Russian electro /2-step /UK bass producer Wasta “Takewon” [System 108]
Amsterdam-based Dutch ambient /IDM /breaks /electro artist Stefan Vincent “Yonghegong Lama Temple Exit F” from “Post Melancholy” LP [MUSAR]
Paris-based industrial /hip-hop /breaks /disco /electro /eclectic electronic duo of Jeff Lasson (of Get A Room) and Gaëtan Rossi, aka Youkounkoun “Studio Brussels” from V/A “EDF (Electronique De France)” compilation album [Les Yeux Orange]
Italian noise /experimental /electronic brothers Francesco and Marco Leoci (part of the post-jackin’beats duo FLML and founders of the label Alley Version), aka Flaming Jesus Dial-Up – “$leazy Dawn” title track of the upcoming cassette album “$leazy Dawn” [SONS OF TRADERS RECORDS]
Tunis Arabic/bass /breaks /percussive /techno producer kvadosh “Infernar (Dove Molotov Remix)” from “Quad” EP [MRAMA DIVISION]
Athens, Georgia ambient /industrial /noise /percussive /dub techno producer Marcel Sletten “Waterfront” from the fourth album “Heather and Birch” [Primordial Void]
London-based Italian percussive /experimental /deep techno duo Tapefeed “Surge Of Hope” from the split “Dual Dimensions” split EP 12″ with Fides label head Z.I.P.P.O [Fides Records]
French industrial /techno /dark electronics producer UVB aka Elements of Joy – “Dopamine (Sawf Remix)” off V/A “DIVIDE & RULE REMIXES” EP 12″ [Pi Electronics]
Canada/Morocco ritual /experimental /dark ambient /industrial techno DJ-producer Hedon “Sacred Emission” from “鬼面 : VA 02” compilation [GWI MYEON RECORDS]
US industrial techno /EBM producer Raven Reiko, aka No Display “Killed in Sight”
Chicago-based Industrial /EBM /Techno Body Music /Dark Electro Puerto Rican producer La Sanguijuela “Aislamiento Psicótico” from the EP “Flesh Simulator” [HorrorShow]
Colombia EBM /cold wave /industrial DJ-producer Magnum Opus – “Scythe“ off upcoming “Area Zero” EP [Mosaique Records]
London, UK industrial /EBM /techno producer EVIL DUST “Confessions of a Mask” from V/A “THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN YOU AND A REFUGEE IS PURE LUCK VOL.2” fundraising compilation [AGRESSIVE(S)]
São Paulo, Brazil EBM /80s electronics /synthwave /techno producer Sombra Vampiforme “Movement Bias”
Greek acid /indie dance /house /techno /dark disco producer MayDay – “VGTXM” title track of “VGTXM” EP [Nein Records]
Tokyo-based psych anarcho disco duo of DISKO KLUBB boss Monkey Timers and Keita Sano, aka GǼG “Merpa” from “Anarcho Disco Volume 1” EP [Optimo Music]
Madrid-based acid /EBM /house /house /Italo artist and DJ Rey Morales, aka Sounds Of Porn – “Porno Vintage (Skelesys Remix)” off debut EP “Dame Duro” [Ghosting Corporation]
Vienna/Barcelona techno /psych /indie dance production duo Nick Hanzo and Ludviq “Ace of Pentacles (Original Mix)” off “Ace of Pentacles” EP [Povilno Records]
Guadalajara, Mexico ambient /world /Middle East /experimental /indie dance /psych /dark disco /electronic producer Fargo Devianti with Viennese Belly Dance Services label boss Hanzo, aka Fargo Devianti, Nick Hanzo “The Green Pit” from Fargo Devianti‘s “Superenhölder” EP [Belly Dance Services]
Ukrainian electro /synth wave /slow leftfield techno producer and Vyrii Records head, Andrey Sirotkin (feat. Pyrame) – ” Untouchable (A-Tweed & Oltrefuturo Remix)” single EP [THISBE Recordings]
Madrid, Spain trippy /percussive /indie dance producer Azaria – “Bent As Fuck” off V/A “The Sky Sampler 04” EP [Espacio CIELO]
Mexican nu disco /indie dance producer Juan Soto “The Map (Rigopolar Remix)” from the “Tandem” series EP [Born In Mexico]
Brian Ring – “Big Town Boy Small City Dreams (Bangkok Impact Remix)” from the remix EP 12″ (originally released in 2018 on Amsterdam’s ‘XXX The Label’) [Clutching at Straws]
Ukrainian EBM /trance /progressive /Italo disco production duo Vladyslav Putistin & Lvcerate – “Dancing Sirens” from the second EP “Does it still hurt?” [Emerald & Doreen]
Hamburg-based Neo Italo Disco /Indie Dance /Rave /Italo Trance duo Bizzarro Universe — “Galaxis 4000 (Original Mix)” off “Galaxis 4000” EP [Mélopée Records]
Guadalajara, Mexico cosmic dark disco /indie dance collaboration Los Fugazzi & Lusca – “NNT” from the upcoming V/A “Battle Tools Vol. 2” compilation [INNISFALLEN RECORDS]
2000 hit single by French house duo Modjo – “Lady (Cosmic Ocean Remix)”
Hamburg, Germany Balearic /Italo /house /synth wave producer TENSNAKE “Track ID”
Jakarta, Indonesia/Manchester, UK Italo space disco production duo, Bayu Putra & Massey – “Anila Dancer” off “The Experience Of Space” EP [Sprechen]
Danish Italo disco /synth-pop singer/songwriter Allan Levin Malling, aka Lucca Leeloo “Sometimes You Make Me Happy” third single taken from the forthcoming Italoconnection produced album “SAKAMOTO”
Manchester, UK breaks garage house electronic music project by DJ-producer Abigail Ward, aka Ghoßt Assembly “I Miss Your Love (Club Mix)” from “I Miss Your Love – the remixes” EP 12″ [Ruf Kutz]
“Spaceman (Alvaro Cabana Re-work)” progressive house trance rework of 1996 Babylon Zoo Indie classic [Rotten City Edits]
The Stone Roses “She Bangs The Drums” slowed down cover of 1989 Madchester classic by Wolverhampton, UK nu-disco producer Will Perry (aka Peza)
1980 Yugoslavia Zdravko Colic pop classic “Pusti, pusti” (Ilya Santana re-work)
“Germany Edit” from upcoming album “Alien Edits VOL II” by Mexico City-based indie dance /trance /psych /acid house Argentinian alien DJ-producer and Calypso Records co-head, Thomass Jackson
1985 Italo Disco classic Yvonne Koomen – “Last Night (Cap’ You Love Me Too Edit)” [Ahoy – Captain’ Edits]
Sabrina Carpenter – “Taste (Cooper Saver bootleg disco mix)”
French ambient /IDM /experimental /electronica producer Mint Deluxe “Dembient” from “Esplanade” LP [Neotantra]
UK ambient /drone /experimental electronic collaboration between musician and recording artists Lee Norris and Malaga-based Craig Murphy, Nacht Plank & Solipsism “Escape Point” from the album “The Cerenarian Sea” [Fantasy Enhancing]
Auckland, NZ ambient /soundscape /experimental electronic sound artist Mike Hodgson (from Pitch Black), Misled Convoy “The Garden of Arborea” (Volume 03 of long-form Black Mountain Transmission series)
Austin, TX ambient /drone /kosmische /psychedelic /nature /experimental /electronic project of Neil Lord, Future Museums “Aviary Key” from long-form cassette album “Born Organic Vol. 1” [Aural Canyon]
UK ambient/modular/synth/electronic producer State Azure “Artemis Station” long-form album
California veteran ambient /experimental modular synth electronic music artist Robert Rich “Long Tail of the Quiet Gong” recorded in January 2024 for the HypnoCampus experiment
Regensburg-based, German ambient /drone /electronic producer Markus Guentner “Trilogy Mix” long-form mix [A Strangely Isolated Place]