Weekly Electronic Music Tips // SEPTEMBER 2025 #34-25
PICKS OF THE WEEK:
- Bi-ßobat – TΞN
Tehran-based underground DJ Bi-ßobat has dropped his ‘ten’ trance-inducing electro-driven journey through the seamless juxtaposition and interlacing of dark and intense sounds with melancholic and emotionally charged melodies. Let your imagination run free…
- London-based rave /acid /old school breaks /electro music production duo and core members of the Tone DropOut collective, Oki Noki (Danny Beck) and Sween (Steve McSweeney), aka THE HE-MEN – “Chicken” from V/A “Tone DropOut Vol 12” EP [Tone DropOut]
Essential part of the Tone DropOut collective, UK pair channels 90s UK old school acid house halcyon days magic through the relentless high energy of wicked blistering chopped-up breaks, bouncy bass grooves and twisted levels of acid-soaked off-kilter effect-laden synth frequencies, infiltrated by brazen, maniacal movie voice clips, to build a strange dance-compelling mood of rave nostalgia and careless abandon.
- Glasgow, Scotland ambient /drone /hypnotic /dub /deep techno producer Fernie “Switha (Original Mix)” from upcoming “Somatic” EP [Aurora Mística Records]
Meticulously refined, heartfelt Dub-laced Pep Techno electronica from the Glaswegian producer. An enveloping, exciting sensorial vortex that unfolds into pulsing and swaying, hazy, hypnotic warm pads, laced with subtly metallic and droning streaks, punctuated by sharp, bouncy pinpoint kick patterns, in which to immerse oneself and be lulled by its all-encompassing, mesmerizing motion.
- Bruxelles ambient /cinematic /leftfield /downtempo /ethno-shamanic-tribal young brother duo Hun Hun “Horizon Drift” from the upcoming LP “Frantic Flow Of The Gong” [Macadam Mambo]
An alluring, infectious, vivid sonic kaleidoscope, emphasized by the mesmeric ritual mid-tempo pace of crisp tribal percussive patterns and stirring moody swirls of cinematic synth melodies and cool ephemeral swathes, suffused with mysterious Middle Eastern and Asian vocal echoes, to evoke a thought-provoking intersection between spellbinding arcane suggestions and modern electronica.
- Manchester, UK ambient /drone /tape loop /experimental electronic musician Craig Tattersall (aka The Archivist, former member of The Hood and The Boats co-founder, 1/2 of The Seaman And The Tattered Sail), The Humble Bee “10.01.2010” from the remastered double vinyl reissue of the 2010 CDr album “Morning Music” originally released on his own label Cotton Goods [Dauw]
- Wurzburg, Germany experimental /abstract /ambient folk project of Christian Schoppik (half of the experimental dark folk duo Brannten Schnüre) featuring Vienna artist Jota Solo (Nový Svět), aka Läuten der Seele “Wir Zwei Allein” from the upcoming album “Unterhaltungen mit Larven und Überresten” [World of Echo]
- Germany dark glacial ambient /drone /ritual /field recordings /dark electronics project Apoptose “Dunkel, fast Nacht” from the album “Die Zeit und die Dunkelheit”
- Norfolk-native, British neo-classical /experimental folk composer and improvising recorder player and violinist Laura Cannell “In Visible Light” from “THE VISIBLE LIGHT OF OTHER WORLDS” LP [Brawl Records]
- London, UK ambient /drone /soundscapes /atmospheric /chillout /modular synth sound artist Still Fades “Bathed In A Sea Of Vibrant Colours” from the upcoming cassette album “Oceans Above And Skies Below” [SoundGhost]
- Matsumoto, Japan-based ambient /drone /field recordings /electronic sound artist (aka Longswarm), Darren McClure – “Flow” off of V/A “Elemental Studies” CD album [Carpe Sonum Records]
- France/US experimental /drone /ambient collaboration between Parisian artist Théo Martin and Richmond native Virginia Aveline, aka Thme & Virginia Aveline “Seraphim Fall” from “Diving Wounds” album [VAAGNER]
- Copenhagen, Danish ambient electronic collage artist and musician Paw Grabowski, aka øjeRum “Havet I Brystet Sover” from the upcoming LP “Ensomheden Vi Deler” [IIKKI]
- Brighton, UK/Toronto, ON field recordings /drone /guitar-ambient project of Home Normal label head Ian Hawgood and Polar Seas Recordings curator Brad Deschamps (Anthéne), aka Rosales “No return” from the album “To Live” LP [Home Normal]
- Dallas, TX ambient /drone /cinematic /soundscapes /guitar /electronic project of Todd Gautreau, aka Tapes and Topographies “Partials” from the upcoming album “Partial Holograms” [whitelabrecs]
- Kyoto, Japan-based ambient /classical /piano musician & film composer, Teruyuki Nobuchika “Cascade” from the upcoming 5th album “SUONO” [NATURE BLISS]
- Portland-based ambient /minimal /micro-rhythmic /IDM /experimental electronic sound artist Tim Westcott, aka WNDFRM “WVLT 021” from upcoming LP “WVLT” [A Strangely Isolated Place]
- UK lo-fi /ambient /minimal /experimental /crepuscular bedroom electronica project of Perry McDonagh (Geneva Drive / Avrocar), aka Defender Waves “Solar Luca” from the collection album “Inner Saga” [Plenty Wenlock Records]
- Cumbria, UK, hauntology /electronica project of musician and producer Jonathan Sharp (New Mind, Bio-Tek, The Heartwood Institute), Carlisle City Council “Botchergate” from “Gateways To The City” EP
- Sweden ambient /ethereal /trance /experimental pop artist Merely “you’re the same ★ you used to be” from “Merely Archives – Edits Vol. 5” LP
- UK ambient /chillout /electronic music producer and Captured Visions co-creator, Tom Parker, aka Barefoot “Unseen Objects” off “Unseen Objects” EP [Captured Visions]
- Mid-90’s/early 2000’s, Ambient /Leftfield-Trippy-Goa music alias of French musician Erick ‘ADN’ Ckrystall’, Dr. Strange “Longooo” from the upcoming retrospective CD album “Animorphisationismagories” LP [Macadam Mambo]
- Dresden, Germany ambient /IDM /cold /experimental /techno producer Kilian Ritter, aka KAOS – “Tiefseespirale (Irpat Remix)” off “Frigus Models” EP [Signal Weltfunk]
- Norway ambient /hypnotic /deep techno producer GSSG “Abandoned Meridian (Fernie Remix)” from “Mote Of Dust” EP [Indefinite Pitch]
- Italian ambient /downtempo /deep techno producer Marco Ferrantelli – “Mago Bianco (WSMN Remix)” off of “Mago Bianco” EP [Circular Limited]
- Barcelona ambient/ hypnotic /deep techno producer Droneghost “Dream Logic” from “Stream Ritual EP [Affin]
- Paris-based ambient /psychedelic /hypnotic /deep techno producer BLNDR – “Dictyocha” from upcoming “Radiolaria” EP [Hypnus Records]
- Lyon, France ambient /psych /organic /abstract /tribal /deep techno producer Nawl – “Nocturnal Squall (Martin Nonstatic Remix)” off “Nocturnal Squall” EP [Melifera Records]
- Belgian ambient /mental /breaks /minimal /dub /deep techno DJ-producer Baptiste Langlois aka OTON – “United” from “New Forms of Silence 2” EP [ALLIANCE]
- Leeds, UK ambient /trance /breaks /prog /deep /techno /electronic producer Adam Pits – “Taurus” from “Taurus” EP [murmurs]
- Berlin-based ambient /moody /dark deep techno DJ-producer John Darque “Fringe Voices” from “Birdsong” EP [Anodynic Frequencies]
- Birmingham, UK ambient /trance /psych /experimental /techno /electronica solo project of producer and musician Stuart Lee Tovey (of duo Matters), House Cloud “The Garden” from the debut EP “Kites”
- Moscow-based experimental /dark ambient /field recordings /dub /hypnotic /minimal /electronic /deep techno producer-live producer Toki Fuko – “Port Del Compte” off “Reflection Code” EP [Annulled Music]
- Warsaw-based, Ukrainian ambient /percussive /psych /hypnotic /deep techno artist Space Biology “Midas” from “Midas” EP [Sure Thing]
- Bristol, UK-based electro /breaks /electronica producer Zobol “Uprising” off “Killing Culture” EP [Melodize]
- Brussels, Belgium deep electronica /breaks /indie dance /electro /downtempo producer DAVID GARCET “Merci Minou”
- Tampa, Florida/Montreal, Quebec /Lisbon, Portugal ambient /chillhop /hip-hop /chillbeats /electronic collaboration, Smith Beats & Arbee & Banks “Lights out” single
- Hungarian acid /Balearic disco /space house /deep prog /downtempo electronica producer Bálint Forgács, aka BAL5000 “Untitled Acid” from “The Lake” EP [Citizens Of Vice]
- Paris-based, German kraut /tribal /psych /leftfield /downtempo /experimental solo project by Kreidler member Detlef Weinrich (aka DJ Sport), aka Tolouse Low Trax “Amp” off upcoming “Series 33 Part One” EP by Jonquera / Tolouse Low Trax [Acid Trax]
- Athens-based, Greek producer Aggelos Baltas (Anatolian Weapons, Dream Weapons), Fantastikoi Hxoi‘s Electronica /Nu-Lounge edits of legendary Greek Cinematica “An Se Arnitho” from “Fantastikoi Hxoi presents Elpida” (limited 7″ vinyl) [Persephone Records]
- Berlin veteran rock ‘n’ roll /breaks /Anatolian /acid disco collective, Tegel Boys – “Fall In Line – Shahrokh Dini & Phil Rosplesch Remix”
- Bern, Swiss house /tribal /funky techno producer Samuel Geiser, aka Deetron presents Soulmate “Worlds Combine” from “Code” EP 12″ [Ilian Tape]
- London-based breakbeat /acid /electro producer Keith Tenniswood (Two Lone Swordsmen), aka Radioactive Man “See Above (Radioactiveman‘s See Below Remix)” from the upcoming “Jam Out The Mix” remix album
- Amsterdam ambient/abstract /experimental /trip-hop newcomer producer GATELESS – “Outer Rail” from the split album “glinted 01” by gab_i // GATELESS [glinted records]
- South West, England ambient /cinematic /jungle /drum & bass producer Seb Uncles, aka Eusebeia “Course Of Action” from “Journey To The Centre” EP [Auxiliary]
- German drum & bass /deep techno producer TORN “Sequoia’s Dream” off of “Eigengrau” EP
- Ambient /IDM /cyberpunk /breaks /electro-funk /electro producer from Hungary, MetaComplex “Ghost In The Code” single
- Amsterdam-based, Dutch futuristic Detroit techno /electro DJ-producer (aka Oortfunk), Aztronouth – “Detroiticon” off upcoming “NetherRealm” EP [Connectome Records]
- Icelandic acid /rave /breaks /electro ‘alien boogie commander’ (1/ 3 of 3Ddancer), Volruptus “Slump” from “Overload” EP [Crazed Behaviour]
- Leipzig, Germany sci-fi /electro funk producer and Cyber Domain label co-robot Hardenberg “Human all too human (The Droid Rewire)” from Static System x Hardenberg‘s split “Sage for the Soul” EP [Cyber Domain]
- Zagreb, Croatian electro funk DJ-producer and co-founder of Crobot Muzik, DJ Xed – “Don’t Stop” from V/A “CAREBOT$ The Second Mission (for Medical Aid for Palestinians & Gaza Soup Kitchen)” charity compilation [Bass Agenda Recordings]
- Dutch breaks /electro producer (AKA Model Man) and RotterHague Records head, DJ OVERDOSE – “Electro Owes Me Money” from V/A “MCRHEATVA001” compilation LP [mind controlled rectifier]
- Parisian acid /techno /electro DJ-producer and Chateau Royal label co-founder, Gal Perez, aka PRZ “Domestix” from “Beyond the Void” EP [Mechatronica]
- Amsterdam-based acid /wave /techno /electro DJ-producer Wessel Janssen, aka The Spy – “Falling” from the split EP “DDS10” by Anatolian Weapons / The Spy [Dalmata Daniel]
- Gent, Belgian dark ambient /ritual /post-industrial /tribal duo of Gwenn Trémorin and Nicolas Van Meirhaeghe (Flint Glass, Empusae and Sal-Ocin), aka Tzolk’in “Xak’ab Ku” from “The Whispering Shadows” EP 10″ [SEALT]
- London-based dark psy /hypnotic /progressive techno /chillout producer (aka Discarnate), Hefty “Nothing More To Give” from “Dark Tek Chillout Volume 3” LP [Erebos Records]
- London, UK experimental /drone /industrial /noise /techno /dark electronic live duo of Rommek & Aimée Mullen, aka Torn Relics “Under The Rubble, There is Hope” from “Bleeding in Colour” LP [UNDER MY FEET.]
- Canadian cyberpunk /EBM /electro /industrial side project of Holon, Sylac “Enhanced Function But At What Cost” title track of the new LP “Enhanced Function But At What Cost” [Subatomic Audio]
- Spanish EBM /horror disco /synthwave /dark electro /techno DJ-producer from Bilbao, WLDV “Blood Ceremony” off “Blood Ceremony” EP
- Polish/French ritual industrial techno producers HATELOVE + OGMAH – “Hanged Bodies” from V/A “Ritual12” EP [OMEN Recordings]
- Switzerland-based, French industrial /EBM /electro /techno producer Terence Fixmer “Electrostatic 2025” from the remastered version of “Electrostatic 2025 / Electric Vision 2025″ EP 10″ (originally released on Gigolo Records in the late ’90s and early 2000s)
- Los Angeles-based EBM /industrial /noise /minimal electronics project of New York‘s producer David Christian (Cervello Elettronico), Damascus Knives “You Want Control” from the LP “The First Cuts” [Rustblade]
- German–Swiss industrial /EBM /new beat /synth-pop /electronic collaborative project between Berlin-based Sneaker and Zurich‘s Scannoir, aka BiGOTT “Magnet” from the upcoming EP [Reach Another System]
- UK-based EBM /new beat /electro /rave /industrial /post-punk project of French musician/DJ and producer Jerome Tcherneyan and Czech performance artist and DJ, Barkosina Hanusova, aka Years Of Denial “In Your Bed” off of the EP “Love Cuts” [VEYL]
- Bogotá, Colombia Italo /synthwave /electroclash /EBM producer Disco Radical “&Her” from “&HER” EP
- Dark electro /EBM /industrial techno producer METAKROSS “Cryogenic Dream” from V/A “OBERWAVE VOL. 7” compilation [Oberwave Records]
- British Columbia veteran industrial /EBM /electro /dark techno producer (Front Line Assembly, Delerium, and Conjure One), Rhys Fulber “The Abyss (feat. Qual)” from the 8th LP “Memory Impulse Autonomy” [Artoffact Records]
- Natal, Brazil EBM /cyberpunk /synthwave /dark electro producer Misanthropix “Electronic Body Count” from “Synthetic Sins” EP
- Moscow‘s EBM /electroclash /techno /electronic producer, singer-songwriter, DRIADA “Здесь / Here (Kasson Remix)” from “Иное / Alien (Remixes)” remix LP [Routine Records]
- Turin, Italian EBM /rave /industrial /dark techno /electronic producer MATTEO TURA “UNDER MY SKIN” from “7th FLOOR” EP
- Berlin-based dark disco /synth-wave live band of Local Suicide & Kalipo, aka Dina Summer “Halkidiki (Joyce Muniz Remix)” from “Girls Gang – Remixes Vol. 2” remix LP [Iptamenos Discos]
- Parisian electro /synth wave /psych /techno /dark disco duo Clinque Lacuna “Rock the train (Cogan remix)” “Who Can Revive The City? Remixes” EP [Friendsome Records]
- St. Petersburg/Augsburg acid /psych /house /trance /techno /indie dance collaboration, Radial Gaze & Dominik Marz – “Simple As You” off “We Can Feel It” EP [Duro]
- La Plata, Argentina dark disco /indie dance DJ-producer Cosmosolar “El Rarito (CYCLE Remix)” from “El Rarito” EP [Espacio CIELO]
- Berlin-native dark disco /trance /indie dance producer Nayan Soukie (one-half of house-combo Soukie & Windish), aka Amount “Acid Corridor” from “Zeroton” EP [Darkroom Dubs]
- UK deep house /dark Italo disco veteran twosome Dave K & Jon Pleased Wimmin – “Higher (JPW Poppers Mix)” off “Higher” EP [Sprechen]
- London-based 80s /wave /house /disco /electropop /indie dance musician, singer-songwriter, and live performer of Iranian origin, Amirali – “Closing Cadence” off “Closing Cadence” EP [Warung Recordings]
- Sylvester – “Rock The Box (Amarcord Edit)” (originally from 1984)
- UK dark ambient /drone /minimal /experimental project of guitarist Matt Ashton from The Leaf Library, aka The Form Group “Middle European Sun” from upcoming LP “Provincial Echo” [Wayside & Woodland Recordings]
- Ambient /drone /meditation /atmospheric /field recordings /sound textures /electronic sound artist Evgeny Bylina “Something of Mind Alone” from long-form 2-track cassette album “Accidental Meetings” [Florina Cassettes]
- Denmark ambient /drone /meditative /deep listening /electronic project of Kalle Christensen, aka Lauge “Lake Tahoe at Night” from the album “Reverie Drones”
- UK ambient /chillout /field recordings /organic /drone music duo and Home Normal label co-founders, duo Ian Hawgood and Ben Jones, aka sea + i “But decay” from the album “Pola” [Home Normal]
- Scotland-based ambient /field recordings /electroacoustic music sound artist Tui, aka o[rlawren] “Rhizomatic choreography (primitivistic touch)” from “The Intimate Overlap”, first of two simultaneous album releases [DRONARIVM / Fonodroom]
- Tokyo, Japan dark ambient /drone /electronic musician Takahiro Yorifuji, aka Hakobune – “Believed remains” [taâlem]
- Iranian dark ambient /drone /electroacoustic /noise /piano composer and musician Siavash Amini “Severed Like The Red Moon pt.2” from upcoming LP “Severed Like The Red Moon” [Room40]
- Dayton, OH ambient /drone /noise /experimental /psychedelic /electronic music producer Brian Grainger (aka Coppice Halifax, Limestone Ziggurat, Milieu), aka LSZ “Carving the Wall” long-form piece
