Weekly Electronic Music Tips #36
Uncommon Places by Stephen Shore (1973-79)
PICKS OF THE WEEK:
- What Goes Up? | RIOT CODE
Bouncing and hard-hitting techno bangers, harsh sleazy electro, twisted jungle, dopey Jamaican inflexions, ravey, ghetto-tech and acid house undertones, all of this and much more in the absolute ‘take no prisoners’ 50 minutes set from the Irish duo Riot Code, perfect to start the week with an outburst of unabated adrenaline-fueled energy.
- Lyon, France electro/new wave/synth wave/electronic producer S T R K T U R – “Mémoires” from the new album “Hors Série”.
Lyon producer delivers a new EP of mechanical cold synth wave with at least 4 episodes worth of attention, through pulsing and bouncing hypnotic rhythms unfurl in treacherous bassline’s erratic pull awash by icy/warm ominously enshrouding synth expansions, glowing around deep minimal vocalizations glitching hypnotic echoes into synthetic dancing prowess.
- Italian/South Korea Italo disco/cosmic/electronic collaboration, Daniel Monaco & Shubostar – “Disco Star Machine (Freudenthal Remix)” from upcoming “Lone Comet” EP on Wonder Stories
Dope as usual trance-inducing cosmic remix by Berlin-based Feinstoff label head Freudenthal of Daniel Monaco & Shubostar track, with those chillingly heart-racing “Blue Monday” rhythmic echoes that trip up high energy and mischievous moods scurring along prowling bass line trickery, cut with thunderous disruptive beats revolving around sparkling and fluttering effects with icy bright synth notes, piercing the spacey glowing glaciers into retro-futuristic dance grooves.
- Rennes, France Italo/cosmic disco/electronic producer BLAISE BALDA “Moon Quest (Original Mix)” from upcoming “Color Square” EP on Paradiso Records
Brilliant cosmic Italo-tinged mesmeric disco from Breton producer Blaise Balda with mellow hypnotic waves of punchy beats, rattles, and claps cut groovy body rhythms, lit with bright spacey synth swirls awakening into a glowing flutter, as low pulses crawl with bassline treason, amid airy entrancing vocalizations brimming with summery dancefloor dreams.
- Berlin-based Italian-born female synthesist and composer EVA GEIST “The Rose” title track from the EP “The Rose” on Hivern Discs
- Bologna-based, Italian singer-songwriter and experimental industrial/techno/electronic producer, originally from Ravenna, Tullia Benedicta – “Snake Fever” from upcoming cassette album “Erratic Dancers” on SOIL
- Madison witch house/neo-classical/post-industrial/dark electronic project SØLVE “SVNT LACRIMÆ RERVM” new single
- Oakland, Ca experimental noise/industrial/glitch/electronic producer MALARKI “Divergence” off “X7e4” EP on Errorgrid
- Berlin-based dark ambient/breakcore/gothic jungle/experimental musician Christoph De Babalon, “No Man’s Land” from “Recurring Horrors” album on A Colourful Storm
- American/Lithuanian experimental/electro/synth wave/brutal pop duo of Matt Weiner (TWINS and Pyramid) and Ernestas Sadau, FREE RANGE “Thunder God” from upcoming second album “Camry Horses” on Osàre! Editions
- Dutch industrial /dark electro wave artist Sophie Hütten aka “Vrouwe Fataal”, aka Sophie du Palais “Trance The Vogue” from upcoming V/A “Currents II” compilation series on Power Station
- New York-based industrial/EBM/electro DJ/artist R GAMBLE “Disrupted” from new EP “Sever The Ties” on Public System Recordings
- Krakow-based acid/electro/psych/electronic producer Olivia “Dancing Snake” from upcoming EP “Dancing Snake” on Pinkman
- Berlin, Germany EBM /industrial /electronic duo SCHWEFELGELB “Der Klang Der Trommel” from the upcoming EP “Der Puls Durch Die Schläfen” on their new own label n-PLEX
- Berlin-based Australian musician and Fleisch collective co-founder/resident and former Ascetic: Saxon Jørgensen, HALV DRØM “Powders & Dust” from the debut “Slum Vatic” album on Fleisch
- Australian EBM/industrial techno producer based on Gadigal Land, Black Dahlia – “Self S’Abattoir” from V/A “Solid State Drive” [DSSSD01] on Deep Scan
- Athens, Greece experimental/post-punk/EBM/dark techno producer/DJ and part of the Negative Sciences collective, Bill Drosos, aka Re/Act “We Don’t Give A Shit” off V/A “”Our Soul Set Sail” on Negative Sciences Label
- The Hague based wave/dark electro-disco dj-producer, soundtrack composer and co-owner of Giallo Disco Records, Antoni Maiovvi under his moniker YE GODS “Prayer” from the album “Dumah” on L.I.E.S. Records
- Berlin-based industrial dark power electronics project of Greek producer and Liber Null Berlin founder Manos Simotas aka UNHUMAN “Plastic Sky, Hands Above” from the EP “Voices of Distress” on BITE
- Los Angeles-based industrial techno producer and label head Walter Nasi Burciaga (Spheres), SULLEN FATE “Wailing Floor (Original Mix)” from upcoming EP “We Fade” on RND. Records
- Manchester’s experimental industrial techno producer Kander “Falsehood” from “Your Job Is To Make Art” cassette EP on Instruments Of Discipline
- Swedish industrial/electronic/EBM solo project of Anders Karlsson, Celldöd “En Iskall Omfamning” off upcoming Split EP “Lake Haze / Celldöd – Acid Avengers 016″ series on Tripalium Records
- Industrial techno project Infernal Archives “Shadow Of Carnage (Raw Ambassador Rework)” of upcoming album “Eternal affliction” on Diffuse Reality
- London, UK industrial/acid/noise/techno ROMMEK “Cabin Pressure ft. Aimée Mullen” from “Break The Tension” EP on Leyla Records
- Colombian industrial techno/EBM duo Alpha & Necromante “Death & Dishonor” from V/A “Dystopia in Action” 12″ vinyl compilation on X-IMG
- Paris-based industrial/EBM/breakbeat/electro/darkwave electronic producer DECEMBER “A Hundred Years Without You” title track from the upcoming EP “A Hundred Years Without You” on VEYL
- Amsterdam-based EBM/post-punk/electro/techno/dark electronics project of Italian producer Mauro Rizla, aka Unpronounceable – “Who Were Those People” off upcoming V/A S.M. Presents “Various: Danzas Electricas Vol. lll” on Macadam Mambo
- Wroclaw, Poland IDM/techno/industrial project of Maciek Frett of Job Karma and 7jk, FRETT “Two Cups” from the LP “the world as a hologram” on Ant-Zen
- London, UK experimental/soundtrack/industrial/electronic project of producer, composer, musician and performer (founder member of KnifeLadder and Black Light Ascension, AntiValium, This Is Radio Silence and Naevus collaborator) Hunter Barr, a.k.a. Oblivion Guest “Tomorrow Has a Flaw” from the upcoming LP “The Emptiness That Filled the Universe”
- Milan-based post-punk/body music/dark electronics/techno duo of Marguerite Records label founders Alter D and Codeless, aka Bianco Negativo “You Can Get Out” off upcoming V/A “VA:101 DIA // ASKR” debut compilation on Glasgow’s Lunacy
- Spanish industrial techno/EBM producer and Soil Records head, SOJ “Butter to Death (Unconscious remix)” from upcoming cassette album “Land of Lovers and Hammers” on Infidel Bodies
- Argentinian industrial/noise/techno producer Ornella Banchero, aka Kamé – “Die” off debut cassette album “Bleeding Out Shadows Of The Past” on Knife Records
- Spanish industrial techno producer EGOTIK “Confusion” from “La Noche Oscura Del Alma” EP on INSANE INDUSTRY
- Toulouse based French/Lebanese industrial electronic techno producer Psaum, aka Arabian Panther النمر العربي “The Faceless Warrior” from upcoming “The Way of the Penitent” vinyl 12″ EP on SOIL
- Miami, FL post-trap/vaporwave/synthwave producer Hibachi Kid “You Know They’re All On To You” from the album “Radiation Mutation”
- Malmö, Sweden based industrial/hard techno Eindhoven-born producer Don Woezik “War Dance” on Gomboc Records
- Kosovo experimental industrial techno producer Ardit Hoxha, aka XVIII – “Gorsad Kiev” from V/A “Beauty and Terror” EP on LXVIII label
- Industrial techno alias of the Greek Berlin-based artist Angelos Liaros-Copola, aka BLAKK HARBOR “Fatal Addictions” from the upcoming LP “A Modern Dialect”
- Hong Kong acid techno producer Mr. Ho – ‘O$P$’ from Split EP ‘Fast & Furious’ with Luca Lozano on Klasse Wrecks
- Sidney, Australia cosmic electro producer Assembler Code “All This Energy” from V/A “International Chromies Vol. 3” EP on International Chrome
- Tayport/Dundee, UK hardcore/bass/ghetto-techno/electro producer (aka 3-Phase), YTP – “AIMING FOR THE SEROTONIN” off upcoming V/A r.r.r presents – “4 THA PPL CHARITY” charity compilation for Yemen on Melbourne’s Red Room Recordings
- Barcelona bass/breakbeat/dark electro duo Vema Diodes – “Dialecto Perfiferico” from the upcoming Split EP with The Bandit on Util Records
- Berlin-based techno/electro Irish producer Maurice Anthony Moran – “Deep Sea Tangle” off V/A “Complex Contrast” on Yin Yang Label
- Glasgow-based experimental electro producer Galaxian “Depth Dimension” off upcoming V/A ‘’Depth Dimension” the 50th release of 5th year of Natural Sciences label
- Berlin-based EBM/acid/dark electro Barcelona‘s producer 4Cantons – “La Faraona” from the 12″ EP “Principi d’incertesa” out soon on Gooiland Elektro/Enfant Terrible
- Gary Numan – “Films (Volta Cab‘s Reshape)”
- Arthur Johnson – “Perfect Stranger (Cosmo Vitelli Instrumental Remix)”
- Buenos Aires acid/electro/house/techno duo Carisma – “En Tus Sueños (Cornelius Doctor Can’t Sleep Remix)” off upcoming “Escenas Remixadas” on Amplio Espectro
- Strasbourg‘s acid/psych/electro/techno DJ/producer and co-founder of Bande Magnétique label, ITAKO “Impenetrable Gatherin'” off upcoming V/A “VA:101 DIA // ASKR” debut compilation on Glasgow’s Lunacy
- Glaswegian leftfield/psych/cosmic slow techno DJ/producer and Phase Group label head, MR TC “La Serre” off upcoming V/A “Label Sampler One” on Sonorous Chamber
- French Middle-Eastern disco/electronic dub producer Unouzbeck “Kefta” from upcoming “HUMUS PER TUTTI vol. 1” EP on Illuminé Disco
- Russian industrial/dub/tribalistic artist Dmitry Nekrotkov, aka Yssue – “Lust” from the upcoming EP “Naturalist” on KUMP
- San Francisco-based tribal/hypnotic techno/electronic artist, writer, and community organizer (Left Hand Path label head), NIHAR “Rumble” from upcoming 2-tracker “RUMBLE / VERMILLION GARDEN” on Psychic Liberation
- Bristol, UK experimental/minimalist drum & bass/breakbeat/electronic producer Kristian Jabs aka Pessimist “Ridge Racer Revolution” from “Atyeo” EP on Ilian Tape
- England, UK experimental electronic artist/producer WILL FLISK “The Oscillator.”
- Experimental electronic supergroup of master synthesists Colin Potter (NWW), Alessio Natalizia (Not Waving), and Guido Zen (Vactrol Park, Brain Machine), Potter Natalizia Zen – “Ancora” from the album “Magari” on Ecstatic
- Copenhagen-based experimental synth /old school industrial and ambient duo of Flemming Kaspersen (aka Delayscape) and Niels Rønne (Of The Wand And The Moon) aka Heinz Beauvaix “Pumping Ion” (unreleased)
- Japanese brainwave / ambient music unit consisting of composer Wataru Iwata, sound programmer Akimasa Yamada, and programmer Hironobu Nakamura, aka INTRINSIC “Mono Chaotic” from the album “Think With No Words” on Detroit Underground
- New Zealand hardware techno/dark ambient producer from Palmerston North, Synthetic Childrean “Forgiven – Two ft. Bambin” from the upcoming album “Oneirism”
- Danish experimental/ambient/drone/electronic producers (aka Rosen & Spyddet), Olympisk Løft – “Vandbæreren” from V/A “The Moon Draws The Ravenous Sea” cassette compilation on Janushoved
- Canadian experimental/ambient/field recordings/drone collaboration between artists Automatisme (William Jourdain) and Thisquietarmy (Eric Quach), Automatisme ft. Thisquietarmy “Station 1 (Thisquietarmy Remix)” from “Station Vol. 2” album on Fallen Moon Recordings
Uncommon Places by Stephen Shore (1973-79)
