Weekly Electronic Music Tips // SEPTEMBER 2025 #36-25
PICKS OF THE WEEK:
- CHEZ DE MILO – Cartulis Podcast 068
Founder of Club Blanco, a party, label (listen to below), and platform, Bristol, UK-based Chez has spent years carving out his own distinct voice as a DJ and producer, known for weaving eclectic, psychedelic-tinged journeys through hypnotic grooves, cosmic rhythms and leftfield textures.
- Moscow acid /dub /psych /techno /leftfield house /downtempo producer Odopt “Shine” from “Wired” EP [Club Blanco]
“wired into the circuit, wired into the night”. A moody and spectral tensile strain of jingling crisp metallic percussive patterns and deeply bubbling and flickering low-end grooves, ripple and quiver across one another with an alluring and disturbing tightly wound edge, alongside mesmeric hoarse vocal obsessions, as you relentlessly descend deeper down a tightly wound rabbit hole of dancing bliss.
- Tel Aviv dubtronica /dub techno producer NAVAD – “Spikes (emesh Remix)” off “Liquid Dance” EP [PIRANHA SIBERIA DUB]
“An alchemy of waves and rhythms, forged into four crystals and refracted through five mirrors”. Relentlessly hypnotic, tight, and thick percussions churn out with liquid metallic clangs, oppressive floundering distortions, and droney loops, to oscillate and echo around a deep, surreal, both loosen up and unnerving, dubbed-out groove, heading towards a fleeing, expansive space-out horizon.
- French Italo /cosmic disco /indie dance /dark disco DJ-production duo Darlyn Vlys & Panthera – “Reaction” off upcoming EP [Polaris]
Epic new single filled with dizzying cinematic and cosmic dark disco energy, just let the warm oscillating bass, the buzzing and glittering chilly textures, and observational vocoded vocals unfold like a midnight dream, into the tripped-out orbit of a surreal dance-floor immersion.
- Italian ambient /electronic /modern-classical composer Stefano Guzzetti “Continuum (for piano, strings and electronics)” (remixed and remastered composition written in 2017)
- Stockholm-based ambient /drone /modern classical composer and cellist Henrik Meierkord – “Góðr” from V/A “Sonoris” 2xCD Box LP [Chitra Records]
- Los Angeles ambient /drone /ethereal /atmospheric /ambient pop collaboration between Cynthia Bernard and Shaan Chhadva, aka marine eyes + B9 “gehrai in e”
- Athens, Greece-based ambient /noise /drone /experimental /electronic artist Substak – “Surface Tension” from the album “A Line Dissolving” [Neotantra]
- Dallas, TX ambient /drone /cinematic /soundscapes /guitar /electronic project of Todd Gautreau, aka Tapes and Topographies “watch me now dissolve” from the album “Partial Holograms” [whitelabrecs]
- Essex, UK ambient /drone /field recordings /classical /experimental sound artist Paul Blackburn, aka Yggdrasil “Frost” from the cassette album “Forest Lore” [Courier]
- Tokyo, Japan ambient /soundscape /experimental /piano /synth /electronica musician Kotaro Maruyama “Sunrise” from the album “Vapor Curve” [Personal Affair]
- Melbourne, Australia ambient /electronic /contemporary classical /experimental composer Connor D’Netto “Interlude/nails” from upcoming LP “Some Kinda Way” [Room40]
- Brooklyn, NY-based ambient /neo-classical cellist and composer Kirin McElwain “Youth” title track of the debut album “Youth” [AKP Recordings]
- Cornwall, UK ambient /drone project of Paul Ridout and Bruce Magill, aka Elders “Horizon 2” from the LP “Slowly Observed Horizons” [Driftworks]
- Norwegian ambient /drone /electronic composer and guitarist Erik Wøllo “Obscure Trail” from “Aeris Suite” EP [Projekt Records]
- Instrumental ambient /cinematic /neo-classical /piano /organic project of Los Angeles-based producer, songwriter John Mark Nelson, aka Signa “Cascade” single
- Sheffield, UK ambient /drone /experimental techno trio THE BLACK DOG “Béton House (More Beatless Mix)” from “My Brutal Life: Ambient Mixes Box Set” inaugural boxset in a series inspired by the group’s work on the “My Brutal Life” project and the “Sleep Deprivation” 24/7 broadcast channel
- Italian ambient /electronica project, all possible worlds “untitled” [Réunion]
- Paris-based, French ambient /electronic /folk /new age /slow-house /experimental pop multidisciplinary artist and former co-director of Editions Gravats, Philippe Hallais, aka Low Jack “Oculi Aperti (feat. Ensemble vocal Voix des Outre-mer)” from upcoming LP “Lacrimosa” [STROOM.tv]
- Funchal, Portugal-based electronic /jazz /psychedelic /soundtrack Estonian composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer Misha Panfilov “Movement #2” from “Music for the Film “Who I Am” 7″ EP (originally released as a lathe cut on Kunst Ja Rütm in 2022 for Sofia Kruusamägi‘s short dance film)
- Portland, OR-based ambient /dreampop /zone out /electronic side project of H.K. Kahng (aka Buddha on the Moon), The Adjunct Committee “Surveyor” from “In Transit” EP
- England ambient /field recordings /hauntology /electronic rolling hill from the High Peak of the District by Drew Huddart, aka Scholars Of The Peak “The Path We Didn’t Take” from the cassette LP “Transmissions from Mother Hill” [Preston Capes / Woodford Halse]
- Berlin-based experimental /organic /leftfield /broken /techno /electronic producer TRii “Scene 02 – In The Mouth A Desert” from the vinyl 12″ album “Music For Desert Reboot” (Originally released on cassette in 2020 via TRii Musik) [World of Echo]
- Chicago-born experimental electronic /modular synth musician (The Sea and Cake), Sam Prekop “Open Close” title track of the upcoming LP “Open Close” [Thrill Jockey Records]
- San Francisco ambient /experimental /IDM /deep techno DJ-producer Cahl Sel “Blink” from the debut album “Traces” [Reflective Records]
- Brooklyn, NY-based ambient /IDM /ethereal /trance /breaks /experimental /hardware electronic artist (member of Housecraft Recordings’ trip-bient group Ahem) J.P Wright, aka JP “Lite blue light (feat. Neal M)” from the upcoming debut album “We’re here all the time” [Theory Therapy]
- Italian ambient /minimal dub techno producer DIB “Quadrans 002.3” from “Quadrans 002” EP [Scale Limited/Greyscale]
- Berlin-based ambient /atmospheric /abstract /psych /deep electronica producer Altjira – “Aligate” from “cycle0.4” split EP Archypness // Altjira [MIRROR ZONE]
- London-based ambient /UK bass /broken beats /dubstep /tech house producer and Temple of Sound label head, Tom Wood featuring New Zealand electronic artist, Sub Basics & Headland – ” Fluro Biotica” from Sub Basics‘ album “Never Too Late” [Temple of Sound]
- Parisian ambient /drone /dub /organic /downtempo /deep techno producer Adhémar – “The Oak Tree” from “Mountain View” EP [Oslated]
- Warsaw-based Ukrainian ambient /trance /hypnotic /deep techno producer and E MA HO! Records head, Archypness – Aldebaran” from V/A “Quantum Velocity” LP [Orbitando]
- Frankfurt am Main deep techno producer Concussion “Firebug” off “Carillon” EP [CNC]
- New York-based ambient /electronic duo Donovan Lally (Ultra Pure Whip) & Zephyr Maliki, aka ESP “Voices (Malibu Remix)” from “Promise (Deluxe)” LP [YEAR0001]
- Goan ambient /psych /halftime /leftfield /deep techno DJ-producer Akshay Mathker, aka Innerworld – “Rural” from V/A “shiny.non.definable.rarities.03” LP [Flux Collective]
- Cologne‘s experimental /world /percussive /deep house auteur Viola Klein “Whodat’s Confidence Mix” from the remix EP “New Chapter” [Meakusma]
- Berlin-based house /dub /deep techno producer Philipp Priebe “Need & Desire” from “Layers Of Longing” EP [Stólar]
- Los Angeles-based ambient /r&b /house /techno /breaks /experimental electronic production duo Jacques Greene and Nosaj Thing, aka Verses GT – “Found” from the debut s/t album [LUCKYME®]
- Sydney, Australia ambient /organic /breaks /deep techno /electronic producer Void – “The Queen’s Secret Garden” from the forthcoming release “The Cockatoo Queen”
- Tokyo, Japan ambient /IDM /techno producer Yasutaka Sato, aka Virgo “Rippling Moon” from “Medieval Lights” EP
- L.A.-based, UK veteran tech house producer and musician (keyboardist in Adrian Sherwood’s On-U Sound collective), David Harrow “Supra” off “Accelerated Life” EP [Mighty Force]
- Berlin-based ambient /Balearic /downtempo /psych /dub /nu-disco /house /techno producer Stephanos Pantelas, aka El Nino Diablo “The Soul Monad” from the LP “The Downey Groove” [El Niño Diablo Music]
- Sweden dancehall /digital dub /slo-mo house /psych /techno project of Johan Skugge (ex-The Sabrina, 1/2 of Harlem/Harlem Electronics), aka Hidden Operator “Northern Mantra” from the LP “In Orbit” [Kontra-Musik / Kess Kill]
- Canadian acid /EBM /drone /leftfield /downtempo producer (aka Chambre Noire and MOAB collective affiliated), Bunzinelli “Parasomnia” from “Original Wisdom” EP [Ediciones Villasonora]
- German/US acid /psych /leftfield /house production duo Roman Flügel & GEE DEE “Trip Or Trap” from “Impromptu Adventure” EP [FREE UNIVERSE]
- Thailand-based souk-fuelled /psych-funk pioneering producer, multi-instrumentalist, and multidisciplinary artist Kutiman “Haraka” off 2-track 7″ single “Haraka / Khamsin” part of the Middle Eastern Grooves 45s series [Batov Records]
- Mexico/Argentina ambient /house /dark psychedelic /slow techno producers Ludviq & Poulper “Crystal Cactus (Thomass Jackson Remix)” from “Origami” EP [THISBE RECORDINGS]
- UK post-punk /cold wave /off-kilter electronics duo of French-Canadian artist Chloe Raunet & Joni Green, aka C.A.R. “Cecilia Road” off “Shyana / Cecilia Road” 7″ EP [The Nothing Special]
- Marseille-based rave /breakbeat /electronica producer Goldie B “Rêve de Rave” off upcoming EP “Who Says Night’s For Sleeping?” [Pont Neuf Records]
- Gold Coast, Australia Electro /Darkwave /Synthwave act fronted by Christopher McIvor with Brazilian producer Felipe Bortoloti (Nørus), aka Moody McIvor “Shadow Frequencies” title track off upcoming EP [Nerang Recordings]
- Bordeaux-based techno /house /electro producer Salomée “Love Prevails” from “Before Time Began” EP [Altered Circuits]
- Barcelona-based experimental techno /breaks /electro duo Cyberdom and The Bandit, aka Bad Pad – “New Path” from “Bad Pad / Spectrums Data Forces” Split EP [Útil Records]
- Berlin-based Ukrainian minimal /UK bass /Detroit-influenced electro producer Dmytro Avksentiev, aka Koloah “Lets Make It Move” from “From The Archives Vol. 1” LP [Alien Communications]
- Bristol, UK bass music /grime /techno /electro producer Sir Hiss “Pop Dat” from upcoming debut album “Time Dilation” [Pineapple Records]
- Terrassa, Spain electro music producer Ivan Arnau, aka Dark Vektor “Touch Tomorrow (Spinks Remix) Lectro Code Reedit” from V/A “Metropolis” LP [Mars Frequency Records]
- Netherlands/UK techno /electro collaborative electronic music project by Philip Adeon and Damian Henderson, aka Synthbotics “Neon Glow (The Exaltics Remix)” from “Neon Glow” EP [Adeon Records]
- Berlin-based Tel Aviv techno /electro DJ-producer and Chateau Royal label co-founder, Gal Perez, aka PRZ – “We Are Space” from “Beyond The Void” EP [Mechatronica]
- UK-based, Polish IDM /techno /electro producer Leszek Romaniak, aka X-Truder “Overloaded Perception” off upcoming V/A “XTRICTLY ELEKTRO Vol. 3” EP [Cosmic Tribe]
- Argentina EBM /techno /breaks /electro producer Saigg “Cosmeologic” from V/A “Pulsating Body” LP 50th label’s release compilation [Body Musick]
- UK dark ambient /industrial /EBM /bass /electro collaborative project of Hyetal & Antoni Maiovvi, aka Votives “Nightside” from “Votives” EP [Insult to Injury]
- Italian lo-fi /experimental /industrial /new beat /cold wave /post-punk /techno punk producer Andrea Natale, aka Anna Funk Damage “Chiang Mai” from upcoming “Tarantola” LP [Raw Culture]
- French new beat /EBM /industrial /cold wave /noir techno project AD FICTION – “Häxan” from upcoming “Camera Obscura” EP [META MOTO]
- Prague-based, Czech ambient /industrial /techno /experimental /ambient /neo-classical producer (1/2 of LOFN), Aitcher Clark “Improperly Planned Experience” from “Silliness” LP [Veyl Records]
- Stockholm EBM /synth-pop /electronic band formed in 1986, Art Fact – “Lies (Stefano Andriezzi Remix)” off V/A – 22Recordings pres: Capítulo IX – ART FACT “Reviewed by Veintidos” remix EP [22Recordings]
- Los Angeles dark synth /dark electronic /darkbeats producer Snakes Of Russia “Omens” single from the forthcoming LP “Swallowed Whole Through The Mouth Of Eternity”
- Glasgow-based industrial techno producer and modular live performer TRSSX – “The Degree of the Spiral Curve” off live EP “A Mass Deliberately Deprives Itself of Reason” [Wodawater]
- Spanish techno producer Mario Castillo, aka Kastil “Ferrocode” off “KO5” EP [Stale / Soul Notes]
- Irish industrial techno /experimental electronic DJ-producer Simon Hayes AKA Swarm Intelligence “Inflate” from “Radiance” EP [Natural Selection]
- Berlin-based industrial techno collaboration of US Bite label boss Hayden Payne with Spanish Falling Ethics owner, aka Phase Fatale & P.E.A.R.L. – “Broken Nail” off upcoming V/A “Solid Snake Series 01” EP [BITE]
- Georgian techno industrial producer § (section) “Glitching My Heart” off the upcoming EP “Iron Heart” [Cryptic]
- Mexico City Techno /EBM /Punk producer DATURA INOXIA “Un Futuro Lejano” off upcoming V/A “1/4 Fear” LP [Ratflak]
- Parisian EBM /industrial /darkwave /techno artist Ezekiel Gauthier – “Sexy Little Liar (Mascarpone Remix)” 4th single [Ghost To Host Records]
- Moscow based industrial /electro /EBM /dark disco DJ/producer and Maxima Culpa Records co-founder, Gegen Mann “I Am Not The Destroyer” off V/A “OBERWAVE VOL. 7” 9th anniversary label compilation [Oberwave Records]
- Berlin-based Lisbon‘s EBM /post-punk /indie dance /electroclash /dark disco electronic music DJ-producer and Inner Shah Recordings boss, Madd Rod “You Don’t Want My Heart (Vocal Mix)” from “After The World Collapsed” EP [Nein Records]
- Los Angeles indie dance /darkwave /melodic techno /dark disco producer Sian – “The Void (feat. Idoru)” from the LP “Chaos” [Octopus Recordings]
- Madrid-based acid /dark disco /breaks /indie dance producer Yerno Vil “Cuerpo” from the upcoming “Another Way” EP [NEIN Records]
- Manchester, UK Balearic /acid house /disco DJ-producer Lewis Olsen, Psychederek – “Hopes & Dreams” from V/A “Ein Null: 10 Years Of Sprechen” 10th anniversary London’s label compilation [Sprechen Music]
- Paris-based new beat /house /Italo disco /krautrock /afrobeat /trippy /indie dance /electro /wave artist Eric Labbé, a.k.a Poison Gauchiste – “Le Junkie Du Cosmos” off the third EP “Musique Pour Enfiler des Perles” [Paradise Children Records]
- Buenos Aires, Argentina acid /indie dance /funk-house /cosmic /psych /dark disco producer Ricardo Ruben “No Somos Neutros” from “No Somos Neutros” EP [Side UP Works]
- French indie dance /nu-disco producer Endrik Schroeder “Automated” off upcoming V/A “RETROFUTUR 3” compilation LP [Mélopée Records]
- Spanish kraut /psych /disco /electronic artist, musician and member of the band The Fruhstucks, SUTJA GUTIERREZ – “My Favorite Dress (Simple Symmetry Remix)” off “My Favorite Dress” EP [Lumière Noire Records]
- London-based rave /prog trance /dream house producer (Fka Tech Support), Asa Tate “Replica” from “Replica” EP [Rhythm Section International]
- San Francisco cybernetic disco maestro Patrick Cowley “Hellfire” from the upcoming compilation LP “Hard Ware” [recorded in 1980-1982] [Dark Entries Records]
- “Black night (Ilya Santana re-work)” [Astrolead recordings]
- Berlin-based, French ambient /drone /percussive /minimal /deep techno producer and IDO Records head, Valentino Mora “III1IIIIIIIIII5IIIIIIIII” from “Biotope” 2xLP [Spazio Disponibile]
- London, UK-based experimental electronic pioneer duo THE FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON “Optogram” from the upcoming album of live improvisations “FSOL:DIGITANA – SX ONE IMPROVISATIONS”
- Copenhagen, Danish ambient electronic collage artist and musician Paw Grabowski, aka øjeRum “Drømme I Langsomt Stof” long-form piece CD [Glacial Movements Records]
- Tours, France experimental /dark ambient /improvisational /analogue synthesizers one man band Guru Bobol “lineolome” from the album “LINEOLOME” [iapetus]
- Beirut-based ambient /drone /field recordings /modern classical /electroacoustic musician and puppeteer Yara Asmar “Wooden giants and mechanical birds (with John Murchison & Gideon Forbes)” off upcoming new album, “Everyone I Love Is Sleeping and I love them so so much” [Hive Mind Records / Time Released Sound]
- San Francisco‘s IDM /experimental /ambient /electronica veteran producer Brock Van Wey (aka Earth House Hold, East Of Oceans), aka bvdub | Brock Van Wey “Reconciliation” long-form piece
- UK drone ambient /modular synth project Yorkshire Modular Society “0322b” long-form piece
- Japan-based drone ambient project of Ivan Sonnov, aka sonnov “wivoruj” from the long-form album “wevemoqoso”
