WL//WH Weekly Electronic Music Tips #37
PICKS OF THE WEEK:
- HYPERLACRIMAE [Sounds From NoWhere Podcast #119]
Hailing from the impenetrable outskirts of Naples, Infidel Bodies label affiliated pair of Erminio Granata (11xxx27) and Carmine Laurenza (Nocturnerror) created their porn-ceptual industrial project Hyperlacrimae compounding and deconstructing techno, wave, noise, industrial, proto-punk, acid, EBM with accentuated post-punk leanings.
Restless jagged drums, twitchy broken beats, rugged metallic squeals, raw distorted synths, atmospheric weirdness with sparse buzzing poignant melodies, steadily build, crash, twist and turn in something throbbing and hypnotic that’s simply hard to resist.
- Moscow, Russia krautrock/dub/electro/EBM/wave/dark techno duo Ólta Karawane – “Romanian Erotic Tradition” from V/A “999% HITS” compilation on St. Petersburg based Avacha Records
Part of a rad Avacha Records‘ 8-track compilation of Russian and surrounding Eastern Europe up and coming producers, as well as dispensing the most intriguing off-kilter and genre-defying mixtapes/sets and rotten neglected post-punk/EBM edits around, alcoholic production/DJ duo from Moscow deliver a wobbling and stuttering mutant dub-infused compelling, dope dance-hall epic.
- Toulouse based French/Lebanese electronic techno producer Psaum, aka Arabian Panther النمر العربي “The Penitent” from upcoming “The Way of the Penitent” EP 12″ on SOIL
Excellent Spanish label SOIL back in business with a couple of electrifying releases, French/Lebanese producer achingly mesmerizes through densely crackling and lashing rhythms cut by droning expansions of buzzing abrasion and enigmatic Middle-Eastern inflexions, amid hypnotically and mechanical oscillating glowing bass pulsations awash by hot radiating synth swathes, to form anxious bright melodies steeped in forlorn intensity.
- New York‘s hardware-based acid/electro producer and vinyl DJ Axel Blaze (aka DJ Mystery Science), Ole Mic Odd “Chromed Out 1100” from V/A “Age in Decline (Natural050)” double vinyl LP compilation for the 50th release and the 5th year in operation of Natural Sciences label.
Beast of a 20-track compilation to celebrate the 50th release and 5th year of operation of the Mancunian ‘Mutant Electronics’ imprint Natural Sciences. One of the many favourites, come from L.A. bass finest Ole Mic Odd that unleashes his urgently undulating, acidic and booty, signature bassline allure, cut with dangerous floor-shaking rhythms that thump among indecipherably inebriated male vocalizations, pierced with scalding, organically sinister synth rushes, to urge magnetic dancefloor bliss.
- Japanese ambient/electronic/avant pop female producer Kinuko aka Sapphire Slows “Swirl” off V/A “Blue 08″ 12” EP on AD93
- Dutch synth electro musician Danny Wolfers from The Hague, LEGOWELT “Unconditional contours Memorymoog” from the upcoming album “Unconditional Contours” on -OUS
- French synthwave/electro producer from Bordeaux, Jauzas The Shining “The Discovery of the Senses” title track from the upcoming album on Tripalium Corp
- Brooklyn-based experimental/ambient/neo-classical/electronic composer and musical artist Faten Kanaan “The North Wind” from upcoming album “A Mythology of Circles” on Fire Records
- London-based experimental/ambient/IDM/industrial solo project of Stephen Hindman (one half of synth duo The Golden Filter), aka Isolating “Sacrament” from the upcoming full-length LP “Perennial” on their own 4GN3S label
- Night Moves “Transdance (Club Bizarre Edit)” Binda aka Club Bizarre mastered edit of the 1981 original from the UK synth-pop/new wave quartet
- St.Peterburg, Russia dark disco/disco punk/electronic DJ/producer Errortica – “Vision of Love” from V/A “Driving Blind (Vol.1)” on Les Yeux Orange
- Polish dark ambient/industrial project of Radosław Kamiński, aka AB INTRA “HENOSIS VI-VII” from upcomiming album “HENOSIS VI-XI” on Zoharum
- British born, Vienna based dark ambient/industrial/drone/dub project of Mahk Rumbae (a.k.a. Codex Empire and one half of Industrial act Konstruktivists), aka Antechamber “Ossulstone” from the new 12″ EP Archaic Idol” on Polymorphism
- Canadian dark disco/synth/cold wave/dark dance producer Robert E. Livingood – “Shadow Of Night” off V/A “Ombra INTL 015” EP on Ombra International
- Poland industrial/new beat/synthpop/synthwave producer Black Sun Dreamer “Principles” from the album “Forgiveness”
- Los Angeles-based industrial techno producer and label head Walter Nasi Burciaga (Spheres), SULLEN FATE “Blood Insight (Years Of Denial remix)” from the EP “We Fade” on RND. Records
- Italian techno body music/electro wave producer, live performer and sound designer Cristian Camporesi, aka CHRIS SHAPE “Holy Ron” off upcoming album “Shaped To Deform” on UNKNOWN PLEASURES RECORDS
- Argentinian Industrial/electro/EBM/noise/techno producer from Buenos Aires, DISOCIACION “Lost in reality (envenena mi cuerpo)” from upcoming EP “Massive mental control” on Of Dolls and Murder
- Buenos Aires, Argentina industrial/experimental/dark techno producer CATRIEL “Monsters and high heels” from the album “INFERNO JOINT MACHINE” on Vastechoses
- Kyoto, Japan electronic body punk trio PUBLICS. “VIBRATION (SUCA Remix)” from “BODY CONTROL REMIX #007” EP on Terminal Explosion
- Mysterious experimental/industrial techno/EBM/dark electronic group from the Absu collective in Santiago de Chile, Mu-ga – “Arreskni” off “Liturgia” EP [BLDS001] on The Black Lodge
- Italian industrial/EBM/techno producer Francesco Tella, aka NGHTLY “Your Gaze” from the cassette “L’Alba Del Caos” on Detriti Records
- US/UK industrial/EBM/acid/coldwave/electro collaboration between Mark Bailey and Jordan Lieb, aka Man 2.0 & Black Light Smoke “Holy Hammer (Original Mix)” from “Holy Hammer” EP on Death Decay Magic
- Lyon, France Industrial Body Music project of Timothée Gainet (aka Poison Point), IV HORSEMEN ”Ride In My Eyes” off upcoming EP “Human Crash” on Fleisch
- Polish industrial/hard techno producer Hatelove– “I Don’t Care Who You Are, Punk” from upcoming “Serpents Of Death” EP on Askorn Records
- Moscow based electro/EBM/dark techno Dj/producer, member of Warehouse Moscow community and Maxima Culpa Records co-founder, GEGEN MANN “High Order Citizens” from “City of Broken Dreams” EP
- Germany based dark techno duo humagn & Miles Pinkert – “Dead Bodies (Kribs Remix)” from “Dead Bodies” EP on Istanbul’s Snatchers
- Philadelphia dark techno DJ/producer Lance Blaise, aka Monix – “The Taste of Your Tears” from V/A “Beauty and Terror” on LXVIII
- Spanish industrial techno/EBM producer and Soil Records head, SOJ “Land of Hammers and Lovers (WLDV remix)” from upcoming cassette album “Land Of Lovers and Hammers” on Infidel Bodies
- Zagreb, Croatia EBM/synth/dark electronic producer ZARKOFF “Endless” from upcoming V/A “RAW CULTURE’S PUSHERS 04” cassette compilation via Raw Culture
- Scotland based industrial/EBM/dark techno Dutch producer and co-founder of N.I.M [Northern Industrial Movement], swærm – “Unrest” off upcoming V/A “No Portions – Volume 1” compilation on Idlestates Recordings
- Berlin-based experimental/abstract/industrial/techno producer ANJA ZAUBE “Dark Lake (Headless Horseman Remix)” from the EP “://aboutblank 009” soon on About Blank
- Italian experimental electronic producer Matteo Viani, aka Black Seed “Sacred Dance”
- Experimental/industrial/electronics ᴘ ᴜ ʀ ᴇ RAVE – ᴬ²:from № 113:ltd. cassette on nₒstilevₒ
- Rotterdam-based experimental/breakbeat/house/acid techno producer TAFKAMP “Vengeance” from the new cassette album “INDRUKKEN II” on Self Reflektion
- New York-based downtempo/leftfield/electronic artist (Lord) Fascinator “Beyoğlu (Die Orangen Remix)”
- Russian Italo Disco/Funk/New beat/Electronic producer from Moscow, Andrei Nikonorov, aka MOONOTON “Frau” off upcoming “Frau Bleep” EP on Moscow’s ИДА
- Rotterdam-based experimental/breakbeat/house/acid techno producer TAFKAMP “Darkness Calling”
- Manchester, UK acid/electro/techno producer BURAN “Beta (Kincaid Remix)” from upcoming “Beta” EP on Insult To Injury
- Tel Aviv based Italo House/Electro/Techno artist and Chateau Royal label head, PRZ “Marathon” off V/A “Phanuel” on Hilltown Disco
- Acid ambient electro duo from Central Italy, Anywave – “Platform (Original Mix)” from the upcoming V/A “Spin Sonic Division 3” compilation on Nodezero Electronics
- US dark/psychedelic/Electro producer Terens K. – “Powerful JRE” from V/A “CARJACK CITY Volume II – Electronic Boogaloo” EP sampler on Roulette Rekordz
- London based ambient/IDM/bass/techno/electronic DJ // Producer OTIK “Zero-Sum Game” from upcoming “Zero-Sum Game” EP on Shall Not Fade
- Paris-based ambient/psych/electronic/techno producer Krikor Kouchian, aka KRIKOR “Le Sacrifice du Goeland” from V/A “TIGERSUSHI DEMOS 2000-2020” Tigersushi Records‘ 20-year anniversary compilation
- Barcelonian experimental/ambient/acid/downtempo/house/electronic duo IRO AKA “Activitats Encobertes” from the album “Passatge de les Ombres” on Hivern Discs
- Saint-Petersburg based Russian electronic music collective of drummer Anton Berezin (Seven Knights and half of Otchim) and multi-instrumentalist Grigoriy Babak, WOLFSTREAM “From Z To Ulu (Hanzo & Yaman Remix)” off upcoming “Khoomei” EP on Duro
- Berlin-based Italo disco/electro/electronic Italian producer Italo Brutalo “Trust Doesn´t Rust” from “Knight Fever” EP on Bungalo Disco
- Manchester, UK Italo disco/house/manctalo producer STARION “Mind Funk” from “Altered States” EP on Red Laser Records
- Dark disco collaboration between Madrid based Dj/Producer Alvaro Cabana and Colombian based DJ/Producer Julian Sanza, Alvaro Cabana & Julian Sanza – “So Far So Good” off upcoming EP “Chapter 5” on Critical Monday
- Swedish psych/krautrock/electronic band Tross – “Gallium” off upcoming V/A “Lurkers” on Space Ritual
- Russian industrial/dub/psych/tribalistic artist Dmitry Nekrotkov, aka Yssue – “Lust (Dj PG Remix)” from the upcoming EP “Naturalist” on KUMP
- Greek post-industrial/ambient project by Vasilis Angelopoulos, CONJECTURE ‘ΦΟΝΟΣ (талос remix)’ from the vinyl/tape EP ‘∫V’ a companion EP to their full-length LP “V” on Bulgaria’s Amek Collective
- Italian experimental/IDM/cinematic/electronic producer from Piedmont (formerly Vaghe Stelle), MANA “Berber Pendulum” from the new album “Asa Nisi Masa” on Hyperdub
- Danish experimental/ambient /drone/electronic solo project of Posh Isolation co-founder & one-half of Damien Dubrovnik, Christian Stadsgaard, aka Vanity Productions “But All Spiked” title track from the forthcoming album “But All Spiked” on Posh Isolation
- Berlin-based Swedish/Polish experimental/ambient/minimal/drone/electronic composer, sound artist and musician MARTA FORSBERG “Love” from upcoming “New Love Music” on warm winters ltd.
- UK cinematic ambient drone musician (former member of 80s post-punk band The Dance Society), Lyndon Scarfe “Herons” from the album “Shoreline” on Cue Dot Records
- Los Angeles based experimental/minimal/drone/neo-classical Calgary-born composer and performer Sarah Davachi “Midlands” from the forthcoming album “Cantus, Descant” on Late Music.
- Paris based experimental ambient electronic artist ISHAM KOUIDRI “Now He’s Gone PT.3” off upcoming debut cassette album “All I See Is Blue” for the Enmossed and Psychic Liberation collaboration series.
- UK ambient/electronic project of label co-founder HEAVENLY BODIES “Prima Materia” title track from the new cassette album “Prima Materia” on Starry Earth
- Bulgarian ambient/drone singer/songwriter duo of Angel Simitchiev & Daniel Donchov, LEAVER “Air From My Lungs” from the new EP “Hands Like Cages” on Amek Collective