Weekly Electronic Music Tips // SEPTEMBER #38-24
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PICKS OF THE WEEK:
- Mutant Radio‘s Hypnotic Groove Showcase: GAVELMAN [10.09.2024]
Glaswegian DJ, producer and Lifeforms label head honcho Callum Melvin, under his Gavelman alias, spins a relentlessly evolving electrifying dark and acid-infected set jammed with blasting techno, mutant electro and stumbling breaks.
- Los Angeles-based ambient /bass /percussive /deep house /breaks /techno DJ-producer Danny Goliger – “Local Cable” from upcoming V/A “Undercurrents Vol 1” compilation album [3024]
A hypnotizing dub techno workout from the eclectic LA producer that sizzles and immerses into a glitchy, hissing, crackling and dusty Basic Channel-like ambience led by crisp bouncy drum programming, deep bass stabs, Detroit-ish space-out swelling chords and soulful vocal clips.
- Swedish veteran machine pop /retro /electro producer Joacim Thenander from Stockholm, Maschine Brennt “Music Technology (v2)” from “Music Technology” EP
Kraftwerk-inflected warm heady atmospheric number driven by buzzing bass pulses and an obsessive vibrant swirl of wobbly tinkling chords, infiltrated by a gravelly robotic vocal interplay that captures different emotions whilst guiding the listener to focus on Musik TeknoLogik.
- Poland/Argentina world /funk /psychedelic /percussive /electronica production duo Mytron & Balam – “Cabasa Loca” from V/A “Mondo Ritmo” mini-compilation EP [Invisible, Inc.]
First glimpse of the upcoming mini-compilation from Glaswegian imprint Invisible, Inc., firmly rooted on rhythm and percussion, Polish/Argentinean pair unfolds a hypnotic trippy and groovy array of intricate and crunchy percussions that crackle and bounce with sultry exotic electricity, fueled by velvety pulsing bass grooves, magnetic vocal inserts and obsessive swirling motifs, to build an intoxicating flurry of elated dancefloor catharsis.
- UK ambient /drone /improv /minimal /post-rock /shoegaze /synth /guitar musician and composer (aka Bremnar), Alison Greenwood “Promenade” debut single
- Hyogo, Japan-based ambient /field recordings /piano artist Masakatsu Takagi “Marginalia #178”
- US/Canada ambient /drone collaboration between Indianapolis-based Zach Frizzell and Toronto‘s Brad Deschamps, aka zakè & anthéne “distant forms” from the cassette album “Regeneration” [floralia]
- Australian/Swedish ambient /devotional /ethereal /modern classical collaboration from Nipaluna-based duo of Amelia Besseny and Cooper Bowman, and legendary Stockholm‘s free-form guitarist Jon Collin, aka Troth & Jon Collin “Poet’s Recollection” from the upcoming LP “Devotion Objects” [A Colourful Storm]
- Glasgow ambient /drone /improv /experimental cellist, film composer and electronic music producer, Oliver Coates “Apparition (feat. Malibu)” from the LP “Throb, shiver, arrow of time” [RVNG Intl]
- Spanish ambient /drone /soundscape /electronic artist Agustín Mena, aka Warmth “Reflector” from the CD album “Parallel (Reflection)” [ARCHIVES]
- Milan, Italy-based Japanese ambient /field recordings /minimal /analog synth /piano musician, Aiko Takahashi “Riot” from “Static” EP
- Cadiz, Spanish ambient /drone /field recordings /electro-acoustic /modular synth sound artist David Cordero “El mismo día” from the album “Melodías Susurradas”
- Danish ambient drone /electronica project by Kalle Christensen and Henrik Laugesen, aka Lauge & Baba Gnohm “Ghost Dune” [Ambient Soundscapes]
- Amsterdam-based ambient /cinematic /soundscape /piano /electronic musician Frank Pels “Recovery” from upcoming “Peaceful Oasis” EP [Valley View Records]
- Toronto-based solo ambient /drone project of Brad Deschamps, aka Anthéne “untitled 2” from the cassette album “Seven pieces for Harmonium” [Imaginary North]
- Norfolk, UK ambient /improvisation /neo-classical /chamber folk musician Laura Cannell “As Summer Passes into Sleep” from “HARVESTLORE” EP CD via Brawl Records
- North American ambient /dub /micro-house producer Izaak Schlossman (of aught, s transporter, loveshadow etc.), aka Zero Key “Zero Key 01” from “False 01″ EP 12” [False Aralia]
- Brooklyn, NY ambient /leftfield /experimental /chamber music project of composer-multi-instrumentalist Mari Maurice Rubio, aka More Eaze “leap year compersion” from the album “Lacuna and parlor” [Mondoj]
- Dole-based drone /electro-acoustic /neo-classical / dark ambient project of French pianist and composer, Philippe Blache (Day Before Us) “As You Came from the Land of Vanished Memories” from the album “Tristitiam Et Metus Tradam Portare Ventis” CD [Conjvre the Circle]
- Nigerian ambient /drone /minimalism /field recordings /experimental electronic musician and violist, Ibukun Sunday “Of The Armies” from “Harmony / Balance” LP 12″ [Phantom Limb]
- England, UK IDM /experimental /techno /ambient /electronic project of Lee Norris (AKA Norken, Nacht Plank and part of Ishqamatics, Autumn of Communion, Metamatics, Memex,2xirtam, The Angling Loser), aka Moss Garden “Already There” from the album “Understanding Holy Ghosts” 2×10” [Móatún 7]
- Berlin, Germany ambient /drone /experimental /electroacoustic /ondioline /electronic music composer and performer, Hainbach “Encore Elektrik” from “Breve” LP 12″ [Seil Records]
- Berlin‘s electronic keyboardist, composer and longtime member of the groundbreaking electronic group Tangerine Dream, Peter Baumann “Searching In Vain (Die Wilde Jagd Remix)” [Bureau B]
- Preston, UK ambient /drone /space modular synth /electronic project of Stephen James Buckley, aka POLYPORES “Foreverglade” from “There Are Other Worlds” [Castles In Space]
- London-based, Latvian expat ambient /field recordings /experimental producer mu tate “Sweat” from upcoming “Wanting Less” LP 12″ [Warm Winters Ltd]
- Serbia ambient /darkjazz /downtempo /liminal electronic project Laser Move Kill “Into the Blue” from “Into the Blue” EP
- Sydney ambient /dub /electronic duo, founded in 1984 by Justin Brandis and Andy Rantzen, aka Pelican Daughters “The Chamrosch” from “It’s time my friend...” LP 12″ [se Dessaisir Publishing]
- Russia/Armenia experimental /ambient /dub /electronic collaboration Sergei Komarov meets Purpurniy Dyadya “հագեցվածություն” from the LP “Dub while” [surf]
- Hamburg, Germany dark ambient /experimental /tribal /techno duo Space Drum Meditation “Temple of Dusk” from the debut LP “Four Tusks” [Space Drum Meditation]
- Yerevan, Armenia’s deep psychedelic /organic techno producer Innersha “Emeralds” off the debut EP “Inner Landscapes” [QEONE]
- Russian ambient /breaks /deep house /cosmic /techno /electronic DJ-producer and co-founder of co-owner of IDA label, Kolomensky “E – Drip (Tom Vernon Remix)” from “E-Drip” EP [Sengiley Recordings]
- Dresden, Germany ambient /field recordings /deep /dub /techno /electronic musician Andrea Cichecki “Solstice” from the video series “Nature”
- Welsh jazz /drum & bass /experimental electronic musician, bass player and composer Tom Jenkinson, aka Squarepusher “50 Cycles” from the album “Ultravisitor” [Warp Records]
- Offenbach, German ambient /acid /breaks /tribal /drum & bass /trance /downtempo DJ-producer Kalocain (aka Steppin’ Wolf and 1/2 of Recht Auf Rausch), aka AJO “Kawanone (La Serpiente Remix)” from “God Is A Single Infinite Painting That Has No Frame” EP [Ethos Records]
- Paris-based, German kraut /tribal /chug /psych /downtempo solo project by Kreidler member Detlef Weinrich (aka DJ Sport), aka Tolouse Low Trax – “Subghosts (Tolouse Low Trax Rework)” from EP “Kiosque Versions” 12″ [Bureau B]
- Catalan drone /percussive /house /psychedelic /trance /acid producer Priorat – “Timbal a l’Enllà (Zillas On Acid Remix)” from upcoming “Fills De La Licorella” EP [Playground Records]
- London-based Danish experimental /electronic /classical composer and viola player Astrid Sonne – “Give My All (Blood Orange EDIT)” from the remix album “Great Doubt EDITS” [Escho]
- Mexico City experimental /bass /drum & bass /techno producer Yin Yang Audio “astral projection” from “Satori” EP [Ineffable]
- Tunisian dub /leftfield /hypnotic /psych /polyrhythmic /techno electronic DJ-producer Azu Tiwaline “Reptilian Waves (Kangding Ray Remix)” off ” The Fifth Dream (Remixes)” EP 12″ [I.O.T Records]
- Tokyo, Japan ambient /IDM /techno producer Yasutaka Sato, aka Virgo “Otemaq” from the CD album “Roots of Memories” [Móatún 7]
- Valencia, Spain ambient /IDM /glitch /downtempo /experimental /electronic music composer KID BUCLE “Materialism” from the third album “Submerged”
- Brighton, UK ambient /IDM /beats /downtempo /experimental /electronica producer CORBEN “Punching Clocks” from the cassette album “Transmitter” [Hotham Sound Recordings]
- UK ambient /acid /breaks /melodic techno producer, Inkipak – “Dorito” from V/A “MF33 Volume 3” [Mighty Force]
- Matsumoto, Japan-based ambient /IDM /acid /techno sound artist Darren McClure, aka Dokun “Seedling” from “Wow Car 001″ EP 7” [Intellitronic Bubble]
- Copenhagen, Denmark experimental /IDM /braindance /ambient /percussion /trance /breakbeat / modular synth /electronic artist and composer Simon Littauer “Xenon” from upcoming “Modular” LP [katharsis]
- US/Germany ambient /experimental /techno collaboration between multi-disciplinary artists London-based Seth Horvitz and Munich‘s Lindsey Wang, aka Rrose x Polygonia “Diastole” from the mini-album “Dermatology” [Eaux]
- Detroit electro /techno pioneer Juan Atkins along with Laurens von Oswald, aka Cybotron “Parallel Shift” from the upcoming “Parallel Shift” EP [Tresor]
- Stockholm, Sweden ambient /techno /electro DJ-producer OBERGMAN “Quasipartical” from upcoming “Pentaquark” EP 12″ [Craigie Knowes]
- Danish ambient /electro duo from Copenhagen, Krypton 81 “Younger Dryas” from the upcoming split DVS NME & Krypton 81’s “The Endless Pattern” 2xLP [Pan-Am Tracks]
- French rave /breakbeat /ghettotech /electro producer Saligo “Get on the Floor (Original Mix)” from CHROMA” EP 12″ [Ovelha Trax]
- Saint Petersburg‘s acid-industrial-breaks-electro producer Artem Lastname “Dehydration” from “Less Chance” EP [FERMA]
- Berlin-based, Parisian IDM /techno /electro producer SOD-90 – “X-Ray” from the forthcoming LP “Teeth Against Metal” [Strange But Dance Music]
- Bogota, Colombia acid /drone /indie dance /wave /breaks /dark electronic duo Nuclear Digital Transistor “Rotos (Original Mix)” from “Discos Cassettes” EP [Kaputt.wav]
- Australian dark ambient /industrial /ethnic /psych /electro group of Pieter Bourke (Dead Can Dance/Lisa Gerrard) and David Thrussell (Snog/Black Lung), aka Soma “The Day the Sun Stood Still” from the “The Winged Measurer” EP 7″ [Ant-Zen]
- Casablanca, Morocco industrial /techno /trance /grim electronics solo music project of producer and Rhadâb label co-founder, Othman Cherradi, aka Prophän “Screams Of Agony Are Muffled In A Deaf World – صرخات الاحتضار مكتومة في عالم أصم” (originally released as part of Brutal Forms Brutality 003 V/A)
- Brighton, UK tribal techno producer Akinsa “Bohynya” 2-track EP [Third Foundation]
- Belgium-based veteran industrial /anti-techno /noise techno producer, HYPNOSKULL “GENAU NACHGEZÄHLT” off upcoming V/A “Uncanny Valley 4” compilation series [AREA Z]
- Buenos Aires, Argentina EBM /new beat /acid /techno /synth / live hardware producer KALPA “Veneno” from “PANTALLAS” LP
- German EBM /Techno /Electro Industrial project from Daniel Myer & Dejan Samardzic, aka Haujobb “Uselessness” from the LP “The Machine in the Ghost” [Dependent]
- French industrial /EBM /techno /noise esoteric act from Paris, The Fifth Stigma – “Kneeling Before Acknowledge Superiority (Nigh/T\mare Remix)” from “Shielded By Thorns” EP [Venaeform]
- Moscow-based EBM /new beat /darkwave /synthpop duo of German roots, May Diem – “Domina” off the second EP “Marionette” [Oberwave Records]
- Toronto‘s acid /dark disco /psych /indie dance electronic producer Sidney Sheldon Thompson, aka Sid Le Rock “Crisis Hotline” from “Strutline Crisis” EP [Play Pal Music]
- UK electronic/ Balearic /house /downtempo collaboration between production duo Justin Deighton & Leo Elstob (Leo Zero) and the Balearic Breakdown 1BTN’s DJ, totem projects x Howler – “See The Stars – 6am Mix”
- London, UK ambient /IDM /techno /bass /tribal /psych /slo-mo /acid house supergroup with members of Fat White Family’s Lias Saoudi, Trashmouth Records’ Luke & Liam May, & Quinn Whalley of Paranoid London & Warmduscher), DECIUS “Walking In The Heat (feat. Lias Saoudi & Al White)” from upcoming “Decius Vol. II (Splendour & Obedience) ” 2xLP [Trashmouth Records]
- Leipzig based left-field /dark disco duo Nici Palm & Rødel – “I Want Both (Fausto Remix)” off “I Want Both” EP [Paradise Palms Records]
- Rave /techno /wave /disco edit by Hong Kong-based Fauve Records head honcho GNV, “Oh So Big (GNV Edit)” from “Extinct Melodies From The Sex Dungeon #2” EP [Fauve Records]
- Cornwall, UK mid-80s proto-house /synth-pop all-female trio, Zenana “Witches ’85 (Bedmo Disco’s Spell Of Love)” from “Witches” single (Originally released on seven-inch by the tiny PRM label in 1986) [Rush Hour Music]
- Berlin/Paris-based EBM /indie dance /Italo French DJ-producer, Seiun “Gate 62” from upcoming EP “Gate 62” [Nein Records]
- Viennese Indie Dance /Oriental Techno DJ and artist Seba Kayan “Tencere” [Belly Dance Services]
- Madrid-based duo acid /indie dance /nu-disco duo Teemon & Poomba – “Own Ways (Amarcord Remix)” off “Dreams Driver” EP [Espacio CIELO]
- Athenian neo-Italo /cosmic /dark disco /indie dance /electronic DJ-producer Kay-Chi feat. Sharlese – “Unknown Memory” (Radondo Remix) off “Unknown Memory” EP [Volition]
- Bangkok, Thailand-based Scottish cosmic /nu-disco /house /Italo trance /electronic producer Keep Me In The Light – “Neon Nights (Agle Remix)” off “Rapid Bass Groover” EP [Mélopée Records]
- Almere, Netherlands future disco /melodic house /indie dance artist Helsloot – “Find Me Here” single [Get Physical]
- Indie dance /Italo /house /disco producer SSANDRO – “Desiderio (Irregular Disco Workers Remix)” off 2-track EP “Visioni Doppie” [Melody Lab]
- Los Angeles dub /bass /psych /dubstep DJ, producer, sound designer and founder of the label Delusional Records, Maude Vôs – “Faerie Ring” off upcoming V/A “WZY4.5” compilation [Woozy]
- French ambient /breakbeat /trance /downtempo /leftfield /psychedelic electronic producer Khey Mysterio “Exuvie feat. Alohn” from “Myths and Relics” EP [Electric Shapes]
- Danish ambient /drone /minimal /electronic collage artist and musician øjeRum “Støvfigur.” from the upcoming cassette album “Ikke En Sjæl” [VAAGNER]
- Shenzhen, China-based ambient /ethereal /shoegaze /techno /electronic project of Ryan Hill, aka KAGAMI Smile “Your Heart Fallen As Snow” from the album “The Secret of Your Heart; A Door” [Language Instinct]
- Chiba, Japan ambient /new age /spiritual jazz /psychedelic /experimental musician Hajime Orikawa “穂遊 / Suiyu” from the cassette debut album “穂遊 / Suiyu” [造園計画 / Zouenkeikaku]
- Chicago-based experimental /ambient /drone /noise /electronic sound artist Kevin Drumm “Sunblind Panick”
- Chicago‘s experimental /abstract instrumental duo (FKA Joan of Arc, Cap’n Jazz, Spa Moans), Tim Kinsella & Jenny Pulse “Broken Aquarium” (Live at The Humboldt Park Boat House, Chicago 9/11/2022) off “Broken Aquarium / The Viscosity” cassette album [Astral Editions]
- Italy ambient /experimental /drone /soundscape /guitar-synth project of Alessio Bertuzzi, aka Far away Nebraska “Home Normal x Far away Nebraska” mix of selected tracks from each Home Normal and self-released work by Far away Nebraska [Home Normal]
