Weekly Electronic Music Tips – OCTOBER #41-23
PICKS OF THE WEEK:
- Science Cult Radio 030: POLADROÏD
Belgium-based and Roulette Rekordz‘ co-head producer Poladroïd presents a special edition two-hour mix to celebrate his new 2×12″ LP vinyl release, titled “Son Of Moloch”, via Science Cult, filled with dark and minimal “Kraftwerk informed Electro and IDM” for mind, body and soul.
- Italo/Russian downtempo /psych /slow trance /tribal techno production duo Antonio de Oto (aka A-Tweed) + Andrey Redkov (of Radial Gaze), AKA Oblako Maranta – “1989” from upcoming “Tribal Trabant” EP 12″ [Logical Records]
Hypnotic, high energy, and obsessive, “1989” takes you to a dizzying mechanical and exotic headspace, where shaky and rolling, crisp stacked percussions, bouncy acid-flecked low-end orbs, glowing ritual melodies, and vibrant jingly sparkling bedazzlements, stir the body and soul into a mesmeric futuristic tribal trance.
- Ambient /jazz /neo-classical /experimental collaboration of Swedish cellist Henrik Meierkord and Russian multi-instrumentalist Ni! (Leon Sukhodolsky), Henrik Meierkord & Ni! “Älvdans / Речной Танец” from the upcoming album “Ekosystem” [Ambientologist]
The collaboration between Swedish cellist Henrik Meierkord and Russian multi-instrumentalist Ni! celebrates the sublime nature of the forest. Calm, inviting, and organically magic, the pair layers rich, sensorial, and contemplative aural textures of sultry and emotive cello phrases, meandering saxophones, sad trumpet blasts, smooth warm hearty bass pulses, and springy fascinations, to open ornate doorways of beauty and strength where an enchanted and redolent woodland setting awaits.
- Cologne-based house /psych /indie dance /techno DJ/producer Jonathan Kaspar “Can’t Stop (Mano Le Tough Remix)” off “Can’t Stop” EP [Maeve]
Berlin-based Irish producer and Maeve label co-head, Mano Le Tough instills his distinctive emotive touch through a relentless and punchy drive of razor-sharp and crispy lashing rhythm patterns along with groovy undulating droning basslines, lifting into a glittering and buzzing electrifying yet disturbing neo-futuristic expanse of somberly lonesome robotic intensity and inebriating mesmeric charisma.
- New York‘s ambient /radiophonic /psych /kosmische /minimal electronic /modular synth producer David Mason aka Listening Center “The Silver Cord” from upcoming album “Exteriorizations” [Temporary Tapes]
- UK experimental /drone /ambient /field recordings /electro-acoustic collaborative project of musicians and composers Ian Hawgood (Home Normal label curator) and Craig Tattersall (aka The Humble Bee, former member of The Remote Viewer and half of Famous Boyfriend), aka Observatories “Rain Patterns” from “Frost Forms” CD album [quiet details]
- Upstate NY-based ambient /drone /field recordings /psych folk /cosmic /synth /electronic music project of multi-instrumentalist Brendan Principato, aka Saapato “Somewhere Else” title track of the upcoming cassette album “Somewhere Else” [Aural Canyon]
- Manchester, UK ambient /atmospheric /electronic /folk guitar duo of Dean Thom and Phil Considine, aka Great North Star “The Bitter Helm Wind” from the album “Great North Star II”
- UK ambient /post-vaporwave /experimental electronic entrepreneur Dangerwank “Good Grief” from the upcoming cassette album “Milk Drunk” [Salmon Universe]
- Japanese ambient /experimental /drone sound artist 永眠 – “聖域” [& Options]
- US ambient /drone /electro-acoustic /experimental sound artist Chris Weeks + from “Equilibrium” album [Neotantra]
- London, UK early 1997 founded, experimental /drone /bass /noise /ambient group led by Mark Beazley, aka Rothko “Summer In October, Winter In July” single
- Melbourne-based ambient /neo-classical pianist and composer Rose Riebl “Another Silence” from the upcoming album “Harley & Katya” [I N N I]
- Scotland-based ambient /drone /experimental composer and musician Richard Skelton (aka A Broken Consort, Carousell, Clouwbeck, Heidika), aka The Inward Circles “Our Light in Ashes” from the album “Before We Lie Down in Darknesse”
- Sheffield, UK ambient /experimental techno trio The Black Dog “Unité d’Habitation” from the vinyl 12″ album “My Brutal Life”
- Providence-based ambient /deep /leftfield house producer Jovan Rocha, aka Amalgama “Kalimba” from “Thanking the present and Wishing for a better future” EP [impresión]
- UK/Montreal ambient /dub /techno /tribal /psychedelic /downtempo /electronic production duo, Priori and Al Wootton “The Bell With The Wooden Tongue” from “FLAW EP 12” [TRULE]
- German pop ambient /deep techno collaboration of Regensburg-based Markus Guentner and Affin’s Joachim Spieth, Guentner | Spieth “Praeludium” from the upcoming album “Overlay” [Affin]
- Brisbane, Australia-based ambient /drone /electro-acoustic /space /electronic artist Mirko Ruckels, aka deepspace “Metameristic Landscape” from the double album “The Architecture of Flowers”
- London, UK-based experimental /electronic /dream pop /alt pop collective FIRESTATIONS “Stillness (Sulk Rooms Remix)” single on Lost Map Records
- Berlin-based, Georgia native ambient /IDM /techno producer Irakli “Mechanical Moon” title track of the new album “Mechanical Moon” [Live at Robert Johnson]
- Tokyo-based experimental /house /deep techno /downtempo /cinematic /cosmic /ambient producer Yuto Takei “Water Index 92” from the upcoming “Water Index” EP 12″ [Paesaggi Records]
- UK old school acid /IDM /experimental electronica producer and Rephlex Records affiliated Johnny Hawk, aka Global Goon “Ljinkumb” from “Painting With Acid Vol 3” LP cassette [Acid Waxa]
- Porto Alegre, Brazil ambient /drone /minimal /post-rock /experimental guitarist & composer Carlos Ferreira “Living a Metaphor (feat. Lucas Protti)” from the upcoming album “Isolationism” [AKP Recordings]
- Norway/Germany ambient /drone /modern classical /experimental collaboration between Jostein Dahl Gjelsvik (Pjusk) and Uwe Zahn (Arovane), aka Pjusk & Arovane “Repro” from the album “Svev” [Polar Seas]
- Germany/Belgium ambient /ethno dub /bass /drone /percussive /oriental /experimental electronic collaboration Abu Ama + BedouinDrone “Umm al-Maa” from the vinyl 12″ album “Dawlat Lībiyyā” [Mahorka]
- Hamburg-based ambient /acid /cold wave /psych /minimal synth-pop solo DJ-producer (one half of Shari Vari), Pose Dia “Corner Of The City (DALO Remix)” from the upcoming EP “Simulate Yourself Remixes“ [R.i.O. label]
- Belgo–Italian Leftfield /Dub /Downtempo /Balearic /Synth-pop project Sexo Y Fantasia – “Gioca All’Amore” from V/A “elsewhere junior II” compiled by soFa elsewhere 2xLP 12″ [Strangelove]
- UK bass /hardcore /jungle /grime /breakbeat producer Dylan Beale “Cinema 2″ from the 2×12” LP reissue of “Adamantium Rage OST” (legendary 1994 soundtrack for the SNES game “Wolverine: Adamantium Rage”) [Sneaker Social Club]
- Berlin-based house /techno /electro funk producer Lok44 – “Easy Virtue” off “Late Reaction” EP 12 [pomelo]
- Berlin-based IDM /techno /electro duo of Sammy Goossens and Pascal Hetzel, aka CYRK “Twinkies” from their forthcoming EP “Twinkies” [Folklor Nation]
- Northern Greece techno /minimal electro producer Noamm – “Intuition” off “Electroporation” EP [Tiger Weeds]
- Russian acid /techno /electro DJ-producer Larionov “Area 51” from “I Want To Believe” EP 12″ [Schrödinger’s Box]
- Charleroi, Belgium IDM /acid /wave /electro producer-DJ (Roulette Rekordz head honcho and half of Cercle Futur), Poladroïd “Codex” from “Son Of Moloch” 2xLP 12″ [Science Cult]
- German techno /electro producer Adalbert C. Kupietz, aka ROBOTRON feat.THE EGYPTIAN LOVER “Pornographix V1.0” off “Pornographix” EP [ROBOTRON @ skynet cybersonix]
- Ukrainian ambient /IDM /breaks /synth /psych /electro producer Poly Chain “MiG-29” from the upcoming “SMART-155” EP 12″ [Mechatronica]
- Canadian ambient /cyberpunk /industrial /synth electronic producer from Toronto, Holon “Core Functionality Restored” from the album “built better|feature complete” [Subatomic Audio]
- Tucson, AZ dark ambient /drone /metal /noise /funeral doom /electroacoustic /experimental intermedia artist and engineer R.A Sánchez (Tokyo Bloodworm), aka Black Baptist “forma” off the upcoming first solo album “L’Ottava Sfera” [Lost Tribe Sound]
- Montreal/Brussels dark ambient /techno /noise /industrial /experimental duo INSIDE BLUR & OTTOMAN GRÜW – “IL PUNTO DI NON RITORNO” off V/A “MUTANT MODALITY vol.1” compilation [Mutant Modality]
- US ambient /industrial /dungeon /noise /horror synth act Nocturnal Apparition “Nightmarish Figure” off cassette album “Key XIX: Ephialtes” [Windkey Tapes]
- Wroclaw, Poland techno/industrial /post-punk /synth solo project of Maciek Frett (Job Karma, Wrocław Industrial Festival) supported by Anna Frett, FRETT “Sleepless” from the second LP “Nottwo” on Ant-Zen
- Nice-born, Brussels-based industrial /wave /noise /post-punk /dark electronics producer and Unknown Precept label co-founder AIR LQD – “Off Leash” title track from upcoming “Off Leash” EP 12″/cassette [Unrealistic Expectations]
- Thessaloniki-based EBM /Industrial /Post-punk /Coldwave /Techno /Dark Electronics DJ-producer Alpha Sect “Dance Mécanique” title track of the upcoming EP “Dance Mécanique” 12″ [Veleno Viola]
- Portuguese EBM /Industrial /Noise /Techno DJ-producer and Eye For An Eye Recordings label head Gonçalo Salgado “Cobra” from “Cobra” 7″ EP [Eye For An Eye Recordings]
- Scottish EBM /techno-industrial producer Kenny Campbell – “La Monarch” from V/A “Blood selections chapter 1” debut compilation [Bloody electronics]
- New York/Sheffield industrial /wave /EBM /techno collaboration Andi vs Randolph & Mortimer – “Formidable Truths” off V/A “Curses presents Next Wave Acid Punx DEUX” 3xCD/3xDouble LP compilation [Eskimo Recordings]
- Turin-based EBM /rave /dark techno electronic music producer MATTEO TURA “BLACK LOTUS” the first track from the forthcoming EP “BLACK LOTUS”
- French industrial /hard techno producer RORGANIC “Fack” single
- The Prodigy – “We Live Forever (Rebekah & Malke Edit)”
- London-based hard-edged speedy techno Greek producer MarcelDune “Final Loose” from “Sunday People” EP 12″ [HAVEN]
- Mexico City‘s longstanding acid techno duo M.K_U.L.T.R.A “Surf”
- Rome based acid /psych /cold wave /synth pop /dark electronic French producer and singer, Justine Forever – “My Blood (Cate Hortl Remix)” from “Out Of The Blue” EP [Human Endeavour]
- Berlin-based Electro /House /Wave /Synth-Pop /Dark Disco producer (part of Dina Summer, and Frittenbude), Kalipo “Echoes Of The Past feat. Local Suicide” from the “WUT” LP 12″ [Iptamenos Discos]
- Lima, Perù based indie dance /electro /dark disco producer Izakaya Deployment “Shibuya Eki – From Beyond Remix” from “Shibuya Eki” EP [Nein Records]
- France-based, Mexican-born indie dance /dark disco DJ-producer (aka Osna), aka Leanor “On My Way (Kimshies Remix)” from “On My Way” EP [Rotten City Records]
- London, UK indie dance /acid /dark disco DJ-producer Ian Vale – “Hybrid Outing” from “Change” EP [NEIN Records]
- Valencian Dark Disco /Italo Body Music /Indie Dance producer Mundo D “Bladepunk (Parissior Remix)” off EP “Bladepunk” [Espacio Cielo]
- Rome, Italy retro wave /Italo disco producer Andy Romano – “Cyber Black Spaceship” off “Monday” EP 12″ [Bordello A Parigi]
- Italian ’80s /Italo Body Music /indie dance /Italo disco duo Dog.Ma – “Darpha (Brandski Remix)” from “Elettromagnetismo” EP [Club Mackan]
- ’80s Italo Disco classic Samoa Park – “Tubular Affair (Flemming Dalum Remix)” [originally released on iconic Zanza Records in 1983] upcoming colored 12″ via ZYX Music
- Italian groovy /funk /Italo disco collaboration between the Raibano label co-head honcho and disco duo, Gianmaria Gamberini & Sparkling Attitude – “Illusion (Alberto Melloni Dub)” off “Caraibi” EP [Raibano Records]
- Veteran Turkish acid /house /indie dance DJ-producer based in Istanbul, Hemi – “Damn, I Forgot (Sobek Remix)” off “Damn, I Forgot” EP [Duro Label]
- Italo–Turkish disco /acid /house /indie dance production duo Musumeci & Alican – “I’ll Be There Feat. Nick Maurer (Original Mix)” from “Musumeci presents The Weather report Vol.1” EP [Engrave LTD]
- Berlin-based, Australian Balearic /deep house /downtempo Dj-producer Fantastic Man “The Beach” from “Spiritual Guidance” EP 12″ [Basic Spirit]
- Japanese psych /disco /house/techno /electronic artist Gem Wallow “WAnoWA” first solo EP “鼓動 KODOU” [Playground Records]
- Toulouse, France dubstep /techno /psych /bass /breaks producer Beatrice M. – “Wick” off “Meld” EP [Egregore Collective]
- Marseille, France experimental /leftfield /dub /psych /cosmic /deep-techno /psy trance producer Adrien Van de Velde, aka A Strange Wedding – “Temples Of Quantum (Straigth Backward Mix)” from V/A “MTY-AIR – “Mille attaques, les vents contrèrent” compilation [Mama told ya]
- Queens, NY dubstep /broken beat /bass /breaks /techno /experimental electronic producer, DJ and Kindergarten Records‘ founder MA SHA “KV December” from “Elastik” EP [Nervous Horizon]
- Portuguese experimental /IDM /acid /electro DJ-producer Gonçalo Salgado, aka Lake Haze “Ego Destroyer” from “Mind Clarity” EP 12″[Shall Not Fade]
- London, UK Balearic /dancehall /techno /breaks duo of Angel Hunt (Good Morning Tapes) and Peter Rocket (BEAM), aka Angel Rocket “Metro Hexx” from “2” EP [Accidental Meetings]
- Portland, OR cosmic /ambient folk artist Ann Annie “Aviary Reverie (Waltz No. 2 in C)” single [Netwerk]
- US/Sweden ambient /percussion /modern dance /neo-classical /electro-acoustic project of Aaron Martin & Dag Rosenqvist, aka From the Mouth of the Sun “The Medusa” from the upcoming long-form soundtrack album “Valley of the Hummingbirds” part of the 11 album series, ‘Maps to Where the Poison Grows’ [Lost Tribe Sound]
- Dayton, OH analog ambient /drone /minimal /sci-fi /IDM /psychedelic /electronic music project (aka Coppice Halifax), Milieu “April’s Blissed Communion (Part 1)” from the longform album “April’s Blissed Communion” [Milieu Music Digital]
- England, UK 80s ambient /bucolic /fields recordings /classical composer Virginia Astley “The Singing Places” long-form single
- Berlin-based improv /trance /experimental /ambient /drone musician Volker Lankow “Music For Sleepy Times Part 2” from the longform album “Music For Sleepy Times”