Weekly Electronic Music Tips – NOVEMBER #44-23
PICKS OF THE WEEK:
- Samo Records // Podcast #76 – LI LIE
Sofia-based DJ effortlessly combines acid vibes with the essence of Dark Disco, pulsing in a both moody and sensual intoxicating dangerous night ride.
- Parisian late ’70s experimental /electro-pop /disco pioneer, library music composer and producer Bernard Fevre, aka Black Devil Disco Club “La Mer sur L’Enfer” from the upcoming EP “Etincelles” [Lo Recordings]
Bernard Fevre‘s cult Synth-Space Disco project Black Devil Disco Club returns in great shape with an exhilarating and gripping percussive-ridden Disco reverie inspired by Salvador Dali’s infamous “Vision Of Hell” mystical painting. Warm airy vocals and high backups float on a mesmerizing, incessant, crackling percussive flow, churned by ricocheting acidic buzzing and rumbling rippling low-ends along with evocative stirring and enveloping string wanderings, to inexorably compel us to lose ourselves in the intoxicating esoteric groove of a heady dancing daze.
- Georgia-based acid electro producer Oto Veltauri “Ribonucleic Polymetric” single
Straightforward immersive Acid Electro workout from up-and-coming Georgian producer, that jolts through booming, crashing drum programming, along with squiggly, bopping acidic basslines, topped by lonesome glowing strings, to make your whole body quiver while rapt in a hypnotic groove.
- Bogotá, Colombia Italo cosmic disco producer Galope Messier – “Lumbre Apasionada” off V/A “Posterity” compilation EP [Italo Heat]
A giddy array of snappy snares, crispy rattling percussions, groovy basslines and hypnotizing warm layers of swirling warped synths, spark off a lush and glittering Italo disco affair spinning into a dizzying and uplifting cosmic trip to outer space.
- London-based, English/Greek ambient /modern classical /improv piano self-taught composer and visual artist, Alex Kozobolis “I Promise” from the LP “The Seasons Are Not Four”
- London-based experimental musician, composer (member of Japan, Dolphin Brothers, Nine Horses) and David Sylvain’s brother, Steve Jansen “The Journey Back” from the single “My Winter”
- Vancouver-based dark ambient /drone /kosmische /synthwave /electronica /analog synth musician and composer V Vecker Ensemble “Atonement” from the cassette “Acedia Phase” [HOTHAM SOUND RECORDINGS]
- Oakland, CA ambient /classical /soundtrack /folk /experimental composer, musician, and producer Chuck Johnson “The Breakup” from “Shadows On The Green” (soundtrack for the HBO series ‘Burden of Proof’) [All Saints Records]
- Swedish ambient /drone /experimental space music /electroacoustic /experimental /electronic sound artist Ingmar Wennerberg, aka Snufmumriko “Havsklockor” from the album “Havstrakt” [SUNSEASKY]
- Copenhagen-based, Danish abstract /ambient /electroacoustic /electronic producers Frederik Valentin & Loke Rahbek “Morning Glory” from the album “The Friend’s Place” [Posh Isolation]
- Indianapolis ambient /drone /ethereal /soundscape /electronic collaboration project by Marc Ertel, Zach Frizzell (from post-rock band, Pillars) and Damien Duque, aka Dawn Chorus and the Infallible Sea “Cadere” single off forthcoming LP due out in Spring of 2024 [Zakè Drone Recordings]
- UK/Spanish ambient /drone /field recordings /modular synth duo Ian Hawgood & David Cordero “A Path of No Hiding” from the upcoming album “Wild Air” [Home Normal]
- Spanish ambient /drone /dub techno /electronic producer based in Valencia, Agustín Mena (aka SVLBRD), aka WARMTH “Antártica” from the CD album “Mourning Ghost” [ARCHIVES]
- Manchester, UK ambient /post-rock /synth /electronic one-man project APTA “Emerge – The Hardy Tree Remix” from “Submerge” EP 12″ [Castles In Space]
- Portland, OR ambient /ethereal /electronic artist (half of Mint Julep), Hollie Kenniff “Soft Slowed” single
- Michigan-based ambient /drone /meditation /electro-acoustic /electronic graphic designer and sound artist Michael Cottone, aka The Green Kingdom “Swayd” from the upcoming vinyl 12″ album “Sunsetgradient” [DRONARIVM]
- US ambient /IDM /modern classical /deep techno /electronic producer Brock Van Wey | bvdub “The Depth of Rain (excerpt)” off upcoming album ”The Depth of Rain” [Infinite Fog Productions]
- Swedish experimental /dark ambient /atmospheric /drone /field recordings /electronica producer MOTIONFIELD “Binary Visions” from the album “Awareness”
- Richland, WA ambient /drone /electroacoustic /electronic producer Drew Sullivan, aka Slow Dancing Society “Felt’s Field” third single off the new 2x LP 12″ album album, “Do We Become Sky” [Past Inside The Present]
- Yokohama, Japanese ambient /techno /electronic musician Yoshinori Noguchi, aka Silentwave “Marbling” from upcoming LP “Marbling Night” [Shimmering Moods Records]
- German pop ambient /deep techno collaboration of Regensburg-based Markus Guentner and Affin’s Joachim Spieth, aka Guentner | Spieth “Valenz” from the album “Overlay” [Affin]
- Miami-based ambient/downtempo /electronic project of Richard Vergez, aka Night Foundation “Praxis”
- Quito, Ecuador ambient /IDM /downtempo /electronica project of DJ & producer Alejandro Romero (aka Amalgama), aka Ópalo “Experimentation 3″ from the second LP “Mysterious Traveller” [Caracteres]
- Charlotte, NC techno /electronic /modular ambient /soundscape producer D York “Shelter in Place” from the cassette album “Liminal Dream” [Móatún 7]
- Icelandic ambient /electro musician and Móatún 7 and Intellitronic Bubble co-founder (aka Futuregrapher), Árni Grétar, aka JP8080 “Belgium Couple” from “Seattle SuperSonics” EP 10″ [Intellitronic Bubble]
- Russian ambient /electro-trance producer Virusmoto ‘ᛏᚺᛖ ᛞᚨᚱᚲ ᛈᛟᚱᛏᚨᛚ’ off the cassette album ‘◯’ [Frequency Domain]
- Thessaloniki, Greece ambient /psych /minimal electronic project of Konstantinos Giazlas (formerly Keene and Sans), Onepointwo “Obscurity” from the album “Cycles” [Subexotic Records]
- Brighton, UK ambient /electronic musician Correlations Feat. Molly Rose “When We Fall” (Beak cover) from “Fall Into Dust” charity EP
- Danish-born, Luxembourg-based hauntology /experimental electronic artist and Second Language label co-founder, Martin Jensen, aka The Home Current “Drama Junction” from the cassette album “Weekend Shark” [Modern Aviation]
- Morón, Argentina ambient /barber beats /atmospheric /vaporwave producer, modest by default “тэмцэл үргэлжилж байна” from THE CURSE OF COLONIALISM III” album [ASSEMBLY™]
- German dark ambient /dub-acid /experimental soundtrack /minimal techno project, HIGHDIKLUMP “Abu Ara”
- London-based ambient /dub /psych /techno eclectic DJ-producer Tech Support – “Fibs” from V/A “They Will Be Free: A VA For Palestine Vol 2” EP fundraiser compilations [Feed The Void]
- Germany experimental /IDM /breakbeat /post-dubstep /brainjazz /electronic producer |||||||||||||||||||| [barcode | noun] “Spotting A Mother’s Smile”
- Amsterdam, Netherlands ambient /glitch /braindance /leftfield /IDM /electronic producer (Shadow Huntaz, Funckarma), Roel Funcken “Tarvom” from the EP “Kadrex”
- English underground house /Detroit techno /electro producer and owner/founder of L&T Recordings & Non Stop Rhythm, Tom Carruthers “Visions” from “Future Waves” 3xLP 12″ album on Long Island Electrical Systems (L.I.E.S.)
- Jaén, Spain breaks /dark electro producer Amper Clap, aka AMP3R “The Great Filter” from the EP “Binary Rhythm” [Urban Connections]
- French ambient /techno /electro producer Franck Kartell “Sigma Octantis” off upcoming “Acoustic Intelligence” LP [Noise To Meet You]
- US Dark Electro /’Psycho Jazz Mutant Body Funk’ producer HENRY HEARSE “WE GO DANSIN IN THE DARK (HH REMIX)” from “-HAIL SATIN-” LP [NEON CASKET]
- NYC industrial /acid /techno producer Adam Mitchell (founder of Sonic Groove label and Frankie Bones brother), ADAM X “Trailing Effects” off “My Acidic Being” EP 12″ [Pinkman]
- Bristol, UK experimental funk /dub /disco /electro-wave project of former one half of Linea Aspera, Ryan Ambridge, aka Lust Pattern “Forming Lines” off upcoming “Stand, Scatter” EP 12″ [Dark Entries Records]
- UK ambient /drone /minimal /experimental electronic music performer and recording artist (aka Surgeon), Anthony Child “Ancient parade of flickering lights” from the album “Perpetual Rotation” [SOMA Labs Music]
- Spanish EBM /dark electro /techno DJ /horror disco DJ-producer from Bilbao, WLDV “Isolated” off “Isolated” EP
- Winnipeg, Canada EBM /noise /industrial techno /electronics project by James Hofer, aka VIVA NON “Cruel Threat” single
- Death industrial /synthpunk /bedroom pop act from Western NY, STCLVR “Cocaine Winter” from “Post Self Abandonment” LP 12″ [Phage Tapes]
- Paris-based industrial /electro producer December “An Accident In Favor Of Human Life” from “Transform Part 2, An Accident In Favor Of Human Life” EP 12″ [Tresor]
- London-based Rhythmic Noise /Industrial Techno DJ-producer and co-owner of Depth.Request, G.xist – “Hopium” from “Eeriesistible” EP [Psychophonie De L’éternel]
- Berlin-based rave /industrial /hard techno duo David Frisch and Mathis Mootz (aka The Panacea), New Frames “Lust (feat. Phase Fatale)” from “Scherben” 2xLP [BITE]
- Liverpool, UK ambient /industrial techno /witch house /electronic producer electronic MONOMORTE “Kiss the dark” from the upcoming album “SINK/SWIM”
- Thessaloniki, Greece-based industrial /techno /EBM producer Alpha Sect – “Crime D’Amour Feat. Helena Markos” off upcoming split cassette EP “Alpha Sect & Weever – Machine Crime” [VIVES]
- Scottish EBM /techno-industrial producer Kenny Campbell – “Repressed Reality” off upcoming V/A “Dark To Black” LP compilation [Still Distant Records]
- Italian acid /rave /industrial /dark techno producer and Insane Industry & Das Kollektive head, Lobotomija “Time To escape” from “Not Reality” EP 12″ [Hydra]
- Early 80s Belgian EBM classic “Geile Tiere (Alpha Sect Edit)”
- Beyonce – “PURE/HONEY (Nø Bødy Remix)”
- Geneva, Switzerland techno producer Geisterstimme – “Abstract Groove” upcoming “ISHS003” EP [Introspective Rec.]
- French industrial /acid /techno /electro DJ-producer (owner of New Flesh and Rave Or Die labels) from Lyon, UMWELT “Destroyer Of Light (Original Mix)” from V/A “New Electronic Standards” EP [Dancefloor Impact Research]
- Parisian dark wave /EBM /techno producer Gauthier – “Until Dawn” from “Dawn in Paris” EP [Ghost to Host Records]
- Belfast, Maine retro goth/ synth-wave /dark synth /post-punk project, Rayne Reznor “Treason” off the album “Chronicle: Ghost Work Records Volume I” album compilation of all the singles from Feb-Oct 2023 [Ghost Work Records]
- Stuttgart-based wave /acid house /disco project of Irish electronic DJ-musician Marcus Lambkin, aka Shit Robot “Superstar (feat. Mutado Pintado)” from “5 Songs” EP 12″ [DFA Records]
- London-based Balearic /disco /acid house /electronic project by brothers Liam and Luke May (Trashmouth Records), Quinn Whalley (Paranoid London/Warmduscher) and frontman Lias Saoudi (Fat White Family), aka DECIUS “Magenta Overlord” from “DECIUS TRAX EP III” EP [Trashmouth Records]
- French Indie dance /EBM /dark electro /wave /synth /dark pop producer Cate Hortl – “Burnt Back” from “CF007” EP [Club Forever]
- South Korea indie dance /electronic /cosmic disco producer Shubostar – “Forest Baby” from V/A “Familiar Faces Nº4″ LP 12” [Riotvan]
- UK EBM /electronic /house /dark disco /electroclash Producer-Remixer-DJ and Nein Records label boss Neil Parnell aka TRONIK YOUTH – “TV SITUATION EDIT” [Nein Records]
- HIM – “Join Me In Death (Amarcord Halloween Special Edit)”
- Unknown Artist – “STR ASJ (Edit)” off 12″ EP “TFL 003” [Tooflie Edits]
- Philadelphia-based psych /acid /electro duo Thomas Roland and James Weissinger (aka Girls Chat Room and Peyton Farquhar), AKA Zillas On Acid – “Pleatherhead” from V/A “One Swallow Doesn’t Make A Summer Part 6” EP 12″[Running Back]
- Middlesbrough, UK acid /psych /tribal /space disco /downtempo /electronic producer REES “The New Beat” off “Dream Weave” EP [Bordello A Parigi]
- Italo/Russian downtempo /psych /slow trance /tribal techno production duo Antonio de Oto (aka A-Tweed) + Andrey Redkov (of Radial Gaze), AKA Oblako Maranta – “Trance Beckenbauer” off “Trance Beckenbauer” EP 12″ [Thisbe Recordings]
- Athenian experimental /dub /trance /space rock /psych /kraut /folk /electronic producer Aggelos Baltas (Dream Weapons, Fantastikoi Hxoi), aka Anatolian Weapons “Warrior Dance” from “Teachings In Stone” LP [produced in 2019 and remixed in 2020]
- Italian ethnic /downtempo /trance /acid /tribal electronic DJ-producer based in Rome, A-Tweed “Hypnopotamus (Original Mix)”
- Berlin, Germany-based techno /house /Italo disco /indie dance producer Florian Herzberg, aka My Secret Playground – “Running Through Fiction (Original Mix)” off upcoming “Ripley At The Roller Disco” EP [Mélopée Records]
- London, UK-based techno /house /trance /electronic producer Papa Nugs – “Truffle Shuffle” off V/A “WARIOUS1” compilation [WARNING]
- Madrid-based, Chilean groovy Latino /indie dance /techno /house Dj-producer Fernanda Arrau – “Simple” off “Sexy Dance” EP [DURO]
- Berlin-based house /dark disco /indie dance Istanbul‘s DJ-producer-audio engineer and live act Abacilar – “Unutulmus” [Levant Disco]
- Tehran-born, London-based Italo /disco /indie dance artist Amirali “Deep Inside” off “Deep Inside” EP [DAYS like NIGHTS]
- Paris-based acid /house /Italo /wave /electroclash /dark disco DJ /producer Joe Lewandowski – “Cosmic” from “Clair-Obscur” EP 12” [Friendsome]
- Belfast based Balearic /chillout /house /club side project of Crystalline Stricture, aka RIVAL – “Frente A La Playa”
- Greek ambient /minimal /tech house producer Grush “Flipside” from “INTO001″ EP 12” [Into Records / R.A.N.D. Muzik Recordings]
- Italian ambient /drone /field recordings /soundscape /electronic sound artist Paolino Canzoneri “Ero gradito ospite nel dominio della fauna campestre” from the upcoming LP “Gioie campestri” [Shimmering Moods Records]
- Mexicali, Mexico-based ambient /experimental /glitch /electronic musician, producer, and Facade Electronics head from Baja, FAX “Rest”
- Scotland-based dark ambient /drone /fantasy /experimental /horror /cinematic /electronic musician, Everyday Dust – “Dullahan” from V/A “Ghost Stories” cassette compilation [Dustopian Frequencies]
- Belgium based dark ambient /experimental /electronic composer-multi-instrumentalist Randolph, aka Phlod-Nar “Awareness becomes Absolute” from the album “Utriusque Cosmi” (composed and produced between 1998–2006) [Kalamine Records]
- Prague-based ambient /drone /hurdy gurdy /minimalism /experimental Slovakian artist Michal Vaľko, aka Line Gate “Maze I” from the cassette album “Trap” [mappa]
- Enigmatic dark ambient /jazz /blues /noise /experimental /hip-hop /avant-garde /electronic musician Honour “Àlàáfía (Cita’s World)” from the debut LP “Àlááfíà” [PAN]
- Ann Arbor, MI ambient /field recordings /cosmic /space music electronic project Variant “lake of the clouds [live]” (2019) [variantsonics]
