WL//WH Weekly Electronic Music Tips

• ANTAGONIST // Astral Mix Series Episode 18 | December 2025 | [@antagonistuk] 
  

Manchester, UK-based DJ-producer and Discipline label head, Antagonist, explores the dark and cinematic edges of Drum & Bass, Techno, and Industrial, with an eclectic selection of “things I’m currently enjoying and brand new music of mine, showcasing the new transition in sound as we enter 2026”. Featuring music from Antagonist himself, Brendon Moeller, Felix K, Quartz, Pianeti_Sintetici, dBridge, The Bug, Reeko, Medlock, ASC, DYL, Forest Drive West, Sam KDC, Loxy&Resound and more…

• UK  bass music /experimental electronic /drum & bass pioneer veteran producer since the early ’90s, Darren White (founding member of the legendary group Bad Company and Exit Records head), aka dBridge “Witness Rebellion” from “Pleasure District 009” EP [Pleasure District/Exit Records]

British maestro still keeps pushing the boundaries of his inbred Drum & Bass sound through a visceral, gripping slo-mo excursion into haunting and bleak immersive landscapes tempered by industrial clanking rhythmic hard-edges and gritty agonizing low end energy, swept by wintry synth blows and chilling echoes to fuse into a harmonious synthesis of working parts.

• Norwich, UK acid /IDM /downtempo /jungle /breakbeat /electro producer Ben Murphy, aka Bufo Bufo “Isopod” from the upcoming “Ranidae” EP 12″ [Analogical Force]

UK eclectric producer’s upcoming EP expands his hallucinatory sound, offering an immersive, eerie and mystifying fusion of groovy shuffling beats, and sneaky low humming bass tones, layered with anxious, icy textural and glowing synths, and a meandering squelchy acid line, whilst above vintage Hollywood female voice clips talk about how daylight puts things in the right order.

• London-based ambient /halftime /organic /psych /tribal /deep electronica sound artist, electroacoustic composer and improviser Lucie Štěpánková, aka Avsluta – “Hūti” from V/A “Primärwald III” third and final installment of “Primärwald” compilation series LP [Monochrome]

“Hūti” is a call to the spirits of the forest, inspired by the deep and mystical energy of Autumn, arousing an introspective, sensorially stimulating journey through gently crisp, ritual percussive patterns and a slow humming drone to set the foundation for calm, oneiric expansions of languid ethereal vocal modulations, rising upward to meet cool, glowing transcendental skies.

• Italian ambient /ethereal /ritual /spiritual /experimental multimedia artist and one-woman electronic choir (front-woman of the folk band She Owl), Jolanda Moletta “Circle of Shadows” from the cassette album “Circle of Shadows ∞ Circle of Light” two-part ritual performance for the Italian festival La Notte del Re di Biss: Circle of Light.
  
• Hong Kong/Italy ambient /soundscape /ethereal collaboration between vocalist and musician Anita Tatlow (Salt of the Sound and Narrow Skies) and sound artist Andrea Morana from Pisa, Anita Tatlow & Runaway Horses “The Night and its Mysteries” lead single from Anita Tatlow and Runaway Horses’ new ethereal ambient EP “The Shore from Above” [Echoes Blue Music]
• France-based Scottish musician, songwriter, composer, record producer, audio engineer and legendary Cocteau Twins co-founder, Robin Guthrie “Her Name is Dulcinea” (outtake from 2012)
  
• Berlin-based ambient /drone /folk project of St. Petersburg-native artist, DJ, and radio.syg.ma co-founder, Sasha Zakharenko, aka PERILA “sila” from “door” EP
  
• Istanbul-based ambient /ethereal /drone-folk project of Turkish musician and vocalist Ekin Üzeltüzenci aka Ekin Fil “Bump” from upcoming “Bora Boreas” LP [DRONARIVM]
• Ambient /atmospheric /chill /meditative collaboration between Hong Kong-based producer Ben Tatlow and Minneapolis-based sound artist Mike Graff, aka Antarctic Wastelands & Dear Gravity “A Voyage West” from the Orbital” EP [Slow Echo]
• Bristol, UK-based, Sri Lankan-born ambient /drone /cosmic music /neo-classical /experimental electronic composer and artist Paul Jebanasam “I keep silent” from the third studio LP “mātr” [Subtext Recordings]
• UK ambient /drone /ethereal /dreamcore /meditation /electronic sound artist Simon Vince, aka HERE “The Colour Of Snow” title track of the album “The Colour Of Snow” eRecords series [whitelabrecs]
• Seattle ambient /drone /chill-out /downtempo /field recordings /synth /electronic project of DJ-producer and Further Records founder, Chloe Harris, aka Raica “dreem light” from the 4th LP “If Not Now, When” LP [Silver Threads]
• Belgian/Japanese ambient /drone /cinematic /beatless /electro-acoustic /electronic collaborative project of Brussels-based duo of Christophe Calis and Jan Delannoy, with Japanese electronic musician-producer, Droning Cats with NRV “Catastrophic” off “Cartography of Sleep” album [See Blue Audio]
• Japanese non-fixed member ambient /modern classical music project Tokyo Ambient Collective “A dark long winter” from the fifth album “Winter Ambience” [Ricco Label]
• French dark ambient /drone /space /electronic music project of a founding member of the group Lightwave, Christian Wittman “Vitus Béring” from the LP “The Northwest Passage”
  
• Colorado found sounds /field recordings /folklore /sound loops /experimental project of M Klausman, aka Fielding Daws – “Roger Bacon” from the cassette album “Yesterday’s Weather” [Love All Day]
• Flanders, Belgium ambient /electro-acoustic /experimental electronic sound artist Tony Van Dorst, aka WXR_JR – “Echoes Lost” off “Echoes Lost Without” EP [Adventurous Music]
• Amsterdam-based Dutch-Italian contemporary classical /electronic music composer (member of Poulson Sq., Black on Maroon, and Lunar Control), Anthony Fiumara “Languid Meridian” from the LP “Dance Works”
  
• Johannesburg, South Africa ambient /drone /chillout /field recordings /electronic sound artist Dean Kalenjin “Unnedugga (who was endowed with comprehensive intelligence)” from the LP “The Seven Planes of Existence” Part IV of the seven series [secret domain]
• Montreal-based ambient /drone /sound textures /experimental artist Lamasz “Parcelle de Mahler” from the cassette album “Parcelles, suite” [Florina Cassettes]
• Melbourne, Australia, experimental composer of contemporary classical music, Connor D’Netto “interlude/nails” from “Some Kinda Way” LP [Room40]
• Ibero–American ambient /drone /modern classical /experimental composer Rafael Anton Irisarri “Breaking the Unison” from upcoming album “Points of Inaccessibility” [Black Knoll Editions]
• Amsterdam-based Dutch-Italian contemporary classical /electronic music composer Anthony Fiumara “Languid Meridian” from the LP “Dance Works”
  
• Antwerp, Belgium ambient /field recordings /electro-acoustic /experimental techno /modular synth /sound artist Gregory Geerts, aka Strangebird~Sounds “Celestine” from the upcoming LP “Minerals Form The Crust” [Audiobulb]
• Pittsburgh, PA ambient /experimental veteran techno producer Shawn Rudiman “Psyconnex” from “Yesterday Sky” album [quiet details]
• UK ambient /drone /cinematic /house /dub /deep techno /analogue synth electronic producer Martin Jenkins aka Pye Corner Audio “Quayside Dub” single
  
• New York City-based ambient /downtempo /techno /house producer, DJ, and co-founder of the record label Incienso, Anthony Naples “On Your Own Again” from the seventh LP “In Studio Magic” [ANS Recordings]
• US ambient /atmospheric /drum & bass /experimental /slow techno /deep electronica collaboration between Indianapolis-based ambient composer Zach Frizzell and Del Mar, CA electronic musician and Auxiliary label owner, James Clements, aka zakè & ASC “Violet Dusk” from “Violet Dusk | Blossom Memory” EP [Zakè  Drone Recordings]
• Rome, Italy ambient /experimental /techno duo Donato Dozzy and Neel, Voices From the Lake “Lotus Mist” from the LP “II” [Spazio Disponibile]
• Italian organic deep techno producer from Turin, Claudio Gasparini ─ “Autumn Moon (Original Mix)” from “Field of Miracles“ EP [TATAKAI]
• Zurich-based ambient /downtempo /minimal /deep house producer Lb Honne “Brücke” from upcoming “Brücke” EP [smallville records]
• Italian/Japanese ambient /psych /deep techno producers, Federico Corrado & Iwamaki – “sequence I” from “sequence” EP [KVLTÖ Records]
• Méribel, France ambient /drone /downtempo /electro-acoustic /organic /deep techno /electronica producer Oreste – “Fearful Odds” from upcoming LP “Arcana Amissa Temporum Oblitum” [OSLATED]
• London-based, Irish ambient /drone /abstract /breaks /trance /techno producer o.utlier “Blade of the wing” from “Numina” LP [Shurale]
• Providence, Rhode Island-based ambient /dub /freetek /leftfield /drum & bass /techno DJ-producer and anti-alias recs. founder, Emma Rak – “Kali Tragus” from V/A “ TM8 VA004” EP [tm8.club]
• French ambient /acid /psych /deep techno /experimental electronic producer and Accents Records head, Sub Accent “Milky Way” from “ACCENTAPE010 – Accou / Sub Accent” split cassette EP [Accents Records (^^^)]
• Zürich-based ambient /kraut /wave /psych /cosmic electronica musician Angelo Repetto “Kalliope Solaris” from the new album “Between Worlds: Interference” [Subject to Restrictions Discs]
• German improvisational /motorik /electronic dub trio, Cloud Management “Terracotta Realness” from (mix)tape album “Invisible Salad” [Abstrakce Records]
• Berlin-based Italian ambient /percussive /experimental /minimal /hypnotic /deep techno producer Domenico De Luca, aka Basement Dubs “Antitesi” from “Deframmentazione” LP [Annulled Music]
• London-based halftime /drum & bass /dub techno producer Dominic Ridgway “Realities Dub” from “Realities Dub/My Mind” EP [Squares Music]
• London-based bass /dubstep /techno producer Ila Brugal – “Moongazer” from V/A ” Transient Glow” EP [Osmura]
• UK acid /grime /minimal dub tekno /experimental producer (aka Leeway), DOOMED “Maelstrom” (previously unreleased) from the CD collection “Edits Vol. 1” [lost domain]
• US ambient /dub /soul tech /experimental /downtempo electronica duo of vocalist Lucas Deleon (aka De Leon of /\\Aught and Mana) with producer and Inner Islands label head Sean Conrad (aka IS), False Aralia “Vehicular 02” from “False 05” EP [False 05/Peak Oil]
• Berlin/London-based experimental /electroacoustic /abstract club electronica /hyper-pop duo ML and Vittoria Totale, aka Grace & Raffaella “It’s A Strange World” from upcoming debut LP “Grace & Raffaella”[meakusma]                 
• Copenhagen, Denmark ambient /cinematic /trippy /Balearic /kraut /leftfield experimental electronic group Rayakita “Indisponible” from the upcoming debut S/T LP “RAYAKITA” [Macadam Mambo]
• Russian Acid /Trance /Esoteric /Dub /Tribal /Cosmic /Psych /Electronic producer Zhenya Lavrinov (aka LVRIN), Golden Axe “To Dance In The Summer Rain” from upcoming LP “Mirage” [Serenades]
• Lithuanian trash /surf /soul /punk band shishi “Hair We Are (Fabio Me Llaman Soltero Remix)” from “FAQ Remixed” EP [Good Skills]
• Pescara, Italian ambient /psychedelic /tribal /downtempo /electronic dance music duo Apopi “Hiromi (Oltrefuturo Lysergic Dub Mix)” from “Amnesia” EP
  
• Thessaloniki-based Greek acid /kraut /folk /psych /tribal /techno genre-bending electronic music producer Aggelos Baltas (aka Dream Weapons, Fantastikoi Hxoi), aka Anatolian Weapons “Gladhouse” from “Endless Stream” EP [Byrd Out]
• London-based indie dance /kraut /psychedelic /percussive /leftfield house /electronic DJ-producer and multi-instrumentalist Mytron “Balzgarten” from “Propeller” LP [Multi Culti]
• Brooklyn, NY, UK club/South Asian-inflected dubstep /breaks /tribal percussive-driven underground dance music DJ-production duo of Indian origin, Baalti “123” single
  
• Berlin-based rave /breaks /trance /prog house DJ-producer and Tofistock label head, MYKI – “Yko Proto” off “Park Erporia” EP [Echocentric / R.A.N.D. Muzik Recordings]
• Melbourne-based hardcore /dubstep /electro /broken beats /techno /bass DJ-producer, Pugilist “Motif” from the upcoming “Inverse” EP [Best Intentions]
• Cardiff, Welsh drum & bass producer Elliot Garvey, aka Quartz “Shadow Tones” from “Interloper” LP [Metalheadz]
• London-based grime /breaks /dubstep /techno producer Henry Greenleaf – “Ghost Town” from “Ghost Town” EP [DIMESHIFT]
• Brooklyn-based, Miami-bred bass /breaks /techno /electro producer (one-half of Lithium Parasites), Alonzo – “No Permit” from V/A “FERMA 5 YEARS COMPILATION” LP [FERMA]
• Montreal, Quebec techno /electro producer and Facecontrol Audio Industries label head, Sean Kosa “No Turning Back” 2-track EP [Facecontrol Audio Industries]
• Terrassa, Spanish retro-futuristic /electro producer Ivan Arnau, aka Dark Vektor “Es Mío El Tablero” from “Singularidad Emocional Cuántica” EP [REM Records]
• Detroit/Netherlands West Coast/Detroit electro collaboration DJ Maaco (Detroit in Effect) and Dutch producer Martijn Hoogendijk (Alden Tyrell), aka Alden Tyrell & Detroit In Effect “Let Me C U (Electro Vocal)” from “Alden Tyrell & Detroit In Effect presents: The Greys I” EP [Clone West Coast Series]
• Rotterdam, Netherlands ambient /IDM /industrial /electro producer Boris Bunnik (aka Conforce, Hexagon, Silent Harbour), aka Versalife “Culprit” from “Crack City” EP [Rotterdam Electronix]
• Malta acid /techno /breaks /electro producer Acidulant “Nomuntakasa” from upcoming “Let The Acid Move Your Body” EP [Who is Paula]
• Vancouver, BC ambient /Detroit /electro producer and Club Designs label co-founder, Garneau “Marine Data Transmission” single [Club Designs]
• London, UK indie dance /acid /techno /electro DJ-producer Ian Vale – “Body Control” from “Are You Online?” EP [NEIN Records]
• London-based ambient /jungle /drum & bass DJ-producer LMajor – “Third Earth” off “Third Earth / Pulsar” EP [Repertoire]
• Brussels, Belgian-based experimental bass /dub /electro /breaks /techno producer and multi-instrumentalist Maoupa Mazzocchetti – “Laura” off V/A “Annex”, Tresor Label end-of-year LP collection [Tresor Records]
• Chicago-based dark ambient /power electronics /techno /industrial experimental trio of Jonathan Krohn (Stave, Talker), Pissed Jeans’ Matt Korvette & poet Alina Pleskova, Shirtless “Standing Underneath the Piñata” from the debut LP “Empty Powers” [Downwards Records / Standards & Practices]
• Altona, Germany-based dark ambient /drone /electro /noise /experimental electronica musician Dieter Mauson (1/2 of Nostalgie Eternelle, Delta-Sleep-Inducing Peptide, and 7697 Miles), Occupied Head “En pleno día” from 2-track EP “Distorsiones” (recorded in Barranco, Lima, Perú in May 2018) [Nostalgie de la Boue]
• Italian industrial /leftfield /raw techno producer LDWG – “Feral Drift” from the live recorded “Subcore” EP [DARQ Tapes]
• Athens-based, Italian industrial /rhythmic noise /techno DJ-producer Impure Secretion – “White Cures” from “The Hanged Man” EP [Brutal Forms]
• Italian EBM /industrial /leftfield /wave /electro project of producer Francesco Baudazzi, aka Violet Poison “Last Breath” from “Death Of A Man Machine” EP [KRI]
• Berlin-based EBM /industrial /wave /post-punk /dark electro /techno duo Philipp Strobel + Friedemann Kootz – “The Night (Original)” off “The Night” EP 10″ [aufnahme + wiedergabe]
• German iconic Electro-Punk /Body Music duo DAF “El Que (Terence Fixmer Leather Remix)” from “D.A.F. – El Que (Terence Fixmer Remixes)” EP (DAF’s iconic 1981 track reimagined by French techno/EBM pioneer Terence Fixmer) [Mannequin Records]
• Berlin-based Brooklyn, NYC techno /noise /post-industrial electronics brainchild of Fade Kainer, aka STATIQBLOOM – “In The Marrow Of Cold” from “WINTER” LP
  
• Italian EBM /industrial /techno project Endless Nothing – “Internal Night” from “Forever Gone” EP [X-IMG]
• Edinburgh’s industrial /noise /techno DJ-producer Duellist “Intensive Living” (G.xist remix)” from “Intensive Living” EP [Depht.Request]
• Montreal, Québec EBM /industrial /techno /synth-punk duo Belly Hatcher “Big Bus” from the second “Late Heavy Bombardment” EP
  
• Lyon, France dark disco /electro /darkwave /indie dance /synthwave solo project Betty “Love dies” from the debut EP “Shadows and Lights” [Girls of the night records]
• US rave /dub /electro /techno project The Rules “Organizing The Flesh” title track of “Organizing The Flesh” LP [Hospital Productions]
• NYC-based acid /minimal wave /tribal /house collaboration between Italo-Mexican producer Diego Angelico Escobar and Australian late-night chill-rave artist, Concret & Kate Stein – “Pull Up (Mike Simonetti Remix)” off “Pull Up” EP [Rollover Milano Records]
• Belfast, UK indie dance /techno /house /breakbeat veteran electronic DJ-producer Phil Kieran, aka Le Carousel “Echo Spiegel – Curses Liquid Metal Mix” from “Echo Spiegel” EP
  
• Berlin-based experimental /breaks /kraut /electro /wave /house /electronic DJ-producer and Rio Label Co-head, Benedikt Frey “Tides” from ”Aid Kit” EP [Club Blanco]
• Russian acid /dub /downtempo /leftfield /psychedelic electronic duo of brothers Sasha & Sergey Lipsky aka, Simple Symmetry “Schmuck (Thomass Jackson Remix)” from “Last Party on Earth” EP [Global Warming Records]
• UK deep tech-funk /house veteran DJ-producer Colin McBean (ex-The Advent, Halcyon Daze, Mango Boy, The Reaver, Tommy Atkins), aka MR. G “G Strings” from “OG RETROSPECTIVE” remastered, 23-track compilation [Phoenix G]
• Northern Ireland acid /house /techno /electronic producer therarelowry “Campbeltown Funk” from V/A “Takeover Twenty Five” 25th anniversary compilation LP [takeover recordings]
• New York-based acid house /post-punk /dark disco/ wave /electronic DJ-producer Eliezer Perez, aka ELEZIER “Chicken Town (Basement Extended Mix)” [Chicken Town label]
• London-based acid /Italo /disco /house producer Demi Riquísimo “No Given Time” from “No Given Time” EP [Semi Delicious]
• Spanish 90s-school house duo Panka Panka “Neurotech 8384 (Original Mix)” from “Is Ma Jaus” EP [Playground Records]
• Paris, French electronic /synthwave /indie funk disco duo Simon Says and Florent Frossard, Il Est Vilain “Femme Peinture” single
  
• John Graham – “Real (Mani Festo Re-lick)”
  
• Ambient /Berlin school /cosmic /space electronic music producer Boris Sagry “A yellow dwarf pierces the cold of eternity like a warm breath”, long-form piece
  
• Minneapolis ambient /drone /tape loops sound artist and Past Inside the Present label head Zach Frizzell, aka Zakè “Low Harmonics, Part 3” from the long-form album “Low Harmonics” [Affin]
• Chicago-based ambient /drone /found sounds /post-rock /electro-acoustic /experimental longstanding project of Steven Hess and Michael Vallera, aka Cleared “Lustres” from the upcoming LP “Lustres” [Room40]
• Sweden ambient /noise /musique concrete /experimental electronic music project of Jonn Palmér Jeppsson and Henrik Viberg, aka Pink Gold “Ofta med glädje” from “Formalin” LP
  
• UK dark ambient /drone /electronic /experimental sound recording artist Black Hair Rolled In Dried Blood “Breathing Into The Wind” from “A Noise As Breath” LP