WL//WH Weekly Electronic Music Tips

Weekly Electronic Music Tips – NOVEMBER // DECEMBER #48-23

Fukuoka City Bank, Ropponmatsu Branch

PICKS OF THE WEEK:

  • “Touch Of Cosmos” [Underground Italo] by RUNE COSMIC                                                                                      

All the multifaceted shades of Underground Italo in the vinyl-only mix (slightly faulty, somewhere, but with some very rare tracks) by veteran Danish DJ (since 1979) and vinyl collector (since 1983Rune Cosmic aka Universal Beats.

  • South London-based South Sudanese/British ambient /2-steps /electro /breaks /dubstep /bass music producer and DJ (former member of the Sicaria Sound duo), Mia Koden “Après Vous” from “Decode” EP 12″ [Ilian Tapes]

Tantalizing warm bass flavors, broken, lanky, loose knocking percussive patterns and soulful echoing vocal samples, stir out deep enwrapping effusions of near-comatose dubwise bliss. A perfect match between the up-and-coming British artist and the longtime consistent Munich label run by the Zenker brothers.

  • Montreal, Quebec techno /prog house /breaks /dark trance /electronic producer Maara – “Juicy Tracksuit” from “Hear Me Neigh” EP 12” [Kalahari Oyster Cult]

Percussive bass-heavy, both sultry and eerie, mercurial Prog House euphoria, buzzing, swooshing and wavering wrapped around shifting and adventurous high-end synth expanses, to elicit a heady immersion into a rousing and mesmerizing dancefloor escapism.

  • Vienna-based dark electronics /drone / industrial /techno British producer Mahk Rumbae (aka Antechamber and part of 80s UK industrial pioneers Konstruktivists), aka Codex Empire “Antem Crackler” off upcoming “Overneed” EP [Rant & Rave]

Full on grit, hiss, and crunch an impressively lashing, lacerating, and sweeping Industrial Techno juggernaut stomper from the masterful Vienna-based producer.

  • Ellsworth, Maine ambient /drone /electronic composer Bryan Hilyard, aka Hilyard “spindrift” from 2-tracker “spindrift” [Stereoscenic Records]
  • Connecticut-based ambient /cinematic /ethereal /modern classical musician Austin Joy “Undercurrent” from the album “An Artist in the Waves”
  • Osaka, Japan ambient /electro-acoustic /folk /folktronica music composer (member of FANCLUB), Noda Yûki “Winter Triangle” single
  • L.A./Toronto ambient /ethereal /space music /electro-acoustic sound artists James Bernard & anthéne “Overcast” from “Soft Octaves” LP 12″ [Past Inside the Present]
  • Leuven, Belgium drone /minimalism /loops /field recordings / processed guitar /ambient musician and composer (Silent Vigils), Stijn Hüwels “Décalage 5″ from the cassette album “décalages” [Dauw]
  • Los Angeles solo ethereal ambient pop project of Cynthia Bernard, aka MARINE EYES “Lessons in letting go” from the album “Lessons in letting go: sketches + b-sides” [self-released]
  • Virtual ambient experimental duo, comprised of Paris-based Australian dream-pop vocalist and musician (one half of Heligoland), Karen Vogt and Málaga-born, Spanish composer and multi-instrumentalist Pepo Galán, aka GALÁN / VOGT “Engrama (The Space Between Numbers Remix)” from the remix album “All The Time In The World” [Editions Furioso]
  • Danish experimental /ambient /electronic artist Efera “Victoriously From Now” from the cassette album “Beloved Envoi Romance” [Janushoved]
  • Italian dark ambient /experimental /drone sound artist Autumn Rites “Autumn Rites 6” from the album “Autumn Rites” [Neotantra]
  • French dark ambient /electronic /dark poetry artist Marc Garin, aka Le Vitriol Hermétique “Feu” from “Déambulations” LP [Kalamine Records]
  • Edinburgh, Scotland ambient /field recordings /electro-acoustic /electronic artist, designer and musician, Tommy Perman “Six Million Rivets (Radio Edit)” from the 10″ album “The Resonant Viaduct” [Blackford Hill]
  • UK based ambient /drone /experimental folk /medieval /improv /classical composer, performer and improviser, Laura Cannell “Sun Processionals” from the 8th album “Midwinter Processionals” [Brawl Records]
  • Northern Italy ambient /minimalist /breaks /percussive /deep techno duo Daniele Alessi and Gabriel Pivaro, aka ALPI “Paeonia” from “Flora Resonantia” EP 12″ [Trule]
  • Edinburgh, UK ambient /drone /jazz /modern classical /dub /Berlin school /electronic modular synth musician (half of Darkroom), Andrew Ostler “Tunes Blown Tremulous in Glass” from the upcoming vinyl fourth album “Dots on a Disk of Snow” [Expert Sleepers]
  • Danish experimental /ambient /breaks /electronic sound artist Tevere “Shadow Advantage” from the upcoming V/A “We Dance To Remember” compilation cassette [Janushoved]
  • New York-based ambient /IDM /microglitch /microhouse /electronic producer Build “Orientating Points” title track of the album “Orientating Points” [Audiobulb]                                                                               
  • Iceland ambient /techno /electronic producer Árni Grétar, AKA Futuregrapher “Móatún” from the 2×10″ vinyl reissue of the 2016 LP “Hrafnagil” [Móatún 7]
  • German experimental /samples /r&b /collage /electronic producer Jan Jelinek (aka Gramm, Farben), aka The Exposures – “Collage Of Digital Passion” (originally released in 2005 on the Eastern Developments label) from Roméo Poirier & The Exposures aka Jan Jelinek “LOVE/HATE” split 7″ EP [Faitiche]
  • Buenos Aires-based ambient /trip-hop /downtempo /electronic project of producers and musicians Lucas Chaumont and Santiago Niño, aka Lux & Hermetics “Timeless” off “Helios” EP [Optimo Music]
  • Scotland‘s lo-fi /ambient /drone /dub /noise /groove /psych rock/downtempo band led by Mark Scanlan, aka Black Hill Transmissions “Leatheroid vs. The Atomic Bomb” from the new ltd. box set album “TRANSMISSION #3”
  • Offenbach, German ambient /breaks /psych /trance /downtempo DJ-producer (aka Kalocain, Steppin’ Wolf and 1/2 of Recht Auf Rausch), AJO “Zazen (II) (Tassilo Vanhöfen Remix)” from “Maeng Da” EP [Electric Shapes]
  • Grenoble, France ambient /breakbeat /post-reggaeton /psych /trance /techno DJ-producer Chichiga – “Remember November” off V/A “DALF vol.1” compilation [DALF Records]
  • Mexico City ambient /organic house /slow techno collaboration, Kris Berle & Ōme – “Dissonance” single [Amselcom]
  • Berlin, Germany psych /synth pop /analog electronica duo AFAR “Vervain (Efdemin‘s Acid Dream Remix)” [Laut & Luise]
  • UK radiophonic /kraut /acid /analogue synth /electronic producer Martin Jenkins aka Pye Corner Audio “Acid Addendum” single
  • UK old school acid /IDM /experimental electro producer and Rephlex Records affiliated, Johnny Hawk, aka Global Goon “Syntheseers” from “Nanoclusters” LP 12” [Central Processing Unit]
  • Berlin-based ambient /IDM /breaks /electro producer Thomas Pahl, aka VERTICAL67 “Movie Stills” from upcoming 2024 “Changes” LP 2×12″ [Analogical Force]
  • London-based ambient /soundtrack /techno /wave /electro /synth DJ-producer, Timothy “J” Fairplay “Back To The Stone Age” from the cassette album “Rule The Streets” [Dungeon Module]
  • UK experimental electronic project from Nurse With Wound affiliated Diana Rogerson (aka Dido, Chrystal Belle Scrodd), aka Bad Diana “Cupboardie Re-Nude” from the vinyl 12″ reissue of the 2007 album “The Lights Are On But No-One’s Home” produced in association with Steven Stapleton and Colin Potter [Optimo Music Archiv]
  • ’80s Berlin-based dark electro /synthpop /minimal wave duo Vono “Der Zauberer (Wunschmaschine Edit)” [1982]
  • Berna, Switzerland Italo disco synthpop hardware producer Narco Marco “Bald Tag” 7″ single [Pace In Stereo]
  • New York‘s experimental post-punk /no-wave act founded in 1980, Ike Yard – “Loss (A-Tweed Edit)” [originally from 1982 Factory America S/T LP]
  • Italian kraut /acid house /electro /space rock electronic music producer Davide Nicosia based in Bologna, aka Acid Youth “Polyptych” from “My Acid” EP [Elephant Gait]
  • Chicago, IL industrial /experimental /post-punk /noise /no wave /body horror /electronic duo JULIA “Lemon View” off the second LP “The Outside Harms”
  • French Synth Wave /Minimal Synth /Cold Wave /Synth-Punk outfit Corps Déchiré “Dhalgren”
  • Italian darkwave /synth-pop /minimal wave duo of Nicola Buono & Lino Monaco, aka The NE-21 “ High Rise (L.F.T. Remix)” from “In the Realm of Electricity Remixed” EP [She Lost Control]
  • ’80s Slovenia/Yugoslavia post-punk /industrial band O! Kult “Zvestoba (Christian Kroupa Remix)” from upcoming “Zvestoba” EP 12″ [KRI]
  • Leipzig-based Body Music /Techno /New Wave /Electro producer, painter, Rat Life label boss, Alexander Dorn a.k.a. Credit 00 – “Cars Rule Everything Around Me” off the vinyl album “Midnightlife Crisis” [Pinkman]
  • Russian EBM /darkwave /techno /electronic artist (Fka Metaamour), Safir “God (Operator Uno Remix)” from “God” EP
  • Queenstown, Tasmania retro industrial dance producer Sarah Eden, aka Scratch Kelly “The Damage Done”
  • Berlin-based EBM /breakbeat /industrial/ techno French producer, Incendie – “Burned Out” from V/A “All Clebards Are Bastards Vol.3” compilation [CSC Records]
  • Berlin-based industrial /techno /EBM American/Cuban producer Joey Blush, aka Blush Response “Tainted Vessel” from “In Exile” Mini-LP 12” [Persephonic Sirens]
  • Springfield, IL industrial /EBM /techno producer Daymon Kiliman, a.k.a. Luct Melod “Hypnotic Prognosis” from V/A “DFTD VA001” first label’s compilation LP [Disco for the Damned]
  • Brazilian experimental /industrial /EBM /techno producer Edvan Marques Ferreira, aka MVQX “The Funky” from “Live For Esperpento (Live Cuts)” EP
  • Swedish industrial /Electro /Acid /Electronic Body Music producer Anders Karlsson (Severe Illusion o The Pain Machinery), Celldöd “Pandoras Ask” title track of the upcoming EP 12″ [Electronic Emergencies]
  • Prague-based French ritual /EBM /industrial /noise /techno producer Léo Hivert aka The Undertaker’s Tapes “Kneel Before Fake Idols” off “Kneel Before Fake Idols” EP 12″ [Persephonic Sirens]
  • US industrial /EBM /experimental /synth /dark electronics four-piece, aka Domestic Exile “Die Tiere in der Luft” from self-titled EP cassette [DKA Records]
  • Mexican dark ambient /industrial /soundtrack /darkwave /electronica artist Dellarge “Ciudad Vicio” from “REGIMEN GALACTICO TOTALITARIO” EP 12″ [Oráculo Records]
  • Paris-based Italo-Disco /Wave /EBM /indie dance DJ & producer, Belaria “Burning Inside (Zombies In Miami Remix)” from “Burning Inside Remix” EP [Friendsome]
  • Batumi, Georgia EBM /breakbeat/ techno producer, resident and Khmebi label co-owner, KHORUMI “No Way” from “CATHARSIS” EP [Khmebi]
  • London, UK based avant-garde /classical /techno music producer and DJ, Die Arkitekt “Aenaa”
  • Italian rave /techno /trance producer BRUNA – “I Love You So” from V/A “SCVA001” compilation LP [SLOW COMA]
  • Germany based EBM /esoteric dark techno US producer and Occultists label head, JAMES DEMON “After Life” from “Sucker Punch” EP [Clan Destine Records]
  • Germany-based EBM acid /house /progressive /techno producer Static Dancer “Andere Mal” from upcoming cassette EP [Pildoras Tapes]
  • Berlin-based EBM /electronic /dark disco /electroclash British Producer-Remixer-DJ and Nein Records label boss Neil Parnell aka Tronik Youth “Scream Machine” from CTRL+S 2023 from a selection of 10 edits from the vaults of TY [Nein Records] ‘s hard drive
  • Bay Area industrial /acid /techno project of bruitist-avantgarde pioneer Elden M. (Allegory Chapel Ltd), aka Avellan Cross “Luminol (Beta)” from the 2xCD compilation “UTN Rising Anthology” [Phage Tapes]
  • Russian ambient /space /house /psy prog /trance electronic DJ/producer Konstantin Isayev (aka Volta Cab), aka Rambal Cochet “Twisted Reality” from “Dolphin’s Dance” EP 12″ [Alzaya]
  • Berlin-based chillrave /deep house /dark downtempo electronic producer Kerosino “Nibirias (Air Horse One Remix)” from “Nibirias & Kalevala” EP [down.]
  • Bomfunk MC’s – “B-Boys & Fly Girls (Bizzarro Universe Italo Trance Edit)”;
  • French Turkish folk /indie dance /progressive-psy trance /electronic music composer and multi-instrumentalist (ITHAK, Anarchist Republic of Bzzz), Seb El Zin “The Hashashin´s Aksak” off upcoming “Lingua Minimalista” EP [THISBE RECORDINGS]
  • Berlin-based Toronto‘s synth wave /cosmic disco /indie dance electronic producer Sidney Sheldon Thompson aka Sid Le Rock – “Fear Diary” off upcoming V/A “Pals Vol. 8” compilation [Play Pal Music]     
  • Vilnius, Lithuania house /rap /trash /surf /soul /indie dance /girl punk trio, SHISHI “I Cannot Believe (Roe Deers Remix)” from “Remixes” EP [Good Skills]
  • Berlin-based Israeli acid /techno /dark disco /indie dance DJ-producer Avi Sakorka “Close Your Eyes” off “Dancid” EP [Nein Records]
  • Spanish/Mexican EBM /dark disco collaboration, JG Outsider & Andrea Acosta – “Inferno” from V/A “Pyramid” compilation [Samo]
  • Saint Petersburg‘s Italo /dark disco electronic DJ-producer Etane “Ai ‘Tōru“ from “Ai ‘Tōru’” EP [ODD Pleasures]
  • Berlin-based Russian/British EBM /dark disco collaboration Clouzer & Radondo – “Time Warp” from “Time Warp” EP [Distant Gaze]
  • México acid /Italo /dark disco producer Alfredo Cardenas, aka Montessori “Ataraxia (Mystery Affair Remix)” from “Ataraxia” EP [Roam Recordings]
  • US cosmic /HI-NRG /trance /Italo disco producer TDWS – “Chameleon” off V/A “Altered States Vol.10” EP [Sinchi Collective]
  • Paris-based EBM /dark disco /Italo DJ-producer Naominitel – “Solenoid Engine (Bubs remix)” from “Proton Transfer” EP [Kasa Obake]
  • Dischi Edits: Captain Hollywood Project – “More And More (Modular Project Rework)” [Dischi Autunno]
  • London-based chillwave /house /synthpop /synthwave producer Emil Rottmayer – “Cycles” from “Synthetic” LP 12″ [Eye Witness Records]
  • Milan, Italy nu-Italo /dark electronic /synthpop producers Fred Ventura and Paolo Gozzetti aka ITALOCONNECTION “Today Tomorrow” from “Remote Sessions” EP
  • Italian electro-disco producer, musician, DJ and co-owner of Raibano Records, Alberto Melloni – “Mint Condition” off V/A “Buone Vacanze Vol. 3″ EP 12” [Bordello A Parigi]
  • Uttam Singh – “Le Gayi (Pedro Bertho Edit) #73″ from “REPHRASE COLLECTION 2023” [HARD FIST]
  • French ambient /psych /dubstep /percussive /breaks DJ and producer, Siu Mata “Kenorland” from “Amasia” EP 12″ [Nervous Horizon]
  • Toronto-based industrial /drum & bass /dub /breakbeat /electro /leftfield techno /experimental electronics Iraqi-born producer Rita Mikhael, aka E-Saggila “Gamma Tag” from upcoming 2014 “Gamma Tag” LP CD [Northern Electronics]
  • Moscow-based experimental /industrial /chthonic techno producer Mikhail Lavrukhin, aka Vzor Toski “The Prospected Mind” first single
  • Brooklyn-based ambient experimental electronic musician Nik Dawson, aka Bookworms “untitled” from the album “compartmentalized”
  • Italian experimental modular synth musician based in Rome, Giulio Fontana, aka OGLE “Nebula” from the cassette album “Constellation” [Frosti]
  • 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, a former member of The Remote Viewer and half of Famous Boyfriend), aka Observatories “autumn diffusion” from “Autumn Diffusion – winter seclusion” 2-track long-form cassette album [Dauw]
  • New Zealand ambient electronica project of Stephen Clover, aka Seht “World of Sleep” from the CD album “Another (Looped) Sunday” [Another Sunday]
  • Bradford, UK kraut /post-rock /spectral ambient electronica project of Gavin Miller (former member of Johnny Poindexter), worriedaboutsatan “Live Set II (Autumn/ Winter)” from the annual live album “Live 2023

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