WL//WH Weekly Electronic Music Tips

Weekly Electronic Music Tips // DECEMBER #50-24

photo by Claudio Scandelli

PICKS OF THE WEEK:

JAMES PAYNE “The Grinch”

Festive offering from Fife, Scotland electronic storyteller wabbling and dizzying between Acid House, Indie dance, trippy Disco and all in between.

Italian/Australia ambient /drone /field recordings /deep listening /improv /vocal long-form collaboration between the multimedia artist, one-woman electronic choir JM (She Owl) and Paris-based ambient-pop artist KV (Heligoland), aka Jolanda Moletta and Karen Vogt “Suspended Between Worlds”

A coastal town in the Northwest of France is where Jolanda and Karen met to make a piece of music that captures a specific moment in time. The result is “Suspended Between Worlds” a 21-minute track that creates a magical timelessness where one can clear the clutter from the mind and breath in peace. Field recordings of birds chirping next to the ebb and flow of an ocean with mild breezes set the organic foundation for an evocative vocal interplay that can only be described as angelic. Layer upon layer of gently expanding soaring and falling cries drone and radiate as cool, emotional, and immersive comfort, releasing tension and chaos into a beautiful ethereal realm found somewhere above the cross-section between heaven and earth. (text by Catt Gillette)

Barcelona-based, Chilean acid /breaks /electro DJ-producer and Liquid Palms label head, Breezy S – “Sound Amplitude” off “Elekktro” EP [Liquid Palms]

Chilean producer rolls into darker shades of acid-laced electro patterns, wandering through booming snares, driving galloping basslines, granular vocoder grafts and dystopian strings.

Dutch Electronic musician and LDI Records head, Erik Griffioen (AKA Lloyd Stellar), aka Eldon Trent “Falling”

Deep and soulful ’90s Drum & Bass mode from Amsterdam electro maestro.

Barcelona-based Colombian ambient /minimal /synth /electro wave producer Non Punire “Faro” from V/A “El Fang” Valencia flood fundraising compilation [Nuova Materia]

UK ambient /field recordings /harp /classical musician Virginia Astley “Bach E Major Prelude”
Portland, OR ambient /ethereal /electronic artist (half of Mind Julep), Hollie Kenniff “The Way of the Wind” from the album “For Forever” [Nettwerk]
UK ambient /drone / dreamy /ethereal /field recordings /meditative experimental /sound artist Hadley Roe “Another Me & You” from “Softly Disappear” EP
Berlin-based experimental /dark ambient /electroacoustic /electronic producer Christoph de Babalon “Wishful” from V/A “Soon I’ll Run Out of Air: A Colourful Storm 2024” [A Colourful Storm]
Japan ambient /post-classical musician and Jokei Records head, Meillei “Prayer” from the LP “In Her Arms” [Omoide Label]
Canada ambient /drone /meditation /atmospheric /electroacoustic /electronic collaboration, aka Arbee & Zero State “Phantasm” single
Copenhagen-based ambient /drone /electroacoustic musician and collage artist Paw Grabowski, aka øjeRum “Vi Hængte Vores Harper I Piletræerne For Enden Af Dalen” from the album “Langt Fra Jorden” CD/12″ [IIKKI]
UK ambient /drone /objects /percussion /field recordings /experimental sound artists, Kate Carr and Matt Atkins “Peroxisome” from “Organelles” LP [Flaming Pines]
Sydney-based, La Plata, Argentina-native ambient /IDM /field recordings /cinematic /electro-acoustic sound artist Francisco Sonur “Bitter water” from upcoming CD LP “Random Acts of Kindness” [rohs! records]
Russian ambient /drone /IDM /dub techno /electronica producers Anton Novikov and Tatyana Maslova, aka Endlesstrains & Taennya “Dreamers of Northern Odyssey” from the LP “Crystalline Existence” [ARCHIVES]
Tokyo, Japan ambient /drone electronic /soundscapes /experimental /modern classical sound artist Seki Takashi “Rolling Stone” from upcoming LP “On The Bridge”[Lᴏɴᴛᴀɴᴏ Series / Rohs! Records]
Intercontinental ambient-tech duo Nitechord “Near” from the album “Lume” (initial cassette demo landed in PITP’s mailbox in 2022) [Past Inside the Present]
Bergen, Norway electronic duo Röyksopp “If Only For A While (ft. Susanne Sundfør)” from the LP “Nebulous Nights (An Ambient Excursion into Profound Mysteries)”ambient re-interpretation of the latest album «Profound Mysteries»
Frankfurt Am Main, Germany ambient /drone /electronic synthesist and composer and Seil Records label curator, Jogging House “Slayer” from the cassette album “Softie”
Japanese ambient /soundscape artist-producer Zeze Wakamatsu – “Tenis de Mesa” from V/A “아름다운 사실 Beautiful Facts” compilation LP [Oslated]
Osaka, Japan ambient /tribal /experimental /deep techno producer CTAFAD – “Infiltration (Martinou Interpretation)” off of “Concentric Circles” LP [ST082 / Secuencias Temporales]
Swedish ambient /techno /experimental /electronic producer Jonas Rönnberg from Stockholm, Varg “Öhn” from the remastered vinyl 12″ edition of the 2013 cassette debut album “Skaelipto” [Northern Electronics]
Washington State experimental /ambient techno /deep house /dub /electronic sound artist Drew Sullivan, aka Slow Dancing Society “Time to Wake Up” from “In The Event of a Moment vol. I” EP
Gdańsk, Poland ambient /IDM /krautrock /analog synth musician (1/2 of Pin Park), Maciek Polak “Susuwatari” from the LP “1977” [Coastline Northern Cuts]
Scotland-based ambient /drone /soundtrack /musique concrète /experimental electronic musician Everyday Dust “Towers” from the remastered 1oth year anniversary CD edition of the 2014 album “The Principality Of Dustland” [Dustopian Frequencies]
Oslo, Norway ambient /glitch /electronic musician Hamlam “77” from “Reflex” EP [Altamira Records]
Vancouver ambient /Braindance /loops /experimental /minimal /electronic project, Kristen Roos “Samb” off the cassette/12″ album “Universal Synthesizer Interface Vol III” third volume of the USI series [HOTHAM SOUND RECORDINGS / We Are Busy Bodies]
Amsterdam IDM /Braindance /glitch /downtempo /experimental /electronic musician Roel Funcken “Funck’d – Flipped” off of “Data Curation 2” compilation [EC Underground]
German ambient /IDM /drone /downtempo /electronic musician, Christian Kleine “Shadows of a Fire” from the LP “Relic Memories” (recorded between 1999-2001 in Berlin)
Berlin-based North of France ambient /IDM /electro /electronic musician Erell Ranson “Leap Into the Unknown” from the album “Fragments of Memories” [Neo Ouija]
UK ambient /IDM /electronica duo Jeroen Bax (aka exm) and Touched Music head Martin Boulton (aka Min-Y-Llan), Heogen “Primeval” from s/t album [Touched Music]
Berlin-based experimental /IDM /breaks /techno Macedonian DJ-producer Aleksandar Grozdanovski, aka Herzel “Water Witch” from the album “See²” [EVEL]
French lo-fi /electronic /shoegaze /indie rock solo project of Gauthier from Parisian Dream Pop outfit Prune 99, Scepticisme “Wide Awake (Ryefield Society remix)” from “Wide Awake” EP [Spleencore Records]
Lecce-based, Italian experimental electronic /cumbia /’Latin ambient’ DJ and producer Andrea Mangia, aka Populous “Objetos enterrados” single [latinambient]
New York City-based lo-fi /ambient /hauntology /downtempo /trip-hop artist Eddie Palmer, aka CLOUDWARMER “Let the Banks Disfigure You in Small Ways” from “Nostalgia For a Future That Never Happened” LP
UK-based proto-post-punk /drums /bass /breaks /electronic project of Italo-Japanese experimental composers and multi-instrumentalists Valentina Magaletti & Susumu Zongamin Mukai, aka V/Z “Stickers” from the cassette album “It’s Cold in Baltimore” [Offen Music]
French ambient /dub /deep techno /drum and bass /breaks /downtempo producer and Collectif Exocet co-founder, AH&N – “Aporia” from “Ways” EP [Monochrome Records]
Argentina acid /bass /techno /breaks /electronic DJ-producer Dani Labb – “breaklickmysub” off V/A “Orbea” compilation [Intersub]
Osaka, Japan-based Californian ambient /IDM /techno producer Erik Luebs – “Toward Entropy” off upcoming V/A “Paerels III” compilation 3×12″ LP [Nous’klaer Audio]
Munich-based ambient /IDM /house /broken beats DJ-producer, and co-owner of the Permanent Vacation label, Tom Bioly “Chasin’ A Dream” from the upcoming LP “Chasin‘ A Dream” [Permanent Vacation]
Zürich, Switzerland ambient /psych /tribal /house /electronica producer John Parsley “Temple Of Oblivion” from “Phagen” EP [kontrapost]
Glasgow, UK dub /tribal /psych /downtempo project of DJ-producer GK Machine (of Komodo Kolektif), aka Gamma Knife “The Seven Heavenly Elements” from charity album “Kuts” 12″ [Invisible, Inc.]
Oslo-based funk /disco/house veteran British producer Dan Tyler (of the legendary 90s duo Idjut Boys), aka NAD “Release The Pigeon” from “DB12 017″ edit EP 12” [Duca Bianco]
Amsterdam-based ambient /post-industrial /breaks /downtempo /techno /acid /psych /tribal Italian sonic explorer, producer and live performer Marco Segato (aka MS, and Narvalo), aka La Serpiente “ⵣ” from “Elaphe Dione” EP 12″ [Random Numbers]
Toulouse IDM /breaks /electro producer Youl Dirlès, aka R 325 “vxlazr1133141123” from “V/A Vol. 3” compilation CD [Herrensauna]
Spain-based IDM /electro producer Sigma_ALgebra “Cauchy Schwarz” off “Functional Analysis” EP [Science Cult]
Moscow-based ghetto tech /electro /breaks /producer Soblazn – “Television” off “Hello World” EP [Posse Up]
London-based acid /techno /electro producer and live act Obzerv “After Life” from “Filter Locked” EP [Crazed Behaviour]
Saint Petersburg-based bass /breakbeat DJ-producer Sasha Balykova, aka Errortica “Copy Me” [System 108]
Hamburg, Germany industrial /new wave /breakbeat /techno /electro DJ-producer and live act L.F.T. “Hidden In The Waves” from upcoming “KeyGenerator” EP [Mechatronica]
Italian leftfield /acid /techno /electro electronic punk project based in Venice by Pietro Giubilato, aka TLXCO “Murder Dance” from “Madness of Love Affairs” EP [Selvamancer]
Brooklyn, NY experimental industrial /techno /house producer and L.I.E.S. Records head honcho Ron Morelli “A Great City Crumbles Under The Guise Of Progress” from the cassette album “Extinctionist” [L.I.E.S. Records]
Paris-based French EBM /disco /indie dance /80s soundtrack /electro /synth producer (Fka Gewalt), Gewaltem – “Alprazolam” from the cassette album “Damaged Film” [Intervision]
Berlin-based Russian experimental /post-industrial/ post-punk solo project, ROSA DAMASK “Adore You (Dave Clarke Club Solitaire Remix)” from the LP “Adore You” [Downwards Records]
Hamburg, Germany ambient /dark electro /techno body music /electro-industrial project of Sebastian Sünkler (aka Stiminal), aka Stahlschlag “Gayatri Mantra” from the album “Amrita” [ProNoize]
Berlin-based industrial /body-techno producer Panternoise “Perlen vor die Säue (INVERNO remix)” from “Perlen vor die Säue” remix LP [GLANZ + ELEND]
Belgian Industrial /Post-punk /EBM /Techno producer and Nu Body Records co-founder, Ethan Fawkes – “Militia (Magnum Opus Remix)” off “Militia (Remix Compilation)” LP [N.I.M / Northern Industrial Movement]
Antioquia, Colombia experimental /industrial /dark electro /EBM /techno producer Faunes Efe, aka Filmmaker “Dragon days” from the album “Great Tribulations”
Berlin-based new beat /EBM /industrial /techno DJ-producer and X-IMG label head, Sarin “Culling” from the album “Moral Cleansing” [X-IMG]
French industrial /EBM /techno producer IV Horsemen “Managarm” off V/A “Nightshade Prophecy” EP 12″ [Silent Ground]
Vancouver, Canada indie dance /dark techno /dark disco producer, LEGOHEADS – The Ouija Board from “Out The Planet” EP [Nein Records]
Madison, Wisconsin new beat /industrial /dark electro duo klack “Good Luck, Babe! (The Loud Guy’s Club Edit)” from “Good Luck, Babe!” (Chappell Roan cover) maxi single
Italian EBM /proto-funk /synth punk /sex wave duo from Umberto Cavalloni and Giacomo Stefani, aka SLF IMG “Sex” off “Chiodi” EP co-produced and mixed by Luca Venezia (Curses) [Ombra International]
Berlin-based dark disco /new wave /electronic /synth-wave project of duo Local Suicide and producer Kalipo, Dina Summer “Hypnotized” single from the second LP “Girls Gang” [Iptamenos Discos]
EBM /electroclash project of London-based techno trailblazer Wax Wings and Slovenian artist Miha, aka WAX WINGS, MIHA feat. Lucille Croft – “WHAT IF I TOLD YOU TO (Munsinger Remix)” off debut “The Confession” EP [Citizen Records]
Italian retro /Italo /synthwave /synth-pop music composer ZERO CALL “Distant Victory (Zero Call & Artificio Rmx)” from upcoming EP “Distant Victory” [Emerald & Doreen Records / Italo Italians]
Krakow, Polish electro /synth wave /Italo disco /eclectic electronic DJ-producer and multi-instrumentalist Leona Jacewska, aka Charlie “Let Go (David Vunk Remix)” from “Spacewoman Remixed” EP [Wrong Era]
Jakarta, Indonesia Indie Dance /Dark Disco project of Rizki Soerja Djanegara, aka Peaces – “Poised Ranger (Arvin Fajar Remix)” off “Hour Strike” EP [ODD Pleasures]
Guatemala City‘s dark disco /house /indie dance producer Javier Celis A.K.A. Mverto Futura “La Llorona Se Aparece en El Río?!” from V/A “Vórtices” EP [Kyma Komplex]
Italian acid /drone /tribal /psych /trance /progressive /slo-mo /downtempo /experimental artist (one half of Future Island and Eurospeed with Oltrefuturo), Treasure Island “LSD (Original Mix)” from “Torbido” EP [Melomana Records]
Brighton, UK acid /deep house /dub /chug /space disco producer Ben Hunt “Shimmering Lights (Rude Audio Remix)” from “Shimmering Lights” EP [Paisley Dark Records]
Italian indie dance /electro /house duo Materia Prima – “Silky” off “Embryo” EP [Nothing Is Real Records]
Lithuanian EBM /Italo /disco /house producer Roe Deers – “Dial (Edit)”
Valencia-based dark disco /psych /tribal /indie dance Spanish DJ and producer, Camilo Sanjuan – “Magec” off of “Jareas” EP [Side Up Works]
Budapest/Vienna trippy disco /tribal /indie dance collaboartion Geopard Tourist & Nick Hanzo “Dizzy Rider (GT Club Ride)” off Geopard Tourist, Nick Hanzo & oltrefuturo‘s “Dizzy Rider” EP [Belly Dance Services]
Midnight Oil – “Beds Are Burning (Future City Punks Outback Dub Edit)” Indie Dance/ Dark Disco edit by Melbourne-based artists Traxion & Sam In Space (aka Future City Punks)
Athens, Greece Dark Disco/ Italo Body Music producer featuring London-based Volition label head honcho, Kay-Chi & Frank Brady – “Untold Truth” from Kay-Chi & Keymon‘s “Time Capsule” EP [VOLITION]
Cadiz, Spain indie dance /nu-disco DJ-producer Adrián Peña Sánchez, aka Calystarr – “Connections (TDWS Remix)” off “Connections” EP [BURNING SYNTHS]
Berlin-based indie dance /Italo disco Italo/Mexican production duo Berny & Leonor – “Groovy Psycho” from “Groovy Psycho” EP [Epicure Records]
Italian ’80s New Wave/Italo /synth-pop DJ-producer Amarcord “Amarcord ft. The Archivist” – “Italo Disco” from V/A “Anthology : part I & II” LP [Ritmo Fatale]
Paris, France acid /ethnic /techno /mighty electronic music crew ACID ARAB “Halim Guelil feat. Cheb Halim (Yuksek Remix)” [Crammed Discs]
London-based ambient /flute /piano house /dub /funk / kaleidoscopic psychedelic collective founded by Robbie Redway with psychedelic researchers Mathieu Seynaeve and WaiFung Tsang, United Freedom Collective “Between Memories” from upcoming “Bright Patterns” EP [Multi Culti]
French ambient /dub /deep techno /drum and bass /breaks /downtempo producer and Collectif Exocet co-founder, AH&N – “Aporia” from “Ways” EP [Monochrome Records]
Berlin-based ambient /drone /field recordings /techno /experimental artist, producer and musician Florian TM Zeisig, aka Angel R “Provider II (feat. PVAS)” from upcoming “Mossed Capable Of Being Observant” LP [enmossed]
Dublin, Ireland veteran ambient /drone /meditative /improv /field recordings /electro-acoustic /electronica producer since the mid-90s (half of Autumn Of Communion with Lee Norris), Mick Chillage “Earth Spaces Pt.2″ from the album “Earth Spaces”
UK/Belgium ambient /minimal /loops /field recordings /guitar drone collaborative long-form piece by Home Normal curator Ian Hawgood and photographer Stijn Hüwels, aka Ian Hawgood & Stijn Hüwels “Suzu” [Home Normal]
Edinburgh, UK dark ambient /drone /noise project Fordell Research Unit “John Gray” from “December Tapes Vol1” LP
New Zealand ambient /space music /electronic musician and composer, Rudy Adrian “The Sleepy Hills 6 Extended” (long-form ambient version of “The Sleepy Hills 6”, originally released on Rudy Adrian’s latest sleep focused album, “Beyond The Sleepy Hills”) [Spotted Peccary Music]
Charlotte, NC modular ambient /drone /field recordings /soundscapes project, d york “Dubiety” [Neotantra]