WL//WH Weekly Post-Punk // Darkwave // Dark Synth Tips

Weekly Post-Punk // Darkwave // Dark Synth Tips – SEPTEMBER 2024 – #38-24

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It’s time for Loud Cities radio show, led by the one and only longtime WL//WH brother Mike D to return to the airwaves for the #Season_6 on http://www.mercury-radio.net/  every Thursday 22.00 -00.00 (21.00 – 23.00 CET). Tune in!!!📡

PICKS OF THE WEEK:

  • Stockholm, Swedish experimental industrial pop /modular synth artist Majestoluxe “Life​-​as​-​a​-​Service” single via Icons Creating Evil Art

Edgy and oppressive Electro Industrial single from Stockholm‘s modular synth finest. Relentless tight clanking drum programming, cracklingly warbling bottom ends, and anxious oscillating gritty electronic textures discomfortingly enfold ominous distorted vocals, harshly unveiling the socio-economic commodification of humankind.

  • Moscow-based EBM /new beat /darkwave /synthpop duo of German roots, May Diem – “VBDN” off the second EP “Marionette” [Oberwave Records]

Moscow-based duo with a German root deliver morbid and disturbing BDSM-clad Dark Disco groove that conjures equal parts sleaze, debauchery and lasciviousness, combining mechanical EBM-charged buzzing basslines with throbbing cracking rhythms, and swirling sizzling electronic textures, led by breathy cold and restless spoken word vocals, building both haunting and hedonistic dancefloor lust.

  • Toronto-based Goth /Darkwave /Post-Punk duo Give My Remains to Broadway “Far from me” single

Canadian two-piece doomers border between classic moody post-punk blueprints, and gothic-tinged darkwave, with a steady quality songwriting enhanced by a compelling expressive and resonant vocal delivery. “Far from Me” is an emotional track about the fear of losing a loved one, encapsulated by anxious heartfelt vocals vibrating in sync with rushing urgent rhythms, humming basslines and sad reflective guitar reverberations, to warm the soul with love and compassion.

  • Dole-based drone /electro-acoustic /neo-classical / dark ambient /piano project of French pianist and composer, Philippe Blache (Day Before Us) “Sonnant à Sombres Timbre” from the album “Tristitiam Et Metus Tradam Portare Ventis” CD [Conjvre the Circle]
  • Bremen, Germany dark ambient /coldwave /darkwave /post-punk /dreamwave project of Anna Nin, aka Glaring “September”
  • Brittany folklore /industrial /experimental /electronic /medieval /dark folk project of Marseille-based artist Hoel Von Helvet, aka Yeun Elez “La croix des cinq chemins” title track of the cassette album “La croix des cinq chemins” [Antibody label]
  • Minimal Coldwave /Post Punk solo project from Italy, Love of Consolation “Fleeting Eyes” from “Fleeting Eyes + September Night” single
  • Italian veteran dark wave duo from Milan formed in the mid-90s, Vidi Aquam “Ghost Dance” from the new vinyl 12″ album “Lights and Shadows”
  • Hamburg-based Ethereal Wave /Dark Wave solo project of Grundeis singer UNDINYX ‘Metaxis’ off the new album “Antarctica” 
  • Monterrey, Mexico coldwave /post-punk band KROOVYS “Non Vixit” (single)
  • Hamburg four piece psychedelic rock /shoegaze /post-punk band Grundeis “Strange” 2nd single from from the second album „Every Second an Ocean“ via UNDRESSED Records
  • French post-rock /wave /shoegaze /post-punk band URGE “Desolated Auguries” single via Icy Cold Records
  • St. Petersburg-based goth /post-punk /darkwave solo project Blind Dreams “As Simple As Snow” single
  • İstanbul, Türkiye post-punk /darkwave duo Tuzla “55 Dinamit” from the 2-tracker “GELECEK”
  • French ambient /goth /indie rock /noir rock band Kiss Me Black “June” from the 2-track single “June / Downsouth” via Seventh Crow Records
  • Washington D.C. 4-piece dark disco /darkwave /gothic rock band The Neuro Farm “Broken Mirror” from the album “Voices”
  • Berlin, Germany gothic /post-punk /darkwave band Midnight Darkwave “Desperate Light” from the album “Sorrowful Dreams”
  • Gothic rock band from Finland, Distant Stares “Fairytales and Fighting” single
  • Italian new wave /post-punk band Vasa Kumora “Hanging Truths” single
  • Monterrey, Mexico darkwave /gothic rock trio DELIVERANCE “Need Your Back” single
  • Cleveland, OH Afro-Futuristic Post-Punk solo project of Nate Eberhardt, aka Nature “Doors Of Perception” title track of the album “Doors Of Perception”
  • Kassel, Germany gothic rock duo of Julian Aust (ex-Velinas) and Christian Rossbach (ex-Madre Del Vizio/ Madre, Chassalla, Moribund Thirteen A.D.), aka The Shallow Graves “Your Ghost” from upcoming third LP “These Hands Let Go” via Wave Records
  • Lithuanian Darkwave /Post-Punk solo project Ghostwave “The Beholder” single
  • Sao Paulo, Brazilian Goth /New Wave /Post-Punk band, The Secret Shelson’s Band – “The Meaning Of Hell” from the debut album “Back In Time”
  • Lisbon-based coldwave /darkwave act IAMTHESHADOW “Bleed Dry” 2nd single off the upcoming album “To End What Never Began” via Cold Transmission Music
  • Budapest/Gyöngyös, Hungarian Goth /Post-Punk /Dark Wave four piece band Cold Contrast “Falling Down” from the debut LP “Last Honest Words”
  • Cincinnati, Ohio Post-Punk /New Wave /Cold Wave band LOUSE “Passions Like Tar” title track of debut album “Passions Like Tar” via Feel It Records
  • Manchester, UK new wave /post-punk band IST IST “Hope To Love Again” from the sophomore LP “Light A Bigger Fire”
  • Spain/Belgium electro / new wave duo of Murcia-based producer JG Outsider & Belgian artist Gerd Van Geel (singer of The Arch), aka BELLA ETERNA “The Realm Of The Women” from the upcoming CD debut album “Pornographic Shadows” [UNKNOWN PLEASURES RECORDS]
  • Hamburg, Germany‘s 80s goth /post-punk band fronted by Anja Huwe, Xmal Deutschland “Die Wolken (No More Remix)” from the remix single “Demon Diamonds” via Sacred Bones 
  • Berlin-based, Belgrade-bred noir synth-pop /post new wave duo Lidija Andonov & Laslo Antal, SIXTH JUNE “Wake up” from the 8th album “Stay!” CD/Vinyl 12” via Young and Cold Records
  • Greek synth wave /electro-pop /synth-pop musician Costas Andriopoulos (aka 23rd Underpass), aka Costas Andrio “The Frozen Tears” from the compilation “My Memories [Individual Tracks Version]” [Nadanna]
  • Italian post-punk /dark wave /synth-pop one-man band Rioux Désolés “Tuesday”
  • Mexican dark wave /minimal wave solo act Silis “Nouvel” single via We are one Records
  • Retro-futuristic /proto-electro punk /analogue wave /synth pop duo of A.M. and Zombierella (half of horror punk Messer Chups), The Bleak Engineers “Morphidae Fly (Original Mix)” from the upcoming LP “The Mystical Dream”
  • Portland, OR industrial /EBM /cold wave /minimal synth electronics project of Nic Hamersly, Ortrotasce “External World” single
  • Munich, Germany NDW /EBM /techno/dark wave /synth-pop band Rue Oberkampf “Soror” from 2-track single “Soror Aeterna”
  • Italian industrial /darkwave /new beat /dark electronics solo project of composer and producer (member of post-punk band The Coventry), Kurs “Dream Domain (feat Philip Rourke of Nul Telexes)” from the upcoming album “Dreamer” via SwissDarkNights Label
  • LA based darkwave /electro-pop /EBM /electronic duo Sleek Teeth “Gone (Night Cult Mix)” from upcoming V/A “Strict Tempo: Volume One (Part 2)” 2 parts compilation CD [Strict Tempo]
  • Mexican EBM /Synthpop /Esoteric Body Music /New Wave DJ-producer Dimitri Berzerk “Statera feat. Pascal Languirand” single
  • Münster, Germany EBM /synth-pop /dark electro new project of  Sevren Ni-Arb from X Marks The Pedwalk and his son LMX, aka Duophonic Noise Construction “Always” debut single [Meshwork Music]
  • German synthpop act Beborn Beton – “American Girls” off the upcoming album “To The Stars” via Dependent Records
  • Paris-based industrial /EBM solo act Null Split “Bite My Tongue” single
  • Duisburg, Germany darkwave /techno /EBM solo act SGRA – “Die Welt brennt” from the LP “Midnight”
  • Spanish retro-futuristic /industrial /dark electro collaboration, Nightcrawler & Dark Vektor “Oscuridad Sint​é​tica” single
  • UK witch-house /dark electronic producer Jake Lee, aka Sidewalks and Skeletons “Goth (Sped up + Reverb)” from the single “Goth” via Re:Mission Entertainment
  • L.A. post-punk /dark wave /synthwave solo act Cuffed “Imposter (feat. NOANGELSS)” single via Dune Altar
  • LA-based Australian darkwave duo Night Tongue – “Huntress” from the new film ‘SUCCUBUS’ dir. R.J. Daniel Hanna,
  • Budapest/Gyöngyös, Hungarian Goth /Post-Punk /Dark Wave four piece band Cold Contrast “Last Honest Words (Separated Lamb Remix)” from the remix EP “Last Honest Words (Remix Disc)” bonus “disc” to the album ”Last Honest Words”
  • German wave /synthpop solo project Elysian Park “Zoo 84” from “Devil’s Mystique / Zoo 84″ 7” single (reworked versions of previously released songs)
  • Paris techno /electro-punk rock act Droges “Mascu Ferme Ta Gueule” single
  • Richmond, VA dark electronics /darkwave act Petrified Entity “Farce & Pretense” from the 12″ vinyl EP “Different Places”
  • Berlin-based Techno /New Wave /Indie /Dance duo of Canadian-born producer Alexander Cowan, aka DJ Kirby (1/2 of Blue Hawaii) and singer Eddie Rabenberg, aka Das Beat “Ohrwurm” single via Arbutus Records
  • Mexican electronic /post-punk /synthpop act Amadeus Hegel “Coven” from the album “Iners” via Electrosound
  • Russian industrial /gothwave /dark wave trio Pavel Shelekhov (Les Morts), Pavel Zolin (Purple Fog Side), and Mikhail Sokolov (Pegasus Asteroid), aka Atmostatic “Hearts in the Crowd” single via skyQode
  • Australian Post-punk outfit from Melbourne, Grave Raid “Lately” single
  • Kyiv-based post-punk band ДК Енергетик “Л​а​с​т​і​в​к​а” from the third LP “З​а​в​т​р​а”
  • Saint-Petersburg-based minimalistic post-punk band LIVINROOM “Every Offer I Make” single
  • Geelong, Australia power pop/new wave/garage punk/synth-punk /rock ’n’ roll solo project of Jake Robertson (Ausmuteants/ School Damage etc.), Alien Nosejob “The Ostrich” from the 4th album “Turns the Colour of Bad Shit” via Anti Fade Records (AU), Total Punk (US) & Drunken Sailor (UK)
  • Rouen, France noise rock /post-punk trio We Hate You Please Die “Sorority” from the new LP “Chamber Songs” via Incisive Records
  • London, UK garage punk /dark post-punk band Nothingheads “Blindspot” from the vinyl LP “The Art of Sod” via Sister 9 Recordings
  • Rennes, France 4-piece 70s/early 80s-influenced Punk band The Kicks “Cunt” from the debut “Demo” EP
  • Los Angeles deathrock /punk /post-punk band FANGS on FUR “Silver Daggers” single
  • Louisville, KY No Wave /Post Punk foursome Charm School “Debt Forever” single
  • UK dark ambient /fantasy /dungeon synth project by Dave Winter, aka Peasant Corpse “The Cold Child” from the album “Times of Moil” [Dark Winter Productions]
  • Croatia dungeon /comfy synth project Druad “Fallen in a Timeworn Twilight” from the cassette album “Upon Sorrowed Walls” [Realm and Ritual]
  • Danish hauntology /horror soundtrack /folklore/dungeon synth /folk project The Barrowfolk “Harebells And Hawkbit” from the LP “Of Tollund And Elling”
  • UK ambient /cinematic /medieval /dungeon folk project Paladin “III​.​Sorcery or Steel” from the LP “Spellcaster XVII​.​XI​.​LXXXIV”

Valeska Suratt (1916)