Erotikon, Gustav Machatý

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

Weekly Post-Punk // Darkwave // Dark Synth Tips – OCTOBER 2024 – #40-24

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PICKS OF THE WEEK:

  • Avant-garde pop electronic // Mixed by Soloist Anti Pop Totalization

Avant-garde pop music selection by Japanese experimental analog synth musician S.A.P.T. 

  • Italian bizarre Dadaist Minimal Wave act Dada Degrado “Coscienza di Morte” from the CD EP “Telecomunicazione” via Stanze Fredde Records

Off-kilter obsessive synthetic textures and jarring alienating frequencies together with urgent, dry barebone rhythms, chip and bounce away at old ways of thinking, while an array of disconnected vocals deliver an invitation to break down the old world using disruptive and abrasive cutting-edge techniques inspired by the Dadaist Avant-garde art movement of 1916. The purpose of the Dada movement is to bring forth an awakening of light and truth. That is, until the restriction of imagination once again becomes too great and the cycle must repeat. Weird, foolish electrifying synth-laden tunes created with straightforward sheer DIY energy… raw, unpredictable and daring.

  • Rotterdam-based experimental electronic /darkwave project of guitarist Joris Telgen (ex-SONNDR) and DJ, producer, and film composer Diether Eichler (Eichler Brothers, The Eerier Child), aka Halfmachine “Halfmachine” eponymous debut single

Oppressed by an incommunicable existential condition overstretched by the current ‘infocalyptic’ society, a local gritty grey environment and dystopian premonitions, the Rotterdam duet find their only practicable means of expression through a couple of vintage synths, a drum machine and a guitar, in a sort of spiritual connection with the same concealed isolationism of bygone pioneering forefathers, such as Cabaret Voltaire, Suicide, Ike Yard, Section 25, and DAF among others. The first fruit is a mechanical and moody experimental dark electronic workout with a gritty industrial edge. Tight and stuttering shifting drum patterns are ceaselessly stabbed and tormented by a cluttered and jarring spiral of ominous buzzing bottom ends, lashing sparks, obsessive pulsations, and eerie droning surging swathes, while minimal emotionless vocals repeat “Half machine” into the robotic waves of transformation.

  • LA-based darkwave /electro-pop /EBM /electronic duo Sleek Teeth “Powerless” from debut s/t EP

Also, part this week of the double Strict Tempo compilation,  the Debut EP from the LA duo filled with the much exploited combination of Darkwave, Synth-Pop and EBM, albeit implemented with a necessary deft balance between a dance-ready vigorous rhythmic energy, sharp and striking synth riffs and magnetic vocal delivery. If, as often is the case, it includes all the previous singles, stands out for an unreleased track at the same level, if not more effective, than the previous ones. About finding power against a wicked one, “Powerless” clatters and pounds through the propelling snappy urge of a relentless crunchy drum programming, menacing throbbing low ends and frenetic swirls of glittering synth storms over airy haunting vocals and shadowy growls, revelling in a newfound strength of justice.

  • Electronic ethereal dark wave duo of Germany-based Miriam Christina (Theothersideofwho?) and Slovakia-based Peter Chudik (AnAstromo), aka 580 MILES “Plus Proche” single
  • German experimental/dark ambient /post-punk /darkwave/post-punk project of Anna Nin, Glaring – “Black Wednesday” from the vinyl 12″ LP “Hope​/​DR666” via Young & Cold Records
  • Dutch experimental /post-punk /art rock /electronica /wave project of Luuk van de Klundert, aka Citruks “Hinder niet” from the cassette EP “Dier” [Kontakt Group]
  • Barcelona dark ambient /industrial /noise /spoken word duo Avenc “Zoda” from the upcoming album “Zodiaclatria” via Nuevo Sonido Nacional
  • Los Angeles goth /ethereal /darkwave solo project Misery Mile “Abuse Me” from the debut album “Temptation”
  • Portland, OR Goth /Post-Punk/ Darkwave solo act Richie Filth “Drown” single
  • Kirov/Saint Peterburg, Russia new wave /post-punk trio Черная Речка [Chernaya Rechka] feat. Dlina Volny “А​б​д​ы​м​к​i” single
  • Los Angeles-based dark wave /synth-pop /post-punk solo project of musician Julian Sharwark, aka Harsh Symmetry “Stained Glass” off the forthcoming EP “On-Screen Death”
  • Italian occult /coldwave /darkwave duo, aka iamnoone “Purity” from the new album “The Joy of Sorrow” via COLD TRANSMISSION MUSIC
  • Paris-based, French Dark Post Punk /Cold Wave /Goth Rock band Soror Dolorosa “Sugar Moon” from the fourth album “Mond” via Prophecy Productions
  • Minneapolis dark post-punk band, The Rope “Lovewish” off the new album, “Nightbird” via Swiss Dark Nights
  • French cold-punk band from Metz, MESTRE “Daily Escape” from the second LP “All of You Are So Far” via Icy Cold Records
  • Seminal Leeds, UK post-punk band, est. 1981, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry “Driving Black (Ding’s Remix)” from the upcoming 12″ EP “Driving Black” via COP International
  • Oslo, Norway dark ambient /electro-industrial duo Blitzkrieg Baby “Youth Of No Tomorrow (ft. Kim Larsen)” from the cassette album “Ardenti Mundi” via Cloister Recordings
  • Leipzig/Essen-based post-punk /darkwave duo Ion Love “Tr​ä​umen” from the cassette EP “Arterien aus Chrom” [aufnahme + wiedergabe]
  • Vancouver, Canadian modern post-punks ACTORS “Object of Desire” single via Artoffact Records
  • Berlin-based experimental /dark wave /synth wave /dark electronic project by producer Christoph Heinze (aka Escape to Mars), Inhalt der Nacht “Deine Lippen (Original Mix)”
  • Bern, Switzerland minimal /synth wave duo Sadie La Chèvre & Nora Düster, Extra Bleu Ciel “Hostage Of Your Nation”
  • Bern, Switzerland industrial /EBM /post-punk /synth-pop /minimal synth wave collective Plague Pits “A Spatial Fix” from “Bucolicism” EP (Unreleased Tracks from the “Bukolik” sessions)
  • Los Angeles new wave / analog synth duo led by Andrew Clinco of Drab Majesty, OP-ART “11 Stars (feat. Martin Dupont)” off the debut LP “Oblique Pleasures Amidst Rough Times” via Citirax
        
  • Łódź, Poland industrial /electro /synth wave duo ALLES “Wsp​ó​ł​czesno​ś​ć” from the album “NOW” via Zoharum, D.I.Y Koło, Bat-Cave Production and Retkinia Records
  • Bergen, Norway/São Paulo, Brazil industrial /darkwave /trip-hop duo Melt Motif – “Color Me Red” single
  • Swedish experimental electronic /industrial pop artist from Stockholm, Majestoluxe “The Future Leaks Out” single via Icons Creating Evil Art
  • Berlin‘s lo-fi /post-punk /minimal synth wave solo project of one half of DAS DAS, Cosey Mueller “Fremdtr​ä​ume” from the LP “Softcore” via Static Age Musik
  • California EBM /body music /wave /dark disco /darkwave artist Wound Care “LuST (Feat. Sex Park)” off “Damas De La Espada” EP
  • Spain/Belgium post-punk /electro/ new wave duo of Murcia-based producer JG Outsider & Belgian artist Gerd Van Geel (singer of The Arch), aka BELLA ETERNA “Withered Flowers” from “Pornographic Shadows” CD album via UNKNOWN PLEASURES RECORDS
  • Munich, Germany NDW /EBM /techno/dark wave /synth-pop band Rue Oberkampf “Solitude (Buzz Kull Remix)” from the single “Solitude (Essenz Version)”
  • Colombia EBM /minimal wave solo project HUMAN 80 “Pragmatic codes” single via Nevel Records
  • Lisbon-based Cold Wave /Electro /Dark Electronic duo NECRØ “Our Exile” 2nd single off the album “INTO OBLIVION” via Cold Transmission Music
  • German EBM /Deathwave act Verrottet “Total Tot” (Lebanon Hanover Cover) 2-track single
  • San Antonio, Texas EBM /Dark Electro-Industrial act MODEBIONICS “Flesh Hardware (demo)”
  • French EBM /Cold Wave /Techno duo Vitalic & Rebeka Warrior (Sexy sushi, Mansfield.TYA), KOMPROMAT “I LET MYSELF GO BLIND (feat. Vimala Pons & Sonia DeVille)” single via WARRIORECORDS
  • UK based new beat /rave /industrial /post-punk project of French musician, DJ and producer Jerome Tcherneyan and Czech performance artist and DJ, Barkosina Hanusova, aka Years Of Denial “Art Break (Geistform Remix)” from “Suicide Disco Vol. 2 Remixes” LP 12″ [VEYL]
  • Brussels, Belgian electro /coldwave /synthpop duo, ULTRA SUNN “Stories” single [Artoffact Records]
  • Late-90s L.A. based hard rock /metal duo featuring former Tura Satana frontwoman Tairrie B. and husband-guitarist Mick Murphy, My Ruin – “Terror” (WLDV Edit) originally from 1999
  • Valencia, Spain EBM /synthwave /darkwave act FÖRAT “Hold On” single
  • Italo/Portuguese EBM /synthwave /techno /electro /darkwave duo Chris Shape | Su Eko “Nada” from “Parallel Visions” EP [Aufnahme + Wiedergabe]
  • Toronto, Canada shoegaze /electro /Italo /new wave /retro-futuristic duo SIVIYEX “Mirrors In Mirrax” from V/A “Strict Tempo: Volume One (Part 1)” two volume 2xCD Strict Tempo compilation from Los Angeles-based dark alternative electronic event series, video podcast and record label, run by DJ Vox
  • Los Angeles-based EBM /techno /dark electronic duo of Rosselinni and Anton Floriano, aka Die Sexual “Dressed In Black” from the upcoming “Electric” EP
  • New York coldwave /darkwave /dark electronic duo, GHOST COP “Suitable Way of Living” from the second LP “TROUBLE” LP
  • Berlin-based dark disco /new wave /electronic live project of Local Suicide & Kalipo, aka Dina Summer “Schall & Rauch” from “Girls Gang” [Iptamenos Discos]
  • Miami, FL-based dreamwave /synthwave /synthpop artist, Trevor Something “Die 1000x” single
  • Swedish synthpop act COLD CONNECTION “Degraded Life (remastered 2024)” single via Town And Towers Records
  • London-based dream pop /synthpop solo project of Marianthi (one half of Greek duo Marsheaux), MeLLLo “StoRieS Of GhoSTs” single
  • Sheffield, UK darkwave /electropop / ‘Cinedramatic Synthpop’ duo PROMENADE CINEMA “Cities In Dust” (Siouxsie & The Banshees cover, 1985)
  • Chicago, IL post-punk /goth-pop /electropop duo WINGTIPS “The Verdict (feat. Tim Cappello)” from the third LP “On Trial”
  • Wilmington, NC-based husband and wife dark electronic duo Dead Cool “Are We Living, Are We Dead” single
  • Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK based Industrial /Electronic /Dark Wave duo, Vigilance State “Goatbones” from “Remains” EP
  • Glasgow, UK post-punk /minimal /dark electronic /synthpop solo project Invisible Logic “These Tears (home demo)” debut single
  • Madrid/Montreal transcontinental synthpop /synthpunk duo Playa Espectral “Bolsa” 2-track single
  • Nashville, Tennessee coldwave /synthpop /neo-noir duskwave solo act General Trust – “If I Could Change Your Mind” from the first cassette collection “GT1” via yk records
  • Linz-based, Austrian techno /darkwave /synth-pop solo music project Violence Against Man “Nobody Knows Me” single
  • Mesa, AZ industrial /coldwave /dark wave /post-punk solo project SpellxCaster “Bloodsucker (Paralysed Age Cover)” from “October Vampire” EP
  • Richmond, VA dark electronics /darkwave act Petrified Entity “Demons” tittle track of the new “Demons” EP
  • Los Angeles-based darkwave /post-punk /synthpop solo project Casket Cassette “Apology” single
  • Azusa, CA post-punk /darkwave solo project, Vomer “chained by her side” single
  • Tijuana-based, Mexican goth /dark wave /post-punk duo, DANCING STRANGERS “Death On You” single via Bizario Trax
  • Salt Lake City cold wave /darkwave/post-punk solo project Balduvian Bears “Dialogue“ off the debut album “Bearfate” via darkTunes
  • French coldwave /darkwave solo project from Liverdun, Cold Grey Rain “Impulsion” from the forthcoming LP “Awakening of Sorrows”
  • East Atlanta’s local goth-adjacent coldwave /post-post-punk trio of Chuck Rosencrans (of Dyskrasia), Nathan Oestry and Matt Weiner (aka Twins), Split Diopter “Emulator” from the cassette album “To Bridge And Bind” via DKA Records
  • Austin, TX-based Post-Punk band from Detroit, GRAYSONS “Evil Crown” from the album “II”
  • Louisville, KY dark wave /post punk duo, Who Saw Her Die? “Shadow Man” single
  • Moncton, Canada-based Gothic Rock solo project of Jason Schatsle (aka Wardruid), Gothnetic “My Cure” single
  • Mexican deathrock /horror /post-punk trio Skeletal Bats “UN CADAVER MAS” from “SONIDOS MUERTOS PARA LOS MUERTOS” EP
  • Nancy, France post-punk instrumental solo project corevanne “Lone” single
  • New Jersey Post Punk /Goth Rock act durl “cemetery dance” from “…and I loved death” LP
  • L.A. Dream Goth / Post Punk solo act Velvet Wounds “Sirens” single
  • Chicago, IL dark wave /post-punk project Parasite Baby “Animal” from the EP “13”
  • Copenhagen-based emo / shoegaze /post-punk band Violence “allinmyhead“ single 
  • Vienna-based solo Cold Wave /Dark Wave Project by Mikhail Shlepin, aka Скубут “Sie” single
  • French indie rock /post-rock /coldwave /shoegaze /post-punk band URGE “Surrenders” second single from the upcoming debut album via Icy Cold Records
  • Post-punk band from Singapore, Blood Pact “No place To Hide” off the debut album “Angel Fire”
  • Germany Shoegaze /Post Punk /New Wave solo project UNTERHVND “Gloria” single
  • Melbourne, Australia Post-Punk / Surf-Goth solo act Desmond Doom“Shut Your Bloody Mouth” single
  • Los Angeles-based indie rock /post-punk /new wave solo project, The Sea At Midnight “Midnight Sun” new single
  • English post-punk /folk-rock collective formed in 1984 in New Cross, London, Band Of Holy Joy “Born To Sin” from the upcoming album “Scorched Jerusalem” via Tiny Global Productions
  • York, UK dub /no wave /post-punk trio Neon Kittens – “Techno Blank” final single from the upcoming LP via metal postcard records
  • Berlin‘s industrial /coldwave /post-punk band Das Nest “Bomb For Peace” from the cassette album “The Nest” via FUTURE SHOCK
  • Mason City, Iowa garage /synth /punk /post-punk 4-piece band Why Bother? “(I’m Gonna) Pin it on You” from the upcoming album “Hey, At Least You’re Not Me” on Feel It Records
  • Northampton, UK indie rock /darkwave /post-punk 5-piece band led by singer-songwriter Kailan Price, aka bloody/bath “Heather” from the debut album “IN AN EMPTY SPACE I’M SCREAMING” 
  • Russian old school goth punk/post-punk band at South Ural, Witch Will Die “Escape (feat. Cracky Tights)” from the single “Escape”
  • Pittsburgh, PA retro /fantasy /horror /dungeon synth project Lored Legend “Night Strike Drag Race” off the cassette album “Night of the Cobra”[Personal Uschi Records]
  • US Tolkien Dungeon Synth project Grimdor “I” from the EP “Lothl​ó​rien”
  • US dark ambient /dungeon synth collaboration Moonkissed Spries + Obscene Sorcery “The Ouroboros Fate” from s/t cassette LP [Winterveil Records]
  • Atlanta, GA dark ritual ambient act Häxa Komät “Negative Dream Body Tranference” long-form cassette [Bent Window Records]

Erotikon, Gustav Machatý

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