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

Weekly Post-Punk // Darkwave // Dark Synth Tips – OCTOBER 2024 – #41-24

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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 Season #6 on http://www.mercury-radio.net/  every Monday or Thursday 22.00 -00.00 (21.00 – 23.00 CET). Tune in!!!📡

PICKS OF THE WEEK:

  • Spanish Dark Wave /Synth Pop duo from Barcelona, HUIR “Vital (The KVB Remix)” [Cold Transmission Music]

The renowned British duo The KVB sublimates the original Catalan duo’s debut single injecting further neon-lit dancing energy and a cinematic retro-futuristic feel, through the unremitting vibrant pulses of snappy crisp urgent drum patterns and gurgling low ends topped by majestic emotive new wavey synths to surround and turn away wistful yet hopeful vocals from danger to life.

  • Los Angeles dark wave /post-punk project Darkroads “Echoes of Laughter” single

Hailing from the same DIY local scene of acts like Fevr and Vick Vapors, who incorporate 80s post-punk /new wave leanings with heartfelt melodic sensibility and enthralling dancing energy, the Los Angeles-based Darkwave project named after a staple of the local scene Rocky Darkroads, drops a new single about leaving it all behind,  driving stacked marching beats and chugging bass, to pulse into a shimmery haze built by searing wailing guitar strains and forlorn glaring synths, swirling atop melancholic vocals achingly letting go of lost love.

  • French industrial /electronic /synthpop duo Dark Minimal Project “Staring Away (Single Edit)” from “Staring Away / Time Runs Out” EP via Infacted Recordings

The lead track from the French electro synthwave duo’s new and first single for Infacted Recordings captures the frustrating moment when you are attracted to someone and they stare away like they don’t notice, compels snappy and clattering dancing drum programming, retro chugging basslines, and insistent bright euphoric synth swirls, to lead restless longing vocals and grave baritone backups, under the influence of disconnected moods. The song is paired with the Future Pop-informed rework by the German act Frozen Plasma.

  • Oakland, CA dark ambient /industrial /cinematic /ethereal /neo-classical /eastern folk multi-instrumentalist and composer Leila Abdul-Rauf  “The Summoned” from the album “Calls From A Seething Edge” via Cyclic Law and Syrup Moose Records
  • Bristol, UK-born dark electro-disco /retro synth horror DJ-producer, film score composer and co-owner of Giallo Disco Records, Antoni Maiovvi “Immeasurable Tension” from the album “Psychonaut” [NewRetroWave]
  • Paris-based gothic /ethereal /dream pop /darkwave project founded by Ein Rijin of Evil Symbols and Bat Kalaayan, aka RITUEL ENCENS “MAYA” (single)
  • San Francisco, CA post-punk /synth-pop /synth wave solo act SLICKTROSYNTH “TAKE THE BUS (DOWNTOWN)” single
  • Paris-based goth /coldwave solo project Tout Debord “Melancholy” single
  • Melbourne, Australia darkwave /post-punk solo project The Sterile Promontory “The Trappings” from “DEMO” EP
  • Colombian darkwave /post-punk band Herzap Corp – “Clavel” off V/A “My Precious! – A Waves Radio Show Compilation Vol​​​​​​​.​​​​​​​5″LP 12” vinyl compilation presented by BrusselsWAVES radio show via Red Maze Records
  • Bern, Swiss ’80s EBM /industrial /experimental /new wave /electronic musician Michael Antener, aka The Strangler of the Swamp/Bande Berne Crematoire “Bloody Beach” from the archival collection “Eine Aufnahme voller widerlicher Verderbtheit” 3xLP 12″ [Lux Rec]
  • Kazakhstan post-punk /darkwave solo project Moonvampire “Bury My Skin” single
  • Grodno, Belarus goth /post-punk /darkwave solo project Aven Graph “Last Night” new single
  • Vietnam-based coldwave /dark wave duo Slower Avenue “In Your Arms” single
  • Nancy-based, French Goth Coldwave duo Jesus Lives In Vegas “Lovin’ You” from the debut studio album, “Joy or Sorrow” via Masse Noire Records and Meidosem Records
  • Leeds, UK based shoegaze /post-punk /psychedelic rock band Deathtrippers “She Lives (In A Time Of Her Own)” (The 13th Floor Elevators cover) from CD “Higher E​.​P.”
  • Sedona, Northern Arizona Synth Rock /Post-Punk project, Black Tapestry “Right Where It Belongs” single
  • Minsk, Belarus New Wave /Darkwave /Post-punk /Dark Electronic solo project, aka Dusken Harmony “Fate” single
  • German Post Punk /New Wave /Cold Wave trio from Stuttgart, The Minimal Trees “Stay” single from the upcoming album “Time”
  • Monterrey, Mexico post-punk /minimal new wave act The King Died Young “Lord Of The Flies” single
  • San Diego-based coldwave /synthwave /dark synthpop solo project EM_LEN “Engage, Disrupt” new single
  • Northern Ireland cold synth electronics musician based in Belfast, Crystalline Stricture “Rebound” (unreleased)
  • Udine, Italy lo-fi minimal synth solo act Digitalbath “Oblivion” single
  • Montréal-based minimal synth artist Void Republic “Spiral” from the EP “Frontiers” [TONN RECORDINGS]
  • Toulouse, French minimal ‘Retro-Lectro-Wave’ artist Makina Girgir “Oedipus Fin” from the reissue of the 2013 album “Torment” LP 12″/CD (+ bonus tracks) via Other Voices Records
  • San Francisco cosmic /new wave /downtempo /electronic duo of artist-producer Yaniv de Ridder, also known by the alias YNV, and lyricist-vocalist-instrumentalist Janina Angel Bath, aka Yantra “Free Us” from upcoming “Gateway” LP 12″ [Subject To Restrictions Discs]
  • German electro /synth wave /synth-pop musician Philipp R. Münch, aka The Rorschach Garden “Walls are tumbling down” from the album “Almanach 2024” 
  • Cincinnati, OH industrial /post-punk /dance synth wave act led by Dylan McCartney, aka The Serfs “Paid In Full” from “Paid In Full b​/​w Regen” 7” single via Trouble In Mind Records
  • Italian wave /minimal synth /synth-punk solo act Ruhr “INDIVIDUALIT​Ä​T” from the single “Terrorismo Individualista” via Stanze Fredde Records
  • Parisian lo-fi /weird /synth-punk trio Oh, no! It’s DIVA “TOFF” from the second “Hardcore DIVA” EP via Mascara Rocks Records (tape)
  • Valencia, Spain EBM /synthwave /darkwave act FÖRAT “The Many faces of Me” single
  • Santiago, Chile coldwave /synthpop /darkwave duo Vioflesh “Spring Nostalgia” single via darkTunes
  • Sydney-based goth /EBM /darkwave solo act Buzz Kull “The Garden (feat. Modern Heaven)” from the upcoming sophomore LP “New Kind Of Cross”
  • German techno goth /wave /EBM trio Die Selektion “Drei Gesichter (Club Edit)” from upcoming “Zeuge aus Licht (Club Edits)” EP 12″
  • Sundsvall, Swedish electronic /post-punk /dark wave duo Jan Strandqvist & Susanne Jonsson, RED MECCA “Finding Time feat. KMRS” single via Massproduktion
  • Helsingborg, Sweden synthpop duo Cold Connection – “Voices of The Night” single via Town And Towers Records
  • Berlin-based disco /new wave /synthpop duo Clima “Night Time” from “CLIMA” LP
  • Eskilstuna‘s electronic /synth-pop project of Swedish musician/producer Stefan Eriksson, Sister Electra “Disco in Mosco” single via Modernshortcuts
  • Swedish Italo Synthpop hero Nino Tares “Waiting For Your Love” first single from the upcoming debut album via Inåt Bakåt Records
  • Milan, Italian synthwave /Italo disco /Italo dance duo Fred Ventura and Paolo Gozetti, aka Italoconnection “Europa” from the album “Midnight Confessions Vol​.​2”
  • Portland, OR new wave /synthpop trio SEX PARK “Without Reserve” from “Interlude” LP via Verboten
  • Spanish electronic /synthpop act Lifelong Corporation “Lost in the Echo” maxi single
  • Mexican New Wave/Post-Punk project, VACÍOS CUERPOS “Prisi​ó​n” single
  • Berlin-based Goth /Industrial /Dark Wave /Post-Punk band William Bleak “Blood Red” single
  • Kraków, Poland-based Goth Cold Wave /Post-punk solo project, MEKONG “Danse Danse” third single from Mekong’s homonymous LP
  • Indianapolis darkwave /post-punk band The Secrecy “Tonight” single via disorder-recordings
  • Vancouver, BC goth rock /darkwave /post-punk two-piece band DECOMME “Faith 1​:​9″ from the upcoming LP “Sentiment”
  • Hungary darkwave /post-punk band kékmandarin “V​ö​r​ö​s a hold” single
  • Post-punk band from Kaliningrad, Gibel Sada “Primitivost’ (Simplicity)” single
  • Argentinian Krautrock /Noise pop /Shoegaze /Post Punk project of experienced Buenos Aires-based musician, composer and visual artist Ferran Pont Vergés, aka Die Noia Futuriszka “Patea La Silla” from the third album “Fiesta de Huesos” [No Me Escucho Records]
  • London-based kiwi art-pop /concrete-punks Qlowski “Desire” off forthcoming 12-track second album, “The Wound” via Maple Death & Feel It Records
  • New York enigmatic post-punk solo project Postlooperish “The House and The Crow” single
  • Italian new wave /post-punk band Vasa Kumora “Beyond The Dusk” single
  • Portuguese gothic /synth-pop /darkwave act Order in Chaos – “Strip You Down” single
  • Santiago de Chile-based Coldwave /Post-punk solo project of Spaniard musician Fran H., aka Ingreso Cadáver “Objeto” single
  • Norwegian goth /post-punk /darkwave solo project (FKA Brides In The Floodlights), BRIDES “Afflictions” single 
  • Brooklyn, NY post-punk /gothic rock /darkwave duo Gothfodder “GRAVEYARD OF DEATH” from the EP “MINIMAL EFFORT MAXIMAL GOTH”
  • Swedish gothic rock band Scheitan “Love n’ Death” single
  • East Moline, Illinois industrial /gothic rock /post-punk trio Pitch Black Manor “The Halloween Scene” single
  • Philadelphia, PA early 1980s NYC-style Post-Punk /Mutant Disco solo project of Jarrett Dougherty (of Screaming Females) featuring Marissa Paternoster of Screaming Females and Brittany Luna of Catbite, aka 34 Trolley “Coming For You?” from “Relaxation” EP 12″
  • Florence, Italy 4-piece wave /post-punk band Morgana “Amour​-​propre” from “Amour​-​Propre” 7″ EP via Nonomori
  • Québec City riot grrrl /punk rock trio Crachat “IATSE” from the debut LP “Fille Poup​é​e”
  • Luxemburg‘s hardcore /noise /post-punk band UltraNothing “Fight It Out” from s​/​t E​.​P. via this charming man records
  • Warsaw-based DIY post-punk /hardcore punk quartet Träume “Kraina Sn​ó​w” from the LP “WRZASK”
  • Mexico gothic /death rock /darkwave act STRANGE CIRCUS “Agonia” single via Dark Grave
  • French dungeon synth /trip-hop /crypt-hop act Percidae “The poet (feat old forest)” from the cassette album “Beyond the Trees” LP [Personal Uschi Records]
  • New Zealand fantasy dungeon synth project Gloomlurker “Ashlands” from the split cassette album “Ballads From the Bannered Mare” by Gloomlurker / Witch’s Amulet [Fiadh Productions / Arcane Chapel]
  • Chicago dark ambient /fantasy /comfy /dungeon synth project Enchanted Helm “Castle Volkihar” from the album “Gates of Oblivion”
  • Dark ambient /fantasy /wizard /dungeon synth project The Crescent Key “Spell of the Spheres” from the album “Windowless Spire”

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