Simian Mobile Disco
www.simianmobiledisco.co.uk
www.myspace.com/simianmobiledisco
( ;D --> Simian Mobile Disco is the partnership with Jas Shaw and James Ford who has produced the Klaxons, The Arctic Monkeys and Florence and the Machine. The band have gained a notable reputation for their remixes and stylized minimal sound that have made them one of the most sought after bands in the dance scene at the moment. For this album, the band have enlisted an impressive guest list that includes Alexis Taylor of Hot Chip, Jamie Lidell, Chris Keating of Yeasayer and Beth Ditto from the Gossip.)
Temporary Pleasure
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( ;D --> Temporary Pleasure is a follow up to 2007’s Attack Delay Sustain Release.)
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Rabia Sorda
www.myspace.com/rabiasorda
Noice Diary
RS_Autofline
( ;D--> On the second Rabia Sorda album "Noise Diary" Hocico's Erk Aicrag explores his melodic side, with the help of experienced producer John Fryer. The album, scheduled for a September 25 release, is also aggressive and hard.)
Radio Paranoia
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Walking on Nails
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeZuCM0lQzU
Dupont
www.myspace.com/dupontsweden
Entering The Ice Age
D_emusic
( ;D --> Dupont's third album "Entering the Ice Age" is here with its cool mix of old school EBM, electronica, electropop and Joy Division darkness. This time around they have been assisted by Eskil Simonsson from Covenant and Oscar Holter from Necro Facility.)
Clint Mansell
www.myspace.com/clintmansell
( ;D --> English composer Clint Mansell’s fondness for dark, eerie and angst driven music is well known in music circles, but this particular soundtrack is far more evident of this than perhaps anything else he’s done. After working closely with Darren Aronofsky on The Wrestler, The Fountain and Requiem For A Dream, Mansell has built a solid collection of work based on Aronofsky’s detailed and heavily existential films.)
Moon
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( ;D --> Musically speaking, the Moon soundtrack contains plenty of analogue gated synths, subdued piano parts, and adrenaline driven beats.)
See also: http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/02/flavor-of-week-08.html
Otto Von Schirach
www.ottovonschirach.com
www.myspace.com/ottovonschirach
( ;D --> IDM producer/DJ/visual artist Otto Von Schirach was raised in Miami, FL, which as a child exposed him to a wild hybrid of music that continues to influence his sound today including Miami bass, gangsta rap, death metal/grindcore, and Afro-Cuban music. He purchased his first digital equipment at the tender age of 17 and immediately began to develop his own unique distorted wall of electronic sound. Otto Von Schirach. In 1998 Otto released his first demo, which got him signed to a 4 album deal with Schematic Records. In 2003 Otto worked on the Skinny Puppy album "The Greater Wrong of the Right" and then tour with them now 3 times. In 2004 Miss Kitten had Otto remix her "Professional Distortion" track for Nova Mute UK.? Otto's 2006 album, "Maxipad Detention", was released by Mike Patton's Ipecac Recordings to vast critical and fan accolades world-wide.His most recent album "Oozing Bass Spasms" is more dance sounding; elements of Booty, Electro, Breakcore, and Rave music all find a place in his bizarre universe.)
Magic Triangles
OVS_Subcociousrecords
Oozing Bass Spasms
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( ;D --> Aliens Visiting Me > New video):
http://vimeo.com/5538384
Over And Out
Friday, September 04, 2009
Friday, August 28, 2009
Flavor of the week #36
Clubroot
www.myspace.com/clubroot
( ;D --> Mysterious atmospheric dubstep soundscaper Clubroot taps into the same darkside as Burial, and Kode9, and the more atmospheric beatmakers. Clubroots first full length delivers expansive fields of swirling ambience, creeped out dronescapes and all manner of super evocative and gorgeously textural soundworlds. Where as most dubstep is super spare and stripped down, skeletal even, the sound here is lush and sprawling. Thick layers of synths whir and shimmer and buzz, deep swells throbbing and pulsing, everything hazy and gauzy and washed out, every song some sort of otherworldy dreamscape, shot through with some super bad ass bit of pounding churning dubstep stutter. The massive basslines and fluctuating synth buzz that usually adds texture to typical dubstep, here just becomes another element in Clubroot's mysterious mist shrouded sonic landscape.)
Clubroot
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Serendipity Dub
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuL9O-MdP1Q&NR=1
Embryo
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK7dABFszg4&feature=related
Ada
www.myspace.com/wwwmyspacecomada
( ;D --> Melodic techno/electro-pop producer Ada/Michaela Dippel.)
Adaptations: Mixtape #1
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Angelspit
www.angelspit.net
www.myspace.com/angelspitmusic
Hideous and Perfect
A_amazon
( ;D --> Hailed as being one of the most innovative new industrial bands, Angelspit return with their new album Hideous And Perfect, a confronting audio visual statement set to corrupt listeners the world over. The album is their darkest release to date with its sonic textures ranging from hard pounding beats, to organic atmospheric samples, topped off by a feverishly powerful male and female dual vocal assault.)
Ginormous
www.myspace.com/ginormousmusic
Protist Remix EP
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( ;D --> Revival of the masterpiece):
At Night, Under Artificial Light
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Down Below
www.myspace.com/thatsdb
www.downbelow.de
( ;D --> An interesting mixture of Wave, Gothic and Darkwave with strong electronic bonds all accomplished by the incomparable voice of the singer Neo Scope.)
Wildes Herz
D_amazon
Over And Out
www.myspace.com/clubroot
( ;D --> Mysterious atmospheric dubstep soundscaper Clubroot taps into the same darkside as Burial, and Kode9, and the more atmospheric beatmakers. Clubroots first full length delivers expansive fields of swirling ambience, creeped out dronescapes and all manner of super evocative and gorgeously textural soundworlds. Where as most dubstep is super spare and stripped down, skeletal even, the sound here is lush and sprawling. Thick layers of synths whir and shimmer and buzz, deep swells throbbing and pulsing, everything hazy and gauzy and washed out, every song some sort of otherworldy dreamscape, shot through with some super bad ass bit of pounding churning dubstep stutter. The massive basslines and fluctuating synth buzz that usually adds texture to typical dubstep, here just becomes another element in Clubroot's mysterious mist shrouded sonic landscape.)
Clubroot
C_amazon
Serendipity Dub
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuL9O-MdP1Q&NR=1
Embryo
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK7dABFszg4&feature=related
Ada
www.myspace.com/wwwmyspacecomada
( ;D --> Melodic techno/electro-pop producer Ada/Michaela Dippel.)
Adaptations: Mixtape #1
A_amazon
Angelspit
www.angelspit.net
www.myspace.com/angelspitmusic
Hideous and Perfect
A_amazon
( ;D --> Hailed as being one of the most innovative new industrial bands, Angelspit return with their new album Hideous And Perfect, a confronting audio visual statement set to corrupt listeners the world over. The album is their darkest release to date with its sonic textures ranging from hard pounding beats, to organic atmospheric samples, topped off by a feverishly powerful male and female dual vocal assault.)
Ginormous
www.myspace.com/ginormousmusic
Protist Remix EP
G_amazon
( ;D --> Revival of the masterpiece):
At Night, Under Artificial Light
G1_amazon
Down Below
www.myspace.com/thatsdb
www.downbelow.de
( ;D --> An interesting mixture of Wave, Gothic and Darkwave with strong electronic bonds all accomplished by the incomparable voice of the singer Neo Scope.)
Wildes Herz
D_amazon
Over And Out
Friday, August 21, 2009
Flavor of the week #35
Etienne Jaumet
www.myspace.com/etiennejaumet
( ;D --> One half of popular French horror disco group Zombie Zombie, Etienne Jaumet, has joined techno icon Carl Craig in an unlikely collaboration. Jaumet has been working under the radar as a solo artist for some time now, and Craig signed on early to produce his third album, Night Music.)
Jaumet's upcoming full-length debut, Night Music
www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=10899
Entropy
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Vitalic
www.myspace.com/vitalicofficial
( ;D --> YES! NEW ALBUM: 28/9 2009.)
Flashmob
V_amazon
Disco Terminateur EP
V1_amazon
Skream
www.myspace.com/skreamuk
( ;D --> Ollie Jones had the good fortune to be working at the Big Apple record store when he first started making beats at age 15 and armed with a cracked copy of the Fruity Loops music-making software. Big Apple was at the center of the early development of U.K. garage's dark, half-speed offshoot dubstep before it was even called dubstep, and it was at Big Apple that Jones, who recorded as Skream, met fellow beatsmiths Benga and Hatcha. Hatcha was a DJ at the seminal club Forward and was only too happy to debut the dubplates of both Skream and Benga's early recordings. Their music took the tension and release formula of dance music, removed the release and layered in more tension instead. With slow and pounding basslines and wobbly treble they were creating a kind of music that summoned and summed up feelings of urban paranoia, but in an enjoyable way.)
DJ Session at All Out Dubstep, Stockholm
http://r.fm/artist/skream/
Watch the Ride
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Skream
S1_amazon
( ;D --> the Anthem "Midnight Request Line" is an explosion of electro arpeggios and dub sub-bass. It's a tune you can sing along to. From the opening haunting strings of "Tortured Soul," which calls to mind the work of Philip Glass or Aphex Twin, to the more optimistic chords and guitar of "Dutch Flowerz," to the heavy vocal cuts featuring Warrior Queen and JME, and the heavy digi-sounds of "Auto-Dub," it's clear that this is a sonic visionary at work.)
Rennie Foster
www.myspace.com/renniefoster
( ;D --> Rennie Foster has been a well respected figure in the Canadian music and art community since he was just a teenager. He influenced many as an early pioneer of the Hip-Hop / B-Boy movement and later the House Music and Techno / Rave scene with his relentless underground spirit and dedication to breaking ground with everything he puts his mind to whether he was making music for the local television network, judging the DMC Dj contest or fighting for the right to dance at City Hall. Rennie is very civic minded, a long time member of the Universal Zulu Nation and he has performed and produced music for various charitable causes such as Amnesty International. After visiting Japan several times to play, Rennie fell in love with the techno oriented Tokyo club scene and has since relocated to Tokyo where he now resides with his half- Japanese twin daughters, the main source of inspiration for this dedicated single father and full time sound pilot. Rennie has been making himself heard the last few years with a well received string of singles and remixes with labels such as Subject-Detroit, Rebirth, Teknotika, Monoid, Synewave, Communique, Rewired (Pure-Plastic), Soiree, F-Communications etc. His music is heavily supported by well known taste-makers such as Laurent Garnier, Derrick May, Dave Clarke, Sasha, Dave Seaman, James Holden and too many more to name. Rennie’s tracks have been licensed for mix CDs by the likes of Kevin Saunderson, Trentmoller and Danny Tenaglia.)
The art of war
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Harbour Boat Trips: Trentemøller/ Devil's Water
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Sounds From The Ground
www.myspace.com/soundsfromtheground
( ;D --> UK duo Elliot Morgan and Nick Woolfson make some of the most stunningly rich, dynamic, bass-heavy downtempo instrumentals on the planet. They are pioneers of ambient dub, an exotic style)
In the Cool Of The Shade EP
SFG_amazon
( ;D--> New 3 track ep of enchanting spacious ambient sounds perfect for the early hours. Out on 7th September 2009.)
Thru The Ages
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( ;D --> 'THRU THE AGES' is an compilation of rare and unreleased tracks taken from each album session stretching back from 'Kin' to 'Brightwhitelight'.)
Se also: http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/01/flavor-of-week-03.html
Over And Out
www.myspace.com/etiennejaumet
( ;D --> One half of popular French horror disco group Zombie Zombie, Etienne Jaumet, has joined techno icon Carl Craig in an unlikely collaboration. Jaumet has been working under the radar as a solo artist for some time now, and Craig signed on early to produce his third album, Night Music.)
Jaumet's upcoming full-length debut, Night Music
www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=10899
Entropy
EJ_amazon
Vitalic
www.myspace.com/vitalicofficial
( ;D --> YES! NEW ALBUM: 28/9 2009.)
Flashmob
V_amazon
Disco Terminateur EP
V1_amazon
Skream
www.myspace.com/skreamuk
( ;D --> Ollie Jones had the good fortune to be working at the Big Apple record store when he first started making beats at age 15 and armed with a cracked copy of the Fruity Loops music-making software. Big Apple was at the center of the early development of U.K. garage's dark, half-speed offshoot dubstep before it was even called dubstep, and it was at Big Apple that Jones, who recorded as Skream, met fellow beatsmiths Benga and Hatcha. Hatcha was a DJ at the seminal club Forward and was only too happy to debut the dubplates of both Skream and Benga's early recordings. Their music took the tension and release formula of dance music, removed the release and layered in more tension instead. With slow and pounding basslines and wobbly treble they were creating a kind of music that summoned and summed up feelings of urban paranoia, but in an enjoyable way.)
DJ Session at All Out Dubstep, Stockholm
http://r.fm/artist/skream/
Watch the Ride
S_amazon
Skream
S1_amazon
( ;D --> the Anthem "Midnight Request Line" is an explosion of electro arpeggios and dub sub-bass. It's a tune you can sing along to. From the opening haunting strings of "Tortured Soul," which calls to mind the work of Philip Glass or Aphex Twin, to the more optimistic chords and guitar of "Dutch Flowerz," to the heavy vocal cuts featuring Warrior Queen and JME, and the heavy digi-sounds of "Auto-Dub," it's clear that this is a sonic visionary at work.)
Rennie Foster
www.myspace.com/renniefoster
( ;D --> Rennie Foster has been a well respected figure in the Canadian music and art community since he was just a teenager. He influenced many as an early pioneer of the Hip-Hop / B-Boy movement and later the House Music and Techno / Rave scene with his relentless underground spirit and dedication to breaking ground with everything he puts his mind to whether he was making music for the local television network, judging the DMC Dj contest or fighting for the right to dance at City Hall. Rennie is very civic minded, a long time member of the Universal Zulu Nation and he has performed and produced music for various charitable causes such as Amnesty International. After visiting Japan several times to play, Rennie fell in love with the techno oriented Tokyo club scene and has since relocated to Tokyo where he now resides with his half- Japanese twin daughters, the main source of inspiration for this dedicated single father and full time sound pilot. Rennie has been making himself heard the last few years with a well received string of singles and remixes with labels such as Subject-Detroit, Rebirth, Teknotika, Monoid, Synewave, Communique, Rewired (Pure-Plastic), Soiree, F-Communications etc. His music is heavily supported by well known taste-makers such as Laurent Garnier, Derrick May, Dave Clarke, Sasha, Dave Seaman, James Holden and too many more to name. Rennie’s tracks have been licensed for mix CDs by the likes of Kevin Saunderson, Trentmoller and Danny Tenaglia.)
The art of war
RF_amazon
Harbour Boat Trips: Trentemøller/ Devil's Water
RF_T_amazon
Sounds From The Ground
www.myspace.com/soundsfromtheground
( ;D --> UK duo Elliot Morgan and Nick Woolfson make some of the most stunningly rich, dynamic, bass-heavy downtempo instrumentals on the planet. They are pioneers of ambient dub, an exotic style)
In the Cool Of The Shade EP
SFG_amazon
( ;D--> New 3 track ep of enchanting spacious ambient sounds perfect for the early hours. Out on 7th September 2009.)
Thru The Ages
SFG1_amazon
( ;D --> 'THRU THE AGES' is an compilation of rare and unreleased tracks taken from each album session stretching back from 'Kin' to 'Brightwhitelight'.)
Se also: http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/01/flavor-of-week-03.html
Over And Out
Friday, August 14, 2009
Flavor of the week #34
Justus Köhncke
www.myspace.com/justuskoehncke
( ;D --> Extending his voracious musical appetite for all things avant-garde, pop, and dance into his own output, German producer Justus Köhncke has flirted with the charts, covered Janis Ian and Marvin Hamlisch, and has released material on the Kompakt label. Köhncke deliveres a future-balearic space disco trip with sparkles in the eyes, hands floating in the air, the body drifting to the vibe. Even the coldest season becomes summery hot with Justus’ heartrending melodies and synth sequences. He’s a likeable romantic, sometimes overemotional and euphoric, sometimes quite melancholic with beatless ambient pieces. Köhnke recalls long-forgotten spaced out disco.)
Safe and Sound
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Konrad
www.myspace.com/konradmusic
www.konradmusic.net
( ;D --> Konrad is the American song constructionist Jeffrey Konrad who puzzles together his unique brand of vocal poetics with a sorted sonic DNA that exhibits strains of indie, folk and electro. In the past he's recorded as an experimental electronica musician known as "Robot USA" as well as a folksy singer-songwriter called "Nigel Jeffrey". In mid-2000 Konrad launched Radical Turf Records; an imprint founded with the intent of releasing compilation albums by underground electronic artists. 3 compilations and 2 full lengths later, the label continues to evolve as a medium for eclectic and eccentric audio.)
Beautiful Love
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Loose Canyons
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Konrad - Osh Kosh / Hello future?
K2_amazon
Robot USA
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Ades
www.myspace.com/adestab
( ;D --> clever and creative, sure livs up to epithet IDM.)
Brussels, the S day.
A_Vimeo
A.L. n°215
A1_Vimeo
Clan of Xymox
www.clanofxymox.com
www.myspace.com/clanofxymox
In Love we trust
CoX_amazon
( ;D --> Amsterdam-based darkwave act Clan of Xymox will release their newest album, In Love We Trust, August 18. The album purportedly returns to the band's sound from their early years with label 4AD while still creating an "up to date" sound. Clan of Xymox, who are now celebrating over 25 years of music creation, will release their newest CD through Metropolis Records.)
Se also: http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/02/flavor-of-week-9.html
Yello
www.yello.ch
( ;D --> The ambitious Swiss electronic duo Yello comprised vocalist/conceptualist Dieter Meier -- a millionaire industrialist, professional gambler, and member of Switzerland's national golf team -- and composer/arranger Boris Blank. Meier, a former solo artist who also spent time with the group Fresh Colour, began collaborating with Blank in 1979, and the duo bowed with the single "I.T. Splash." After signing with the Residents' label, Ralph Records, Yello issued their 1980 debut LP, Solid Pleasure, which spawned the dance hit "Bostitch.")
Se also: http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/07/flavor-of-week-30.html
Touch
Relese October the 2nd
( ;D --> Yello has been invited by Electronic Beats Classics to take part in a visionary new music experiment: the virtual concert. The cornerstone of the evening in Berlin will be the world premiere of “Touch Yello”, a 50-minute documentary that visualizes the group’s new album – to be released October 2009 -- and evokes moods, pictures and movie scenes. This is the logical next chapter in Yello’s 30-year history, which has seen the electronic innovators pushing the limits of music video production since 1981, when they released "Pinball Cha Cha”, a suave figure-oriented video that was later included in the Museum of Modern Art's Music Video Exhibition.)
“Touch Yello” virtual concert presented by Electronic Beats Classics; www.electronicbeats.net/News/Events/Touch-Yello-virtual-concert-presented-by-Electronic-Beats-Classics
http://slicesmagazine.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/662/#comment-16
Over And Out
www.myspace.com/justuskoehncke
( ;D --> Extending his voracious musical appetite for all things avant-garde, pop, and dance into his own output, German producer Justus Köhncke has flirted with the charts, covered Janis Ian and Marvin Hamlisch, and has released material on the Kompakt label. Köhncke deliveres a future-balearic space disco trip with sparkles in the eyes, hands floating in the air, the body drifting to the vibe. Even the coldest season becomes summery hot with Justus’ heartrending melodies and synth sequences. He’s a likeable romantic, sometimes overemotional and euphoric, sometimes quite melancholic with beatless ambient pieces. Köhnke recalls long-forgotten spaced out disco.)
Safe and Sound
JK_amazon
Konrad
www.myspace.com/konradmusic
www.konradmusic.net
( ;D --> Konrad is the American song constructionist Jeffrey Konrad who puzzles together his unique brand of vocal poetics with a sorted sonic DNA that exhibits strains of indie, folk and electro. In the past he's recorded as an experimental electronica musician known as "Robot USA" as well as a folksy singer-songwriter called "Nigel Jeffrey". In mid-2000 Konrad launched Radical Turf Records; an imprint founded with the intent of releasing compilation albums by underground electronic artists. 3 compilations and 2 full lengths later, the label continues to evolve as a medium for eclectic and eccentric audio.)
Beautiful Love
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Loose Canyons
K1_amazon
Konrad - Osh Kosh / Hello future?
K2_amazon
Robot USA
K3_amazon
Ades
www.myspace.com/adestab
( ;D --> clever and creative, sure livs up to epithet IDM.)
Brussels, the S day.
A_Vimeo
A.L. n°215
A1_Vimeo
Clan of Xymox
www.clanofxymox.com
www.myspace.com/clanofxymox
In Love we trust
CoX_amazon
( ;D --> Amsterdam-based darkwave act Clan of Xymox will release their newest album, In Love We Trust, August 18. The album purportedly returns to the band's sound from their early years with label 4AD while still creating an "up to date" sound. Clan of Xymox, who are now celebrating over 25 years of music creation, will release their newest CD through Metropolis Records.)
Se also: http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/02/flavor-of-week-9.html
Yello
www.yello.ch
( ;D --> The ambitious Swiss electronic duo Yello comprised vocalist/conceptualist Dieter Meier -- a millionaire industrialist, professional gambler, and member of Switzerland's national golf team -- and composer/arranger Boris Blank. Meier, a former solo artist who also spent time with the group Fresh Colour, began collaborating with Blank in 1979, and the duo bowed with the single "I.T. Splash." After signing with the Residents' label, Ralph Records, Yello issued their 1980 debut LP, Solid Pleasure, which spawned the dance hit "Bostitch.")
Se also: http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/07/flavor-of-week-30.html
Touch
Relese October the 2nd
( ;D --> Yello has been invited by Electronic Beats Classics to take part in a visionary new music experiment: the virtual concert. The cornerstone of the evening in Berlin will be the world premiere of “Touch Yello”, a 50-minute documentary that visualizes the group’s new album – to be released October 2009 -- and evokes moods, pictures and movie scenes. This is the logical next chapter in Yello’s 30-year history, which has seen the electronic innovators pushing the limits of music video production since 1981, when they released "Pinball Cha Cha”, a suave figure-oriented video that was later included in the Museum of Modern Art's Music Video Exhibition.)
“Touch Yello” virtual concert presented by Electronic Beats Classics; www.electronicbeats.net/News/Events/Touch-Yello-virtual-concert-presented-by-Electronic-Beats-Classics
http://slicesmagazine.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/662/#comment-16
Over And Out
Thursday, August 06, 2009
Flavor of the week #33
Moonbootica
www.myspace.com/moonbootique
www.moonbootica.com
( ;D --> Moonbootica are German party DJs on a mission. Whilst their German DJ contemporaries clung to the whispering overtures of minimalism, glorifying gentle fizzles and clicks as symphonies, Moonbootica went hell for leather as far in the opposite direction as it is possible to go. Their sound is one of unique, booty shakin music and has seen them tagged as Germanys premier dance export.)
moonbootica, resident mix (sputnik)
MB_Aimnat
Moonlight Welfare
MB_amazon
Nude
www.myspace.com/nudefakecredibility
( ;D --> European Electropop finally in the 21st Century. Courage to experiment is always worthwhile, especially if you have enough ideas, and sufficiently independent of the established record industry.)
Panic Attack
N_amazon
Black Box
N1_amazon
Plaid
www.plaid.co.uk
( ;D --> Plaid is a British electronic music duo comprising Andy Turner and Ed Handley, and based out of London. They are former members of The Black Dog and used many other names, such as Atypic (Andrew Turner) and Balil (Ed Handley), before settling on Plaid. They have collaborated with female singers Mara Carlyle, Nicolette and Björk. Although Plaid pre-existed the association, the duo's Ed Handley and Andy Turner spent most of their early recording years with Ken Downie as the dancefloor-confounding Black Dog Productions. Meshing well with Downie's vision of heavily hybridized post-techno and obscurantist thematics, the pair brought several nascent Plaid tracks to the Black Dog table on the group's debut, Bytes, a collection of tracks recorded by various iterations of the three members. The group recorded several albums and EPs throughout the early and mid-'90s, heley .
The pair split from Downie in 1995, and began rechanneling their efforts full-time with an EP on the neo-electro Clear label before signing to Warp. (The pair also recorded an album with European techno figure Mark Broom under the pseudonym Repeat. Both of Plaid's first two full-lengths, 1998's Not for Threes and the following year's Rest Proof Clockwork, were issued in the U.S. through Nothing. Once Warp set up a home on American shores, however, Plaid made the natural switch with the long-awaited collection Trainer, a retrospective including much of their early, pre-BDP work. The proper third album, Double Figure, followed in spring 2001, and the handy Plaid remix collection Parts in the Post was issued in 2003 by Peacefrog. The end of the year brought the duo's fourth proper LP, Spokes. Plaid was quiet on the recording front for several years, returning finally in mid-2006 with Greedy Baby, a mini-album that found the pair co-billed with visual artist Bob Jaroc.)
Heaven's Door: The Soundtrack
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Se also: http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/02/flavor-of-week-06.html
Clark (Chris Clark)
www.myspace.com/throttleclark
(Clark is excellent, inovaiting and interesting as always!)
Totems Flare
CC_amazon
Se also: http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/04/flavor-of-week-18.html
Informatik
www.myspace.com/informatik
Beyond
I_amazon
( ;D --> In the summer of 1993, Da5id Din and Matthew Crofoot formed Informatik based on a shared interest in the electronic music that was coming from Europe. They began recording together immediately, and after founding SINless Records, self-released their debut album Direct Memory Access in 1995. The Duo also successfully released the album Escape to Reality under the name Din_Fiv which stormed the charts in 2000. A highly successful US tour followed, with label mates Velvet Acid Christ and Haujobb. In 2008 Informatik returns with the album Beyond, their most unique and genre-defying work to date. Featuring guitar driven dark melodies and soulful lyrics.)
Din_Fiv:
Escape To Reality
D5_amazon
Through the Looking Glass
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Over And Out
www.myspace.com/moonbootique
www.moonbootica.com
( ;D --> Moonbootica are German party DJs on a mission. Whilst their German DJ contemporaries clung to the whispering overtures of minimalism, glorifying gentle fizzles and clicks as symphonies, Moonbootica went hell for leather as far in the opposite direction as it is possible to go. Their sound is one of unique, booty shakin music and has seen them tagged as Germanys premier dance export.)
moonbootica, resident mix (sputnik)
MB_Aimnat
Moonlight Welfare
MB_amazon
Nude
www.myspace.com/nudefakecredibility
( ;D --> European Electropop finally in the 21st Century. Courage to experiment is always worthwhile, especially if you have enough ideas, and sufficiently independent of the established record industry.)
Panic Attack
N_amazon
Black Box
N1_amazon
Plaid
www.plaid.co.uk
( ;D --> Plaid is a British electronic music duo comprising Andy Turner and Ed Handley, and based out of London. They are former members of The Black Dog and used many other names, such as Atypic (Andrew Turner) and Balil (Ed Handley), before settling on Plaid. They have collaborated with female singers Mara Carlyle, Nicolette and Björk. Although Plaid pre-existed the association, the duo's Ed Handley and Andy Turner spent most of their early recording years with Ken Downie as the dancefloor-confounding Black Dog Productions. Meshing well with Downie's vision of heavily hybridized post-techno and obscurantist thematics, the pair brought several nascent Plaid tracks to the Black Dog table on the group's debut, Bytes, a collection of tracks recorded by various iterations of the three members. The group recorded several albums and EPs throughout the early and mid-'90s, heley .
The pair split from Downie in 1995, and began rechanneling their efforts full-time with an EP on the neo-electro Clear label before signing to Warp. (The pair also recorded an album with European techno figure Mark Broom under the pseudonym Repeat. Both of Plaid's first two full-lengths, 1998's Not for Threes and the following year's Rest Proof Clockwork, were issued in the U.S. through Nothing. Once Warp set up a home on American shores, however, Plaid made the natural switch with the long-awaited collection Trainer, a retrospective including much of their early, pre-BDP work. The proper third album, Double Figure, followed in spring 2001, and the handy Plaid remix collection Parts in the Post was issued in 2003 by Peacefrog. The end of the year brought the duo's fourth proper LP, Spokes. Plaid was quiet on the recording front for several years, returning finally in mid-2006 with Greedy Baby, a mini-album that found the pair co-billed with visual artist Bob Jaroc.)
Heaven's Door: The Soundtrack
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Se also: http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/02/flavor-of-week-06.html
Clark (Chris Clark)
www.myspace.com/throttleclark
(Clark is excellent, inovaiting and interesting as always!)
Totems Flare
CC_amazon
Se also: http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/04/flavor-of-week-18.html
Informatik
www.myspace.com/informatik
Beyond
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( ;D --> In the summer of 1993, Da5id Din and Matthew Crofoot formed Informatik based on a shared interest in the electronic music that was coming from Europe. They began recording together immediately, and after founding SINless Records, self-released their debut album Direct Memory Access in 1995. The Duo also successfully released the album Escape to Reality under the name Din_Fiv which stormed the charts in 2000. A highly successful US tour followed, with label mates Velvet Acid Christ and Haujobb. In 2008 Informatik returns with the album Beyond, their most unique and genre-defying work to date. Featuring guitar driven dark melodies and soulful lyrics.)
Din_Fiv:
Escape To Reality
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Through the Looking Glass
D51_amazon
Over And Out
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Flavor of the week #32
DiRTY dOERing
www.myspace.com/veltendoering
Papa Loco
DD_AK_Beatpot
( ;D --> Alexander Kowalski Remix!!!)
www.myspace.com/alexanderkowalski
Dasha Rush
www.myspace.com/dasharushsound
www.dasharush.info
I Run Iron I Run Ironic
DR_Decks
( ;D --> This is the second album from the strange and twisted world inhabited by Dasha Rush and a bunch of broken sounding machines. While her first album was cast from a more conventional template, “I Run Iron I Run Ironic” comes from a weirder and more interesting place. Like Pole or Pete Namlook if they had a dose of wry feminine humour, Dasha weaves a thread of inky blackness through the many layers of her sonic collage.)
Sopor Aeternus (& the Ensemble of Shadows )
www.myspace.com/soporaeternusofficial
www.soporaeternus.de
( ;D --> Sopor Aeternus (Latin: "Eternal Sleep") is a darkwave musical project (probably the deepest of dark bands) based in Frankfurt founded in 1989 by Anna-Varney Cantodea. Since the project's beginnings, Anna-Varney's music has gained notoriety for being extremely personalized, melancholic and pessimistic, drawing on a number of different musical and visual styles to be incorporated into her unique and unusual work. Despite years of media attention in Europe, not much is known about Cantodea and her personal life. All known information has been attained from interviews and publications in print. What is established is that Anna-Varney Cantodea is a pre-operative transwoman, and has decided to remain as such, citing "spiritual conflict" if gender reassignment surgery is performed. Sopor Aeternus also credits the Ensemble of Shadows for her inspirations. These are spirits, beings who she says she receives the musical compositions from. She also works through depression with the aid of her music, as can be heard on the demos, produced at a time when she was gravely ill and at risk of losing her eyesight. She describes her subsequent works as "introverted exhibitionism." They are also expressions of extreme, intense pain.
Dead Lovers' Sarabande (Face One)
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Ich Tote Mich Jedesmal Aufs
SA1_amazon
La Chambre d'Echo
SA2_amazon
( ;D --> Sopor has also recored a cover version of Kraftwerk's "Das Modell" which she translates into Latin and plays on a baroque harpsichord!)
Model Est
SA3_amazon
Voyager - The Jugglers Of Jusa
SA4_amazon
Little Nobody
www.myspace.com/littlenobodymuzak
( ;D --> An expat Australian freelance music, movie and anime journalist, writer, photographer, DJ, record label head honcho, and experimental electronic music producer who's been based in Tokyo over the past 8 years... He's also bunked up in London, traveled a bit round the globe, and during the course of a decade and a bit of hack journalism has interviewed people as far afield as Kraftwerk, Jeff Mills, Coldcut, Genesis P. Orridge (from industrial pioneers Throbbing Gristle), Derrick May, Si Begg, Famke Janssen (from the "X-Men" movies), and Mamoru Oshii (the director of the anime classic "Ghost In The Shell").)
Compulsion
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Robota
LN1_amazon
Little Nobody: Wayward Seafarers EP
LN2_amazon
Action Hero
LN3_amazon
B12
www.myspace.com/b12records
( ;D --> B12 Records was founded in 1990 by Mike Golding and Steve Rutter as a vehicle for themselves and other like minded individuals to release electronic music for listening and dancing. Today, B12 Records -- spear-headed by the duo’s common pseudonym “B12” -- has exactly the same goal, to provide quality electronic music for futuristic feet and forward thinking minds.)
Last Days Of Silence Remixes
B12_amazon
Posthuman, Monsters and Vortices EP
www.b12records.com/#comingsoon
( ;D --> comes to B12 Records. August 2009.)
B12 Records Archive Volume 7
B121_amazon
Se also: http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2008/10/flavor-of-week-43.html
Over And Out
www.myspace.com/veltendoering
Papa Loco
DD_AK_Beatpot
( ;D --> Alexander Kowalski Remix!!!)
www.myspace.com/alexanderkowalski
Dasha Rush
www.myspace.com/dasharushsound
www.dasharush.info
I Run Iron I Run Ironic
DR_Decks
( ;D --> This is the second album from the strange and twisted world inhabited by Dasha Rush and a bunch of broken sounding machines. While her first album was cast from a more conventional template, “I Run Iron I Run Ironic” comes from a weirder and more interesting place. Like Pole or Pete Namlook if they had a dose of wry feminine humour, Dasha weaves a thread of inky blackness through the many layers of her sonic collage.)
Sopor Aeternus (& the Ensemble of Shadows )
www.myspace.com/soporaeternusofficial
www.soporaeternus.de
( ;D --> Sopor Aeternus (Latin: "Eternal Sleep") is a darkwave musical project (probably the deepest of dark bands) based in Frankfurt founded in 1989 by Anna-Varney Cantodea. Since the project's beginnings, Anna-Varney's music has gained notoriety for being extremely personalized, melancholic and pessimistic, drawing on a number of different musical and visual styles to be incorporated into her unique and unusual work. Despite years of media attention in Europe, not much is known about Cantodea and her personal life. All known information has been attained from interviews and publications in print. What is established is that Anna-Varney Cantodea is a pre-operative transwoman, and has decided to remain as such, citing "spiritual conflict" if gender reassignment surgery is performed. Sopor Aeternus also credits the Ensemble of Shadows for her inspirations. These are spirits, beings who she says she receives the musical compositions from. She also works through depression with the aid of her music, as can be heard on the demos, produced at a time when she was gravely ill and at risk of losing her eyesight. She describes her subsequent works as "introverted exhibitionism." They are also expressions of extreme, intense pain.
Dead Lovers' Sarabande (Face One)
SA_amazon
Ich Tote Mich Jedesmal Aufs
SA1_amazon
La Chambre d'Echo
SA2_amazon
( ;D --> Sopor has also recored a cover version of Kraftwerk's "Das Modell" which she translates into Latin and plays on a baroque harpsichord!)
Model Est
SA3_amazon
Voyager - The Jugglers Of Jusa
SA4_amazon
Little Nobody
www.myspace.com/littlenobodymuzak
( ;D --> An expat Australian freelance music, movie and anime journalist, writer, photographer, DJ, record label head honcho, and experimental electronic music producer who's been based in Tokyo over the past 8 years... He's also bunked up in London, traveled a bit round the globe, and during the course of a decade and a bit of hack journalism has interviewed people as far afield as Kraftwerk, Jeff Mills, Coldcut, Genesis P. Orridge (from industrial pioneers Throbbing Gristle), Derrick May, Si Begg, Famke Janssen (from the "X-Men" movies), and Mamoru Oshii (the director of the anime classic "Ghost In The Shell").)
Compulsion
LN_amazon
Robota
LN1_amazon
Little Nobody: Wayward Seafarers EP
LN2_amazon
Action Hero
LN3_amazon
B12
www.myspace.com/b12records
( ;D --> B12 Records was founded in 1990 by Mike Golding and Steve Rutter as a vehicle for themselves and other like minded individuals to release electronic music for listening and dancing. Today, B12 Records -- spear-headed by the duo’s common pseudonym “B12” -- has exactly the same goal, to provide quality electronic music for futuristic feet and forward thinking minds.)
Last Days Of Silence Remixes
B12_amazon
Posthuman, Monsters and Vortices EP
www.b12records.com/#comingsoon
( ;D --> comes to B12 Records. August 2009.)
B12 Records Archive Volume 7
B121_amazon
Se also: http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2008/10/flavor-of-week-43.html
Over And Out
Friday, July 24, 2009
Flavor of the week #31
Sumisonic
www.myspace.com/sumisonic
( ;D --> Delicious DeepDub, Abstract, AmbientTechno, Drone & Psychedelic act from Japan.)
Cyclone
S_Bryzant_shop
Cyclone
S_amazon
Moby
www.moby.com
www.myspace.com/moby
Wait for me
M_amazon
( ;D--> superb!)
Claro Intelecto
www.myspace.com/claro_intelecto
( ;D --> After four volumes of Warehouse Sessions and a few additional twelve inchers on Modern Love, Mark Stewart releases his sophomore LP on the same label. Stewart began his Claro Intelecto project in 2003 on Manchesters IDM label, AI, with a Peace of Mind EP. He quickly followed the release with the acclaimed Neurofibro (named after his genetic disease). Metanarrative is more melodic than the preceding EPs, centered around deep bass groans and minimal grinds building up the postmodernist grand narrative. Stewart infuses the Detroit influenced UK beats with his IDM and electro background, creating an album that spans the sub-genres from dub techno to tech-house.)
Warehouse Sessions
CI_amazon
Metanarrative
CI1_amazon
Section EP
CI_Boomkat
( ;D --> Mono :).)
CI_Youtube
Neurofibro
CI1_Boomkat
Dioxyde
www.myspace.com/dioxyde
( ;D --> Harsh Spanish electro)
Social Phobia
D_amazon
Unheilig
www.myspace.com/unheilig
www.unheilig.com
( ;D --> Unheilig (German for "Unholy") is a German Neue Deutsche Härte band. They are stylistically connected to the Dark Culture. Unheilig was formed in 1999 and consists of Der Graf, Grant Stevens and Jose Alvarez-Brill.)
Puppenspiel
U_amazon
Over And Out
www.myspace.com/sumisonic
( ;D --> Delicious DeepDub, Abstract, AmbientTechno, Drone & Psychedelic act from Japan.)
Cyclone
S_Bryzant_shop
Cyclone
S_amazon
Moby
www.moby.com
www.myspace.com/moby
Wait for me
M_amazon
( ;D--> superb!)
Claro Intelecto
www.myspace.com/claro_intelecto
( ;D --> After four volumes of Warehouse Sessions and a few additional twelve inchers on Modern Love, Mark Stewart releases his sophomore LP on the same label. Stewart began his Claro Intelecto project in 2003 on Manchesters IDM label, AI, with a Peace of Mind EP. He quickly followed the release with the acclaimed Neurofibro (named after his genetic disease). Metanarrative is more melodic than the preceding EPs, centered around deep bass groans and minimal grinds building up the postmodernist grand narrative. Stewart infuses the Detroit influenced UK beats with his IDM and electro background, creating an album that spans the sub-genres from dub techno to tech-house.)
Warehouse Sessions
CI_amazon
Metanarrative
CI1_amazon
Section EP
CI_Boomkat
( ;D --> Mono :).)
CI_Youtube
Neurofibro
CI1_Boomkat
Dioxyde
www.myspace.com/dioxyde
( ;D --> Harsh Spanish electro)
Social Phobia
D_amazon
Unheilig
www.myspace.com/unheilig
www.unheilig.com
( ;D --> Unheilig (German for "Unholy") is a German Neue Deutsche Härte band. They are stylistically connected to the Dark Culture. Unheilig was formed in 1999 and consists of Der Graf, Grant Stevens and Jose Alvarez-Brill.)
Puppenspiel
U_amazon
Over And Out
Friday, July 17, 2009
Flavor of the week #30
Dominik Eulberg
www.myspace.com/dominikeulberg
( ;D --> Heavily influenced by the sound of Sven Vath's radio show during the '90s, Germany's Dominik Eulberg began performing and producing music in front of small audiences in 1995. His early releases on the Sniper imprint caught the attention of such other labels as Matthias Schaffhäuser's Ware and Germany's Raum...Musik. After a series of singles on Traum Schallplatten and Trapez, Eulberg released his first full-length, Flora und Fauna in 2004. The album was met with much acclaim from critics, dancefloors, and DJs alike and resulted in a series of DJ-friendly remixes in 2005. He continues to record almost exclusively for Traum Schallplatten and in the past few years has become an in-demand remixer known for his epic compositional sensibilities and dramatic, sweeping arrangements. He recently came full-circle creatively by recording an EP for Sven Vath's Cocoon label in summer of 2006.)
Sensorika
DE_amazon
( ;D --> Sansula; Max Cooper's Lost In Sound Mix!)
Bionik
DE1_amazon
Toktok
www.myspace.com/toktokmusic
( ;D --> Toktok is a project of the artists Nerk, Anton Waldt, C14 and Fabian Feyerabendt from the german techno capital Berlin. At the moment, Toktok has slimmed down to the artists Nerk aka Benjamin Weiss & Fabian Feyerabendt with some occasional joining of Stefan Kuechenmeister and their magic ingredient in the form of vocalist and lyricist Sophia Larsson Ocklind, aka Soffy O. It was founded in 1994, emerging out of the prosperous free party scene at that time where the Toktok members organized Parties together with the legendary Spiral Tribe Sound System.)
Toktok Vs Soffy O /Missy Queen's Gonna Die
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Bullet in the head
TT1_amazon
Nosebleep
TT2_amazon
La Roux
www.myspace.com/larouxuk
( ;D --> At the end of 2008 21 year old Elly Jackson, aka La Roux, arrived with a whirlwind of excitement surrounding her and has had everyone from Franz Ferdinand to Daft Punk hailing her as a talent to watch. Now, the iconic redheaded Brixton girl unleashes her highly anticipated eponymous debut album.)
La Roux
LR_amazon
In for the Kill
LR1_amazon
My Life With The Trhill Kill Kult
www.myspace.com/mylifewiththetkk
www.mylifewiththethrillkillkult.com
( ;D --> My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult specialized in mixing tales of sex, Satan, and gore with a rock/dance beat. Originally formed in 1987 by Buzz McCoy and Groovie Mann, the duo sought to create a worthy musical accompaniment that could be used as a soundtrack to trashy B-movies. The duo's initial project was to make a movie (in the style of Russ Meyer and John Waters) to be named "My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult." The movie never got off the ground, but McCoy and Mann used the aborted movie's title for the name of their just-formed group, as their over-the-top stage show was best described as "sensory overload" (featuring a revolving door of weird characters, props, and intense visuals.
In addition to their own releases, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult has contributed tracks to several movie soundtracks, including Paul Verhoeven's Showgirls, Greg Araki's Nowhere, and the hit flick The Crow (in the latter of which the group made a cameo appearance); and over the years, has toured with such renowned (and similarly styled) bands as Siouxie and the Banshees, Lords of Acid, EMF, and Marilyn Manson.)
Death Treath
TKK_amazon
Frozen Plasma
www.myspace.com/frozenplasma
www.frozenplasma.com
Monumentum
FP_amazon
( ;D --> The first single "Hypocrite" and the debut album "Artificial" were extremely successful in the US and in Europe. The club anthem "Warmongers" from their 2006 EP "Emphasize" became one of the most played songs in venues around the world. This follow-up is a groundbreaking, emotional, and empathetic masterpiece. It merges the songwriting and poetic lyrics of Vasi Vallis (NamNamBulu mastermind) with the touching and powerful voice of Felix Marc (Diorama) to create an absorbing atmosphere. RIYL: VNV Nation, Seabound, Wolfsheim, Covenant.)
Se also: http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/03/flavor-of-week-14.html
Over And Out
www.myspace.com/dominikeulberg
( ;D --> Heavily influenced by the sound of Sven Vath's radio show during the '90s, Germany's Dominik Eulberg began performing and producing music in front of small audiences in 1995. His early releases on the Sniper imprint caught the attention of such other labels as Matthias Schaffhäuser's Ware and Germany's Raum...Musik. After a series of singles on Traum Schallplatten and Trapez, Eulberg released his first full-length, Flora und Fauna in 2004. The album was met with much acclaim from critics, dancefloors, and DJs alike and resulted in a series of DJ-friendly remixes in 2005. He continues to record almost exclusively for Traum Schallplatten and in the past few years has become an in-demand remixer known for his epic compositional sensibilities and dramatic, sweeping arrangements. He recently came full-circle creatively by recording an EP for Sven Vath's Cocoon label in summer of 2006.)
Sensorika
DE_amazon
( ;D --> Sansula; Max Cooper's Lost In Sound Mix!)
Bionik
DE1_amazon
Toktok
www.myspace.com/toktokmusic
( ;D --> Toktok is a project of the artists Nerk, Anton Waldt, C14 and Fabian Feyerabendt from the german techno capital Berlin. At the moment, Toktok has slimmed down to the artists Nerk aka Benjamin Weiss & Fabian Feyerabendt with some occasional joining of Stefan Kuechenmeister and their magic ingredient in the form of vocalist and lyricist Sophia Larsson Ocklind, aka Soffy O. It was founded in 1994, emerging out of the prosperous free party scene at that time where the Toktok members organized Parties together with the legendary Spiral Tribe Sound System.)
Toktok Vs Soffy O /Missy Queen's Gonna Die
TT_amazon
Bullet in the head
TT1_amazon
Nosebleep
TT2_amazon
La Roux
www.myspace.com/larouxuk
( ;D --> At the end of 2008 21 year old Elly Jackson, aka La Roux, arrived with a whirlwind of excitement surrounding her and has had everyone from Franz Ferdinand to Daft Punk hailing her as a talent to watch. Now, the iconic redheaded Brixton girl unleashes her highly anticipated eponymous debut album.)
La Roux
LR_amazon
In for the Kill
LR1_amazon
My Life With The Trhill Kill Kult
www.myspace.com/mylifewiththetkk
www.mylifewiththethrillkillkult.com
( ;D --> My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult specialized in mixing tales of sex, Satan, and gore with a rock/dance beat. Originally formed in 1987 by Buzz McCoy and Groovie Mann, the duo sought to create a worthy musical accompaniment that could be used as a soundtrack to trashy B-movies. The duo's initial project was to make a movie (in the style of Russ Meyer and John Waters) to be named "My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult." The movie never got off the ground, but McCoy and Mann used the aborted movie's title for the name of their just-formed group, as their over-the-top stage show was best described as "sensory overload" (featuring a revolving door of weird characters, props, and intense visuals.
In addition to their own releases, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult has contributed tracks to several movie soundtracks, including Paul Verhoeven's Showgirls, Greg Araki's Nowhere, and the hit flick The Crow (in the latter of which the group made a cameo appearance); and over the years, has toured with such renowned (and similarly styled) bands as Siouxie and the Banshees, Lords of Acid, EMF, and Marilyn Manson.)
Death Treath
TKK_amazon
Frozen Plasma
www.myspace.com/frozenplasma
www.frozenplasma.com
Monumentum
FP_amazon
( ;D --> The first single "Hypocrite" and the debut album "Artificial" were extremely successful in the US and in Europe. The club anthem "Warmongers" from their 2006 EP "Emphasize" became one of the most played songs in venues around the world. This follow-up is a groundbreaking, emotional, and empathetic masterpiece. It merges the songwriting and poetic lyrics of Vasi Vallis (NamNamBulu mastermind) with the touching and powerful voice of Felix Marc (Diorama) to create an absorbing atmosphere. RIYL: VNV Nation, Seabound, Wolfsheim, Covenant.)
Se also: http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/03/flavor-of-week-14.html
Over And Out
Friday, July 10, 2009
Flavor of the week #29
Adverb
www.myspace.com/adverbmusic
( ;D --> Great Spanish ambient-techno/deep house.)
Adverbial Ep
A_Beatport
( ;D --> Fresh release.)
Retaliate EP
A_This_side
Things to remember
A_Soundcloud
Leaves /Adverb featuring 7th Flower
A_amazon
Psyche
www.myspace.com/psyche
( ;D --> Psyche are an enduring legend of independent electronic pop music. From cold harsh industrial, through warm synthpop, dancefloor minimal, dark wave, and beyond. From "The Brain Collapses", and "Unveiling The Secret" through to "Goodbye Horses", "Sanctuary" and "15 Minutes".)
Until The Shadows
P_amazon
Implant
www.myspace.com/implant
www.implant-music.be
( ;D --> Implant, the project of LEN LEMEIRE, has been trying to contribute to the already massive inheritance of the Belgian electronic scene since 1992. 8 full length albums, 7 EP’s, uncountable remixes and several productions later, one can only agree that the music itself is the universal language. It was because of his music that Len teamed up with several of the early pioneers of electronic music. When ANNE CLARK heard Len’s remix for ‘Sleeper in Metropolis’, Implant became the electronic live band of ANNE CLARK for 5 years, resulting in guest contributions of Anne on 2 albums (‘Audio Blender’ and ‘Self Inflicted’). When Jean-Luc de Meyer (FRONT 242) heard an implant track, he decided not only to contribute vocals for 1 track, but a full blown new project was born under the flag of 32CRASH.)
Implantology
I_amazon
Pete Namlook and Gabriel Le Mar
www.namlook.de/
www.myspace.com/namlook
www.le-mar.de/
www.myspace.com/gabriellemar
Namlook – Le Mar
PN/GLM_Juno
( ;D --> This first collaboration of Pete Namlook and Gabriel Le Mar is a perfect combination of two worlds in Chill-Out and Ambient. While both artists have composed and released electronic music for over a decade, each followed a different path. While Namlook was often more on the beatless path of deep instrumental music, Le Mar had a strong connection to dub music and percussive content. Both developed their personal style and now combined their ideas to a perfect match in music. Percussive, melodic, organic monochrome, even a minimalistic electro-techno track is part of this album. The variety of unique organic music with its intense quality, makes you listen to it over and over again.)
Fischerspooner
www.myspace.com/fischerspooner
( ;D --> Fischerspooner are one of the most respected and successful crossover acts of the Electro renaissance. Their work fuses fine art and pop culture, as in their renowned outsider pop shows bursting with stage effects in both art galleries and traditional concert halls.)
Entertainment
F_amazon
Over And Out
www.myspace.com/adverbmusic
( ;D --> Great Spanish ambient-techno/deep house.)
Adverbial Ep
A_Beatport
( ;D --> Fresh release.)
Retaliate EP
A_This_side
Things to remember
A_Soundcloud
Leaves /Adverb featuring 7th Flower
A_amazon
Psyche
www.myspace.com/psyche
( ;D --> Psyche are an enduring legend of independent electronic pop music. From cold harsh industrial, through warm synthpop, dancefloor minimal, dark wave, and beyond. From "The Brain Collapses", and "Unveiling The Secret" through to "Goodbye Horses", "Sanctuary" and "15 Minutes".)
Until The Shadows
P_amazon
Implant
www.myspace.com/implant
www.implant-music.be
( ;D --> Implant, the project of LEN LEMEIRE, has been trying to contribute to the already massive inheritance of the Belgian electronic scene since 1992. 8 full length albums, 7 EP’s, uncountable remixes and several productions later, one can only agree that the music itself is the universal language. It was because of his music that Len teamed up with several of the early pioneers of electronic music. When ANNE CLARK heard Len’s remix for ‘Sleeper in Metropolis’, Implant became the electronic live band of ANNE CLARK for 5 years, resulting in guest contributions of Anne on 2 albums (‘Audio Blender’ and ‘Self Inflicted’). When Jean-Luc de Meyer (FRONT 242) heard an implant track, he decided not only to contribute vocals for 1 track, but a full blown new project was born under the flag of 32CRASH.)
Implantology
I_amazon
Pete Namlook and Gabriel Le Mar
www.namlook.de/
www.myspace.com/namlook
www.le-mar.de/
www.myspace.com/gabriellemar
Namlook – Le Mar
PN/GLM_Juno
( ;D --> This first collaboration of Pete Namlook and Gabriel Le Mar is a perfect combination of two worlds in Chill-Out and Ambient. While both artists have composed and released electronic music for over a decade, each followed a different path. While Namlook was often more on the beatless path of deep instrumental music, Le Mar had a strong connection to dub music and percussive content. Both developed their personal style and now combined their ideas to a perfect match in music. Percussive, melodic, organic monochrome, even a minimalistic electro-techno track is part of this album. The variety of unique organic music with its intense quality, makes you listen to it over and over again.)
Fischerspooner
www.myspace.com/fischerspooner
( ;D --> Fischerspooner are one of the most respected and successful crossover acts of the Electro renaissance. Their work fuses fine art and pop culture, as in their renowned outsider pop shows bursting with stage effects in both art galleries and traditional concert halls.)
Entertainment
F_amazon
Over And Out
Friday, July 03, 2009
Flavor of the week #28
Music AutOmatiK
www.myspace.com/musicautomatik
( ;D --> superb Electro Exprimental/Brake-beat with a touch of Autecre and Ginormous, all spised up with some marvelous visuals.)
Melotonine
M_Blastmusic
Mirko Loko
www.myspace.com/mirkoloko
( ;D --> Mirko Loko is most notably a member of Planet E's Swiss reps Lazy Fat People, manufacturers of hefty tech-house and part of the European house hoi polloi. On his lonesome he's collaborated with Luciano besides remixing types like James Zabiela. 'Seventynine' is his debut album of streamlined and effortless tech-house variations ripe with bloopy bass sounds, tasteful percussion, hypnotic synthlines and a very refined production palette.)
Seventynine
ML_amazon
Family EP
ML1_amazon
Nachtmahr
www.myspace.com/nachtmahrprojekt
( ;D --> „I only have one interest: i don’t care if you live or die: I just wanna see you dance!“ This is the motto that made Thomas Rainer create his new musical project NACHTMAHR in 2007. After the Austrian artist has achieved worldwide chart breaking success with his other projects L’AME IMMORTELLE and SIECHTUM in the past 11 years, he returns to his roots: the boiling dancefloors of industrial and goth clubs alike Inspired by numerous years of Djing NACHTMAHR> is the missing link between merciless and provocative Industrial and the hammering power of Techno. The first release “Kunst ist Krieg (=art is war)” and it’s club hit “BoomBoomBoom” instantly conquer the dancefloors and earn the band a slot on the soundtrack of the American block-buster movie SAW 4.)
Katharsis
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Feuer Frei!
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Mihalis Safras
www.myspace.com/mihalissafras
( ;D --> Greek DJ/producer & label manager, Mihalis Safras, is the mastermind behind the Material Series label pool. He is concidered to be one of the most high-profiled artists and currently the most productive techno producer on the planet. Mihalis appears on at least a dozen 12-inches every year, establishing himself as one of world's most accredited producers through sheer will. The hard work has paid off in the form of releases on celebrated labels like Trapez, Great Stuff Recordings, Material, Soma Quality Recordings and many more which had proven that he hasn't run out of creative gas. Recently, Mihalis signed for monsterous label Get Physical. Furthermore he has collaborated for special remixes on Ali Dubfire's 'Roadkill' and for a special mix on Britney Spears 'Breathe'. Mellowing his style as times goes by, getting more experimental and spacey with a fresh style of his own, Mihalis’s production is destined to the wiser dancefloors.)
Cry for the last dance
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Heimataerde
www.myspace.com/heimataerde
( ;D --> Fans of Wumpscut, Grendel, and The Retrosic will fall in love ... fans of music with super heavy beats and cool synth lines will fall in love, too. Throw in some harsh (but intelligible) vocals, a ton of cool samples, and occasional classical and medieval elements, and you have something for everyone who likes dark music.)
Unter Den Linden/Vater
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( ;D --> Heimataerde has created something utterly unique, blending medieval music with modern hard electro. The out-of-print EP Unter den Linden, which focused on Western European influences, put the band on the map with an intoxicating combination of divergent styles. The new Vater EP explores the relationship between the Western crusaders and their Middle Eastern counterparts, resulting in absolutely amazing dance tracks think--Dead Can Dance in the 21st century.)
Leben Geben Leben Nehmen
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Over And Out
www.myspace.com/musicautomatik
( ;D --> superb Electro Exprimental/Brake-beat with a touch of Autecre and Ginormous, all spised up with some marvelous visuals.)
Melotonine
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Mirko Loko
www.myspace.com/mirkoloko
( ;D --> Mirko Loko is most notably a member of Planet E's Swiss reps Lazy Fat People, manufacturers of hefty tech-house and part of the European house hoi polloi. On his lonesome he's collaborated with Luciano besides remixing types like James Zabiela. 'Seventynine' is his debut album of streamlined and effortless tech-house variations ripe with bloopy bass sounds, tasteful percussion, hypnotic synthlines and a very refined production palette.)
Seventynine
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Family EP
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Nachtmahr
www.myspace.com/nachtmahrprojekt
( ;D --> „I only have one interest: i don’t care if you live or die: I just wanna see you dance!“ This is the motto that made Thomas Rainer create his new musical project NACHTMAHR in 2007. After the Austrian artist has achieved worldwide chart breaking success with his other projects L’AME IMMORTELLE and SIECHTUM in the past 11 years, he returns to his roots: the boiling dancefloors of industrial and goth clubs alike Inspired by numerous years of Djing NACHTMAHR> is the missing link between merciless and provocative Industrial and the hammering power of Techno. The first release “Kunst ist Krieg (=art is war)” and it’s club hit “BoomBoomBoom” instantly conquer the dancefloors and earn the band a slot on the soundtrack of the American block-buster movie SAW 4.)
Katharsis
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Feuer Frei!
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Mihalis Safras
www.myspace.com/mihalissafras
( ;D --> Greek DJ/producer & label manager, Mihalis Safras, is the mastermind behind the Material Series label pool. He is concidered to be one of the most high-profiled artists and currently the most productive techno producer on the planet. Mihalis appears on at least a dozen 12-inches every year, establishing himself as one of world's most accredited producers through sheer will. The hard work has paid off in the form of releases on celebrated labels like Trapez, Great Stuff Recordings, Material, Soma Quality Recordings and many more which had proven that he hasn't run out of creative gas. Recently, Mihalis signed for monsterous label Get Physical. Furthermore he has collaborated for special remixes on Ali Dubfire's 'Roadkill' and for a special mix on Britney Spears 'Breathe'. Mellowing his style as times goes by, getting more experimental and spacey with a fresh style of his own, Mihalis’s production is destined to the wiser dancefloors.)
Cry for the last dance
MS_amazon
Heimataerde
www.myspace.com/heimataerde
( ;D --> Fans of Wumpscut, Grendel, and The Retrosic will fall in love ... fans of music with super heavy beats and cool synth lines will fall in love, too. Throw in some harsh (but intelligible) vocals, a ton of cool samples, and occasional classical and medieval elements, and you have something for everyone who likes dark music.)
Unter Den Linden/Vater
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( ;D --> Heimataerde has created something utterly unique, blending medieval music with modern hard electro. The out-of-print EP Unter den Linden, which focused on Western European influences, put the band on the map with an intoxicating combination of divergent styles. The new Vater EP explores the relationship between the Western crusaders and their Middle Eastern counterparts, resulting in absolutely amazing dance tracks think--Dead Can Dance in the 21st century.)
Leben Geben Leben Nehmen
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Over And Out
Friday, June 26, 2009
Flavor of the week #27
Monolake
www.myspace.com/monolakemusic
www.monolake.de
( ;D --> Monolake is an open project dedicated to computer generated music, founded in 1995 by Robert Henke and Gerhard Behles. Monolake are impressed and influenced by minimal techno music and drum&bass and at the same discovered the sonic richness and sophistication of academic computer music.)
Atlas Titan
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( ;D --> This is the first new material released since 2006's 'Polygon Cities' album Cities' and quite frankly, it's class. 'Atlas' is a truly epic opener, setting out on a 138bpm flex with techno-skippin' rhythm fluctuations inheriting a lot of swing from T++'s recent material and mind blowing bass dynamics coaxed into being by Robert Henke's next-level programming skills. The inclusion of an almost-organic sounding woodwind instrument is a clever ploy, as in all reality it's most likely been programmed from pure data, but lends a human element. 'Titan' should satisfy your unnatural cravings with a purist composition of darkside steppers techno, running at 138bpm and morphed between immense occlusions of darkside atmospherics. It's the sound you all know and love, but updated in the true Monolake sense for 2009. Essential!)
www.monolake.de/releases/ml-023.html
Se also: http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/08/flavor-of-week-33.html
Sven Weisemann
www.myspace.com/svenweisemann
www.mojubarecords.com
( ;D --> Sven Weisemann is a somewhat strange figure in Berlin's electronic music scene. When he's not making elegantly smooth deep house tracks for labels like Mojuba, Liebe*Detail and House Cafe Music, he's busy composing modern classical pieces for piano and cello. Those more familiar with Weisemann's own productions may be surprised by his DJing style, as he weaves effortlessly between his trademark deeper sound and classic house and techno dancefloor jack tracks.)
Light Soil EP
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Mojuba Box
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Ojui
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( ;D --> Upcoming):
Xine Album
Namito
www.myspace.com/namito
www.namito.com
( ;D --> Undoubtedly, Namito belongs to the very designers of the Berlin techno scene. Since 1992, due to his distinctive sets, he is constantly booked by all major clubs in town, be it the legendary “E-Werk” or “Tresor”, where he raved the crowd as a resident for years. In 1996, Namito’s first releases caught the attraction of European clubs such as London's Turnmills and the Brancaleone in Rome. By meeting Martin Eyerer in 2004, Namito redefines his sound. As a result, he has releases on labels like Multicolor, Kling Klong and Great Stuff. Furthermore, he then remixes for acts such as Kosheen, Client and Gusgus.)
Eleven
N_Juno
( ;D --> Eleven” has it all: the deepness of late night grooves combined with the audiophile finesse that makes Namito’s productions so tight and crisp. A very laidback attitude and a lot of knowledge and feeling combined with a lot of imagination equal a massive ride that never sounds worn out or prefabricated.)
Namito's Goldies Not Oldies
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The Crystal Method
www.myspace.com/thecrystalmethod
www.thecrystalmethod.com
( ;D --> The Crystal Method is a Grammy nominated electronic music duo that formed in Los Angeles, California in the early 1990s. It is made up of Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland. The duo is known for their live sets and for having many of their songs feature in films, television shows, and video games. With the platinum-status album Vegas, The Crystal Method has become one of the best-selling electronica bands in the United States.)
Divided by Night
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( ;D--> 2009 release, the fourth album by Electronic music pioneers Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland (AKA The Crystal Method). Bolstered by the innovation, flexibility and craftsmanship that made the duo club culture icons, Divided By Night is nothing short of a masterpiece and easily the duo's most inventive and accomplished album to date! Divided By Night explodes with an assortment of high caliber guests which includes New Order bassist Peter Hook, Metric front-woman Emily Haines, drummer Samantha Maloney, one-time Grandaddy frontman Jason Lytle and She Wants Revenge vocalist Justin Warfield.)
Moritz von Oswald
www.discogs.com/artist/Moritz+von+Oswald
www.redbullmusicacademy.com/video-archive/lectures/moritz_von_oswald_early_morning_freestyles
( ;D --> co-founder of Berlin's Basic Channel label, Von Oswald is one of electronica's most influential figures, and this solo debut won't disappoint fans of his soundscapes.)
Vertical Ascent (the Moritz von Oswald Trio)
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Recomposed by Carl Craig & Moritz von Oswald
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Watamu Beach
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Over And Out
www.myspace.com/monolakemusic
www.monolake.de
( ;D --> Monolake is an open project dedicated to computer generated music, founded in 1995 by Robert Henke and Gerhard Behles. Monolake are impressed and influenced by minimal techno music and drum&bass and at the same discovered the sonic richness and sophistication of academic computer music.)
Atlas Titan
M_amazon
( ;D --> This is the first new material released since 2006's 'Polygon Cities' album Cities' and quite frankly, it's class. 'Atlas' is a truly epic opener, setting out on a 138bpm flex with techno-skippin' rhythm fluctuations inheriting a lot of swing from T++'s recent material and mind blowing bass dynamics coaxed into being by Robert Henke's next-level programming skills. The inclusion of an almost-organic sounding woodwind instrument is a clever ploy, as in all reality it's most likely been programmed from pure data, but lends a human element. 'Titan' should satisfy your unnatural cravings with a purist composition of darkside steppers techno, running at 138bpm and morphed between immense occlusions of darkside atmospherics. It's the sound you all know and love, but updated in the true Monolake sense for 2009. Essential!)
www.monolake.de/releases/ml-023.html
Se also: http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/08/flavor-of-week-33.html
Sven Weisemann
www.myspace.com/svenweisemann
www.mojubarecords.com
( ;D --> Sven Weisemann is a somewhat strange figure in Berlin's electronic music scene. When he's not making elegantly smooth deep house tracks for labels like Mojuba, Liebe*Detail and House Cafe Music, he's busy composing modern classical pieces for piano and cello. Those more familiar with Weisemann's own productions may be surprised by his DJing style, as he weaves effortlessly between his trademark deeper sound and classic house and techno dancefloor jack tracks.)
Light Soil EP
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Mojuba Box
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Ojui
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( ;D --> Upcoming):
Xine Album
Namito
www.myspace.com/namito
www.namito.com
( ;D --> Undoubtedly, Namito belongs to the very designers of the Berlin techno scene. Since 1992, due to his distinctive sets, he is constantly booked by all major clubs in town, be it the legendary “E-Werk” or “Tresor”, where he raved the crowd as a resident for years. In 1996, Namito’s first releases caught the attraction of European clubs such as London's Turnmills and the Brancaleone in Rome. By meeting Martin Eyerer in 2004, Namito redefines his sound. As a result, he has releases on labels like Multicolor, Kling Klong and Great Stuff. Furthermore, he then remixes for acts such as Kosheen, Client and Gusgus.)
Eleven
N_Juno
( ;D --> Eleven” has it all: the deepness of late night grooves combined with the audiophile finesse that makes Namito’s productions so tight and crisp. A very laidback attitude and a lot of knowledge and feeling combined with a lot of imagination equal a massive ride that never sounds worn out or prefabricated.)
Namito's Goldies Not Oldies
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The Crystal Method
www.myspace.com/thecrystalmethod
www.thecrystalmethod.com
( ;D --> The Crystal Method is a Grammy nominated electronic music duo that formed in Los Angeles, California in the early 1990s. It is made up of Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland. The duo is known for their live sets and for having many of their songs feature in films, television shows, and video games. With the platinum-status album Vegas, The Crystal Method has become one of the best-selling electronica bands in the United States.)
Divided by Night
CM_amazon
( ;D--> 2009 release, the fourth album by Electronic music pioneers Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland (AKA The Crystal Method). Bolstered by the innovation, flexibility and craftsmanship that made the duo club culture icons, Divided By Night is nothing short of a masterpiece and easily the duo's most inventive and accomplished album to date! Divided By Night explodes with an assortment of high caliber guests which includes New Order bassist Peter Hook, Metric front-woman Emily Haines, drummer Samantha Maloney, one-time Grandaddy frontman Jason Lytle and She Wants Revenge vocalist Justin Warfield.)
Moritz von Oswald
www.discogs.com/artist/Moritz+von+Oswald
www.redbullmusicacademy.com/video-archive/lectures/moritz_von_oswald_early_morning_freestyles
( ;D --> co-founder of Berlin's Basic Channel label, Von Oswald is one of electronica's most influential figures, and this solo debut won't disappoint fans of his soundscapes.)
Vertical Ascent (the Moritz von Oswald Trio)
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Recomposed by Carl Craig & Moritz von Oswald
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Watamu Beach
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Over And Out
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Flavor of the week #26
Guy Gerber
www.myspace.com/guygerber
www.guygerber.com
( ;D --> Guy is certainly one of the hottest producers in the techno scene. Next to his promising production skills Guy Gerber is also a demanded live act with bookings in many countries that love his unique sound of bittersweet harmonies, natural mixture of strong and deep grooves and futuristic basslines.)
Timing
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( ;D --> For those who don't listen carefully to Cocoon's varied output, Guy Gerber's "Timing" is most likely exactly what listeners think the imprint sounds like. Overpoweringly massive, unabashedly anthemic and towering in its majesty, the track is a Platonic ideal of "big room" techno.)
Stoppage Time
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Se also: http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/06/flavor-of-week-25.html
VNV Nation
www.myspace.com/vnvnation
( ;D --> VNV Nation are an electronic music band originally from Wexford and London, now based in Hamburg, that combines elements of industrial music, trance, synthpop and electronic body music (EBM). Earlier works also include some electro-industrial influences. The members are Ronan Harris and Mark Jackson. The "VNV" in the name stands for Victory, not Vengeance, in keeping with the group's motto, "One should strive to achieve; not sit in bitter regret.)
Se also: http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2008/12/flavor-of-week-1.html
Of Faith, Power and Glory
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( ;D --> VNV Nation have been frequently described as one of the most unique and passionate musical acts in the world of Alternative music. Of Faith Power & Glory sees the band reach a whole new level musically. More soulful and raw than before, the album is set to be the band's strongest and most profoundly evocative release yet.)
Max Cooper
www.myspace.com/maxcoopermax
Harmonisch-Serie
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The Blind Watchmaker EP
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portion control
www.myspace.com/porcon
( ;D --> Portion Control from the UK was at the forefront of the upcoming electro industrial scene in the early eighties. Inspired by the punk mentality and the first experimental industrial acts such as Throbbing Gristle, SPK or yet Chris & Cosey, Portion Control themselves influenced electro giants such as Skinny Puppy or yet Front Line Assembly. Portion Control)
( ;D --> Portion Control also performed a marvelous gig at the latet & last ;( Tinitus Festival in April (09): http://tinitus.com/index.php .)
Crop
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Microsite_PCe
( ;D --> http://www.side-line.com/news_comments.php?id=42806_0_2_0_C .)
Slug
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( ;D --> In the past several years, Portion Control has done well to regain their status as innovators in the field of electronic music. While widespread recognition still eludes them, it has been to their advantage as they've operated as artists in the truest sense of the word, devoting their energy to providing the masses with an audiovisual extravaganza that adheres to no rules but their own. With their latest outing, deviously titled SLUG, the group - now solely consisting of John Whybrew and Dean Piavani - continues further down the path of experimental software synthesis paved by their more recent work, while still giving us a few accessibly danceable tracks to hold the interest of the casual listener.)
Microsite_PC1e
Markus Güntner
www.myspace.com/markusguentner
www.kompakt.fm/artists/markus_guentner
( ;D --> Along with Olaf Dettinger, Ulf Lohmann, and Argentina's Gustavo Lamas, Markus Guentner represents the ambient-leaning end of the Kompakt label spectrum, proof positive that the label offers far more than tech-house; his productions for the Cologne, Germany, imprint are rarely reliant upon beats and overt melodies, often sticking to drifting, oceanic atmospherics and chime-like effects.)
Play Pool
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Lovely Society
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Pop Ambient/ Kompakt
www.kompakt.fm/releases/pop_ambient_2008
Florian Meindl
www.myspace.com/florianmeindl
www.florianmeindl.com
( ;D --> Austrian born, London based dj and producer Florian Meindl is one of the rising stars of the European techno scene. Together with Berlin’s Oliver Koletzki he also runs Flash Recordings.)
www.myspace.com/flashrec
Aorta
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Bilbao (Florian Meindl Remix)
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Blast
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Over And Out
www.myspace.com/guygerber
www.guygerber.com
( ;D --> Guy is certainly one of the hottest producers in the techno scene. Next to his promising production skills Guy Gerber is also a demanded live act with bookings in many countries that love his unique sound of bittersweet harmonies, natural mixture of strong and deep grooves and futuristic basslines.)
Timing
GG_amazon
( ;D --> For those who don't listen carefully to Cocoon's varied output, Guy Gerber's "Timing" is most likely exactly what listeners think the imprint sounds like. Overpoweringly massive, unabashedly anthemic and towering in its majesty, the track is a Platonic ideal of "big room" techno.)
Stoppage Time
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Se also: http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/06/flavor-of-week-25.html
VNV Nation
www.myspace.com/vnvnation
( ;D --> VNV Nation are an electronic music band originally from Wexford and London, now based in Hamburg, that combines elements of industrial music, trance, synthpop and electronic body music (EBM). Earlier works also include some electro-industrial influences. The members are Ronan Harris and Mark Jackson. The "VNV" in the name stands for Victory, not Vengeance, in keeping with the group's motto, "One should strive to achieve; not sit in bitter regret.)
Se also: http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2008/12/flavor-of-week-1.html
Of Faith, Power and Glory
VNV_amazon
( ;D --> VNV Nation have been frequently described as one of the most unique and passionate musical acts in the world of Alternative music. Of Faith Power & Glory sees the band reach a whole new level musically. More soulful and raw than before, the album is set to be the band's strongest and most profoundly evocative release yet.)
Max Cooper
www.myspace.com/maxcoopermax
Harmonisch-Serie
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The Blind Watchmaker EP
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portion control
www.myspace.com/porcon
( ;D --> Portion Control from the UK was at the forefront of the upcoming electro industrial scene in the early eighties. Inspired by the punk mentality and the first experimental industrial acts such as Throbbing Gristle, SPK or yet Chris & Cosey, Portion Control themselves influenced electro giants such as Skinny Puppy or yet Front Line Assembly. Portion Control)
( ;D --> Portion Control also performed a marvelous gig at the latet & last ;( Tinitus Festival in April (09): http://tinitus.com/index.php .)
Crop
PC_amazon
Microsite_PCe
( ;D --> http://www.side-line.com/news_comments.php?id=42806_0_2_0_C .)
Slug
PC_Paypal
( ;D --> In the past several years, Portion Control has done well to regain their status as innovators in the field of electronic music. While widespread recognition still eludes them, it has been to their advantage as they've operated as artists in the truest sense of the word, devoting their energy to providing the masses with an audiovisual extravaganza that adheres to no rules but their own. With their latest outing, deviously titled SLUG, the group - now solely consisting of John Whybrew and Dean Piavani - continues further down the path of experimental software synthesis paved by their more recent work, while still giving us a few accessibly danceable tracks to hold the interest of the casual listener.)
Microsite_PC1e
Markus Güntner
www.myspace.com/markusguentner
www.kompakt.fm/artists/markus_guentner
( ;D --> Along with Olaf Dettinger, Ulf Lohmann, and Argentina's Gustavo Lamas, Markus Guentner represents the ambient-leaning end of the Kompakt label spectrum, proof positive that the label offers far more than tech-house; his productions for the Cologne, Germany, imprint are rarely reliant upon beats and overt melodies, often sticking to drifting, oceanic atmospherics and chime-like effects.)
Play Pool
MG_amazon
Lovely Society
MG_amazon
Pop Ambient/ Kompakt
www.kompakt.fm/releases/pop_ambient_2008
Florian Meindl
www.myspace.com/florianmeindl
www.florianmeindl.com
( ;D --> Austrian born, London based dj and producer Florian Meindl is one of the rising stars of the European techno scene. Together with Berlin’s Oliver Koletzki he also runs Flash Recordings.)
www.myspace.com/flashrec
Aorta
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Bilbao (Florian Meindl Remix)
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Blast
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Over And Out
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Flavor of the week #25
Tyske ludder
www.myspace.com/tyskeludder
( ;D --> The next big thing! Everybody, who thought that this band ran out of steam - get ready for the best TYSKE LUDDER album ever! Once being called Oldschool-EBM legend, TYSKE LUDDER easily manage it to step out of their own shadow and start a new chapter in the band's 20 years history with new and fresh sounds combining Electro- and EBM-sounds. Harsh beats collide with soundscapes that fight against Albert's dominant and unique voice - tracks like "Shookz", "Frya Frisena" or "Bastard" will definitely smash up your ass.)
Anonymous
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Luke Slater/ Planetary Assault System
www.myspace.com/thereallukeslater
( ;D --> For some fifteen years now the name of Luke Slater has been synonymous with quality electronic music. Atechno alchemist, Slater has always sought out the extreme often melding influences and styles into a furious and unique sound that has seen him acclaimed as one of the pioneers of British techno. Yet he has never been happy to remain static, preferring a constant quest of exploration and musical discovery. His many and varied releases have seen him mature from an acid house inspired amateur to respected elder statesman of the global electronic empire.)
Temporary Suspension
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( ;D --> The next OstGut Ton is coming from Luke Slater. The Brit released his first record exactly 20 years ago and has been working as an ambitious artist under numerous pseudonyms producing a broad range of electronic music ever since. Be it tough detroit techno, obscure electronica, ambient, or conceptual electro – Slater has definitely left his stamp on the last two decades as a DJ and a producer. After contributing a gorgeous ambient piece as The 7th Plain to our Ballet cd „Shut Up And Dance! Updated“, Luke now is returning to OstGut Ton under his legendary techno pseudonym as Planetary Assault Systems.
The „Temporary Suspension“ EP is a taster for his forthcoming, eponymously titled album on OstGut Ton. “Planetary has always been about going forward, music and mind states working together, pushing movements and alpha waves on the dancefloor“ says Slater.)
Se also: http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/04/flavor-of-week-16.html
Atom Heart TM
www.myspace.com/atomtm
http://atom-heart.com
( ;D --> Uwe Schmidt is one of those producers with whom it's worth taking a step back from, just to look in awe at his esteemed catalogue. Over a handful of years, the German producer has released countless albums under countless monikers -- Atom Heart, Dropshadow Disease, Dos Tracks, Midisport, Senor Coconut, LB, Erik Satin -- each showing yet another facet to his astounding talent. He makes electronic music, but this is electronic music with a whimsy and a cracked sense of musical form unlike anything you've heard before.)
Liedgut
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Moderat (modeselektor and Apparat)
www.myspace.com/moderat
www.myspace.com/apparat
www.myspace.com/mdslktr
( ;D --> A bit darker than modeselektor or even apparat's stuff, reminds you of burial at times. Great stuff!.)
Moderat
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The Mole
www.myspace.com/eslamolita
( ;D --> Born in Canada, the Mole (Colin de la Plante) spent time in both British Columbia and Quebec, which might explain something about the origins of his sound. From the west coast, he gets the jazzy, soulful exuberance of Cobblestone Jazz's Mathew Jonson and the B.C.-based Wagon Repair label; from the east, the polished restraint associated with Montreal's MUTEK festival. (De la Plante has collaborated extensively with both crews.) While the Mole's 2005 EP One Foot on Either Side of the Ladder is split between punchy minimal techno and a disco vibe, on subsequent releases -- the EPs Conversations With My Past, In My Song and Baby, You're the One and the 2008 album As High As the Sky, all for Wagon Repair -- his sound just gets deeper and deeper. Relying heavily on looped disco samples, the Mole follows in the footsteps of Theo Parrish and Moodymann, but his proximity to the techno scene in Berlin, where he lives, lends his music a crisper sound.)
For the lost
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( ;D --> Trance-inducing delay loops move around the mix like tides in 'For The Lost', consequently bringing to mind Underworld in a fairly big way. 'There's Hope' is a grittier, more groove-based, disco-tinged affair that shows the sort of variety at the disposal of Mole-man Colin De La Plante. Good stuff.)
As High as the Sky
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Greatest Hits (Ha Ha Ha) Vol. 1
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Over And Out
www.myspace.com/tyskeludder
( ;D --> The next big thing! Everybody, who thought that this band ran out of steam - get ready for the best TYSKE LUDDER album ever! Once being called Oldschool-EBM legend, TYSKE LUDDER easily manage it to step out of their own shadow and start a new chapter in the band's 20 years history with new and fresh sounds combining Electro- and EBM-sounds. Harsh beats collide with soundscapes that fight against Albert's dominant and unique voice - tracks like "Shookz", "Frya Frisena" or "Bastard" will definitely smash up your ass.)
Anonymous
TL_amazon
Luke Slater/ Planetary Assault System
www.myspace.com/thereallukeslater
( ;D --> For some fifteen years now the name of Luke Slater has been synonymous with quality electronic music. Atechno alchemist, Slater has always sought out the extreme often melding influences and styles into a furious and unique sound that has seen him acclaimed as one of the pioneers of British techno. Yet he has never been happy to remain static, preferring a constant quest of exploration and musical discovery. His many and varied releases have seen him mature from an acid house inspired amateur to respected elder statesman of the global electronic empire.)
Temporary Suspension
PSA_LS_amazon
( ;D --> The next OstGut Ton is coming from Luke Slater. The Brit released his first record exactly 20 years ago and has been working as an ambitious artist under numerous pseudonyms producing a broad range of electronic music ever since. Be it tough detroit techno, obscure electronica, ambient, or conceptual electro – Slater has definitely left his stamp on the last two decades as a DJ and a producer. After contributing a gorgeous ambient piece as The 7th Plain to our Ballet cd „Shut Up And Dance! Updated“, Luke now is returning to OstGut Ton under his legendary techno pseudonym as Planetary Assault Systems.
The „Temporary Suspension“ EP is a taster for his forthcoming, eponymously titled album on OstGut Ton. “Planetary has always been about going forward, music and mind states working together, pushing movements and alpha waves on the dancefloor“ says Slater.)
Se also: http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/04/flavor-of-week-16.html
Atom Heart TM
www.myspace.com/atomtm
http://atom-heart.com
( ;D --> Uwe Schmidt is one of those producers with whom it's worth taking a step back from, just to look in awe at his esteemed catalogue. Over a handful of years, the German producer has released countless albums under countless monikers -- Atom Heart, Dropshadow Disease, Dos Tracks, Midisport, Senor Coconut, LB, Erik Satin -- each showing yet another facet to his astounding talent. He makes electronic music, but this is electronic music with a whimsy and a cracked sense of musical form unlike anything you've heard before.)
Liedgut
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Moderat (modeselektor and Apparat)
www.myspace.com/moderat
www.myspace.com/apparat
www.myspace.com/mdslktr
( ;D --> A bit darker than modeselektor or even apparat's stuff, reminds you of burial at times. Great stuff!.)
Moderat
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The Mole
www.myspace.com/eslamolita
( ;D --> Born in Canada, the Mole (Colin de la Plante) spent time in both British Columbia and Quebec, which might explain something about the origins of his sound. From the west coast, he gets the jazzy, soulful exuberance of Cobblestone Jazz's Mathew Jonson and the B.C.-based Wagon Repair label; from the east, the polished restraint associated with Montreal's MUTEK festival. (De la Plante has collaborated extensively with both crews.) While the Mole's 2005 EP One Foot on Either Side of the Ladder is split between punchy minimal techno and a disco vibe, on subsequent releases -- the EPs Conversations With My Past, In My Song and Baby, You're the One and the 2008 album As High As the Sky, all for Wagon Repair -- his sound just gets deeper and deeper. Relying heavily on looped disco samples, the Mole follows in the footsteps of Theo Parrish and Moodymann, but his proximity to the techno scene in Berlin, where he lives, lends his music a crisper sound.)
For the lost
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( ;D --> Trance-inducing delay loops move around the mix like tides in 'For The Lost', consequently bringing to mind Underworld in a fairly big way. 'There's Hope' is a grittier, more groove-based, disco-tinged affair that shows the sort of variety at the disposal of Mole-man Colin De La Plante. Good stuff.)
As High as the Sky
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Greatest Hits (Ha Ha Ha) Vol. 1
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Over And Out
Thursday, June 04, 2009
Flavor of the week #24
Parralox
www.myspace.com/parralox
www.parralox.com/
( ;D --> The Melbourne electro-pop duo Parralox are human beings -- classically trained vocalist Roxy and vintage-synth-obsessed producer John Von Ahlen -- but given the uncanny efficiency and precision of their working methods, it almost seems as if there's something robotic about them. Formed in early 2008, they posted their first song, "I Fell in Love with a Drum Machine," online in February, followed it up with a quick succession of additional tracks, each accompanied by its own artwork and production notes, and completed and released their debut album by the end of the summer.)
Sharper Than A Knife
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Electricity
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theonomatopoeian
www.myspace.com/theonomatopoeian
( ;D --> Music from the Asteroid-Belt.. --> Strange cargo from Thailand!)
Cyanotic
www.myspace.com/cyanoticonline
www.cyanotic-online.com/
( ;D --> Cyanotic is a Chicago-based industrial rock collective fronted by Sean Payne that formed in 2002. Cyanotic is known for its genre-blending work, which fuses traditional industrial beats and vocals with drum n bass, sampling and heavy metal to create a very hard sound. The band's lyrics contain many tongue-in-cheek references to transhumanism.)
T3rm1n8t0r (Glitch Mode Mix)
http://t3rm1n8t0r.com
( ;D --> Cyanotic's rendition of the classic theme.)
Utopia Burning (Terminator theme)
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Prehab 25mg
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Aku Aku
www.myspace.com/akuaku030
( ;D --> Great dub-tech/detroit-techno/deep-house electro-ambient tracks.)
The Ceremony
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Epigon
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Unterhaltungselektronik
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www.myspace.com/ornithopterrecords
Ambient Fabric
www.myspace.com/qfabricambient
( ;D --> Interesting ambience from Norway.)
Time and Space with R.I.N (random industrial noise)
R.I.N.
www.myspace.com/randomindustrialnoise
Theme
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Illustions
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Over And Out
www.myspace.com/parralox
www.parralox.com/
( ;D --> The Melbourne electro-pop duo Parralox are human beings -- classically trained vocalist Roxy and vintage-synth-obsessed producer John Von Ahlen -- but given the uncanny efficiency and precision of their working methods, it almost seems as if there's something robotic about them. Formed in early 2008, they posted their first song, "I Fell in Love with a Drum Machine," online in February, followed it up with a quick succession of additional tracks, each accompanied by its own artwork and production notes, and completed and released their debut album by the end of the summer.)
Sharper Than A Knife
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Electricity
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theonomatopoeian
www.myspace.com/theonomatopoeian
( ;D --> Music from the Asteroid-Belt.. --> Strange cargo from Thailand!)
Cyanotic
www.myspace.com/cyanoticonline
www.cyanotic-online.com/
( ;D --> Cyanotic is a Chicago-based industrial rock collective fronted by Sean Payne that formed in 2002. Cyanotic is known for its genre-blending work, which fuses traditional industrial beats and vocals with drum n bass, sampling and heavy metal to create a very hard sound. The band's lyrics contain many tongue-in-cheek references to transhumanism.)
T3rm1n8t0r (Glitch Mode Mix)
http://t3rm1n8t0r.com
( ;D --> Cyanotic's rendition of the classic theme.)
Utopia Burning (Terminator theme)
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Prehab 25mg
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Aku Aku
www.myspace.com/akuaku030
( ;D --> Great dub-tech/detroit-techno/deep-house electro-ambient tracks.)
The Ceremony
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Epigon
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Unterhaltungselektronik
U_amazon
www.myspace.com/ornithopterrecords
Ambient Fabric
www.myspace.com/qfabricambient
( ;D --> Interesting ambience from Norway.)
Time and Space with R.I.N (random industrial noise)
R.I.N.
www.myspace.com/randomindustrialnoise
Theme
Free_download
Illustions
Free_download1
Over And Out
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