Flavor of the Week #32

Clock DVA
www.anteriorresearch.com
www.clockdva.com
https://myspace.com/clockdvaofficial
( ;D --> Clock DVA are an industrial music, post-punk and EBM group from Sheffield, England. The group was formed in 1978 by Adolphus "Adi" Newton and Steven "Judd" Turner. Along with contemporaries Heaven 17, Clock DVA's name was inspired by the Russian-influenced Nadsat of Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange. Dva is the Russian word for "two". Newton had previously worked with members of Cabaret Voltaire in a collective called The Studs and with Ian Craig Marsh and Martyn Ware in a band called The Future.)
Post-Sign
www.anteriorresearch.com/cdvds#!__cdvds/post-sign
( ;D --> Out on June 14th via Anterior is the brand new Clock DVA album "Post-Sign". "Post-Sign" is marks the first CD release by the band since their latest single "Eternity" (Contempo Records, 1993). The CD also includes links to download the videos for "Phase IV", "Sigma 7" and "Project Paperclip". All Anterior editions are in DVD digipak format with embossed Anterior detail and follow a corporative design that will build throughout each Anterior release. The DVD-sized digipak comes with a 28 pages full colour Booklet. This album is a collection of material recorded after the release of the album "Sign" on the Italian Label Contempo. Produced and composed by Adi Newton throughout 1994/5 in Florence and Milan during a transitional period in the chronology of DVA. Due to circumstantial events these recordings remained as primary bases for later development, intended as an instrumental companion album to "Sign", similar in concept to the instrumental album "Digital Soundtracks".)
Phase IV
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj2asG7FnaU
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2007/02/flavor-of-week-08.html
 
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 is an electronic music project that originated in Berlin, Germany. It started as a collaboration between Sascha Ring, also known as Apparat, and Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary, also known as Modeselektor. Their first full length album was released seven years after their first EP, due to some creative disagreements and different opinions on how they should work.)
II
open.spotify.com/album/4QNlqYSMYCPiKZfzUfH7jK
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See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2009/06/flavor-of-week-25.html

Rome
www.myspace.com/romecmi
www.facebook.com/romeproject
www.jeromereuter.com
( ;D --> After having played in several underground bands in Luxembourg,singer-songwriter Jerome Reuter almost unintentionally founded ROME in December 2005. The music and lyrical world of ROME is genuinely unique and constantly brilliant. Blending excellent songwriting craftsmanship, unusual arrangements and fine poetry into one monstruous and intimate musical output that combines chanson, dark ambient, apocalyptic folk, pop, acoustic rock, martial industrial, cold wave – all rolled into one impressive avantgarde package.)
Hate Us and see if we mind
open.spotify.com/album/1Wl6BNXLhpHVHYQWIFR2f4
www.infrarot.de/rome/hate-us-and-see-if-we-mind/9941728
( ;D --> Jerome Reuter certainly does not give a toss about anyone's expectations. While some are still trying to get a handle on last year's soul-baring ‘Hell Money’ and its stylistic twist, Reuter now releases a monumental industrial/folk EP, on which the old industrial influences are not only reincorporated into ROME's musical landscape, but are taken quite a step further. ’The Colony’, an almost 40-minute-long industrial tour-de-force divided into two separate tracks, is the main course here: a barrage of textures, bleak industrial loops, straight-forward noise and eerie dark ambient soundscapes with a distinctive ROMEan feel are mixed into one soothing cocktail.)
Hell Money
open.spotify.com/album/2Yq38Vn4FA3onenBCxWkeI

Soft Metal
soundcloud.com/soft-metals
myspace.com/softmetals
( ;D --> Soft Metals is a multi-disciplinary electronic duo from Portland, Oregon now residing in Los Angeles, California. Its members Ian Hicks and Patricia Hall were brought together through a common love of 1970s and 80s synthesizer music and began writing and recording songs together in the spring of 2009. Inspiration came to them by way of experimental electronic sounds, film soundtracks, early industrial music, minimal synth, house, techno, synth pop, krautrock, psychedelic rock, and shoegaze. Ian and Patricia share songwriting duties and compose the music together before writing lyrics and adding vocals. Their songs are built from moody, improvised sessions together using exclusively electronic instruments. The meaning of the raw music they make is explored and interpreted afterwards with lyrical themes ranging from life experience, films, literature, history, science, love, conflict, and death. Soft Metals prefer to express themselves freely rather than adhere to a particular genre. This freedom gives them a diverse sound somewhere between dance music, austere synthetic pop, and experimental electronic composition.)
'Lenses' LP
soundcloud.com/capturedtracks/sets/soft-metals-lenses-lp
Soft Metalls
capturedtracks.com/catalog/by_artist/soft-metals-st-lpcdmp3/

Lindstrøm
www.facebook.com/hplindstrom
www.myspace.com/feedelity
www.hplindstrom.com
( ;D --> Lindstrøm is the moniker of Hans-Peter Lindstrøm. waerve. Raised on country and western music in the outskirts of the Norwegian oil town Stavanger, Lindstrom now lives in Oslo where he is making contemporary disco and running his Feedelity label. Claiming that "Hans-Peter Lindstrom is closing in on Henrik Ibsen and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer as being Norway's poster boy of choice" (quoting an article on Piccadilly Records website) is obviously quite an overstatement, but nonetheless his original approach to dance music is currently causing quite a stir.)
Smalhans - Remixes EP - Vol 1
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Smallhans
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Late Night Tales - Lindstrom
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See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2011/04/flavor-of-week-14.html


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Flavor of the Week #31

Vierance
www.soundcloud.com/vierance
( ;D --> Vierance interesting new band from the ever expanding and increasingly dark, electronic music scene in Toronto.)
Vierance EP
vierance.bandcamp.com/album/vierance-ep
Shift
soundcloud.com/vierance/shift
Revelation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgfbkQ-Q830

Human Error
myspace.com/humanerror2009
( ;D --> Human Error is the accumulated audio work of UK based artist Tom Box. Primarily an illustrator and graphic designer, music production allows him a depth of emotional release not possible through visual means. Music is a necessity now. It's a platform to express the inexpressible and offload psychological baggage.)
Coping Mechanism
humanerror.bandcamp.com/

Solitary Experiments
www.myspace.com/solitaryexperiments
www.solitaryexperiments.de
( ;D --> The Berlin-based trio Solitary Experiments has long since understood the fact that good electronic music will require more than bringing together some synthesizer presets with some cuddly beats. With much emphasis on good song writing, catchy melodies and multi-faceted arrangements as on club-compatible beats and solid bass. The anthemic Electro-tracks keep the delicate balance between catchiness and a thorough dose of power that keeps them from ever drifting into Pop-muzak realms.)
Trial and Error
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New album 'Phenomena' coming in September
www.side-line.com/news_comments.php?id=49874_0_2_0_C
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2010/07/yasuharu-motomiya-www.html

Bloodgroup
soundcloud.com/bloodgroup
www.bloodgroup.is/
myspace.com/bloodgroup
adp.bigcartel.com/artist/bloodgroup
( ;D --> Great things often come from humble beginnings. From recording lo-fi pop songs in a run-down house on the East side of Iceland, electronic pop quartet Bloodgroup have blossomed into one of the most well-known Icelandic acts of recent times via their indelible, moody melodies and searing live performances.)
Tracing Echoes
adp.bigcartel.com/product/bloodgroup-tracing-echoes-lp-cd
A Kings woe
soundcloud.com/sugarcane/bloodgroup-a-kings-woe

Cacophoneuses
cacophoneuses.wix.com/cacophoneuses
soundcloud.com/cacophoneuses
www.facebook.com/CACOPHONEUSES
( ;D --> This Electro-Noise project is the child of two french women : Sandra and Joséphine. The sole purpose of their music is to move you inside (and) out.
 With their heavy beats and distortions accompanied by melodic electronic sequences they tell you their story on how they percieve this world inside theirs.)
Erratic Behaviour (Instability Remix By Cacophoneuses)
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Eternal darkness
soundcloud.com/cacophoneuses/eternal-darkness
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA8VUoGsQ-g

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Flavor of the Week #30

Vromb
www.hushush.com/vromb
( ;D --> Vromb (recording alias for Hugo Girard, real name Mario Girard is a Canadian electronic music act from Montreal. Vromb has been international active since 1992.
In the independent underground electronic music scene Vromb has a solid reputation. Vromb creates a unique sound consisting of industrial music, minimal techno rhythms, dense music layers and sci-fi sounds. It sometimes also includes the voices of his fictional character, Professeur Heurel Gaudot. The uniqueness of Vromb can be fully experienced during his rare live appearances. In fact, while electronic musicians will usually perform with a laptop, Vromb is performing with analog synthesizers.)
Avant Ailleurs
www.hushush.com/vromb/releases_oral41.html
Repose Toi
open.spotify.com/track/0xBg1oHXLoEfXEaWg0iHno

Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble Of Shadows
www.myspace.com/soporaeternusofficial
www.facebook.com/sopor.aeternus.offiziell
www.soporaeternus.de
( ;D --> Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows (Latin: sopor æternus "eternal sleep"; often referred to or stylized as Sopor Aeternus or Sopor) is a darkwave musical project based in Frankfurt, founded in 1989 by Anna-Varney Cantodea. Since the project's beginnings, Anna-Varney's work has garnered a cult following, notorious for its extremely personalized, melancholic and pessimistic nature, drawing on a number of different musical and visual styles.)
Poetica
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See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2011/11/flavor-of-week-45.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2011/06/flavor-of-week-24.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/07/flavor-of-week-32.html

Co|de
www.facebook.com/pages/Code/183068415164138?ref=hl
soundcloud.com/deadbeatcompute
( ;D --> Sweden has a new female fronted electropop act.)
Fire
soundcloud.com/deadbeatcompute/code-fire
Let the Chips Fall
www.gogoyoko.com/album/Let_the_Chips_Fall

Henric de la Cour
www.myspace.com/henricdelacour
( ;D --> Henric de la Cour, the voice behind Yvonne and Strip Music now goes solo.
The sound is more electronic than before, but just as dark and epic. In the spring “Dogs” was released, a brilliant goth pop song about a complicated relationship, as a teaser on Youtube and on our "Born///Evolve///Progress///3"-compilation. Now comes the album, chock full of pumping electro beats, huge choruses and vampiric romance.)
Henric de la Cour
Mandrills
www.infrarot.de/henric-de-la-cour/mandrills/9941914
( ;D --> Finally the wait is over! It's time for the second album from Henric de la Cour.
"Mandrills" is a dark journey filled with emotions, atmospheres and of course
Henri's fantastic vocals.)
Chasing Dark
soundcloud.com/progressproductions/henric-de-la-cour-chasing-dark
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2011/09/flavor-of-week-39.html

Kreidler
www.ikreidler.de/
soundcloud.com/kreidler
( ;D --> Kreidler is a German band from Düsseldorf, which was founded in 1994. The band combines electronic and analog instruments, and is categorized by critics, depending on the publication, as electronic music, pop, avant-garde, post rock, IDM, ambient, neoclassical, krautrock, or electronica. Kreidler was the inscription on a t-shirt worn by Andreas Reihse on the day when the band Deux Baleines Blanches sought a new name. It was subsequently interpreted as a kind of anagram for Klein, Reihse, Schneider, Weinrich.)
Den
open.spotify.com/album/7BrGTI5E3mDJU4FHcnW6rn
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Mosaik 2014
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Kreidler
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Flavor of the Week #29

Kirlian Camera
www.myspace.com/kirliancamerafront 
facebook.com/kirlian.camera
www.kirliancamera.com
( ;D --> Kirlian Camera are one of the pioneers of the Italian electronic scene.
Active since 1979 under the name SUICIDE COMMANDO, the band changes name in 1980 releasing the first demo-tape DAWN... and the self-titled mini-album in late 1981.
The early records contain a mix of synth pop and new wave/dance songs, while towards the end of the 1980s' Kirlian Camera's music has progressively become darker and darker, turning into a monumental electro-gothic sound. Nearly every release since then has explored different fields, from industrial to ambient, from experimental to trip-hop.
Mind of Kirlian Camera has always been Angelo Bergamini, coupled by many female vocalists as Simona Buja (1980-1987), Suzanne Reddington Gardner (1987), Bianca Hoffmann Santos (1988-1989), Emilia Lo Jacono (1990-1999) and Elena Alice Fossi (1999...).)
Black Summer Choirs
open.spotify.com/album/2BlZvPwKZaVkoSRPISaNmz
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2011/07/flavor-of-week-27.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009_01_01_archive.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2008/04/flavor-of-week-17.html
 
Mr.Kitty
soundcloud.com/mrkittydm
www.facebook.com/mrkittydm
( ;D --> dark alternative electronic music for post-apocalyptic minds.)
Life
engraved-ritual.bandcamp.com/album/Life
( ;D --> For all of its dramatics and emotional melodrama, [LIFE] has an obliging and cordial quality. It’s just fun, and easy to enjoy to boot. The fact that it’s also a whole hour long and never seems to wear itself out or provide an easy break-point in listening is equally admirable. In it Mr.Kitty has crafted a near perfect collection of songs, each one flowing into the next with a kind of cultivated certainty. As new synthpop goes it’s a corker of an album, looking over its shoulder to the past as it forges on ahead into a cool new future. Good stuff.”.)
 
The .invalid
http://theinvalid.bandcamp.com
( ;D --> Hard-hitting, emotional, aggressive electronic music. The .invalid mixes a base formula of the straightforward synths and rhythms of EBM with jittering, glitchy percussion, anthemic hooks, and a vocal approach ranging from melodic to (undistorted) screaming.)
The Aesthetics of Failure
dwa-digital.com/album/the-aesthetics-of-failure

Mount Kimbie
www.mountkimbie.com
soundcloud.com/mountkimbie
( ;D --> Mount Kimbie is a English electronic music duo consisting of Dominic Maker and Kai Campos. They formed the group in London in 2008 and released their debut album Crooks & Lovers on 19 June 2010 in the UK to critical acclaim.)
Cold Spring Fault Less Youth
www.amazon.com/Cold-Spring-Fault-Less-Youth/dp/B00CWGEQTQ/ref=tmm_other_meta_binding_title_0
'You Took Your Time' featuring King Krule.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVBH1qIqe7Y

4Bidden
https://soundcloud.com/4bidden
( ;D --> Mixed experimental electronic from Stockholm)
Lucid Reflections
http://non-reality.com/tag/golden-mist-records/
Nasca Lines
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxptwCu9das

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Flavor of the Week #28

S†NS
soundcloud.com/gn0sis
www.facebook.com/SINSMUSIK
vimeo.com/24828860
sins.bigcartel.com/
( ;D --> S†NS exists outside of time and space. The music and art made by SINS focuses on coming to terms with the bleak remains of our dying world and transforming the pain he sees into something cosmic and beautiful.)
I die
soundcloud.com/gn0sis/sets/i-die-album
www.indie-pool.com/order/cart.asp?showCompany=1&winsize=
theblackbox-djsets.blogspot.ca/2013/07/pretty-pretty-records-sins-I-die.html
( ;D --> During the recording of I DIE, Sins was inspired by death, specifically by his own death. The Japanese have a word “Aware” pronounced (Ah-Wa-Re), which translates roughly to “a gentle sadness towards the impermanence of things”. It's the concept that life and death are but two sides of the same coin. Sins is at one with death, embracing it with one hand while gripping life and living it to its fullest in the other. Aleister Crowley's Sabbath of the Goat sums up this concept nicely.)
Logic
http://noisey.vice.com/blog/premiere-sins-logic
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2013/03/flavor-of-week-13.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2012/07/flavor-of-week-28.html
 
The Legendary Pink Dots
www.myspace.com/thelegendarypinkdots
legendarypinkdots.org
( ;D --> The Legendary Pink Dots (LPD) are an Anglo-Dutch experimental rock band formed in London in August 1980. Although far outside the mainstream (in terms of their music and career path), LPD have released more than 40 albums, have a devoted worldwide following, and tour frequently. The story behind the band's name is a source of speculation because Edward has given multiple explanations behind its origins. The most plausible and common explanation traces back to the mysterious pink dots on certain keys of the band's main recording studio piano named "Osbert"; the dots that can be found at either end of the keys do not make any particular chord or scale pattern and the reason for them remains unknown to this day. The piano itself is still owned by one of the founding band members, April White, and can be found at her home recording studio in Chatteris, Cambridgeshire. Their music touches on elements of neo-psychedelia, ambient music, electronic music, tape music, industrial, psych folk, synth-pop, post-punk, progressive, jazz, noise, pop, and goth rock, with a distinctly experimental/avant-garde bent; their sound has evolved over time and remains distinctive, making it difficult to place the group into a concise style or genre. The group's overall sound combined with Ka-Spel's distinct lyrics and singing have earned comparisons to Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett;[1] the group also has links to the sounds of krautrock bands such as Can,[2] Faust, Brainticket, Magma or Neu! (whose "Super" they covered on the 1999 tribute album "A Homage to NEU!"), as well, to some post-industrial`pioneers as Nurse With Wound and the neo-folk of Current 93. Edward Ka-Spel has said their musical influences range from the likes of Abba to Iannis Xenakis. The Pink Dots also collaborated with Skinny Puppy's cEvin Key, forming a side project named The Tear Garden. Key also appears on the 1994 LPD album 9 Lives to Wonder. Others groups related to present and past Pink Dots members are Strange Attractor, Mimir and Minizza.)
The Gethsemane Option
metropolisrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-gethsemane-option
See also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2012/08/flavor-of-week-32.html
 
Tuxedomoon
tuxedomoon.co
( ;D --> Tuxedomoon is an experimental avant-garde post-punk New Wave group formed in San Francisco, California consisting of core members Blaine L. Reininger, Steven Brown and Peter Principle, Luc van Lieshout and video artist Bruce Geduldig. Formed in 1977 by multi-instrumentalists Blaine L. Reininger and Steven Brown, then two students of electronic music at San Francisco City College, with technical assistance from video artist Tommy Tadlock, Tuxedomoon started playing salons and accompanying performances by The Angels of Light. Brown's connections to local theatre gave the band access to vocalists Gregory Cruikshank, Victoria Lowe, and, most frequently, Winston Tong. The band gained some level of recognition in 1978 when they opened for Devo. Michael Belfer, (guitarist), and Paul Zahl, (drummer) joined the band in time to help with the group's first EP, No Tears. Lowe left prior to the album's release in 1978. Soon afterward, Tong and Belfer left the group temporarily, and bassist Peter Principle joined the lineup. In 1979, the group signed to The Residents' Ralph Records, with whom they recorded their next two albums, Half Mute in 1980 and Desire in 1981, after which the band relocated to Rotterdam for a short time and moved on to Brussels, believing their sound better fit the electronic scene in Europe. In Brussels, the band soon created the score for a ballet by Maurice Bejart,  released in 1982 as "Divine". In 1983 Reininger left the group in order to pursue a solo career, and trumpeter Luc Van Lieshout joined. In 1985 Tuxedomoon had its largest success commercially with the international release of Holy Wars. Tong left the group again soon after its release. Multi-instrumentalist Ivan Georgiev was brought in to perform on the group's next two albums, 1986's Ship of Fools and 1987's You. The band remained inactive through most of the 1990s, although never technically broke up. On July 20, 2004 a reborn Tuxedomoon, consisting of Steven Brown, Blaine Reininger, Peter Principle, and Luc Van Lieshout released a new studio album, Cabin in the Sky. They continue to work and tour together and have since released Bardo Hotel Soundtrack in 2006, with upcoming projects coinciding with the group's 30th year anniversary, the Vapour Trails album and the boxed set 7707.)
At Twilight [Special Edition]
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( ;D --> An anthology of classic Crépuscule singles and associated recordings by Tuxedomoon, the exiled American avant-gardists who recorded for LDDC between 1981 and 1983. At Twilight includes all tracks from the three vintage singles Ninotchka (TWI 055), Time to Lose (TWI 084) and The Cage (TWI 142), as well as rare compilation tracks including Shelved Dreams and Weihnachtsrap, the latter recorded for festive album Ghosts of Christmas Past (TWI 058). Also included in the haunting opening theme from The Ghost Sonata, an 'opera without words' performed by the group in Italy during the summer of 1982, while the set closes with the final three song demo with Blaine L. Reininger before his (temporary) departure in 1983.)
Holy Wars
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Desire/No Tears
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Half Mute / Scream With a View
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Subterranean Modern
www.discogs.com/Chrome-8-MX-80-Sound-Residents-The-Tuxedomoon-Subterranean-Modern/release/242385
( ;D --> Excellent & Rare Raplph Records compilation from 1979.)
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/10/flavor-of-week-43.html
 
Ra-X
oundcloud.com/ra-x
( ;D --> Vincent Koreman is an electro/noise artist who’s been around since ‘92 producing records for labels such as Bunker Records, KK trax, KK Records, Silver Recordings, Kommando 6, Asbest records, Angelmaker Records, Mighty Robot Recordings and numerous tracks on comps, splits and 7”s for different labels.)
Cosmic Catastrophes That Befell The Thetans http://transientforcerecords.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-catastrophes-that-befell-the-thetans
Crack City
soundcloud.com/ra-x/ra-x-crack-city
the opium den (part 5)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULSfh8aE4Fc
 
Sixth June
www.sixthjunemusic.com/
soundcloud.com/user9976845
( ;D --> Dark Electro Pop from Berlin.)
New_EP
( ;D --> 4 track Ep is being mixed, out soon :).)
Fade
https://soundcloud.com/user9976845/sixth-june-fade

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Flavor of the Week #27

M‡яc▲ll▲
soundcloud.com/m-c-ll
soundcloud.com/m-c-ll/m-llevs-m-l-fic-rvm-m-c-ll-v
carmilla-mircalla.blogspot.com
( ;D --> Electronic Horror Soundtracks To Psychic Photography.)
MΛLLEVS MΛLΞFIC▲RVM
mcll.bandcamp.com/album/m-llevs-m-l-fic-rvm
 
Röyksopp
royksopp.com
( ;D --> ( ;D --> Named after a kind of fungi, Röyksopp was formed in 1998 by Norwegians Torbjörn Brundtland and Svein Berge who delivered a new kind of electronica with their debut album Melody A.M. in 2001.
The sound was a big hit with the advertising world and tracks were co-opted for a variety of products including a Apple, an insurance group and broadcasters in the US and the UK.
With their taste for experimentation extending to their videos, they won an MTV Europe award for "Remind Me" from their second album The Understanding.
The band's skills as producers have been utilized with remixes for Beck, Coldplay and Peter Gabriel and they were invited to do a compilation album for the Back To Mine series in 2006.)
Late Night Tales
open.spotify.com/album/6LEyHNCEZpp1uln8pk93Hm
latenighttales.co.uk/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Night_Tales:_R%C3%B6yksopp
( ;D --> Late Night Tales invites the world’s best artists to delve deep into their music collections to create the ultimate "late night” selection. The series features expertly curated mixes by MGMT, Friendly Fires, The Flaming Lips, Metronomy, Groove Armada, The Cinematic Orchestra, Four Tet, Belle & Sebastian, Jamiroquai, Midlake, Arctic Monkeys and more top artists. Each offering includes an exclusive cover version by the artist and a spoken word story narrated by the likes of Benedict Cumberbatch, Will Self, Bootsy Collins, Brian Blessed and Patrick Moore. Late Night Tales: music and stories worth staying up for.)
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2010/09/flavor-of-week-37.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/03/flavor-of-week-11.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/05/flavor-of-week-22.html

Mark Pritchard
https://soundcloud.com/markprtchrd
( ;D --> Mark Pritchard has previously recorded under many guises - including Africa Hi-Tech, Harmonic 313, and Harmonic 33, to name a few.  As one half of Global Communication and Jedi Knights, Mark Pritchard has released some of the most important records of the early nineties, and his work continues to influence younger musicians today.)
Ghosts
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( ;D --> This release marks the start of all his production styles coming together under one name. The EP demonstrates Pritchard’s expansive work and will be available as a 12” wrapped in a special obi-strip.)
See also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/05/flavor-of-week-20.html

Raymond Watts (PIG)
heswining.com
( ;D --> Raymond Watts(PIG) inhabits a genre of one. How to begin to describe it? We can start with KMFDM, since the unforgettable Englishman behind it – Raymond Watts – was a founder member. Once you have a certain combination of hard rock, soulful electro-pop and funk in your head, you can introduce Foetus: big band, blues and classical samples pounded into place by some behemoth of machinery – but PIG zigs where Foetus zags. JG Thirlwell was a frequent collaborator and shaper of the early sound; he appears on ‘Peoria‘ and ‘Sick City‘ and produced the first couple of albums. Accordingly, Watts took a brief turn in the Foetus live band, and contributed to the first two Steroid Maximus albums.)
Reality Machine
raymondpigwatts.bandcamp.com/album/platos-reality-machine-original-soundtrack-2
Schaft
( ;D --> Schaft was a Japanese musical side project whose main members were Maki Fuji of Soft Ballet and Hisashi Imai of Buck-Tick. Schaft can be thought of as being a supergroup in that Maki and Imai formed the core of the group and a rotating roster of collaborators, who are well-known within their genres, were brought in to work on various songs. Raymond Watts of PIG was Schaft's most recurring collaborator, having contributed to half the songs on their debut album and toured with the band. Maki Fujii (Soft Ballet) and Hisashi Imai (Buck-Tick) originally conceived Schaft as a one-off monikor for a song. The track was for a 1991 Japanese compilation titled "Dance 2 Noise 001". After a few sporadic live dates, they decided to bring Raymond Watts (Pig, KMFDM) into the line-up and record a full album. Collaborations with Autechre, Coil, Meat Beat Manifesto and others brought a cult following to the project. 1994 was their only full year of activity. However in 2001, Schwein surfaced as a somewhat unofficial continuation of Schaft.)
Switchblade
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Olive (mixed by Coil) from the 1994 album Switchblade
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RKZfZKXACI
Praise the Lard
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Akkord
www.houndstoothlabel.com/artist/akkord
( ;D --> Initially conceived as an outlet for a collective of like-minded artists from the rural outskirts of Manchester, Akkord have already achieved more than the sum of their parts. Having self-released two long sold out records and with their ‘Surge’ track gracing the first ever 12” from the label arm of the incredibly well respected Electronic Explorations; they’ve achieved something of a cult following completely on the merits of their output. Bringing together their collected musical experience, ?kkord channel a sound that’s a hybrid of the electronic musics its members were raised on and their four track debut EP for Houndstooth is a further distillation of their passions for sonic minimalism and sound design.)
Navigate
soundcloud.com/houndstoothlbl/akkord-navigate-clips/s-qQjE3

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Flavor of the Week #26

Covenant
www.covenant.de
( ;D --> In the late 1970s and early 1980s, electronic music and several of its subgenres became a preferred musical style among European underground culture. It gained favor initially within major cities and eventually trickled into the continent's more socially secluded regions. This new wave of music was discovered at different instances by a group of friends living among the shadows of Helsingborg, a scenic municipality in western Sweden. philosophy, and matters of existence, were enthralled by the unique presentation and the emotional content offered through the music, specifically by that of bands such as Kraftwerk, The Human League, Depeche Mode, Front 242 and Nitzer Ebb.)
Last Dance
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=VffwRPczk04
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/04/flavor-of-week-18.html

Ghost Capsules
www.ghostcapsules.com
( ;D --> Electro quartet Ghost Capsules can trace their beginnings back to a Bomb The Bass gig in Vienna. Here it was that Tim Simenon, touring the 'Back To Light' album, met his support band that featured drummer Roman Lugmayr and keyboard player Georg Lichtenauer. The three hit it off, so much so that Tim relocated from Amsterdam to the Austrian capital. Here the missing piece for the Ghost Capsules jigsaw was found in singer Laura Gomez, who Tim had booked to play at one of his club nights. Proof positive that there's no business as sociable as music.)
Ghost Capsules
open.spotify.com/album/1hbqWDPmJisZl0ctEvAGIq
Time & Matter
open.spotify.com/track/5u8gW9b8ZmdmDzQ0X1wi7R

DECAYEDen
www.facebook.com/DecayedENOfficial
( ;D --> Jeremiah Saint + Emotion * Passion = DECAYEDen. Darkwave, Downbeat, Industrial, Gothic.)
Dead Angels & Forgotten Ghosts
www.decayeden.bandcamp.com

Mondkopf
soundcloud.com/mondkopf
www.myspace.com/mondkopfonthemoon
( ;D --> Mondkopf is a French artist with a German name, which is fitting, given how often his productions play in a middle ground between those two countries' archetypal modes of electronic music. Looked at a certain way, Rising Doom, the 24-year old's latest full-length and first for Fool House, the label imprint of French fashion/mp3 blog Fluokids, borrows the machine muscle of harsh Teutonic techno and leavens it with just a bit of the joviality and melody of French touch.)mondkopf.tumblr.com/post/52820393531/white-pimp-cut-up
The Nicest Way
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Ave Maria
open.spotify.com/track/0lz20yB2KNeTNTUryCy692
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2012/03/flavor-of-week-12.html

Caribou
www.myspace.com/cariboumanitoba
( ;D --> Daniel Victor Snaith better known by the stage names Caribou and Manitoba, is a Canadian electronic musician. He is the son of Victor Snaith, a mathematics professor at the University of Sheffield.)
Start Breaking my hart
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2010_01_01_archive.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2007/09/flavor-of-week-39.html

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Flavor of the Week #25

Stimming
soundcloud.com/stimming
www.stimming.org/
( ;D --> Few people bring a truly original sound to house music. At a relatively young age, Hamburg’s Martin Stimming did just that, demonstrating a sophisticated yet accessible sound that’s beyond his years.
Two years after hooking up with Solomun’s Diynamic Music, his 2008 breakthrough hit Una Pena made the electronic world sit up and take notice, and before long acclaimed labels like Freerange, liebe*detail, Buzzin’ Fly, Green and Poker Flat were snapping up his work. 2009 saw him release his immaculate debut album Reflections to great acclaim, cementing his reputation as one of the most exciting new producers of his generation. His second album, Liquorice, eschews the normal kick-clap/snare template by and large to explore more interesting and progressive territories, but always with that trademark magpie-like sense of texture, emotion and discovery. His productions are filled with a multitude of his own unique, charismatic field recordings, and he never uses the same sample more than once.)
Stimming
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Shpongle
shpongle.com
www.myspace.com/therealshpongle
www.twistedmusic.com/artists/shpongle
( ;D --> Simon Posford and Raja Ram are Shpongle, an ambient techno/trance project formed in 1996 after the pair viewed a solar eclipse in India. The two went into the studio and attempted to duplicate the experience in sonic form, and the result was a 20-minute track, "...And the Day Turned to Night," which was featured on a Twisted label compilation titled Eclipse.)
Museum Of Consciousness
shpongle.com/museumofconsciousness/us/
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See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2009/10/flavor-of-week-43.html

Beacon
beacon.bandcamp.com/
soundcloud.com/beaconmusicnyc
( ;D --> The best music is music that can make you think as well as feel, sounds that are as visceral as they are cerebral. And the best love songs are those that acknowledge that the power of human sexuality can be just as terrifying as it is thrilling, that the passion that leads us to love can also lead us into dark, dark places. Welcome to the world of Brooklyn duo Beacon, who explore the dark side of the sweet melody with a sound that’s as seductive as it is subtly discomfiting. The duo – Thomas Mullarney III and Jacob Gossett – met at Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute, where they were studying sculpture and painting respectively. As with many other great musical partnerships, this one involves two disparate sets of influences coming together to form a sound that’s both fresh and exciting. They fuse the deceptively sweet melodies of R&B with an intoxicating undercurrent of darkness, drawing on influence as disparate as Warp’s back catalogue and Underworld.  The fusion of these two sounds – R&B’s melody and sexuality, electronic music’s complexity and, especially, the bass - heavy sound design of Mullarney’s influences (“Bass is key to our music,” he enthuses, “big, thunderous rap bass”) – would provide a blueprint for Beacon’s own sound: there’s a duality at play here, an idea of something dark lurking beneath a sleek veneer, a sense of latent conflict and uncertain resolution.)
The Ways We Separate
open.spotify.com/album/4yeZneqzXybmC5k7JGKiW0
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Nousia
www.nousia.com.ve
( ;D --> Dark electro-industrial from Venezuela.)
Score For The End Of Times (Volume 1)
nousia.bandcamp.com/

Zomby
4ad.com/artists/zomby
( ;D --> Zomby is an electronic musician who began releasing music in 2007. He has released music on several labels, including Hyperdub, Werk Discs and 4AD. Zomby's influences include jungle music and Wiley's eskibeat sound.)
WIth Love
shopusa.4ad.com/with-love
Soliloquy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgPRVTHAnds
( ;D -->'Soliloquy' is taken from Zomby's new album, With Love, released 17/18th June 2013.)

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Flavor of the Week #24

Guy Gerber
soundcloud.com/guygerber
www.myspace.com/guygerber
www.guygerber.com
( ;D --> Guy Gerber has always been comfortable as an outlier. From being the rock kid at the rave, to the Israeli DJ on the European club circuit, to the electronic producer with a fetish for live instruments, he tends to skirt the edge of whatever scene he's in. It's a position that suits him well––so far it's led to dozens of lush, melodic records, an ever-evolving live act and his own label, Supplement Facts. This nonconformist attitude, combined with the emotional content of his art (so rare in today's electronic music), explains how Gerber keeps his audience locked in, be it on record or on stage.)
Steady (feat. Jaw)/Defected In The House Miami 2013
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Fabric 64: Guy Gerber
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Steady feat. Jaw (Richie G's 'She's The One' Remix)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0t8ClbCmg4
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2010/05/crystal-castles-www.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/06/flavor-of-week-26.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/06/flavor-of-week-25.html

Nine Inch Nails
www.nin.com
www.myspace.com/nin
( ;D --> Nine Inch Nails (abbreviated as NIN, sometimes stylized as NIИ) is an American industrial rock project, founded in 1988 by Trent Reznor in Cleveland, Ohio. As its main producer, singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Reznor is the only official member of Nine Inch Nails and remains solely responsible for its direction. Nine Inch Nails' music straddles a wide range of genres. After recording a new album, Reznor usually assembles a live band to perform with him. The touring band features a revolving lineup that often rearranges songs to fit a live setting. On stage, Nine Inch Nails often employs visual elements to accompany performances, which frequently include light shows.)
Came Back Haunted
soundcloud.com/nineinchnails/came-back-haunted-2013
( ;D --> After Trent Reznor let slip last week that he had secretly recorded a new Nine Inch Nails album over the past year, he offered the title and release date yesterday, along with a slippery new song and the itinerary for a fall tour.)
Hesitation Marks (will be released September 3rd)
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2008_04_01_archive.html

Cynical Existence
www.facebook.com/cynical.existence.official
( ;D --> Project of Fredrik Croona (Ex Project Rotten and Menschdefekt) and Steve Alton (System:FX). bleeding from the ears is a normal side-effect. Cynical Existence started out as a solo project from founder and lead vocalist of the aggrotech/industrial act Project Rotten and also former vocalist of dark electro/industrial act Menschdefekt.)
Beholder
alfamatrix.bandcamp.com/album/beholder-ep
Mardröm
lfamatrix.bandcamp.com/track/mardr-m

Paul Jebanasam
twitter.com/pauljebanasam
www.subtextrecordings.net/SUBCD004.html
( ;D --> UK based Sri Lankan born artist Paul Jebanasam. Rites brings together five settings of stark sonic poetry whose underlying logic bridges the worlds of contemporary classical, metal, sacred music and sound design.)
Rites
subtextrecordings.net/SUBCD004.html
soundcloud.com/experimedia/paul-jebanasam-rites-album
( :D --> With the scope of modern composition, the ferocity of metal, and the starkness of electronic music at its bleakest, Paul Jebanasam's debut full-length on his own Subtext imprint is a savage and intimidating creature. This awe-inspiring presence is only superseded by the deft, mult-dimensional compositions that make up "Rites." Though rooted in the language of electronic music, the difference between this album and those usually tagged with that genre is a vast chasm in both vision and execution as "Rites" is more akin to Ben Frost's "Theory of Machines" or Deaf Center's "Owl Splinters." The highpoints are many - from the string-imbued "Rites III" to the static-drenched epic "Rites IV" - but Jebanasam's best moment is the album's second track. "Rites II" is a menacing thriller of a song that roils to a blistering peak of distortion blasts and throbbing sub-bass and leaves the listener battered and wanting more. As a debut, "Rites" is beyond impressive. - Ryan Potts, Experimedia.)

U Hang No Da
www.myspace.com/uterozzzaaa
soundcloud.com/u-hangnoda
www.facebook.com/u.hangnoda
( ;D --> Industrial punk from Oska, Japan, recomended by CEvin Key :).)
Recorded on 2005 sense
soundcloud.com/u-hangnoda/uterozzzaaa-recorded-2005


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