Flavor of the Week #36

Luke Slater/L.B. Dub Corp
planetaryassaultsystems.tumblr.com
soundcloud.com/luke-slater
( ;D --> Luke Slater will release his first album under the L.B. Dub Corp alias in November. L.B. Dub Corp is one of Slater's lesser-spotted pseudonyms. Though he's released a handful albums through various guises, Unknown Origin is his first under this name. "With L.B., I pinpointed what I didn't want in the music," he told RA. "On that basis I started to write." The album will come out on Ostgut Ton, the label that put out the L.B. Dub Corp 12-inch Take It Down (In Dub) in 2010. It features two collaborations: Slater's fellow techno producer Function co-produced closing track "Roller," while venerable UK dub poet Benjamin Zephaniah appears on two tracks.
Unknown Origin will be preceded by a three-track single release on October 14th. 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.)
L.B. Dub Corp
www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=20896
ostgut.de/label/
Take It Down (In Dub)
www.juno.co.uk/products/take-it-down-in-dub/398770-01/
Its what you feel
www.juno.co.uk/miniflashplayer/SF398770-01-01-01.mp3
Stellate 4
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See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2009/06/flavor-of-week-25.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/04/flavor-of-week-16.html

Tom Middleton
www.tommiddleton.com/Home.html
myspace.com/tommiddleton
( ;D --> Tom Middleton (born 18 August 1971) is a British recording artist, music producer, remixer and DJ. A classically trained pianist and cellist, Middleton worked in the early 1990s with Richard D. James (with whom he shares the same birthdate), co-producing "En-Trance To Exit" on the Analogue Bubblebath EP for Exeter's influential Mighty Force Records. This was followed by his first solo outing, "My Splendid Idea", under the name Schizophrenia for the same label. Soon after, he teamed up with Mark Pritchard. The pair recorded under a host of pseudonyms, including the popular Reload (featuring experimental techno and ambient music), Global Communication (primarily ambient), and Jedi Knights (electro funk and house music), plus lesser-known aliases Chameleon, Secret Ingredients, and Link & E621.[1] Global Communication's 1994 ambient album 76:14 is widely considered to be a landmark of the genre. The pair also founded their own record label, Evolution, which is sometimes informally referenced as Evolution (Crewekerne) to differentiate it from other record labels with the same name. A compilation of early Evolution material was released jointly by Evolution and Warp Records in 1995 as The Theory of Evolution. The label name later changed to Universal Language Productions and launched a sublabel, Heard, then became E3 before finally winding down operations. The labels launched early releases from artists such as Matthew Herbert, as well as Middleton & Pritchard under their various guises. Aside from Schizophrenia, Tom's solo projects include The Modwheel (experimental house music), Cosmos (progressive house music) and AMBA (ambient/classical). As of 2006, Cosmos's "Take Me With You" was his most successful track. In 2007, Middleton abandoned the AMBA moniker, while still focusing on the ambient genre fusing classical traditions with electronica, featuring orchestral, choral and electro acoustic arrangements. A new EP, Excursions 1 was released on 10 September 2007 while the album Lifetracks was released on Big Chill Recordings on 1 October 2007 under the name Tom Middleton. Predominantly using the Cosmos and Modwheel monikers (and his own name) Middleton has remixed numerous artists including Kerri Chandler, Orbital, Kylie Minogue, Coldplay, Underworld, Fluke, Super Collider, Prince, Spiller, Model 500, The Beloved, Rob Dougan, Pulp, Leftfield, Saint Etienne (band), Ian Pooley, Dubtribe Sound System, All Saints, Goldfrapp, Lamb, Röyksopp, Gotan Project, Amp Fiddler, Mighty Dub Katz and Bebel Gilberto.)
Lifetracks
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Shinkansen
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( ;D --> #Tack&Bock Daniel Ejdeberg.)

Cat Rapes Dog
www.crd.se
( ;D --> Cat Rapes Dog started out in the mid 80s with some demo releases. and made their debut with the EP "Columna Vertebralis" in 1989, becoming the first hard Swedish electronic act. Annelie Bertilsson joined the band for their 12" "Fundamental" in 1990 and soon became a regular member of the group. The group reached a peak with their "Moosehair Underwear" which was mostly mixed and mastered by Jürgen Engler and Chris Lietz at Atom H (Die Krupps HQ). During the creation of the follow-up album "Biodegradable" in 1995 the band went through some turmoil when singer Joel quit unexpectedly. They were in the process of integrating Laszlo Hago as their new lead vocalist but he did not work out, thus the band went on hiatus for a few years. "Biodegradable" saw the arrival of guitarist Jonas Awertoft that has become more or less a regular member of the band since then. An EP called "Fuck Nature" was released with more unreleased tracks from the "Biodegradable"-era (thus still including some of the vocal work of Joel). In 1998 the band returned with a new regular singer John Wreibo Lindqwister and the album "The Secrets Of God". Gone were much of the distorted vocals but the guitars made their appearance well noted still. They soon followed up this album with the album "People As Prey" in 1999. The band continued touring to support these two last albums. After 14 years they are back with and album in september 2013.)
Life Was Sweet (September 3rd.)
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( ;D --> Top 13 influences for the new album:
01. Le Tigre - Le Tigre
02. Ladytron - Witching Hour
03. Gang Of Four - To Hell With Poverty
04. Vive La Fête - Nuit Blanche
05. Fu Manchu - King Of The Road
06. Blondie - Parallel Lines
07. New Young Pony Club - Fantastic Playroom
08. Pink Champagne - Godnatt Lilla Mamma
09. Ståålfågel - En Dag På Varuhuset
10. Shriekback - Lined Up
11. Adam & The Ants - Kings Of The Wild Frontier
12. ABBA - The Album
13. Blonde Redhead - Misery Is A Butterfly.)
God Hates Christians (archetype mix)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAvWP40utQg&feature=youtu.be

Mock & Toof
myspace.com/mockandtoof
( ;D --> Mock & Toof are two London based producers, Duncan Stump (Mock) and Nick Woolfson (Toof), who record for Tiny Sticks (UK), Mule Musiq (Japan) & DFA Records.[1] They were initially noticed with their remix for The Juan Maclean,[2] which was quickly followed up by their re-edit of Madonna's Lycra Virgin.[2] Following more remixes for the likes of Hot Chip, The Scissor Sisters & Maps, Mock & Toof strengthened their position with widely acclaimed singles for Tiny Sticks (Black Jub), Mule Musiq (Zomby) & Rvng Intl (Digits).)
Temporary Echoes (september 30th.)
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Temporary Happiness
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Noirway
noirway.bandpage.com
soundcloud.com/Noirway
( ;D --> Noirway is Ole Marius Jørgensen and Magnus Mua Utheim Anderssen. Throughout the years Noirway have played many gigs under the name ODDband. They have visited Blå, Musikkfest Oslo, Skuret, Musikk kafeen, Chatau Neuf, Galleri Ramfjord and Smuget, where they won the award for best live band in 2006. Noirway has collaborated with artists such as Karl Seglem (Ram`s Horn and Tenor Sax), Ole Jørn Myklebust (Trumpet), Marte Heggelund (vocals) and several exciting collaborations is in the works. They have large amounts of recorded material from their own Blue Room Studio which has not yet been released.)
Miami Mizzle Love Theme
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Rammeslag
soundcloud.com/noirway/noirway-rammeslag

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Flavor of the Week #35

Clark (Chris Clark)
throttleclark.com
www.myspace.com/throttleclark
www.facebook.com/throttleclark
soundcloud.com/throttleclark
( ;D --> Chris Clark is an English electronic musician currently signed to Warp Records. With the 2006 release of Throttle Furniture, he shortened his artist name to Clark. Throttle Furniture and Body Riddle were both three years in the making, during which time Clark refined his sound considerably. His meticulous production style makes much use of manipulated live drum samples, which are used to construct complex beats.
Feast / Beast
warp.net/records/releases/clark/feast-beast
( ;D --> Warp are pleased to announce a carefully curated compilation containing the best of Clark remixes - for others and from others - many of which appear here for the first time.)
Barker and Baumecker -Spur
soundcloud.com/throttleclark/barker-and-baumecker-spur
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2013/04/flavor-of-week-17.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2012/01/flavor-of-week-5.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/08/flavor-of-week-33.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/04/flavor-of-week-18.html  
 
Lycia
www.lyciummusic.com
( ;D --> There are many ways to describe darkwave band Lycia. Given the group’s quintessential gothic temperament, bleak, beautiful, esoteric, and ethereal?all ring true. Mentioned less often, however, is the band’s influence on a raft of acts that have quarried the dark veins of evocativeness that Lycia exposed. Label Handmade Birds recently released Lycia’s 1996 album, Cold, on LP for the first time, and with the band’s first full- length in? a decade, Quiet Moments, due for release in August, Cold‘s reappearance is a timely reminder of Lycia’s legacy in the sphere of bewitchingly mournful music. Lycia’s melding of dreamy synth and solemn rock has had a formative role to play in inspiring and nurturing artists who make brooding and shadowy rock and pop, and many contemporary noise, metal, and hauntological electronic outfits have also clearly drawn from Lycia’s darkly poetic oevure for inspiration. The band was originally founded as a solo project by guitarist, vocalist and keyboardist Mike Van Portfleet in 1988. However, it’s Lycia’s mid-‘90s work (with vocalist Tara Vanflower and multi-instrumentalist David Galas) that is most heralded for its blend of dark psychedelia, electronic soundscapes and spectral, plaintive vocals.)
Quiet Moments
www.projekt.com/store/product/han00066/
open.spotify.com/album/6sWoLdx661eT7pO033dCEo
( ;D --> Quiet Moments is the first new Lycia album in 13 years and follows the recent 2-LP vinyl re-issue of their classic album Cold (HB-DIS054, June 2013). Lycia are icons of dark indie music since their groundbreaking 1991 release Ionia and were part of the original wave of Projekt Records artists. Mastered by James Plotkin. One time pressing of 1000 CDs, 187 copies signed by frontman Mike VanPortfleet.)

HeveN
soundcloud.com/hereinheven
( ;D --> HeveN is a R&G(rythm and goth) band.)
letter from my demon lover
hereinheven.bandcamp.com/album/letter-from-my-demon-lover

Danton Eeprom
soundcloud.com/danton-eeprom
www.facebook.com/dantoneeprom
( ;D --> Danton Eeprom's musical path is the one of a music fiend who experimented with many styles since his teens, going from garage rock to pop to experimental to super underground warehouse beats. At this point he had no time for anything else, and devoted his life to music. He has amassed a large body of work on labels such as Versatile, Rekids and Hypercolour, as well as remixes of Royksop, Radio Slave and Andrew Weatherall. Today as a DJ/Producer his sound is refined and house based, centering around sexy house beats and sophisticated rhythms but always eluding to the dark undercurrent in his earlier work. His live act is as experimental as ever but with the greater maturity that experience brings.)
Yes Is More
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Philippe Laurent
www.facebook.com/Philippe.Laurent.HOT.BIP
philippelaurent.bandcamp.com
( ;D --> Multi-media artist Philippe Laurent, well known for his Hot-Bip project excavated by Minimal Wave in 2011, is paired with contemporary Minimal Electronic mastermind HNN on this maxi 12" split single. Laurent's side was originally released in 1982 on the rare K7 Kunstaustellung which has seen a meticulous remaster from our mastering house Polyphasic Studios. Exposition 1 translates Laurent's precision with his design work into a symmetrical and well balanced sound for his time.)
HNN 12? EP
electricvoicerecords.bigcartel.com/product/philippe-laurent-hnn-12-ep

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Flavor of the Week #34

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.)
Leaving Babylon!
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See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2013/06/flavor-of-week-26.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2007/04/flavor-of-week-18.html

Owl Vision
owlvision.se
( ;D --> Owl Vision is the project of Gothenburg, Sweden's Johannes Arnesson who creates dark, powerful melodies and basslines. What started as experimenting and sampling records to produce hip hop beats soon grew into what he calls, "Death Electro".)
Holy Shit
www.beatport.com/release/holy-shit/1123348
Holy Shit
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MXBQKA6oNU

SITD
www.myspace.com/xsitdx
www.sitd.de
( ;D --> Bone-crunching beats, apocalyptical electro hymns and very energetic live appearances… hailing from Germanys real industrial heartland, the former coal and steel centers of the Ruhr area.)
Rot
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See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2010_01_01_archive.html

New Look
myspace.com/newlooknewlooknewlook
( ;D --> New Look is a Synth Pop music duo formed by singer/model Sarah Ruba and her husband Adam Pavao.)
New Look
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Drive you home
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrqIxnLWegk

Multiman
soundcloud.com/multiman
( ;D --> Julian really is a multi-man when it comes to art. He is a professional composer, photographer, sound engineer as well as a highly talented graphic & web designer. Multiman brings an unique symbiosis of analogue machines from the past, digital tools from the present and home built devices from the future. Focused on breaking boundaries.)
Valle Tropical [Olé]
soundcloud.com/bmss-records/multiman-valle-tropical-bmss
Valle Tropical [Olé]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_MS6DGT0Ls

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Flavor of the Week #33

Aesthetische
soundcloud.com/aesthetische
www.facebook.com/aesthetische
( ;D --> Aesthetische is the musical return of Fab Viscardi and Gui Pires of Aghast View and Biopsy to the hard industrial dance / electronic scene after a hiatus of almost 8 years! Aesthtetische’s electronic sound aims at diversity on the EBM genre and carries craft and complexity to the composition paired with a well rounded production and modern programming technique. Tracks vary from mid tempo solid EBM to more fast paced outbursts of synth layers and beats. Aesthetische is influenced by all sorts of electronic music, not only hard electronics, but all forms of electronic expression. Influences from Rock, world music, contemporary music also play a part on AE’s sound.
Nachtbrenner
alfamatrix.bandcamp.com/album/nachtbrenner
Aesthetische - Still Life (Clublife Remix by Aesthetische)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN7_QsoEWIw

Individual Totem
www.individual-totem.com/
soundcloud.com/individual-totem-trashmix
( ;D --> Sparse, warm electronics, analogue synths, ambient pulses, and an industrial atmosphere complete the dark sci-fi Kyria 13 story and evoke the spectres of Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Severed Heads, and The Klinik.)
Kyria 13
www.stormingthebase.com/individual-totem-kyria-13-cd
( ;D --> The album tells the story of the Croxxers, a secret cult of knights who live on Kyria 13 and whose civilization is in grave danger. Populations are suffering after The Great Mistake -- the grey world leaves a grey population in the throes of anger, and the short-lived hope of The Bluesky Project quickly dissolves. The Croxxers claim to have the answer and convince many, but they are wrong. Their arrogance opens the floodgates and the Mindworms plague the population like never before. Kyria 13 becomes a world of lost souls, forcing the Council of the Wise to act. They blunder through resolutions until all at once an answer emerges: they go to war. The history of Kyria 13 will never be the same.)
Croxxers
soundcloud.com/artoffactrecords/1-individual-totem-croxxers

Monstrum Sepsis/Robert P. Wentz
www.monstrumsepsis.com
myspace.com/monstrumsepsis
( ;D --> The project began when both paul and rob met at art school in chicago. the two were both animation majors and continuously crafted music and visual projects as one. From 1997 to 2002, the band self released their music under the studio name, "paraminion studios".. which seemed fitting as rob named his studio "paranoid" [after a series of break-ins] and paul had tagged his spot as "dominion studio". Monstrum Sepsis turned into an underground success almost overnight regardless of the group's "self-released" status. It wasn't until after self-releasing three albums and handfuls of compilation appearances that a seattle based demo-label started helping to distribute monstrum sepsis as "syncromesh audio".)
waveTangent
music.monstrummedia.com/album/wavetangent
( ;D --> Within the 45 minute duration of these twelve impulsively written tracks the listener is launched into a rich and submersive experience bounced between highs and lows modulated by intricate waveforms of regal orchestral compositions, mechanically harsh and cold electronic soundscapes, warm minimalistic robotic melodies with uplifting analogs until the listener is fully engulfed behind a fiery inferno of killer electronics and percussion only to be swiftly and gracefully flown back to their new version of "comfort" where the soundtrack gracefully comes to a halt.)
From concept to final
music.monstrummedia.com/album/from-concept-to-final

Brusque Twins
brusquetwins.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/brusquetwins?directed_target_id=0
( ;D --> Lost somewhere in the thralls of shamanic flight, Brusque Twins occasionally resurface offering up intimate pieces of themselves, giving you a brief glimpse into the fervent emotions of a mind a world away. Haunting feminine vocals drift into moonlit synthetic beats, caught in visions of the past but always looking towards the future.)
Game Of Desire - VM09
brusquetwins.bandcamp.com/album/game-of-desire-vm09
A Voice In The Night
brusquetwins.bandcamp.com/album/a-voice-in-the-night

Dubcon
www.subconsciousrecords.com
www.twilightcircus.com
( ;D --> Dubcon is a brand new project featuring cEvin Key (Download, Skinny Puppy, PlatEAU) and Ryan Moore, a former member of The Legendary Pink Dots.)
U.F.O. Pon di Gullyside
www.metropolis-mailorder.com/product.php?prodnum=MET+897


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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

Over And Out

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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