Flavor of the Week #39

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Youth Code
youthcode.bandcamp.com/
www.facebook.com/youthcodeforever
( ;D --> Los Angeles Duo Youth Code are raw, punishing, industrious electronics built from the seeds of hardcore and early Wax Trax. Ryan William George and Sara Taylor blend chaos with catchy dance undertones to create a sonic fury paralleled to none. Formed in 2012, Using all hardware to perform, Youth Code have already proven their path with being the first band outside of Psychic TV to be put out by PTV's own label " Angry Love Productions " as well as a full length LP on the flawless Dais Records roster.)
An Overture
shop.daisrecords.com/collections/vinyl/products/youth-code-a-place-to-stand-ep
( ;D --> Youth Code’s latest release, A Place To Stand, is an expression of rage that could only come from Los Angeles. Perfectly capturing the frustration and claustrophobia of the early 80s LA hardcore scene but re-appropriating that aggression and melding it to the strict, pounding electronics of classic industrial. Recorded by Josh Eustis (Nine Inch Nails, Telefon Tel Aviv, Sons of Magdalene), Side A of A Place to Stand features four new Youth Code tracks that showcase the band exploring an evolved sense of melodic synth work and more varied tempos than anything they have released to date.)
Let The Sky Burn (Silent Servant Remix)
soundcloud.com/daisrecords/youth-code-let-the-sky-burn-silent-servant-remix
Youth Code
youthcode.bandcamp.com/album/youth-code

Gazelle Twin
gazelletwin.com/
www.soundcloud.com/gazelletwin
www.facebook.com/gazelletwin
( ;D --> Gazelle Twin is the stage name of Elizabeth Walling, a British Industrial-pop musician from Brighton)
Unflesh
gazelletwin.tmstor.es/cart/product.php?id=18691
( ;D --> In UNFLESH Gazelle Twin explores an adrenalised-Pop style - from the bone-chilling, Iggy Pop-inspired 'I Feel Blood', the stark choral lullaby of 'Premonition', to the Prince-meets-Sonic Youth influenced 'GUTS' and 'Still Life'. Far removed from the artist's former dreamscapes. "This is a rich, dark and gorgeous album, bristling with sonic challenge and literary depth" 8/10 -  UNCUT.)
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2012/08/flavor-of-week-34.html

Saa
soundcloud.com/sounds-of-saa
sounds-of-saa.tumblr.com/
www.facebook.com/SoundsofSaa
( ;D --> Forged across borders between Asher Levitas of acclaimed shadowy London outfit Old Apparatus, and Norwegian avant garde musician/vocalist Linn Carin Dirdal. Taking cues from classic pop production of the 70s and 80s, the early 4AD sound of The Cocteau Twins et al, pastoral folk, along with contemporaries such as The Knife, Saa make gloriously intricate avant-pop, as exciting as it is unclassifiable. Levitas' high production values will come as no surprise to fans of the aforementioned Old Apparatus, and here his complex rhythm arrangements and delicate electronics perfectly support Dirdal's layered vocals, which range from upfront and powerful to moments of choral beauty.)
Walking waters
oversharerecords.bigcartel.com/product/saa-walking-waters-cassette-tape-pre-order
( ;D --> Walking Waters is the follow-up to Saa's critically acclaimed debut EP. The English/ Norwegian duo present an upbeat melancholic concoction of love, lust, loss and liberation. Moving on from Asher Levitas' (Old Apparatus/Penny) and Linn Carin Dirdal's debut on Left Blank in 2013, the four tracks of Walking Waters playfully whisk and rip apart 90's R&B, Jungle and Trip Hop. Think overcast Sade or Camus' cigarette smoke drifting through Tracey Thorn's home. Levitas' moody and intricate productions and Dirdal's vocal deftness once again combine to delicious effect. The EP was mixed and co-produced by Grammy Award Winning Engineer Ian Dowling.)
(K)new You
soundcloud.com/overshare-records/laa-knew-you

Perc
soundcloud.com/perc
www.facebook.com/PercTrax
( ;D --> Perc is one of electronic dance music’s reference points: an internationally touring DJ, label owner and one of the most respected producers in techno today. Known as one of the most forward-thinking individuals in techno Perc (aka London based Ali Wells) fuses current sounds with his extensive knowledge of electronic music’s past to create something new & unique. A regular artist on such scene-leading labels as CLR, Kompakt, Drumcode, Stroboscopic Artefacts and Ovum as well as his own world-reknown Perc Trax imprint, Perc is as uncompromising as he is unique.)
Drax - Phosphene
soundcloud.com/perc/sets/drax-phospene
B2. The Exaltics Remix by Perc
soundcloud.com/perc/b2-the-exaltics-remix-1
( ;D--> One of Perc’s all-time favourite tracks returns on Perc Trax Ltd, an imprint purposely created for reissues and collaborative projects. Originally released in 1993 as part of Thomas Heckmann’s ‘Drax Three’ EP on his own Trope Recordings label, it featured on Carl Cox’s seminal F.A.C.T. mix CD and alongside ‘Amphetamine’ has become one of the biggest tracks of Heckmann’s career. This 12" features three new remixes, all of which twist 'Phosphene' into something new whilst keeping the forward facing attitude of the original in place.)

Purity UK
www.purity.co.uk/
www.jillstarkmusic.com/
( ;D --> Purity are London drum n’ bass duo Jill Stark and Florence Briggs who write, produce and programme their tracks with an agenda to create their own original and distractive sound that is Purity. The result is a mix of song based and instrumental tracks, energetic, melodic, pounding and unique. Though inspired and influenced by a range of musical tastes, its their love of drum and bass, dub step, rock and electronica that defines their tracks.)
Sliding into Chaos
novafuture-blog.com/2011/11/26/purity-uk-sliding-into-chaos-self-released/
In Ur Mind
soundcloud.com/novafuture/purity-uk-in-ur-mind-full

Over And Out

Flavor of the Week #38

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Fleck E.S.C
soundcloud.com/fleck
( ;D --> Franck Collin, aka Fleck E.S.C, is an Electro artist originally from France currently living in the buzzing metropolis of Tokyo, Japan. Franck’s earlier experience playing bass and drums in bands, and his love of horror, science fiction and B-movies, naturally drove him to the Electro music scene. Additionally, Fleck E.S.C has influences rooted in New Wave, Contemporary, Techno and Ambient music.  Fleck E.S.C tries to avoid the cliches of the Electro genre, leaning more toward the spooky side of horror and sci-fi and the cheap retro sounds in tribute of the movies he loves.  Never too serious, unpretentious, and always striving for fresh sounds, Fleck E.S.C’s music aims to distract the body and the brain.)
Fusion Enhancement
batteryparkstudio.bandcamp.com/album/fusion-enhancement
 
Max Cue
maxcue.eu/
soundcloud.com/max-cue
www.myspace.com/max_cue
( ;D --> Andy Verschaeren aka Max Cue is a producer and dj from Antwerp city, who's biggest influences are spread over eras and many different genres. (Thom Yorke, Serj Tankian, James Holden, Aaron Funk, Roisin Murphy, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Chinmaya Dunster, Laurent Garnier) He has been obsessed with music since the age of 12. Producing his first sounds with Fast Tracker at the age of 16, then developing his talent with Fruity Loops and later on using Ableton Live.
Spinning the wheels has been a passion for a long time now, starting with trance & techno, followed by a darker period with hardcore and breakcore, which resulted in his darker melancholic style as you already have heard.)
Mindfulness (October the 6th)
soundcloud.com/manual-music/sets/mancd012-max-cue-mindfulness
( ;D --> ‘Mindfulness’, the new album from Max Cue, is well-named. Watchful and attentive are characteristics high on the agenda of Antwerp’s Andy Verschaeren, letting loose a set of deep house and techno whose perpetual breeze and clear-mindedness is sourced from uncluttered, neatly layered and direct production.)
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2012/03/flavor-of-week-14.html
 
Martial Canterel
www.facebook.com/M.Canterel
www.myspace.com/martialcanterel
( ;D --> Martial Canterel is definitely one of the most talented artist in electronic underground music of our time. Each and every single song of him is just gripping. The music stands in the tradition of the past, but is characterized by a super-intense signature sound which is full of melancholy. The mysterious lyrics and the brilliant voice that seems to be absent and emotional at the same time add to the sinister mood of the tracks.
If you are only a little bit into Minimal Wave or Synthpop, you can't ignore Martial Canterel. And if you don't, this could be your entrance ticket into this musical territory!.
Austerton
soundcloud.com/experimedia/martial-canterel-austerton
www.onderstroomrecords.net/shop/index.php?route=product%2Fproduct&product_id=267
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2012/08/flavor-of-week-33.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2011/12/flavor-of-week-50.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2008/08/flavor-of-week-33.html

Grit
soundcloud.com/grit
gritdubtechno.co.uk/
( ;D --> Deeper electronic music from London.)
Satellite Religion
www.junodownload.com/products/satellite-religion/1415050-02/
Auotopilot
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2N10Lb2Who&feature=youtu.be&a

Cygnus
central-processing-unit.co.uk/cygnus-tesseracter/
( ;D --> With two years of solid output behind them, Sheffield label CPU has established itself as a binary science lab that delivers precision electro time after time. This continues with the welcome return of Cygnus - Tesseractar is the electro world killer he has always threatened to make. Following on from his 2012 album Newmark Phase (the inaugural release on CPU), Cygnus presents a collection of sci-fi / video game influenced soundscapes and melodies with a healthy dose of the Roland TR-808.Heads up drexciyan researchers.)
Tesseracter
www.kudosrecords.co.uk/release/cpu00001101d/cpu00001101d.html
soundcloud.com/cpurecords/cygnus-tesseracter

Happy *APX* releaseday ;D
Over And Out

Flavor of the Week #37

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Arca
soundcloud.com/arca1000000
www.arca1000000.com/
( ;D --> Arca (born Alejandro Ghersi, in Caracas, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan producer, consultant, mixing engineer and DJ based in Brooklyn, New York.)
Xen (release date November 3rd.)
mute.com/mute/signs-to-mute-debut-album-xen-out-on-34-november-hear-the-first-single-thievery
Thievery
soundcloud.com/arca1000000/arca-thievery
( ;D --> "Breakbeat" is one of those words that often comes prepackaged with a specific adjective: dusty. Whether we're talking about the excavated grooves of early hip hop or the beat science of drum & bass, breakbeats have usually been sourced from vinyl—old funk recordings—and fed through early, bit-gnashing samplers, and so they come with the attendant qualities of grimey old things. The breakbeat that anchors "Thievery", the first track to emerge from Venezuelan producer Arca's anticipated album Xen, is not dusty. It is slow, heavy chrome, the kind of breakbeat Michael Bay might erect if he needed a backbone for quivering synth knots and alien half-utterances. And that's what's striking about "Thievery": the contrast between its radical sonics and its widescreen ambition. Like an air show, there are uncomfortable bursts of noise, sharp nose-dives, and plenty of space-age technology deployed in the service of generating oohs and aahs. When Arca finishes untangling those glassy synthesizer whorls, the song is carried out by a simple, staccato piano melody. It's a tease of simplicity after minutes of chaos, a nice reminder that Arca's just arranging tones and melodies like everyone else, something that "Thievery"'s explosions can make you forget.)

L’Âme Immortelle
www.facebook.com/LAI.official
www.lai-music.com
www.myspace.com/lameimmortelle
( ;D --> L’âme Immortelle (French: the immortal soul) is an Austrian band that produces darkwave, and more recently also industrial metal. Many of L’âme Immortelle’s songs feature melancholy or lovelorn lyrics in German or English, and juxtaposed harsh male and emotional female vocals. Current work has moved away from the band’s electronic roots into the neue deutsche härte (New German hardness) genre. L’âme Immortelle was formed in 1996 in Vienna, Austria by friends Thomas Rainer (Nachtmahr) and Hannes Medwenitsch.)
Drahtseilakt (release date Nov 3rd)
www.trisol.de/de/news/346-lai-drahtseil-set.html
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2011/11/flavor-of-week-48.html
And: Thomas Rainer/Nachtmahr
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/09/flavor-of-week-40.html

Vladislav Delay
www.facebook.com/vladislavdelay
www.myspace.com/vladislavdelaymusic
www.vladislavdelay.com
( ;D --> Vladislav Delay, Uusitalo, Luomo, Conoco, Sistol. Under a raft of different names this Finnish artist (Sasu Ripatti *1976) has experimented with ambient, broken beat, glitch as well as grooves and house music with soulful vocals. In addition he has collaborated with and worked for a wide range of artists ranging from Scissor Sisters and Craig Armstrong to AGF, Black Dice, Massive Attack, Towa Tei and Ryuichi Sakamoto. While his side-projects and remixes are there to flirt with more stable rhythms and dancefloor institutions, his main love as well as his background is in experimenting with different kind of sounds and rhythms; a quest to find some music not heard yet. The soundtrack of Vladislav Delay. His forte is the rhythm, even if so subtle at times. In fact, he may as well be classified as a “percussionist” (actually he is originally a drummer) rather than an electronic musician despite the fact that that is how he mostly generates his sound and music, because it is the beat and its possibilities which lie closest to his heart, which further serves to explain why he has experimented with it from so many different musical angles.)
Visa (release date Nov 10th.)
soundcloud.com/vladislavdelay/visa-medley
www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=26089
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2011/06/flavor-of-week-26.html

tau sagittarii
scapeone.bandcamp.com
( ;D --> Tuck your crew in for the long sleep. Time bends as you drift through the vast distances of deep space. Leave behind our spec of sand and float into the ocean of stars.)
drift
scapeone.bandcamp.com/album/drift
drift (field-1)
soundcloud.com/scape-one/tau-sagittarii-drift-field-1

subtractiveLAD
www.stephenhummel.ca
www.facebook.com/subtractiveLAD
( ;D > Stephen Hummel has been releasing experimental electronic music as subtractiveLAD since 2005. In 2012, Stephen also began releasing songs under his own name.)
Wilderness
stephenhummel.bandcamp.com/album/wilderness
Subspace
stephenhummel.bandcamp.com/track/subspace

Over And Out

Flavor of the Week #36

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Alex Banks
alexbanksmusic.co.uk
www.facebook.com/alexbanksmusic
( ;D --> Alex Banks’ musical mission is going into overdrive. After building a hefty reputation via killer DJs sets across Europe and a few extraordinary remixes (Bonobo, Husky Rescue, Andreya Triana etc), he’s now signed to Monkeytown, the label owned by doyens of German electronic/club music, Modeselektor. His talents are showcased on the album, ‘Illuminate’. Two years in the making, it’s the culmination of Banks’ initial aspirations, at once rich in production artistry but ready for the dancefloor, seasoned with melodies and the leaping vocals of Gazelle Twin’s Elizabeth Bernholz, yet boasting a sonic heft and ambition on a par with the likes of Jon Hopkins, Daniel Avery and Nicolas Jaar.)
Illuminate
www.monkeytownrecords.com/products/view/262/alex-banks-illuminate-digipak-cd-monkeytown043cd
open.spotify.com/album/6sa9llZk8UDWGFw1fgbaFz
"A Matter Of Time" feat. Elizabeth Bernholz (Radio Edit)
soundcloud.com/monkeytown-music/alex-banks-a-matter-of-time-radio-edit
"All You Could Do - Phon.O Remix"
soundcloud.com/modeselektor/alex-banks-all-you-could-do-phono-remix-out-may-02-2014-mtr041
 
Clark (Chris Clark)
throttleclark.com/clark/
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. He performed with a live drummer (often Rob Lee aka Wax Stag).)
Clark
throttleclark.com/clark/
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2014/02/flavor-of-week-9.html
And:
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  

Oil 10
www.oil10.com/
www.facebook.com/Oil10music
( ;D --> Since 1998, the French project Oil 10 has produced pure electronic tracks in which powerful, elegant and analogical sounds mix-up. Gilles Rossire shows that research doesn't always mean icy hermetism and achieves a terrific fusion between ambient and electro.  His approach can be explained by the diversity of his influences: essential first albums of Kraftwerk or Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Brian Eno, LFO, Pan sonic, FSOL, Autechre, Dead Can Dance, the 80s electro pop scene (OMD, Freur, Fad Gadget, Ultravox, Depeche Mode...) and electronic heirs (IAMX, Goldfrapp, Ladytron,..).
Modularium
O10_amazon
Human Decision Required
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8Xj-42RJxY&feature=youtu.be&a

Conrad Schnitzler
conrad-schnitzler.de
( ;D --> Conrad Schnitzler (1937–2011) is one of the most important representatives of Germany's electronic music avant-garde. A student of Joseph Beuys, he founded Berlin's legendary Zodiak Free Arts Lab, a subculture club, in 1967/68, was a member of Tangerine Dream and Kluster and also released countless solo albums. The yellow album contains recordings from the year 1974. It is not only amiable from start to finish, it also documents an important stage in Schnitzler’s musical development. This album reveals itself to be an important milestone, illuminating a clear path into the future. Schnitzler had begun to free himself from the constraints of orthodox conceptual art, advancing into the wide open spaces of uncharted musical territory. Reissue on CD/LP/DL out Nov 14, 2014.)
Gelb
soundcloud.com/bureau-1/conrad-schnitzler-gelb

Trentemøller
www.anderstrentemoller.com/
www.anderstrentemoller.com/facebook
www.myspace.com/trentemoeller  
( ;D --> Anders Trentemoller has risen to the heights of international success usually only connected with artists in more mainstream Pop realms. His outstanding skills and talent for heart-wrenching melodic moments, fused with his trademark sound, have helped him gain fans across the globe, and blur the boundaries between cutting-edge, underground quality and mass appreciation.)
'Lost Reworks'
open.spotify.com/album/2D6qw7xpRi1VzviHzRlwUH
ymlp.com/zk7N5e
Come Undone (Trentemøller Remix)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAdi0k_znmY&feature=youtu.be&a
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2011/05/flavor-of-week-22.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2010/06/flavor-of-week-25.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/08/flavor-of-week-35.html 
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2008/10/flavor-of-week-43.html 
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2008/05/flavor-of-week-19.html 
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/11/flavor-of-week-49.html 

Over And Out
 

Flavor of the Week #35

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Lisa Gerard
www.lisagerrard.com
( ;D --> "Music is a Place to take Refuge. It's a Sanctuary from Mediocrity and Boredom. It's Innocent and it's a Place you can loose yourself in Thoughts, Memories and Intricacies..." Lisa Gerrard. Over a career that takes in almost two decades with Dead Can Dance, award-winning movie soundtracks and a series of acclaimed solo and collaborative albums, Lisa Gerrard has established herself as one of Australia's most ground-breaking and in-demand artists. Singer, composer and actress in El Nino de la Luna (a film which she also scored), Lisa brings a vision that is both precise and all-embracing to everything she does. It is a musical journey that began in the early 1980s when she and fellow Australian Brendan Perry formed Dead Can Dance, one of the world's most original bands whose proud boast is that they never fitted into any neatly manufactured genre or predefined pigeonhole. With Lisa's otherworldly voice counter-poised by Brendon's mellifluous tones, from the outset, they thought nothing of setting discordant electric guitars and dark, rolling bass lines against cellos, trombones and timpani. Over nine albums between 1984 and 1995, the duo's musical canvas expanded with every release to take in a timeless mix of world music influences, medieval chants, folk ballads, baroque stylings, Celtic flavours, electronics, samples and anything else that took their fancy.
Twilight Kingdom
lisagerrard.com/store/twilightkingdom.html
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2010/07/flavor-of-week-29.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2008/12/flavor-of-week-52.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2006_12_01_archive.html

The Future Sound Of London / FSOL
www.futuresoundoflondon.com/
www.facebook.com/theamorphousandrogynous
( ;D --> The Future Sound of London (often abbreviated to FSOL) is a British electronic music band composed of Garry Cobain (sometimes styled as Gaz Cobain) and Brian Dougans. The duo are often credited with pushing the boundaries of electronic music experimentation and of pioneering a new era of dance music.[1][2][3] Although often labelled as ambient, Cobain and Dougans usually resist being typecast into any one particular genre. Their work covers many areas of electronic music, such as ambient techno, house music, trip-hop, ambient dub, acid techno.[4] In addition to music composition, their interests have covered a number of areas including film and video, 2D and 3D computer graphics, animation in making almost all their own videos for their singles, radio broadcasting and creating their own electronic devices for sound making.[5][6] They have released works under numerous aliases. The artists have been fairly enigmatic in the past but have become more candid with their fanbase in recent years with social websites like Myspace, YouTube, their forum and many interviews in which Cobain almost always speaks for the group.)
Machines of the Subconscious Environment Five (release Sept the 15th)www.piccadillyrecords.com/products/TheFutureSoundOfLondon-EnvironmentFive-FSOLDigital-98962.html
Machines of the Subconscious Environment Five (promo)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6GpiJbFzSk&feature=youtu.be&a
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2007/04/flavor-of-week-16.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2008/11/flavor-of-week-46.html

Lorn
www.facebook.com/lornnn
www.myspace.com/lornnn
ninjatune.net/artist/lorn
( ;D --> At the forefront of a new generation of hiphop-leaning electronica producers, Lorn comes branded with the Flying Lotus seal of approval. Lorn, dropping the dynamic hiphop electronica with impressively powerful synth arpeggiations between scuttling drums and digital strings, benefitting from a mastering job by Chris Clark, with slow and grinding hiphop rhythms rubbed with basalt horror synths and advanced digital processing. fans of everything from NIN to Gaslamp Killer should check )
The Maze To Nowhere
lorn.bandcamp.com/album/the-maze-to-nowhere
see also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2012/06/flavor-of-week-26.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2011/01/flavor-of-week-4.html

Murya
mollerrecords.com/murya
www.facebook.com/pages/Murya/273267882710601?sk=info
( ;D --> The enigmatic veteran Icelandic producer Murya (Guðmundur Ingi Guðmundsson) has been hailed as one of the more interesting electronic music output in Iceland by many of his musical colleagues. After catching the attention of the French label Ultimae Records back in 2007 and featured on various electronic music compilations he started making further appearances in the Icelandic electronic music scene. In 2011 his debut mini-album entitled Crystalline Substances saw the day of light. With his finely programmed beats and dreamlike melodies he captivated the fans of melodic electronic music around the world. Alongside proving himself as a producer, he has become a master remixer for local musicians, including Ruxpin, Skurken and Asonat.)
Triplicity
touched.bandcamp.com/album/triplicity
www.facebook.com/touchedmusic

Psy’Aviah
www.myspace.com/psyaviah
www.psyaviah.com
( ;D --> Psy'Aviah is an Industrial rock / Electroclash / Dark EBM band from Antwerp, Belgium. The band took form in 2004 and was mainly focused on playing live. Later that year they won the Studio Brussel Demopoll with The Future Of The Sun. In 2007 they teamed up with Len Lemeire (from Implant/32Crash fame) to record their first album Creationism. 2008 saw the signing to the Alfa Matrix record label and the release of a new album, featurings and remixes. 2010 brings the third album of Psy'Aviah entitled Eclectric, produced by band member Yves Schelpe and mastered by Geert de Wilde of IC 434 in Antwerp. Their third album brings again a mix of electric eclecticism, varying between styles always with a hint of darkness. This time they have invited some more guests such as Jean-Luc De Meyer of Front 242 fame to sing on the track Ophélie, and Jennifer Parkin of Ayria who guests on the track Into The Game.)
The Xenogamous Endeavour (Bonus Tracks Version
alfamatrix.bandcamp.com/album/the-xenogamous-endeavour-bonus-tracks-version
( ;D --> With "The Xenogamous Endeavour", Antwerp based artist Yves Schelpe decided to make a return to the core of his PSY'AVIAH project, employing total artistic freedom and studio experimentation, writing all the songs on piano first and then only later transposing them into PSY'AVIAH's characteristic electronic world before searching for the right voice fitting the song and its atmosphere. A creative approach not only reinforcing the personal and almost autobiographical side of this new album, but also reaching the best "cross-pollination" from the numerous refreshing collaborations featured on the album and its unique blend of influential music genres of synthpop, rough electro, trip-hop, ambient, etc.  Similar to the collaborative approach of band projects like DELERIUM, CONJURE ONE or yet FAITHLESS, Yves Schelpe operates as the core-producer/composer with various other talented guest artists joining in to lend their voice or other writing/mixing skills and confirming that PSY'AVIAH.)
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2014/07/flavor-of-week-29.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2013/12/flavor-of-week-51.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2010/11/flavor-of-week-46.html

Over And Out

Flavor of the Week #34

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Aphex Twin
warp.net/records/aphex-Twin
( ;D --> Richard David James (born 18 August 1971), best known by his stage name Aphex Twin, is an England-based electronic musician and composer. He has been described by The Guardian as "the most inventive and influential figure in contemporary electronic music", and is the co-founder of Rephlex Records with Grant Wilson-Claridge.[1] Aphex Twin's album Selected Ambient Works 85-92 was called the best album of the 1990s by FACT Magazine.)
Syro (September 2014)
https://bleep.com/release/53848-aphex-twin-syro
( ;D --> You’ve seen the blimp. You’ve seen the stencil. Now there’s this – a tweet from Aphex Twin’s official account containing an url ending with .onion, the suffix associated with TOR browsers and what Silk Road users will be familiar with as the “deep web”.
The URL leads to some text appears to contain an album title – SYRO – and a list of 12 tracks alongside what we’d reckon to be their BPMs. There’s also an image, which you can see above, as discovered by Stereogum. And there’s this website website, as pointed out by commenter Riot Nrrrd below, which contains the artwork (if you scroll right to the bottom) as well as displaying your own connection information, referring site and so on.
We can hardly contain ourselves. Oh, and happy birthday Richard!)
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2007/01/flavor-of-week-04.html
 
Franck Kartell
twitter.com/Franck_Kartell
www.facebook.com/franck.kartell
myspace.com/franckkartell
bassagenda.virb.com/releases
( ;D --> Franck Kartell is a mad scientist of sound. In his laboratory, he tries to find frequencies allowing him to control people's mind. Franck is surrounded discovering the house music in 1986, five years later he spent his first payment in the purchase of a synth. At that time he started to buy hardware equipment. His music is based in purely analogical gear giving him a special warm feature in sound and concept. Franck´s live approach different schemes in production, composition and performing plus the support of visual media interaction passing through several stages of sound experimentation to dynamic and advanced works in synthesis and FX process dimension. The passion for the vintage, the robotic, the sic fi and lot of concepts in futurism, shows that Franck Kartell is making an important contribution to the current serious electronics taking elements from the past years.)
COMA EP
www.junodownload.com/products/franck-kartell-coma-ep/2506526-02/
soundcloud.com/bassagenda/fk-coma-preview-file
Coma
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMPJJgVlwjg&feature=youtu.be&a
Növö : I flee - Franck Kartell Remix
soundcloud.com/franck-kartell/n-v-i-flee-franck-kartell
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2013/12/flavor-of-week-53.html
 
Mazzula
mazzula.wordpress.com/
soundcloud.com/mazzula
www.facebook.com/Mazzula
( ;D --> Brilliant Electronica/Electro/Techno by Paul Mazzula from London.)
Blues'a Shining
mazzula.bandcamp.com/album/bluesa-shining
'Photons' (NorthBay's March Of The Smackheads Remix
soundcloud.com/northbay/mazzula-photons-northbay
 
Guy Gerber and Puff Daddy
www.guygerber.com
thump.vice.com/1111
11 11
www.beatport.com/release/1111/1360993
( ;D --> 11 11 is a collaborative project by Puff Daddy and DJ/Producer Guy Gerber, encompassing a 3-year musical journey through their individual and collaborative creative minds. THUMP has been on-board documenting their journey, capturing the insightful, creative and eccentric moments along the way.)
Guy Gerber and Puff Daddy Present "11 11" (Documentary)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIULv5TpCz4
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
 
Scott Walker + Sunn O)))
4ad.com/artists/scottwalker
( ;D --> With a career spanning more than five decades, Scott Walker’s cult status remains as significant as ever before. Experiencing mega-stardom as part of The Walker Brothers before carving out a career as a solo crooner who released a quartet of peerless self-titled LPs that painted rich vignettes of life in the late 60s, Scott went through what felt like a massive U-turn by recording a collection of masterfully challenging albums: Climate Of Hunter (1984), Tilt (1996), The Drift (2006) and Bish Bosch (2013). While there’s some truth to this artistic arc, the actual picture is a lot more complex, with his knack for introducing the disturbingly counter-intuitive and the uncanny into his songwriting dating back to the likes of 'The Plague' (1967) and ‘It’s Raining Today’ (1969). Centred around the core duo of Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson, Sunn O))) have been at the heart of underground and experimental metal since they began in Los Angeles back in 1998, broadening in range to increasingly encompass avant-garde and jazz dynamics to their dark music. Anderson is involved in running Southern Lord (Sunn O)))’s usual label home, whilst O’Malley is involved in a remarkable web of projects as a musician, designer, and label head of Ideologic Organ.)
They appear alongside extended Sunn O))) member Tos Nieuwenhuizen on this recording.
shopusa.4ad.com/soused
boomkat.com/vinyl/1062515-scott-walker-sunn-o-soused-deluxe-vinyl-edition
Soused
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwSveFnWzhI&feature=youtu.be&a
 
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Fraunhofer Diffraction
www.facebook.com/fdiffraction
soundcloud.com/vk666
fdiffraction.bandcamp.com
( ;D --> Crispy Witch House from Moscow.)
Scattering
fdiffraction.bandcamp.com/album/scattering
Kvrt in Space
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oht-ah0WFYs&feature=youtu.be&a
 
Apollyon’s Visage
soundcloud.com/apollyons-visage
apollyons-visage.bandcamp.com/
www.facebook.com/pages/APOLLYONS-VISAGE/524202390934273
( ;D --> In the darkest, coldest part of Alberta the mysterious duo known as Apollyon’s Visage continue their efforts in converting the non-believers. With creeping atmosphere, dragged beats, twisted vocals, and chants that could awaken the great old ones, Apollyon’s Visage will help you see the world for what it really is.)
⁞RE⁞DE▼OUR
apollyons-visage.bandcamp.com/album/re-de-our
CXB7 #182 (Mix tape)
https://soundcloud.com/chvrch-xv-brxk3n-7angvag3/apollyons-visage-cxb7-182 

Flying Lotus
flying-lotus.com
soundcloud.com/flyinglotus
www.myspace.com/flyinglotus
( ;D --> Great nephew of Alice Coltrane, Flying Lotus (who was born Steven Ellison) made beats for Adult Swim before releasing his debut full-length, 1983, which resembled the work of fellow avant-garde producers Madlib, J Dilla, and Ammoncontact, on Plug Research in 2006. Following the six-song Reset EP, his second full-length, Los Angeles, was released in 2008.)
You’re Dead! (release oct 17th.)
warp.net/records/flying-lotus/watch-youre-dead-album-trailer
You’re Dead! teaser-video
www.egotripland.com/flying-lotus-youre-dead-teaser-video
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2010_04_01_archive.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2009/10/flavor-of-week-44.html
 
Autumn of Communion
autumnofcommunion.bandcamp.com
( ;D --> Autumn Of Communion are Lee Norris AKA Norken, Metamatics and Nacht Plank and Mick Chillage, born in the summer of 2012. The main focus of this collaborative project is to bring as many of both of their musical inspirations and production techniques together that will bring together the classic lush ambient electronic sounds of the early 90's mixed with the details of 21st century electronica.)
Autumn of Communion 4 ( releases oct 31st.)
carpesonum.bandcamp.com/album/autumn-of-communion-4
 
iamamiwhoami
www.facebook.com/pages/iamamiwhoami/270417754335
www.youtube.com/user/iamamiwhoami
twitter.com/#!/iam_ami_whoami
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iamamiwhoami
( ;D --> iamamiwhoami is an electronic music and multimedia project headlined by Swedish singer-songwriter Jonna Lee. Videos released from the project's YouTube channel have spread virally. The first clip was uploaded on December 4, 2009, and was forwarded to a number of music journalists and blogs. Another two short videos followed. Chris Cantalini and MTV writer James Montgomery reported about iamamiwhoami, fueling speculation online.)
BLUE (Release November 10th.)
shop.towhomitmayconcern.cc/
BLUE album trailer
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSMuqJLvJRE
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2012/06/flavor-of-week-24.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2012/02/flavor-of-week-8.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2011/10/flavor-of-week-41.html
 
 
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Mentallo and the fixer
www.myspace.com/mentalloandthefixer
www.mentallo.net
( ;D --> Mentallo and the Fixer is the industrial brainchild of two brothers from Texas, Gary and Dwayne Dassing. Mentallo and the Fixer derived its name from a pair of comic book characters whose origins have long since faded into obscurity.The Dassing brothers were raised on rock music, so their first instruments were actually the guitar (Dwayne) and drums (Gary). However, this changed when the pair discovered a number of new wave bands whose music was heavily saturated with synthesizers. Dwayne specifically lists the Cars, early Orchestral Manouevres in the Dark, and especially Gary Numan as strong influences to Mentallo and the Fixer.)
Zothera (release September 26th )
www.alfa-matrix.com/shop_comments.php?id=2504_0_8_0_C
( ;D --> Cult American electro/industrial act MENTALLO & THE FIXER strikes back with another limited edition 3CD box release that will no doubt please all their fans! Like its title suggests, "Zothera" refers to the two Texan brother's (Gary and Dwayne Dassing) golden years period when they signed a multiple-album deal with Talla 2XLC's legendary German label Zoth Ommog. This new box-release does not only hold fully remastered versions of the classic albums "Revelations 23" and "Where Angels Fear To Tread", but also the exclusive "Apocrypha" bonus disc, a unique retrospective album featuring 16 hidden old-school treasures (over 70 plus minutes) with a majority of previously unreleased remixes/versions! Highly emotional and complex, MENTALLO & THE FIXER's music is characterized by snarling distorted vocals, hard cutting sequencer rhythms and thunderous beats. If the "Revelations 23" album laid the brutal electro-industrial foundations of MENTALLO & THE FIXER's huge discography with strong and aggressive hits like "Legion of Lepers", "Pulse Hemorrhage", or yet "Ancient Languages"; the "Where Angels Fear to Tread" 3rd album confirmed the band's raw power, dark intensity and multi-layered compositions' complexity with killer tracks like "Sacrilege", "Bring to a Boil" or "Afterglow".) "The remastering made such a huge difference. I'm so very pleased with the quality. It's amazing! It's like reliving a specific defined memory for me…", proudly says Gary Dassing about these 2 remastered albums.)
Commandments For The Molecular Age
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKyK-ufcDrQ#t=33
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2012/11/flavor-of-week-48.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2010/06/flavor-of-week-23.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2008/09/bomb-bass-www.html
 
Antoni Maiovvi
www.myspace.com/djantonimaiovvi
www.facebook.com/antonimaiovvi¨
antonmaiof.wordpress.com/antoni-maiovvi/‏
maiovvi.bandcamp.com/
( ;D--> Antoni Maiovvi's music is akin to the overwhelming horror of the stalked. The sound of dimly lit streets where everyone is at risk. A place of supernatural existential terror where the lines of reality become that of opium blurs. Operating from spaces previously occupied by Goblin, Tangerine Dream, Patrick Cowley and John Carpenter, under the pseudonym Antoni Maiovvi, Anton Maiof (Geisha / Defibrillators) has been creating psychotronic disco for the criminally insane since 2005 having emerged from the UK's underground noise scene, here presenting retro-futurist b-movie soundtracks with the precision and flair of an Argento death sequence.)
A Suitcase Of Twelves Vol. 1
maiovvi.bandcamp.com/album/a-suitcase-of-twelves-vol-1
The Heartworm
soundcloud.com/antonmaiof/antoni-maiovvi-the-heartworm
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2014/07/flavor-of-week-30.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2013/03/flavor-of-week-11.html
 
Diamondback Kid
soundcloud.com/diamondback-kid
( ;D --> Electro & Electrofunk, some ambience, some distortion, some Men Who Knew Too Much & a bit of Casimir Punk, a little Svalbard, a pinch of Giuseppe Mereu, a touch of Silver Diamond and a whole load of Diamondback Kid.)
Disconnect E.P.
diamondbackkid.bandcamp.com/
Coma (Taken from the 'Electro Compendium')
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIhaXO7JPbg&sns=tw
 
Rome
www.myspace.com/romecmi
https://www.facebook.com/romeproject
http://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.)
A passage to Rhodesia
open.spotify.com/album/308ECncWLwY0j3gIi8oK9N
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2013/08/flavor-of-week-32.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2011/06/flavor-of-week-24.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2010/06/flavor-of-week-23.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/09/flavor-of-week-39.html
 
Rotersand
www.facebook.com/rotersand
rotersand.net/
www.myspace.com/rotersand
( ;D --> Influenced by techno as well as rock, German electronic body music (EBM) group Rotersand established themselves as a powerful live act and also released new music on a regular basis. Formed in 2002 in Gelsenkirchen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Rotersand are comprised of Gun (born Gunther Gerl), Rasc (Rascal Nikov), and Krischan (Krischan Jan-Eric Wesenberg).)
Excerpts of :truth is fanatic again pt1
soundcloud.com/krischan-wesenberg/rotersand-excerpts-of-truth-is-fanatic-again-pt1
Random Is Resistance
R_amazon
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2009/09/flavor-of-week-40.html


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