Flavor of the Week #18

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Minuit Machine
minuitmachine.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/minuitmachine
( ;D --> Minuit Machine, a synth wave band based in Paris, is the association of Hélène de Thoury’s electronic melodies and Amandine Stioui’s vocals. The project was born in september 2013. The sound of the french duo, based on powerful electronic drums and the accumulation of dark synth lines, is a mix between all their inspirations that range from minimal wave to electronic rock.)
DRGS
youtu.be/7hTFFw6tlME
( ;D --> From the forthcoming third studio LP called Infrarouge, set for release on May 13th, 2019 (I just pre-booked the digital version ;).)
Infrarouge
minuitmachine.bandcamp.com/album/infrarouge
See also
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2018/08/flavor-of-week-36.html
And (Hante):
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2018/12/flavor-of-week-52.html


Agent Side Grinder
www.agentsidegrinder.com
( ;D --> Agent Side Grinder’s slick and gritty modern take on the minimal wave, post-punk, and industrial sound(s) of yesteryear come alive in a stripped, cold, and pop-like fashion on the act’s newest album Hardware. “On this record, ASG once again steps into their musical time-machine, has a rendezvous with old masters such as Kraftwerk, Einsturzende Neubaten and Depeche Mode and invite them all on a reckless, rhythmic journey into a bleak future.” While a fitting description of Hardware from the Agent Side Grinder website, its own legs extend more than that of its expected retro drapes.)
A​/​X
agentsidegrinder.bandcamp.com/album/a-x
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2018/05/flavor-of-week-20.html


Paula Temple
soundcloud.com/paulatemple
noisemanifesto.bandcamp.com/
( ;D --> For over 15 years Paula Temple has been pursuing her own unique musical path. As a self-confessed noisician she specialises in a noisy, phantasmagoric techno sound, where the dial is rarely turned below 200% and every moment of silence seems deafening. Such refreshing high voltage music has placed Paula at the forefront of today's techno scene.)
Edge of Everything
noisemanifesto.bandcamp.com/album/edge-of-everything-digital-album


UnicaZürn
www.unicazurn.com/
( ;D --> UnicaZürn are: Stephen Thrower (Cyclobe; Coil) and David Knight (Arkkon; Shock Headed Peters; Danielle Dax; Lydia Lunch) Both are also members of the improvisation group The Amal Gamal Ensemble.UnicaZürn’s core musical instrumentation is processed electric guitar, clarinet and saxophone. Knight is renowned for his pulverising fretwork in Shock Headed Peters, and his cavernous guitar treatments in Arkkon; Thrower’s reed playing provided a distinctive ‘free-melancholy’ in Coil and emerges as electro-acoustic texture in Cyclobe. To this duophonic arrangement, UnicaZürn add copious analogue synthesizer, mellotron and piano, with influences echoing back through Tangerine Dream’s early albums to the VCS3 days of Roxy Music. UnicaZürn offer a deeply immersive music which hovers at the brink of abstraction, seeking to conjure at that threshold fantastical coastlines and subterranean narratives in the mind’s eye.)
Sensudestricto
touch333.bandcamp.com/album/sensudestricto
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/09/flavor-of-week-40.html


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.)
Chasms EP
alexbanksmusic.bandcamp.com/
Chasms' featuring Ásgeir
youtu.be/qq7CD8FN828
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2014/09/flavor-of-week-36.html


Over And Out

Flavor of the Week #17

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White Ring
www.facebook.com/whitering999/
whitering.bandcamp.com/
( ;D --> It makes sense that upstart label Disaro calls Houston home; the city's humid weather and the syrup-sipping roots of the regional hip-hop scene perfectly suit the label's releases, which feature swampy atmospheres and slowed-down vocals run through varying levels of oppressive static. New York duo White Ring have that distinctive lean down pat, especially on "IxC999", scheduled for released on Disaro. A skeletal drum machine clatters with low-rider menace, while vocalist Kendra Malia alternately whispers and chant-sings about "ice in her hand" as walls of blown-out bass threaten to drown her out. At its core, "IxC999" is pretty fucking scary, from Malia's voice to the sound effects (creaking doors, gunshots) on down; by the time it dissolves into high-pitched staccato moans, you don't know whether to nod your head or hide under the covers.)
Chaind Volume 2
www.boundmfg.com
Heaven2Hell
youtu.be/wJq06RJlJ-M
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2019/02/flavor-of-week-7.html


Orange Sector
www.facebook.com/OrangeSector/
( ;D --> EBM has just been reanimated by this former Zoth Ommog recording artist.
ORANGE SECTOR, hailing from Hannover, Germany, is back! This is pure, old-school EBM and power basslines in the vein of NITZER EBB and DAF. This is what true EBM is all about.)
Alarm
infactedrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/alarm
'Heute Liebe ich dich' Neutron Mix
open.spotify.com/track/7ebJqdjs5axIILwK11483L?context=spotify%3Auser%3Abarlemeister%3Aplaylist%3A1Ikf7qxgGVnYRuE5MVao8A&si=4BbTbP4nRICnQsf6_If-2w
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2015/09/flavor-of-week-39.html


Sigur Rós
www.sigur-ros.co.uk
sigurros.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/sigurros
( ;D --> You can forgive Sigur Ro´s for being hazy on the details of the recording of their sixth album Valtari. It’s either the album they always wanted to make, or the album they almost didn’t make, depending on how you look at it. In 2011, the band started the painstaking forensic task of piecing together a cohesive and magical work from disparate constituent parts. If this sounds unromantic, the results are anything but. Something alchemical occurs when the four members of Sigur Ro´s are in the room together, and even if Valtari is more a “studio based” album than any of its predecessors (which usually start life as rehearsal room jams), the long hours of experimentation and unsentimental editing have yielded incredibly persuasive results.)
Variations On Darkness
sigurros.bandcamp.com/album/variations-on-darkness
The Hungry Ghosts, We Live in an Old Chaos of the Sun
open.spotify.com/track/00T0hEW35DAH54xQvaXeen?si=VYEMKyndSRugL_R89bZqPA
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2012/07/flavor-of-week-28.html


Gregor Tresher
www.gregor-tresher.de
( ;D --> In the field of electronic music, Gregor Tresher is by no means a debutant. For more than ten years the thirty-four-year old DJ and producer from Frankfurt gathered merits modernizing the algorithms of electronic music. It has been his “Still EP“ in 2004 that upgraded him into the Champions League of European Techno producers. After many highlight releases like “Neon“, “Full Range Madness“, “The Wombat“ or “The Now People“ on labels like Intacto, Cocoon, Great Stuff or Rebel One, it was his eagerly-awaited debut album “A Thousand Nights“ that defined the state of the art in electronic dancemusic 2008, with its titletrack beeing the year´s best selling Techno song on Beatport.)
Compos Mentis by Extrawelt
open.spotify.com/track/0Uns8W1B65Xn16A9G2tT6a?context=spotify%3Auser%3Aspotify%3Aplaylist%3A37i9dQZEVXbvLGArxoWOWA&si=oQ9uxPpWToW-wZU0MDk92w
Gregor Tresher pres. 10 Years Break New Soil
www.deejay.de/Various_1_Gregor_Tresher_pres_10_Years_Break_New_Soil_BNS065-1_Vinyl__355373
soundcloud.com/breaknewsoil/sets/gregor-tresher-pres-10-years-break-new-soil-part-1
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2017/11/flavor-of-week-46.html


Pro Patria
www.propatria.be/
( ;D --> Flemish origin Pro Patria was founded in 1988 by Peter V. (aka PVC). Out of the collaboration with CCP arose "Quod Erat Demonstrandum" in 1997. Unfortunately, CCP faced bankruptcy and personal trouble meant the end. In 2017 Peter was invited to play at the Familientreffen festival, which motivated him to produce "Back to Basics". In 2019 Pro Patria will release its new album.)
Executioner
propatria.bandcamp.com/album/executioner
It's too late
propatria.bandcamp.com/track/its-too-late


Over and Out

Flavor of the Week #16

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Clock DVA
clockdva.bandcamp.com/
www.facebook.com/Clock-DVA-57909220995/
( ;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.)
NEOTERIC X2
clockdva.bandcamp.com/album/neoteric-x2
Teaser:
www.phonomena.net/dva/rmx/neoteric-X2-teaser.mp3
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2016/06/flavor-of-week-25.html


Vlimmer
www.facebook.com/VlimmerMusic/
( ;D --> Alexander Leonard Donat aka Vlimmer has something versatile. Every single EP appears to be a new experiment and exploration of atypical electro-pop fields. This work moves towards wave-pop fields, which are clearly inspired by the 80s. The songs have been built up with minimal-electronics, but I also noticed guitar playing that reinforces the link with new-wave and related genres. The work moves from dark- and dreamy passages towards elaborated electronic minimalism with German vocals on top. Darkgaze/Darkraut/Darkwave/Drone/Ambient.)
XI​/​XII
blackjackilluministrecords.bandcamp.com/album/xi-xii


Francois Dillinger
soundcloud.com/fdbeardd
www.facebook.com/fdbeardd/
( ;D --> Heavy Industrial + Dancing in Detroit Warehouses + B-Boy Battle Circles + Twenty Years of Digging.)
Space Trash EP
ukonx.bandcamp.com/album/space-trash-ep


Phantoms vs Fire
phantomsvsfire.com/
phantomsvsfire.bandcamp.com/
www.facebook.com/pg/Blackjack.Illuminist/about/
( ;D --> Brazilian graphic artist and composer Thiago C. Desant (based in Italy) released the new Swim album under his solo moniker Phantoms vs Fire via Hypersoma Records in January. The record swings between deep synths and palmy drums in a very wide and stargaze chill-out groove. The music is so intricate, offering 11 colorful instrumental tracks that match up to a glorious sonic canvas of high-quality musings, and high-quality sound. Rich and opulent, the record holds amazing moments and complicated arrangements that all fans of Philip Glass’ craft shall adore, while the other team–the fans of Mike Oldfield–will find the missing stone they are looking for in delicate and accurate aesthetics. For the rest of us who still insist on drowning in our chambers of amplified and overdriven sounds, the record is an oasis of perfectly balanced instrumentaton without any iteration on the narrative.)
Wildlife
blackjackilluministrecords.bandcamp.com/album/wldlfe
A Beautiful Madness from 'WLDLFE
blackjackilluministrecords.bandcamp.com/track/a-beautiful-madness
SW1M+
phantomsvsfire.bandcamp.com/album/sw1m
Ghost Fauna
www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=66&v=ME-Ac7vsJXw


Ethik
kompakt.fm/releases/music_for_stock_exchange
kompakt.fm/artist-agency/artists/joerg_burger
kompakt.fm/artists/mike_ink
( ;D --> Released under their monikers The Bionaut (Jörg Burger) and Mike Ink (Wolfgang Voigt) this album marks one of the many highlights evolving from this artistic relationship. „Ethik“ perfectly showcases the pair‘s very own take on electronica/IDM that soon led into their Harvest releases as Burger/Ink, The Bionaut and The Modernist. 25 years after its inception Ethik sounds strangely contemporary and will delight the old and surely find many new friends.)
Music For Stock Exchange
soundcloud.com/kompakt/sets/ethik-music-for-stock-exchange
www.amazon.co.uk/Music-Stock-Exchange-Ethik/dp/B00000AQ87


オーバーとアウト

Flavor of the Week #15

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Kode9
www.facebook.com/djkode9
www.kode9.com
( ;D --> Kode9 (born Steve Goodman in Glasgow, Scotland) is a London-based electronic music artist, DJ, and owner of the Hyperdub record label. An MC, The Spaceape, is a frequent collaborator. Initially inspired by what he calls the "hardcore continuum", he also draws on dub reggae, and was one of the founding members of the early dubstep scene (which he views as a continuation of developments originally stemming from UK Hardcore). He appeared on the Grime compilation on Rephlex, and released the full-length album Memories of the Future (featuring the Spaceape) on his own label Hyperdub. Kode9 has a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Warwick and has published a book, Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear.)
Kode9 - Diggin in the Carts Remixes
kode9.bandcamp.com/album/various-artists-kode9-diggin-in-the-carts-remixes
Bad Data (Dezaemo)' - Kode 9 Remix by KOICHI ISHIBASHI
open.spotify.com/track/56jUJ7vkEkxa2b4YAStMWQ?context=spotify%3Auser%3Aspotify%3Aplaylist%3A37i9dQZEVXbvLGArxoWOWA&si=kJMdRKwhTF-3tAvX2dNT-A
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2018/08/flavor-of-week-34.html


Pilotpriest
pilotpriest.bandcamp.com/
( ;D --> Pilotpriest is Anthony Scott Burns' DJ name. He has released a number of albums and EPs, as well as multiple singles and remixes.)
Green
pilotpriest.bandcamp.com/album/green-single
Legend
open.spotify.com/track/6ciNKNjsjJvg4WcqRsVMNH?si=t3-W13fbSsexKSHG-hCRTA
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2018/10/flavor-of-week-41.html


Fujiya & Miyagi
www.fujiya-miyagi.co.uk
( ;D --> They are self-described as being heavily influenced by Krautrock bands, Can and Neu! as well as the early 1990s electronic music artist, Aphex Twin. The origins of the band's name come from a character in the film, The Karate Kid as well as the brand of a record player. The lines "We're not a couple of shadowboxers/Oh/Oh/Just two Anglo-Saxons" from the 2008 track Butterfingers and "We were just pretending to be Japanese" from Photocopier may be comments on the band name and how it is perceived.)
Flashback
fujiyamiyagi.bandcamp.com/album/flashback
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2014/04/flavor-of-week-15.html


Brainwaltzera
soundcloud.com/brainwaltzera
brainwaltzera.bandcamp.com/
( ;D --> Melancholic electronica and head-squashing acid electro.)
Brainwaltzera tries to squeeze aa Warp records best bits into his debut LP.)mookidmusic.com/2017/10/02/brainwaltzera-tries-to-squeeze-all-warp-records-best-bits-into-his-debut-lp-poly-ana/
The Kids Are AI EP
analogicalforce.bandcamp.com/album/af021-the-kids-are-ai-ep
maramu [still dry​/​no_outboard]' from [AF021]analogicalforce.bandcamp.com/track/maramu-still-dry-no-outboard


Peggy Gou
peggygou.bandcamp.com/
www.facebook.com/peggygoupeggygou/
soundcloud.com/peggygou
( ;D --> Born & raised in South Korea and now residing in Berlin following several years studying in London, Peggy Gou made her recording debut in January 2016 on Radio Slave's Rekids label with 'The Art of War Part 1', featuring a remix from Galcher Lustwerk (White Material, Lustwerk Music). With a diverse range of inspriations including J Dilla, Patrick Cowley, Yellow Magic Orchestra and DJ Sotofett, her productions immediately garnered attention for the maturity of their sound coupled with an uncanny ability to create instantly accessible dancefloor records.)
It Makes You Forget (Itgehane) [Remixes]
peggygou.bandcamp.com/album/it-makes-you-forget-itgehane-remixes
'Starry Night - Original Mix' by Peggy Gou
open.spotify.com/track/5xwzmfxNAxZwMjznQ0eVXL?si=8OXEpyj-QueypVs2vzFjFw




オーバーとアウト

Flavor of the Week #14

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Kangding Ray
www.kangdingray.com
( ;D --> Kangding Ray is David Letellier Born 1978 in France, lives and works in Berlin.Studied and graduated in architecture in Rennes and Berlin, works in different fields: music, architecture, performances, installations. Evolved as a guitarist and drummer in bands whose influences ranged from noise-rock, to jazz, before buying an akai sampler and moving on to electronic music. Kangding ray's music reflects his wide musical background, and a particular way of merging beats and textured soundscapes into slowly evolving compositions. KR combines machines with « real instruments » in a subtle and rythmic suite, integrating noises, walls of distortion, massive bass lines, voices and field recordings. The result is a blend of deep advanced grooves and dark atmospheres, that one could describe as « abstract bass music ».)
Pruitt Igoe
www.raster-media.net/shop/pruitt-igoe
Hyper Opal Mantis
stroboscopicartefacts.com/shop/hyper-opal-mantis-salp005-sacd008/
( ;D --> The tension between the natural and artificial, the body and mind, are central themes in electronic music in general, and Techno in particular, as the means of creation, focused around technology and interactions with machines, contrast with the emotional response to sound, the mystical ritual of collective dancing, and the ethos of liberation and tolerance embedded in the culture it produced. We’re navigating a world of engineered pleasures, big data monitoring of movements and consumption habits, and falsely objective representations of reality, further blurred by a reduced attention span and several opaque layers of cultural interpretation and political manipulation. Manichean simplifications are used to create hate and fear in order to achieve domination and impose limits on freedom, and the irrational belief in endless growth, increasingly disconnected from nature, led to massive environmental destructions and waves of unprecedented extinctions of species. Our primal sensuous perception, vastly more abstract, emotional and sensual, make us feel the world as an ambiguous realm we are part of, but not in control of ; a complex network of interacting forces and enigmatic patterns, a matrix of overlapping desires. Rebuilding our bonds with nature, Reconnecting with our senses, and spreading love in the process becomes an essential act of resistance. Hyper Opal Mantis is a triptych on 3 states of desire, and the first long player of Kangding Ray for Stroboscopic Artefacts. HYPER is the primal, sensual lust, OPAL is the emotional catharsis, a blissful desire for love. MANTIS, like the insect it refers to, is the destructive, fatal attraction.)
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2015/11/flavor-of-week-47.html


Throwing Snow
www.throwingsnow.co.uk
soundcloud.com/throwingsnow
www.facebook.com/throwingsnow
( ;D --> London-based artist and producer Ross Tones presents Mosaic, his debut long player under his Throwing Snow moniker. Ross grew up on a huge variety of music from traditional folk songs to reggae and hardcore, and was also influenced by punk and UK metal in the northern wilderness of England. Though an astrophysics graduate, he always wanted to concentrate on music, and the sonically striking 11 track LP follows a run of acclaimed releases put out since 2007 for the likes of Local Action, Ho Tep, Sneaker Social Club and his own Snowfall imprint, and a stint at the revered Red Bull Music Academy in New York last year. Live, Tones is also accomplished, having made numerous Boiler Room appearances and supported the likes of Bonobo, Atoms For Peace and Jon Hopkins. He is also co-owner of record labels the Left Blank and A Future Without, using his accrued industry knowledge to help launch the careers of now established artists Vessel, Wife, Visionist, Lorca, Memotone and Young Echo, and records as Snow Ghosts with vocalist Augustus Ghost.)
Loma
throwingsnow.bandcamp.com/album/loma
Avarice
open.spotify.com/track/1WYD1moet4Sw9S72OGWR1Z?
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2017/04/flavor-of-week-15.html


Gamma Intel
soundcloud.com/gammaintelligence
( ;D -->Rotterdam is miserably cold and rainy. Plagued by gentrification and technological unemployment, the harbor city is slowly turning into a desolate, mechanized metropolis. Secretly tucked away on the outskirts, if you know where to look, there are a few remaining military bunkers. This is where the city’s youth go sporadically to relieve their anger and grief. During these nights, they tirelessly rage to the dystopian sound of Gamma Intel’s slow-burning electro and hypno-acid, before returning to the struggles of their daily lives.)
Motives & Methods [PNKMN26]
pinkman.bandcamp.com/album/motives-methods-pnkmn26


Apoptygma Berzerk
www.apoptygmaberzerk.de
theapboffice.com
( ;D --> In the past few years, Apoptygma Berzerk has forged an identity as a unique voice in the musical landscape. APB blends past experimentations in EBM, futurepop, goth, rock, pop, and more into a distinctive mélange that sets the group apart from its contemporaries.)
SDGXXV
pitchblackdrive.bandcamp.com/album/sdgxxv
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2018/07/flavor-of-week-28.html


Beirut
www.beirutband.com/
( ;D --> Beirut is an American band which was originally the solo musical project of Santa Fe native Zach Condon. Beirut's music combines elements of indie-rock and world music. The band's first performance was in New York, in May 2006, to support its debut album, Gulag Orkestar.)
Gallipoli
open.spotify.com/playlist/5tuUrn4UyEvzlR8uWRrKE8?si=CiD-MZ2eTHmP6rpLt8DT9g


Over And Out

Flavor of the Week #13

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MetaComplex
metacomplex.hu/
www.facebook.com/MetaComplex-219948751349049/timeline/
( ;D --> True electro from an underground audiogenetic laboratory, about future technology, cyberspace and machine domination.)
DataTrance
metacomplex.bandcamp.com/album/datatrance
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2015/10/flavor-of-week-42.html


Mr Kitty
soundcloud.com/mrkittydm
www.facebook.com/mrkittydm
( ;D --> dark alternative electronic music for post-apocalyptic minds.)
EPHEMERAL
mrkittyngp.bandcamp.com/album/ephemera
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2014/07/flavor-of-week-28.html


Voster
www.facebook.com/Vostermusic
( ;D --> The in-your-face Electro Industrial Postapoc lovechild of iVardensphere, Iszoloscope and ESA. Soundtrack of the most infamous vagabond of the post-apocalypse. A result of radioactive contamination & human evolution to remain immune from our corroded planet! VOSTER and her degenerate henchmen are law! Pillaging & terrorizing the vulnerable and the meek! Enslaving for their own feral bidding!)
VSTR
voster.bandcamp.com/album/vstr
The Second Voming
voster.bandcamp.com/track/the-second-voming


Russ Gabriel
soundcloud.com/russ-gabriel
www.facebook.com/russgabrielofficial/
( ;D --> Russ Gabriel has been at the forefront of electronic music since the early 90s. Hailing from a small village near England’s south coast, Russ set up his Ferox label in 1993 which continues to release soulful electronica to this day. As a producer Russ has recorded non-stop for the last 25 years and has released works on labels such as Carl Craig’s Planet-E, DJAX-Up-Beats, Dave Clark’s Magnetic North, Peacefrog, Mobilee, Pokerflat and countless others.)
'The Controller' [FS017]
firescoperecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-controller-fs017


Twin Replica
soundcloud.com/twinreplica
www.facebook.com/twinreplica
( ;D --> Electronica inspired Synth Pop duo from Oxford/outskirts of London.)
Child
open.spotify.com/album/5XPHNvZsNk41gN6UexwHG5?si=_xaTrPN0RaavNB-kZbO98g&fbclid=IwAR0-cikfe2CigsLBFu1Dxyc-k9fEJ05zxlOWYtBWbj_A7EGJ9IFkBWIr_FI


Over And Out

Flavor of the Week #12

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Gesaffelstein
www.gesaffelstein.com
( ;D --> Best known for his collaborations with Kanye West on two standout tracks from the groundbreaking Yeezus (‘Send It Up’ and ‘Black Skinhead’) as well as high profile remixes for Lana Del Rey and Depeche Mode, Paris-based DJ/producer Gesaffelstein’s solo work reconnects hard techno to its pounding industrial roots.  After earning all manner of acclaim for early EP releases, Gesaffelstein's monstrous recent track ‘Pursuit’ was released by The Vinyl Factory as a beautiful collectors edition with clear vinyl. Its accompanying video has been watched over 1.5 million times. Gesaffelstein's follow up single, the menacing 'Hate or Glory', was similarly seismic in its impact on dancefloors and across the worldwide web. Now comes his eagerly awaited debut LP, a mesmerizing combination of dark techno, industrial menace and elegiac electronic soundscapes that seems certain to catapult Gesaffelstein into the stratosphere and register Aleph as the breakthrough album of the year. It is, without doubt, one of the best of 2013.)
Hyperion
open.spotify.com/album/0JA38Ekhsv43y2lBj5GQkQ
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2018/11/flavor-of-week-49.html


Meat Beat Manifesto
meatbeatmanifesto.com/
( ;D --> Meat Beat Manifesto have been perfecting their techno sound since 1987 and have been major influencers on trip-hop, as well as drum and bass along the way.)
Opaque Couché
meatbeatmanifesto.bandcamp.com/album/opaque-couch
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2018/02/flavor-of-week-6.html


Fraunhofer Diffraction
soundcloud.com/vk666
fdiffraction.bandcamp.com/
www.facebook.com/fdiffraction
( ;D --> Ambient Techno; Soft, warm, enveloping and nervous, like meeting with an old friend. Increased heart rate, but the eyes are half-closed and sleepy.)
Garden of Thorns
open.spotify.com/album/7MBKtCqibijXmDn4eA0I55
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2018/10/flavor-of-week-44.html




Lustmord
www.lustmord.com
soundcloud.com/lustmord
lustmord.bandcamp.com/
( ;D --> While his days are spent working on sound design for Hollywood scores by Graeme Revell, sound designer Brian Williams records experimental ambience and dark space music as Lustmord. His recordings have been embraced by a variety of ambient fans, ranging from the '70s traditionalists at the Hearts of Space label to the ambient-techno experimentalists at Plug Research.)
First Reformed
lustmord.bandcamp.com/album/first-reformed
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2016/08/flavor-of-week-31.html




Leæther Strip
www.facebook.com/LeaetherStrip/
www.leaether-strip.com/
( ;D --> According to founder Claus Larsen, Leæther Strip is, and always will be, only him. Larsen was born on November 13, 1967 in Aalborg, Denmark. He first released music under the name of Leæther Strip in 1989. However, his 1995 release G.A.W.M.U.S. (Getting Away With Murder U. S.) included two early demos from 1982 and 1984, with the latter forming the unknown beginning of the band according to an interview conducted with Claus Larsen. In 1991, Larsen created a side-project called Klute in which he also remained the sole member. It can be argued, and is by many, that the sound of Leæther Strip throughout the early 1990s helped define what is today known as electro-industrial. In a search performed on MySpace on December 1st, 2008, 294 bands had listed Leæther Strip (or "Leather Strip") as a musical influence, although the true number of bands influenced by Larsen's work is undoubtedly much higher. In 1994, Claus Larsen drastically changed the sound of Leæther Strip, with the release of a synthesized semi classical album. Conceived as a soundtrack to a fictional film, it was named Serenade for the Dead. The releases since then have reincorporated electronic dance elements, and have redefined Leæther Strip into what Larsen calls, "symphonic electro".)
ÆPPRECIATION III - DEUTSCHEWÆLLE
leaetherstrip.bandcamp.com/album/ppreciation-iii-deutsche-w-lle
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2016/12/flavor-of-week-51.html




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Flavor of the Week #11

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Hatari
www.hatari.is/
svikamylla.bandcamp.com/
( ;D --> Hatari (Icelandic pronunciation: ​[ˈhaːtarɪ]) is an Icelandic techno and punk rock performance art group from Reykjavík. The band consists of Klemens Nikulásson Hannigan, Matthías Tryggvi Haraldsson and Einar Hrafn Stefánsson.[1][2] The group has released one EP and a number of singles. Hatari is known for their live shows, including their BDSM-inspired stage costumes.)
HATRIÐ MUN SIGRA
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVbShUW6QBM
Spillingardans
svikamylla.bandcamp.com/track/spillingardans
Neysluvara EP
svikamylla.bandcamp.com/album/neysluvara-ep


Com Truise
comtruise.com
( ;D --> Com Truise is one of the many personas of producer and designer Seth Haley, born and raised in upstate New York and operating out of a 12’-overrun apartment in Princeton, New Jersey. An admitted synth obsessive, Com Truise is the maker of an experimental and bottom heavy style he calls “mid-fi synth-wave, slow-motion funk”. What do you call musicians like Com Truise? He seems easy enough to pin down—throw out some words like “nostalgia,” “synth-wave,” “eighties,” and “electro-funk” and you’ll scrape by—but to be truly insightful about his music is tough, because art that is so blatantly referencing certain things in a certain way while also making them weird and new and unique is confusing. How do you classify something that is so obviously both vintage and current but is too fun to call postmodern?)
Persuasion System
comtruise.bandcamp.com/album/persuasion-system-2
Existence Schematic
open.spotify.com/track/0eRqc1qr7cW5v6UgibbzMg?si=viyk4JRCQm-VrL_0UAX3PQ
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2017/06/flavor-of-week-25.html


BLR
soundcloud.com/blrofficial
www.facebook.com/BLRofficial
( ;D --> Vast soundscapes and moving melodies.)
Otherworld (BLR & NVO Extended Mix)
youtu.be/PCfqCkXjve4
EP, Pt. 3 by BLR
open.spotify.com/album/6o03VVeW1Tyti9LIOBrrWI?si=kgcQHplGRHSDH01B5bseQg

Klutæ

klutae.bandcamp.com/

( ;D --> Klutæ is an industrial music project founded by Danish musician Claus Larsen, who is best known for his main project, Leæther Strip. Originally formed in 1991 under the name Klute.)

Piranha

klutae.bandcamp.com/album/black-piranha
Long live #EBM (album edit)Electro Punks Unite

klutae.bandcamp.com/track/long-live-ebm-album-editSee also:

See also:

barlemusic.blogspot.com/2013/01/music-flavor-of-week-5.html

Níundi
www.facebook.com/Niundiofficial/
niundi.bandcamp.com/releases
( ;D --> |/ Níundi is the supercharged atmosphere found between fire and ice. And within this liminal and misty shadow of dark Norse magick, ritual and ancient story can be heard. /|\.)
Níundi
niundi.bandcamp.com/album/n-undi


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Flavor of the Week #10

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Fragrance
www.facebook.com/thisisfragrance/
soundcloud.com/thisisfragrance
( ;D --> Fragrance. is a dreamy synthpop project of Matthieu Roche from Paris.)
'Now That I'm Real'
fragrancemusic.bandcamp.com/album/now-that-im-real
open.spotify.com/album/1eI45qyMkm9O4OdOQnxQRr
Hazy Strobes (feat. Hélène de Thoury from Hante.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidVWgkNh1c


Rotersand
www.facebook.com/rotersand
rotersand.net/
( ;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).)
'Hey You'
www.outoflineshop.de/rotersand-hey-you-cd.html
'Hey You'
youtu.be/_8pnWb4Fns0
Capitalism
soundcloud.com/user-949579142/rotersand-capitalism-tm-album-snippets-1
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2014/08/flavor-of-week-32.html


Mortiis
www.mortiis.com/
www.facebook.com/officialmortiis
( ;D --> Mortiis is a band from Notodden, Norway fronted by Håvard Ellefsen, who is also known as the namesake of the band. The name is a misspelling of the word 'mortis', which is the pronunciation used by the band. Mortiis started as the solo project of Ellefsen as a means to convey a story. This aspect was lost over time and Mortiis slowly formed into a band. Created by Havard Ellefsen in 1993, with the intention to record very depressive music in Transylvanian castles. Due to electricity problems this did not happen. Has been ever evolving, shunned and adored ever since.)
Visions of an Ancient Future (From the upcoming 2019 album "Spirit of Rebellion".)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-RCM61Sb5s
Spirit of Rebellion 2019..
downloadmusic.mortiis.com/


Volorflex
www.facebook.com/volorflex/
soundcloud.com/volorflex
( ;D --> Electro form Syktyvkar, Russia.)
Blowing Smoke
volorflextrampique.bandcamp.com/album/blowing-smoke


Alek Stark
soundcloud.com/alekstark
www.alekstark.com/
( ;D --> Alek Stark is today one of the indisputable pioneers of the electro scene in Spain. Alek start his relation with the electro music as b.boy, breakin´ the streets of the downtown of Madrid in 1983. He started to make the first beats in 1988 but he is best known by his releases on Disko B, Transient Force, Last Known Trajectory, Titan's Halo, Interstellar Tracks, Original Street Techno, etc., also by his remixes for Arthur Baker, Newcleus, AS1, Synth Alien, Punx Sound Check/Marc Almond, Honk Kong Counterfeit, Esplendor Geométrico, AndresAndreas, Catherine Vatine... Iron Maiden! You listened to his works in sets of I-F, Dave Clarke, John Peel, Miss Kittin, Electric Indigo, David Carreta, Micronauts, Mick Willis, Tiga, etc...)
We Love You
open.spotify.com/track/5DjIVjYsNrmF9ydfAOXHdN?si=YOYFCS9PS2qipsmsOgN-tw
Highway to Disko
open.spotify.com/album/3z7CQaCL29DF6ivC5i68fo
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2017/08/flavor-of-week-35.html


Over And Out

Flavor of the Week #9

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Blutengel
www.blutengel.de
www.facebook.com/BlutengelOfficial/
( ;D --> Blutengel (German: Blood Angel) is a German futurepop musical group. It was formed by singer Chris Pohl, also of the groups Terminal Choice, Tumor, and Miss Construction and the owner of the Fear Section label.)
Un:Gott
blutengel.lnk.to/UnGott
www.amazon.de/Gott-Blutengel/dp/B07LDC9MJP/
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2017/10/flavor-of-week-43_20.html


El Tigr3
soundcloud.com/el-tigr3
www.facebook.com/thetigerinspanish/
eltigre.bandcamp.com
( ;D --> Dedicated to the synthwave music scene, a revisionist 80s music style of synthesizers and pulsing beats, and the retrofuturist 80s aesthetic of fast cars, neon lights and chrome.)
The Beast Within
eltigre.bandcamp.com/album/the-beast-within
Itwo4
open.spotify.com/track/1t470UZkep2M8DDCXqIonx?si=S2ciz6rLRYufgMV20c0sJw


Distel
distel.bandcamp.com/
soundcloud.com/distel-nl
www.facebook.com/this.is.distel
( ;D --> dark.NRG | monolithic rave | synth | angst pop; The self-applied tag 'ultra / angst pop' could now be redefined from the original industrial-based minimal electronics into a unique contemporary strain of high energy synth-pop-noir, or 'dark energy'. a quite evocative mixture of excellent subliminal rhythm machine programming, predominant purging keyboard lines and swirling spectral vocals result in twisted dark wave pieces with a catchy approach carrying an overwhelming, coercive energy.)
wapens
ant-zen.bandcamp.com/album/wapens


Morphology
www.facebook.com/morphology.electronics/
soundcloud.com/morphology-electronics
( ;D --> Morphology is a Finnish electro duo, the collaboration of Matti Turunen and Michael Diekmann. The pair has gained international popularity since 2009 with their dark, melodic and skillfully produced electro funk. Turunen and Diekmann have been musically influenced by Detroit techno, electro, electronica, vintage synths and drum machines. In addition to releasing two albums and several EPs and singles Morphology has filled the dance floors in the UK, Scotland, Denmark, Poland, Germany and The Czech Republic as well as the domestic ones. Known for their extremely skillful, soulfully emotional melodies the duo combines elements of techno such as acid and vibrant drums to traditional electro in their own signature style.)
Mind Stealers
morphology.bandcamp.com/album/mind-stealers
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2017/08/flavor-of-week-34.html


Standalone
standalonengp.bandcamp.com/
( ;D --> Standalone is the synthesizer driven new-wave solo project of Steven Seibold. With a collection of tools, handmade metal crashers, shakers, toy piano, vintage synthesizer and drums. Steven Seibold have also founded the industrial-punk band Hate Dept., and a strong presence in the famed industrial-rock group Pigface.)
Standalone
standalonengp.bandcamp.com/album/standalone


Over And Out

Flavor of the Week #8

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Flesh
soundcloud.com/fleshhorrornoisebeat
www.facebook.com/fleshhorrornoisebeat
( ;D --> Underground Witch House from Hamburg-Altona.)
Delirium
open.spotify.com/track/3vc1bMVhyTUChaHTkqpRTH?si=9BOWiienS4acxQAdBJaRqw
Black Sun
youtu.be/aLsJ9i7lnQo
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2017/09/flavor-of-week-37.html


Bjarki
www.facebook.com/bbbbbbjarki/
bjarki-official.bandcamp.com/
( ;D --> Born Bjarki Runar Sigurdarson, 19 September 1990 in Reykjavik, Iceland, Bjarki is an electronic music composer whose tracks range from straightforward bangers to ambient and IDM (Intelligent Dance Music).)
Happy Earthday
bjarki-official.bandcamp.com/
ANa5
bjarki-official.bandcamp.com/track/ana5


Felix Marc
felixmarc.bandcamp.com/
www.felixmarc.de/
www.facebook.com/felixmarcmusic
( ;D --> Is a German singer and songwriter. In addition to his work as a singer of Frozen Plasma and keyboardist at Diorama, he is active as a solo artist.)
Substance
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2017/07/flavor-of-week-29.html


Binalog Frequency
soundcloud.com/binalog-frequency
www.facebook.com/evangelos.zacharopoulos
( ;D --> Written, produced & mastered by electronic producer Vangelis Zacharopoulos.)
On A Mission
binalogproductions.bandcamp.com/album/on-a-mission


Autechre (æ)
autechre.ws/
www.bleep.com/?label=Autechre
autechre.ws/warp.net/records/autechre
( ;D --> Autechre is an English electronic music group consisting of Rob Brown and Sean Booth, both natives of Rochdale, Greater Manchester. Formed in 1987, the duo are one of the most prominent acts signed with Warp Records, a label known for its pioneering electronic music and through which all Autechre albums have been released. While most associated with IDM (intelligent dance music), Booth and Brown are ambivalent in relating their sound to established genres. Their music has exhibited a gradual shift in aesthetic throughout their career, from their earlier work with clear roots in techno, electro and hip hop to later albums that are often considered more experimental in nature, featuring complex patterns of rhythm and subdued melodies. Autechre have also recorded under various pseudonyms. One of the duo's earliest recordings was a 12" under the alias Lego Feet, released in 1991 on Skam Records. The majority of releases by the mysterious "umbrella project" Gescom, most of them on Skam, have been attributed to Booth and Brown, among other artists.)
AE_LIVE.19 NEW SETS
autechre.bleepstores.com/artist/47464-autechre
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2018/04/flavor-of-week-17.html



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