Flavor of the Week #1

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aya 

https://aya-yco.bandcamp.com 

( ;D --> Aya Sinclair, known mononymously as Aya (stylised in all lowercase), is a musician and producer from Huddersfield, England. Aya deliveres Internalised phobias and suppressed traumas, haunt the corridors and golden hours.).) 

hexed! 

https://aya-yco.bandcamp.com/album/hexed 

REZarin 

www.instagram.com/rezarin/ 

( ;D --> The Latvian producer REZarin delivering purring synths, warm textures, and escalating melodies showcase REZarin's distinct ability to balance dancefloor energy with cinematic detail. With a sound that feels both expansive and deeply personal.) 

Androme 

https://spectrummusicnl.bandcamp.com/album/androme 

Chase the Sun 

https://open.spotify.com/album/2OZrojHZenRfa5X7EJBF04 

Echoberyl 

www.echoberyl.com/ 

www.facebook.com/echoberylband/ 

( ;D --> Cecilia and Adriano are passionate storytellers using dark, pulsating music as their primary medium. Over the past year, Echoberyl has carved out a very personal space in the dark scene thanks to tracks with a distinctive personality, powerful sounds and melancholy melodies. Songs full of fascinating, scary, sensual, multifaceted female characters to reflect on the present and on our destiny.)  

The Nightmare Queen EP 

https://echoberyl.bandcamp.com/album/the-nightmare-queen-ep 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2024/07/flavor-of-week-30.html 

Blackbook 

www.blackbookmusic.ch/ 

www.facebook.com/blackbook 

( ;D --> BLACKBOOK is a duo from Swaziland. One half of the duo is responsible for various radio hits which are still among the most played Swiss songs, as well as the title song of a successful international Netflix series. The other half is a musician of several of the best-known acts in Switzerland. His history as a songwriter and producer includes numerous chart successes and number 1 hits.) 

Nobody Loves You

https://blackbookofficial.bandcamp.com/album/nobody-loves-you 

Wait Until Midnight 

https://blackbookofficial.bandcamp.com/album/wait-until-midnight 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2025/08/flavor-of-week-32.html 

OBK 

www.facebook.com/obkoficial/ 

( ;D --> Jordi Sánchez and Miguel Arjona met while practicing athletics in Sant Feliu de Llobregat in the early 1980s. Jordi's admiration for groups like Depeche Mode and other British synth-pop bands led him to compose some songs in English and dream of forming a group. He shared his musical aspirations and interests with Miguel and two other friends, forming the band "Oberkorn," whose name he took from a Depeche Mode instrumental track. Later, the group was reduced to just the two of them, and the name was shortened to "OBK.")

En Berlín 

https://soundcloud.com/obk-official/en-berli-n 

Happy 2026 

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Flavor of the Week #52

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ANNĒ 

www.facebook.com/anne.musicofficialpage 

https://soundcloud.com/annemusicofficial 

( ;D --> ANNĒ’s sound is high-pressure yet full of finesse. She channels decades of influence into something deeply current. Each track embraces the foundation of timeless techno. Loopy, hypnotic and euphoric, while weaving in Detroit-inspired patterns and sharp, modern production. It's a style and sound that is unmistakably hers.) 

Kinesis 

https://renegademethodz.bandcamp.com/album/kinesis 

Cubic 

www.facebook.com/cubicpromo/ 

( ;D --> CUBIC’s sonic identity is often characterized by a good mix of pumping 808 kicks, melodic soundscapes and Düsseldorf percussion all spiced up with hypnotic synths and mind blowing reverb. But the album also reveals other genre explorations like on the track “E”, a pure club hit evoking 90’s trance with a cutting edge à la KÖLSH, the more breakbeat oriented cut “T” and its ORBITAL-like addictive vocal melodic lines, the dark techno pearl “S” and its lush rolling bass lines reinforcing its overall somber atmosphere or yet “G” and its rough and hammering techno body assault evoking GESAFFELSTEIN and other TERENCE FIXMER.)

Back To 808 

https://alfamatrix.bandcamp.com/album/back-to-808 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2023/09/flavor-of-week-39.html 

BlakLight 

www.facebook.com/BlakLightband/ 

www.blaklightband.com/ 

( ;D --> Dark electronic pop based in Los Angeles. Side project of Brian Belknap (Mind Machine) and Adam Collier (Crush333, MDA and Full Frontal Disco).) 

The Haunting of Us 

https://blaklight.bandcamp.com/album/the-haunting-of-us 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2024/01/flavor-of-week-3.html 

Portion Control 

https://portion-control.net/ 

( ;D --> Portion Control from the UK was at the forefront of the upcoming electro industrial scene in the early eighties. Inspired by the punk mentality and the first experimental industrial acts such as Throbbing Gristle, SPK or yet Chris & Cosey, Portion Control themselves influenced electro giants such as Skinny Puppy or yet Front Line Assembly. Portion Control.)

SEED EP3.1 

https://portioncontrol.bandcamp.com/album/seed-ep31 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2020/05/flavor-of-week-22.html 

AD:KEY 

www.facebook.com/ADKEYmusic 

( ;D --> What started in the close family circle of cult Electric Tremor, turned into an explosive ascension towards the top of Electronic Body Music with a very personal AD:KEY identity made of stomping beats, muscled bass lines, addictive melodic electro sequences and catchy powerful male & female vocals in full symbiosis.) 

Der Böse Gott EP 

https://alfamatrix.bandcamp.com/album/der-b-se-gott-ep 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2025/08/flavor-of-week-34.html 

Merry Xmas 

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Flavor of the Week #51

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Extrawelt 

www.extrawelt.com 

https://soundcloud.com/extrawelt-official

www.facebook.com/extrawelt.live/ 

( ;D --> The future of powerful, breathtaking electronic music by Extrawelt (Arne Schaffhausen & Wayan Raabe). Their sound incorporates minimal, progressive and techno, aimed squarely at blowing holes in sound systems. With more than 10 Original Productions and dozens of remixes, Extrawelts’ tank-like driving bass lines, powerful drum beats and blend of menacing, droning, echoing synths are impressing everyone from your 8 year old sister to some of the most prolific DJs in the world including Sasha, John Digweed, James Holden and Sven Vath. Early on Extrawelt’s productions quickly caught the ear of James Holden, who signed their first track to his own Border Community Label. James gave the track a working title “soopertrack” which stuck, and soon became a manifesto for their music, producing and releasing dance floor bomb after bomb, through labels including the Iconic Cocoon label, Traum, Great Stuff and Giant Wheel.) 

Dystortion 

https://extrawelt.bandcamp.com/album/dystortion 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2025/11/flavor-of-week-46.html 

FÏX8:SËD8 

http://fix8sed8.bandcamp.com/ 

www.facebook.com/Fix8Sed8 

( ;D --> FÏX8:SËD8 is a dark electro/EBM music group based out of Frankfurt, Germany. Like many notable dark electronic music projects, FÏX8:SËD8 consists of a solo mastermind by the name of Martin Sane.) 

Octagram (Deluxe Edition) 

https://fix8sed8-de.bandcamp.com/album/octagram-deluxe-edition 

The Unborn EP 

https://fix8sed8-de.bandcamp.com/album/the-unborn 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2025/11/flavor-of-week-48.html 

NOVAkILL

www.facebook.com/novakillindustrial 

( ;D --> NOVAkILL make dark post-punk tinged electro-industrial sounds.)

BeLIEve 

https://reporecords.lnk.to/believe_FA 

Mattr 

https://mattr-music.bandcamp.com/ 

www.facebook.com/mattrmusic/ 

( ;D --> Mattr lands on VLSI with his trademark intricate electronica - fusing epic melody, thrumming bass and stellar sound design.) 

Aisle 

https://mattr-music.bandcamp.com/album/aisle 

 

Dirty Glassez (& N95)

https://instagram.com/dirty_glassez 

https://soundcloud.com/dirtyglassez 

( ;D --> Dirty Glassez  and N95 brings together the best of both worlds, combining a melancholic atmosphere with ghetto tech/footwork aesthetics  Cloudtek reworks the aesthetics of the digital positivity and glossy futurism of the 2000s into a more mature, minor key form. Simple ringtone vaporwave melodies take on a thoughtful sound, shimmering in an ambient haze. Drums borrowed from ghetto genres add a special energy to the music.) 

Cloudtek

https://fuselab.bandcamp.com/album/cloudtek  

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Flavor of the Week #50

Carl Finlow 

www.facebook.com/carl.finlow 

https://carlfinlow.bandcamp.com/ 

https://soundcloud.com/carlfinlow 

( ;D --> Carl has been writing and recording music since 1986 but his first real record involvement was co writing and producing Moments of Inertia by Circle City on Warp in 1993. After a year or so working with Leeds indie band The Bridewells and culminating in an album with them recorded in Roxy Music's studio, he settled down into writing and producing dance music. In 1994 he and DJ Ralph Lawson set up 2020 Vision Records, producing deep house flavours of their own as Wolf and Flow and under his own solo guise of Random Factor, remixing artists from around the globe including Blaze, Josh Wink, Superman Lovers and Fatboy Slim. His solo work is heavily electro tinted, reflective of the Kraftwerk era but owing as much to the likes of Drexciya, Prince, Depeche Mode and Yello. During the mid 90s he teamed up with SCSI founder Daz Quayle and wrote under the name Scarletron and also as Black Labs with two releases on Thomas Heckmann's Trope Recordings around 1995. Working under the names of Random Factor (2020 Vision) Voice Stealer (Subvert) and more recently Silicon Scally (SCSI, Satamile) he has released music on labels including Warp, Fuel, Playhouse, Paper, Trope, Sony, Klang, Arista, Soma, Pagan and Minifunk. He is also a keen remixer in his own right, having reworked tracks by 2 Lone Swordsman, Luke Slater, Swayzak, Dave Tipper and Alexi Delano. 2002 saw the release of the critically acclaimed Mr. Machine album on SCSI recordings. In 2003 the combined EP's on Device Entertainment Recordings were released as the album Electrilogy+ under his real name, Carl A Finlow. Shortly after this release, he moved to Paris.) 

Conspectus 

https://open.spotify.com/album/3YNjFH1jEAzoYdDaRpm7tt 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2025/03/flavor-of-week-12.html 

Qual 

https://qual.bandcamp.com/ 

( ;D --> Septic discharges of cybernetic disease seeps from every orifice. Welcoming a post apocalyptic nuclear winter. With terror and restless chaos cometh the digital age condemned to be digitally transformed. Cometh hybrids, mutated humans a depletion of organics.) 

Where Animals Play 

https://qual.bandcamp.com/album/where-animals-play 

Tech Neck 

https://qual.bandcamp.com/track/teck-neck-2 

Love Zone 

https://qual.bandcamp.com/album/love-zone-2 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2025/03/flavor-of-week-14.html 

Ductape 

www.facebook.com/ductapeofficial/ 

( ;D --> Ductape is a Turkish Post-Punk duo formed by Çağla Güleray (vocals, synthesizer) and Furkan Güleray (guitar,bass,drums). Emerging in 2019, the band blends melancholic melodies with energetic beats andTurkish/English lyrics full of pathos creating a unique sound influenced by 80's Post-Punk and Darkwave.) 

Gölgesiz 

https://ductape.bandcamp.com/track/g-lgesiz 

Fine 

https://ductape.bandcamp.com/track/fine 

Aphex Twin / user18081971 

http://aphextwin.warp.net/ 

http://twitter.com/AphexTwin 

( ;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. Aphex Twin's album Selected Ambient Works 85-92 was called the best album of the 1990s by FACT Magazine.) Zahl am1 live track 

https://soundcloud.com/user18081971/zahl-am1-live-track-1 

Zahl am1 live track 1c f760m1 unfinshd 

https://soundcloud.com/user18081971/zahl-am1-live-track-1c-f760m1 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2024/11/flavor-of-week-47.html 

X-Marks the Pedwalk 

www.facebook.com/xmarksthepedwalk 

www.xmtp.de 

( ;D --> Founded by Sevren Ni-Arb and Regan Eracs, the German industrial band X Marks the Pedwalk expanded upon the Euro-synth pop of the '80s with harsher electronic rhythms and alternative themes.) 

Insomnia 

https://xmarksthepedwalk.bandcamp.com/album/insomnia 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2023/11/flavor-of-week-45.html 

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Flavor of the Week #49

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Gatekeeper 

https://www.a-d-r.net/ 

( ;D --> Gatekeeper has created its own morbidly deranged discotheque, a vivid flight of fancy in which the conventions of techno, Chicago house, italo-disco and industrial are transfigured into one phantasmagorical adventure, populated by hushed screams, Gregorian dungeon chants and cinematic washes of mammoth sound.) 

Wrong Planet 

https://gatekeeper-fm.bandcamp.com/album/wrong-planet 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2012/03/flavor-of-week-10.html 

Magnetic Skies 

www.facebook.com/magneticskies 

( ;D --> Synth Pop/New Wave, from the UK. Magnetic Skies are Simon Kent (vocals), Jo Womar (keyboards), Lenin Alegria (drums).) 

Fragments 

https://magneticskies.bandcamp.com/album/fragments 

EdgarFilms 

www.qobuz.com/fr-fr/interpreter/edgarfilms/23405002

( ;D --> EdgarFilms releases electronic and space-themed music.) 

Galactic North 

https://open.spotify.com/album/0Nuatevg9V3i78pHGUqAEx 

Midnight Chronicles 

https://play.anghami.com/album/1066955351 

Marc George 

www.instagram.com/marcgeorgemusic/ 

( ;D --> Imagine "Officium“'s the Hilliard Ensemble being in the same room with Brian Eno and Enigma: The Second pre-release from the "INNER SANTUM" album combines all these influences and adds the signature sounds from Blank & Jones and Marc George. Perfect headphone music for this winter.) 

Santum III (Sanctus) Blank & Jones https://open.spotify.com/album/0IxopzZGXtQHVgp0y2ggqD 

Inner Sanctum (December 5th) 

https://save-it.cc/soundcolours/kyrie

Alan R. Pearlman Foundation 

https://alanrpearlmanfoundation.org 

( ;D --> Alan Pearlman was destined to be an engineer since the day he was born. His father designed movie theater projectors and his grandfather made parts for phonograph machines. A fascination with sound occupied his interest from an early age. As a child he built amateur radios and in 1948, as a student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, he wrote a paper on electronic music in which he said: “The electronic instrument’s value is chiefly as a novelty. With greater attention on the part of the engineer to the needs of the musician, the day may not be too remote when the electronic instrument may take its place as a versatile, powerful, and expressive instrument.) 

Soul Of the Machine: A Celebration of the Life & Legacy of ARP founder Alan R. Pearlman 

https://alanrpearlmanfoundation.bandcamp.com/album/soul-of-the-machine-a-celebration-of-the-life-legacy-of-arp-founder-alan-r-pearlman 

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Flavor of the Week #48

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FÏX8:SËD8 

http://fix8sed8.bandcamp.com/ 

www.facebook.com/Fix8Sed8 

( ;D --> FÏX8:SËD8 is a dark electro/EBM music group based out of Frankfurt, Germany. Like many notable dark electronic music projects, FÏX8:SËD8 consists of a solo mastermind by the name of Martin Sane.) 

Octagram 

https://fix8sed8-de.bandcamp.com/album/octagram 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2024/11/flavor-of-week-47.html 

Nightcrawler 

www.nightcrawlermusic.com 

( ;D --> Synthwave and Darksynth are the foundations of Nightcrawler’s sound universe, heavily influenced by horror soundtracks and sci-fi movies, elements blended with electronic beats and a dark atmosphere.) 

Malevolent Forces 

https://nightcrawler.bandcamp.com/album/malevolent-forces 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2024/03/flavor-of-week-13.html 

Automelodi 

www.facebook.com/automelodimusic 

https://automelodi.com 

( ;D --> Musically active since the mid 90s, Xavier Paradis has been working as a singer-songwriter – initially under the pseudonym Arnaud Lazlaud, then as Automelodi – and as a music producer for his own projects as well as for a number of other artists.) 

Cavallo EP 

https://automelodi.bandcamp.com/album/cavallo-ep 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2013/10/flavor-of-week-41.html 

Poltergeist 

www.facebook.com/PoltergeistElectroMusic/ 

( ;D --> Poltergeist has this strange power of attraction held by these personalities with an icy and mysterious aura. As soon as Ari Girard (aka Poltergeist) appears, something happens, he captures the light and strikes the spirits.) 

Noise Club 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vevsUMMJGVM 

Noie Club EP 

https://open.spotify.com/album/7f3ZSnvO84XelLSXG3YcvV 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2022/07/flavor-of-week-29.html 

The Residents 

www.residents.com 

www.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Residents 

( ;D --> Over the course of a recording career spanning several decades, the Residents remained a riddle of Sphinx-like proportions; cloaking their lives and music in a haze of willful obscurity, the band's members never identified themselves by name, always appearing in public in disguise -- usually tuxedos, top hats and giant eyeball masks -- and refusing to grant media interviews. Drawing inspiration from the likes of fellow innovators including Harry Partch, Sun Ra, and Captain Beefheart, the Residents channelled the breadth of American music into their idiosyncratic, satiric vision, their mercurial blend of electronics, distortion, avant-jazz, classical symphonies and gratingly nasal vocals reinterpreting everyone from John Philip Sousa to James Brown while simultaneously expanding the boundaries of theatrical performance and multimedia interaction.) 

I am Resident 

www.residents.com/iamaresident/ 

( ;D --> The Residents, long known as one of the most mysterious and reclusive bands of all time, are pleased to announce a new chapter in their lengthy and legendary career. A new door is opening and the name on that door is YOU! Teaming up with PledgeMusic, the group is not just releasing a new album - not just TWO NEW ALBUMS - but by inviting their fans to participate, they’re introducing a completely new idea: I AM A RESIDENT! After joining the I AM A RESIDENT! PledgeMusic campaign, fans will cross the line between passive consumption and active participation. Choose any song from The Residents’ vast catalog, record your own version and submit it. The Residents and their fans will then vote on their favorites which will will be included as part of the I AM A RESIDENT! album.) www.instagram.com/p/BkBGFsNlFWX/ 

Leftovers (1970-1988) 2-CD Compilation 

https://soundcloud.com/the-residents/sets/leftovers-1970-1988 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2018/06/flavor-of-week-25.html 

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Flavor of the Week #47

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Clark (Chris Clark) 

http://throttleclark.com/clark/ 

www.facebook.com/throttleclark 

http://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).) 

Steep Stims 

https://clark.bandcamp.com/album/steep-stims 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2024/09/flavor-of-week-38.html 

Fragrance 

www.facebook.com/thisisfragrance/ 

http://soundcloud.com/thisisfragrance 

( ;D --> Fragrance. is a dark & dreamy synthpop project of Matthieu Roche from Paris.) 

Gone, Vanished 

https://soundcloud.com/thisisfragrance/gone-vanished 

Kintsugi 

https://fragrancemusic.bandcamp.com/album/kintsugi 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2023/06/flavor-of-week-26.html 

Pertubator 

www.facebook.com/Perturbator 

http://perturbator.bandcamp.com/ 

( ;D --> "The legend says he's half human, half synthesizer..." I make Dark and Retrofuturistic music inspired by the 80's. Performed, produced and mastered by James “Perturbator” Kent.)

Age of Aquarius 

https://perturbator.bandcamp.com/album/age-of-aquarius 

See also:

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2021/06/flavor-of-week-24.html 

Sound Synthesis 

https://soundcloud.com/sound-synthesis-official 

https://eudemonia.bandcamp.com 

( ;D --> The Maltese machine funk specialist himself Keith Farrugia is back once more with yet more of his impeccable electro business as Sound Synthesis. This time the prolific producer is shoring up on Burnski's Infiltrate label with four cool and deadly cuts which build on his previous drops for 20:20 Vision, Furthur Electronix, Orbital Mechanics and more besides. From the nervy sci-fi flex of 'Motor Space Maps' to the playful fun n' games of 'Back In Time', Farrugia knows exactly what he's doing within the electro blueprint, and his tracks are reliably punchy warm - a true master at work.) 

Refraction (Sound Synthesis Remix) 

https://eudemonia.bandcamp.com/track/refraction-sound-synthesis-remix 

Schematics LP 

https://soundsynthesis.bandcamp.com/album/schematics-lp 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2024/09/flavor-of-week-37.html 

Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble Of Shadows 

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.) 

DEA MUTÁRION 

https://soporaeternus.bandcamp.com/album/dea-mut-rion-original-motion-picture-soundtrack-2025 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2023/12/flavor-of-week-52.html 

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