Flavor of the week #53

Capsula
www.myspace.com/dreamcapsula
www.dreamcapsula.com
( ;D --> Capsula's sound can best be described thus: psychedelic stretching, squelching, and scratching sounds floating and spinning in all conceivable directions.)
Sense of a Drop
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Se also; http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/05/flavor-of-week-22.html

Plaid
www.plaid.co.uk
Scintilli
( ;D --> "We continue to play some of the material destined for our next album live but we still have no release date. Thanks for the many emails of support and frustration. We'll be posting more details here as we have them").
http://forum.watmm.com/topic/38453-scintilli-out-in-09
Meanwhile;
Warp20 (Unheard)
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Dett
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Ryoji Ikeda
www.myspace.com/ryojiikeda
www.ryojiikeda.com
( ;D --> Ryoji Ikeda (born 1966 in Gifu, Japan) is a Japanese sound artist who lives and works in New York City. Sometimes harsh, sometimes remarkably gentle, Ikeda's music is concerned primarily with sound in a variety of "raw" states, such as sine tones and noise, often using frequencies at the edges of the range of human hearing.)
Test Pattern
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Sieben
www.myspace.com/matthowden7
www.matthowden.com
As They Should Sound
www.matthowden.com/orderf.html
( ;D --> This might be a collection of Sieben mastermind Matt Howden's own favorites, but it's hardly your standard greatest hits collection. Less a historical archive than a living, breathing thing, it's a collection of tracks rearranged to fit Howden's live set-up: nothing but voice and violin, artfully played and looped into layers to create the illusion of a full band.)
Desire Rites
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Herrmann & Kleine
www.christiankleine.com
( ;D --> Thaddi Herrmann (ex-Sonic Subjunkies) and Christian Kleine have been working together since 1999, joining forces to produce the most introspective and emotional music that either has been involved with. With influences ranging from hip-hop to synth pop to the blurry atmospherics of early '90s shoegaze bands like Slowdive and Pale Saints, the two make songs that are too pop to be strictly categorized as IDM.)
Our Noise
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Merry X-Mas

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Flavor of the week #52

Julien Hox & DiDark
www.myspace.com/dihox
www.myspace.com/didarkmusic
http://www.myspace.com/julienhox
( ;D --> Excellent Techno & Progresive House from France.)
Double Vision EP
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Misceo Genera
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B-Complex
www.myspace.com/bcomplexdnb
( ;D --> Fresh & catchy electronic drum n bass & liquid funk from Slovakia.)
Beautiful Lies
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzuMUrm2G10&feature=related

Grendel
www.myspace.com/grendel
( ;D --> Dutch adrenaline flowing EBM with Distorted vocals, acidic synth lines, pummeling bass lines, and jagged melodies :). )
A Change Through Destruction
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Harsh Generation
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Liquid Divine
www.liquiddivine.de
www.myspace.com/liquiddivine
( ;D --> Liquid Divine arose in 2000 as the project of its two members Christian Fritzsche and Guido Stoye. They successfully combine influences of several music directions, such as Techno, IDM, Electro and Ambient to an unique and recognizable sound, relating a bit to Mind in a box.)
Autophobia
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Black Box
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Filip Le Frick
www.myspace.com/filiplefrickmusic
( ;D --> Swedish House / Afro-beat.)
Thango
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Tweek /Carl Johan Remix)
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Flavor of the week #51

Oliver Koletzki
www.oliver-koletzki.de
www.myspace.com/koletzki
( ;D --> Originally born in the West German town of Braunschweig and with roots in German hip hop, Oliver Koletzki later moved to Berlin to study music and began making electronic music. It was while hanging out at Berlin's Watergate club that the inspiration for his track 'Der Mückenschwarm' came upon him. Hammered by everyone from Sven Vath to Pete Tong the release was later named "Best Track" in the 2005 Reader's Poll of Germany's Groove Magazine and has since been remixed by Dominik Eulberg and Pig & Dan.)
Großstadtmärchen remixed
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Großstadtmärchen
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Oliver Koletzki feat Pyur - these habits
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdZKhsk01kc

Heimataerde
www.myspace.com/heimataerde
www.heimataerde.de
Assassin - Dancer of the dark (Dark Dance)
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( ;D -->With their new EP Dark Dance Heimataerde launch a new massive clubhit made for the dancefloors all around the planet!
A dark music journey to shorten the time until Unwesen the fourth fulltime album by Heimataerde will be released.
Dark and unleashed Dark Dance combines harsh electrobeats, bagpipes and a massive guitar thunderstorm!)

Cut Copy
www.cutcopy.net
www.myspace.com/cutcopy
( ;D --> Australian indie electronic trio Cut Copy take many of their cues from contemporaries like Air, Daft Punk, and LCD Soundsystem, but with a distinctly pop sensibility that draws on classic AM radio pop singles from the 1970s and '80s, with elements of vintage disco and synth pop. The delicate popsound of Cut Copy relates to a smoth mixture of artists like Prefab Sprout, The Egg, China Crises, The Human Leauge, New Order, Roxy Music and The Cure, all topped of with a spice of Swayzak. - Not Bad at all.. :) ).
In Ghost Colours
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Salm (Something a la mode)
www.myspace.com/somethingalamode
www.yellowprod.fr/somethingalamode
( ;D --> Thomas Roussel and Yannick Grandjean are SomethingALaMode, classical musicians nurtured in club culture, musicians just as thrilled by post-romantics such as Chostakovitch, Stravinsky and Fauré among others as by Daft Punk’s «Homework» or Mirwayheir album mixed by Arnaud Rebotini the dark prince of the dark touch to be released with Yellow, the historic label of electronic music.)
Something a la mode
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Adrian Crowley
www.myspace.com/adriancrowley
www.adriancrowley.com
( ;D --> Adrian Crowley is an Irish singer/songwriter based in Dublin. Crowley's music is steeped in the popular folk tradition of the 1970s, calling to mind storytelling songwriters such as Leonard Cohen and Nick Drake with a strong, often central emphasis on lyrics. Increasingly, as his career has progressed, his music has become informed by electronic music; this influence that has been reinforced by his ongoing relationship with producer Stephen Shannon of Dublin "folktronica" act Halfset, while his reputation as a multi-instrumentalist has led him to employ a vast array of acoustic instruments and guitar pedals.)
Season Of Sparks
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Long Distance Swimmer
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Flavor of the week #50

SoiSong
www.myspace.com/soisong
http://soisong.com
( ;D --> Coil and Throbbing Gristle founder Peter Christopherson latest musical project, SoiSong is a collaborative effort between himself and longtime associate Ivan Pavlov, who also records under the moniker COH. SoiSong combines Ivan's uncompromisingly-visceral computer based music with Sleazy's decadent, dark and whimsical approach to artificial vocals and 'South Seas' instrumentation'.)
miS2u
http://soisong.com/releases/miS2u
Soisong Memory box #1
http://blog.califaudio.com/2008/04/soisong-memory-box-1.html
xaj3z
http://soisong.greedbag.com/buy/xaj3z-0
Soisong EP
http://soisong.greedbag.com/buy/soisong-ep

Anthony Rother
www.myspace.com/anthonyrother
www.anthony-rother.com
( ;D --> Anthony Rother is an electro-techno producer from Germany who rose to prominence in the mid-'90s on the label Kanzleramt before founding numerous labels of his own, most notably Psi49net and Datapunk. Influenced primarily by Kraftwerk and Detroit techno.)
Fuse Presents: Anthony Rother
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My Name Is Beuys von Telekraft
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Popkiller
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Biomechanik HQ
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AUR6lf-dk4&feature=player_embedded
Se also: http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2008/02/flavor-of-week-10.html

This Immortal Coil
www.myspace.com/thisimmortalcoilthedarkageoflove
The Dark Age of Love
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( ;D --> Interesting tribute project covering a repertoire of excellent Coil songs. The project Manager Stéphane Grégoire got the inspiration from the Gothic Dream Pop project "This Mortal Coil", which started in the eighties by the English label 4AD. Its label manager had then grouped some of its own artists together in order to play some standards of rock and pop music. The difference is that “This Immortal Coil” has taken an almost reverse approach with classical artists who hardly knew Coil participating in the work. "The most extra-ordinary, beautiful, and moving, re-interpretations of Coil I have ever heard!" Peter Christopherson.)
Coil
www.brainwashed.com/coil
www.myspace.com/originalcoiluk
This Mortal Coil
www.myspace.com/tmcoil (not official)

Dee Green
www.myspace.com/djdeegreen
( ;D --> Dee Green Aka FDK/Refused, Born Capricorn in Sicily, in the early 80s he discovered that he had a special feeling for music thanks to his Dad albums of the late 70s funk and soul with the new 80s. 20 years passed by and Dee still looking ahead with new ideas combined with his roots. Today Dee is concentrating on producing his most personal and intimate vision of electronic dance music; profound techno and very synthetic techno house.)
Dakar
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Always / Ghost Break
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Govinda
www.myspace.com/govindamusic
www.govindamusic.com
( ;D --> Govinda fuses beautifully spooky melodies inspired from across the planet with sexy beats and crunchy, ambient atmosphere. Govinda has played with Thievery Corporation, DJ Spooky and Cheb I Sabbah and been featured in compilations such as Buddha Bar II, Asian Travels II, and Nirvana Lounge.)
Can't Forget The Day (D:Fuse & Hiratzka remixes)
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Se also: http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/02/flavor-of-week-07.html

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Flavor of the week #49

Kraftwerk
www.kraftwerk.com
The Catalogue
( ;D --> The eight CD box set containing digitally remastered classic albums from the innovative Electronic band:
Autobahn (1974)
Radio-Activity (1975)
Trans Europe Express (1977)
The Man Machine (1978)
Computer World (1981)
Techno-Pop (AKA Electric Cafe, 1986)
The Mix (1991)
Tour De France (2003)
Each CD is housed in a miniature LP CD wallet with inner sleeves and expanded artwork featuring previously unreleased photos. 68 tracks.)
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( ;D -->Impressive, Excellent & Sublime collection :). Digitally mastered & enhanced. Neat packaged with awesome booklets. Luscious and minimal Design, especially the soft but firm wrapping material that shelter the 8 eminent CDs, Fits like a glove. Kraftwerk's repertoire also fits delicately through the ages.. It's almost that the collection was created just to match the history of music.. sob, sob ;). Well I believe that it can't get any more disciplined and tasteful than this. Kraftwerk are indeed the Gods of modern music, architects of pure & stringent tunes.)

Monolake / Robert Henke
www.monolake.de
( ;D --> Monolake is among the most acclaimed artists associated with the Berlin-based Basic Channel/Chain Reaction label group, run by Moritz "Maurizio" von Oswald and home to such champions of minimalist austerity as Vainqueur, Substance, and (initially) Porter Ricks. Consisting of Robert Henke and Gerhard Behles.)
Silence
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Robert Henke & Christopher Bauder - atom installation
www.monolake.de/concerts/atom.html
( ;D --> The music for the performance has been reworked and made into a CD and vinyl album release):
The Atom/Document CD
http://www.monolake.de/releases/icm-07.html

Exium
www.myspace.com/exiumlive
www.exium-music.com/eng.htm (Excellent background Ambient track; Musica De Fondo?)
( ;D --> Exium are a techno collective from Gijón, Spain.)
Seleccion Natural: Part 2
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The Omega Man
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Kill All Lifeforms EP
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Annie Mac
www.myspace.com/anniemac16
www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/anniemac
(;D --> Annie Mac is a DJ and television presenter who hosts an eponymous electronic dance music show on BBC Radio 1 in the United Kingdom.)
Annie Mac Presents
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Muslimgauze
www.muslimgauze.org
( ;D --> Muslimgauze was a music project of Bryn Jones (17 June 1961–14 January 1999), a prolific British ethnic electronica and experimental musician, influenced by conflicts in the Muslim world. Bryn Jones was not a practicing Muslim and he never went to the Middle East. The experimental/noise underground increased in visibility during the late '90s, with Muslimgauze productions gradually encompassing heavier beats and a style close in execution to post-industrial beat-heads Techno Animal, Download and Scorn. The Muslimgauze project ended tragically in 1999 when Jones died suddenly of a rare blood disease.)
Madrass Sitar Burner
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Flavor of the week #48

CJ Bolland
www.myspace.com/cjbolland
500 Euro Cocktail
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( ;D --> CJ Bolland presents his new studio album: "500 EURO COCKTAIL" as part of his '20/20' series representing 20 new tracks to celebrate CJ’s 20 years of producing some of the most influential Dance Anthems.)
Se also: http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/01/flavor-of-week-2.html

Alphatronic
www.myspace.com/alphatronicinzec
www.alphatronic.net
( ;D --> Electronica at its best; Alphatronic has brought his wheels, controllers, and buttons to fit the sounds into the perfect spots. The resulting songs are very visual; a soundtrack for the internal eye. Western-scenarios come up, asian tee-shops, happily bustling around kids, the sometimes hectic everyday life and dreamy moments just before waking up. This music is equally for the back- and the foreground, it doesn't scream for attention. But if one takes the time to listen closely, far away places come into vision.)
Sonic Landscapes
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Strotter Inst.
www.myspace.com/strotterinst
www.strotter.org
( ;D --> After more than ten years of making music with turntables, tapes and loops the swiss based musician, artist, performer and architect Christoph Hess started in 1998 the project Strotter Inst. to concentrate just on the manipulation of turntables not using any records or sounds made by someone or something else.)
Bolzplatz
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( ;D --> Bolzplatz – a green field, a place somewhere behind an old industrial building, beside an acher, in the backyard of an agglo. No-man’s-land for kids skipping school, to kick, move, run, play and foul. Near darkness for dealers, bored teenagers, village-youth with their mopeds. Everything is in its own rhythm – in the grass, the puddles, on broken asphalt, under clear sky. Some cranes in the background, fences, a cornfield. On the new release “Bolzplatz” at Everstrecords Strotter Inst. is generating his typical dense rhythm-structures. This time a little bit quicker, more complex and multilayered.)

Atomic Skunk
www.myspace.com/atomicskunktunes
www.atomicskunk.com
( ;D --> San Francisco Bay Area based electronic musician, Rich Brodsky aka Atomic Skunk, weaves together ambient field recordings, lush pads, and organic acoustic instruments with high-tech arpeggiated synths, glitchy, chaotic rhythms, and haunting melodies to create a unique psychedelic ambient soundscape.)
Binary Scenes
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Man With No Name
www.myspace.com/martinfreeland
www.manwithnoname.co.uk
Interstate Highway
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( ;D --> M.W.N.N. was one of the defining artists in the goa scene since its beginning. He started producing techno in 1990 but as trance came along he switched to this style. From his very first (trance) production he soon became popular for his melodic style of trance, with his immediately recognisable sound suiting the hardcore psy heads and the more laid back general trance listener. He also did tons of remix work; perhaps the most famous being the remix of Moonraker originally from Disco Volante. M.W.N.N will always remain a legend for those old enough to remember him since the early days of goa.)
Azymuth
www.youtube.com/watch?v=alS1tlsu7EU

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Flavor of the week #47

Vince Watson
www.myspace.com/vincewatson
www.vincewatson.com
( ;D --> The way Vince Watson manipulates the keyboards, bringing complex multi-chords, dense & fully melodic patches to the contemporary dance music is simply amazing. It makes you feel like a small grain in a deep, huge atmosphere, condensed among the melodies, emotion and rhythms, which by the way seem to fit perfectly in the ears of the intense listeners.)
Vince Watson "A Very Different World (Funk D'Void Epic Remix)"
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My Desire
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The eMotion Sequence
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Ethereal EP
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Renaissance EP
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Sublimina
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Funk D'Void
www.myspace.com/funkdvoid
www.funkdvoid.com
www.somarecords.com
( ;D --> Lars Sandberg AKA Funk D'Void, is a DJ and producer who has been at the forefront of the global electronic music scene since the mid-90s.)
Sci-Fi Hi-Fi
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Funk D'Void Vs Chicco Secci
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A Raven Wheeling Overhead by Funk D'Void & Sian
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Se also: http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/10/flavor-of-week-41.html

Deafcenter
www.myspace.com/deafcenter
( ;D --> Inspired by old silent 8mm film reels, the historical architecture around them and the call of the alluring Norwegian landscape, the duo set out armed with microphones to record whatever they could to capture these feelings. Sounds from battered old records, cash registers, broken machines and a half-dead piano were all blended into the mix to add a warm, homely depth to the recordings. These sounds are most evident in the track Loft, where knocks and wooden creaks give an almost claustrophobic feel to the music. Again on The Clearing a subtle field recording gives the track a rich and involving background and helps build up the mysterious aura before launching a skewed 1930s circus-waltz.)
Dakota Suite - Deaf Center Remix
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( ;D --> Not so much a remix album as a remake of Dakota Suite's The End Of Trying long-player, reconstructed according to the original record's tracklisting with the help of a list of artists who might be said to represent a kind of Boomkat in-house favourites list: Peter Broderick, Machinefabriek, Arve Henriksen, Deaf Center & The Boats.)
Pale Ravine
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( ;D --> After the critical acclaim of their Neon City EP, Pale Ravine is the long awaited full-length realization of Erik Skodvin and Otto Totlands musical ideals. Taking up where Neon City left off with its epic sound collages and textural soundscapes, Pale Ravine manages to provide a sound altogether more Lynchian and grimly cinematic. Using influences from further back in their lives, the two Norwegian musicians have looked deep into their own family histories to piece together a dusty and nostalgic epic.)
Neon City
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Dakota Suite
www.myspace.com/dakotasuite
www.dakotasuite.com
( ;D --> The loosely configured lineup of Leeds-based Dakota Suite is centered around the group's talented frontman, singer/guitarist Chris Hooson; the only other firm member of the group is producer Richard Formby -- formerly a collaborator with Spaceman 3, the Telescopes, and Jazz Butcher -- who handles occasional guitar chores and various other instrumentation, including harmonium, Fender Rhodes, lap steel, bowed double bass, and tape effects. Various other members have included David Buxton on bass guitar and pedal steel; John Sheppard on drums; Peter Haslam on piano; and Colin Dunkley, who also plays the piano, provides the strings, and co-writes much of the group's instrumentals. Hooson -- whose vocal style is often compared to Red House Painters' Mark Kozelek, Spain's Josh Haden, and Mark Eitzel -- often bases his songs on haunting personal experiences; he attempted suicide in late 1995.)
The End of Trying
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Quantec
www.myspace.com/quantec
www.svenschienhammer.de
( ;D --> Sven Schienhammer's Quantec project comes with the very highest pedigree and a stamp of quality that followers of Sven Weisemann, Deepchord, Murmur and the like will find impossible to ignore. "Realm Of Possibilities" opens the twelve with a 10 minute reverb-drenched epic, singular synths and an edgy bassline evoking classic Chain Reaction material, with a widescreen quality lending proceedings a more contemporary sheen.)
Cauldron Subsidence
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Flavor of the week #46

Paul Kalkbrenner
www.myspace.com/paulkalkbrenner
( ;D --> Although being one of BPitch_Control's oldest members and most productive, err, producer, Paul Kalkbrenner always kept a low profile, never reaching the iconic status of label’s boss Ellen Allien or the relative success of label mates such as Smash TV, Sascha Funke or Tok Tok (their ‘Missy Queen’s Gonna Die’ with Soffy O. has got to be the label’s most instantly recognizable track, and one of electroclash’s sole highlights). After three albums for the Berlin-based label (‘Superimpose’, ‘Zeit’, and ‘Self’, all released between 2001 and 2004), Kalkbrenner is now back with ‘Reworks’, a collection of, well, reworks of some of his well-known or more obscure tracks. And, strangely enough, this could be his most coherent album to date.)
Berlin Calling Soundtrack
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Berlin Calling Vol. 1
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ReWorks [EP]
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absynthe
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWQRWBj5GxU&feature=player_embedded#

M-Seven
www.myspace.com/msevenmusic
( ;D --> Drifting instrumental compositions for your imagination. Cinematic atmospheric soundscapes combined with mantra downtempo rhythms and shifting sequences of flight. A fusion of electronic, ambient and experimental sounds.)
Stimulus
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Activate
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Electronic Flip & Contained
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rcppai447Kc&feature=related

Tristan Boyle
www.myspace.com/tristanboyle
Future Fabric
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( ;D --> Future Fabric is the debut album from Australian producer Tristan Boyle. With elements from jazz, techno, progressive trance, this album delivers a very tasteful eclecticism that has been described as "the business".)
Interior Design
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Bush Food --> Neshika Bavakasha
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Marconi Union
www.myspace.com/marconiunion
( ;D --> Marconi Union is a reclusive electronic duo from Manchester, England. Their sound has been described as "a post rock cinematic orchestra." Distance, their first U.S. release, is unique, individual and timeless, fusing acoustic sounds, strings and pianos with electronica, post-rock guitars and even occasional nods towards jazz and dub. Described by the band as "a soundtrack to a film that has not yet been made.)
Distance
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Lustmord
www.myspace.com/lustmord
www.lustmord.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.)
Other
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Other Dub
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Flavor of the week #45

Karl Johan
www.myspace.com/karljohanmusic
( ;D --> Karl Johan is the new Swedish wonder boy of electronic music. In less than a year he has gone from handing out demos at Germany’s Fusion festival to completing his self-titled debut album for Spiral Trax. In the meantime he has provided slamming remixes and singles for labels such as Tribal Vision, Spiral Trax and Plastik Park, gaining support from DJs such as Jerome Isma-ae, D-Nox, Glenn Morrison, Tocadisco, Hernan Cattaneo, James Harcourt, Eddie Halliwell, Fergie, 16bitlolitas, Meat Katie, Gareth Emery, Slater, Pena, Nick Warren, Tim Davison, Jamie Stevens, Parham and Flash Brothers, as well as reaching a top position in Beatport’s Progressive House Chart. Looking back at the last twelve months it is amazing to have been able to witness Karl Johan’s progression into a fully-fledged producer defining his own unique style of progressive- and tech-house with a tough techy edge.)
Karl Johan (CompactStick)
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Didrapest
www.myspace.com/didrapest
( ;D --> Hanan Ben Armon aka Didrapest music style maintaining a solid Psychedelic Trance, fussed carefully with influence from Goa Trance, exciting atmosphere and agressive and uplifting beats, using emotions into the clear and sharp production.)
Point Therapy
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Tadeo
www.myspace.com/cyclicaltracks
( ;D --> Tadeo, whose real name is Miguel Sar has been regularly putting out singles, EPs, and LPs for the past four or five years, but with Contacto, he finally unearths his sound and style, setting himself apart from the ever-growing minimal techno army.
Sar's technique and musical sensibilities are reminiscent of early techno innovators'?Christian Vogel, Neil Landstrum, Plastikman, Jeff Mills?but he adds in a special high-tech elasticity and incorporates some of the most bizarre syncopated rhythms.)
Contacto
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Supermayer
www.myspace.com/supermayer
( ;D --> Supermayer is Michael Mayer & Superpitcher, easily Kompakt's most recognizable faces. The only point of criticism with Michael Mayer is that he doesn't release enough of his own productions. One of the key figures of Cologne, Germany's electronic music scene, Mayer also has durable reputations as a remixer, DJ, and producer, and has released a small handful of his own singles on Kompakt -- a label he helps run with founder Wolfgang Voigt -- and Kompakt-related labels like New Trance Atlantic (NTA) and Kreisel 99.)
Hearts A Mess - Supermayer Supermess Mix
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Save the World
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Terrorfakt
www.myspace.com/terrorfakt
www.terrorfakt.com
( ;D --> Acidic and harsh, TERRORFAKT's music is unavoidable. The fast paced and heavy beats bite at the eardrums and reverberate through the body, blurring one's vision and rapidly transporting them to another world.)
Reevolution
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Flavor of the week #44

Flying Lotus
www.myspace.com/flyinglotus
( ;D --> A Coltrane through and through, Flying Lotus is the great-nephew of Alice Coltrane and a cousin of Ravi Coltrane. He is also a genuine laptop musician, with his entire set-up in the virtual world of his computer. 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.)
Los Angeles
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Hyperdub Records ( Burial, Kode9, Darkstar etc.)
www.myspace.com/hyperdub
www.hyperdub.net
( ;D --> Hyperdub is a London-based record label, founded and run by Steve Goodman, which so far has specialised in releasing Dubstep and variants of the genre.)
5: Five Years of Hyperdub
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Younger brother
www.myspace.com/youngerbrothertwisted
( ;D --> Trance duo Younger Brother consists of producers Simon Posford and Benji Vaughan. Posford's significant involvements prior to the partnership included Shpongle and Hallucinogen, while Vaughan had notched releases under the Prometheus alias.)
Last Days Of Gravity
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Flock of Bleeps
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Mnemonic
www.myspace.com/mnemonicmusic
( ;D --> Menmonic’s blend of atmospheric EBM is delivered by Sebastian Schutz and Michael Belletz)
Monoculture
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( ;D --> Balancing their influences with their own sound, Mnemonic is never derivative and the songwriting is distinctly their own. Keyboards drip cold, glossy melodies alongside stacked layers of broken bit beats while dynamic changes of time and melody enhance the flow of each track. With Monokultur, Memonic have created an album that takes a well-established genre, personalizes it, and then pushes it forward.)

Cell
(Lönnå, thanks for the tip ;) )
www.myspace.com/alexscheffer
( ;D --> Cell AKA Alex Scheffer is a Ambient/downbeat/chillout artist from Paris.)Live at Glade Festival 2005
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Phonic Peace
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Live at Kumharas - Ibiza
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Under Your Mind
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyfpt4LpNAA&feature=related

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Flavor of the week #43

Optimo
www.myspace.com/optimoespacio
www.optimo.co.uk
( ;D --> Optimo refers both to the Glaswegian DJ duo of J.D. Twitch and J.G. Wilkes and, as Optimo Espacio, to the club night they've run in their native city since 1997. Twitch (born Keith McIvor) and Wilkes are the next generation of the cross-pollination that flowered at the Hacienda in the Madchester era circa 1988 and 1989, when it suddenly became socially acceptable to like both indie guitar pop and electronic dance genres like house and hi-NRG disco. Optimo expand the parameters even further in their mixes, fusing obscure 1960s psychedelia, '70s and '80s post-punk.)
Sleepwalk
( ;D --> !!! Nurse With Wound - Funeral Music For Perez Prado, Coil - A Cold Cell in Bangkok (Exclusive mix by Peter Christopherson), Tuxedomoon - In a Manner of Speaking & Chris and Cosey - Sweet Surprise!!!)
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( ;D --> JD Twitch and JG Wilkes will once again be testing the outer limits of the DJ mix by taking in people as varied as Coil, Nurse With Wound, Lee Hazlewood, Duke Ellington and forgotten folkie Karen Dalton. In fact, the closest thing to actual "dance music" is a track from Arthur Russell and ambient music from Cluster and Eno, Moebius and Roedelius. Then again, that's exactly the sort of thing that Optimo has been doing each Sunday at their celebrated Sub Club night.)
In Order to Edit
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Psyche Out
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Walkabout
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How to Kill the DJ, Pt. 2
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Shpongle
www.myspace.com/therealshpongle
www.twistedmusic.com/artists/shpongle
www.shpongle.com / Twisted records ( ;D --> streaming samples of the new album.)
( ;D --> Simon Posford and Raja Ram are Shpongle, an ambient techno/trance project formed in 1996 after the pair viewed a solar eclipse in India. The two went into the studio and attempted to duplicate the experience in sonic form, and the result was a 20-minute track, "...And the Day Turned to Night," which was featured on a Twisted label compilation titled Eclipse.)
Ineffable Mysteries From Shpongleland (release on November 28)
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(;D --> After three groundbreaking albums over the course of a decade, the internationally acclaimed electronica project Shpongle has returned from what fans feared was the end of the project when Nothing Lasts…but Nothing is Lost, their third album, was released. Not prepared to leave us hanging, electronic music pioneers Simon Posford and Raja Ram have continued to push the envelope and break boundaries to create yet another sonic masterpiece: the much-awaited fourth Shpongle album, Ineffable Mysteries from Shpongleland.)
Nothing Lasts But Nothing Is Lost
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Shpongle Remixed
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Tales of the Inexpressible
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Are You Shpongled?
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Eclipse
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Luke Wibert
www.myspace.com/lukevibertdj
We Hear You
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( ;D --> 2009 release from the Electronic artist Luke Vibert, also known for his work as Plug and Wagon Christ. We Hear You is a genre-defying record that combines his idiosyncratic samples, sweetly strange melody, big bass and sloppy drums. On the album, Vibert connects the dots between Terry Riley, Dubstep Bass, Techno and Hip Hop.)
Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2008/01/flavor-of-week-2.html
( Plug)
&
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/12/flavor-of-week-52.html
(Wagon Christ)
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http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/12/flavor-of-week-51.html

Boys Noize
www.myspace.com/boysnoize
Power
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( ;D --> 'Power' is the second album from German producer and DJ Alexander Ridha AKA Boys Noize and follows on from the unexpected success of his 2007 debut 'Oi Oi Oi'. Taking inspiration from electro and techno.)
( ;D --> Revival):
Oi Oi Oi
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Oi Oi Oi Remixed
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Suicide Commando
www.myspace.com/suicidecommando
( ;D --> For over twenty years, Industrial experimentalist aka Suicide Commando has carried the dark electro heritage of acts like Klinik, Front 242 and Skinny Puppy in its heart and musical soul. Bearing these influences on his sleeve Van Roy turned these inspirations into a superb high-octane and highly aggressive, danceable EBM-industrial / dark electro hybrid aiming straight for the club-dancefloors. Over the years Suicide Commando bombed us with numerous clubhits like See you in hell, Desire, Hellraiser, Love breeds suicide, Cause of death:suicide, Bind torture kill … which turned Suicide Commando into one of the dark underground's most beloved dance acts of the last decade. Bombast, extreme power and a critical view on today's society.)
Die Motherfucker Die
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( ;D --> Three years ago Suicide Commando released Bind, Torture, Kill onto the unsuspecting masses. Feverously working on his next album, the electronic industrial icon is poised to release his newest single to the delight of his anticipating fans. "Die Motherfucker Die" is as aggressive as the title implies. Abrasive beats, acidic synths, and corrosive melodies combined with harsh sneering vocals to create a dangerous mix of anger, hatred, and rage. While the single will appease some of his fans, most will get even more mad that they have to wait a little while longer for the new album.)
Implements of hell (to be confirmed - 2009)
Meanwhile:X.20 (Best of Suicide Commando)
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Flavor of the week #42

Ascii.Disko
www.myspace.com/asciidisko
www.asciidisko.com
( ;D --> Ascii Disko is the project of multi-instrumentalist/DJ Kat D.D. Rokk. Formerly of Slown and also a member of Venus Vegas, in Ascii Disko he crafts a mix of rock and electronica inspired by techno, acid house, and electro.)
Black Summer
www.djtunes.com/release/black-summer-ep
A Bureaucratic Desire for Revenge
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Until the light takes us
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Alias
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Haito Göpfrich
www.myspace.com/djhaito
www.haito.info
( ;D --> Haito – the man of innumerable faces and the Doctor Mabuse of German dance-floors.He got hooked by the eclectic early DJ-work of Hans Nieswandt and Eric D. Clark, well-trained on Berlin’s Loveparade vehicles, pressed into vinyl by most different labels such as Kickboxer, Malatoid, Spagat, Low Spirit or Acker Records…Well, this is our hero, up to every trick, well-versed producer and DJ. And that’s why Haito keeps his lines open all the time, gathers input like other people stamps and nonchalantly combines seemingly incoherent sounds.)
Fiat Lux
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Disconnected
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Navicon Torture Technologies
www.myspace.com/navicontorturetechnologies
http://leechnest.net/ntt/2009/
( ;D --> Over a 12 year period, the name Navicon Torture Technologies has come to be known in the industrial music scene for combination of searingly vicious vocals, hypnotic loops and dark atmospheres, infused with an emotionally honest lyrical content not found within traditional Power Electronics.Often collaborating with numerous like-minded artists to incorporate a variety of styles, illustrating his ability to take different forms of industrial music and apply his signature twist, Leech came to coin the term Power Romance to describe NTT, a phrase abstract enough to encapsulate the various concepts, styles, and sounds that encompass the project, yet descriptive enough to differentiate himself from his influences.)
The Gospels of the Gash
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Vtervs
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avicon Torture Technologies Fucks The Shit Out Of Unter Null
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GusGus
www.myspace.com/gusgus
www.gusgus.com
( ;D --> Together Daníel Ágúst, Veiran and President Bongo are GusGus, Iceland's leading techno-/soul band. )
24/7
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( ;D --> 2009 release from the Icelandic Electronic act. With six songs spanning over 50 minutes, 24/7 showcases their wealth of musical knowledge in creating some of the most turbulent, engrossing Pop-Techno-House tunes in Dance music history. 'Thin Ice' breaks through with it's throbbing bass line and sees Daniel Agust return for the first time since the 4AD years with his triumphant vocal chorus 'I Feel Like Dancing!' that sets the tone for the rest of the album. Their northern souls shine with 'Hateful', a submerged sounding roller coaster that brings forth their remarkable tact for balancing unnerving frequencies with the bliss of modern Pop songwriting. Other highlights include their cover of the classic Jimi Tenor tune 'Take Me Baby' for which they went the extra mile by enlisting Tenor to sing his own song; and the closes with the single, 'Add This Song', one of the album's true shining moments - the emotional persuasiveness of Daniel Agust's voice will caress anyone through this blissful Electro-fied opus!)
"Bremen Cowboys"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_JD-zahOqM&feature=channel_page

SPK / Dispair (DVD)
http://vogania.com/MUSIC/SPK
( ;D--> After being hidden in time for about 25 years this industrial milestone of the infamous 1st generation got renovated extended and digitally overworked by CaTV. Cathy Vogan - Media Artist & Designer has been three times nominated for Video Art Award and received ZKM (Karlsuhe) Production Award for her work! A true statement and monument for the outstanding band S.P.K.)
Dispair
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Machine Age Voodoo
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( ;D--> available at last!)
Se also: http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007_02_01_archive.html

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Flavor of the week #41

GRISTLEISM
www.gristleism.com
( ;D --> Throbbing Gristle Make Their Own Buddha Machine. The Buddha Machine is a tiny box that emits calming ambient sounds. Made by the industrial provocateurs along with original Buddha Machine creator Christiaan Virant, the Gristleism features "thirteen original and uncompromising loops" and promises a "mix of signature TG experimental noise, industrial drone, and classic melodies and rhythms." Perfect for those days when you need some background music to go along with dissecting dead animals or staring at TV static.)
GRISTLEISM - The Badged Limited-Edition
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( ;D --> Cosey, Christiaan & Chris with prototypes):
www.flickr.com/photos/chris_carter_/3764433427
FM3
www.fm3.com.cn/site
www.fm3buddhamachine.com
Zendesk
www.zendesk.com/external/wall/
Buddhamachine
www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=19806

Air
http://en.aircheology.com
( ;D --> More apt to cite stately rock paragons Burt Bacharach and Brian Wilson as their inspirations than Derrick May or Aphex Twin, the French duo Air gained inclusion into the late-'90s electronica surge due chiefly to the labels their recordings appeared on, not the actual music they produced. Their sound, a variant of the classic disco sound coaxed into a relaxing Prozac vision of the late '70s, looked back to a variety of phenomena from the period -- synthesizer maestros Tomita, Jean-Michel Jarre, and Vangelis, new wave music of the nonspiky variety, and obscure Italian film soundtracks.)
Love2 (release October the 6th)
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( ;D --> Classical):
Moon Safari
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Blue Stone
www.myspace.com/bluestonebreathe
( ;D --> Blue Stone, is a two-man producer driven outfit featuring the talents of writers / producers Robert Smith and Bill Walters. With the addition of diverse and contrasting vocal styles, that range from choral to pop to new age and chill-out to the indescribable, Blue Stone have amassed a quality and dedicated following as well as a strong foothold in a sub genre of so many other ‘genres.’ Emphasis is on the female voice.)
Messages
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Bain Wolfkind
www.myspace.com/bainwolfkind
( ;D --> Bain Wolfkind is except being a solo artist also active in the formation Der Blutharsch, but as a solo artist he makes much better music than Der Blutharsch delivers in recent years. On his solo tour Bain Wolfkind sounds like the misfit brother of Nick Cave and also the spirit of Leonard Cohen wanders through his music.)
The Swamp angel
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Wasteland
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Music for Lovers & Gangsters
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( ;D --> Genuine decancy and a solide attitude!):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X57Zmwap3Q8&NR=1

Thomas Köner
www.myspace.com/thomaskoner1
www.koener.de
( ;D --> The term 'isolationist ambient' is sometimes used to describe drone music with glacial, introspective, cosmic themes, etc. It's a somewhat extraneous adjective when you consider what ambient music actually is, but it seems fitting to describe artists such as Köner.)
la barca
www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=225409
( ;D --> Brand new album from legendary Porter Ricks member and Mille Plateaux luminary Thomas Koner, limited copies only!!!* There are few artists in the world of recorded music who have such an innate understanding of the use of silence and atmosphere as Thomas Köner. Next to Helge Sten, The Hafler Trio or Mika Vainio, Köner is an acclaimed master of ultra-subtle ambient acoustics, providing some of the finest records on labels like Mille Plateaux, Die Stadt and Chain Reaction, both under his birth name, and as half of seminal techno act Porter Ricks.)
Porter Ricks
www.koener.de/porterricks.htm
( ;D --> Porter Ricks specializes in subaquatic dub techno, providing the closest touchstone to the static hum and fuzzy beatwork of their quasi label-mates Basic Channel. A collaboration between ambient maestro Thomas Köner and beatmeister Andy Mellwig.)
Porter Ricks
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Flavor of the week #40

Rotersand
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).)
War On Error
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( ;D --> German trio Rotersand has declared war on conformity and standardisation, the undermining of individualism and personality - the "error" in us. The new EP "War on Error" (out now) deals with these themes and offers a variety of tracks ranging from hard dancefloor fillers to a piano ballad. The CD is a digipak in 2 000 copies designed by Ingo Römling (In Strict Confidence, ASP, L'ame Immortelle).The new album "Random Is Resistance" will follow this fall.)

UnicaZürn
www.myspace.com/unicazurnofficial
( ;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.)
Temporal Bends
www.cyclobe.com/shop.php

Joakim
www.myspace.com/jimibazzouka
www.tigersushi.com
( ;D --> Milky Ways, the third LP proper from French producer Joakim is to be believed, the new album will be a total departure from the fuzzy disco of 2007's Monsters & Silly Songs. Inspiration is said to have been derived through extensive touring around the period of that last record, as Joakim and his group (formerly known as the Ectoplasmic Band) honed their skills on the road. The resulting album takes in moments of "psychedelia, old-school computer music, exotica, electro-pop, blues, new wave, New Pop, Krautrock.)
Milky Ways
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Nachtmahr
www.myspace.com/nachtmahrprojekt
www.nachtmahr.net
( ;D --> „I only have one interest: i don’t care if you live or die: I just wanna see you dance!“ This is the motto that made Thomas Rainer create his new musical project NACHTMAHR in 2007. After the Austrian artist has achieved worldwide chart breaking success with his other projects L’AME IMMORTELLE and SIECHTUM in the past 11 years, he returns to his roots: the boiling dancefloors of industrial and goth clubs alikeInspired by numerous years of Djing NACHTMAHR> is the missing link between merciless and provocative Industrial and the hammering power of Techno. The first release “Kunst ist Krieg (=art is war)” and it’s club hit “BoomBoomBoom” instantly conquer the dancefloors and earn the band a slot on the soundtrack of the American block-buster movie SAW 4.)
Alle Lust Will Ewigkeit
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( ;D --> ‘Alle Lust will Ewigkeit’ leaves the stongest blow for the very end. ‘Murderer’ mesmerises us with disturbing, yet fascinating, samples. Nevertheless, the track later on becomes truly devastating. Devastating enough to crush all and any resistance there might still be in us. This was to be expected, as the albums title (‘All joy wants eternity’) clearly brings to mind the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. And it finally becomes cleat – Nachtmahr is not an attempt to bring back some shattered memories. It’s a particular state of mind, a warrior’s spirit, a apotheosis of sin, lust and rumbling beats.)
se also: http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/07/flavor-of-week-28.html

Telepathe
www.myspace.com/telepathe
( ;D --> Moving from improvisational drones to experimental, danceable pop in just a few releases, Telepathe are the project of Busy Gangnes and Melissa Livaudais and a rotating cast of supporting musicians. Songwriter/percussionist/dancer Gangnes.)
Dance Mother
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So Fine
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