Flavor of the Week #48

Burial
www.myspace.com/burialuk
( ;D --> Burial is an electronic musician from South London. His eponymous debut album was released in 2006 to critical acclaim. The Wire magazine named it their album of the year and it came fifth in the Mixmag 2006 Album of the Year list. On Friday, September 28th 2007, a new Burial album was announced, and Untrue was released 6 weeks later on November 5th. Although both albums have been met with much critical acclaim, Burial remained anonymous until August 2008, stating in a past interview that “only five people know I make tunes”. In February 2008, The Independent reported that Burial was an alumnus of south London’s Elliott School named William Bevan (another alumnus, Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard, said in 2006 that Burial was in the year above him). The school’s alumni also include Kieran Hebden aka Four Tet, with whom Bevan has collaborated.)
Street Halo
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( ;D --> 'Street Halo' is the first solo Burial 12" in four years. It's a peach. A-side 'Street Halo' is a yearning 4/4 roller tucked with all the hallmarks of his finest and usefully cut at 45rpm in case you want some slopped and screwed fun. Flipside, we find the slowdown soul-tugger 'NYC' featuring a more prominent vocal in the style of his songs from 'Untrue', but best of all is 'Stolen Dog', hankering after a twoc'ed mutt through a beautiful, Roedelius-like lead refrain, barely-there rhythms and swarming spectral shapes. Worth the wait? Indeed.)
Stolen Dog
http://open.spotify.com/track/0TQnoT0Cpoz86gK6nmBcSR
Stolen Dog (Ollie Macfarlane Remix)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpee7Jkiu10
http://soundcloud.com/olliemacfarlane/burial-stolen-dog-ollie
Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/02/flavor-of-week-10.html


L'Âme Immortelle
www.myspace.com/lameimmortelle
www.lai-music.com
( ;D -->  L’âme Immortelle (French: the immortal soul) is an Austrian band that produces darkwave, and more recently also industrial metal. Many of L’âme Immortelle’s songs feature melancholy or lovelorn lyrics in German or English, and juxtaposed harsh male and emotional female vocals. Current work has moved away from the band’s electronic roots into the neue deutsche härte (New German hardness) genre. L’âme Immortelle was formed in 1996 in Vienna, Austria by friends Thomas Rainer (Nachtmahr) and Hannes Medwenitsch.)
Momente (Release: 2012-01-27)
www.infrarot.de/lame-immortelle/momente-special-edition/2010318
10 Jahre: Best of
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Se also:
Thomas Rainer/Nachtmahr
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/09/flavor-of-week-40.html


Chris Connelly
http://chrisconnelly.com/
www.facebook.com/ChrisConnellyOfficial
( ;D --> Chris Connelly is a Scottish musician who became famous for his industrial music work of the late 1980s and early 1990s, particularly his involvement with the Revolting Cocks, Ministry, The Damage Manual and Murder Inc. He has since established himself as a talented alternative singer/songwriter. His vocal style is often compared to that of Scott Walker and David Bowie. In 2008, Connelly published a memoir of his early years in the music industry, Concrete, Bulletproof, Invisible, and Fried: My Life As A Revolting Cock (ISBN 0946719950). It describes his professional debut in Finitribe; meeting Al Jourgensen in London; his involvement with the Cocks, Ministry, PTP, Acid Horse, Killing Joke, and Pigface; and the development of his solo career.)
Artificial Madness
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Dead Red Velvet
www.deadredvelvet.com
( ;D --> Dark electronic, industrial, EBM, gothic rock, classical, cabaret and art song... all are vibrant influences on this new album by Dead Red Velvet. Toronto-based composer Karl Mohr rebrands his goth machine and unrolls the moniker Dead Red Velvet for the release of this latex-slick masterwork, "Full Moon Film". With vast, towering electronic arrangements, the album production has been underway for five years, resulting Mohr's most tooled soundscape to date. It boasts the solid quality of a 'best of' album, highlighting Mohr at his best: inviting dark atmospheres, monstrous guitar and synth grooves, relentless dance tracks, clever sound design, intelligent lyrics rich in mystery, and his trademark vocal style.)
Full Moon Film
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Tame Impala
www.myspace.com/tameimpala
www.tameimpala.com  
( ;D --> Tame Impala are a psychedelic rock band from Perth, Australia. They are signed to Modular Records. The band came to prominence in 2010 with the release of their first debut album, Innerspeaker. Their name refers to the impala, a medium sized antelope. They like to see themselves as "a steady flowing psychedelic groove rock band that emphasizes dream-like melody.)
Inner Speaker
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Alter Ego
http://soundcloud.com/tame-impala/alter-ego


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Flavor of the Week #47

Haujobb
www.myspace.com/haujobbmusic    
http://haujobb-music.com  
( ;D --> Haujobb are part of the newest wave of electronic dance acts to come storming out of Europe. Along with such other notables as :wumpscut: and VNV Nation, Haujobb are bringing, if possible, an even newer surge of adrenaline to a genre that already seems expanding to burst. Their style a synthesis of industrial electronics and dance music, Haujobb formed in Germany in 1993 around the trio of Dejan Samardzic, Daniel Meier with B. Junemann.)
New World March
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Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2010/06/flavor-of-week-24.html  
And:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2008/01/kode9-www.html  


Psy'aviah
www.myspace.com/psyaviah  
www.facebook.com/psyaviah
www.psyaviah.com
( ;D --> Psy’Aviah is an open-minded electronic music project that focuses on blending several genres and influences into their own eclectric sound. The band consists of vocalist Emélie Nicolaï, guitarist Kristof De Clerck and producer / composer Yves Schelpe. Experimentation is one of the main philosophies of Psy’Aviah. This is portrayed in both incorporating different genres into their own sound and the different collaborations they have done over the years: from poetry with Suzi Q. Smith and Jean-Luc De Meyer (Front 242), to EBM power-pop with Jennifer Parkin (Ayria), even to Enya-esque reminders with Kristell Lowagie… Due to this experimentation in both music and lyrics, the band fits well on different stages, catering both gothic and electronic festival, as well as the more experimental shows.)
PSY'AVIAH - 'Introspection / Extrospection'
www.alfa-matrix.com/shop_comments.php?id=2070_0_8_0_C
Ok (Matrix Downloaded 001)
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Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2010/11/flavor-of-week-46.html


Pitch Black
www.pitchblack.co.nz
( ;D --> Pitch Black are award winning multimedia artist Michael Hodgson and Salmonella Dub producer Paddy Free. Having pumped their way through New Zealand�s electronic music scene since their inaugural performance at the annual Gathering New Year's eve festival in 1997, they have spent the last twelve years rousing dance floor punters, generating rave reviews, winning awards and gaining thousands of fans across the world. Hard to box into a single audio 'genre', Pitch Black is a combination of musical journeys. Their sound is distinctive; ranging from organic ambient beginnings and layered soundscapes to skanking keyboards, cutting acid riffs and thumping rhythmic grooves, with dub being the glue that holds their sound together. One critic has described them as like "Orbital meets King Tubby, or Rhythm and Sound in Technicolor".)
Remixes & Rarities
http://pitchblack.bandcamp.com/
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Pitch Black - Transient Transmission
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr-SCLineC0&feature=player_embedded


Zentriert Ins Antlitz
www.myspace.com/zentriertinsantlitz
www.zentriertinsantlitz.de
( ;D --> Underground electronic music legends Zentriert ins Antlitz releasing their signature sound by injecting infectious beatwork into lush atmospheric soundscapes to create a poignant blend of dark electronica and industrial-tinged ambient aesthetics.)
Tearswitcher (first quarter 2012)
previews
www.myspace.com/zentriertinsantlitz
…NO
http://tympanikaudio.com/releases/ta017/


Straftanz
http://straftanz.de
( ;D --> Obscure germanic industrial streetfight moshpit rave project from the deeper west of Germany. Straftanz described its musical style as "Industrial-Streetfighting-Dance". In fact, the sound of Straftanz is best described as a mixture of EBM, futurepop, trance, rave, metal, and rhythm noise elements that are tied together with a present dance groove.)
Mainstream Sellout Overground
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Flavor of the Week #46

Extrawelt
www.myspace.com/extrawelt
( ;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.)
In Aufruhr
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In Aufruhr *Albumpreview*
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj5uYIxXvQQ
Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2010/09/flavor-of-week-36.html

Dismantled
www.myspace.com/dismantled
www.dismantled.org
( ;D --> Dismantled is the sole product of Gary Zon whose unique blend of progressive electro-pop rock has crossed boundaries, meshing everything from the pop of Paula Abdul to the grind of Nine Inch Nails into a sonic attack like no other.)
The War Inside Me
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http://disease.dismantled.org/
Dystopia
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHfga7XJ38Q
Human
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZuXLS2dXPo
Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/09/flavor-of-week-37.html


Loscil
www.myspace.com/loscil  
http://loscil.ca
( ;D --> Loscil is the electronic/ambient music project of Scott Morgan, from Vancouver, BC. The name Loscil is taken from the "looping oscillator" function (loscil) in Csound. Scott Morgan is also the drummer for the Vancouver indie band Destroyer.)
Coast/ Range/ Arc
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Sickba
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Iz6N1wVjK8
Endless Falls
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kyez8QxweSc


Brodinski
www.myspace.com/brodinskimusic
http://smokemashine.blogspot.com
( ;D --> "Brodinski is the most exciting dj and producer to explode onto the scene in recent years. Yes, he may hail from France (Reims, Lille) but he is quite unlike any of his Parisian peers. His taste in music is broad and this is reflected in his own productions and dj sets which may encompass noisy techno, bass heavy house through to more melodic minimal.)
FABRICLIVE 60: Brodinski
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Bromance #1
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Freakangel
www.freakangel.org
www.myspace.com/freakangelmusic
( ;D --> Freakangel was born in the very end of 2009. Musicly it's possible to describe them as " alternative electro core". Their debut album " The Faults Of Humanity" was relesed in 2010 via Alfa Matrix and Deathwatch Asia.)
My Darling Bullet
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The Faults of Humanity
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Lost Signal/Detroit Diesel (Freakangel Remix)
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DVD Teaser
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jntz_aCei68&feature=player_embedded#!

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Flavor of the Week #45

Aiboforcen
www.myspace.com/aiboforcenmusic
www.facebook.com/Aiboforcen
( ;D --> After the release of two CD albums ("Elixir Lytique" & "Face (of) Death"), Belgium's Aiboforcen disappeared from the scene to work on various projects. This break allowed them to strike back with a more mature and better mastered type of sound on the "Sons Palliatifs" album which closed their trilogy around the "near death experience" theme, but especially confirm their open-minded song-writing attitude as well as the complexity of their music arrangements. Released in June 2004, their 4th album “Kafarnaüm” offers a complex and modern mixture of eclectic electronic styles ranging from harsh EBM to crunching power industrial through dark trip hop with a certain future pop touch and their trademark combination of harsh male growls and sensual female vocals. Extremely rich in diversity (including an astounding plethora of guest vocalists), this surrealistic album impressively holds a cohesive red line centered on Benoît Blanchart's uniquely intricate song-writing skills, attitude and vicious sampling manipulations, channeled by the recurring lyrical theme of mental and physical chaos.)
Dédale
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Kafarnaüm
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Time & Space
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPyIZZAA3FA


Olivia Louvel
www.olivialouvel.com
( ;D --> Olivia Louvel is a French born, England based composer, producer and performer, crafting electronic songs from laptop and voice.)
Doll Divider
http://olivialouvel.bandcamp.com/album/doll-divider
Luna parc hotel
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Doll Maker"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpL69lXRLjA


Lamb
www.myspace.com/lambofficial
www.lambofficial.com
www.youtube.com/user/lambofficial
( ;D --> Lamb is an electronic music duo from Manchester, England, whose music is influenced by trip hop and drum and bass. The duo consists of producer Andy Barlow, who also produces under the pseudonym Hipoptimist, and singer-songwriter Lou Rhodes. They achieved commercial success with two hit singles "Górecki" and "Gabriel".)
5
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Strong the Root
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT7ErXdpdq0
Wise Enough
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHV5o8bqK3w&feature=related


Sundial Aeon
www.myspace.com/sundialaeon
www.sundial.pl
( ;D --> In 2005 Sundial was formed in Poland by the creative ideas of Aural Planet artists Radoslaw Kochman (Raiden), Daniel Lulkowski (hoyden space) and two other musicians, Jaroslaw Jacek (Giku) and Patryk Gegniewicz (revisq) from the electronic act Itoa. In the autumn of 2006 Vladislav Isaev (Scann-Tec) joined Sundial as a full time musician and band DJ. Sundial Aeon music is already used in many projects like games, multimedia presentations, websites, tv and radio jingles.)
Sundial tracks have been released on acclaimed Iboga Recs sub label Sofa Beats, Chillcode Recs, Ultimae and Yellow Sunshine Explosion. In June 2006 Sundial released their debut album Metabasis (Chilling Cuts Part 2) on Flow Recs. In January 2007 Sundial changed their name to Sundial Aeon and the result of new work is the album Apotheosis.)
Mimesis
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www.beatspace.com/6606/Impact+Studio+Records/SUNDIAL+AEON/Mimesis/detail.aspx
Apotheosis
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Pleasure Impact
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3mm8UO3GAM&feature=related


Sopor Aeternus
www.myspace.com/soporaeternusofficial
www.soporaeternus.de
Children of the corn
www.infrarot.de/sopor-aeternus/children-of-the-corn-cd-set-collectors-edition/2009783
( ;D --> Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows (Latin: "Eternal Sleep"; often referred to 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 music has gained notoriety for being extremely personalized, melancholic and pessimistic, drawing on a number of different musical and visual styles.)
Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2011/06/flavor-of-week-24.html
And:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/07/flavor-of-week-32.html  

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