Squarepusher
www.myspace.com/doyouknowsquarepusher
www.squarepusher.net
http://warp.net/records/squarepusher
www.myspace.com/thomasjenkinson
( ;D --> Squarepusher is the performing pseudonym of Tom Jenkinson, an English electronic music artist signed to Warp Records. He specialises in the electronic music genres of drum and bass and acid, with a significant jazz and musique concrète influence.)
Ufabulum
http://warp.net/records/squarepusher/announces-ufabulum/
Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2010/10/flavor-of-week-41.html
And:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2008/11/flavor-of-week-46.html
Aes Dana
www.myspace.com/aesdana
( ;D --> Aes Dana is the name of the French ambient music formation of Vincent Villuis and Sunbeam (aka Mahiane). Born from the meeting of Vincent Villuis, former member of goa chill band Asura, and Sunbeam (aka Mahiane) who spins English progressive vinyls, Aes Dana stands as a coherent fusion of both styles. They bring out deep sounds rooted in the psychedelic tradition, in a fluid down tempo morning trance. Both musicians tend to create evocative sound textures, opening as a travelling over their analogical dreams. Short tales made of samples and waves, energised by tribal beats. Soundtrack for the early party letting time for the moon and the tempo to set, or for afters to slow down the nocturnal excesses and celebrate the return of the Sun. Aes dana's music is to be enjoyed between the veils.)
Perimeters
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Resin
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqY4shbH3LM&feature=related
Hol Baumann
www.holbaumann.com
www.myspace.com/holbaumann
( ;D --> Hol Baumann is the stage name of Olivier Orand from Lyon, France. He has been composing and producing albums, theatre, movies and documentaries for many years. Passionate about what he calls his “sound sculpture”, trying to find a balance between “standard” instruments and the sound textures of electronic music. The small magic of his pieces falls between the genres of downtempo, electronic and ethnic fusion.)
Human
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A Forgotten Ritual
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjRxJFthqDM&
Pixelord
www.pixelord.ru
( ;D --> Pixelord, aka Alexey Devyanin, is already a veteran of electronic music. The Moscow based producer has gained international recognition for his sound, which is the perfect cocktail of synth driven alternative bleeps and bass heavy beats. With previous releases on Error Broadcast and Leisure System, Pixelord now turns to Hit and Hope for his next release – Keramika.)
Keramika EP - HNH005
http://soundcloud.com/hitandhope/pixelord-keramika-out-feb
www.hitandhoperecords.co.uk/hnh005-pixelord-keramika/
Amethystium
www.amethystium.com
www.myspace.com/Amethystium
( ;D --> Amethystium is a musical project founded by Øystein Ramfjord around 1998. Hard to pigeon-hole as belonging in one specific category, the music can be described as a blend of new age, darkwave, ethno-ambient and electronica. Sonicly it ranges from dreamy and relaxing, to relatively upbeat, all with an evoking, atmospheric, and sometimes dark and moody soundscape.)
Aurorae EP
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Treasure on #Spotify
http://open.spotify.com/track/0bpBFwsKQp8zzctNdVinfJ
Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2008/08/flavor-of-week-32.html
And:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/01/flavor-of-week-02.html
Over And Out
Friday, February 24, 2012
Friday, February 17, 2012
Flavor of the Week #8
Titans
www.myspace.com/titansweden
http://soundcloud.com/progressproductions/titans-it-s-dark
www.facebook.com/TitansOfficial
( ;D --> Swedish-American synth pop trio based on the Swedish duo of Jimmy Smith and Frederick Thompson along with the San Francisco-based singer Dan Von Hoyel.)
For The Long Gone
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All there is
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r-LLgXyGlo
Tristesse Contemporaine
www.myspace.com/tristessecontemporaine
www.tristessecontemporaine.com
http://soundcloud.com/tristesse-contemporaine
( ;D --> Tristesse Contemporaine is a Parisian trio whose members Narumi, Léo and Maik hail from Tokyo, Stockholm and East London respectively, and before hooking up with Pilooski their their only musical output to date had surfaced via Danton Eeprom’s Foundation Records imprint and an appearance on a Collete mix CD. Seemingly all three have dabbled in music in various shapes and forms before meeting and deciding to commence the Tristesse Contemporaine journey, quoting Talking Heads, Young Marble Giant and The Cure as inspiration for their sound. Their self titled debut album – produced in its entirety by Pilooski – is due out next month, and comes wrapped in all sorts of press release conjured mysticism, with the label claiming the band disappeared for a week in July last year after boarding a flight bound for New York, with the trio unable to explain their absence when found wandering at dawn on the launch base of the European Space Agency.)
( ;D --> 20th July 2011. It was at Heathrow airport that the three members of the group Tristesse Contemporaine disappeared without a trace. After boarding flight 671 in Paris Charles De Gaulle, they had a stopover in London before arriving in New York where they were to give a concert that night. Very soon the airline noticed they were missing and called the police who immediately started a search. The only clues they had were a few biographical details provided by their record company :
“Tristesse Contemporaine is a Parisian trio:
- Narumi was born in Tokyo, she began playing the piano at the age of 3 before entering the academy at 17. She started an all girl punk band at high school and covered songs by Staline (a famous Japanese band) and The Cure. As a fan of Godard and La Nouvelle Vague, Narumi came to Paris in 1994 to learn the French language and study fashion. She has worked for the music orientated media and for the Japanese gallery Poetry of Sex, as well as taking part in bands Suburbia (with Marc Collin), aswefall (with Léo Hellden) and Telepopmusik. It was on tour with the latter that she met Maik the singer. Screamadelica by Primal Scream is her favourite album.
- Léo Hellden grew up in the suburbs of Stockholm and was focused on a career as a hockey player before he started playing guitar at the age of 18. Three years later he became the guitarist of Jay Jay Johanson and recorded three albums (Tatoo, Poison, Antenna). On his way to London, he met a French woman and moved to Paris where he started aswefall with Clément, as well as studying economics. Léo often quotes Robin Guthrie from the Cocteau Twins as a decisive influence.
- Maik is from East London where his Jamaican family still live today. He is a fan of hip hop and started writing words after discovering Leonard Cohen (Maik hopes to equal him before he is 70). In the mid 90’s, he became the singer of Earthling after answering an advertisement in The NME. He recorded three albums including the cult trip hop album Radar. He took part in a project called Cuba, a group signed to 4AD, but the apocalyptic touring got the better of him. A French woman saved him and he followed her to Paris where he said : “If I had stayed in England, I would have died.”
Through friendship and compatibility, Narumi, Léo and Maik decided to start a band in 2009. They soon needed to record in order to back up their spontaneous ideas, their imagination and their powerful drafts. The demos resulting from their recording sessions were like nothing before although they were clearly inspired by the Talking Heads (Fear of Music), Young Marble Giant (Collossal Youth) and The Cure (17 seconds). Then they had to find a name. Whilst looking through an old bookshop, Léo came across a book called La tristesse contemporaine by Hippolyte Fierens Gevaert – a book on the main moral and intellectual movements of the 19th century. Tristesse Contemporaine was a French band of foreigners, a group of “back seat drivers” as they called themselves. Tristesse Contemporaine was a band of migrants, modern drifters.)
Tristesse Contemporaine (Self titled debut album out on vinyl + digital march 2012.)
www.tristessecontemporaine.com
In the Wake (Early Mix)
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I Didn’t Know
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_ZnD9iFSkI
iamamiwhoami
www.youtube.com/user/iamamiwhoami
http://twitter.com/#!/iam_ami_whoami
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iamamiwhoami
( ;D --> iamamiwhoami is an electronic music and multimedia project headlined by Swedish singer-songwriter Jonna Lee. Videos released from the project's YouTube channel have spread virally. The first clip was uploaded on December 4, 2009, and was forwarded to a number of music journalists and blogs. Another two short videos followed. Chris Cantalini and MTV writer James Montgomery reported about iamamiwhoami, fueling speculation online.)
Sever
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( ;D --> On 11 June through Cooperative Music brings the audiovisual album 'Kin' out iamamiwhoami. The first chapter sever appears 15 February." - Cooperative Music Holland.)
http://cooperativemusic.com
Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2011/10/flavor-of-week-41.html
Bonobo
www.facebook.com/bonoboofficial
( ;D --> Simon Green (born March 30, 1976), also known by his stage name Bonobo, is a British musician, producer and DJ. Green has recorded and performed solo DJ sets under the name Barakas, and together with Robert Luis from Tru Thoughts as Nairobi and Barakas. Bonobo uses a wide variety of samples in his music combined with heavy, often complex basslines. His music generally develops linearly - with new elements such as basslines or percussion coming in one after the other. In Days to Come, he mixes this sonic background with the clean yet distinctive vocals of Bajka, who often uses harmony to build up a multifaceted sound.)
Black Sands
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Eyesdown (Machinedrum remix)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qmVNB4nalk
Megaherz
http://megaherz.de/eng
www.myspace.com/megaherz
( ;D --> Megaherz (English "Mega-heart", a pun on the homophone "megahertz") is an industrial metal group formed in Munich, Germany in 1993. One of the band's most famous songs is "Gott sein" ("To be God") on their first full album Wer Bist Du? ("Who Are You?"). Megaherz has gone through many changes in musical style since their founding. Their early works are a fairly dark alternative metal, comparable to 1990s American bands such as Faith No More, whereas recent works are comparable to bands such as Oomph! and Rammstein.)
Götterdämmerung
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Jagdzeit (Grendel Remix)
www.youtube.com/?watch?v=cYUFYsLhSyo
Over And Out
www.myspace.com/titansweden
http://soundcloud.com/progressproductions/titans-it-s-dark
www.facebook.com/TitansOfficial
( ;D --> Swedish-American synth pop trio based on the Swedish duo of Jimmy Smith and Frederick Thompson along with the San Francisco-based singer Dan Von Hoyel.)
For The Long Gone
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All there is
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r-LLgXyGlo
Tristesse Contemporaine
www.myspace.com/tristessecontemporaine
www.tristessecontemporaine.com
http://soundcloud.com/tristesse-contemporaine
( ;D --> Tristesse Contemporaine is a Parisian trio whose members Narumi, Léo and Maik hail from Tokyo, Stockholm and East London respectively, and before hooking up with Pilooski their their only musical output to date had surfaced via Danton Eeprom’s Foundation Records imprint and an appearance on a Collete mix CD. Seemingly all three have dabbled in music in various shapes and forms before meeting and deciding to commence the Tristesse Contemporaine journey, quoting Talking Heads, Young Marble Giant and The Cure as inspiration for their sound. Their self titled debut album – produced in its entirety by Pilooski – is due out next month, and comes wrapped in all sorts of press release conjured mysticism, with the label claiming the band disappeared for a week in July last year after boarding a flight bound for New York, with the trio unable to explain their absence when found wandering at dawn on the launch base of the European Space Agency.)
( ;D --> 20th July 2011. It was at Heathrow airport that the three members of the group Tristesse Contemporaine disappeared without a trace. After boarding flight 671 in Paris Charles De Gaulle, they had a stopover in London before arriving in New York where they were to give a concert that night. Very soon the airline noticed they were missing and called the police who immediately started a search. The only clues they had were a few biographical details provided by their record company :
“Tristesse Contemporaine is a Parisian trio:
- Narumi was born in Tokyo, she began playing the piano at the age of 3 before entering the academy at 17. She started an all girl punk band at high school and covered songs by Staline (a famous Japanese band) and The Cure. As a fan of Godard and La Nouvelle Vague, Narumi came to Paris in 1994 to learn the French language and study fashion. She has worked for the music orientated media and for the Japanese gallery Poetry of Sex, as well as taking part in bands Suburbia (with Marc Collin), aswefall (with Léo Hellden) and Telepopmusik. It was on tour with the latter that she met Maik the singer. Screamadelica by Primal Scream is her favourite album.
- Léo Hellden grew up in the suburbs of Stockholm and was focused on a career as a hockey player before he started playing guitar at the age of 18. Three years later he became the guitarist of Jay Jay Johanson and recorded three albums (Tatoo, Poison, Antenna). On his way to London, he met a French woman and moved to Paris where he started aswefall with Clément, as well as studying economics. Léo often quotes Robin Guthrie from the Cocteau Twins as a decisive influence.
- Maik is from East London where his Jamaican family still live today. He is a fan of hip hop and started writing words after discovering Leonard Cohen (Maik hopes to equal him before he is 70). In the mid 90’s, he became the singer of Earthling after answering an advertisement in The NME. He recorded three albums including the cult trip hop album Radar. He took part in a project called Cuba, a group signed to 4AD, but the apocalyptic touring got the better of him. A French woman saved him and he followed her to Paris where he said : “If I had stayed in England, I would have died.”
Through friendship and compatibility, Narumi, Léo and Maik decided to start a band in 2009. They soon needed to record in order to back up their spontaneous ideas, their imagination and their powerful drafts. The demos resulting from their recording sessions were like nothing before although they were clearly inspired by the Talking Heads (Fear of Music), Young Marble Giant (Collossal Youth) and The Cure (17 seconds). Then they had to find a name. Whilst looking through an old bookshop, Léo came across a book called La tristesse contemporaine by Hippolyte Fierens Gevaert – a book on the main moral and intellectual movements of the 19th century. Tristesse Contemporaine was a French band of foreigners, a group of “back seat drivers” as they called themselves. Tristesse Contemporaine was a band of migrants, modern drifters.)
Tristesse Contemporaine (Self titled debut album out on vinyl + digital march 2012.)
www.tristessecontemporaine.com
In the Wake (Early Mix)
TC_amazon
I Didn’t Know
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_ZnD9iFSkI
iamamiwhoami
www.youtube.com/user/iamamiwhoami
http://twitter.com/#!/iam_ami_whoami
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iamamiwhoami
( ;D --> iamamiwhoami is an electronic music and multimedia project headlined by Swedish singer-songwriter Jonna Lee. Videos released from the project's YouTube channel have spread virally. The first clip was uploaded on December 4, 2009, and was forwarded to a number of music journalists and blogs. Another two short videos followed. Chris Cantalini and MTV writer James Montgomery reported about iamamiwhoami, fueling speculation online.)
Sever
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( ;D --> On 11 June through Cooperative Music brings the audiovisual album 'Kin' out iamamiwhoami. The first chapter sever appears 15 February." - Cooperative Music Holland.)
http://cooperativemusic.com
Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2011/10/flavor-of-week-41.html
Bonobo
www.facebook.com/bonoboofficial
( ;D --> Simon Green (born March 30, 1976), also known by his stage name Bonobo, is a British musician, producer and DJ. Green has recorded and performed solo DJ sets under the name Barakas, and together with Robert Luis from Tru Thoughts as Nairobi and Barakas. Bonobo uses a wide variety of samples in his music combined with heavy, often complex basslines. His music generally develops linearly - with new elements such as basslines or percussion coming in one after the other. In Days to Come, he mixes this sonic background with the clean yet distinctive vocals of Bajka, who often uses harmony to build up a multifaceted sound.)
Black Sands
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Eyesdown (Machinedrum remix)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qmVNB4nalk
Megaherz
http://megaherz.de/eng
www.myspace.com/megaherz
( ;D --> Megaherz (English "Mega-heart", a pun on the homophone "megahertz") is an industrial metal group formed in Munich, Germany in 1993. One of the band's most famous songs is "Gott sein" ("To be God") on their first full album Wer Bist Du? ("Who Are You?"). Megaherz has gone through many changes in musical style since their founding. Their early works are a fairly dark alternative metal, comparable to 1990s American bands such as Faith No More, whereas recent works are comparable to bands such as Oomph! and Rammstein.)
Götterdämmerung
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Jagdzeit (Grendel Remix)
www.youtube.com/?watch?v=cYUFYsLhSyo
Over And Out
Friday, February 10, 2012
Flavor of the Week #7
Air
www.astralwerks.com/air
( ;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.)
Le Voyage Dans La Lune
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See also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/10/flavor-of-week-41.html
And:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/10/flavor-of-week-41.html
Lindstrøm
www.myspace.com/feedelity
( ;D --> Lindstrøm is the moniker of Hans-Peter Lindstrøm. waerve. Raised on country and western music in the outskirts of the Norwegian oil town Stavanger, Lindstrom now lives in Oslo where he is making contemporary disco and running his Feedelity label. Claiming that "Hans-Peter Lindstrom is closing in on Henrik Ibsen and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer as being Norway's poster boy of choice" (quoting an article on Piccadilly Records website) is obviously quite an overstatement, but nonetheless his original approach to dance music is currently causing quite a stir.)
Six Cups Of Rebel
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De Javu
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n1wAzuXAKU
See also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2011/04/flavor-of-week-14.html
Stromkern
www.stromkern.com/
www.facebook.com/#!/stromkern
( ;D --> Stromkern s first new release in nearly seven years features five new tracks, including the epic Sub-Librarian featured on Dependence 2011 in Europe, and the long-awaited release of Ruin(ed), which has become a staple in the Stromkern live show. Picking up where they left off on Light It Up, Stromkern continues to blend hip-hop vocals with layers of programming and elements of industrial rock.)
Dead Letters Ep
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Re-Align
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Heretic
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QLx4_sWplU
Vector lovers
http://vector-lovers.com/vector-lovers/Home.html
www.myspace.com/vectorlovers
( ;D --> Vector Lovers is the moniker used by British electronic music producer Martin Wheeler. Wheeler, as described by Soma Records (his current label) is a "computer nerd" and "80s-obsessed knob-twiddler" and creates music which falls into the intelligent dance music (IDM) and electro genres. His music has been compared to and is influenced by such acts as Kraftwerk and Depeche Mode.)
Electrospective
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Alex Smoke
www.myspace.com/alexsmoke1
( ;D --> Alex Smoke is unique talent to emerge from the Glasgow music scene. This young producer is pushing the boundaries of electronic music with his innovative style of fusing deep european minimalism with emotional strings and intellegent electro rhythms. Alex Smoke has a background in classical music which is very evident from the quality of his arrangements. His debut release 'Random As' came out on underground Glasgow label 'Savalas Records' to critical acclaim in Jan 2002. Jockey Slut described it as “the kind of record a pissed off Funk D’Void might make”, with IDJ claiming it was a “a dark minimal experiment in sinister atmospherics”. Alex Smoke can already count the likes of Andrew Weatherall, DJ Hell and the Ghostly International crew as fans of his work.)
Don't Start Just Finish It / Unknown Wanderer (Alex Smoke Remix)
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Chica Wappa
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Uncern
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Something's gone (original mix)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-kc-IMly0k&feature=related
Over And Out
www.astralwerks.com/air
( ;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.)
Le Voyage Dans La Lune
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See also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/10/flavor-of-week-41.html
And:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/10/flavor-of-week-41.html
Lindstrøm
www.myspace.com/feedelity
( ;D --> Lindstrøm is the moniker of Hans-Peter Lindstrøm. waerve. Raised on country and western music in the outskirts of the Norwegian oil town Stavanger, Lindstrom now lives in Oslo where he is making contemporary disco and running his Feedelity label. Claiming that "Hans-Peter Lindstrom is closing in on Henrik Ibsen and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer as being Norway's poster boy of choice" (quoting an article on Piccadilly Records website) is obviously quite an overstatement, but nonetheless his original approach to dance music is currently causing quite a stir.)
Six Cups Of Rebel
L_amazon
De Javu
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n1wAzuXAKU
See also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2011/04/flavor-of-week-14.html
Stromkern
www.stromkern.com/
www.facebook.com/#!/stromkern
( ;D --> Stromkern s first new release in nearly seven years features five new tracks, including the epic Sub-Librarian featured on Dependence 2011 in Europe, and the long-awaited release of Ruin(ed), which has become a staple in the Stromkern live show. Picking up where they left off on Light It Up, Stromkern continues to blend hip-hop vocals with layers of programming and elements of industrial rock.)
Dead Letters Ep
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Re-Align
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Heretic
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QLx4_sWplU
Vector lovers
http://vector-lovers.com/vector-lovers/Home.html
www.myspace.com/vectorlovers
( ;D --> Vector Lovers is the moniker used by British electronic music producer Martin Wheeler. Wheeler, as described by Soma Records (his current label) is a "computer nerd" and "80s-obsessed knob-twiddler" and creates music which falls into the intelligent dance music (IDM) and electro genres. His music has been compared to and is influenced by such acts as Kraftwerk and Depeche Mode.)
Electrospective
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Alex Smoke
www.myspace.com/alexsmoke1
( ;D --> Alex Smoke is unique talent to emerge from the Glasgow music scene. This young producer is pushing the boundaries of electronic music with his innovative style of fusing deep european minimalism with emotional strings and intellegent electro rhythms. Alex Smoke has a background in classical music which is very evident from the quality of his arrangements. His debut release 'Random As' came out on underground Glasgow label 'Savalas Records' to critical acclaim in Jan 2002. Jockey Slut described it as “the kind of record a pissed off Funk D’Void might make”, with IDJ claiming it was a “a dark minimal experiment in sinister atmospherics”. Alex Smoke can already count the likes of Andrew Weatherall, DJ Hell and the Ghostly International crew as fans of his work.)
Don't Start Just Finish It / Unknown Wanderer (Alex Smoke Remix)
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Chica Wappa
AS1_amazon
Uncern
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Something's gone (original mix)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-kc-IMly0k&feature=related
Over And Out
Friday, February 03, 2012
Flavor of the Week #6
Vladislav Delay
www.myspace.com/vladislavdelaymusic
www.vladislavdelay.com
( ;D --> Vladislav Delay, Uusitalo, Luomo, Conoco, Sistol. Under a raft of different names this Finnish artist (Sasu Ripatti *1976) has experimented with ambient, broken beat, glitch as well as grooves and house music with soulful vocals. In addition he has collaborated with and worked for a wide range of artists ranging from Scissor Sisters and Craig Armstrong to AGF, Black Dice, Massive Attack, Towa Tei and Ryuichi Sakamoto. While his side-projects and remixes are there to flirt with more stable rhythms and dancefloor institutions, his main love as well as his background is in experimenting with different kind of sounds and rhythms; a quest to find some music not heard yet. The soundtrack of Vladislav Delay. His forte is the rhythm, even if so subtle at times. In fact, he may as well be classified as a “percussionist” (actually he is originally a drummer) rather than an electronic musician despite the fact that that is how he mostly generates his sound and music, because it is the beat and its possibilities which lie closest to his heart, which further serves to explain why he has experimented with it from so many different musical angles.)
Vantaa
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Henki [Vantaa] (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w48xFX86yZA
Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2011/06/flavor-of-week-26.html
And:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/05/flavor-of-week-20_15.html
And:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2008/07/flavor-of-week-29.html
And:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/07/flavor-of-week-30.html
Human Decay
www.humandecay.de
( ;D --> Human Decay’s sound features a special mixture of various electronic, electric and body-music elements. thus it’s not limited on some simple e.b.m. clichés. techno elements are also an inherent part of our music as well as industrial-noise timbres. the output is the distillate of a electronic-music experience since 1996 so midtempo-tracks alternate with dance floor hits, intelligent tricky sounds rotating around straight’n’stomping beats. rhythmic skill and the variety of sound ideas combined with experimental beat constellations synthesizes into an elaborate body which is juxtaposed / contradicted / mixed up / completed with pretentious lyrics. fresh and invigorating „uncatchy” files are the outcome of the HD-framework so in this connection, the band does not really insist on momentary important ingredients of electronic music but is one of the worlds few music projects with the same incredibly crazy name from the very start ‘til the very present.)
Dolls (release feb 24th)
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silent submission
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN_H0OsQx4I
Robert Lippok
www.myspace.com/robertlippok
http://soundcloud.com/experimedia/robert-lippok
( ;D --> Robert Lippok was born 1966 in Berlin.Since his youth, he was active in different formations as a musician, visual artist and set designer. The group called To Rococo Rot was founded in the 1990s together with Ronald Lippok, the brother of Robert Lippok, and Stefan Schneider from Dusseldorf.)
Redsuperstructure
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( ;D --> Simple sonic events are unfolding themselves, evoking the sound of a Carl Orff children's ensemble. Pleasant and strange noises join a bass foundation that recreates the ground-shaking subsonic waves of mid-'90s drum n' bass. It's like a drum major meets a Tibetan monk. They try to do a dervish thing together, elegant and funky, which forcibly drags the slowest souls out of their torpor and forces them to run and jump. Loops radiate, something is bouncing, the universe steps out of an anti-academic cloud, into your mind and the unexplored regions of our sensibility. All is good in the noosphere with Redsuperstructure. Robert Lippok's new record is based on the spectacular set he performed at Raster-Noton Electric Campfire at Villa Massimo in September of 2010.)
Nycycle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_AcF_OGhM8&feature=player_embedded
se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/11/flavor-of-week-46.html
Diskonnekted
www.myspace.com/diskonnekted
www.diskonnekted.com
( ;D --> Stubborn and combative, Diskonnekted has always been fighting the stereotypical boundaries that separate the genres within the genres. Refusing to walk the line or to follow any leader, Diskonnekted floats somewhere between big electronic beats, spacy ambient layers, deep and dirty basslines and distorted grooves. Somewhere between heaven and hell, and soon somewhere between your ears. With Diskonnekted, Belgian artist Jan Dewulf uniquely combines progressive electro tunes with a broad spectrum of alternative dance styles ranging from EBM and big beats to industrial and tech-edged breaks. After having worked on a wide spectrum of previous projects enriched with the trademark Belgian EBM-sound, which often brought him comparisons to The Klinik, it was at the turn of the millennium that Diskonnekted was founded.)
Hotel Existence (release date coming up)
http://news.diskonnekted.com/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4ZYYGGbpLU
Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2008_06_01_archive.html
Stars of the Lid
www.myspace.com/starsofthelid
( ;D --> Stars of the Lid is a duo specializing in drone-based ambient music. They list among their influences minimalist and electronic composers such as Arvo Pärt, Zbigniew Preisner, Gavin Bryars, and Henryk Górecki, as well as Talk Talk (both bands have tracks named "Taphead"), post-rock artists Labradford, and ambient innovator Brian Eno. Their songs are largely beatless soundscapes, composed of droning, effects-treated guitars along with piano, strings, and horns; volume swells and feedback fill the gap of rhythmic instruments, providing dynamic movement within the songs. Their sound has been described as "divine, classical drone without the tedious intrusion of drums or vocals".)
Refinement of the Decline
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Tippy’s Demise
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCOe5iMz_OI
Over And Out
www.myspace.com/vladislavdelaymusic
www.vladislavdelay.com
( ;D --> Vladislav Delay, Uusitalo, Luomo, Conoco, Sistol. Under a raft of different names this Finnish artist (Sasu Ripatti *1976) has experimented with ambient, broken beat, glitch as well as grooves and house music with soulful vocals. In addition he has collaborated with and worked for a wide range of artists ranging from Scissor Sisters and Craig Armstrong to AGF, Black Dice, Massive Attack, Towa Tei and Ryuichi Sakamoto. While his side-projects and remixes are there to flirt with more stable rhythms and dancefloor institutions, his main love as well as his background is in experimenting with different kind of sounds and rhythms; a quest to find some music not heard yet. The soundtrack of Vladislav Delay. His forte is the rhythm, even if so subtle at times. In fact, he may as well be classified as a “percussionist” (actually he is originally a drummer) rather than an electronic musician despite the fact that that is how he mostly generates his sound and music, because it is the beat and its possibilities which lie closest to his heart, which further serves to explain why he has experimented with it from so many different musical angles.)
Vantaa
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Henki [Vantaa] (2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w48xFX86yZA
Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2011/06/flavor-of-week-26.html
And:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/05/flavor-of-week-20_15.html
And:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2008/07/flavor-of-week-29.html
And:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/07/flavor-of-week-30.html
Human Decay
www.humandecay.de
( ;D --> Human Decay’s sound features a special mixture of various electronic, electric and body-music elements. thus it’s not limited on some simple e.b.m. clichés. techno elements are also an inherent part of our music as well as industrial-noise timbres. the output is the distillate of a electronic-music experience since 1996 so midtempo-tracks alternate with dance floor hits, intelligent tricky sounds rotating around straight’n’stomping beats. rhythmic skill and the variety of sound ideas combined with experimental beat constellations synthesizes into an elaborate body which is juxtaposed / contradicted / mixed up / completed with pretentious lyrics. fresh and invigorating „uncatchy” files are the outcome of the HD-framework so in this connection, the band does not really insist on momentary important ingredients of electronic music but is one of the worlds few music projects with the same incredibly crazy name from the very start ‘til the very present.)
Dolls (release feb 24th)
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silent submission
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN_H0OsQx4I
Robert Lippok
www.myspace.com/robertlippok
http://soundcloud.com/experimedia/robert-lippok
( ;D --> Robert Lippok was born 1966 in Berlin.Since his youth, he was active in different formations as a musician, visual artist and set designer. The group called To Rococo Rot was founded in the 1990s together with Ronald Lippok, the brother of Robert Lippok, and Stefan Schneider from Dusseldorf.)
Redsuperstructure
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( ;D --> Simple sonic events are unfolding themselves, evoking the sound of a Carl Orff children's ensemble. Pleasant and strange noises join a bass foundation that recreates the ground-shaking subsonic waves of mid-'90s drum n' bass. It's like a drum major meets a Tibetan monk. They try to do a dervish thing together, elegant and funky, which forcibly drags the slowest souls out of their torpor and forces them to run and jump. Loops radiate, something is bouncing, the universe steps out of an anti-academic cloud, into your mind and the unexplored regions of our sensibility. All is good in the noosphere with Redsuperstructure. Robert Lippok's new record is based on the spectacular set he performed at Raster-Noton Electric Campfire at Villa Massimo in September of 2010.)
Nycycle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_AcF_OGhM8&feature=player_embedded
se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/11/flavor-of-week-46.html
Diskonnekted
www.myspace.com/diskonnekted
www.diskonnekted.com
( ;D --> Stubborn and combative, Diskonnekted has always been fighting the stereotypical boundaries that separate the genres within the genres. Refusing to walk the line or to follow any leader, Diskonnekted floats somewhere between big electronic beats, spacy ambient layers, deep and dirty basslines and distorted grooves. Somewhere between heaven and hell, and soon somewhere between your ears. With Diskonnekted, Belgian artist Jan Dewulf uniquely combines progressive electro tunes with a broad spectrum of alternative dance styles ranging from EBM and big beats to industrial and tech-edged breaks. After having worked on a wide spectrum of previous projects enriched with the trademark Belgian EBM-sound, which often brought him comparisons to The Klinik, it was at the turn of the millennium that Diskonnekted was founded.)
Hotel Existence (release date coming up)
http://news.diskonnekted.com/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4ZYYGGbpLU
Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2008_06_01_archive.html
Stars of the Lid
www.myspace.com/starsofthelid
( ;D --> Stars of the Lid is a duo specializing in drone-based ambient music. They list among their influences minimalist and electronic composers such as Arvo Pärt, Zbigniew Preisner, Gavin Bryars, and Henryk Górecki, as well as Talk Talk (both bands have tracks named "Taphead"), post-rock artists Labradford, and ambient innovator Brian Eno. Their songs are largely beatless soundscapes, composed of droning, effects-treated guitars along with piano, strings, and horns; volume swells and feedback fill the gap of rhythmic instruments, providing dynamic movement within the songs. Their sound has been described as "divine, classical drone without the tedious intrusion of drums or vocals".)
Refinement of the Decline
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Tippy’s Demise
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCOe5iMz_OI
Over And Out
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