Flavor of the Week #49

Robert Rich
robertrich.com/
www.myspace.com/rrich
( ;D --> Although his music is often consigned to the new age bins of record stores and the bulk of his work has been released on labels more closely associated with that classification, Robert Rich's solo and collaborative recordings have proven extremely influential on a range of new-school ambient and experimental artists. His association with older space music pioneers such as Steve Roach, Kevin Braheny, and Michael Stearns also makes him one of the few of that generation to have interfaced creatively with the new wave of experimental electronic composers. A California native, Rich began experimenting with electronics in the late '70s before attending Stanford University, where he completed a degree in psychology. While at Stanford, Rich's involvement in the university's prestigious Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics expanded his interest in electronic composition, as well as bringing him in contact with a wide range of nontraditional, non-Western musical ideas. Rich's performance of several all-night "sleep concerts" during this period also helped solidify an aesthetic focus on psychoacoustics, perceptible in early recordings such as Geometry and Trances/Drones.)
Nest
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( ;D --> Nest A revery of landscape and internal spaces, evolving towards a kernel of revelation with slow searching energy.)
Medicine Box
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( ;D --> Medicine Box may be Rich's most dynamic album yet, an adept blending of technology with the ancient.)
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2010/04/flavor-of-week-16.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2007/12/flavor-of-week-52.html

Mater Suspiria Vision www.phantasmadisques.bigcartel.com/artist/mater-suspiria-vision
( ;D --> Witch House - Ghost Drone - Haunted Disco Trance, Hansel and Gretel, Underground Culture of Kabul, Machine Gun Noise.)
Ultra Rare Trax 2012
phantasmadisques.bigcartel.com/product/mater-suspiria-vision-ultra-rare-trax-2012-vinyl-lp
www.witch-house.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1898

Wynardtage
www.facebook.com/wynardtage
www.myspace.com/wynardtage
( ;D --> Delicious “dark“ pop songs from Germany.)
Sleepless in Heaven
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Warm up my Heart (official video)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY0tXqdPmlU
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2011/02/flavor-of-week-7.html

//Tense//
myspace.com/tensexxx
soundcloud.com/bngwednesdays
open.spotify.com/artist/61M1XcQJX3n9VdUbEmgfEC
( ;D -->  Robert Lane - Vox/Programming/Live Leads/Percussion. Lawrence Pearce - Synth programming/Live Synths. Jeff Swearengin - Programming/Sequencing/Percussion.)
Consume
desirerecords.bigcartel.com/product/tense-consume-ep-10-dsr013-300-copies-only-pre-orders
( ;D --> Consume EP presents a new angle to the hard hitting EBM tracks the band has already released. The sound is cleaner and sharper. It mixes hard beats EBM style with more ethereal and atmospheric ambience of the shoegaze bands of the early 90s.
Think Ministry jamming with Slowdive and produced by Salem with the help of DJ Pierre.)

Blutengel
www.myspace.com/officialblutengel 
www.blutengel.de
( ;D --> Blutengel (German: Blood Angel) is a German futurepop musical group. It was formed by singer Chris Pohl, also of the groups Terminal Choice, Tumor, and Miss Construction and the owner of the Fear Section label.)
Save Our Souls
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www.blutengel.de/blutengel-save-our-souls
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0WwF_bVhZU
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2011/02/flavor-of-week-7.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2010/10/flavor-of-week-42.html


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Flavor of the Week #48

Mentallo and the fixer
www.myspace.com/mentalloandthefixer
www.mentallo.net
( ;D --> Mentallo and the Fixer is the industrial brainchild of two brothers from Texas, Gary and Dwayne Dassing. Mentallo and the Fixer derived its name from a pair of comic book characters whose origins have long since faded into obscurity.The Dassing brothers were raised on rock music, so their first instruments were actually the guitar (Dwayne) and drums (Gary). However, this changed when the pair discovered a number of new wave bands whose music was heavily saturated with synthesizers. Dwayne specifically lists the Cars, early Orchestral Manouevres in the Dark, and especially Gary Numan as strong influences to Mentallo and the Fixer.)
Music from the Erther
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Until the Blood Flows Freely
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( ;D --> - 2012 is the ""Mentallo & The Fixer"" year - starting with the unreleased back-catalogue material last Spring - The return from one of the cult legends on the electro/industrial scene with a new studio album after 5 years of silence. - for old school EBM fans as well as lovers of more experimental complex electronic sounds - limited 3CD box with bonus disc with 16 extra tracks.)
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2010/06/flavor-of-week-23.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2008/09/bomb-bass-www.html

Nathan Fake
soundcloud.com/nthnfk
www.myspace.com/nathancake
www.nathanfake.co.uk
( ;D --> Nathan Fake is an English electronic music artist from Norfolk, who has released numerous singles as well as a full-length album on labels such as Border Community and Traum Schallplatten.In 2006, his debut album "Drowning in a Sea of Love" was released on Border Community. The album received excellent reviews in the music press.)
Steam Days
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See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2009/05/flavor-of-week-19.html

Minilogue
soundcloud.com/minilogue
www.traumschallplatten.de
( ;D --> Minilogue is a Swedish Progressive House/Techno music group of Sebastian Mullaert and Marcus Henriksson. The name is a portmanteau of minimal (the musical style) and dialogue, which refers to music as a form of communication. Beside their music production as Minilogue, they are both involved in the group Son Kite and Trimatic, and Sebastian has the soloprojects as IMPS and Ooze.)
Let life dance thru you
www.beatport.com/release/let-life-dance-thru-you/845167
Drop The Mask Of Self Protection (Original Mix)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=__JgWkN1HIs&feature=player_embedded
The Leopard (extrawelt remix)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi_I8wHvijk

Binary Fate
sundcloud.com/binary-fate
( ;D --> Chillwave, Electronic Haunted House, Darkwave, Drag, Ethereal, Witch House, Cosmic Witch :D.)
Time Flow
soundcloud.com/binary-fate/binary-fate-time-flow
( ;D --> Will be available on forthcoming digital album 'Deference' releasing on TUNDRA DUBS 12/18/12.)
www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=491398670880825&set=a.153406964679999.28851.152883674732328&type=1&theater

Claudia Brücken
www.claudiabrucken.co.uk
( ;D --> Former Propaganda singer Claudia Brücken has released her new album The Lost Are Found. Produced by Stephen Hague, it includes Claudia's own version of ‘King's Cross’ (the original PSB version was also produced by Stephen Hague).)
Lost are Found
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Flavor of the Week #47

Michael Mayer
soundcloud.com/michael_mayer
www.kompakt.fm/artists/michael_mayer
( ;D --> As a DJ, producer and remixer, Michael Mayer remains one of Germany's core celebrities in dance music. It's no secret that he spends his weekends traveling around the globe. It's likely throughout his career he's played in front of millions. Then, as a co-owner of Kompakt, he spends his weekdays deciding what will be released on the label and working with the label's artists and overseeing Kompakt's distribution wing - the home of over 50 record labels. Amazingly enough, he manages to sneak into the studio on occasion to produce his own music and remix the likes of Pet Shop Boys, Depeche Mode, Foals and Rufus Wainwright. And of course there is Supermayer but more on that later. It's safe to say he loves being challenged and regardless of the pressure is never putting less than 100% of his heart and soul into everything he does.)
Mantasy
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Hocico
www.hocico.com
www.myspace.com/hocico
( ;D --> The duo was officially formed in 1993 by Erik Garcia a.k.a. Erk Aicrag (lyrics and vocals) and Oscar Mayorga a.k.a. Racso Agroyam (Programming), but both cousins had been experimenting with electronic music, mixing industrial and EBM, since they were fifteen years old. Their music can be described as electro-industrial. Erk Aircrag and Racso Agroyam incited to express their feelings through technology. Given the influence of varying currents of electronic music (mainly Skinny Puppy) they began their trajectory in 1989 in a project called "Niñera Degenerada". Their lyrics are both in Spanish as well as English. The Spanish word hocico means snout, and is used in Mexico as a disrespectful way to describe someone's comments coming out of their mouth.)
Vile Whispers
www.outoflineshop.de/vile-whispers.html
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( ;D --> The Mexican pioneers of harder electronic music culture return with an impressive, new single. No matter whether you do believe the pessimistic interpretations of the Mayan calendar as to an impending end of the world or not… it is doubtless that few other bands could deliver a more fitting soundtrack for our apocalyptic, crisis-infused times than Hocico. With their new single “Vile Whispers”, Erk Aicrag and Racso Agroyam go back to their very roots: dirty beats, straight thudding sequencers, ultra-aggressive shouts and intriguing sonic experiments merge to become an electronic outcry of rage that blasts away anything that stands in its way. The Mexicans reduce their sound to its core essence to maximize the impact of their dance floor compatible outburst. Erk makes the track explode like an wrathful demigod while Racso plays with sounds that create a club-assault from psychotic horror visions, captivating melodies and a healthy amount of sub-bass-oomph! The exclusive B-side “It Doesn’t Exist” also doesn’t fall short in regard to club compatibility and showcases a more playful side of Hocico that marries brutal sonic violence with minimalist melodies. Erk and Racso also infuse the title track with the trademark sounds of their respective solo projects in two searing remixes, one sporting the Electroclash-approach of Rabia Sorda and the other the hard Industrial of Dulce Liquido. The most important voice of Harsh Electro has created another milestone that other will have to be measured against. The band’s “Vile Whispers” are anything but soft – the inferno commences and Hocico are setting it off! The perfect appetizer for the soon to be released new album! Limited & hand numbered to 1000 copies! Tracks: 1. Vile Whispers (original mix) 2. It Doesn’t Exist 3. Vile Whispers (Dulce Liquido remix) 4. Vile Whispers (Rabia Sorda remix).)
Tiempos de Furia (Deluxe)
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Vile Whispers
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Hs5dZ9iB9WA
Los Espejos Rotos
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D3PaDHsjYc
Fragmentos en el tiempo/Escapando de los recuerdos/Los espejos rotos
www.youtube.com/user/RacsoErk
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2010/08/flavor-of-week-33.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2008/03/flavor-of-week-12.html
 
Recoil
www.recoil.co.uk/
www.myspace.com/recoil
( ;D --> Recoil is the project of Alan Wilder, formerly of Depeche Mode. Alan is a classically-trained musician and renowned contemporary music producer. Recoil was born in 1986 as a two-track experimental EP.An album, 'Hydrology', soon followed in 1988 and both were eventually re-issued by Mute Records on CD as 'Hydrology plus 1+2'.These early Recoil recordings revealed Wilder’s position as a pioneer in the newly emerging world of sampling technology.)
Spirit of Talk Talk
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See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2012/06/flavor-of-week-24.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2007_05_01_archive.html
 
JK Flesh
3by3.greedbag.com/jk-flesh/
( ;D --> The insanely prolific Justin Broadrick raises his Techno Animal moniker JK Flesh from the dead for its debut full-length outing, taking his more extreme sonic tendencies and contextualising them within the post-dubstep/industrial canon pushed by 3by3.)
Posthuman
3by3.greedbag.com/buy/posthuman-2/
Idle Hands
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y23s8JXOz0A&feature=colike
 
Christian Zander
soundcloud.com/christianzander
www.myspace.com/tubrox
( ;D --> Synthetic beats and melodies that sound as if HAL have discovered his musical side and try to implement mathematical equations in music. As a whole, this one creates chilly atmosphere reminiscent in all its artificiality of power plant.)
Sinusrhythmus
soundcloud.com/christianzander/christian-zander-sinusrhythmus
Konsolenkinder/Net.Ware Urban United
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Flavor of the Week #46

Jeremiah Sain†
www.jeremiahsaint.com
soundcloud.com/jeremiahsaint
Industrial / Suicide Rock / Darkwave / Electronic/ Post Life
( ;D --> Jeremiah Sain† is a multi- threat individual (Musician / Composer / Producer / Composer / Writer / Artist / Actor) that only does and produces these as pure passion.)   
My†hos
jeremiahsaint1.bandcamp.com/album/my-hos

The Clarke and Ware Experiment
www.clarkewareboxset.com
( ;D --> On Monday 26th November Mute brings you The House Of Illustrious, a very special 10 CD deluxe box set by The Clarke and Ware Experiment. The Clarke and Ware Experiment is a collaboration between the two icons of electronic music: Vince Clarke, best know for his work with Erasure, Depeche Mode, Yazoo and VCMG; and Martyn Ware, best know for his work in The Human League, Heaven 17 and B.E.F.)
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=D-XKtLflnKA
The House Of Illustrious
shop.lexermusic.com/index.php?p=product&id=761&parent=45

Assemblage 23
www.assemblage23.com
( ;D --> Assemblage 23 is an electronic act from the United States, currently based in Seattle. It was founded in 1988 by Tom Shear who writes the music, lyrics, and does the recording himself.)
Bruise
open.spotify.com/album/0cJZ0saymRlyHRzh6J21iV
Bruise (Deluxe)
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See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2007/09/flavor-of-week-39.html

IAMX
www.myspace.com/IAMX
www.iamx.co.uk
( ;D --> IAMX is the solo musical project of Chris Corner. The lyrics are primarily concerned with subjects such as sex, death, narcotic intoxication, bisexuality, decadence, religion, alienation and allusions to politics. Corner currently lives in Berlin, where he has found "the spirit to care less about the music industry and take an independent route.")
Electronic sex and emotional strength
www.pledgemusic.com/projects/iamx?utm_campaign=project5322&utm_medium=project_badge&utm_source=unknown
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2010/09/flavor-of-week-39.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/04/flavor-of-week-15.html

Straussbach
soundcloud.com/straussbach
www.myspace.com/straussbach
( ;D --> Producer, composer and beatmaker soundtracks, dance, trance, drum and bass, dubstep, rap, r & b, neo soul, orchestral, experimental, trip hop ..)
Nosce te ipsum
http://soundcloud.com/straussbach/sets

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Flavor of the Week #45

Crystal Castles
soundcloud.com/crystal-castles/tracks
www.myspace.com/crystalcastles
www.crystalcastles.com 
( ;D --> Crystal Castles music is easily recognized by their heavy use of samples and distorted female vocals. Crystal Castles does not in fact use a modified keyboard with an Atari 5200 sound chip as an oscillator, as it is frequently claimed. Their musical style has been described as having "ferocious, asphyxiating sheets of warped two-dimensional Gameboy glitches and bruising drum bombast pierce [the] skull with sheer shrill force, burrowing deep into the brain like a fever")
(III
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See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2010/05/crystal-castles-www.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009_02_01_archive.html

Delerium
www.delerium.ca
www.facebook.com/Delerium
www.twitter.com/delerium
( ;D --> Delerium is a band from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, formed in 1987, originally as a side project of the influential industrial music act, Front Line Assembly. Throughout the band’s history, their musical style has encompassed a broad range, including dark ethereal ambient trance, voiceless industrial soundscapes, and electronic pop music. Delerium has traditionally been a two-person project, but the only constant member throughout its history has been Bill Leeb. Leeb was a guest musician and early supporter of industrial dance pioneers Skinny Puppy, but after he left in 1986 he went on to create his own project, Front Line Assembly with collaborator Michael Balch. Later, the two worked on the side project Delerium and released their first album, Faces, Forms & Illusions. After Balch left both Front Line Assembly and Delerium, Leeb worked with Rhys Fulber, and the two released several albums under the Delerium moniker; these years saw a gradual stylistic change from darker ambient to a more danceable sound. After the release of Karma, Fulber left to pursue other interests, and Leeb teamed up with producer Chris Peterson to release Poem. 2003, however, saw the reunion of Leeb and Fulber for the release of Chimera, followed by Nuages du Monde in 2006. In contrast to Leeb and collaborators' other projects, Delerium has included several guest vocalists since the release of Semantic Spaces. These have included mostly women, such as Kristy Thirsk, Sarah McLachlan, Leigh Nash (of Sixpence None the Richer), Elsieanne Caplette (of Elsiane), Lisa Gerrard (sampled only), Jaël (of Swiss band Lunik), Camille Henderson, Nerina Pallot, Emily Haines (of Metric), Jacqui Hunt (of Single Gun Theory), Isabel Bayrakdarian and Shelley Harland. Other than Leeb, only two males have contributed vocals to a Delerium album: Matthew Sweet ("Daylight", on Poem) and Greg Froese ("Apparition", on Nuages du Monde); in addition, the noted griot Baaba Maal was sampled ("Awakenings, on "Spiritual Archives"). The Mediæval Bæbes provided the vocal track for, and starred in the video of, Aria; the vocals are an adapted version of the vocals from "All Turns to Yesterday" on the Bæbes' Worldes Blysse album. They are also featured on two tracks from Delerium's 2006 album, Nuages du Monde. Although it may be argued that Front Line Assembly has the largest cult following of all Leeb and associates projects, Delerium is undoubtedly the most financially successful. In addition to these two mainstays, related projects of the Leeb, Fulber, Peterson, Balch family include Equinox, Intermix, Noise Unit, Pro-Tech, and Synæsthesia, among others. In addition, in 2007 Leeb and Fulber collaborated with Leigh Nash under the name Fauxliage, also Rhys Fulber maintains his solo project Conjure One since his temporary exit from Delerium.)
Music Box Opera
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See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2008_09_01_archive.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2008/09/bomb-bass-www.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2007/11/flavor-of-week-47.html
And of cause:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2006_12_01_archive.html

labXIV
coredark.com/labxiv
soundcloud.com/labxiv
( ;D --> electronic band labXIV (laboratory fourteen). LabXIV ... appealed to ones predilection for forward thinking takes on classic synth tropes ... [they] deftly tread the line between the sterility of mid-eighties EBM and post-industrial and the melody and warmth of classic electropop ... the project is set to join their fellow artists in the burgeoning Los Angeles synth scene in the international spotlight.)
labXIV (12") mp3 edition
soundcloud.com/labxiv/sets/labxiv-12-mp3-edition
Without A Friend
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNmrvr8xwxI

How To Destroy Angel
www.myspace.com/howtodestroyangels
howtodestroyangels.com
( ;D --> How to Destroy Angels = Trent Reznor + Wife? Rumors have been swirling today that a new project called How to Destroy Angels is perhaps the collaboration between Trent Reznor and his wife, Mariqueen Maandig of West Indian Girl. Consequence of Sound received a cryptic email from a publicist that says a 6-track EP will be out this summer and it includes the URL for the "band" website. Though the site features little else but what could be the album art and an equally mysterious 40-second video (below), the lady on the cover does resemble Mariqueen and the music bears all the sonic similarities to NIN's Year Zero. If anything, Reznor's stated in the past that he is a fan of Coil and How to Destroy Angels is one of said band's earliest, best releases.)
An Omen EP
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Keep it together
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Keep it together
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qXuqqIseU0
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2010_04_01_archive.html

C/∆/T
soundcloud.com/corvxdetimor
www.riseofthenightterror.com/
( ;D --> After a 13 year run in the industrial / EBM realm, Arp took a year off to focus on other music. During that year his recordings started taking a darker turn and eventually evolved into what is now known as Corvx de Timor. Decidedly more reliant on Arp’s beginnings in experimental and dark ambient music, Corvx de Timor also takes influence from post-witch house aesthetics and Arp’s love of underground hip-hop.)
Rise of the Night Terror
www.riseofthenightterror.com/
phantasmadisques.bigcartel.com/product/pre-order-pd-061-c-t-rise-of-the-night-terror-cdr  
open.spotify.com/album/4BCax3eNekFMmcmG5qgOPZ


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