Flavor of the Week #27

M‡яc▲ll▲
soundcloud.com/m-c-ll
soundcloud.com/m-c-ll/m-llevs-m-l-fic-rvm-m-c-ll-v
carmilla-mircalla.blogspot.com
( ;D --> Electronic Horror Soundtracks To Psychic Photography.)
MΛLLEVS MΛLΞFIC▲RVM
mcll.bandcamp.com/album/m-llevs-m-l-fic-rvm
 
Röyksopp
royksopp.com
( ;D --> ( ;D --> Named after a kind of fungi, Röyksopp was formed in 1998 by Norwegians Torbjörn Brundtland and Svein Berge who delivered a new kind of electronica with their debut album Melody A.M. in 2001.
The sound was a big hit with the advertising world and tracks were co-opted for a variety of products including a Apple, an insurance group and broadcasters in the US and the UK.
With their taste for experimentation extending to their videos, they won an MTV Europe award for "Remind Me" from their second album The Understanding.
The band's skills as producers have been utilized with remixes for Beck, Coldplay and Peter Gabriel and they were invited to do a compilation album for the Back To Mine series in 2006.)
Late Night Tales
open.spotify.com/album/6LEyHNCEZpp1uln8pk93Hm
latenighttales.co.uk/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Night_Tales:_R%C3%B6yksopp
( ;D --> Late Night Tales invites the world’s best artists to delve deep into their music collections to create the ultimate "late night” selection. The series features expertly curated mixes by MGMT, Friendly Fires, The Flaming Lips, Metronomy, Groove Armada, The Cinematic Orchestra, Four Tet, Belle & Sebastian, Jamiroquai, Midlake, Arctic Monkeys and more top artists. Each offering includes an exclusive cover version by the artist and a spoken word story narrated by the likes of Benedict Cumberbatch, Will Self, Bootsy Collins, Brian Blessed and Patrick Moore. Late Night Tales: music and stories worth staying up for.)
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2010/09/flavor-of-week-37.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/03/flavor-of-week-11.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/05/flavor-of-week-22.html

Mark Pritchard
https://soundcloud.com/markprtchrd
( ;D --> Mark Pritchard has previously recorded under many guises - including Africa Hi-Tech, Harmonic 313, and Harmonic 33, to name a few.  As one half of Global Communication and Jedi Knights, Mark Pritchard has released some of the most important records of the early nineties, and his work continues to influence younger musicians today.)
Ghosts
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( ;D --> This release marks the start of all his production styles coming together under one name. The EP demonstrates Pritchard’s expansive work and will be available as a 12” wrapped in a special obi-strip.)
See also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/05/flavor-of-week-20.html

Raymond Watts (PIG)
heswining.com
( ;D --> Raymond Watts(PIG) inhabits a genre of one. How to begin to describe it? We can start with KMFDM, since the unforgettable Englishman behind it – Raymond Watts – was a founder member. Once you have a certain combination of hard rock, soulful electro-pop and funk in your head, you can introduce Foetus: big band, blues and classical samples pounded into place by some behemoth of machinery – but PIG zigs where Foetus zags. JG Thirlwell was a frequent collaborator and shaper of the early sound; he appears on ‘Peoria‘ and ‘Sick City‘ and produced the first couple of albums. Accordingly, Watts took a brief turn in the Foetus live band, and contributed to the first two Steroid Maximus albums.)
Reality Machine
raymondpigwatts.bandcamp.com/album/platos-reality-machine-original-soundtrack-2
Schaft
( ;D --> Schaft was a Japanese musical side project whose main members were Maki Fuji of Soft Ballet and Hisashi Imai of Buck-Tick. Schaft can be thought of as being a supergroup in that Maki and Imai formed the core of the group and a rotating roster of collaborators, who are well-known within their genres, were brought in to work on various songs. Raymond Watts of PIG was Schaft's most recurring collaborator, having contributed to half the songs on their debut album and toured with the band. Maki Fujii (Soft Ballet) and Hisashi Imai (Buck-Tick) originally conceived Schaft as a one-off monikor for a song. The track was for a 1991 Japanese compilation titled "Dance 2 Noise 001". After a few sporadic live dates, they decided to bring Raymond Watts (Pig, KMFDM) into the line-up and record a full album. Collaborations with Autechre, Coil, Meat Beat Manifesto and others brought a cult following to the project. 1994 was their only full year of activity. However in 2001, Schwein surfaced as a somewhat unofficial continuation of Schaft.)
Switchblade
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Olive (mixed by Coil) from the 1994 album Switchblade
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RKZfZKXACI
Praise the Lard
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Akkord
www.houndstoothlabel.com/artist/akkord
( ;D --> Initially conceived as an outlet for a collective of like-minded artists from the rural outskirts of Manchester, Akkord have already achieved more than the sum of their parts. Having self-released two long sold out records and with their ‘Surge’ track gracing the first ever 12” from the label arm of the incredibly well respected Electronic Explorations; they’ve achieved something of a cult following completely on the merits of their output. Bringing together their collected musical experience, ?kkord channel a sound that’s a hybrid of the electronic musics its members were raised on and their four track debut EP for Houndstooth is a further distillation of their passions for sonic minimalism and sound design.)
Navigate
soundcloud.com/houndstoothlbl/akkord-navigate-clips/s-qQjE3

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Flavor of the Week #26

Covenant
www.covenant.de
( ;D --> In the late 1970s and early 1980s, electronic music and several of its subgenres became a preferred musical style among European underground culture. It gained favor initially within major cities and eventually trickled into the continent's more socially secluded regions. This new wave of music was discovered at different instances by a group of friends living among the shadows of Helsingborg, a scenic municipality in western Sweden. philosophy, and matters of existence, were enthralled by the unique presentation and the emotional content offered through the music, specifically by that of bands such as Kraftwerk, The Human League, Depeche Mode, Front 242 and Nitzer Ebb.)
Last Dance
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=VffwRPczk04
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/04/flavor-of-week-18.html

Ghost Capsules
www.ghostcapsules.com
( ;D --> Electro quartet Ghost Capsules can trace their beginnings back to a Bomb The Bass gig in Vienna. Here it was that Tim Simenon, touring the 'Back To Light' album, met his support band that featured drummer Roman Lugmayr and keyboard player Georg Lichtenauer. The three hit it off, so much so that Tim relocated from Amsterdam to the Austrian capital. Here the missing piece for the Ghost Capsules jigsaw was found in singer Laura Gomez, who Tim had booked to play at one of his club nights. Proof positive that there's no business as sociable as music.)
Ghost Capsules
open.spotify.com/album/1hbqWDPmJisZl0ctEvAGIq
Time & Matter
open.spotify.com/track/5u8gW9b8ZmdmDzQ0X1wi7R

DECAYEDen
www.facebook.com/DecayedENOfficial
( ;D --> Jeremiah Saint + Emotion * Passion = DECAYEDen. Darkwave, Downbeat, Industrial, Gothic.)
Dead Angels & Forgotten Ghosts
www.decayeden.bandcamp.com

Mondkopf
soundcloud.com/mondkopf
www.myspace.com/mondkopfonthemoon
( ;D --> Mondkopf is a French artist with a German name, which is fitting, given how often his productions play in a middle ground between those two countries' archetypal modes of electronic music. Looked at a certain way, Rising Doom, the 24-year old's latest full-length and first for Fool House, the label imprint of French fashion/mp3 blog Fluokids, borrows the machine muscle of harsh Teutonic techno and leavens it with just a bit of the joviality and melody of French touch.)mondkopf.tumblr.com/post/52820393531/white-pimp-cut-up
The Nicest Way
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Ave Maria
open.spotify.com/track/0lz20yB2KNeTNTUryCy692
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2012/03/flavor-of-week-12.html

Caribou
www.myspace.com/cariboumanitoba
( ;D --> Daniel Victor Snaith better known by the stage names Caribou and Manitoba, is a Canadian electronic musician. He is the son of Victor Snaith, a mathematics professor at the University of Sheffield.)
Start Breaking my hart
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2010_01_01_archive.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2007/09/flavor-of-week-39.html

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Flavor of the Week #25

Stimming
soundcloud.com/stimming
www.stimming.org/
( ;D --> Few people bring a truly original sound to house music. At a relatively young age, Hamburg’s Martin Stimming did just that, demonstrating a sophisticated yet accessible sound that’s beyond his years.
Two years after hooking up with Solomun’s Diynamic Music, his 2008 breakthrough hit Una Pena made the electronic world sit up and take notice, and before long acclaimed labels like Freerange, liebe*detail, Buzzin’ Fly, Green and Poker Flat were snapping up his work. 2009 saw him release his immaculate debut album Reflections to great acclaim, cementing his reputation as one of the most exciting new producers of his generation. His second album, Liquorice, eschews the normal kick-clap/snare template by and large to explore more interesting and progressive territories, but always with that trademark magpie-like sense of texture, emotion and discovery. His productions are filled with a multitude of his own unique, charismatic field recordings, and he never uses the same sample more than once.)
Stimming
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Shpongle
shpongle.com
www.myspace.com/therealshpongle
www.twistedmusic.com/artists/shpongle
( ;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.)
Museum Of Consciousness
shpongle.com/museumofconsciousness/us/
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See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2009/10/flavor-of-week-43.html

Beacon
beacon.bandcamp.com/
soundcloud.com/beaconmusicnyc
( ;D --> The best music is music that can make you think as well as feel, sounds that are as visceral as they are cerebral. And the best love songs are those that acknowledge that the power of human sexuality can be just as terrifying as it is thrilling, that the passion that leads us to love can also lead us into dark, dark places. Welcome to the world of Brooklyn duo Beacon, who explore the dark side of the sweet melody with a sound that’s as seductive as it is subtly discomfiting. The duo – Thomas Mullarney III and Jacob Gossett – met at Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute, where they were studying sculpture and painting respectively. As with many other great musical partnerships, this one involves two disparate sets of influences coming together to form a sound that’s both fresh and exciting. They fuse the deceptively sweet melodies of R&B with an intoxicating undercurrent of darkness, drawing on influence as disparate as Warp’s back catalogue and Underworld.  The fusion of these two sounds – R&B’s melody and sexuality, electronic music’s complexity and, especially, the bass - heavy sound design of Mullarney’s influences (“Bass is key to our music,” he enthuses, “big, thunderous rap bass”) – would provide a blueprint for Beacon’s own sound: there’s a duality at play here, an idea of something dark lurking beneath a sleek veneer, a sense of latent conflict and uncertain resolution.)
The Ways We Separate
open.spotify.com/album/4yeZneqzXybmC5k7JGKiW0
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Nousia
www.nousia.com.ve
( ;D --> Dark electro-industrial from Venezuela.)
Score For The End Of Times (Volume 1)
nousia.bandcamp.com/

Zomby
4ad.com/artists/zomby
( ;D --> Zomby is an electronic musician who began releasing music in 2007. He has released music on several labels, including Hyperdub, Werk Discs and 4AD. Zomby's influences include jungle music and Wiley's eskibeat sound.)
WIth Love
shopusa.4ad.com/with-love
Soliloquy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgPRVTHAnds
( ;D -->'Soliloquy' is taken from Zomby's new album, With Love, released 17/18th June 2013.)

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Flavor of the Week #24

Guy Gerber
soundcloud.com/guygerber
www.myspace.com/guygerber
www.guygerber.com
( ;D --> Guy Gerber has always been comfortable as an outlier. From being the rock kid at the rave, to the Israeli DJ on the European club circuit, to the electronic producer with a fetish for live instruments, he tends to skirt the edge of whatever scene he's in. It's a position that suits him well––so far it's led to dozens of lush, melodic records, an ever-evolving live act and his own label, Supplement Facts. This nonconformist attitude, combined with the emotional content of his art (so rare in today's electronic music), explains how Gerber keeps his audience locked in, be it on record or on stage.)
Steady (feat. Jaw)/Defected In The House Miami 2013
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Fabric 64: Guy Gerber
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Steady feat. Jaw (Richie G's 'She's The One' Remix)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0t8ClbCmg4
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2010/05/crystal-castles-www.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/06/flavor-of-week-26.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/06/flavor-of-week-25.html

Nine Inch Nails
www.nin.com
www.myspace.com/nin
( ;D --> Nine Inch Nails (abbreviated as NIN, sometimes stylized as NIИ) is an American industrial rock project, founded in 1988 by Trent Reznor in Cleveland, Ohio. As its main producer, singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Reznor is the only official member of Nine Inch Nails and remains solely responsible for its direction. Nine Inch Nails' music straddles a wide range of genres. After recording a new album, Reznor usually assembles a live band to perform with him. The touring band features a revolving lineup that often rearranges songs to fit a live setting. On stage, Nine Inch Nails often employs visual elements to accompany performances, which frequently include light shows.)
Came Back Haunted
soundcloud.com/nineinchnails/came-back-haunted-2013
( ;D --> After Trent Reznor let slip last week that he had secretly recorded a new Nine Inch Nails album over the past year, he offered the title and release date yesterday, along with a slippery new song and the itinerary for a fall tour.)
Hesitation Marks (will be released September 3rd)
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2008_04_01_archive.html

Cynical Existence
www.facebook.com/cynical.existence.official
( ;D --> Project of Fredrik Croona (Ex Project Rotten and Menschdefekt) and Steve Alton (System:FX). bleeding from the ears is a normal side-effect. Cynical Existence started out as a solo project from founder and lead vocalist of the aggrotech/industrial act Project Rotten and also former vocalist of dark electro/industrial act Menschdefekt.)
Beholder
alfamatrix.bandcamp.com/album/beholder-ep
Mardröm
lfamatrix.bandcamp.com/track/mardr-m

Paul Jebanasam
twitter.com/pauljebanasam
www.subtextrecordings.net/SUBCD004.html
( ;D --> UK based Sri Lankan born artist Paul Jebanasam. Rites brings together five settings of stark sonic poetry whose underlying logic bridges the worlds of contemporary classical, metal, sacred music and sound design.)
Rites
subtextrecordings.net/SUBCD004.html
soundcloud.com/experimedia/paul-jebanasam-rites-album
( :D --> With the scope of modern composition, the ferocity of metal, and the starkness of electronic music at its bleakest, Paul Jebanasam's debut full-length on his own Subtext imprint is a savage and intimidating creature. This awe-inspiring presence is only superseded by the deft, mult-dimensional compositions that make up "Rites." Though rooted in the language of electronic music, the difference between this album and those usually tagged with that genre is a vast chasm in both vision and execution as "Rites" is more akin to Ben Frost's "Theory of Machines" or Deaf Center's "Owl Splinters." The highpoints are many - from the string-imbued "Rites III" to the static-drenched epic "Rites IV" - but Jebanasam's best moment is the album's second track. "Rites II" is a menacing thriller of a song that roils to a blistering peak of distortion blasts and throbbing sub-bass and leaves the listener battered and wanting more. As a debut, "Rites" is beyond impressive. - Ryan Potts, Experimedia.)

U Hang No Da
www.myspace.com/uterozzzaaa
soundcloud.com/u-hangnoda
www.facebook.com/u.hangnoda
( ;D --> Industrial punk from Oska, Japan, recomended by CEvin Key :).)
Recorded on 2005 sense
soundcloud.com/u-hangnoda/uterozzzaaa-recorded-2005


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