Flavor of the Week #31

Vierance
www.soundcloud.com/vierance
( ;D --> Vierance interesting new band from the ever expanding and increasingly dark, electronic music scene in Toronto.)
Vierance EP
vierance.bandcamp.com/album/vierance-ep
Shift
soundcloud.com/vierance/shift
Revelation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgfbkQ-Q830

Human Error
myspace.com/humanerror2009
( ;D --> Human Error is the accumulated audio work of UK based artist Tom Box. Primarily an illustrator and graphic designer, music production allows him a depth of emotional release not possible through visual means. Music is a necessity now. It's a platform to express the inexpressible and offload psychological baggage.)
Coping Mechanism
humanerror.bandcamp.com/

Solitary Experiments
www.myspace.com/solitaryexperiments
www.solitaryexperiments.de
( ;D --> The Berlin-based trio Solitary Experiments has long since understood the fact that good electronic music will require more than bringing together some synthesizer presets with some cuddly beats. With much emphasis on good song writing, catchy melodies and multi-faceted arrangements as on club-compatible beats and solid bass. The anthemic Electro-tracks keep the delicate balance between catchiness and a thorough dose of power that keeps them from ever drifting into Pop-muzak realms.)
Trial and Error
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New album 'Phenomena' coming in September
www.side-line.com/news_comments.php?id=49874_0_2_0_C
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2010/07/yasuharu-motomiya-www.html

Bloodgroup
soundcloud.com/bloodgroup
www.bloodgroup.is/
myspace.com/bloodgroup
adp.bigcartel.com/artist/bloodgroup
( ;D --> Great things often come from humble beginnings. From recording lo-fi pop songs in a run-down house on the East side of Iceland, electronic pop quartet Bloodgroup have blossomed into one of the most well-known Icelandic acts of recent times via their indelible, moody melodies and searing live performances.)
Tracing Echoes
adp.bigcartel.com/product/bloodgroup-tracing-echoes-lp-cd
A Kings woe
soundcloud.com/sugarcane/bloodgroup-a-kings-woe

Cacophoneuses
cacophoneuses.wix.com/cacophoneuses
soundcloud.com/cacophoneuses
www.facebook.com/CACOPHONEUSES
( ;D --> This Electro-Noise project is the child of two french women : Sandra and Joséphine. The sole purpose of their music is to move you inside (and) out.
 With their heavy beats and distortions accompanied by melodic electronic sequences they tell you their story on how they percieve this world inside theirs.)
Erratic Behaviour (Instability Remix By Cacophoneuses)
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Eternal darkness
soundcloud.com/cacophoneuses/eternal-darkness
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA8VUoGsQ-g

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Flavor of the Week #30

Vromb
www.hushush.com/vromb
( ;D --> Vromb (recording alias for Hugo Girard, real name Mario Girard is a Canadian electronic music act from Montreal. Vromb has been international active since 1992.
In the independent underground electronic music scene Vromb has a solid reputation. Vromb creates a unique sound consisting of industrial music, minimal techno rhythms, dense music layers and sci-fi sounds. It sometimes also includes the voices of his fictional character, Professeur Heurel Gaudot. The uniqueness of Vromb can be fully experienced during his rare live appearances. In fact, while electronic musicians will usually perform with a laptop, Vromb is performing with analog synthesizers.)
Avant Ailleurs
www.hushush.com/vromb/releases_oral41.html
Repose Toi
open.spotify.com/track/0xBg1oHXLoEfXEaWg0iHno

Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble Of Shadows
www.myspace.com/soporaeternusofficial
www.facebook.com/sopor.aeternus.offiziell
www.soporaeternus.de
( ;D --> Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows (Latin: sopor æternus "eternal sleep"; often referred to or stylized 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 work has garnered a cult following, notorious for its extremely personalized, melancholic and pessimistic nature, drawing on a number of different musical and visual styles.)
Poetica
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See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2011/11/flavor-of-week-45.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2011/06/flavor-of-week-24.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/07/flavor-of-week-32.html

Co|de
www.facebook.com/pages/Code/183068415164138?ref=hl
soundcloud.com/deadbeatcompute
( ;D --> Sweden has a new female fronted electropop act.)
Fire
soundcloud.com/deadbeatcompute/code-fire
Let the Chips Fall
www.gogoyoko.com/album/Let_the_Chips_Fall

Henric de la Cour
www.myspace.com/henricdelacour
( ;D --> Henric de la Cour, the voice behind Yvonne and Strip Music now goes solo.
The sound is more electronic than before, but just as dark and epic. In the spring “Dogs” was released, a brilliant goth pop song about a complicated relationship, as a teaser on Youtube and on our "Born///Evolve///Progress///3"-compilation. Now comes the album, chock full of pumping electro beats, huge choruses and vampiric romance.)
Henric de la Cour
Mandrills
www.infrarot.de/henric-de-la-cour/mandrills/9941914
( ;D --> Finally the wait is over! It's time for the second album from Henric de la Cour.
"Mandrills" is a dark journey filled with emotions, atmospheres and of course
Henri's fantastic vocals.)
Chasing Dark
soundcloud.com/progressproductions/henric-de-la-cour-chasing-dark
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2011/09/flavor-of-week-39.html

Kreidler
www.ikreidler.de/
soundcloud.com/kreidler
( ;D --> Kreidler is a German band from Düsseldorf, which was founded in 1994. The band combines electronic and analog instruments, and is categorized by critics, depending on the publication, as electronic music, pop, avant-garde, post rock, IDM, ambient, neoclassical, krautrock, or electronica. Kreidler was the inscription on a t-shirt worn by Andreas Reihse on the day when the band Deux Baleines Blanches sought a new name. It was subsequently interpreted as a kind of anagram for Klein, Reihse, Schneider, Weinrich.)
Den
open.spotify.com/album/7BrGTI5E3mDJU4FHcnW6rn
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Mosaik 2014
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Kreidler
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Flavor of the Week #29

Kirlian Camera
www.myspace.com/kirliancamerafront 
facebook.com/kirlian.camera
www.kirliancamera.com
( ;D --> Kirlian Camera are one of the pioneers of the Italian electronic scene.
Active since 1979 under the name SUICIDE COMMANDO, the band changes name in 1980 releasing the first demo-tape DAWN... and the self-titled mini-album in late 1981.
The early records contain a mix of synth pop and new wave/dance songs, while towards the end of the 1980s' Kirlian Camera's music has progressively become darker and darker, turning into a monumental electro-gothic sound. Nearly every release since then has explored different fields, from industrial to ambient, from experimental to trip-hop.
Mind of Kirlian Camera has always been Angelo Bergamini, coupled by many female vocalists as Simona Buja (1980-1987), Suzanne Reddington Gardner (1987), Bianca Hoffmann Santos (1988-1989), Emilia Lo Jacono (1990-1999) and Elena Alice Fossi (1999...).)
Black Summer Choirs
open.spotify.com/album/2BlZvPwKZaVkoSRPISaNmz
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2011/07/flavor-of-week-27.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009_01_01_archive.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2008/04/flavor-of-week-17.html
 
Mr.Kitty
soundcloud.com/mrkittydm
www.facebook.com/mrkittydm
( ;D --> dark alternative electronic music for post-apocalyptic minds.)
Life
engraved-ritual.bandcamp.com/album/Life
( ;D --> For all of its dramatics and emotional melodrama, [LIFE] has an obliging and cordial quality. It’s just fun, and easy to enjoy to boot. The fact that it’s also a whole hour long and never seems to wear itself out or provide an easy break-point in listening is equally admirable. In it Mr.Kitty has crafted a near perfect collection of songs, each one flowing into the next with a kind of cultivated certainty. As new synthpop goes it’s a corker of an album, looking over its shoulder to the past as it forges on ahead into a cool new future. Good stuff.”.)
 
The .invalid
http://theinvalid.bandcamp.com
( ;D --> Hard-hitting, emotional, aggressive electronic music. The .invalid mixes a base formula of the straightforward synths and rhythms of EBM with jittering, glitchy percussion, anthemic hooks, and a vocal approach ranging from melodic to (undistorted) screaming.)
The Aesthetics of Failure
dwa-digital.com/album/the-aesthetics-of-failure

Mount Kimbie
www.mountkimbie.com
soundcloud.com/mountkimbie
( ;D --> Mount Kimbie is a English electronic music duo consisting of Dominic Maker and Kai Campos. They formed the group in London in 2008 and released their debut album Crooks & Lovers on 19 June 2010 in the UK to critical acclaim.)
Cold Spring Fault Less Youth
www.amazon.com/Cold-Spring-Fault-Less-Youth/dp/B00CWGEQTQ/ref=tmm_other_meta_binding_title_0
'You Took Your Time' featuring King Krule.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVBH1qIqe7Y

4Bidden
https://soundcloud.com/4bidden
( ;D --> Mixed experimental electronic from Stockholm)
Lucid Reflections
http://non-reality.com/tag/golden-mist-records/
Nasca Lines
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxptwCu9das

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Flavor of the Week #28

S†NS
soundcloud.com/gn0sis
www.facebook.com/SINSMUSIK
vimeo.com/24828860
sins.bigcartel.com/
( ;D --> S†NS exists outside of time and space. The music and art made by SINS focuses on coming to terms with the bleak remains of our dying world and transforming the pain he sees into something cosmic and beautiful.)
I die
soundcloud.com/gn0sis/sets/i-die-album
www.indie-pool.com/order/cart.asp?showCompany=1&winsize=
theblackbox-djsets.blogspot.ca/2013/07/pretty-pretty-records-sins-I-die.html
( ;D --> During the recording of I DIE, Sins was inspired by death, specifically by his own death. The Japanese have a word “Aware” pronounced (Ah-Wa-Re), which translates roughly to “a gentle sadness towards the impermanence of things”. It's the concept that life and death are but two sides of the same coin. Sins is at one with death, embracing it with one hand while gripping life and living it to its fullest in the other. Aleister Crowley's Sabbath of the Goat sums up this concept nicely.)
Logic
http://noisey.vice.com/blog/premiere-sins-logic
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2013/03/flavor-of-week-13.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2012/07/flavor-of-week-28.html
 
The Legendary Pink Dots
www.myspace.com/thelegendarypinkdots
legendarypinkdots.org
( ;D --> The Legendary Pink Dots (LPD) are an Anglo-Dutch experimental rock band formed in London in August 1980. Although far outside the mainstream (in terms of their music and career path), LPD have released more than 40 albums, have a devoted worldwide following, and tour frequently. The story behind the band's name is a source of speculation because Edward has given multiple explanations behind its origins. The most plausible and common explanation traces back to the mysterious pink dots on certain keys of the band's main recording studio piano named "Osbert"; the dots that can be found at either end of the keys do not make any particular chord or scale pattern and the reason for them remains unknown to this day. The piano itself is still owned by one of the founding band members, April White, and can be found at her home recording studio in Chatteris, Cambridgeshire. Their music touches on elements of neo-psychedelia, ambient music, electronic music, tape music, industrial, psych folk, synth-pop, post-punk, progressive, jazz, noise, pop, and goth rock, with a distinctly experimental/avant-garde bent; their sound has evolved over time and remains distinctive, making it difficult to place the group into a concise style or genre. The group's overall sound combined with Ka-Spel's distinct lyrics and singing have earned comparisons to Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett;[1] the group also has links to the sounds of krautrock bands such as Can,[2] Faust, Brainticket, Magma or Neu! (whose "Super" they covered on the 1999 tribute album "A Homage to NEU!"), as well, to some post-industrial`pioneers as Nurse With Wound and the neo-folk of Current 93. Edward Ka-Spel has said their musical influences range from the likes of Abba to Iannis Xenakis. The Pink Dots also collaborated with Skinny Puppy's cEvin Key, forming a side project named The Tear Garden. Key also appears on the 1994 LPD album 9 Lives to Wonder. Others groups related to present and past Pink Dots members are Strange Attractor, Mimir and Minizza.)
The Gethsemane Option
metropolisrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-gethsemane-option
See also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2012/08/flavor-of-week-32.html
 
Tuxedomoon
tuxedomoon.co
( ;D --> Tuxedomoon is an experimental avant-garde post-punk New Wave group formed in San Francisco, California consisting of core members Blaine L. Reininger, Steven Brown and Peter Principle, Luc van Lieshout and video artist Bruce Geduldig. Formed in 1977 by multi-instrumentalists Blaine L. Reininger and Steven Brown, then two students of electronic music at San Francisco City College, with technical assistance from video artist Tommy Tadlock, Tuxedomoon started playing salons and accompanying performances by The Angels of Light. Brown's connections to local theatre gave the band access to vocalists Gregory Cruikshank, Victoria Lowe, and, most frequently, Winston Tong. The band gained some level of recognition in 1978 when they opened for Devo. Michael Belfer, (guitarist), and Paul Zahl, (drummer) joined the band in time to help with the group's first EP, No Tears. Lowe left prior to the album's release in 1978. Soon afterward, Tong and Belfer left the group temporarily, and bassist Peter Principle joined the lineup. In 1979, the group signed to The Residents' Ralph Records, with whom they recorded their next two albums, Half Mute in 1980 and Desire in 1981, after which the band relocated to Rotterdam for a short time and moved on to Brussels, believing their sound better fit the electronic scene in Europe. In Brussels, the band soon created the score for a ballet by Maurice Bejart,  released in 1982 as "Divine". In 1983 Reininger left the group in order to pursue a solo career, and trumpeter Luc Van Lieshout joined. In 1985 Tuxedomoon had its largest success commercially with the international release of Holy Wars. Tong left the group again soon after its release. Multi-instrumentalist Ivan Georgiev was brought in to perform on the group's next two albums, 1986's Ship of Fools and 1987's You. The band remained inactive through most of the 1990s, although never technically broke up. On July 20, 2004 a reborn Tuxedomoon, consisting of Steven Brown, Blaine Reininger, Peter Principle, and Luc Van Lieshout released a new studio album, Cabin in the Sky. They continue to work and tour together and have since released Bardo Hotel Soundtrack in 2006, with upcoming projects coinciding with the group's 30th year anniversary, the Vapour Trails album and the boxed set 7707.)
At Twilight [Special Edition]
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( ;D --> An anthology of classic Crépuscule singles and associated recordings by Tuxedomoon, the exiled American avant-gardists who recorded for LDDC between 1981 and 1983. At Twilight includes all tracks from the three vintage singles Ninotchka (TWI 055), Time to Lose (TWI 084) and The Cage (TWI 142), as well as rare compilation tracks including Shelved Dreams and Weihnachtsrap, the latter recorded for festive album Ghosts of Christmas Past (TWI 058). Also included in the haunting opening theme from The Ghost Sonata, an 'opera without words' performed by the group in Italy during the summer of 1982, while the set closes with the final three song demo with Blaine L. Reininger before his (temporary) departure in 1983.)
Holy Wars
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Desire/No Tears
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Half Mute / Scream With a View
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Subterranean Modern
www.discogs.com/Chrome-8-MX-80-Sound-Residents-The-Tuxedomoon-Subterranean-Modern/release/242385
( ;D --> Excellent & Rare Raplph Records compilation from 1979.)
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/10/flavor-of-week-43.html
 
Ra-X
oundcloud.com/ra-x
( ;D --> Vincent Koreman is an electro/noise artist who’s been around since ‘92 producing records for labels such as Bunker Records, KK trax, KK Records, Silver Recordings, Kommando 6, Asbest records, Angelmaker Records, Mighty Robot Recordings and numerous tracks on comps, splits and 7”s for different labels.)
Cosmic Catastrophes That Befell The Thetans http://transientforcerecords.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-catastrophes-that-befell-the-thetans
Crack City
soundcloud.com/ra-x/ra-x-crack-city
the opium den (part 5)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULSfh8aE4Fc
 
Sixth June
www.sixthjunemusic.com/
soundcloud.com/user9976845
( ;D --> Dark Electro Pop from Berlin.)
New_EP
( ;D --> 4 track Ep is being mixed, out soon :).)
Fade
https://soundcloud.com/user9976845/sixth-june-fade

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