Flavor of the Week #9

Clark (Chris Clark)
throttleclark.com
www.myspace.com/throttleclark
www.facebook.com/throttleclark
soundcloud.com/throttleclark
twitter.com/throttleclark
( ;D --> Chris Clark is an English electronic musician currently signed to Warp Records. With the 2006 release of Throttle Furniture, he shortened his artist name to Clark. Throttle Furniture and Body Riddle were both three years in the making, during which time Clark refined his sound considerably. His meticulous production style makes much use of manipulated live drum samples, which are used to construct complex beats. He performed with a live drummer (often Rob Lee aka Wax Stag).)
Superscope
warp.net/records/releases/clark/superscope
soundcloud.com/throttleclark/superscope-30-seconds
Premiere: Clark’s video for ‘Superscope’, produced by Vincent Oliver with an oscilloscope
www.factmag.com/2014/02/26/clark-superscope-video/
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2013/04/flavor-of-week-17.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2012/01/flavor-of-week-5.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/08/flavor-of-week-33.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/04/flavor-of-week-18.html  
 
Phantom Love
www.facebook.com/mushymvshy
mushy.it/
mushy.bandcamp.com
( ;D --> Phantom Love is a solo project by Italian experimental artist Valentina Fanigliulo - also known as Mushy. In this project the artist explores her love for electronic music, influenced by a genealogy that connects Carpenter to Mann, Detroit to Rome.
A retro-futuristic production that is equally analogue and digital, haunting and exotic, a sonic sculpture of obsessive arpeggios and reverb-drenched strings.
Tribal and shape-shifting drums structures fight against the liquid interplay and superimposition of cymbals and cowbells delays.)
Dead Illusion
soundcloud.com/zerokilledmusic/phantom-love-dead-illusion
Meddicine Split Tape
mushy.bandcamp.com/album/mushy-meddicine-split-tape
Psychic June
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyxxCaMlSN0
 
Leæther Strip
www.myspace.com/leaetherstrip
www.leaetherstrip.com
( ;D --> According to founder Claus Larsen, Leæther Strip is, and always will be, only him. Larsen was born on November 13, 1967 in Aalborg, Denmark. He first released music under the name of Leæther Strip in 1989. However, his 1995 release G.A.W.M.U.S. (Getting Away With Murder U. S.) included two early demos from 1982 and 1984, with the latter forming the unknown beginning of the band according to an interview conducted with Claus Larsen. In 1991, Larsen created a side-project called Klute in which he also remained the sole member. It can be argued, and is by many, that the sound of Leæther Strip throughout the early 1990s helped define what is today known as electro-industrial. In a search performed on MySpace on December 1st, 2008, 294 bands had listed Leæther Strip (or "Leather Strip") as a musical influence, although the true number of bands influenced by Larsen's work is undoubtedly much higher. In 1994, Claus Larsen drastically changed the sound of Leæther Strip, with the release of a synthesized semi classical album. Conceived as a soundtrack to a fictional film, it was named Serenade for the Dead. The releases since then have reincorporated electronic dance elements, and have redefined Leæther Strip into what Larsen calls, "symphonic electro".)
Æscapism
www.emmo.biz/en/Emmobiz-Records/Lether-Strip-/scapism.html
Album Trailer
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwD29Uix38w
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2013/02/flavor-of-week-8_15.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2010/07/flavor-of-week-29.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2008/02/flavor-of-week-7.html
 
NE
soundcloud.com/ne-official
www.facebook.com/pages/NE-Official-fanpage/
www.twitter.com/dirkdadavo
( ;D --> When kindred souls meet across generations, the result of such cultural crossbreeding is often interesting, sometimes good and, if they really connect on different levels, mesmerizing. As is the case for NE, the collaboration between Dirk Da Davo - he of THE NEON JUDGEMENT fame - and RADICAL G - relentless dark techno producer with two albums and a string of EP's under his belt. There is common ground, of course: both already co-produced tracks with the likes of The Hacker, David Carretta and Millimetric, and made applauded appearances on Dave Clarke's 'White Noise Radio' playlists. But perhaps even more significant: both share a dystopian view on present and future, where it's open season for governments and multinational corporations that seem to have received a license to kill the privacy and freedom of the individual, and a mutual sonic understanding that includes pounding beat bonanzas next to brooding krautrock, marshy soundscapes and twisted dub. So yes, it's dark. And loud. But it's a darkness with a loudly beating heart. Pretty? No. Hauntingly beautiful? Absolutely.)
157
soundcloud.com/ne-official/ne-157-sample-teaser
Glimp_ 1.1
soundcloud.com/ne-official/ne-glimp-1-1-sample-teaser

Gregor Tresher & Petar Dundov
soundcloud.com/gregortresher
www.facebook.com/gregortresherofficial
www.gregortresher.com
soundcloud.com/petardundov
www.facebook.com/dundov
( ;D --> The stars rarely align between Gregor Tresher and Petar Dundov's hectic schedules. But when they do, techno planets collide with explosive results. This earth-shattering production partnership began in 2011 with the still-stunning "Duo Tone" EP on Music Man. A trio of releases have followed during the last three years, including the almighty "Superconductor" on Cocoon 100 last summer. Fresh for 2014, the German/Croatian pact goes next-level with this firing slab of rich, majestic techno on Gregor's own imprint Break New Soil. Living up to its name, "Taurus" ignites with bullish precision. Pummelling with a classic palpitating bass and kick roll, percussive elements are gradually introduced before the shimmering riff enters the fray. Tingling with every twist and tweak, this will raise hairs on the back of every neck with a ten mile radius.)
Taurus EP
www.beatport.com/release/taurus-ep/1240656
Taurus (Break New Soil 044)
soundcloud.com/gregortresher/gregor-tresher-petar-dundov-3
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2010/08/flavor-of-week-32.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2008/06/flavor-of-week-25.html

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Flavor of the Week #8

Vomito Negro / Gin Devo
soundcloud.com/gin-devo
www.myspace.com/vomitonegro1
www.vomitonegro.com
( ;D --> Gin Devo is a performing artist, musician, modular synthesist and founder/songwriter of the Belgian oldschool electronic cultband“Vomito Negro”. Inspired by Cabaret Voltaire and Kraftwerk. Gin started to experiment in the early 80’s with tapeloops, drumboxes, mono synthesizers and effect driven vocals to create his own electronic music. In the early 90’s Gin graduated at the royal art academy in Antwerp and was student at the Royal conservatory of experimental electronic music. In 2008, Gin decided that it was time to wake up the sleeping beast Vomito Negro and released “Skull & Bones” and “The 2K10 Remakes”. In 2011 “Slave Nation” was released, this album is Gin’s answer to our vanishing freedom in the name of global security and the fake war on terror. In 2012 EK product released Gin Devo’s solo project “Surface”. Surface was recorded in 1988/89, several visual artist used Gin Devo’s electronic soundscapes in Antwerp’s abandoned icefactory, or in Antwerp’s never used metro network to support there works. In May 2012, EK product releases “Errata”. Errata is a rhythmic driven solo project written in 2011. Errata is roldschool, only hardware synthesizers, gate/step sequencers and vintage drum machines are used to compose and record the album. No software plug ins or VST’s are used to create this album.)
Death Sun (release 28/03/2014)
soundcloud.com/gin-devo/vomito-negro-death-sun-pre-listen
www.klangwelt-info.de/2014/01/death-sun-vomito-negro/
Time – Vomito Negro – Making Of The Music Video – Bone Church Of Kutná Hora
www.rorywilmer.co.uk/rawcut/time-vomito-negro/
"Time"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRYVxH87K9M#t=262
( ;D -->The Sedlec Ossuary (Czech: kostnice Sedlec) is a small Roman Catholic chapel, located beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints (Czech: Hrbitovní kostel Všech Svatých) in Sedlec, a suburb of Kutná Hora in the Czech Republic. The ossuary is estimated to contain the skeletons of between 40,000 and 70,000 people, many of whom have had their bones artistically arranged to form decorations and furnishings for the chapel. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedlec_Ossuary .)
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2013/12/flavor-of-week-52.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2013/02/flavor-of-week-7.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2010/07/vomito-negro-www.html  

Clan of Xymox
www.clanofxymox.com
www.myspace.com/myclanofxymox
(  ;D --> Since their formation in their native Holland their music has been constantly changing, always challenging and often quite breathtaking. Some of us have always been of the opinion that XYMOX are something special. A band fired by electronic music but determined, always, to make something that is very much their own. They are unique.
www.metropolis-mailorder.com/product.php?prodnum=MET+926
play.spotify.com/album/6nFn2sWRYXsN7ZLV9rPeAp
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2011/05/flavor-of-week-21.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009_08_01_archive.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/02/flavor-of-week-9.html

Arnold Steiner
www.arnoldsteiner.com
( ;D --> Electronic music producer and designer, born in Venezuela and raised in Miami. He is the founder of Transient Force.)
Virgo 2 Virgo
transientforcerecords.bandcamp.com/album/virgo-2-virgo
Transmitter EP
soundcloud.com/shipwrec/ship020
clone.nl/item27253.html

Squarepusher x Z-MACHINES
www.myspace.com/doyouknowsquarepusher
www.squarepusher.net
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.)
Music For Robots
bleep.com/release/49560-squarepusher-x-z-machines-music-for-robots
( ;D --> The Z-Machines robots were the result of a project in Japan to create a music performing system that could play music far more complex than even the most advanced human musicians could ever physically be capable of. Squarepusher was one of a number of composers asked to develop music for the Z-Machines to perform and the result was the track 'Sad Robot Goes Funny', an intricate work that took full advantage of the possibilities of working with a guitarist with 78 fingers and a drummer with 22 arms. The EP 'Music For Robots' includes this piece as well as four additional pieces composed a little while after and is stirring and complex work quite as mesmerising as any of Tom Jenkinson's previous projects.)
Squarepusher × Z-MACHINES
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkUq4sO4LQM#t=297
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2012_02_01_archive.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2010/10/flavor-of-week-41.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2008/11/flavor-of-week-46.html 

Schwarzblut
www.schwarzblut.com
( ;D --> Schwarzblut (full name: Die goetheanistische Tonkunstgesellschaft Schwarzblut) is a Gesamstkunstwerk. A collective work of art, based on historic German poetry and carried by organic-electronic music. Schwarzblut’s work is outlined by a haunting visual context of imagery in their album artwork and during live shows. Each Schwarzblut release is a group effort, including the arts of composing, poetry, fashion, photography, video and design. Each Schwarzblut live show too is a performance featuring these ingredients.)
Bis aufs blut EP
alfamatrix.bandcamp.com/album/bis-aufs-blut-ep


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Flavor of the Week #7

Anthony Rother
www.myspace.com/anthonyrother
soundcloud.com/anthony-rother
www.anthony-rother.com
( ;D --> Anthony Rother is an electro-techno producer from Germany who rose to prominence in the mid-'90s on the label Kanzleramt before founding numerous labels of his own, most notably Psi49net and Datapunk. Influenced primarily by Kraftwerk and Detroit techno.)
Netzwerk der Zukunft
www.psi49net.de/
Netzwerk der Zukunft (preview)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt8NtilS-w8&feature=youtu.be
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2013/03/flavor-of-week-11.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2009/12/flavor-of-week-50.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2008/02/flavor-of-week-10.html

Weltwirtschaft
www.facebook.com/weltwirtschaftmusic
soundcloud.com/karllihagen
( ;D --> Carl Lihagen, producer from elStockholmo, (Maud) favoured by Exaltics in the Bass Agenda 25 Radio show. Aliases;  Discomania , Evigt Mörker , Guests From The Moon, The , Karl Lihagen , Orbitfighters)
Maud
solaronemusic.bandcamp.com/track/maud
SOM compilation 4
solaronemusic.bandcamp.com/album/som-compilation-vol-4
Bass Agenda 25 with guest selections from The Exaltics
soundcloud.com/bassagenda/bass-agenda-25-with-guest
Invention
solaronemusic.bandcamp.com/track/invention

Lazer Kontinent / Junolainen
soundcloud.com/junolainen
( ;D --> Russian project, started in 1991 by Igor Stepovy and Kirill Junolainen. In 2004 Stepovy has left the duo, now run by only Kirill Junolainen. Kirill Junolainen is finnish/russian electronic musicmaker, graphic designer, film director. Son of a deep underground. Began the first musical experiments in 1989. The first record is dated 1991. Started creativity in industrial music. Was the adherent of DIY culture. In the 90's won glory of the sound experimenter and electromusical nonconformist. Preferred an analog sound of synthesizers and the sound environment of factories and plants. Very often, records and lives that time abounded with the terrible howl, cacophony, sound cannonade also a roar. In the late nineties passed to softer sound. Experiments ended almost. Since the beginning of the 00's he writes down and executes music softer and pleasant for the listeners. Gives preference to such styles as electro/techno/electrodisco/ambient. His modern creativity is filled with beautiful melodies and pleasant sounds. It equally is suitable for sound landscapes of the airport, shop, factory or metro station. projects: Lazer Kontinent, Kuiper Belt, Juno Lazermachine, Vettore Spaziale, East European Alliance, Harlamov, The Arctic Disco Machine, Zeitkapsule, Zeitmodelle, Ridley Slott, Laserama, The Klash, Uutiset, Optical Airlines, Grapefruit Philosophy, Stanley Cubic, Die Rote Jugend, X-Ray Krew. In groups: Who Is Elvis, Rokje, Sähköinen Jogurtti, The Howl, Elektrik Askets, Greentrees Killers, Ironmeat Kombinat. Aliases: Junolainen, Juno L, (A Guy Called) Juno Laine.)
The Year We Make Contact [2012]
soundcloud.com/junolainen/juno-lazermachine-the-year-we
Bass Agenda 71: Guest selections & Interview with Kirill Junolainen & mix by Dmitry Distant
soundcloud.com/bassagenda/bass-agenda-71-guest

Dr Schmidt
soundcloud.com/dr-Schmidt
( ;D --> With his roots in the Industrial and Synth-Pop of the early 90's, Andreas Schmehl aka Dr. Schmidt was soon infected by the Techno-Virus and by UK BreakBeats only a few years later. From 1997 on he followed his love for electronic rhythms as a DJ and from 2002 on also as a producer. In 2003 he started the project Maschinen Musik, to finally bring together his main influences, Industrial, Techno and BreakBeat under one sound.)
10 x 10 x 10 - Maschinen Musik 30
soundcloud.com/dr-schmidt/10-x-10-x-10-maschinen-musik
( ;D --> 10 years, 10 friends, 10 mixes - celebrating a decade of Maschinen Musik, longtime friends and supporters picked their favorite tunes and gave them their special touch. Ten incredible mixes for your listening pleasure. Out December 13th on junodownload and December 20th everywhere else.)
Salvation Machine (Microphased mix)
www.junodownload.com/ultraplayer/2359731-02-01-01.m3u?r=0&c=0&s=01-01

Cynthia Stern & Bobby Athom
i-o-inc.com
soundcloud.com/cynthiastern
( ;D --> Cynthia Stern (Alias Bobby Athom) is the Head of stockholm based label Input - Output inc.)
Stratagems
i-o-inc.com/?catNo=D-T003
Bobby Athom
i-o-inc.com/?catNo=DDD038
Unpleasant Behaviour
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZHquMpA7fQ&feature=youtu.be

Over And Out

Flavor of the Week #6

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.)
Hades
bleep.com/release/49337-mondkopf-hades
www.junodownload.com/plus/2014/02/05/stream-the-new-mondkopf-lp-in-full/
( ;D --> Parisian Paul Régimbeau aka Monkopf returns with another atmospheric LP on his In Paradisum imprint. Hades continues his transition from relatively floor-friendly tech to a much darker, doom-inspired sound. Much of the music here is built around slow, sludgy black-metal riffs and embellished with gothic-inspired touches like organ, choir and trumpet. ‘Here Come The Whispers’ even offers a moment of outright beauty halfway through, when bleak chants fade into melodic strings. For those who fancy bloody, booming Blackest Ever Black-style tracks, there’s bruiser ‘Eternal Dust’, and the club ready one-two of ‘Cause & Cure’ and ‘Immolate’.)
Ave Maria
Mondkopf – Ave Maria (Hello Kurt Remix) [Bonus Track]
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2013/06/flavor-of-week-26.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2012/03/flavor-of-week-12.html


Omberman Knocks
www.obermanknocks.com/
www.aperturerecords.com/artists/oberman-knocks
( ;D --> Oberman Knocks is London-based, electronic producer Nigel Truswell. With no interest in tech-talk, the latest plug-ins or trends, his tracks are all about the creation and manipulation of sounds for the pure pleasure of the production itself. Spurning sterile accuracy and clinically happy tunes for sounds that bring back some of the dirt and darkness that has been swept away of late, these are tracks happy to inhabit the dark corridors of the mind through to large expanses of concrete space waiting to be filled.
Dilankex EP (Aperture)
www.aperturerecords.com/record-shop/dilankex-ep-ap006lp
bleep.com/release/49321-oberman-knocks-dilankex-ep
EPM Podcast #44 | Oberman Knocks
soundcloud.com/epm-music/epm-podcast-44-oberman-knocks

I Awake
soundcloud.com/iawake
www.facebook.com/thomas.huttenlocher
( ;D --> Neo ambient producer Thomas Huttenlocher crafts his way through astral soundscapes and parallell lives, blending styles and flavors in search of the very moment. His music often combines celestial emotions, tribal rhythms and an ever present sense of adventure.)
Tierra
ultimae.bandcamp.com/album/Tierra
( ;D --> Following his debut album The Core, Swedish composer Thomas Huttenlocher re-enters his alias I Awake and sets his sound on its next journey with Tierra, a new three track EP which marks the first step in a series of releases to come in 2014. The artist brings out refined Downtempo grooves infused with layers ethereal atmospheres and electronic instrumentations to create his ode to the living pearl we have come to call home.)
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2008/05/flavor-of-week-22.html

Andy Clark
soundcloud.com/andyc1ark
( --> British Electro producer based in Sheffield.)
Initial Transmission
lasergumrecords.bandcamp.com/album/initial-transmission
soundcloud.com/andyc1ark/andy-clark-initial

Monica Richards
monicarichards.com/index.html
( ;D --> Monica Richards is an uncompromising Artist in the broadest sense of the word: singer, songwriter, composer, illustrator and writer. Considered as a nonconformist by independent critics, Monica Richards surpasses current fad and fancy, expressing instead her personal truths and life's path through her music and art that reaches fans throughout the world. In over twenty years as a front woman in Underground music, Monica Richards has a well-deserved reputation of the highest respect for her powerful voice and theatrical stage presence.)
Kindred
monicarichards.com/kindred.htm

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