Flavor of the Week #26

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Patten
warp.net/records/patten
soundcloud.com/patttten
www.patttten.com/
( ;D --> Patten’s music doesn’t benefit from prolonged exposure. Certainly, condensed into 23 minutes on the Eolian Instate EP, the producer’s signature style is far more palatable. The tracks on this, his debut release for Warp, are a touch more incisive, although in other respects it seems that little has changed for Patten in the past two years. The sound remains much the same—a pulverised form of electronica tempered with a subtle melodic glow—and passing comparisons can still be made to Actress’ heat-warped techno, or Flying Lotus at his most fervidly psychedelic.)
Estoil Naiant
warp.net/records/releases/patten/estoile-naiant
Live AV from St John Sessions x Boiler Room
warp.net/records/patten/patten-st-john-church-boiler-room
( ;D --> Filmed at St John Church at Hackney, watch patten perform a Live AV set for St John Sessions x Boiler Room in London.)
Aviary
warp.net/records/patten/player/video/agen
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2014/01/flavor-of-week-2.html
 
Application (The Black Dog)
soundcloud.com/the-black-dog/dustv041-application-system
( ;D --> Brothers Martin & Richard Dust from veteran Sheffield-based techno outfit The Black Dog launch their new side project Application with System Fork out on Dust Science Records. In a move away from the free-form experiments of their Black Dog output, Application seeks to apply the regimented leaning principles of Japanese Itamae to their work, where each new task is meticulously studied before being undertaken. Resultantly, System Fork is a highly intricate piece of experimental techno, ranging from the opening watery drones of ‘Ambient A’ to the hand-crafted, chiming dub groove of ‘Steve Reich’s Ice Cream Van’ and more mechanical, Stroboscopic Artefact-esque textures on ‘Siren’.)
System Fork
bleep.com/release/52144-application-the-black-dog-system-fork
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2014/05/flavor-of-week-18.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2014/03/flavor-of-week-12.html

GusGus
www.gusgus.com
www.facebook.com/pages/GusGus/27595561729
www.myspace.com/gusgus
( ;D --> Together Daníel Ágúst, Veiran and President Bongo are GusGus, Iceland's leading techno-/soul band. GusGus' music is eclectic, and although primarily classified with techno, trip-hop and house music, they have experimented with numerous other styles. They have also remixed several famous artists, including Björk, Depeche Mode, Moloko, and Sigur Rós. Added to this they released the song "Desire" with Ian Brown in January 2004. A remix of the track "Purple" appeared in remixed form on Paul Oakenfold's successful trance compilation called Tranceport. The band's name refers to the 1974 German film Ali: Fear Eats the Soul by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, where a female character is cooking couscous for her lover, pronouncing it "Gus Gus".)
Mexico
www.amoeba.com/mexico-cd-gusgus/albums/3198539
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2011/08/flavor-of-week-32.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/10/flavor-of-week-42.html

Plastic Autumn
www.facebook.com/plasticautumn
plasticautumn.jimdo.com/
soundcloud.com/plasticautumn
myspace.com/plasticautumn
www.youtube.com/user/kirliancamera33
( ;D --> German project PLASTIC AUTUMN is led by Falk Pitsch from Berlin, supported by Kirlian Camera, member of BLACK SKY EUROPE Management.)
soundcloud.com/black-sky-europe.)
Memories & Ghosts (Deluxe Edition)
play.spotify.com/album/6USLWu9XC5wRIm1apbx5ra
Childrens Eyes
soundcloud.com/black-sky-europe/childrens-eyes-plastic-autumn

Shriekback
www.myspace.com/shriekbackconcentrate
www.shriekback.com
( ;D --> The sign of a great band is that it can manage to create, then expand on, it’s own own inimitable world using a trademark sound which, although recognisable, never ceases to grow and develop. Now approaching their 30th anniversary, Shriekback can be counted as one of those rare bands; at ease in their own skins with nothing to prove but everything to explore.)
Shrieks ruff comp 6tunes 1
soundcloud.com/barry-andrews-1/shrieks-ruff-comp-6tunes-1
( ;D --> 6 excerpts from latest (13th!) Shriekback album.)
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2010/12/flavor-of-week-52.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2010/06/flavor-of-week-26.html


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Flavor of the Week #25

Xeno & Oaklander
xenoandoaklander.com
ghostly.com/artists/xeno-and-oaklander
www.myspace.com/xenoandoaklander
( ;D --> Xeno and Oaklander are based in Brooklyn, NY. They began writing music in 2004. Miss Liz Wendelbo is French / Norwegian and Sean McBride is from Maryland. They record their songs live in their studio and play analogue synthesizers and instruments exclusively. They have toured Europe and the West Coast extensively, and they have played on the East Coast in music venues, lofts and festivals, and have also performed at SF Moma, PS1 Warm Up, Miami Art Basel, the Zürich Kunsthalle and the New Museum in New York.)
Par avion (out June 24, 2014.)
www.theghostlystore.com/products/xeno-oaklander-par-avion
ghostly.com/releases/par-avion-album
Interface
soundcloud.com/ghostly/xeno-oaklander-interface
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2013/10/flavor-of-week-43.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2011/12/flavor-of-week-49.html

Austra
www.austramusic.com
www.facebook.com/austraofficial
www.myspace.com/austra
( ;D --> Austra is a Canadian electronic band from Toronto, Ontario, formed in 2009. The band consists of Katie Stelmanis (vocals), her former Galaxy bandmate Maya Postepski (drums) and former Spiral Beach bassist Dorian Wolf. They played a number of early shows under the name Private Life before learning that another band was already using the name; they subsequently named the band after Stelmanis' middle name Austra, which is also the name of the goddess of light in Latvian mythology. Austra's touring lineup includes twin backing singers Sari and Romy Lightman of Tasseomancy and Ryan Wonsiak of Ze and the Boyfriends.)
Habitat
www.dominorecordco.com/uk/news/06-05-14/austra-announce-habitat-ep-listen-to-title-track/
Habitat
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FgXIjWFTks
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2013/11/flavor-of-week-45.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2012/01/flavor-of-week-2.html 

Die Form
www.dieform.net
www.myspace.com/dieformofficial
( ;D --> Die Form is a French post-industrial and electronic band formed in 1977-78. The name 'Die Form' means '(the) form' in German, like the Bauhaus diary and is a play on the English homonym 'deformed' and on the French homonym 'difforme' (without form). Die Form is the primary project of the French electronic musician and multimedia artist Phillipe Fichot (who is usually accompanied by singer Eliane P. Primarily). Die Form deliveres a combination of esoteric electronic experiments with an underlying theme of erotism, death and other 'taboo' subjects, apparent in both the music and the album artwork, which Phillpe also produces.)
Schaulust - Scopic Pulsion
open.spotify.com/track/1FB4TbTImEtIfCNaBCGVNJ
www.dieform.net/audio/release.php?releaseID=54
Rayon X (release 4th of July)
www.dieform.net/news/read.php?id=63
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2009/05/flavor-of-week-20.html

Blood Axis
bloodaxis.com/
( ;D --> The concept for the musical project Blood Axis was initially created in the early 1990s by the musician, artist, and writer Michael Moynihan. He is joined in Blood Axis by ongoing artistic collaborators Robert Ferbrache a renowned musician and recording engineer, and Annabel Lee, an accomplished musician and artist. Other artists have also contributed to the project over the course of its existence.  The first Blood Axis album, The Gospel of Inhumanity (1996), was recorded by Moynihan and Ferbrache in 1995 and its somber, elegant tones and conceptual richness attracted considerable attention in underground art and music scenes in Europe and the United States. While this album continues to influence numerous bands who have imitated its sound and style, Blood Axis has long since evolved in new directions. Annabel Lee began working with the group in 1996. In 1997 Blood Axis performed at a prestigious event marking the 10th anniversary celebration of the Swedish industrial label Cold Meat Industry. The resulting recording became the basis for the 1998 album Blót: Sacrifice in Sweden, which at the time was the first release by a non-Scandinavian band on the CMI label. Blood Axis has given occasional live performances over the years. These have included sporadic events in the USA in 1992 and 1998, a European tour in 1998, special concerts in Portugal in 2001 and 2008, and a small tour of Germany and Italy in 2005.  In 2010 the second full-length Blood Axis studio recording, Born Again, was released to overall acclaim. While this new album retains certain echoes of the earlier sounds of Blood Axis, it defies easy categorization and represents a bold development in many respects.)
At Plan B Club 06.28.2013 Moscow - Russia
www.skullline.de/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=602002
Born Again
tescogermany.bandcamp.com/album/born-again
( ;D --> The second full-length studio album in the twenty-year history of Blood Axis, Born Again signals startling developments and a radical maturation. Old vines have been cut back and carefully tended in order to bear strange new fruit. Over the course of the twelve tracks that comprise Born Again, Blood Axis explores an epic yet human universe in which gods are summoned, kingdoms rise, riddles are unlocked, love is lost, and worlds crumble. This is psychedelia in the literal sense: a “mind-manifesting” journey through the collective psyche of its creators.)

Essexx
myspace.com/essexxmusic
( ;D --> Essexx represents the combined talents of Sara Noxx and Sven Wolff ( Dust Of Basement / Patenbrigade Wolff.).
Bridges Limited
E_amazon
( ;D --> With debut album "Bridges" they deliver beautiful minimalistic Electronic sounds with a harmoinic 80's feel amongst the massed melodies and infectiously arranged Electro-Pop : Svens compositions and Saras voice merging to offer an irresisitable pop-symbiosis. "Bridges" is futher enhanced with a very special Bonus second disc featuring collaborations with big names in the Electronic scene including : Feindflug, Distain, A Spell Inside, Faq, Nude, XP8, X-Fusion, Silvery, Psyche, Assemblage 23, Kiew, Supreme Court, Absurd Minds, Culture Kultür, The Fair Sex and The Invincible Spirit...)
Fatal Love (Feindflug Remix)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXsh9IILYmk&list=PL25DAB9E9F277130D
See also (Patenbrigade)
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2007/06/flavor-of-week-26_24.html
Sara Noxx
youtu.be/ylNg5irOvaE

Glad Midsommar

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Flavor of the Week #24

The Exaltics
www.the-exaltics.com
www.myspace.com/theexaltics
soundcloud.com/the-exaltics
( ;D --> After studying the people of earth for many years the exaltics came to our planet in 2006 to transmit their message to the people. Here they created their own platform: "solaronemusic" for their final mission. Whilst being amongst us they built up connections with people that understood the exaltic mother tongue. Collaboration partners like Z-bop, Transient Force, Bunker and Last Known Trajectory are examples of home bases on earth.)
Volume 2. of the Exaltics triptych for Clone West Coast series.
soundcloud.com/clone-nl/the-exaltics-some-other-place-vol-2-clone-westcoast-series-082
Some Other Place vol. 1 - Clone Westcoast Series 08.1
soundcloud.com/clone-nl/the-exaltics-some-other-place
June Charts
www.juno.co.uk/charts/dj/1045662-THE_EXALTICS/904164-Chart
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2013/04/flavor-of-week-16.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2012/06/flavor-of-week-24.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2011/01/flavor-of-week-2.html

Biosphere
www.biosphere.no
( ;D --> Biosphere is the main recording name of Geir Jenssen (born 1962), a Norwegian musician who has released a notable catalogue of ambient electronic music. He is well known for his "ambient techno" and "arctic ambient" styles, his use of music loops, and peculiar samples from sci-fi sources. His track "Novelty Waves" was used for the 1995 campaign of Levi's. His 1997 album Substrata was voted by www.hyperreal.org as one of the all time classic ambient albums.)
'Biosphere'
( ;D --> Our biosphere is the global sum of all ecosystems. It can also be called the zone of life on Earth, a closed (apart from solar and cosmic radiation) and self-regulating system.)
Das Subharchord
biosphere.bandcamp.com/track/das-subharchord
Patashnik 2
biosphere.bandcamp.com/album/patashnik-2
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2010/12/flavor-of-week-52.html

Coma
soundcloud.com/comacologne
www.facebook.com/comacologne
www.coma-music.de
( ;D --> Purveyors of fine Cologne stomp since 2007, Coma knows how to incite a crowd. It's the sort of knowledge that you don't learn simply as you go along, it's something you already bring to the table, and in Coma's case, that first table was Cologne's c-o pop festival. Starting out in front of a capacity crowd, Marius Bubat and Georg Conrad jumped into the deep end, finding their own way to break down the barriers between club culture and live concerts. They famously hit the ground running, winning over the audience almost immediately with pop-infused electronics including laptops, guitars, synthesizers and microphones.)
Atlantis EP
www.beatport.com/release/atlantis/1304099
www.groove.de/2014/06/04/videpremiere-coma-atlantis/
Les Dilettantes (Roosevelt Mix)
soundcloud.com/kompakt/coma-les-dilettantes-roosevelt
Atlantis
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij2DgKZQrd4

Ethan Fawkes
www.ethanfawkes.com
www.facebook.com/ethanfawkes.official
( ;D --> Techno industrial DJ producer, remixer, writer and singer, admin on Belgium Electro. First influences of Ethan Fawkes come from 90s grunge and metal (Faith No More, Nirvana, Sepultura), when he learned the bass and electric guitar before turning to electronic music (acid core). His style has been oriented techno, EBM and electro industrial music.)
KILLERS HITS FROM HELL VII
www.beatport.com/label/dancefloor-killers/29577
Go Away {Extract}
soundcloud.com/ethanfawkes/ethan-fawkes-go-away-extract-1

9Bach
www.9bach.com
( ;D --> 9Bach was formed by Lisa Jen and Martin Hoyland in 2005. The name is a play on numbers and words. Lisa: '9 is as in Nain, (pronounced nine), which means grandmother in the North of Wales, Bach means little and is also a term of endearment in Welsh. In one language 9 is something so mundane as a number, but in Welsh Nain is a cozy, family orientated lovely thing: your grandmother is a person we can relate to and visualise. Lisa on vocals, harmonium, and piano and Martin on guitars and percussion are joined by Ali Byworth (drums and percussion), Dan Swain (bass guitar), Esyllt Glyn Jones (harp, vocals), and Mirain Roberts (vocals).)
Tincian
www.amazon.co.uk/Tincian-9Bach/dp/B00IOCCUXG/?tag=smarturl-gb-21
Lliwiau (Gravenhurst remix)
soundcloud.com/realworldrecords/9bach-lliwiau-gravenhurst-remix?in=warp-records/sets/remixes

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Flavor of the Week #23

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Plastikman aka Richie Hawtin
www.plastikman.com
www.facebook.com/PlastikmanOfficial/
www.plastikman.com
www.m-nus.com
www.discogs.com/artist/Plastikman
( ;D --> Richard (Richie) Hawtin (born June 4, 1970, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England) is an English-Canadian electronic musician and DJ who was an influential part of Detroit techno's second wave of artists in the early 1990s. Hawtin is best known for his abstract, minimal works under the alias Plastikman, a pseudonym he still uses today. Hawtin is known for DJing minimal techno sets making use of laptop computers and digital mixing equipment. In May 1990, Hawtin and fellow second-waver John Acquaviva founded the Plus 8 record label, which they named after their turntable's pitch adjust function. In 1998, Hawtin launched Minus records, a label he uses primarily as a launch pad for his own projects.)
« EX » (Out 10 June.).
mute.com/plastikman/announces-new-album-ex-out-on-10-june-digital-1415-july-physical-exclusive-sonar-performance-on-12-june
m-nus.com/#news.pl?id=429;Middle
The ultimate seated tactile bass experience in a Limited Edition Plastikman Bundle
www.thesubpac.com/order/subpac-plastikman-bundle
See also
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2010_06_01_archive.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2007/06/flavor-of-week-24.html

Bruderschaft
www.facebook.com/bruderschaftofficial
( ;D --> Bruderschaft is an electronic music artist's collective led by New York City-based DJ Rexx Arkana. Conceived as a charity project focused on cancer research and treatment in the wake of Arkana's father's death from the disease, Bruderschaft brought together a large number of artists from the underground electronic music scene for the production of the band's first single, "Forever": the collaboration of Arkana (lyrics), Ronan Harris (VNV Nation-vocals), Sebastian Komor (Icon of Coil-programming/production), Joakim Montelius (Covenant-samples/loops) and Stephan Groth (Apoptygma Berzerk-backing vocals).)
Return (Bonus Tracks Version)
alfamatrix.bandcamp.com/album/return-bonus-tracks-version
( ;D --> Super-charity group BRUDERSCHAFT strikes back with the full length album “Return”! Just like for the hyper successful “Forever” EP released some 10 years ago, all net profits of this new album will go to various cancer charities for the purposes of research and treatment, and to assist families with loved ones who are suffering from cancer so that they can be there to provide comfort in their time of need.  Famous New York DJ and artist Rexx Arkana managed to gather VNV NATION, COVENANT, APOPTYGMA BERZERK and ICON OF COIL members for the “Forever” EP. Similarly the “Return” album adds his FGFC820 partner in crime Dräcos as a full-time band member and features a host of powerhouse artists and contributors fueled by the vocal contributions of talented singers from renown bands like ASSEMBLAGE 23, BEBORN BETON, HAUJOBB, AESTHETIC PERFECTION, COLONY 5, SYSTEM SYN, SYRIAN and IEN OBLIQUE. Amongst the musicians / songwriters, besides the original contributors of Joakim Montelius (COVENANT) and Sebastian Komor (ICON OF COIL, ZOMBIE GIRL, KOMOR KOMMANDO) we will also notice the contribution of Daniel Myer (HAUJOBB), Johann Sebastian (STATE OF THE UNION) and Maze (BLANK). )

Quirke
www.qu-i-rke.com
www.facebook.com/quirkeofficial
( ;D--> UK producer Josh Quirke joins the excellent Young Turks roster to debut with his Acid Beth EP under the moniker of Quirke. Josh paints a distant, hallucinatory world where acoustic hypnotic patterns blend with electronic sound. An immersive experience from industrial machines to modern classical piano which mirrors his real life: Josh is a carpentar by day and music producer by night. The EP was due on May 19 limited to 500 units.)
Acid Beth EP
theyoungturks.co.uk/catalogue/view/acid-beth-ep
Break A Mirrored Leg
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBcjpVPd1eQ#t=186

Little Dragon
little-dragon.net
www.myspace.com/littledragon
( ;D --> Little Dragon is an electronic music band, based in Gothenburg, Sweden. It consists of Swedish-Japanese singer Yukimi Nagano (vocals, percussion) and her close high-school friends Erik Bodin (drums), Fredrik Källgren Wallin (bass), and Håkan Wirenstrand (keyboards).)
Nabuma Rubberband
LD_amazon
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2011/09/flavor-of-week-38.html

Hundred Waters
facebook.com/100waters
hundred-waters.com
( ;D --> Florida/California-rooted experimental pop collective Hundred Waters introduced the world to their impressive pastiche of electronic and organic sounds with their self-titled 2012 debut. Wild samples, cold beats, and effervescent walls of vocals drew comparisons to everyone from Björk to Dirty Projectors, though no comparisons were bold enough to really pin down the band's frenetic sound. In the two years that followed, Hundred Waters found themselves performing live a great deal more than in their beginnings, and approached the writing/recording process for sophomore album The Moon Rang Like a Bell with live performance in mind, hoping to dutifully replicate the sounds of the album in a live setting. Rather than turning in a stripped-down skeleton of their previous sound, the album is brimming with sound, clearer and more direct rather than particularly more spare or even organized all that differently than before. Still crouching in a coy posture at the forefront of all the songs are frontwoman Nicole Miglis' vocals, contorting into different breathy forms depending on the song. For instance, the incredibly constructed "Out Alee" finds her vocals weaving between bubbly ethereal samples and rolling basslines, sounding either like a female James Blake or a distant cousin of Bat for Lashes' Natasha Khan, depending on the movement.)
The Moon Rang Like a Bell
www.amazon.com/dp/B00JGWKRII/ref=cm_sw_su_dp
Xtalk (Lyric Video)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=89WLM9V-FeY#t=45

Happy Swedish National Day :)

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