Flavor of the Week #39

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Youth Code
youthcode.bandcamp.com/
www.facebook.com/youthcodeforever
( ;D --> Los Angeles Duo Youth Code are raw, punishing, industrious electronics built from the seeds of hardcore and early Wax Trax. Ryan William George and Sara Taylor blend chaos with catchy dance undertones to create a sonic fury paralleled to none. Formed in 2012, Using all hardware to perform, Youth Code have already proven their path with being the first band outside of Psychic TV to be put out by PTV's own label " Angry Love Productions " as well as a full length LP on the flawless Dais Records roster.)
An Overture
shop.daisrecords.com/collections/vinyl/products/youth-code-a-place-to-stand-ep
( ;D --> Youth Code’s latest release, A Place To Stand, is an expression of rage that could only come from Los Angeles. Perfectly capturing the frustration and claustrophobia of the early 80s LA hardcore scene but re-appropriating that aggression and melding it to the strict, pounding electronics of classic industrial. Recorded by Josh Eustis (Nine Inch Nails, Telefon Tel Aviv, Sons of Magdalene), Side A of A Place to Stand features four new Youth Code tracks that showcase the band exploring an evolved sense of melodic synth work and more varied tempos than anything they have released to date.)
Let The Sky Burn (Silent Servant Remix)
soundcloud.com/daisrecords/youth-code-let-the-sky-burn-silent-servant-remix
Youth Code
youthcode.bandcamp.com/album/youth-code

Gazelle Twin
gazelletwin.com/
www.soundcloud.com/gazelletwin
www.facebook.com/gazelletwin
( ;D --> Gazelle Twin is the stage name of Elizabeth Walling, a British Industrial-pop musician from Brighton)
Unflesh
gazelletwin.tmstor.es/cart/product.php?id=18691
( ;D --> In UNFLESH Gazelle Twin explores an adrenalised-Pop style - from the bone-chilling, Iggy Pop-inspired 'I Feel Blood', the stark choral lullaby of 'Premonition', to the Prince-meets-Sonic Youth influenced 'GUTS' and 'Still Life'. Far removed from the artist's former dreamscapes. "This is a rich, dark and gorgeous album, bristling with sonic challenge and literary depth" 8/10 -  UNCUT.)
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2012/08/flavor-of-week-34.html

Saa
soundcloud.com/sounds-of-saa
sounds-of-saa.tumblr.com/
www.facebook.com/SoundsofSaa
( ;D --> Forged across borders between Asher Levitas of acclaimed shadowy London outfit Old Apparatus, and Norwegian avant garde musician/vocalist Linn Carin Dirdal. Taking cues from classic pop production of the 70s and 80s, the early 4AD sound of The Cocteau Twins et al, pastoral folk, along with contemporaries such as The Knife, Saa make gloriously intricate avant-pop, as exciting as it is unclassifiable. Levitas' high production values will come as no surprise to fans of the aforementioned Old Apparatus, and here his complex rhythm arrangements and delicate electronics perfectly support Dirdal's layered vocals, which range from upfront and powerful to moments of choral beauty.)
Walking waters
oversharerecords.bigcartel.com/product/saa-walking-waters-cassette-tape-pre-order
( ;D --> Walking Waters is the follow-up to Saa's critically acclaimed debut EP. The English/ Norwegian duo present an upbeat melancholic concoction of love, lust, loss and liberation. Moving on from Asher Levitas' (Old Apparatus/Penny) and Linn Carin Dirdal's debut on Left Blank in 2013, the four tracks of Walking Waters playfully whisk and rip apart 90's R&B, Jungle and Trip Hop. Think overcast Sade or Camus' cigarette smoke drifting through Tracey Thorn's home. Levitas' moody and intricate productions and Dirdal's vocal deftness once again combine to delicious effect. The EP was mixed and co-produced by Grammy Award Winning Engineer Ian Dowling.)
(K)new You
soundcloud.com/overshare-records/laa-knew-you

Perc
soundcloud.com/perc
www.facebook.com/PercTrax
( ;D --> Perc is one of electronic dance music’s reference points: an internationally touring DJ, label owner and one of the most respected producers in techno today. Known as one of the most forward-thinking individuals in techno Perc (aka London based Ali Wells) fuses current sounds with his extensive knowledge of electronic music’s past to create something new & unique. A regular artist on such scene-leading labels as CLR, Kompakt, Drumcode, Stroboscopic Artefacts and Ovum as well as his own world-reknown Perc Trax imprint, Perc is as uncompromising as he is unique.)
Drax - Phosphene
soundcloud.com/perc/sets/drax-phospene
B2. The Exaltics Remix by Perc
soundcloud.com/perc/b2-the-exaltics-remix-1
( ;D--> One of Perc’s all-time favourite tracks returns on Perc Trax Ltd, an imprint purposely created for reissues and collaborative projects. Originally released in 1993 as part of Thomas Heckmann’s ‘Drax Three’ EP on his own Trope Recordings label, it featured on Carl Cox’s seminal F.A.C.T. mix CD and alongside ‘Amphetamine’ has become one of the biggest tracks of Heckmann’s career. This 12" features three new remixes, all of which twist 'Phosphene' into something new whilst keeping the forward facing attitude of the original in place.)

Purity UK
www.purity.co.uk/
www.jillstarkmusic.com/
( ;D --> Purity are London drum n’ bass duo Jill Stark and Florence Briggs who write, produce and programme their tracks with an agenda to create their own original and distractive sound that is Purity. The result is a mix of song based and instrumental tracks, energetic, melodic, pounding and unique. Though inspired and influenced by a range of musical tastes, its their love of drum and bass, dub step, rock and electronica that defines their tracks.)
Sliding into Chaos
novafuture-blog.com/2011/11/26/purity-uk-sliding-into-chaos-self-released/
In Ur Mind
soundcloud.com/novafuture/purity-uk-in-ur-mind-full

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Flavor of the Week #38

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Fleck E.S.C
soundcloud.com/fleck
( ;D --> Franck Collin, aka Fleck E.S.C, is an Electro artist originally from France currently living in the buzzing metropolis of Tokyo, Japan. Franck’s earlier experience playing bass and drums in bands, and his love of horror, science fiction and B-movies, naturally drove him to the Electro music scene. Additionally, Fleck E.S.C has influences rooted in New Wave, Contemporary, Techno and Ambient music.  Fleck E.S.C tries to avoid the cliches of the Electro genre, leaning more toward the spooky side of horror and sci-fi and the cheap retro sounds in tribute of the movies he loves.  Never too serious, unpretentious, and always striving for fresh sounds, Fleck E.S.C’s music aims to distract the body and the brain.)
Fusion Enhancement
batteryparkstudio.bandcamp.com/album/fusion-enhancement
 
Max Cue
maxcue.eu/
soundcloud.com/max-cue
www.myspace.com/max_cue
( ;D --> Andy Verschaeren aka Max Cue is a producer and dj from Antwerp city, who's biggest influences are spread over eras and many different genres. (Thom Yorke, Serj Tankian, James Holden, Aaron Funk, Roisin Murphy, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Chinmaya Dunster, Laurent Garnier) He has been obsessed with music since the age of 12. Producing his first sounds with Fast Tracker at the age of 16, then developing his talent with Fruity Loops and later on using Ableton Live.
Spinning the wheels has been a passion for a long time now, starting with trance & techno, followed by a darker period with hardcore and breakcore, which resulted in his darker melancholic style as you already have heard.)
Mindfulness (October the 6th)
soundcloud.com/manual-music/sets/mancd012-max-cue-mindfulness
( ;D --> ‘Mindfulness’, the new album from Max Cue, is well-named. Watchful and attentive are characteristics high on the agenda of Antwerp’s Andy Verschaeren, letting loose a set of deep house and techno whose perpetual breeze and clear-mindedness is sourced from uncluttered, neatly layered and direct production.)
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2012/03/flavor-of-week-14.html
 
Martial Canterel
www.facebook.com/M.Canterel
www.myspace.com/martialcanterel
( ;D --> Martial Canterel is definitely one of the most talented artist in electronic underground music of our time. Each and every single song of him is just gripping. The music stands in the tradition of the past, but is characterized by a super-intense signature sound which is full of melancholy. The mysterious lyrics and the brilliant voice that seems to be absent and emotional at the same time add to the sinister mood of the tracks.
If you are only a little bit into Minimal Wave or Synthpop, you can't ignore Martial Canterel. And if you don't, this could be your entrance ticket into this musical territory!.
Austerton
soundcloud.com/experimedia/martial-canterel-austerton
www.onderstroomrecords.net/shop/index.php?route=product%2Fproduct&product_id=267
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2012/08/flavor-of-week-33.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2011/12/flavor-of-week-50.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2008/08/flavor-of-week-33.html

Grit
soundcloud.com/grit
gritdubtechno.co.uk/
( ;D --> Deeper electronic music from London.)
Satellite Religion
www.junodownload.com/products/satellite-religion/1415050-02/
Auotopilot
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2N10Lb2Who&feature=youtu.be&a

Cygnus
central-processing-unit.co.uk/cygnus-tesseracter/
( ;D --> With two years of solid output behind them, Sheffield label CPU has established itself as a binary science lab that delivers precision electro time after time. This continues with the welcome return of Cygnus - Tesseractar is the electro world killer he has always threatened to make. Following on from his 2012 album Newmark Phase (the inaugural release on CPU), Cygnus presents a collection of sci-fi / video game influenced soundscapes and melodies with a healthy dose of the Roland TR-808.Heads up drexciyan researchers.)
Tesseracter
www.kudosrecords.co.uk/release/cpu00001101d/cpu00001101d.html
soundcloud.com/cpurecords/cygnus-tesseracter

Happy *APX* releaseday ;D
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Flavor of the Week #37

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Arca
soundcloud.com/arca1000000
www.arca1000000.com/
( ;D --> Arca (born Alejandro Ghersi, in Caracas, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan producer, consultant, mixing engineer and DJ based in Brooklyn, New York.)
Xen (release date November 3rd.)
mute.com/mute/signs-to-mute-debut-album-xen-out-on-34-november-hear-the-first-single-thievery
Thievery
soundcloud.com/arca1000000/arca-thievery
( ;D --> "Breakbeat" is one of those words that often comes prepackaged with a specific adjective: dusty. Whether we're talking about the excavated grooves of early hip hop or the beat science of drum & bass, breakbeats have usually been sourced from vinyl—old funk recordings—and fed through early, bit-gnashing samplers, and so they come with the attendant qualities of grimey old things. The breakbeat that anchors "Thievery", the first track to emerge from Venezuelan producer Arca's anticipated album Xen, is not dusty. It is slow, heavy chrome, the kind of breakbeat Michael Bay might erect if he needed a backbone for quivering synth knots and alien half-utterances. And that's what's striking about "Thievery": the contrast between its radical sonics and its widescreen ambition. Like an air show, there are uncomfortable bursts of noise, sharp nose-dives, and plenty of space-age technology deployed in the service of generating oohs and aahs. When Arca finishes untangling those glassy synthesizer whorls, the song is carried out by a simple, staccato piano melody. It's a tease of simplicity after minutes of chaos, a nice reminder that Arca's just arranging tones and melodies like everyone else, something that "Thievery"'s explosions can make you forget.)

L’Âme Immortelle
www.facebook.com/LAI.official
www.lai-music.com
www.myspace.com/lameimmortelle
( ;D --> L’âme Immortelle (French: the immortal soul) is an Austrian band that produces darkwave, and more recently also industrial metal. Many of L’âme Immortelle’s songs feature melancholy or lovelorn lyrics in German or English, and juxtaposed harsh male and emotional female vocals. Current work has moved away from the band’s electronic roots into the neue deutsche härte (New German hardness) genre. L’âme Immortelle was formed in 1996 in Vienna, Austria by friends Thomas Rainer (Nachtmahr) and Hannes Medwenitsch.)
Drahtseilakt (release date Nov 3rd)
www.trisol.de/de/news/346-lai-drahtseil-set.html
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2011/11/flavor-of-week-48.html
And: Thomas Rainer/Nachtmahr
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/09/flavor-of-week-40.html

Vladislav Delay
www.facebook.com/vladislavdelay
www.myspace.com/vladislavdelaymusic
www.vladislavdelay.com
( ;D --> Vladislav Delay, Uusitalo, Luomo, Conoco, Sistol. Under a raft of different names this Finnish artist (Sasu Ripatti *1976) has experimented with ambient, broken beat, glitch as well as grooves and house music with soulful vocals. In addition he has collaborated with and worked for a wide range of artists ranging from Scissor Sisters and Craig Armstrong to AGF, Black Dice, Massive Attack, Towa Tei and Ryuichi Sakamoto. While his side-projects and remixes are there to flirt with more stable rhythms and dancefloor institutions, his main love as well as his background is in experimenting with different kind of sounds and rhythms; a quest to find some music not heard yet. The soundtrack of Vladislav Delay. His forte is the rhythm, even if so subtle at times. In fact, he may as well be classified as a “percussionist” (actually he is originally a drummer) rather than an electronic musician despite the fact that that is how he mostly generates his sound and music, because it is the beat and its possibilities which lie closest to his heart, which further serves to explain why he has experimented with it from so many different musical angles.)
Visa (release date Nov 10th.)
soundcloud.com/vladislavdelay/visa-medley
www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=26089
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2011/06/flavor-of-week-26.html

tau sagittarii
scapeone.bandcamp.com
( ;D --> Tuck your crew in for the long sleep. Time bends as you drift through the vast distances of deep space. Leave behind our spec of sand and float into the ocean of stars.)
drift
scapeone.bandcamp.com/album/drift
drift (field-1)
soundcloud.com/scape-one/tau-sagittarii-drift-field-1

subtractiveLAD
www.stephenhummel.ca
www.facebook.com/subtractiveLAD
( ;D > Stephen Hummel has been releasing experimental electronic music as subtractiveLAD since 2005. In 2012, Stephen also began releasing songs under his own name.)
Wilderness
stephenhummel.bandcamp.com/album/wilderness
Subspace
stephenhummel.bandcamp.com/track/subspace

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Flavor of the Week #36

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Alex Banks
alexbanksmusic.co.uk
www.facebook.com/alexbanksmusic
( ;D --> Alex Banks’ musical mission is going into overdrive. After building a hefty reputation via killer DJs sets across Europe and a few extraordinary remixes (Bonobo, Husky Rescue, Andreya Triana etc), he’s now signed to Monkeytown, the label owned by doyens of German electronic/club music, Modeselektor. His talents are showcased on the album, ‘Illuminate’. Two years in the making, it’s the culmination of Banks’ initial aspirations, at once rich in production artistry but ready for the dancefloor, seasoned with melodies and the leaping vocals of Gazelle Twin’s Elizabeth Bernholz, yet boasting a sonic heft and ambition on a par with the likes of Jon Hopkins, Daniel Avery and Nicolas Jaar.)
Illuminate
www.monkeytownrecords.com/products/view/262/alex-banks-illuminate-digipak-cd-monkeytown043cd
open.spotify.com/album/6sa9llZk8UDWGFw1fgbaFz
"A Matter Of Time" feat. Elizabeth Bernholz (Radio Edit)
soundcloud.com/monkeytown-music/alex-banks-a-matter-of-time-radio-edit
"All You Could Do - Phon.O Remix"
soundcloud.com/modeselektor/alex-banks-all-you-could-do-phono-remix-out-may-02-2014-mtr041
 
Clark (Chris Clark)
throttleclark.com/clark/
www.myspace.com/throttleclark
www.facebook.com/throttleclark
soundcloud.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).)
Clark
throttleclark.com/clark/
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2014/02/flavor-of-week-9.html
And:
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  

Oil 10
www.oil10.com/
www.facebook.com/Oil10music
( ;D --> Since 1998, the French project Oil 10 has produced pure electronic tracks in which powerful, elegant and analogical sounds mix-up. Gilles Rossire shows that research doesn't always mean icy hermetism and achieves a terrific fusion between ambient and electro.  His approach can be explained by the diversity of his influences: essential first albums of Kraftwerk or Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Brian Eno, LFO, Pan sonic, FSOL, Autechre, Dead Can Dance, the 80s electro pop scene (OMD, Freur, Fad Gadget, Ultravox, Depeche Mode...) and electronic heirs (IAMX, Goldfrapp, Ladytron,..).
Modularium
O10_amazon
Human Decision Required
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8Xj-42RJxY&feature=youtu.be&a

Conrad Schnitzler
conrad-schnitzler.de
( ;D --> Conrad Schnitzler (1937–2011) is one of the most important representatives of Germany's electronic music avant-garde. A student of Joseph Beuys, he founded Berlin's legendary Zodiak Free Arts Lab, a subculture club, in 1967/68, was a member of Tangerine Dream and Kluster and also released countless solo albums. The yellow album contains recordings from the year 1974. It is not only amiable from start to finish, it also documents an important stage in Schnitzler’s musical development. This album reveals itself to be an important milestone, illuminating a clear path into the future. Schnitzler had begun to free himself from the constraints of orthodox conceptual art, advancing into the wide open spaces of uncharted musical territory. Reissue on CD/LP/DL out Nov 14, 2014.)
Gelb
soundcloud.com/bureau-1/conrad-schnitzler-gelb

Trentemøller
www.anderstrentemoller.com/
www.anderstrentemoller.com/facebook
www.myspace.com/trentemoeller  
( ;D --> Anders Trentemoller has risen to the heights of international success usually only connected with artists in more mainstream Pop realms. His outstanding skills and talent for heart-wrenching melodic moments, fused with his trademark sound, have helped him gain fans across the globe, and blur the boundaries between cutting-edge, underground quality and mass appreciation.)
'Lost Reworks'
open.spotify.com/album/2D6qw7xpRi1VzviHzRlwUH
ymlp.com/zk7N5e
Come Undone (Trentemøller Remix)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAdi0k_znmY&feature=youtu.be&a
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2011/05/flavor-of-week-22.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2010/06/flavor-of-week-25.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/08/flavor-of-week-35.html 
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2008/10/flavor-of-week-43.html 
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2008/05/flavor-of-week-19.html 
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/11/flavor-of-week-49.html 

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