Flavor of the Week #23

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Carl Finlow / Random Factor / Silicon Scally 
www.carlfinlow.co.uk/
( ;D --> Carl has been writing and recording music since 1986 but his first real record involvement was co writing and producing Moments of Inertia by Circle City on Warp in 1993. After a year or so working with Leeds indie band The Bridewells and culminating in an album with them recorded in Roxy Music's studio, he settled down into writing and producing dance music. In 1994 he and DJ Ralph Lawson set up 2020 Vision Records, producing deep house flavours of their own as Wolf and Flow and under his own solo guise of Random Factor, remixing artists from around the globe including Blaze, Josh Wink, Superman Lovers and Fatboy Slim. His solo work is heavily electro tinted, reflective of the Kraftwerk era but owing as much to the likes of Drexciya, Prince, Depeche Mode and Yello. During the mid 90s he teamed up with SCSI founder Daz Quayle and wrote under the name Scarletron and also as Black Labs with two releases on Thomas Heckmann's Trope Recordings around 1995. Working under the names of Random Factor (2020 Vision) Voice Stealer (Subvert) and more recently Silicon Scally (SCSI, Satamile) he has released music on labels including Warp, Fuel, Playhouse, Paper, Trope, Sony, Klang, Arista, Soma, Pagan and Minifunk. He is also a keen remixer in his own right, having reworked tracks by 2 Lone Swordsman, Luke Slater, Swayzak, Dave Tipper and Alexi Delano. 2002 saw the release of the critically acclaimed Mr. Machine album on SCSI recordings. In 2003 the combined EP's on Device Entertainment Recordings were released as the album Electrilogy+ under his real name, Carl A Finlow. Shortly after this release, he moved to Paris.)
Electricology 4 - Preview // Coming soon on Electrix
soundcloud.com/bassagenda/carl-finlow-electrilogy-4-preview-coming-soon-on-electrix
Augment
carlfinlow.bandcamp.com/album/augment
Random Factor Unreleased
randomfactor.bandcamp.com/album/random-factor-unreleased

Metroland
www.metrolandmusic.com/
( ;D --> Metroland : a conceptual band, consisting out of passenger A & passenger S, bringing synthetic sounds from the "underground", highly influenced by Komputer (Mute Records) and Kraftwerk.)
The manifesto (spacious edition) EP
alfamatrix.bandcamp.com/album/the-manifesto-spacious-edition-ep
( ;D --> When Walter Gropius wrote the Bauhaus Manifesto in 1919, he had a dream: a dream of creating a total, socially relevant movement where all art forms would be present, and a utopian world where every home would benefit from products which, though industrially produced, oozed beauty and quality.
Small wonder then, that METROLAND, whose industrial approach to 21st century music had always targeted creating things of beauty, enthusiastically embraced Gropius’ ideas and defining motto “Art and technology - a new unity”.)
Triadic ballet
alfamatrix.bandcamp.com/album/triadic-ballet
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2012/04/flavor-of-week-17.html

Venal Flesh
www.facebook.com/venalflesh
venalflesh.blogspot.com
( ;D --> Formed in 2010 by Dan Barrett (aka rhythmic noise act WORMS OF THE EARTH) and DJ/model VanityKills, VENAL FLESH crafts music for people looking for an evolution of the heaviness of classic terror EBM, enhanced with complex structures and deep themes. Often described as the mixture of UNTER NULL, SKINNY PUPPY and SUICIDE COMMANDO having a jam session together, the American duo of VENAL FLESH definitely standout from the dark elektro crowd through their unique dense atmospheres and fascinating concept. VENAL FLESH brings substance back to the harsh elektro genre, and brings it all its meaning and excitement.)
Emulgent disfigurement EP
alfamatrix.bandcamp.com/album/emulgent-disfigurement-ep
Sacrament To The Scalpel EP
alfamatrix.bandcamp.com/album/sacrament-to-the-scalpel-ep

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)
Anti Body
gazelletwin.bandcamp.com/album/anti-body
Gazelle Twin & Tom Demac - GUTS (Tom Demac Remix) (HYPELTD019) clip
soundcloud.com/hypercolour_glasstable/gazelle-twin-tom-demac-guts-1
( ;D --> Elizabeth Bernholz, AKA Gazelle Twin, has been making some serious statements of intent over the last couple of years, making some uncompromising music in uncompromising times. Her 2014 album, “Unflesh” was a demonic and unsettling collection of dark electronica and autobiographical themes that was judged by The Quietus as their ‘Album Of The Year’. Hypercolour mainstay, Tom Demac, has also been busy, cutting some deadly electro techno of late for labels like Aus Music and Drumcode, and remixing for Luke Vibert, BANKS and Tosca. These two vociferous artists collide on this HypeLTD release, a meeting of mutual minds from the nether reaches of electronic music’s vast landscape. Demac tears down the Gazelle Twin original compositions and rebuilds them with feverish candor. “Belly of The Beast” pounds hard with rubbery percussion and rattling hats like chains, as Gazelle Twin chants her mantra “I’ll beat them all at their own game…” Demac’s padded cell like production is most definitely some of the best work we’ve heard him do to date, and this dark sound aesthetic spills into his take on “GUTS”. Like an electro take on a John Carpenter score, Demac carves out a futuristic and desolate take on Gazelle Twin’s urge resistance, taking pleasure in the complexity of the mind. Two killer tracks then from this unique pairing of artists, coming on HypeLTD in February 2015 on 12” vinyl and digital single.)
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2014/09/flavor-of-week-39.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2012/08/flavor-of-week-34.html

Foretaste
www.soundcloud.com/foretaste
www.foretaste-music.com
www.myspace.com/foretaste
( ;D --> Foretaste is a Modern synth Pop duo with enigmatic names: XX handles the vocals with a very capable, sexy-sounding voice – with a French accent, of course – while XY does some very creative programming and backing vocals.)
Pistes noires (De préférence) [Hommage électronique-pop à Etienne Daho]www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00UNCRYHW/ref=dm_ws_sp_ps_dp
Pistes noires (De préférence) [Hommage électronique-pop à Etienne Daho]
Ouverture (cover : album hommage electro-pop d'Etienne Daho)www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQevxTNb2Cs
( ;D --> new compilation: an electronic pop tribute to famous french pop singer Etienne Daho. The CD holds no less than 17 tracks: 17 different bands giving their personal view on Etienne Daho's song a backward trip from 2014's hit single En Surface to 1981' debut Mythomane. Whether you know or not Etienne Daho's work, it's definitely worth a listen.)
Dying for the Second Time in My Life
F_amazon
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2014/03/flavor-of-week-11.html
And:
barlemusic.blogspot.se/2009/01/flavor-of-week-5.html

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