Flavor of the Week #49

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Squarepusher
www.squarepusher.net
warp.net/records/squarepusher
www.myspace.com/doyouknowsquarepusher
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.)
Vortrack [Fracture Remix]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=59ke5hp-p3E
BE UP A HELLO/WARP309 (released 31 Janyary 2020.
www.factmag.com/2019/11/20/squarepusher-be-up-a-hello/
squarepusher.net
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2015/02/flavor-of-week-8.html


Coil
www.brainwashed.com/coil/
( ;D --> Coil was an English cross-genre, experimental music group formed in 1982 by John Balance—later credited as "Jhonn Balance"—and his life partner and collaborator Peter Christopherson, aka "Sleazy".[1] The duo worked together on a series of releases before Balance chose the name Coil, which he claimed to be inspired by the omnipresence of the coil's shape in nature. Today, Coil remains one of the most influential and best-known industrial music groups.)
Stolen & Conaminated songs
open.spotify.com/album/14Y1xXTT9LBQv1Uhu2kcQL
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2016/03/flavor-of-week-11.html


Confrontional
confrontational.bandcamp.com/
soundcloud.com/2confrontational
www.facebook.com/2confrontational
( ;D --> "A monolithic, spooky album that evokes images of both the dance floor and the horror movie screen... I give A DANCE OF SHADOWS 9 stars out of 10, because it not only shows growth, but also a really polished sense of purpose. CONFRONTATIONAL intends to confront you, and what he will show you may frighten you… but only until you come to love it for the art that it is." Bryan Eddy, NewRetroWave.com.)
Under Cover Of Darkness
confrontational.bandcamp.com/album/under-cover-of-darkness
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2017/12/flavor-of-week-51.html


Bleeding Raven
bleedingraven.bandcamp.com/
( ;D --> An experiment initiated by Dean Mason of "Gnostic Gorilla" to explore a more abrasive/aggortech type project. Some of the tracks could be called doom-tech while others almost have a trance feel with some noisecore sentiments here and there.)
Darkness Consumed
bleedingraven.bandcamp.com/album/darkness-consumed-2


Connect Ohm
ultimae.com/artists/connect-ohm/
( ;D --> The new remastered edition of Connect.Ohm's first album 9980 a subtle and emotive story born of the musical encounter between Hidetoshi Koizumi aka Hybrid Leisureland and Alexandre Scheffer aka Cell.The nine tracks on 9980 compose a serene ballad in atmospheric realms where finely chiseled rhythms and fluid melodies are sustained by discreet downtempo grooves and deep drones. Koizumi’s widely spread, otherworldly, organic, sustained wizardry, compliments Scheffer’s spiraling, liquid, delicate yet sumptuous acid ambient type architecture. This combination creates a kinetic and spacious tapestry that stimulates the mind and soul. A pure delight for vast soundscapes audiophiles.)
9980
ultimae.com/product/connect-ohm-9980-ultimae-cd/


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Flavor of the Week #48

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Fraunhofer Diffraction
ivoryrite.bandcamp.com/
soundcloud.com/ivoryrite
instagram.com/ivory.rite/
www.facebook.com/fdiffraction
( ;D --> Ambient Techno; Soft, warm, enveloping and nervous, like meeting with an old friend. Increased heart rate, but the eyes are half-closed and sleepy.)
Theo
soundcloud.com/ivoryrite/fraunhofer-diffraction-theo
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2019/03/flavor-of-week-12.html


Stoppenberg
soundcloud.com/stoppenberg
( ;D --> STOPPENBERG is an EDM/TBM side project of X-FUSION/NOISUF-X.)
Frontschlag
soundcloud.com/stoppenberg/stoppenberg-frontschlag-album-preview
www.discogs.com/Stoppenberg-Frontschlag/release/13884916


Solitary Experiments
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.)
The 25th Anniversary Compilation
open.spotify.com/album/0hUoupbcJWwY0t9cBNsjd3?si=Qc8PbC39QOOJBVzBXLNe0Q
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2018/08/flavor-of-week-35.html


Loscil
loscil.ca
( ;D --> Loscil is the electronic/ambient music project of Scott Morgan, from Vancouver, BC. The name Loscil is taken from the "looping oscillator" function (loscil) in Csound. Scott Morgan is also the drummer for the Vancouver indie band Destroyer.)
Lifelike
loscil.bandcamp.com/album/lifelike
( ;D --> Original music from the game Lifelike by Kunabi Brother lifelikegame.com. releases December 3, 2019)
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2019/11/flavor-of-week-45.html


Mekas
www.facebook.com/mekasdj
soundcloud.com/mekas
insurgentes-co.bandcamp.com/album/chaosmos
( ;D --> Through organized chaos we seek resurrection and inmortality. Sound and fury to the system, Electro-Ambient from the south: Mekas send the message, from Buenos Aires to the unknown.)
Chaosmos
insurgentes-co.bandcamp.com/album/chaosmos


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Flavor of the Week #47

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Moris Blak
www.facebook.com/morisblakaudio/
( ;D --> MORIS BLAK is a pulse driven descent into the catacombs of the dance underground. Fusing the cold aggression of industrial music with the surgical precision of modern bass music, MORIS BLAK is the hymn for your warehouse rituals. Performances are a vortex of adrenaline and dread, playing their unique brand of bleak electronics to a backdrop of haunting visuals. Prepare to join the cult of industrial bass music. MORIS BLAK has been releasing music through Blind Mice Productions since 2016.)
The Irregularity Of Being
open.spotify.com/album/39QluAdqJpvSiCS2o0rLFg?si=ixhU1PUkQEKC49XiTocpaA
Violence' (feat. Slighter)
open.spotify.com/album/39QluAdqJpvSiCS2o0rLFg


Reichsfeind
www.facebook.com/Reichsfeind
( ;D --> Arisen from the hinterland of Frankfurt on the Main, Germany, RF was founded in early 2011 as a dark electronic one-man project. Timo Revna combines spherical-dreamy sounds and driving rhythms with texts about human failure and individual fates. A bastard of dreamy longings and raw nihilism.)
Anti
youtu.be/eQtGQFuLAoM
Chasm Walk
www.poponaut.de/reichsfeind-chasm-walk-p-19069.html


HNN
soundcloud.com/hnn-hsilgne-nekorb-ni
www.facebook.com/HNN-136850389694000/
( ;D --> minimal synth / new wave / synthpop / synthwave from Paris.)
江戸
hnnmusic.bandcamp.com/album/-
Théâtrophone
hnnmusic.bandcamp.com/track/th-trophone


Maschine Brennt
www.facebook.com/maschinebrennt/
soundcloud.com/thenander
( ;D --> Behind Maschine Brennt you will find Joacim Thenander, a guy with a long experience in making computer-based music. In the late ‘80s he was a member of industrial synth band Systema The Affliction, and later he was the driving force behind the thrashsynth/hiphop crossover duo Cultivated Bimbo.)
Trick EP
maschinebrennt.bandcamp.com/album/trick-ep
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2018/08/flavor-of-week-33.html


Parralox
www.facebook.com/parralox
www.parralox.com/
( ;D --> If ever there was a new electronic pop band to encapsulate and emulate the legendary stylings of Depeche Mode, The Human League, Erasure, New Order, Pet Shop Boys and the spirit of Madonna in her 80s day-glo era, then Australia’s Parralox are that modern-day reincarnation.)
Nemesis
parralox.bandcamp.com/track/nemesis
Genesis
parralox.bandcamp.com/album/genesis
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2017/06/flavor-of-week-25.html


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Flavor of the Week #46

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Blutengel
www.blutengel.de
www.facebook.com/BlutengelOfficial/
( ;D --> Blutengel (German: Blood Angel) is a German futurepop musical group. It was formed by singer Chris Pohl, also of the groups Terminal Choice, Tumor, and Miss Construction and the owner of the Fear Section label.)
Damocles
open.spotify.com/album/24pDhu8MbJwTDWzmZyfIaV
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2019/02/flavor-of-week-9.html


Fotoapparat
soundcloud.com/fotoapparat
www.facebook.com/wirsindfotoapparat/
( ;D --> 'Fotoapparat' was born somewhere in Europe, around the 21st century. The project is thought as a multimedia experiment with roots both from the past and the future : it is the fruit of the love of strange music, social science fiction and last but not least, underground electronic subcultures.)
Transhumanismus EP
ukonx.bandcamp.com/album/transhumanismus-ep


Stephen Mallinder
stephenmallinder.bandcamp.com/
( ;D --> Stephen Mallinder, co-founder and frontman of the iconic Cabaret Voltaire, has returned with his first solo album in over 35 years: Um Dada. Laced with leftfield house and cut-up sound collages, Um Dada is a melding of energies that are an exercise in simplicity and motion. Sincere, playful realism that beckons your body to move, always reminding you to never take yourself too seriously without forfeiting your agency. While steering Cabaret Voltaire through the 1980’s, Mallinder was already busy piecing together his first solo album entitled “Pow Wow”, which would help define Mallinder’s interest in the more leftfield electro sounds shaping England at the time. It was this diverse and abstract hybrid that helped inspire generations of artists and musicians through steeping raw machine funk within the whimsical and absurdist ideology. Since the release of “Pow Wow” in 1982, Mallinder continued his pioneering work with Cabaret Voltaire, as well as recording and touring with his electro projects Wrangler, Creep Show, Hey Rube, Kula, and Cobby & Mallinder. In addition to his non-stop schedule in electronic music, his professional life as a journalist, broadcaster, producer and now a professor of Digital Music & Sound Art at the University of Brighton, has lead Mallinder to a unique point in his career.)
Um Dada
stephenmallinder.bandcamp.com/
Robber
stephenmallinder.bandcamp.com/track/robber
Working
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyeYjwrNK4g
See also (Cabaret Voltaire):
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2014/01/flavor-of-week-4.html


Sølve
soundcloud.com/slve
slve.bandcamp.com/
www.facebook.com/solvevlos
( ;D --> SØLVE, based in San Diego. Emotive, sensual, and downright haunting, SØLVE coils its audience in an inescapable labyrinth of spellbinding darkness.)
Blackbirds
slve.bandcamp.com/track/blackbirds
Fire Meridian
slve.bandcamp.com/album/fire-meridian
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2015/09/flavor-of-week-38.html


Amon Tobin www.amontobin.com
( ;D --> Brazilian DJ and Producer Amon Tobin is known for his brand of jazz-influenced IDM ("intelligent dance music"), which also takes in influences from hip-hop, drum'n'bass, breakbeat and samba music.)
Long Stories
music.amontobin.com/album/long-stories
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2017/08/flavor-of-week-35.html


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Flavor of the Week #45

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Flesh
soundcloud.com/fleshhorrornoisebeat
www.facebook.com/fleshhorrornoisebeat
( ;D --> Underground Witch House from Hamburg-Altona.)
Hexadezimaltod
fleshhorrornoisebeat.bandcamp.com/album/hexadezimaltod
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2019/09/flavor-of-week-40.html


Makeup And Vanity Set
www.facebook.com/makeupandvanityset/
www.makeupandvanityset.com/
soundcloud.com/makeupandvanityset
( ;D --> Makeup and Vanity Set entered our atmosphere — we can’t be sure when or how — but we do have a clue as to where from...the same galaxy that gave us Daft Punk, Röyksopp and Deadmau5. But that’s not to say that M&VS doesn’t have something unique to share. The pieces are grandiose, conceptual, almost as if each contributes to some other epic, unknown story. There won't be much trouble locating scenes for these tracks to underscore. We believe their use in film is absolutely eminent.)
Breaking News
open.spotify.com/album/7ctX0Rf49kzxegrfMoDE9Z
We're in Charge Now
open.spotify.com/track/1kD1wjhaDMfthkbE1vjrRa?si=_ZC-8eTAQiaYxeCh2c0GSw
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2017/12/flavor-of-week-49.html


Nightcrawler
www.nightcrawlermusic.com
( ;D --> Synthwave and Darksynth are the foundations of Nightcrawler’s sound universe, heavily influenced by horror soundtracks and sci-fi movies, elements blended with electronic beats and a dark atmosphere.)
Unearthed EP
nightcrawler.bandcamp.com/album/unearthed-ep
Vanished
nightcrawler.bandcamp.com/track/vanished-feat-maxthor
See also:
barlemusic.blogspot.com/2019/02/flavor-of-week-6.html


Loscil
loscil.ca
( ;D --> Loscil is the electronic/ambient music project of Scott Morgan, from Vancouver, BC. The name Loscil is taken from the "looping oscillator" function (loscil) in Csound. Scott Morgan is also the drummer for the Vancouver indie band Destroyer.)
Equivalents
loscil.bandcamp.com/album/equivalents
( ;D --> Inspired by Alfred Stieglitz’ black-and-white photographs of clouds, the Canadian ambient musician reworks piano samples into one of the most monochromatic albums of his career. Any of the dozen albums that Scott Morgan has produced over the past two decades utilize two volumes: quiet and quieter. Morgan’s music as Loscil is defined by subtlety and understatement: His records tend to recede from the foreground, enmeshing themselves in their surroundings without demanding much attention. He has a rich compositional style that is intricate and deliberate, as well as an ability to conjure immersive atmospheres whose surprising depth is hidden by the music’s supine, almost narcotic, qualities. Equivalents, Loscil’s first album in three years, is remarkably monochromatic music, full of wispy high pitches that swirl around waves of pink noise and slowly moving tone clusters. Almost all of the sounds were created by heavily processing and layering samples of piano that were originally intended for a Glenn Gould tribute curated by Japanese ambient legend Ryuichi Sakamoto. By focusing so intently on one source, Morgan has made one of the most homogenous albums of his career. It’s easy to regard Equivalents as one long composition that moves through several distinct but related movements. It has a lulling effect that allows space for the mind to wander.)


You Man
www.you-man.eu/
( ;D --> 2019 marks the return of the duo You Man to the forefront of the electronic music scene. They’re back with a new EP, called "Tutti Va Bene", on the English label Nein Records. You Man has also distinguished themselves with some great videos. Whether it’s addictive image montages "Birdcage", "Everybody", clips with technological graphics "There Is A Land", television "Indian Summer" or a short scripted film "When We Fall", directed by Quentin Tavernier, Tepat Huleux (an interactive designer) and Giac Di Falco (a trained psychologist / hypnotherapist) unveil in these videos their pop, television and computer culture, their geeky spirit and their metaphysical reflections in a powerful graphic world.)
Tranquilo
open.spotify.com/track/2E9ycbWAQOVir0Za0u1vBp?si=hQK5NA8UT6uTzXFx3GpYdQ
Tutti Va Bene
neinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/tutti-va-bene
You Man Exclusive Mix for Trax Magazine
soundcloud.com/trax-magazine/you-man-exclusive-mix-for-trax-magazine


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