Flavor of the Week #18

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Agent Side Grinder 

www.agentsidegrinder.com 

www.facebook.com/agentsidegrinder 

( ;D --> Agent Side Grinder’s slick and gritty modern take on the minimal wave, post-punk, and industrial sound(s) of yesteryear come alive in a stripped, cold, and pop-like fashion on the act’s newest album Hardware. “On this record, ASG once again steps into their musical time-machine, has a rendezvous with old masters such as Kraftwerk, Einsturzende Neubaten and Depeche Mode and invite them all on a reckless, rhythmic journey into a bleak future.” While a fitting description of Hardware from the Agent Side Grinder website, its own legs extend more than that of its expected retro drapes.) 

Bloodless 

https://open.spotify.com/track/04c1J8YzEro3kFJx6qHWYC

Jack Vegas (May 4th) 

https://progress-productions.com/product/agent-side-grinder-jack-vegas-cd/ 

See also. 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2018/05/flavor-of-week-20.html

Violle 

https://open.spotify.com/artist/1LT5t6vbSfuIWmnFjcqdTg 

( ;D --> Dark beat Techno) 

Insomnia 

https://open.spotify.com/track/0oarRMUaejvKWmGEmvqGcn 

Experiment no.5 

https://open.spotify.com/track/1rvEKPkpFmh284SZzVLnrC 

Lost and Found 

https://open.spotify.com/album/5G5AQejBoE9gRnrnFROlHv 

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.) 

O 

https://alfamatrix.bandcamp.com/album/0 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2022/05/flavor-of-week-22.html 

Vitalic 

www.vitalic.org/ 

www.facebook.com/vitalicofficial 

http://soundcloud.com/vitalicofficial 

( ;D --> Vitalic is the alter ego of Pascal Arbez, a French programmer/multi-instrumentalist who blends electro, techno, and house -- as well as elements of classical, rock, Italo-disco, and '70s electronic music -- into a sound that recalls the work of fellow countrymen Daft Punk and Air, but has its own hard-edged playfulness. Arbez played trombone as a child and young adult, but became fascinated with dance music when he heard Daft Punk in the mid-'90s. Inspired by them as well as Giorgio Moroder, Arbez switched to analog synths and began writing and recording as Dima.) 

Disco Boy, The Rising(From Disco Bo) [Radio edit]

www.beatport.com/release/disco-boy-the-rising-from-disco-boy-radio-edit/4041281 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2022/03/flavor-of-week-11.html 

Com Truise 

https://comtruise.com 

( ;D --> Com Truise is one of the many personas of producer and designer Seth Haley, born and raised in upstate New York and operating out of a 12’-overrun apartment in Princeton, New Jersey. An admitted synth obsessive, Com Truise is the maker of an experimental and bottom heavy style he calls “mid-fi synth-wave, slow-motion funk”. What do you call musicians like Com Truise? He seems easy enough to pin down—throw out some words like “nostalgia,” “synth-wave,” “eighties,” and “electro-funk” and you’ll scrape by—but to be truly insightful about his music is tough, because art that is so blatantly referencing certain things in a certain way while also making them weird and new and unique is confusing. How do you classify something that is so obviously both vintage and current but is too fun to call postmodern?)

Brokendate 

https://bleep.com/release/377754-com-truise-brokendate 

In Decay, Too 

https://bleep.com/release/208082-com-truise-in-decay-too 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2019/03/flavor-of-week-11.html 

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Flavor of the Week #17

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iTAL tEK 

https://italtek.bandcamp.com/ 

https://twitter.com/italtek 

( ;D --> Breaks, Chillout, Dubstep, Bassline, Dub and Cinematic in a pleasant mixture.Ital Tek is 25 year old producer, DJ and label owner Alan Myson from Brighton. Since signing to the legendary Planet Mu label in 2007 with the hard electronica infused dubstep of "Blood Line EP" he has gone on to release two full length albums, numerous singles, remixes and tour across Europe, Russia, Japan and the USA garnering a legion of fans. Ital Tek has carved his own niche in the UK underground scene with references to classic Electronica, Hip Hop and Techno blended masterfully to create his own style of hard hitting and melodic bass music. This pack will be hugely useful for current producers moving from the Garage and House influenced Bass music of the moment, Hip Hop or Dubstep - with useful tones and textures for those making Techno. From Punchy Dubstep Beats, Dub Tech Synths, Slow Breaks, Drum Machine Beats, Dissonant Bells, Distorted Sequences, Moody Strings, Live Beats, Dub Sirens Lazers and more - this is a fantastic and unique collection from a producer whom we consider to be on top of his game and creating an influential sound which transcends genres.) 

Darking 

https://italtek.bandcamp.com/track/darking 

Timeproof 

https://italtek.bandcamp.com/album/timeproof 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2020/08/flavor-of-week-34.html 

Hypnagog 

https://hypnagog.bandcamp.com/ 

https://soundcloud.com/hypnagog 

www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063718209888 

( ;D --> Hypnagog is a musical project of Felix Greenlees aka Terrafractyl and Mental Extensions. After years of writing Psychedelic dance music and experimenting with plenty of other sonic forms, Felix started to spend more time listening to downtempo, psychedelic breaks, IDM and the like. It was time to combine these styles with his own to create some kind of hybrid, beat driven, yet melodic sound. As the project has progressed, Felix has also been experimenting with a kind of jazzy progressive trance and has been working to combine these 2 styles into what could maybe be described as Psychedelic ProgStep. As always, his music is hard to describe and difficult to put into boxes and has been surprising and exhilarating audiences around the world for the past couple of years.) 

Collected dream Fragmented 

https://kinematicrecords.bandcamp.com/album/collected-dream-fragments 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2020/01/flavor-of-week-6.html 

Teledeath 

www.facebook.com/teledeath/ 

( ;D --> Dark electronic.) 

Temples 

https://teledeath.bandcamp.com/track/temples-2 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2023/03/flavor-of-week-11.html 

Lefrenk 

https://lefrenk.com/

www.facebook.com/lefrenkmusic/

( ;D --> Lefrenk makes his debut on Science Cult with a massive electro EP featuring a stomping remix by label regular Serge Geyzel.) 

Electric Dystopia 

https://shop.sciencecult.com/album/electric-dystopia 

:Wumpscut 

www.wumpscut.com 

https://wumpscut.bandcamp.com/ 

www.facebook.com/RudyRatzinger 

www.facebook.com/pages/Wumpscut/110063409032139 

https://wumpscut.myds.me/ 

( ;D --> :Wumpscut is an electro-industrial music project from Germany, created 1991 by Bavarian DJ Rudy Ratzinger. :Wumpscut: uses the electronic medium to create a dark body of music that explores the themes of isolation and desperation.) 

For Those About To Starve 

https://wumpscut.bandcamp.com/album/for-those-about-to-starve 

Du Hast Kein Herz 

https://wumpscut.bandcamp.com/album/du-hast-kein-herz-giftkeks-remix-contest-kit 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2021/04/flavor-of-week-16.html 

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Flavor of the Week #16

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Aesthetische 

https://soundcloud.com/aesthetische 

www.facebook.com/aesthetische 

( ;D --> Aesthetische is the musical return of Fab Viscardi and Gui Pires of Aghast View and Biopsy to the hard industrial dance / electronic scene after a hiatus of almost 8 years! Aesthtetische’s electronic sound aims at diversity on the EBM genre and carries craft and complexity to the composition paired with a well rounded production and modern programming technique. Tracks vary from mid tempo solid EBM to more fast paced outbursts of synth layers and beats. Aesthetische is influenced by all sorts of electronic music, not only hard electronics, but all forms of electronic expression. Influences from Rock, world music, contemporary music also play a part on AE’s sound.) 

Boiling Over EP 

https://alfamatrix.bandcamp.com/album/boiling-over-ep 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2022/02/flavor-of-week-6.html 

Koan 

www.facebook.com/koanmsk 

https://soundcloud.com/koanofficial 

( ;D --> Producing sophisticated psychedelic Chill Out music is a discipline within the electronic music scene that is similar to playing Jazz in a certain respect: It needs maturity and extensive musical experience to go beyond the scope of standards, to become really good and extraordinary. This might have to do with the fact that this kind of music is not aiming a busy dance floor, rising its hands and shouting out loud during the breaks. Instead of that, it is made for the individual mind and therefore includes a less functional but pretty intellectual, mature and also very artistic moment. Seen in front of this background, the history of Koan 

gives some interesting hints about the astonishing musical quality of this Russian duo.) 

Moscati 

https://koanmsk.bandcamp.com/album/moscati

Hot Air

https://open.spotify.com/album/2kkHt5XXXHLpIsvcGzbIGT

Everything Is Connected

https://open.spotify.com/album/4DvWGp3FVjhRiSbTHdhJzL

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2022/09/flavor-of-week-37.html 

Xenia Beliayeva 

www.xenbel.net 

www.facebook.com/xeniabeliayeva 

c Xenia Beliayeva's great ability to combine dark wave and pop elements with a club techno feeling on the one hand and songwriting on the other hand gets.) 

Haldolium remix 

https://bluetunesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/alexander-haldolium-remix-extended-version

Rada 

https://xeniabeliayeva.bandcamp.com/track/rada 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2022/02/flavor-of-week-8.html 

Lexer 

www.instagram.com/lexer_official/ 

www.facebook.com/Lexer.Official/ 

https://soundcloud.com/lexer 

( ;D --> It is this radiant smile that immediately makes you one with the man who is taking you on a journey. On a journey that makes him so happy that he absolutely wants to share it with you. Because his DJ sets are a journey. They tell a story of letting go, of being free and happy. The natural distance between artist and audience dissolves completely with him, because he is one of us. Lexer has become one of the best storytellers in electronic music. And not only in his sets, but of course also in his productions on labels like Oddity, Bedrock Records & Radikon. No question, his deep melodic techno touches people, because Lexer manages to finally give this music, which has been watered down for some years now by cheap showmanship, a soul again. For this he invests an incredible amount of heart and soul.

Reverse Affection 

https://open.spotify.com/album/1qEHygPuXMc1JsjXWHGo1F 

Fever Ray 

www.facebook.com/FeverRay/ 

https://feverray.com 

( ;D --> Fever Ray is a solo alias for Karin Dreijer Andersson as of the Swedish electronic music duo The Knife.) 

Radical Romantics 

https://feverray.bandcamp.com/album/radical-romantics 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2017/10/flavor-of-week-44.html 

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Flavor of the Week #15

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Carl Finlow 

www.facebook.com/carl.finlow 

https://carlfinlow.bandcamp.com/ 

https://soundcloud.com/carlfinlow 

( ;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.) 

430.790 (& Syrte) 

https://shop.sciencecult.com/album/430790 

Plasmoids 

https://shop.sciencecult.com/album/plasmoids 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2022/08/flavor-of-week-33.html 

Maduro / dave Buracker 

https://maduro.bandcamp.com/ 

www.facebook.com/maduropage 

( ;D --> Maduro mixes Industrial and EBM progressions with vocal-driven Darkwave constructions while exhibiting a raw and personal range of lyric content. The release oscillates between Maduro’s trademark fragmented dark synth sound and tracks that border on the dark pop ballad. Pretty Cages was mastered by Adam Stilson, renowned for his work with Pixel Grip, Hide, Patriarchy, Ritual Howls, etc.) 

Pretty Cages 

https://remissionentertainment.bandcamp.com/album/pretty-cages 

Versalife 

www.facebook.com/versalife.electro 

http://soundcloud.com/conforce 

( ;D --> Boris Bunnik is a versatile and creative soul from the island of Terschelling, Holland. He uses music making as a way of exploring his place in the world, of explaining his feelings and of processing life.) 

Oculus 

https://soundcloud.com/hypno_groove/premiere-versalife-oculus-v2-2020-vision 

VIS334: Chronoception 

https://2020vision.bandcamp.com/album/vis334-chronoception 

Distant Lands 

https://conforce.bandcamp.com/album/distant-lands-ep-versalife-remix 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2021/12/flavor-of-week-50.html 

Lake Haze 

https://lakehaze.bandcamp.com/ 

www.facebook.com/lakehaze/ 

( ;D --> Portuguese artist Lake Haze (Gonçalo Salgado) is a key player in Portuguese musical exports, delivering masterful blends of techno grooves and retro melodies, and released his debut LP on E-Beamz in 2019.) 

Coordinates of a Decaying World 

https://lakehaze.bandcamp.com/album/coordinates-of-a-decaying-world 

See also: 

https://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2022/11/flavor-of-week-47.html 

IAMTHESHADOW 

www.facebook.com/IAMTHESHADOWOFFICIAL/ 

( ;D --> Iamtheshadow is a musical project that began in 2015 by the Portuguese musician Pedro Code (The Dream Collision and Rainy Days Factory). The artistic influences of Iamtheshadow are varied and navigate the blackest and sharpest sounds of the 80s. Iamtheshadow is modern dark romance, where melody and words touch deeply perpetuating the desire that crosses and overcomes fear.) 

The Wide Starlight 

https://iamtheshadow.bandcamp.com/album/the-wide-starlight 

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