Flavor of the Week #18

Monolake/Robert Henke
www.monolake.de
( ;D --> Monolake is an electronic music act based in Berlin. Originally consisting of members Gerhard Behles and Robert Henke, Monolake is now perpetuated by Henke while Behles focuses on running music software company Ableton. In fall 2004, Torsten Pröfrock became a member of Monolake. Monolake's minimal, dub-influenced techno music helped establish the sound of the Chain Reaction label, also located in Berlin, subsequently using their own [ml/i] (Monolake / Imbalance Computer Music) label for the group's output. Both current members have solo projects, with Henke releasing under his own name and Pröfrock as T++ and Various Artists. In 2008 T++ followed Ricardo Villalobos in bridging the gap between minimal techno and dubstep, by remixing Shackleton's Death Is Not Final for the Skull Disco label. In 2009, Robert Henke appeared in the electronic music documentary Speaking In Code which presented the completion of the Monodeck. Monolake is named after Mono Lake, which is east of the Sierra Nevada in California.)
Ghosts
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http://open.spotify.com/album/33MapHWzPMfivuQp8UTZDA
( ;D --> 'Every new Monolake album pushes the boundaries further into a world of complex rhythms, eerie soundscapes, and invented, processed sounds that feel cold, almost metallic on their own, but brought together take the listener on a warm sonic exploration'.)
The Existence of Time
http://vimeo.com/36867453
Aligning the Daemon
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF_ll76iEBg
Plumbicon (Deadbeat Remix)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mcb0BPKFR0
Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.se/2009/06/flavor-of-week-27.html
And:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.se/2008/07/flavor-of-week-29.html
And:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.se/2007/08/flavor-of-week-33.html
And:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.se/2007/01/flavor-of-week-01.html

Henning Baer
http://soundcloud.com/wesetthepace
( ;D --> Henning Baer is a man on a mission who's slowly been building his name in Berlin and beyond. As one half of the team behind the Grounded Theory Berlin project, they’ve hosted names such as Marcel Dettmann, Ben Klock, Function, Redshape, Traversable Wormhole, Perc, Pattern Repeat, Terence Fixmer to name a few.)
Drop Out
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Plant43
http://www.myspace.com/plant43
( ;D --> Marvelous Pure electronica from the UK based electronic music producer Emile Facey.)
Dreams Of The Sentient City. SEMANTICA 41
http://semanticarecords.bandcamp.com/album/plant43-dreams-of-the-sentient-city-semantica-41
Bleep43 EP001
http://soundcloud.com/bleep43/sets/bleep43-ep001
Ice Giant Transmission
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oElKtvUBMf8&feature=related
Fluid Reasoning
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lvB26jBiGRo#!

I:CUBE
http://soundcloud.com/i-cube
http://versatilerecords.com/chateauflight/tag/icube/
www.myspace.com/versatilerec
( ;D --> I:Cube is the alias of French music producer Nicolas Chaix. Paris based, he first gained limelight on Paris' underground dance scene in the mid to late 90s. His first widely notable release under this pseudonym was a remix of Daft Punk's Around the world in 1996. Daft Punk later returned the favor, remixing I:Cube's own track Disco Cubizm also released in 1996.)
Transpiration
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Hnt (Les Edits Du Golem 07)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc76jjmT66g&feature=player_embedded

E.R.P./Gerard Hanson
www.residentadvisor.net/dj/convextion
www.convextion.com
( ;D --> E.R.P. is Gerard Hanson E.R.P. stands for Event Related Potential. Aliases: Convextion, Gerard Hanson, I/O, Syne Language, Time Light Curve. Gerard Hanson was born in 1972. He hails from of Dallas, Texas USA. Little is known about this producer who seems to have Scandinavian roots. His productions have reflections with Basic Channel/Chain Reaction sound. His main inspirations are Juan Atkins and Derrick May. His music also has influences from Stefan Robbers, Red Planet and Carl Craig. He found a way where everything came together: Deepness, Minimalism and Soul, the Detroit-Berlin connection.)
Bleep43 EP001
http://soundcloud.com/bleep43/sets/bleep43-ep001
RA.265 Convextion
www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=265
El Camino
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TK6TRfeiwA&feature=related
Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.se/2011/09/flavor-of-week-39.html

Drexciya
http://www.myspace.com/drexciyathequest
( ;D --> Drexciya was an electronic music duo from Detroit, Michigan. The late James Stinson was the only officially identified member of Drexciya, but it was considered an open secret that he had a partner, Gerald Donald. The majority of Drexciya's releases were in the style of dance-floor-oriented Electro, punctuated with elements of retro, 1980s Detroit Techno, with occasional excursions into the Ambient and Industrial genres. Tracks are mostly centered around the TR-808 drum machine, with bass, melodies, and synth textures ebbing and flowing in time. Anecdotes suggest that Stinson and Donald recorded tracks while playing the instruments live, making use of analog equipment and sequencing methods. Drexciya combined a faceless, underground, anti-mainstream media stance with mythological, sci-fi narratives, to help heighten the dramatic effect of their music. In this aspect they were similar to artists within and close to the Detroit collective Underground Resistance.)
www.factmag.com/2011/12/26/drexciya-journey-of-the-deep-sea-dweller-i/
Journey of the Deep Sea Dweller I
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Over And Out

Flavor of the Week #17

Human Error
www.myspace.com/humanerror2009
http://humanerror.bandcamp.com/
http://soundcloud.com/crl-studios/human-error-overrun
( ;D --> Electronic error & experimental glitch by Tom Box.)
The DNA is DOA
http://humanerror.bandcamp.com/album/the-dna-is-doa
( ;D --> This EP represents the culmination of everything I've learned and experienced throughout the creation of 'Finite'. Reworked abandoned tracks, new material based on left over loops and samples, and even more excellent remixes of the album. I needed to make this EP to truly feel like I'd "finished" Finite. The past has to be fully comprehended before we can move into the future.)
Finite
http://humanerror.bandcamp.com/album/finite
Hopeless Utopia (Dyskhord Remix)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6N_TGZFsuY


Soulsavers
www.myspace.com/soulsavers
http://soundcloud.com/cooperativemusic/03-longest-day
( ;D --> Soulsavers, the band that supported Depeche Mode during the European leg of their "Tour of the Universe" in late 2009, have recorded a project with Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan on vocals. Soulsavers (also known as The Soulsavers Soundsystem) are an English production and remix team composed of Rich Machin and Ian Glover. The band brings downtempo electronica with influences of rock, gospel, soul, and country.)
Soulsavers single “Longest Day” audio and press release):
www.depeche-mode.com/2012/03/22/soulsavers-single-longest-day-audio-and-press-release/
Longest Day - Single
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‘The Light The Dead See’
(out 21st May)


Ital Tek
www.myspace.com/italtekmusic
( ;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.)
The Planet EP
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Bass Electronica
www.loopmasters.com/product/details/1177/Ital_Tek_-_Bass_Electronica
Gonga
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Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2011/12/flavor-of-week-51.html


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.)
http://soundcloud.com/metroland
The passenger
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Sounds from the Matrix 012
www.junodownload.com/products/sounds-from-the-matrix-012/1937789-02/


Deep Fog
http://deepfog.muzzo.pl/
www.myspace.com/djdeepfogmuzik
http://soundcloud.com/deep-fog
( ;D --> Progressive House from Poland.)
Wave
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Infinity Life.wmv 
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK9a_evpwHA&feature=relmfu


Over And Out

Flavor of the Week #16

Agent Side Grinder
www.agentsidegrinder.com
www.myspace.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.)
Hardware
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( ;D --> "Hardware" is the third official album release by Swedish electronic band Agent Side Grinder. 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.
Dressed in black work-wear, equipped with an arsenal of analog machines and loaded with their strongest material to date, Agent Side Grinder is ready to challenge the sounds of both the past and tomorrow. Other passengers include Swedish indie icon Henric de la Cour and the new champions of melancholy, Skriet.)
Agent Side Grinder & Henric de la Cour - Wolf Hour (Red Idiot Remix)
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ww2QwjjciIA


Bernie Allen
http://soundcloud.com/bernie-allen
www.myspace.com/sweetbeats69
( ;D --> Bernie Allen is a trained Audio Engineer and producer out of Vancouver Canada. His work has been signed with a number of electronic music's top labels and featured on releases which have enjoyed support from many of the industry's biggest names.)
5th Planet EP
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Stargazer
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Telepathy 
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TByRwmkdybQ


Compact Space
www.compactspaceworld.com
www.myspace.com/compactspace  
( ;D --> Compact Space was founded by Christian Eigner, Daryl Bamonte and Florian Kraemmer.For many years Eigner has played drums for Depeche Mode and has co-written a number of songs with Dave Gahan - for Depeche Mode as well as for Gahan’s last solo album, which he also co-produced. As a musician Eigner has contributed to hundreds of albums for various artists. Bamonte began working for Depeche Mode from the start of their career in 1980, taking on a varierty of roles before moving on in 1995 to work for The Cure for several years. The trio is completed by singer Florian Kraemmer. Kraemmer, like Eigner a native of Vienna, is the son of an actress and an opera singer, and took classical piano training from the age of eight. To date, he has worked mainly as a TV composer and has preserved his passion for classical music. The trio shares creative equality when they work on their songs. Daryl writes the lyrics, Florian develops the melodies and Christian puts together the powerful music that marks Compact Space with their own unmistakable style as soon as you listen to them. Compact Space has recently signed a worldwide licensing deal with Ferryhouse Productions in Hamburg. The first album "Nameless" and "Push Push" EP will be released simultaneously on 24th June 2011. The album was mixed by Paul 'P-Dub' Walton, and the aesthetics of Compact Space are also visually consistent: Danny Drysdale, who filmed among other things the Killers' hit "Human", made the video for "Push Push".)
Nameless
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Push Push video 
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MxrPdXyNJ4


Shifted
www.facebook.com/shiftedUK
http://shifted-music.com/
http://soundcloud.com/shifted
www.myspace.com/shifteduk
( ;D --> 2011 has seen Shifted rise swiftly from the murky shadows of UK Techno. Little is known of who the cryptic producer is, but rest assured of his credentials. 'Drained', his first of two EPs on Luke Slater's esteemed Mote Evolver imprint instantly grabbed the attention of the Techno fraternity. A heavy, muscular and stripped sound was born from what was to become one of 2011's most exciting Techno artists. Releases under the pseudonyms Pacific Blue and Relay soon followed, continuing along Shifted's Techno lines, but built on a deeper, more understated sound.)
Crossed Paths
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Coax
www.youtube.com/watch?v=co_AZeq8OgU


Martin Roth
www.martinroth.net
( ;D --> Martin Roth's "NuStyle" productions have taken clubland by storm throughout 08 including the Beatport 1 three weeks-on-chart-peak "Sensation Seeekers" and his NuStyle.)
EP "Verloopt In Berlin."
Beautiful Life / Make Love To Me Ba
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( ;D -->Flirting with techno and minimal beats, while hinting at tech house, trance and electro his NuStyle has equally appealed to existing fans including Paul Van Dyk, Tiesto, Armin Van Buuren and Above & Beyond who are now beginning to be joined by industry stalwarts from across the fields of house, tech, progressive and minimal in support of the unique genre infused tracks … and names such as Chicane or renowned Pop-Acts like The Sugababes, Keane, Ich&Ich or Rosenstolz all personally requested the MR-Remix Treatment.)
Beautiful life
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_z-s73Swh4&feature=related

Over And Out

Flavor of the Week #15

Jokers of the Scene
http://soundcloud.com/jokers-of-the-scene
www.facebook.com/JokersoftheScene
https://twitter.com/#!/JOTSJOTSJOTS
( ;D --> Every artist claims to defy categorization. Yet for Jokers Of The Scene, it's not a boast - it's a lifestyle. For the past few years, Jokers Of The Scene have ranked amongst the brightest, weirdest lights of Canada's dance music renaissance. Between their Fool's Gold originals and their enviably deep remixography, the duo have passed on a "signature sound" to craft an unpredictable approach that's as cerebral as it is speaker-decimating.
Whether crafting epic, nine minute Salem remixes or raving out with their own anthemic tracks like “Revolting Joks” and “Baggy Bottom Boys,” Toronto duo Jokers Of The Scene have proven themselves masters of electronic music in all its forms. Their latest project, the J0T5 EP, may prove their most expansive yet, as Linus Booth and Chris Macintyre have created music perfect for home listening and strobe-lit warehouses alike. The five tracks on J0T5 pulsate through ambient synth excursions, vintage sci-fi soundtracks, and experimental techno, somehow managing to connect the dots along the way. Equally diverse is the accompanying J0T5 RMXD EP. Here, the duo’s peers and contemporaries like Daniel Avery (aka Stopmakingme), Shadow Dancer (BNR), Hrdvsion (Wagon Repair), Savile & Olin, Cosmic Kids (Throne Of Blood), Gingy & Bordello (Turbo) and Babe Rainbow (Warp) each take turns driving the Jokers’ new material into new and unexpected directions.)
J0t5 Rmxd
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J0T5
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Salem "Asia (Jokers of the Scene Remix)"
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Âme
www.myspace.com/amevrank
( ;D --> Âme is Frank Wiedemann and Kristian Beyer, the German duo who run Innervisions with Dixon. They've been DJing and producing together for almost exactly ten years, but as of late they've begun dividing labor a bit more evenly, with Beyer doing most of the DJing and Wiedemann spearheading their live act, which debuted in 2010. Simply entitled Âme Live, the upcoming album is a collection of recordings from the road, all of which have been edited specifically for the album and woven into a continuous mix. It features new versions of classics like "Where We At" and "Rej" (our #3 track of the '00s) as well as remixes of other artists, including a previously unreleased "beatless" mix of Gui Boratto's "This Is Not the End.")
Âme live
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( ;D --> All three tracks on this EP were actually made for the Âme live show, but at the end it turned out that we used them in our DJ sets too. Due to the great feedback we decided to put them on a 12-inch accompanying the Âme Live CD. Karl Hyde and James Lavelle on one 12-inch should be something for a lad's paradise and even 'Enoi' sounds brighter than before. Is love silent?)
Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.se/2007/04/flavor-of-week-16.html


Ryba
www.rybakate.com
www.myspace.com/djpeatchru
( ;D --> Ryba (Kate Lyasheva) has started her carrier in 1995 as a professional dancer and was part of the teenage rock-band as a lead singer. In 2000 she became one of the founders of «Back Up » Advertising Production agency specializing in event organization and promotion. During five years of work at the agency «Back up» organized and conducted numerous successful projects like Concerts, Music Conferences , Festivals and Events dedicated to electronic music. Having passion for music all her life and working in the Event production industry Ryba was looking for some kind of output of her own ideas and concepts Next logical step was to perform and Katya started to Dj. Immediately gaining popularity and attention from public and Moscow clubheads . Katya started to tour in Russia , Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Latvia and US in 2009 where she performed at famous Amoeba record store in Hollywood. Her sets are carefully crafted with intelligent layer of electronic dance music ,Dub,Techno,House and everything in between.
During this time Katya collaborated with world famous Russian duo SCSI-9 (Kompakt, Pro–Tez) recording artists. She recorded several songs with the Duo and provided vocals on the album by Scsi-9 «Line Of Nine» which came out on Kompakt in 2006. Katya and Scsi-9 toured together for some time as a part of Scsi-9 live act. Which led to her another appearance on the forthcoming «Easy as Down» album by Scis-9 released on Kompakt in 2008.Also at the same time she hoked up with Yapacc for a «White Blue Fire» on German Nuetonmusic Label. Another project was born in 2008 called «RYBALOVE» as result of long time friendship with talented musician out of Saint Petersburg-Korablove. Performing live together their shows are filled with energy and amazing groove. Their releases found way to Kgb Beats out of Chicago, Night Drive music and others. Finally in 2009 Katya started her own project D:redmoon (artist of Electronica label). You can see her play on Internet radio station RTS.FM on regular basis and in leading clubs in Moscow and Berlin. .)
Episode 32
http://electronicalabel.ru/2011/05/30/electronica-podcast-episode-32-ryba/


Willy Real & David Prap
www.myspace.com/davidprap
http://soundcloud.com/davidprap
www.myspace.com/willyreal
( ;D --> David Prap: Distilling a techno dancefloor as well as melodic, he is one of great value artist of the French techno scene. Born in 1977 in southern France, David 's first 18 years of music. Passionned by electronic music, he naturally turns to decks and started playing in clubs and after parties in his own country with well known artists. In 2005, he met the person who became his collaborator and friend Willy Real, he went into production and make releases on labels such as Selected Records / Pilbus Records / Tracer Records / Bit Records Mexico and soon on Baroque Records, Vi Tva records and Sex Panda Records. December 2010 they decided to launch their own label : Inlab Recordings on which they had signed internationnal artists as (Alex Di Stefano, Citizen Kain, Alex D'elia & Nihil Young, Gino's, Commuter) and young rising performers such as Microtrauma, Worakls, N'To, Gabriel d'Or & Bordoy, Angy Kore, et Traumer…)
Scander 043
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Lost in space (Dehix Remix)
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XYOBwnJMjrc#
Sleep on Clouds
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcWywPbiJoM


Martin Dupont
www.myspace.com/martindupont
( ;D --> Martin Dupont was without a doubt one of the biggest cult bands of the French New Wave scene of the early 80s! They were New Wave, dreamy electro, and coldwave yet completely accessible. Originally from Marseilles, Martin Dupont formed in 1981 and went on to release a single, a cassette, several albums, and played several live shows, supporting big acts such as Siouxsie & the Banshees and countless others.
The group consisted of Alain Seghir, Brigitte Balian and Beverley Jane Crew, with Catherine Loy in the original line-up. Their music style was classified as minimal synth mixing both male and female vocals.)
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Just Because
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Bent At The Window
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHUbMrOKbD8&feature=related
He Saw the Light
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew_fcRbU_pw

Over And Out

Flavor of the Week #14

Hazylujah
www.hazylujah.com
( ;D --> Hazylujah. It’s immediately clear why Delsin sought him out. His tracks play with filtered, sci-fi synth motifs in a way that resembles more the general aesthetic of the label than any particular artist, combining an emphasis on ambience with loose, deeper techno structures.)
Too Many Ghosts
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( ;D --> Delsin come correct with Hazylujah's strangely infectious 'Too Many Ghosts' debut. Much like the recent Xosar sessions, there's a genuinely unnerving and ethereal quality to Hazylujah's music; something abstract and unquantified which is really endearing to these ears at least. Leading out 'Hazylutrax' fixes a dark, stalking bassline to gremlin-like synth quirks, while 'Too Many Ghosts' is prone to dissolving the rhythm and reappearing at will amidst eerie acid tweaks and slanted synth dissonance. 'Dreams Logic' is markedly more sensual, in that drifty, track NWAQ style, a sound shared by the shimmering, dubbed surfaces of 'Minds Wired'.)
Dream Logic
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oGAzNevlTXc#!


Max Cue
www.myspace.com/max_cue
Perception Of Motion
( ;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.)
Perception Of Motion
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www.beatport.com/track/perception-of-motion-original-mix/3323153
Perception of motion
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJjvox_wZNo 


Ruble Gang
http://soundcloud.com/ruble-gang
http://waveformmoscow.com/
( ;D --> Minimal Synth Wave from cold Moscow.)
Bombers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9NIA8_O6MU&sns=fb


Redshape
http://soundcloud.com/redshape
http://www.shapedworld.com/
www.myspace.com/redshape
http://www.kinetic-am.com/
http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=51
Who is Redshape?;
www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=57253
( ;D --> Redshape hides his real identity behind a red mask at all times, even wearing it onstage at his club dates around Europe, which of late there have been many. The man behind the mask lives in Berlin, he does a rocking live act and he’s released half a dozen tracks over the last year on labels such as Delsin, Styrax Leaves and Music Man. Rumours indicates that behind the mask might be the face of a very famous producer indeed.. One things for sure Redshape has studied a lot of Detroit techno records: His sound is a new update on old school templates.)
Throw In Dirt
http://hardwax.com/65141/
The Land [3024]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrVqcxGwkyw&feature=endscreen&NR=1
se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.se/2010/06/flavor-of-week-23.html
And:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/12/flavor-of-week-52_28.html


Akkord
http://boomkat.com/search?fields[]=artist&q=Akkord
( ;D --> Exclusive* Sterling debut release from the enigmatic Akkord collective based in the peripheries of Manchester. For now, the provenance of their identity will be on a need-to-know basis: their music will yield more than names could inform. These three tracks are a distillation of their passions for "minimalism, art, design, mathematics and sacred geometry", and aesthetically occupy darker ground in the shade of the Autonomic sound. Checking in with the spectral robo-ragga of 'The Drums' - sounding something like Burial meets dBridge - they shapeshift into rolling Electro-Ruffige a la Boddika on 'Renewal' catalysed by muscular, rippling arpeggios and pointillist percussions, while 'Back & Forth' engages with tensely constructed Electro-step hyperspace. We're sure you'll agree; it's a strong look.)
Akkord001
http://boomkat.com/downloads/501877-akkord-akkord001
The drums
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eAyozHh0MW8#!

Over And Out

Flavor of the Week #13

Scuba
www.myspace.com/paulhotflush
( ;D --> Scuba, aka Paul Rose, has been at the forefront of the dubstep scene since its birth. Having founded the innovative and influential Hotflush Recordings label in 2003, he has continually brought colour and depth to an advancing genre, expanding its sonic structure and increasing its influence on the wider electronic scene. Through Scuba and seminal work by central figures including Distance, Vex d and more recently Mount Kimbie and Joy Orbison, Hotflush remains crucial to the immediate moment and the developing future of the most exciting aspects of electronic music.)
Personality
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( ;D --> Scuba's work has always been a bit dark, precise in the rhythms, conscious of overall atmosphere. This album see's a shift further towards a style of dub-tech that also draws on dub-house, psytrance, drum and bass, and even synthpop in some places.)
Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.se/2010/12/flavor-of-week-50.html  


Nothing But Noise
www.nothingbutnoise.be
( ;D --> Nothing But Noise is the new musical project from Front 242's mastermind Daniel Bressanutti, Dirk Bergen (ex Front 242) and Erwin Jadot. Upcoming is the project's first album "Not Bleeding Red" (expected to be released in February 2012 but now delayed to April 12, 2012).)
Not Bleeding Red
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"Mass" live
http://vimeo.com/38121824


Dr.Nojoke
www.drnojoke.de  
( ;D --> Dr.Nojoke was born in Berlin and stayed there since then. After many and wild experiments at home and experiences with bands he started to work solo under his moniker Dr.Nojoke. Since 2005 Dr.Nojoke has been working on technoid sound-sculptures based on his archive of self-made sound-and field-recordings. He defines a funky, minimal, quirky, experimental micro-cut-up-music, he calls Clikno.)
[UILIVE005] Dr.Nojoke live @ UNOIKI showcase 12 04 11
http://soundcloud.com/dr-nojoke/uilive005-dr-nojoke-live
http://moozar.com/reward/315


Solvent
www.myspace.com/solventcity
( ;D --> For over a decade, Jason Amm’s work as Solvent has neatly defied categorization. His music is too sweetly melodic for techno or acid, his compositions too fiendishly detailed for synth-pop. He was too steeped in the sounds of the ‘80s to participate in the incipient IDM scene; he was briefly lumped in with the short-lived electroclash movement, only to outlive it; he’s played “minimal wave” parties and goth clubs, indie-rock shows and techno all-nighters. But even as words fail in the face of Solvent’s music, its pleasures are anything but elusive.)
Subject To Shift
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Formulate
http://vimeo.com/18539591


Új Látásmód Fúzió
www.ujlatasmodfuzio.hu
http://soundcloud.com/ujlatasmodfuzio
( ;D --> Új Látásmód Fúzió - established in 1992 - is a cult-band in the obscure Hungarian Synth-Wave scene. In the early 90's they released a lot of raw trashy dadaistic cassette tapes. Their sound stretches from minimal synth-pop to a kind of absurd kitschy cabaret. The songs are with minimalistic soundscapes, gloomy melodies, special poetic lyrics and an ominous baritone voice - represented with charmed rigid expressions.)
Hagyd el a múltat
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpTd98BSCp0&sns=fb

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Flavor of the Week #12

Grimes
www.myspace.com/boucherville
www.grimesmusic.com
( ;D --> There is a powerful harmony in Grimes. It is a project which is both musical and visual, embodying the arts of 2D, performance, dance, video and sound. Claire Boucher weaves these together to a strong rhythmic effect, “the marriage between the voice of a human and the heartbeat of a machine. Each album tackles a different set of influences and styles. Her newest album, Visions, incorporates influences as wide as Enya, TLC and Aphex Twin, drawing from genres like New Jack Swing, IDM, New Age, K-pop, Industrial and glitch. This approach has marked Grimes as a curator of culture, and allowed the project to remain flexible and evolving. A phantasmic state for the deep listener, sourcing the long forgotten spells running alongside humans for centuries and forcing them through a hyper-futuristic filter. Compositional and vocal delivery are coloured with an emotional trauma. Despite a generally upbeat demeanour, an urgency permeates the music. Calling us between our history and the future it uses the pleasure of minimal rhythms and dance to entice, but beyond its rich, software-sculpted cohesiveness, and vocal energy, runs a very real and odd world.)
Visions
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Oblivion
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtH68PJIQLE


Casey LaLonde
http://caseylalonde.bandcamp.com
http://caseylalonde.tumblr.com
( ;D --> ambient american electronic experimental idm indie from minneapolis minnesota.)
Thank You
http://caseylalonde.bandcamp.com/album/thank-you
The Wanderer
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xd3GNTqH4w
Izmir
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEZGBkIUgEc


Mondkopf
www.myspace.com/mondkopfonthemoon
( ;D --> Mondkopf is a French artist with a German name, which is fitting, given how often his productions play in a middle ground between those two countries' archetypal modes of electronic music. Looked at a certain way, Rising Doom, the 24-year old's latest full-length and first for Fool House, the label imprint of French fashion/mp3 blog Fluokids, borrows the machine muscle of harsh Teutonic techno and leavens it with just a bit of the joviality and melody of French touch.)
Rising Doom
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The Song of Shadows
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Od6l-1bfgys#!


Sandwell District (label)
http://wherenext.tumblr.com
www.discogs.com/Sandwell-District-Feed-Forward/release/2619151 
( ;D --> Electronic Drums arranged By Tonal Arrangements, Recorded By Field Recordings – Juan Mendez Management – Peter Sutton. Percussion & Electronic Drums arranged By David Sumner. Percussion, Recorded By Field Recordings, Coordinator – Karl O'Connor.)
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Falling the Same Way
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML8JomV445E


Andy Stott
www.myspace.com/andystott_modernlove
( ;D --> Andy Stott has developed a unique sound since his debut for the Modern Love label back in 2005. His first demos were heavily influenced by the square-bassline techno variations of Claro Intelecto, a longtime friend, mentor and eventually labelmate and collaborator.)
We Stay Together
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( ;D --> Entering the digital compression chamber of 'Submission' you become a willing participant, before the lights are cut and you're forced to adjust to the humid atmosphere and bruising, muscle-contracting darkroom throb of 'Posers'. Suitably initiated, the EP's fearless centrepiece 'Bad Wires' plunges into full on mud-party mode, dropping the tempo while intensifying the kinaesthetic funk with slow, clusterf*cked syncopation until you're drowning in synthesized oil and crushed-glass textures.)
Bad Wires
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAVTnDpobms

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Flavor of the Week #11

Momentform
www.facebook.com/diemomentform
http://momentform.tumblr.com
( ;D --> Momentform is a Paris-based project, active since 2010. Mostly influenced by late 70s / early 80s minimal synth and new generation innovators like Martial Canterel, the band’s sounds and ethics also reveal strong post-punk influences. A disenchanted, singular vision of modernism stretches across its work, ultimately justifying the musical language at use - a combination of layered synthesizers, detuned leads and bass guitar.)
S/T
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Momentform Is Fake
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyfcRiZo_fI&sns=fb


Louderbach
www.myspace.com/louderbach
( ;D -->In a landscape of abundance we’ve walled our senses behind sugary convenience. With luxury a click away the growing emphasis on the sugar fix has slowly rotted our teeth. The rot has left us doing more with less, just a few incisors to do the job of a full mouth. With the bells and whistles stripped away we can appreciate the simplicity of motion and space working together. The simplicity of Louderbach embodies this relationship. The focus on the single line or simple structure is retraining the eye to see, teaching the ear to hear again. The bells and whistles of our saturated world have taken the focus off the direct, we’ve lost the beauty of simplicity; the depth of repetition.)
Autumn
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Body is to acid
www.youtube.com/watch?v=swE3EvSwa_I


Oneohtrix Point never
www.pointnever.com
http://soundcloud.com/oneohtrix-point-never
( ;D --> Oneohtrix Point Never is the recording name of Brooklyn-based experimental musician Daniel Lopatin, whose album Returnal was released by Editions Mego in June 2010. Lopatin's music is composed and performed primarily on vintage synthesizers, and has been described as drone or ambient music, gentle eddies of sound, and like a cracked mirror refracting the sounds of the past.)
Replica
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Returnal
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxiWjl9GPhM


Diffuzion
http://diffuzion.org
www.myspace.com/diffuzion1313
( ;D --> Diffuzion is a darkwave band from Belarus formed in 2005. Xev - music,vocals & lyrics, Fof - arrangements, synthesizers & production, Taelih - synthesizers & live keyboards mixing darkwave/electro-industrial with female vocals and give it an overall club feel. He found in Xev (singer of the famous Belarusian metal band VICIOUS CRUSADE) the perfect female voice that would give his full-on frontal electronic venture a very unique dimension.)
Winter Cities / Ice Frequencies
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Pure Venom
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLfAk1DqUns


TRIARII
www.myspace.com/triariiheadquarters
www.triarii.de
( ;D -->Triarii represents a particular figure in the ambient music area, this through the force of expression and originality. Throughout the duration of every track, the listener finds him/herself being bombarded by unusual and unique percussion's that differ through their aggressiveness and military cadence. On Wikipedia we find the explanation of the term: Triarii were spear-men in the armies of the early Roman Republic. They were oldest and among the wealthiest men in the army. The music expressed by this German project (based in Berlin) matches the description; it is anthem like, warrior like through concept and through message.)
Exile
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Exile Promo
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9n-rAruL0Y
Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/04/flavor-of-week-15.html

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Flavor of the Week #10

Gonjasufi
www.myspace.com/gonjasufi  
www.sufisays.com  
( ;D --> Gonjasufi (born Sumach Ecks, aka Sumach Valentine, c.1978) is a rapper, singer, disc jockey and yoga teacher from San Diego, California and currently living in Las Vegas, Nevada. Ecks was born to a Mexican mother and an American-Ethiopian father. He has been releasing music since the early 1990s among the San Diego Hip Hop scene, notably with the Masters of the Universe crew. Ecks gained notice from Warp Records in 2008 after an appearance on Californian musician Flying Lotus' album Los Angeles, where he sings on the track "Testament". His Warp debut album, A Sufi and a Killer was released on March 8, 2010. Ecks' voice was described by Pitchfork Media as "a scraggly, scary, smoked-out croak that creeps like the spiritual offspring of George Clinton and Leadbelly". He attributes his singing voice to his day job teaching yoga when he had to "to project from my stomach more".)
MU.ZZ.LE
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The Blame
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KyO5-_JbbI&sns=fb
( ;D --> Cant stop shuffle this one! :D --> Magic Raggae-soft-trance! Somehow reminds me of a Mashup between "OutKast - Ms. Jackson" and the backing tunes from "Omadawn", Mike Oldfields Hippie-ambient masterpiece :D.)
Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html


Gatekeeper
www.myspace.com/iiigatekeeperiii
http://aarondavidross.com
http://soundcloud.com/gatekeeper-2
( ;D --> 'Giza' is the brilliant new EP from Chicago/NY electronic duo Gatekeeper, following their debut on Kompakt's Fright imprint last year. Inspired by the sounds and visions of forgotten sci-fi film scores, fantasy games and arcade imagery, Gatekeeper has created its own morbidly deranged discotheque, a vivid flight of fancy in which the conventions of techno, Chicago house, italo-disco and industrial are transfigured into one phantasmagorical adventure, populated by hushed screams, Gregorian dungeon chants and cinematic washes of mammoth sound.)
Giza
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( ;D --> Brooklyn’s horror disco duo Gatekeeper spooky and highly-listenable EP Giza is out now on Merok.)
Storm Column
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCkL9pUFZU4


Carter Tutti / Chris and Cosey
www.chrisandcosey.com
( ;D --> Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti formed CHRIS & COSEY out of the ashes of their seminal 70s' Industrial band Throbbing Gristle. Throbbing Gristle (and Carter/Tutti) founded the Industrial music genre and were one of the first bands to successfully fuse electronic and acoustic instrumentation. Their musical legacy is still very much in evidence today. When Throbbing Gristle was terminated in 1981 Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti signed to Rough Trade Records and began recording and performing as CHRIS & COSEY. From the very start they indulgently utilised electronics, sampling, rhythms and Cosey's distinctive vocals, cornet and guitar style. In 1982 (and in collaboration with Rough Trade) they formed their own offshoot record label Conspiracy International (aka: CTI) for their more experimental recordings and collaborative projects. CTI continues to run alongside CARTER and TUTTI's more accessible work.)
VOID's Transverse
http://cartertuttivoid.sandbag.uk.com/Store/DisplayItems.html
( ;D --> Mute are pleased to announce the release of CARTER TUTTI VOID's Transverse, a unique collaboration from Chris Carter & Cosey Fanni Tutti (Throbbing Gristle) and Nik Void (Factory Floor), out on vinyl, CD and download on 26 March 2012. Transverse is a unique collaboration, created especially for the legendary Short Circuit presents Mute festival at the Roundhouse, London in 2011. The tracks were prepared in the studio and then performed and recorded live in front of an audience. Outside of the trio, these recordings were unheard prior to the festival and the popularity of the performance left many being turned away at the door. Mute is proud to make this ground breaking recording available and to be working again with two of electronic music's true pioneers and one of its new trail blazers. Said The Quietus of the performance: "…a warm embrace, creating a deep connection… Carter at the back manipulates the electronics while on either flank, Void scratches noise with bowed guitar and Tutti plays while singing vocals that she mangles and distorts… there is no nihilism in this noise, nothing but a deep and wonderful sense of love.")
Void - V3 (edit)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL49YvsPtKs
Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/10/flavor-of-week-42.html
And:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/02/flavor-of-week-06.html
And:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/07/flavor-of-week-28.html


Noisia
www.noisia.nl
http://soundcloud.com/noisia
( ;D --> NOISIA (who took their name from the word VISION inverted on an upside down VHS tape) are Nik Roos, Thijs de Vlieger and Martijn van Sonderen, hailing from Groningen, The Netherlands. Influenced by an eclectic range of artists, from The Prodigy to James Brown, Miles Davis to Konflict, Tipper to Fatboy Slim, Noisia make music for DJs and dance-floors that is interesting enough to cross over from the clubs to your MP3 player...)
Machine Gun (16bit Remix)
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Diplodocus (Kill The Noise Remix)
http://soundcloud.com/noisia/noisia-diplodocus-kill-the


Tiefschwarz
www.myspace.com/tiefschwarz
( ;D -->Tiefschwarz is an electro house group comprising brothers, Alexander "Ali" (June 7, 1967-) and Sebastian "Basti" (December 28, 1969-) Schwarz, which formed in Stuttgart in 1996. Peter Hoff, who runs the Benztown studios in Stuttgart, joined later, and completed the first Tiefschwarz production team. Their name means "deep black" in German, and is a combination of the brothers' surnames, and their love of deep house.)
Voodoo (Son-Tec Mix)
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Watergate 09
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