Electronica
Top 100 Chart placements for Electronica
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#6
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Untermench
On the last release of the 2024 series of Sob EPs out of Sofa Beats, Untermench, we bring you yet another melancholy piece of work from the ever-changing musical landscape of Sobs lab. The four tracks sometimes become almost folk music-like in the expression when trip-hop, electronica, chill-out and distortion blend together in a fully cast musical experience.
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#7
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Siren
Art Bei Ton is kicking off its EP series with Siren from the Berlin-based Sardinian DJ and producer, Andrea Cossu. Featuring three original tracks, one collaboration with Idiolect and WTTM, and a remix by Veiga, those 5-track deliver solar vibrations through various explorations of the hypnotic soundscape. Opening the EP with a groovy and experimental Ambient track, Sparse Points is an invitation to experience a radiant and pulsating sonic journey. Between the sun and the sea, the second track of this EP evokes an ethereal journey through Andreas native island, embracing luminous pads and subtle rhythms. With Pressurize, Andrea Cossu presents a driving and groovy vision of hypnotic techno, blending dynamic drums with dreamy elements. The collaborative track featuring Idiolect, Andrea Cossu, and WTTM guides the listener to a transcendental state with its loopy and trippy patterns. Wrapping up this release, the Portuguese artist Veiga offers a deep and driving techno interpretation of Pressurize, embracing club-oriented sonorities. Release Date: 12th December 2024 Label: Art Bei Ton Mastering: Artefacts Mastering Distribution: Triple Vision Artwork: Sig Valax
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#12
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The Dying Light | Singularity
A new musical melodic electronic excursion long overdue from Noom (the alter go of XSPANCE) and a track entitled The Dying Light and Singularity. Totally Inspired by the movie Interstellar and coinciding with its tenth anniversary, Noom takes us on a majestic melodic electronic journey. Mastered by Rob Small Mastering. Leeds. England
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#13
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The Story They Never Told You
Guy J, a prominent figure in underground dance music, is known for his energetic productions that resonate with dance floors worldwide, making them essential in DJ charts. However, with his label Armadillo Records, Guy prioritizes artistic freedom over powerful rhythmic sections, repetitive structures, hooks, and drops. Based in Malta, his label consistently features innovative and experimental electronic music, showcasing his peers and personal works. Guy Js latest release, The Story They Never Told You, is a thirteen-minute composition that explores new studio techniques and creatively transcends conventional expectations of the Electronica genre. With its abstract and immersive soundscapes, The Story They Never Told You takes listeners through expansive sonic landscapes, encouraging them to discover depth within themselves without explicit guidance or lyrics. Guy adeptly merges improvisation with structure, and the grand finale addresses questions raised throughout the arrangement, delivering a sense of calm and genuine emotion. This harmonically rich interpretation concludes an innovative work tailored for discerning listeners who appreciate the depth and complexity of electronic music.
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#15
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Noir
Noir weaves a dark romantic narrative reminiscent of classic film noir. Across ten haunting tracks, it tells the story of a detective caught in a perilous web of love and betrayal, plunging listeners into a richly atmospheric 1940s landscape where every secret threatens to tear apart lives. Building on the first two singles, There in the Garden and Finders, the album follows the detective through a city pulsing with danger, tension, and allure. As he unravels the mystery of his Chief Inspectors affair with the elusive femme fatale, he discovers that the Chief Inspector, haunted by guilt, desperately wants to end the affair to keep his wife from finding out about his betrayal. This fraught dynamic propels the detective deeper into a story far darker than he anticipated. In a last, desperate move, the Chief Inspector invites the femme fatale to his beach house, intending to sever ties once and for all. What begins as a heated exchange soon spirals into a final, devastating confrontation. Cornered and betrayed, the femme fatale pulls the Inspectors own gun in a moment of desperation-sealing his fate and leaving the detective with a haunting reminder that all beginnings have ends. Each track immerses the listener in the detectives journey, as he navigates the treacherous waters of trust and obsession, blurring the lines between right and wrong, truth and deception. Lush soundscapes born from drawn out, haunted nights lend each chapter a timeless feel, creating a sonic experience built for late night drives and private listening.
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#17
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Placid Wakefulness EP
Indian born, UK artist Michael Diamond, co-founder of Vasuki Sound label and club night, announces new EP Placid Wakefulness, featuring single Reverse Entropy. available on all platforms 5th December via Vasuki Sound. A uniquely multifaceted talent, Michael Diamonds unforgettable jazzed electronic sound is informed by a spectrum of influences, not least by intersection of the scientific and practical worlds of electronic music. From the music scholarship he won to read Medicine at Oxford where he quickly discovered new ways in which the two worlds can co-exist, his days were spent immersed in academic studies of music perception and cognition, while his nights were spent alongside the likes of Ben UFO, Batu & Ross From Friends, playing at one of UKs most long-established nights Simple. A chance encounter there also led him to connect with musical collaborator Alex Wilson – the BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year semi-finalist and then musical director of Oxfords Jazz Orchestra – who appears frequently across Diamonds compositions and on Placid Wakefulness. No stranger to a concept piece, Diamonds previous project, the highly personal and critically acclaimed exploration of culture and identity, Third Culture (album of the month/year acknowledgments from Stamp The Wax, Juno and Phonica Records, also earning him a DJ Mag One To Watch, a Youth Music Awards Rising Star nomination and a Gilles Petersons Future Bubbler accolade) explored the experience of being a third culture kid born in Kerala, India and growing up in the UK with a sense of fractured identity. On Placid Wakefulness, Diamond honours his academic research working alongside world-renowned musicologist Professor Eric Clarke and conducting interviews with some of the worlds most influential electronic music artists, including Objekt, Object Blue, Mr Bongo, and Call Super on the relationship between music and the human psyche. Specifically how music may affect our sleepfulness and wakefulness, how instinctively we are soothed by some sounds and energised by others - what it is about dance music that makes people go hard all night long? and what is it about ambient music that makes people feel the opposite way - to lull them into this sense of calmness or rest?, mindful of the unconscious ways his findings were already manifesting in his work as an artist. And while his research provides a framework for some of the ideas within the piece, Placid Wakefulness can be viewed as more of an unintentional byproduct, or case-in-point of his findings, rather than a piece consciously constructed in their image. Across Placid Wakefulnesss four tracks we find the artist unpacking a range of sonic ideas on this theme, from ambient calm to club-adjacent rhythms. The EP opens with hypnotic lullaby of A Way of Listening complete with transcendent flutes provided by Alex Wilson, cello by George Lloyd-Own and a mellow groove. On the more energised Reverse Entropy, rhythmic ambiguity moves to rhythmic disambiguation with a four-to-the-floor beat as the track progresses, releasing tension and inviting an urge to dance as a jazz sax moment transmutes into glorious techno percussiveness. On Turning and Turning the bpm shifts down a gear, a sonic dreamstate where tough textural rhythms create a kind of liminal state tension. Closing out the EP we return to a sense of restfulness with the EPs title track, where a gorgeous picked guitar loop interplays with vibrating ambient pads and a slow and steady beat. The Placid Wakefulness EP is a captivating testament to Diamonds singular artistic talent and the fascinating interplay of neuroscience and how we experience and enjoy music. Essential and unmissable! Michael Diamond says : This EP was a byproduct of the past couple of years, in particular my last year of study when I became interested in the (previously new to me) field of the neuropsychology behind music perception and why it makes us feel a certain way. This meeting point of science and music captivated me, and felt like the perfect intersection between my two interests: that there are certain features that seem to work on the brain to create a captivating emotional musical experience. Working closely with Prof. Clarke has been truly enlightening for me. When I was making these tunes I noticed how Id inadvertently made use of some of the brain mechanisms / techniques wed been researching / discussing. I was more aware of what was happening in my music as a result. What became apparent to me is that my own music seems to possess features which are simultaneously conducive to both sleep and wakefulness - I tend to enjoy energising drums / bass combined with more spacious calming atmospheric instrumentation and percussion. This combination is also apparent in a lot of the music I enjoy listening to. The EP combines these elements across its course with placid sleepy qualities but at the same time some of the energising elements of dance music too. Making music takes me in between these two states of consciousness. I loved working with Alex again, an incredible flautist and saxophonist, as well as G-lo whos cello cameos really elevated the piece for me. My long-term hopes are that this project and some of the other bits Ive been doing in the NHS will lead to new ways in which we can use music for therapeutic purposes. There is a growing amount of evidence to show that these kinds of soft interventions like music / arts therapy have a massive physical and psychological benefit - I find it very interesting to find out why they have an effect and how we can all derive benefit from it.
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#22
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Train To Enoshima
The long-awaited collaboration between Nikola Melnikov and Max Sorokin, anticipated by fans for three years, has finally come to life with the release of Train to Enoshima. This electronic EP is a unique musical journey, with each track opening worlds seen and felt by the producers during their travels across different corners of the globe. The release features two standout tracks - Train to Enoshima and Ritual Loop. These pieces highlight the contrasting aspects of Nikola and Maxs creative approaches, emphasized through distinct genre stylings, which have become Nikola Melnikovs signature - a master at bridging genres and weaving them into a unified musical tapestry. Max Sorokins unique perspective on sound elevates these tracks to new heights. As a go-to for top electronic producers seeking that final touch on their tracks, Max showcases his top-tier skills here, bringing out the layered richness and depth of the sound. Train to Enoshima captures the mood of a journey, filled with quiet anticipation and a gentle melancholy, reminiscent of Japanese landscapes. Meanwhile, Ritual Loop draws listeners into a ritualistic trance, evoking a sense of mystical connection with the surrounding world, as if in an exotic location in another part of the world. This release is more than just music; its an invitation into the worlds of two masters, where every melody and beat tells the story of their travels and experiences.
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#24
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earthrehab
Digital dance experiments of the following kind. All basic components are combined from a variety of styles that are relevant in the avant-garde and underground scene. Noise gradients are woven from hexd and surge, wave and synthgaze, electroacoustics and harshnoise. The central focus is the melodic elixir of utopian virtual, synthesized from the sounds of various forms of trance and folktronica. All of this is held together by an abundance of interwoven polyrhythmic foundations from deconstructed club, berite club, hard drum, weightless, juke, gqom, and neoperreo, occasionally transitioning into outright tribal techno and hardcore. Its the kind of sound that can only emerge when you walk less-trodden paths, full of colors and combinations hidden from the eyes of the crowd. All this music was born from the desire to find something different in whats happening now and transform it into a probable form of the future-the very thing that is so lacking in our time.
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#28
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Bobby Business
Research Records teams up with organist and synthesist E. Bobby G. to release his sophomore album, Bobby Business. Once again, the album is primarily centered around the 1982 Kawai DX900, but it masterfully explores more genres than his debut, Giving You M.O.R.E. Bobby Business was recorded in 2022 after E. Bobby G. received an eviction notice from his beloved sharehouse of 12 years. After moving out, he stored the organ at his workplace, Bakehouse Studios, where his boss let him use the space overnight to record until the early hours. The remainder of the album was recorded in his old studio space, NGBE. The first track, Ha-Ha, is as meditative as it is glittery, with floating sustained chords. Big Boy and Disco Shift bring back a slightly more polished E. Bobby G. sound--lo-fi library music with bright tones that will appeal to fans of proto-electronic icons like Brian Bennett. Tracks like Lucky Strike and Tropical Dino Ride are video game music dreams, featuring West Coast lead lines and strutting percussion. The second half of the album explores spaced-out 90s downtempo and dub elements, with a distinctive refinement that hides the fact it was created primarily using the Kawai DX900. Bobby Business closes with Lillian, a sonic dedication to the artists Grandmother, with a more traditional song structure that hints at what Bobby has planned next.
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#30
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Slow Down
For the third LP of the Lyfseill series, we are proud to present Slow Down, the latest album from Felix Leifur. Known for his BROT series, Felix leans into slower tempos on this release, creating a collection of brooding, left-field electro/breaks tracks. His modular synths are front and center, crafting soundscapes with rhythms and deep, textured basslines. While it retains the aesthetic Felix is known for, the slower pace allows each track to unfold more gradually, drawing the listener into hypnotic and immersive atmospheres.
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#32
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Scribbles
Medlar returns to Riverette with a very special one! His debut album under his actual name N. Pegler. SCRIBBLES are some highlights of many hundreds of sketches from various hard drives & computers of the past 15 years. Tracks which never ended up on any releases, due to them feeling underproduced, or not being complex enough in some way or another. Many were born from testing out a new bit of equipment for the first time, or from quickly getting down an idea before doing something more important. Often in these moments, when less focused on composition and making a track, a playful quality presents itself. Ned Pegler explores themes of nature, time, and consciousness, encapsulating the essence of ambient music in this wonderful album.
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#33
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Plastic Bag
Cotenius X is the duo that stops making sense. Its an exploratory improvisational project of the Ukrainian sound artist Daria Redkina and the Russian experimental vocalist Varya Pavlova aka Lisokot. Improvising together since 2017 they incorporate folk, electronic and musique concrète elements into their spontaneous compositions. Their theatrical performances involve impersonation or adoption of different characters and are informed by social, historical, and site-specific narratives. Both Redkina and Pavlova work with loops, synths and effects, reshaping various samples into novel forms. Oceans In Flames, for example, evokes a slowly evolving sound field that sprouts, collapses and decays under flickering fluorescent bulbs. The effect is not dissimilar to the epic catastrophic landscape paintings, but remixed for our own AI-saturated end times. Most of the tracks on Plastic Bag are recordings of live shows. Burunduk is taken from the duos first ever performance and sees Pavlova impersonating animal spirits - forest sprites and haunted chipmunks abound. Meanwhile Fukushima Tuna and the albums title track employ the talents of avant-garde saxophonist Sergey Letov who sows seeds of optimism onto the scorched plastic soil tilled by Cotenius X. Plastic Bag coalesced during the four years that Redkina and Pavlova improvised together. Being based in different countries and despite the challenges of the global pandemic and the rising geopolitical tensions of subsequent years, the album is a testament to collaboration; an archival reflection of the time the duo spent experimenting together. The albums artwork was created by Pavel Pepperstein, a conceptual graphic artist, whose interpretation of the music manifested in an impossibly surreal group portrait that nods towards Nikolai Gogol, Salvador Dalí and The Residents. The duo have, in fact, been compared to The Residents and see themselves carrying the psychedelic absurdity of the US group forward by giving it a feminine twist.
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#34
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Motown Duet
— Look, how weird! — Cat brushed away the top layer of ash with his paw, revealing snow-white ice. — As if hell and winter had merged. — This is Motown. Once a major mining town, now just ruins after an eruption. — I didnt think wed end up in a hole like this... Especially with Nomad missing. — And you know what the worst part is? Nomad didnt just disappear. The portal absorbed him. But who opened it, that is the real question. A massive tower was looming up ahead. Its antennas were sticking out like broken claws. Below, shattered adamantium slabs intertwined with charred tree roots. A sign, covered in ash, was barely legible: SL75 Experimental Center. Once inside, they were greeted by an oppressive silence and icy air that chilled to the bone. The corridors seemed endless in the light of flickering lamps, and the floor was strewn with rusty wreckage of robots and instruments. The control room, once bustling with life, was now filled with empty workstations and displays that were broadcasting only static noise. — What a creepy place. — A man once worked here, — Spacelunch ran his palm over the panel. — Kujo. If anyone knows anything about the portal, its him. A metallic creak echoed down the corridor. An android appeared in the faint light of the lamps, staggering and dragging a damaged leg. A short stump where his arm used to be exposed tattered wires sparking in time with his footsteps. Empty eyes wandered through space as if trying to focus on the strangers. — Looking for Kujo? — The mechanical voice was slightly distorted. — Youre not the first... — Do you know anything about him? I can give something in exchange for this information. An implant, for example. The android made a rattling sound like a short laugh. — I dont need an arm, but the brain module is another matter. It was stolen and pawned. — And you didnt try to get it back? — I tried, but it cost me my arm. If you get the module, Ill tell you where to find him. The friends looked at each other. The road to answers was not going to be easy, but they were ready to do anything to save Nomad.
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#36
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The Best People Are Like Water
Theory Therapys debut release is now available on streaming for the first time. It comes from Concave Reflection aka Tommy Paslaski, one-third of Chicago-based group Purelink. Calm but rarely completely beatless, The Best People Are Like Water hovers in the interstice between the club and the comedown. The tape consists of 11 immersive tracks that split the difference between atmospheric downtempo and hypnagogic ambient. Side A is predominantly beat-based, channeling the best elements of 90s chillout room music, while side B is a more celestial affair the aural equivalent of noctilucent clouds swirling slowly in the sky. The album displays many of the qualities found in Purelinks music syncopated breakbeats, pristinely mixed drums and airy atmospherics but an added sense of intimacy runs across its 11 tracks. Paslaski has described his process as layering and layering until I have a cohesive thought, then sometimes playing my loop pedal cello stuff over it and seeing where it takes me. This improvisational approach translates into an album that feels aleatory, organic and extremely personal, as though it was produced by some arcane and abstract method, like wind roiling midnight air or slowly crystallising water. The Best People Are Like Water was mastered by Joseph Buchan aka Other Joe. Ben (kindtree) consulted on mixing for the A side. All tracks were written and produced by Tommy Paslaski.
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#38
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13 (LP1)
UNMISSABLE first LP of 4 in Diagonals new compilation series spanning 20 tracks from some of the worlds most influential experimental artists. LP1 features Autechre, Russell Haswell, Turner-Prize winning visual artist Wolfgang Tillmans, Powell and NHK and spans hyper-acoustic computer music, future-techno a la Cybotron from the year 2048 and twisted pop. The kind of elastic multiplicity that only Diagonal would ever dream of putting on wax. Essential.
Russell Haswell, Viviankrist, Powell, Wolfgang Tillmans, Powell Tillmans, NHK
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#41
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Warszawa
Superb collaborative effort between Irish ambient master and WRWTFWWs favorite Gareth Quinn Redmond (Laistigh den Ghleo, Umcheol, Ar Ais Arís) and Polish producer, multi-instrumentalist and sound engineer Albert Karch. Experimental sessions inspired by Mark Hollis and Satoshi Ashikawa featuring piano, drums, synthesizers, and strings. For fans of ambient, minimalism, environmental music, Talk Talk, and Still Way (Wave Notation 2).
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#42
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O.O.Orifice
O.O.Orifice is the fourth album by Vienna-based Iranian sound artist and composer Rojin Sharafi. This work explores the space of in-between — the distance of before and after as it pertains to a life-altering event - the moment that creates a cut. This cut, this fracture, this wound is something that reopens now and then. It calls to you, asking to be heard, smelled, and felt. The cut creates a new space. An in-between space that disrupts the unity of order. A space with an origin all to its own—not inside, not outside; neither full nor empty. It is nameless until you discover it and give it a name. It creates coordinates that challenge your perception, and this is what this work strives to do. O.O.Orifice follows a common thread, allowing for different stories to be told with a focus on the cut. Analog synthesizers, microtonal acoustic and digital instruments, scattering rhythms and poetry converge to form a narrative about love and attraction, psychoanalysis, internalized shame, language and its complexities, loss of home, and rejection. Each track has characters that shape its subplot through color and texture, with events and atmospheres that either complete the story or alter its initial direction. And what ties all these stories together is orifice—the space in between, the gateway, an opening that is both pain and, simultaneously, a channel flowing into depth—the part beyond the pain. Each cut left a mark on your body, on my body, and screams not to be forgotten.
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#43
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Sunflower At Day
J.Wiltshire returns to MUSAR with Sunflower At Day EP - a deep, atmospheric excursion across four tightly woven dance-floor tracks. Marking MUSARs 20th release, this EP showcases some of Wiltshires most clubready work yet, blending outsider house, ambient trance, and Cornish electronic influences. The title track Sunflower At Day is a shoegaze-infused chugger that nods to the ethereal haze of My Bloody Valentine and has a rave energy reminiscent of the Future Sound of London. Track two, Cosmic Slap takes over with its deep, dubheavy sounds and off-kilter rhythms, playing to Wiltshires more experimental side under a techno beat. On the B side, we dive deeper into Wiltshires intricate melodic world. Traversing unfolds with enveloping, pastoral harmonic patterns, balancing surging intensity with an organic flow. Finally, the EP closes with the cinematic Rush Point 9, a late-night noir groove that offers a perfect, reflective finale to this sonic journey. With Sunflower At Day, Wiltshire fuses intricate textures and melodies with dancefloor intensity, offering another great soundscape from the artist for both club and home listeners.
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#47
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Generate Countryside
10 years after their debut, City of All Times, audio-visual enquirers John B McKenna and Richard Greenan re-appear as Devonanon, to share the findings of a decade-long sonic experiment. Like its predecessor, Richard & John is a living, breathing collection of field recordings and compositions, gathered gradually from remote corners of the pairs lives. Familiar waypoints - interwoven microtonal synths, regurgitated live performances, polite whispering, and the gurgling hum of vehicles (land and sea) - all fold into the perpetual stew. Where City read like a crumpled postcard account of fraternal reportage, Richard & John is a tone poem on something more amorphous, and out of time - a garbled history of human closeness, upheaval and pastoral technology, that seems to warp and flex like a tapestry with no beginning or end. No two spoonfuls are the same, as the story reels through kosmische library stylings (Wilderness Engine), to cortex-quieting free association (Generate Countryside), and baroque instrumentation (Blood Laughing, featuring Masayoshi Fujita on vibraphone, and Rosa Juritz on bassoon). Recommended if you like CS + Kreme, Pierre Marietan, Kirk Barley. Richard & John was created in conversation with the visual artist David Huang.
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#54
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Mauvais Presage
Fleck E.S.C. returns with Mauvais Presage, a mesmerizing IDM album that defies easy categorization. Each track is a unique mosaic of sonic fragmentsglitchy pulses, melancholic melodies, and expansive atmosphereswoven into a tapestry that is both peculiar and strikingly beautiful. Its a restless journey through shifting textures and moods, where every moment flows into the next with the precision of a masters brush, painting a complex and evolving sonic landscape. As a follow-up to a series of innovative releases on the Science Cult label, Mauvais Presage delves deeper into uncharted sonic territories, showcasing Fleck E.S.C.s distinctive sound. www.sciencecult.com
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#56
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Refurl
Hush Hush Records is thrilled to team-up once again with IKSRE – the alias of Melbourne/Naarm-based singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and professional sound healer Phoebe Dubar – to help present Refurl. An expansive reimagining of IKSREs debut album Unfurl that she independently released in September 2019, Refurl celebrates Phoebes 5-year anniversary as IKSRE with a communal gathering of the friends, collaborators, and labelmates thats she made along her journey who contribute their own sublime interpretations of IKSREs earliest solo material. A classically-trained viola player who studied at the Victorian College of the Arts and was lead viola in Melbourne Youth Orchestra for years, Phoebe sang and played in different pop, rock, and funk bands throughout her 20s before launching her solo project IKSRE, an acronym for I Keep Seeing Rainbows Everywhere. The shift was a sonic response to her evolving lifestyle following the birth of her daughter and an increased focus on her daily yoga and meditation practice. Quietly self-released onto digital platforms in September 2019, IKSREs debut album Unfurl showcased her atmospheric and soothing ambient sound and found an early fan in KEXP DJ and Hush Hush Records founder/curator Alex Ruder. Alexs early radio support birthed a friendship and eventual partnership that soon led to Transmission, IKSREs label debut for Hush Hush that featured 10 remixes of songs originally found on IKSREs self-released 2020 sophomore album Intermission. Since the release of Transmission, Phoebes IKSRE project has blossomed in blissful fashion. Her third solo album III found a home once again on Hush Hush, and shes gone on to release subsequent solo albums on Londons Lo Recordings and Oaklands Constellation Tatsu Records. Her enthusiastic communal spirit has also led to collaborative releases with marine eyes (Past Inside the Present), anthéne (Polar Seas), Party Store (Stereoscenic), and Shelf Nunny (Hush Hush). Each release has furthered Phoebes organic mission to bring calming, healing, and restorative sounds into the world, leading to an impressive catalog and an evolving network of supportive like-minded artists from all over the globe. Refurl is a bit of a full circle moment between IKSRE and Hush Hush. In similar fashion to IKSREs label debut Transmission, Refurl finds the artist and label connecting to help present Phoebes music in a new light, this time through the vision of talented musician friends thats she made over the past few years, as each are now connected through direct collaborations, shared live performances, and/or label affiliations. Torontos anthéne kicks off the release, adding his slow-burning blissful touch to ISKREs debut single Black and Purple. Fellow Melbourne-based artist Willebrant delivers a lush and glacial take on 7min 6sec that stretches Phoebes ethereal vocals across a vast windswept landscape. Seattle-based artist Shelf Nunnys woozy, whimsical beats tap into a more pronounced atmospheric and lightly psychedelic realm on his remix of Tall Roads. Melbournes Clariloops composes a sweeping version of Crimson, placing Phoebes evocative viola into the forefront and accenting it with her gorgeous clarinet playing. Los Angeles duo awakened souls, aka Cynthia (aka marine eyes) and James Bernard, capture a delicately beautiful balance between chiming ambiance and pulsating arpeggios on ALONE. AT PARADISE that surprisingly yields the collections most concise rework. Hush Hush labelmates Tewksbury and Zoltan Fecso kick off the records back-half. Tewksbury bleeds together an enveloping wash of heavenly vocals, lonely strings, and the textural layers of a field recording on his hypnotic take of Black and Purple. Nearby Melbourne-based artist Zoltan Fecso explores a lightly percolating soundscape that delightfully refuses to stand still. Seattles Party Store supplies the albums most epic offering, laying out an immersive instrumental spell before summoning Phoebes vocals over a transfixing final third. Indianapolis-based musician and Past Inside the Present Records founder zaké closes out the release with an absorbing spin on way up there I see everything (guuguubarra), his washed-out droning paint strokes concluding the collection with an air of melancholy, mystery, and beauty. In addition to Refurl being released digitally on October 25th, the album will be released as a special double-cassette alongside Unfurl. This 2xCS release marks the first time IKSREs debut album Unfurl has been released on a physical format.
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#58
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Unlikely Companions
Secondos awaited return comes in the form of Unlikely Companions a growling, alien rhythm from the warmer tropics of technofunk. Marco Passaraniswild take flips the mood with some skittering Aphex-style darkness, primed for the late, after hours dancefloor.
