synth pop/dark wave/goth

Best Electro/EBM

We can all argue what is industrial and what is not. And while at it, please enjoy these fine tracks by some great artists.

Edit: i don't usually edit these lists but here's a small addition to the list: Advanced Art: Blind.

Playlist for future reference:

1 Oppenheimer by BITES + H3X3N 4.41
2 Nihil (M‡яc▲ll▲ Remix) by 3 TEETH 4.23
3 Before the End of Days [Deprivation Mix] by redtest 5.06
4 Better Days by deadwhenifoundher 5.08
5 Waste by bamnsynth 5.45
6 Sacrilege by Mentallo and The Fixer 7.05
7 Come fall by protectorate 3.24
8 Master of Decay by 3 TEETH 4.47
9 Blind by Advanced Art 3.57
10 ibumetins sagurusai dveselei by oyaarss 4.28

Tru Industrial

The 58 Voiceless' Cacophony

Before the End of Days [Deprivation Mix - 2007]

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Bandcamp
hymen-records.bandcamp.com/album/castles

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1	popcult	
2	sill	
3	boxxx	
4	echory	
5	16	
6	vertigo	
7	basements	
8	mireor	
9	coryza I	
10	spell sleep	
11	mora

on this release the usage of beat-driven structures is present, but the clear emphasis of nebulo's new works lies in the addition of a new set of sound aesthetics developed during the last two years. 'castles' offers an intensified amount of repetitive patterns based on dark technoid textures, accumulated with polyrhythmic adjustments, unusual harmonic breaks and strengthened analog / digital synthesis. the atmospheres transferred by these sounds range from dreamy and mesmerizing to abruptly irritating and even menacingly forceful - as strong, solid and contorted as castles are intended to be. like a sonic architect, nebulo successfully explores new territories and strikes a new path, where 'basements' can be allegorized as the foundation of 'castles'. oftenly, ambitions and dreams about building something impossible result in illusive castles in the sky - with this release nebulo has certainly proven that the 'castles' you are about to listen to became reality. the 180g vinyl 12'' lp includes a download code for the album tracks and the 'basements' ep.

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Coryza I

A handcrafted remix of Pharmakon's excellent track "Pitted," with just a dose of groove.

Pharmakon - Pitted (Seeming Mix)

Nihil (M‡яc▲ll▲ Remix)

Taken from the <i>A Place To Stand</i> EP out 9/23/14 on Dais Records

Youth Code "Consuming Guilt"

Track 10 of our debut-album "In your Mind" - released 1995 by Glasnost Records.

In your Mind - Your Lies

Track 4 of our second album "Journey" - released 1996 by Glasnost Records.

Journey - Liberty

Track 1 of our third album "Punishment and crippled Reality" - released 1998 by Zoth Ommog.

Punishment and crippled Reality - Triumph

Rescued from old Tapes for our Fans - download it for FREE!

CLOCKWORX - Rotten

'better days' by DEAD WHEN I FOUND HER
track 2 from the album 'Rag Doll Blues'

released 2012 on ArtOfFact Records

Better Days

WASTE

written/recorded summer 2011

from upcoming full-length By Any Means Necessary album

Waste

A cover of Skinny Puppy's 'Dead Lines' from the 'Bites' album.

This cover is really more of a literal re-creation of the original than a re-interpretation of it (the latter process being the usual route I take when doing covers). However, this project was more of a production exercise, in which I used a small number of software instruments to specifically re-create the sounds, sequences and production style of one of my all-time favorite songs. It was a great learning experience, and turned out better than I expected.

DAW: ableton live suite 8
Software Instruments: analog (ableton synth), g-force Minimonsta, g-force M-Tron Pro
drums were done with Ableton Drum Racks and samples



Dead Lines (As I Found It)

Recorded, written and performed by Wesley Eisold at home in Los Angeles CA in February 2012.

Cold Cave - A Little Death to Laugh

New track recorded in March, 2012 as part of a video documentary on Author & Punisher and the Dub Machines shot by Lenovo (using the Lenovo Ideapad Y580).  This particular track utilizes the Mute Mask that I recently fabricated (shown in the photo) and am composing with. There should be a new video and set of recordings out in early 2013 based around these masks.  This song has been provided courtesy of Lenovo, enjoy, cheers!

Author & Punisher - Magnetik

 Few people laughed. Few people cried. Most people were silent.

Oppenheimer

Belfast-based four-piece Girls Names are a singular proposition, both geographically and psychically removed from their contemporaries at home and abroad. Released in February 2013, their second album 'The New Life' is the sound of a band on the fringes striving to forge their own path, purposefully out of step - and time - with their surroundings. Weighed heavy with the grey landscapes of their hometown, 'The New Life' is isolation laid bare, shot through with an undeterred sense of purpose and individuality.

Having released a series of singles and EPs on various independent labels, Girls Names made their first significant impression on the wider world in 2011 with their debut album, 'Dead To Me,' earning plaudits from the likes of Pitchfork, NME and Loud & Quiet amongst a host of others. And yet, despite all the praise heaped on it, as soon as that record was released Girls Names were already moving into a different headspace. 

The band’s performance at this year Primavera festival provided them with their first real opportunity to showcase the songs that were to comprise 'The New Life.' The sunshine backdrop of the Spanish coastline offered a somewhat incongruous setting to the eerie dissonance of the new material, a kind of trial by fire metamorphosis rapturously received. Following a tour of Europe, the band returned home to record the album over a series of months. Having been produced by singer and songwriter, Cathal Cully, they’ve managed to capture that sense of otherness the performances at Primavera hinted at. The expansion to a four piece means the garage-clatter of the spritely pop songs of their debut have been replaced by a deeper, shadowy exercise in catharsis, driven by repetition, psychedelia and Dionysian crisis. And the record was born of a weighty concept too, as Cully explains: 

“'The New Life' is not an over night change for Girls Names - just over two years in fact. 'Dead to Me' literally was dead to us by the time it was committed to wax. But it's a learning curve. We started moving on as artists the moment we finished that recording session, maybe even before. Not to dwell on the past, 'The New Life' is what happens when you reset everything back to zero and start again, but try to perfect. It starts back at zero the minute the needle hits the groove but we're also starting back from zero once the needle lifts at the end of the record. Ad infinitum. 'The New Life' is what follows now.”

The album’s title track, and the first single to be taken from the album, is an ideal entry point. Just shy of 8 minutes long, it rotates around a hypnotic bass line, and in Cully’s evocation of renaissance, offers a perfect metaphor for the album as a whole. New single ‘Hypnotic Regression’ - available to stream today - reflects another side to the record. The reverb-heavy guitars and compelling melody are immediately memorable, but there are signs of experimentation, too; the white squall of the lead break; the uneasiness in the vocal echoes that furnish the verses. As such, 'The New Life,' stands as a brave statement; the mark of the band untying themselves from the past and easing forth into the unknown.

"The New Life" will be released on February 18th, 2013 on Tough Love (UK) and February 26th, 2013 on Slumberland Records (US).


Drawing Lines

Distel - hxxx. Taken from the album "puur" released by Enfant Terrible (Enfant22 / 2013)
mastered by Ruud Lekx

video for this track:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5WXRNvZE1g
