@Cygnus is an electronic musician based in Texas. His influences include Electro, IDM, experimental hardcore bass, and more. His 2015 tour with legendary Manchester act Autechre took him around the United States for 30 days. In 2016 he toured Europe, playing alongside the likes of Gerald Donald, DJ Stingray, DMX Krew, Team Doyobi, and Sync24. His technical approach mixes the versatility of software with the touch and feel of hardware to create a timeless mixture of electronic beats and melody.

Buy Cygnus here: cygnusat.bandcamp.com/

Cygnus

Wild Life African Mood: Amazing Relaxation Jungle Sounds

Wild Animal Sounds

For this @DarkScienceElectro Rewind, we take a listen to a track from the maiden voyage of seminal label @CPUrecords by Electro master @Cygnus 

Phillip Washington is an electronic musician based in Texas. His influences include Electro, IDM, experimental hardcore bass, and more. His technical approach mixes the versatility of software with the touch and feel of hardware to create a timeless mixture of electronic beats and melody. Cygnus has been producing music under this alias since 2011 and has brought us some of the freshest Electro of the last decade. He manages to pay homage to classic Electro, while at the same time pushing the genre forward. There is a certain feeling of soulfulness that can be heard in his music that, I think, isn't matched by anyone before or currently. 

Find Cygnus:
https://cygnusat.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/cygnus.avi/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100031660662023

Newmark Phase

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Electro Rewind: Cygnus - District Nights (2012)

Priory Avenue

water side grooves as your love  wonders about unbothered

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la espero

Sunflowers

For the next @DarkScienceElectro premiere we look to the southern United States for a check-in with Electro veteran @Cygnus

With a long history of releases beginning in 2006, this Texas resident presents a varied release with the brand new 'Rainy Days'. Straddling the line between Ambient, Techno, IDM, Chillwave and Electro, this full-length release on Biosoft Records has something for everyone. The track selected by @DVSNME to premiere for @DarkScienceElectro is entitled 'Default Mode Network' and is the most Electro-centric track on the release. This track is about as smooth as they come with understated percussive traits and a ton of focus on the melody, driven by beautifully modulated pads and bass lines generated by a Waldorf Blofeld, Elektron Digitakt/Analog 4 as well as a Korg VC-10. The song was described by Cygnus as a song about meditation. He went on to say that "The brain is 'used' and consumes energy even when it is not focused on any discreet goal or process". This captivating release is a journey through the sonic landscapes of this prolific producers mind. 

You can buy the release here: https://cygnusat.bandcamp.com/album/rainy-days

Additional resources:
https://www.facebook.com/cygnus-138708879482503/
https://www.discogs.com/artist/1932807-Cygnus-5

Album art: Bobby St. Aubin

Rainy Days

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PREMIERE: Cygnus - Default Mode Network (Biosoft Records)

This track is from the album Never Regret the Nights and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/lucasmire1

You Got Me (feat. Doris Muramatsu from Girlyman)

For the next @DarkScienceElectro premiere we look to the southern United States for a check-in with Electro veteran @Cygnus on @CPUrecords

With a long history of releases beginning in 2006, this Texas resident presents a brand new EP called 'Deep Analysis'.  The track selected by @DVSNME to premiere for @DarkScienceElectro is entitled 'Sheffield Bleep'. The song was composed using Digitakt, Analog4 , Roland SH-01, Ableton and a Vocoder, This vocal track's central theme is an ode to the mighty @CPUrecords done over an Jazzy Electropop feeling track with a Roland CR-78 providing the rhythm. This track is my personal favorite on the record, however, I would also say that this release as a whole is absolutely worth checking out. It is on pre-order now and will be shipping out on or around May 3rd, 2019.

Buy here: https://shop.cpurecords.net/album/deep-analysis

Additional resources:
www.facebook.com/cygnus-138708879482503/
www.discogs.com/artist/1932807-Cygnus-5
https://www.facebook.com/cpurecords/

Deep Analysis

PREMIERE: Cygnus - Sheffield Bleep (Central Processing Unit)

Her Majesty (The Universe)

@Cygnus is an electronic musician based in Texas. His influences include Electro, IDM, experimental hardcore bass, and more. His 2015 tour with legendary Manchester act Autechre took him around the United States for 30 days. In 2016 he toured Europe, playing alongside the likes of Gerald Donald, DJ Stingray, DMX Krew, Team Doyobi, and Sync24. His technical approach mixes the versatility of software with the touch and feel of hardware to create a timeless mixture of electronic beats and melody.

Most tracks used in this mix can be purchased digitally on iTunes or by visiting Bandcamp: https://cygnusat.bandcamp.com/

All songs written & performed by Cygnus

Rainy Metropolis (Relax The Machine)
Alien Hangovers (Pattern Locator)
Emerging From The Void (The Oasis)
She Made You Dance (Vox Alia)
You Like Danger (Electric Eclectics)
Nexus Telecoms (Radical User Interfaces)
Midnight Wreckers (Machine Funk)
Vaporwaves (Rainy Days)
Skylab (Cosmos)
Ne0 Ge0 (Ne0 Ge0)
The Xenon Bridge (The Oasis)
District Nights (Newmark Phase)
Tau Ceti (Tesseracter)
Mental Image (Blackest Dimensions)
Extra Terrestrials (Extra Terrestrials)
Infektor (Global Systems)
Sheffield Bleep (Deep Analysis)
Interstellar Cyberpunk (Voyager VII)
Icasean Ice Storm (1.9.9.X.)

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Dark Science Electro presents: Cygnus

Fly Guy | Keep Me Dancing

Fly Guy (Original Mix)

Technology Fascination

Flashback

Buy/stream: https://kompakt.fm/releases/year_of_the_living_dead

With his new album, Year Of The Living Dead, Vienna-born and LA-based producer John Tejada finds a blissful extended moment of balance between the new and the familiar. Anyone who’s followed his career to date, which has included four previous albums for Kompakt, outings for storied labels like Plug Research, Playhouse and Cocoon, and numerous remixes and collaborations – most recently, his Wajatta duo with actor and musician Reggie Watts – will immediately sense the warmth and eloquence that Tejada brings to his gilded, pliant techno and electro hybrids. But there’s more here, too; an explorer’s glimmer in the producer’s eye, as he gets to grips with new ways of working and being, while offering a reflective opening for the listener, something echoed in artwork by graphic designer and ‘contemplative artist’ David Grey.

“The album was started using tools I was unfamiliar with, which became an interesting exploratory process,” Tejada says. “Staying away from the obvious and having to re-learn simple things was a fun challenge.” You can hear these new creative pulsions pushing the eight tracks on Year Of The Living Dead ever-forward; the album has an unique cast, and though there are trace elements of the genres Tejada has indulged previously, he’s never quite put them together this way before. There’s the dubwise glitter sprinkled across the moody opener “The Haunting Of Earth”, the kind caresses found amongst the deftly woven textures of “Sheltered”, and the churchy melancholy, all hymnal and golden, of “Echoes Of Life”.

Year Of The Living Dead also speaks obliquely to its moment, though Tejada works this implicitly, allowing the strange circumstances of 2020 to cast their inevitable shadow without being obvious or didactic. “The production process began right before lockdown and continued through what felt like a very serious time for all of us,” he recalls. “Not being able to see or touch our loved ones made me feel we are all like ghosts. We can observe from a distance but cannot really be there. We are isolated and alone.” And yet, Year Of The Living Dead’s tenderness offers an out for that anxiety and loneliness, its intimate immensities gifting the album a redemptive and compassionate core. Compact and glistening, Year Of The Living Dead sculpts unassuming beauty.

John Tejada - Echoes Of Life

This Soundcloud account is secondary to the www.soundcloud.com/dvsnme account; Its purpose is to re-post tracks that I enjoy. If you are looking for mixes (Dark Science Electro), contact or original work by DVS NME please go here: @dvsnme

Influences include: AS1, Ashtar Lavanda, Aux88, Blotnik Brothers, Boris Divider, Carl Finlow, Cignol, Commuter, Cygnus, Das Muster, Der Zyklus, DMX Krew, Dopplereffekt, Ekman, The Exaltics, Exzakt, Franck Kartell, I-F, Kan3da, Kobol Electronics, Kraftwerk, Lake Haze, Lowfish, Luke Eargoggle, Mandroid, Maelstrom, Metacomplex, Morphology, Mr. Velcro Fastener, N-Ter, Plant43, Silicon Scally, Solvent, Umwelt, Underground Resistance, Univac, Versalife, Volsoc, Zeta Reticula and more.

Phillip Washington, based in Dallas, TX. Born & Raised 

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