Sometimes so much modern classical and ambient music drives me to a desire to cut it up a bit. Slice all of those expanding pads with a sharp-edged and surgically-precise glitchy blade, which is an intrinsic part of my sonic DNA. With that said, I can always rely on the trusted raster to serve me a delicious cocktail of spiked-up goodness. In the case of their latest album, scheduled to drop this upcoming Friday, November 25th, the master chef, chief surgeon, and dystopian storyteller is the one and only Franck Vigroux, who, albeit has not appeared on these pages in the past, has been on my radar for many years, particularly from his releases on Leaf, Monotype, Aesthetical, and Matière Mémoire. In 2020 Vigroux appeared on this Chemnitz-based (Germany) artistic platform with his album, Ballades Sur Lac Gelé. This follow-up, titled Magnetoscope, is part of the same series of releases that "interrelate strict and cool analogue sounds, drum machines and noise landscapes in an epic, almost cinematic way." The title and the synth sounds which appear throughout the album (and on a piece which I'm premiering for you today) refer to the "terrifying time" of the 80s. The influences of "Blade Runner" as watched through an old VHS tape, the sounds of a warped cassette tape left out to melt in your steaming brick of a car in the parking lot, the unruly analogue music machines that never followed your directions and seemed to have a mind of their own - all of this is here, on Magnetoscope.

Magnetoscope

Paris NYC

TRACK PREMIERE : Franck Vigroux - Paris NYC

Manger ta lumière

Undulating Shadows

Voices and electronic manipulations by MØdE iN gliΔNY

Undulating Shadows revisited by MØdE iN gliΔNY

La Dame - Kinnara (The Untouchables rmx)
Toto Tobass - Bernstein 
Vex Seven - The Welcoming Abyss (Yin Yang Audio rmx)
Heathen - Azathoth
Eyes of Ibad - Potential
YHVHSQUAD - 継承 （Keishō）
Elizar Mel & Redlum & Shiza - Event Horizon
Hellacopta - Control Surface
Anku - Warpaint
Ital - Rebellion
Dailiv - Arshan
Anku - Sacrifice (Aikanunu rmx)
Redlum & Akinsa - Shinto Ritual
Akinsa - Resistence VIP
Eyes of Ibad - Lattice
Anku - Cave
Ital - Ghost Town
Dailiv - Canceller
YHVHSQUAD - 明王 （Myōō)
Xi​û​a- The Bunker (Aikanã rmx)
Redlum & Shikku & Elizar Mel - Return 
Akinsa - Saigon (Parasite rmx)
Hellacopta - Apothic
Dailiv - Relict
Eyes of Ibad - Plural (w/ Torn)
YHVHSQUAD - 殲滅 （Senmetsu - Raku rmx)
YHVHSQUAD -  白煙 (Xi​û​a rmx)
Ital - Rogue One
Anku - Viper
Akinsa - Rastafari (Hellacopta rmx)
Toto Tobass - Bernstein (an galar dub rmx)
Anku - Totem
Redlum & Elizar Mel - Akaem
Dailiv - Tracker
Eyes of Ibad - Elsewhere
Heathen - Tsathoggua
Akinsa - Momento (Aikanunu rmx)
Anku - Raiders
Heathen - Arcanum
Akinsa & Elizar Mel - Sarcalum
Torn - Invisable Turmoil
YHVHSQUAD - 荒魂 (Aramitama)

Sounds from the Mariana Trench.

DO23

A techno/electronica tribute to this small and maybe cute arthropod from the sea who saves many lives each years / 145 BPM  / F#

La Limule (free download)

Nelumbo

The Dekmantel favourite kicks off 2025 in an exploratory mood.

Since her breakout in 2017, Thessa Thorsing has built an enviable CV: a debut release on Nous'klaer Audio, an album on Dekmantel and a residency at former Amsterdam clubbing institution De School. Over these years, she's honed a singular sound, navigating wild variations in tempo and mood that dance along the edges of techno, IDM and drum & bass (we could list many more, but you know the drill).

Her creative arc has seen her delve into ever more abstract concepts, such as 2024's ambient-leaning album, Strange Meridians, exploring the interplay between synthetic and natural textures through drumless experimentations. As she explained in her 2018 RA Breaking Through profile, "I just want to hear the weirdness in the music."

Thorsing's RA Podcast showcases exactly why she's one of the most  consistently adventurous names in dance music. Describing it as "a mix with a narrative," the former landscape architecture student flexes her ability to build sonic environments, beginning in a landscape more akin to a swamp than a club.

Across 90 minutes, she moves through numerous layered terrains, exploring everything from Skee Mask's lucid, beatless techno to the piercing acid of Mike Parker. Unfolding with a restless sense of curiosity, RA.970 captures an artist challenging the boundaries of electronic music, ever upward.

@upsammy

Read more at ra.co/podcast/970

RA.970 upsammy

A long way to the big drop, at the half of the track, broken beats , acid and hypnotic vibes

No one incants our dust part. 1 (Reengineered) Feat. Substencia

Alhazred

Flint Glass is a Paris-based dark electronica project that has been described by critics as representing some of the most innovative sounds-styling towards electronica, industrial and dark ambient genres. Flint Glass is a one man project of Gwenn Trémorin, formed in 1999 and is also founding member of experimental electronics label Brume records.