Fluid Electronics

Yes, folks, I am still rejoicing in last year. What can I say – I love to listen to great music, especially when it’s picked by someone else. And not just anyone – a trusted source! Ryan Griffin and I go back more than a decade now. Secretly, I’m even jealous of his capacity to operate one of the best labels on the scene today. At times, I toyed with the idea of starting a label too – but then, when would I have the time to write these words and share this music? And so, I leave it to the rest. For this annual entry in the Reflections series, we spend three hours (!) in the company of 42+ tracks selected by your reliable guide of A Strangely Isolated Place, where you will surely find new gems and inspirations. I’ll drop a short quote here, but you should check out a detailed write-up on this mix on ASIP’s dedicated page.

More details here: https://wp.me/paziFt-hmB

Reflection on 2023

Tracklisting

A Strangely Isolated Place - Reflection on 2023

https://soundcloud.com/denzelmyman
https://soundcloud.com/sunnysibar

https://sansibar.bandcamp.com/album/we-rise

We Rise

Sansibar & Denzel - Sonic Minds

Objekt - Chicken Garaage

PRE-ORDER: tinyurl.com/HAWS027BC

Haŵs welcomes the return of Belgrade-based Laars to the label with his debut solo vinyl release, a 4-track journey blending the nostalgic essence of 90s/00s progressive trance and house with a modern edge.

Let go and lean into the unknown; just take a deep breath, and jump. 😮‍💨🫁

Estimated release date: 18th of October, 2024.
Distributed by Subwax.
Artwork by Stewart Armstrong.
PR text by Emily Howard.
Mastering by Marco Pellegrino (Analogcut).
Pressings by R.A.N.D.

Laars - 'Breath Control' [HAWS027]

Amandra, half head honcho behind Ahrpe Records, goes for subtly evolving and droning atmospheres. With releases spanning both a wide range of electronic genres and record labels: Nous'klaer Audio, AD 93, Tikita or Semantica, just to name a few; the French producer based in Toulouse illustrates with coherence his own vision of acid and tribal rhythms that can be presented with either bright and soft feelings or through a darker, more disturbed path.

Brera Som Som EP
As always with Amandra, there is a blend of poetic and soft hidden touch given to the music through carefully crafted personal track names. Brera Som Som is a 4-tracker EP, recorded back when he lived in Warsaw Poland, showcasing the artist's ability to navigate through niche genres. It comes as a double 12" package cherry-topped with four intelligent and eclectic remixes from artists with their own unique identity: Shielding, Whylie, Martinou and Brainwaltzera.

Amandra on disc 1:

Brera Som Som
I want my music to breathe dirty so it's alive to my ears, trying to stay away from surgical, clean, electronic music. The Prophet 08 is the one here, recorded by hand, with assumed offbeat imperfections, as always. I wanted to get a naïve Asian mood out of it, just to try and contrast with the rest of the track. I tend to think a lot about my tracks and their meaning more in terms of feelings, art and techniques than in terms of deep messages, political views, dance floors or whatever. Brera Som Som is a try at using the chiaroscuro technique depicted in classical paintings for instance, where you can have an interesting focus on some very specific elements.

Cyborg Pelikana
Recorded out of a jam on a Soma Pulsar 23 and some heavy distorted synths, it ended up sounding like no other recordings I made. The structure is also a bit different as I wanted to have a more composed-like approach here.

Fanfaron
Here is a try at going jungle... with a Moog DFAM and a 303 processed through a Sherman Filterbank.

Prorokini
This one belongs to a phase where I was exploring the sampling side of electronic music. Until that moment I was building 100% of my drums and ideas based on raw drum machines and some processing, then started feeling how it would feel to sample some raw external beats from a drummer for instance and process them my way. I didn't pursue that sampling lead much afterward because it felt like a boring approach to me at that time but a few tracks stood out anyway, like this one, which I'm very proud of. The synths are clearly programmed on the Prophet 08, it can't go any more Dave Smith Instruments than that, if you like them, go grab that synth!

Remixers on disc 2:

Cyborg Pelikana - Shielding Remix
"I liked the dry and direct qualities of the original track and wanted to maintain that feeling while collaging it using my own processing methods and sounds. Recorded in my old home studio in Stockholm."

Brera Som Som - Brainwaltzera Remix
"no comment."

Fanfaron - Whylie Remix
"The remix was made using resampling techniques, the rhythmic noises were transformed into driving percussive layers pushing the imperfections into character. A more emotional overlay was added to the track based on the sentimental and personal approach I built through my sound."

Brera Som Som - Martinou Remix
"Interpreting Amandras' work has been on my bucket list for a while. There’s something in it that is innately humanizing and raw which I also wanted to capture in my remix. The melody line from the remix is just a snapshot of a small part of the full original track, but it stuck with me and expanded through improvisation to what you see before you today. With this remix I wanted to make something that would swell slowly and ring out into infinity.

All original tracks written and produced by Amandra.
Remixes written and produced by Brainwaltzera, Whylie, Martinou and Shielding.
Mastered by Amandra.
Artwork by Neurotypique.

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Brera Som Som (Martinou Remix)

A rough hardware jam. I'm spending some long overdue time with the cirklon after working on a video game and finding paying work. The cirklon is endlessly interesting, there are so many workflows to discover and features to explore. I keep falling deeper into the rabbit holes. Launching clips with MD took a little head scratching and I can't sort out whether to I want to move drum sequencing to the cirklon. The elektron workflow is so damn good on the native hardware, despite all the power of the cirklon. I sort of fantasize about the more elektron-like p-lock UX for the cirklon which feels blasphemous to say. Cheers and kisses. 

Hardware: Korg Monologue, Ensoniq EPS, Moog Mother-32, Elektron MachineDrum, Sequentix Cirklon, Roland JV-1080. 
Software: Bit of multi-band compression and top-end spatializing in Ableton before the final bounce.

AcydGill

606 Reasons Why

joyspell II [cut]

God Moving Arps

Elsa

Analog Clouds

DEPICT MIND 002 – FLX / [flux] – Mercredi 16 avril 2025 - 18h - 19h30 sur l’eko des garrigues, 88.5 France
L’émission musicale à destination des curieux, des rêveurs, des musiciens, des danseurs, des geeks, des hippies, et tous les autres ... consacrée à la braindance, l’ambient, et toutes les formes d’électro, break et techno expérimentale.
« Pour cette deuxième émission, je vais vous présenter un artiste des Etats Unis, c’est FLX, découvert, comme tant d’autres, sur soundcloud, dont j’admire la musique et avec qui j’ai pu un petit peu échanger. C’est de la musique hyper travaillée, très délire science fiction, pour laquelle j’ai beaucoup d’admiration. Paul »

SOUNDCLOUD : https://soundcloud.com/flux-tracks
BANDCAMP : https://flux-tracks.bandcamp.com/

Includes tracks from : FLX, bovaflux, Aphex Twin, Psychedelic Aliens and neniu

dm002 about FLX / [flux] / ...– 16/04/2025 - radio eko des garrigues, 88.5

cleanly 2024-02-14

Destiny

Jaxen Blaze - Our Destiny

in heaven everything is fine

[Genre: Deep House / Melodic House / Ambient House]  
[Style: Emotional, Deep, Atmospheric, Cinematic]  
[Tempo: 118 BPM

God Moving Arps

Uf0

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