Elektronika #22

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Alex

Synth pop, electronica, electropop, electropumk, coldwave, minimal wave, other waves etc

Electronic RockPop 6

Kitchen & the Plastic Spoons - Happy Funeral (1980)

Nepal - Drift (SEQ009)

Tracklist:
A. Glow
AA. Rebuild

And here we are, just as promised, exploring the dark corners of Nick Lapien; the man otherwise known as Metropolis. This time around, he comes back with a pair of extended cuts that veer off into heretofore unexplored terrain, relishing in detail with a sharp focus on momentum and lyricism. "Glow," the A side, uses a basic 2-note sine wave bass line and a 136 BPM kick as the backdrop for a 13+ minute descent into a thicket of static and clattering modular craftiness—a pathway into the unknown through auditory hypnosis. On the flip side, "Rebuild," a milder 4/4 beauty, uses a soft bass riff for its duration as shuffling synth experimentation stretches the stereo field. A long trumpet solo by Mark Nieuwenhuis casts a soothing, mournful light into the piece. Immerse yourself into the sounds and let yourself be guided, let yourself be found.

Buy 12"

AA. Nepal - Rebuild (SEQ009)

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XIII - New Id Please

Eye For An Eye V10

CLAUDE LARSON : Hot Chili

French duo Monoblok&PSLKTR return to the Meant label with a new EP. 

Yann Aubertot and Benoit Mascot AKA Monoblok&PSLKTR have been releasing left of centre, electronics for the past 5 years, racking up singles on imprints such as Notorious Elektro and Lebensfreude Records before finding a home with Remain’s Meant Records. 

We're premiering the electro funk b-side ‘Walking Disaster’. There's a remix from Arnaud Rebotini on the flip and the a-side Relapse comes with remixes from Meant frontman Remain and My Favouirte Robot. 

Get this round your ears.

Premiere: Monoblok&PSLKTR - Walking Disaster (Original Mix)- Meant

Cathy Heyden : sax, vocal, objets / Automne Lajeat :violoncelle / Ben Ajrab : basse, vocal, noise / Thierry Müller : guitare, Tone generator, FX

Prévu à l'origine comme un LP avec code de téléchargement et des bonus en téléchargement.
À discuter

Dildo

Derrière Le Buisson

Dildo - Derrière Le Buisson

Salomes Dance

Videotape - Acoustic Cover

Mister Nein Tronik Youth puts his proteges to one side and steps up and delivers a cavernous slow motion head wobbler, on this occasion ably abetted by a Cabaret Nocturne remix. With a glimpse into his new Berlin dark parishes, the insistent and naggy drugger twists about like a man possessed. Dark and metallic, get some smoke relief here. (words by Andrew Thompson for The Ransom Note)

Stores:
Beatport - btprt.dj/2ah0YnB
Juno - bit.ly/29W516b
Spotify - spoti.fi/2a1XnN8
iTunes - apple.co/2ah1HVK

Played, supported and loved by:
Alvaro Cabana (Rotten City) / Andrew Claristidge (Acid Washed) / Craig Bratley / Curses / Dave (Futureboogie) / Dave P (Making Time Radio) / Eskimo Twins / Fairmont /  Jonty Skrufff  / Justin Robertson / Local Suicide / Morpheus (Minimal Compact) / Psychemagik / Sid Le Rock / Speaking Minds / SwitchSt(d)ance / Tim Sweeney / Undo / Voytek (My Favorite Robot, Fumoir) ...

Released by: Nein Records
Catalogue number: NEIN085
Release date: July 22, 2016
© 2016 Nein Records

Death Rattle

Tronik Youth - Never Said, I Never Said (Cabaret Nocturne Remix) [preview]

the word wireform is a sculture genre, as is assemblage and bas-relief.
the CD available for $9.95 here:
http://kunaki.com/Sales.asp?PID=PX00Z669BI&PP=1

- from Wireform LP 2016

wireform EP

man with no sun

Man With No Sun  (from wireform LP 2016)

from 'Danza Meccanica Vol.2 Italian Synth Wave 1981-1987 LP' MNQ 022

buy: http://mannequinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mnq-022-va-danza-meccanica-italian-synth-wave-vol-2-1981-1987-lp

Sons Of Science - Way Of Life

This classic minimal music album is now available again on vinyl for the first time since the 70s.

https://www.aguirrerecords.com/collections/aguirre-records/products/terry-riley-persian-surgery-dervishes-2xlp

Californian composer Terry Riley’s In C, first issued on vinyl in 1968, is widely acknowledged as a Minimalist landmark that altered the course of twentieth-century music. His influential album A Rainbow In Curved Air, which appeared the following year, is a vivid fusion of rock and raga, jazz and psychedelia realised through overdubbing on an 8-track machine which had recently been installed at the studios of Columbia Records.  

By the early 70s Riley had come to feel that scores were a distraction. Faithful interpretation of an already written piece was a deviation from the true purpose of making music, which was spiritual quest. Fortunately, some of those live performances, personal journeys towards a state of transcendence, were captured on tape. Persian Surgery Dervishes, issued initially on the French label Shandar, features two such concerts for electric organ and reel-to-reel delay, one recorded in Los Angeles on 18th April 1971, the other in Paris on 24th May 1972.

At the start of that decade Riley became a dedicated student of the great Hindustani singer Pandit Pran Nath. Looking into North Indian classical tradition he found correspondences to modal and cyclic ideas that he was already working on. In 1971, as a way to learn more, Riley himself started teaching Indian music at Mills College, in Oakland. That experience fed directly into his solo keyboard performances, but other influences were also shaping the music heard on Persian Surgery Dervishes. Personal research into ancient Persian culture and the poetry of Rumi lit up his imagination, while the repetitive swirling of Sufi devotional music from North Africa, which Riley had first encountered in Europe during the early 60s, reverberates through these performances. Jazz, as conceived by such masters such as Bill Evans and John Coltrane, is also present as an enduring source of inspiration. 

The Californian version of Persian Surgery Dervishes starts with low dark tones, dense and brooding like a huddled human figure, deep in introspection. But as the improvisation unfolds Riley’s buoyant spirit asserts itself, spiralling out in ecstatic coils, as though liberated from the grip of body consciousness. The Parisian concert conveys a different mood, brighter and more open in texture, more relaxed from the outset and breathing with greater freedom as it takes flight. 

Echoes of Terry Riley’s inspired music have spread far and wide - into progressive rock, New Age and ambient soundings, film soundtracks, blissed-out electronica and dance-floor trance. His fluent and hypnotic keyboard playing can be heard as part of a continuum, transmitting energies from ancient and distant musical sources into the living here and now. Persian Surgery Dervishes is a significant part of that picture, a mesmerising record of a vital stage in Riley’s ongoing quest for connection with the universal mind and the sublime music that flows ceaselessly from it. 

“Music is my spiritual path. It’s my way of finding out who I am.”  Terry Riley, in 1976

Terry Riley - Persian Surgery Dervishes - Performance 02 Part 1

PRE-ORDER: patrickcowley.bandcamp.com/album/afternooners

Dark Entries and Honey Soundsystem Records have teamed up once more to release the final volume of gay porn soundtracks by San Francisco-based musician and producer, Patrick Cowley. One of the most revolutionary and influential figures in the canon of disco, Cowley created his own brand of Hi-NRG dance music, “The San Francisco Sound.” Born in Buffalo, NY on October 19, 1950, Patrick moved to San Francisco in 1971 to study at the City College of San Francisco. He founded the Electronic Music Lab at the school, where he would make experimental soundtracks by blending various types of music and adapting them to the synthesizer.

By the mid-70’s, Patrick’s synthesis techniques landed him a job composing and producing songs for disco superstar Sylvester, including hits like “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)”, “Dance Disco Heat” and “Stars.” This helped Patrick obtain more work as a remixer and producer. His 18-minute long remix of Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” and his production work with edgy New Wave band Indoor Life were both of particular note. By 1981, Patrick had released a string of dance 12″ singles, like “Menergy” and “Megatron Man”. He also had founded Megatone Records, the label upon which he released his debut album, “Menergy”. Around this time Patrick was hospitalized and diagnosed with an unknown illness: that which would later be called AIDS. Throughout 1982, he recorded two more Hi-NRG hits, “Do You Wanna Funk” for Sylvester, and “Right On Target” for Paul Parker, as well as a second solo album “Mind Warp”. On November 12, 1982, he passed away.

In 1979 Patrick was contacted by John Coletti, owner of famed gay porn company Fox Studio in Los Angeles. Patrick jumped on this offer and sent reels of his college compositions from the 70s to John in LA. Coletti then used a variable speed oscillator to adjust the pitch and speed of Patrick’s songs in-sync with the film scenes. The result was the VHS collections “Muscle Up” and “School Daze” released in 1979 and 1980. “Afternooners” is the third collection of Cowley’s instrumental songs, recorded in between 1979 and 1982. Some of these recordings are demos from the album "Mind Warp".  All songs were originally untitled, so we’ve used the titles from Fox Studio’s 8mm film loops. This compilation also includes three bonus tracks found in the archives of fellow Megatone Records recording artist Paul Parker and the attic of teenage friend Lily Bartels. Influenced by Tomita, Wendy Carlos, and Giorgio Moroder, Patrick crafted a singular sound from his collection of synthesizers, percussion, modified guitars, and hand-built equipment. The listener enters a world of forbidden vices, evocative of Patrick’s time spent in the bathhouses of San Francisco. The songs on “Afternooners” reflect the advances of the equipment available at the onset of the 1980s. Cowley's unadulterated electronic forms are stripped down and dubbed up. Lush electronic percussion, soaring synthesizer riffs and low slung funk grooves comingle on these magnificent soundscapes.

Featuring 70 minutes of music never before released on vinyl. All songs have been remastered by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, CA. The vinyl is housed in a gatefold jacket designed by Berlin-based artist Gwenael Rattke, featuring black and white photos of Patrick in his studio that opens to a full color array of x-rated scenes from the Fox Studio vaults. Included is a fold-out poster featuring a handmade collage using photography and xeroxed graphics of classic gay porn imagery and an essay from Drew Daniel of Matmos. For Patrick’s 67th birthday, Dark Entries and Honey Soundsystem Records present a glimpse into the futuristic world of a young genius. These recordings shed a new light on the experimental side of a disco legend who was taken too soon.

Afternooners

Patrick Cowley - Hot Beach

Taken from the 12" E.P., 'The Flood'. Out on Peripheral Minimal Records November 7th 2017.

Buy here;

http://www.peripheralminimal.co.uk
https://peripheralminimal.bandcamp.com

Mitra Mitra "The Flood"

Exclusive mix by Dj Marcelo Mellao aka Dj Dark Side. From lmtd promo compilation "This Is The Dark Side Mixes Volume 12" (2010).

Logo - Businessmen (Dark Side Extended Remix)

Available to pre-order exclusively via:
http://igg.me/at/electronicvoyager

V/A - Electronic Voyages - Early Moog Recordings 1964-1969
2019 Waveshaper Media (WSM-03 vinyl LP)

A1 - Robert Arthur Moog - The Abominatron (1964)
A2 - Herbert Deutsch - Jazz Images, A Worksong and Blues (1967)
A3 - Joel Chadabe - Blues Mix (1966)
B1 - Lothar and the Hand People - Milkweed Love (1968)
B2 - Intersystems - Changing Colours (1968)
B3 - Ruth White - The Clock (1969)
B4 - Max Brand - Triptych (1968)
B5 - Paul Earls - Monday Music (1968)

In support of their forthcoming Bob Moog documentary Electronic Voyager, Waveshaper Media have produced a compilation LP of Moog recordings from the 1960s. The first compilation of its kind, Electronic Voyages: Early Moog recordings 1964-1969 contains tracks by Robert Arthur Moog, Herbert Deutsch, Joel Chadabe, Lothar and the Hand People, Intersystems, Ruth White, Max Brand, and Paul Earls. All of these tracks, released here on vinyl in an edition of 1000 copies, have been scarcely heard and difficult to track down, with all but three of them previously unreleased on vinyl.

Bypassing the Moog synthesizer’s backseat appearance on key pop recordings by the likes of the Beatles, the Doors, and the Beach Boys, Electronic Voyages aims to highlight the diverse approach of 1960s musicians and composers who adopted the Moog as their primary instrument; these recordings all feature the Moog synthesizer front and centre. Beginning with an “audio letter” (The Abominatron) from Bob Moog to his musician-muse Herbert Deutsch, demonstrating some of the first Moog synthesizer prototype’s capabilities, Electronic Voyages veers from avant-garde and electronic soundscapes, to psychedelic madness and summer-of-love pop. In the 1960s, the Moog synthesizer was a new, groundbreaking instrument, and its use was completely uncharted territory. The pioneering use of the Moog on all of these recordings sounds fresh today - you can sense the wide-eyed exploratory delight unfolding, and the disparate results range from endearingly naive (Lothar and the Hand People, Paul Earls) to downright eerie (Ruth White, Intersystems). 

The musicians and composers behind these Electronic Voyages may have been among the first to adopt Moog synthesizers, but the fact that they so readily found within them expressivity, heart, and a means to translate their wondrous sense of discovery, speaks far more to Bob Moog’s visionary invention and enduring legacy.

Electronic Voyages: Early Moog recordings 1964-1969 is being offered for pre-order via Indiegogo. Now in the final stages of post-production, Electronic Voyager is raising finishing funds in a campaign set to launch on April 29, and will include the limited-to-300-copies white vinyl edition, sure to sell out in pre-order:
http://igg.me/at/electronicvoyager

Joel Chadabe - Blues Mix

Stereo Total - Everybody In The Discotheque (I Hate) (Echokrank Version)

Metropolis - A Machine of Desire (SEQ007)

Tracklist:
A. A Machine of Desire
AA. The Flood

Nick Lapien's debut release as Metropolis garnered little attention when it materialized last year. A skeptical yet dedicated network of underground heads built up a subterranean buzz that has yet to spread into the daylight. That initial transmission was thick with the raw analogue flavors that have become ever-present in dance floor fare recently—but his is a sound that is dedicated to the emotive, narrative aspects of electronic music rather than simple fetishization or passing curiosity in the days of yore.

This, his second release as Metropolis, shows a more focused and patient hand at work. The titular track on the A side is a deep, psychedelic groover. Melodies, textures and sequences undulate and intertwine within a lightless atmosphere guided by Lapien with optimum restraint. Equally pensive and gorgeous, "The Flood" serves as a Machine's beat-less foil on the reverse. Made up of little more than feedback and two slow, echo laden arpeggiated sequences, this is reminiscent of Jean Michel Jarre's more sinister moments: a brilliant paradox of economy and indulgence. Expect to hear more from Lapien here at Sequencias. He has many more dark corners left unexplored.


A. Metropolis - A Machine of Desire (SEQ007)

AA. Metropolis - The Flood (SEQ007)

Shortcuts of my upcoming record as #.4.26 on Frozen Border. Enjoy!
http://readymade.bigcartel.com/product/4-26-fb013

#.4.26 -  Frozen Border 13

No demos

🗓️ Mannequin Records showcases
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