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WL//WH - MARCH 2019 // Electronic - Techno - Industrial - EBM - Ambient

WL//WH - MARCH 2019 // Electronic - Techno - Industrial - EBM - Ambient

Spring Daze '86 (March - May 2019)

Memories

COPYRIGHT 'VOICES' KORT REMIX

A free track to celebrate Youth and Life. 

Sample: Endless Love 

 Spotify Album: https://open.spotify.com/album/6STwjBCu3CTEViSxJChKlV
 Apple Music: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/eternal-youth/id1268684742﻿

Bandcamp: https://rudemn.bandcamp.com/track/eternal-youth




Artwork by "J. Friaça"

J. Friaça: http://imgur.com/a/wbJjN

Eternal Youth

The crew of The Odysseus will never see Earth again. Humans and Robots worked together to leave their scorched by Solar Storms homeworld. Now it is just them in space with hope of finding a new home among the stars.

Homesick

New single from the album "Ariadna" out Sept. 8th. Pre-order it on limited edition vinyl (comes with bonus 12"), CD (comes with January Sun EP) and cassette. 

Moscow's Kedr Livanskiy (real name Yana Kedrina) confesses "Synthesizers help me maximally feel the present moment." Livanskiy was born into a shifting and critical time for Russia.  The Soviet Union had exhausted and old values were anathematized because of reconstruction.  A sense of displacement drove Kedr to find herself.  She's escaped reality repeatedly in her explorations into the imagery and ideas of romanticism, mythical and fairytale themes which visibly bleed throughout her work and especially on her debut full-length 'Ariadna'.  The title track which was named after the Greek goddess, Adriane, debuted via THUMP today who've described it "anchors its elegantly drifting shoegaze melodies with a knocking electro beat."

Kedr considers this album to be divided into a couple of different parts - like how one person can contain many different moods. The first half revolves around mythological thoughts and the second takes cues from the urban and suburban environments around her, all the while in the middle of everything is the hero who experiences real feelings and emotions. 

Kedr also channels the places in her neighborhood on the outskirts of Moscow (affectionately dubbed by her as "BORDER MOSCOW"). There's a river there where identical Soviet high-rises stand on both sides, with a bridge and garbage processing plant adjacent. Where nature and industry meet. The whole scene looks very apocalyptic, but also mystical and mysterious, especially at twilight.

Her inspiration for this record comes from the Izhevsk (sometimes referred to as "the capital of Russian electronic music") sound of the 80s, including groups like Stuk Bambuka V XI Chasov (Bamboo Crash at 11AM) and Samtsy Dronta. The movement in Russian experimental music is especially inspiring, with acts likes Valery Chkalov, Sergey Kuryokhin and Pop Mechanica; in general, the late-Soviet period was very inspiring with all its figures in music, cinema, their energy and their approach towards life and art.

'Ariadna' marks a change in her recording approach: her critically acclaimed breakthrough EP 'January Sun' was written and recorded completely in Ableton, while 'Ariadna' was written using the Roland SH-101, Roland Juno 106 and Korg Minilogue synthesizers, then mixed down in Ableton. According to Kedr, "This way, one gets into a flow of live interaction, here and now, with the instrument." 

To her, this interaction is more "raw and sacred" than actually mixing the track down, which seems like "mere formalism" in comparison. There is a definite leap in production values this time around, but Kedr manages to keep true to her sound despite the greater polish and depth. 

Kedr Livanskiy Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/kedr_livanskiy
Kedr Livanskiy YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeQ-sEipCI_MiMYrR-4iopA
Kedr Livanskiy Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kedr_livanskiy/
Kedr Livanskiy Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Kedr-livanskiy-1006510909393113/

Ariadna

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Kedr Livanskiy - Ariadna  [2MR-029]

From the album The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs, out April 6, 2018 on Merge Records.

The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs

Wye Oak "The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs"

Support this album on Bandcamp: https://synthwavecafe.bandcamp.com/album/nightdrive

For more awesome synthwave, check out https://soundcloud.com/synthwavecafe
https://synthwavecafe.bandcamp.com

Lost Highway

High Ground

Encounters is available to purchase from
https://nostoppingepoch.bandcamp.com/album/encounters

See you in the void, Newtypes.

Learn about Encounters in Epoch's own words
www.retropromenade.com/2019/02/05/epoch-encounters/

Follow Epoch
soundcloud.com/nostoppingepoch
twitter.com/nostoppingepoch

Music written, performed and recorded by Barry Topping

Special Thanks
Retro Promenade; Calzo Houdini; Kyle Murray-Dickson; Thomas Temple; Drew Millar; Jamie MacKinnon; Owen O'Donnell; Ria Jenkins;
Chopemon; Jim Purvis; Zack Frost; Mike Mendoza; Rick Shithouse; David Smith, & Texas Tom

Barry Topping ⋆ Keys, guitars, drums, programming
Kyle Murray-Dickson ⋆ Keys
Drew Millar ⋆ Keys
Thomas Temple ⋆ Lead Guitar
Calzo ⋆ Lead Guitar
Jamie MacKinnon ⋆ Lead Guitar

Owen O'Donnell ⋆ Artwork

© Barry Topping 2020

Full Burn

Spotify  https://open.spotify.com/intl-fr/artist/5Sve9lhcAp2vfXXt46rMdZ

GUNSHIP - The Drone Racing League (HUBRID Remix)

Now on Spotify!: https://open.spotify.com/album/6OFoFSsQX1oW9HcWIxARwZ?si=fnMjyMX1QH6saL4y0Gh8NA
High quality download: http://chrisgrady.bandcamp.com/track/dangerous-trade

Dangerous Trade

@poor-relatives

"Don't Feed The Animals (Hiding In Your Room)" is the first single from Khidja's forthcoming EP on DFA, In The Middle Of The Night, out on vinyl, digital, and streaming April 19, 2019.

Preorder here: http://smarturl.it/khidja

Khidja - Don't Feed The Animals (Hiding In Your Room)

premiere of "Social Anthem (@JANEIN Welcome To Hell 666 Remix)" by @verschwender
taken from the EP "Face Of Silence", released soon on @seelen-records

EP Details:
https://novafuture.blog/2019/02/22/verschwender-face-of-silence-ep-seelen-records/

Info & Buy

Verschwender - Social Anthem (JANEIN Welcome To Hell 666 Remix) [SEELEN004 | B2 | Premiere]

'Colonne' is a sonic investigation of the clanging properties of a peculiar metallic pillar-like object found at the shores of the Baltic Sea.

Released on https://soundcloud.com/larmes

Ōtone - Colonne [LARM012]

A favourite Lowfish remix - this is my remix of Alpha Aesar's "Synthetic Sun" from their 2008 self-titled release.

Most of the drum sounds are from the Boss DR-110,  the lead is from the Roland Jupiter-6, other sounds are from NI FM7 and the bassline is from my beloved Dave Smith Evolver.

More info here: https://www.discogs.com/Alpha-Aesar-Alpha-Aesar/release/1427670

Alpha Aesar

Alpha Aesar "Synthetic Sun" (Lowfish Nuclear Winter Remix)

The Thunder God

Buy / Download

Recurring Dreams

Still Phasing

Label co-owner and mixing engineer Jarkko Ripsomaa aka Sandman is ready to unleash his 3 track debut EP - a powerful mixture of 90's melodic Dance and nostalgic Outrun. Opening track Lullaby features enchanting vocals by Saga.

Surface Tension

Holon