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Eclectic Electronic Soundscapes -
It's 2023 and I'm taking stock this year and seeing how far I've come on my sonic journey, especially as it's my 10th Anniversary year.
To make sure that I'm giving space for as many artists as possible and to try and discover new one's, Feminatronic will be focussing on Artists alphabetically throughout the year on all platforms.
Here is an updated playlist for the letter B(pt1)…
As with all the playlists, they are jumping off points to discoveries. Just let some of the tracks play onto the next....follow up on "sounds like"....see who's following, many artists follow other artists....
Artists are Louis and Bebe Barron, BLEIE, Blankets,Natasha Barrett, Beast Nest,Loise Bulot,Sandra Lanuza Badarji,Anna Bo, Tullia Benedicta, brthln glnds, Georgina Brett, Bad@Maths, Louis and Bebe Barron, Sarah Boothroyd,Bohemian Cristal Instrument, Myriam Bleau, Zoe Blade, Ka Baird, Cecile Babiole, Sophie Birch, Rose Bolton, blechdom, BAASSIK, Rachel Boyd, Lea Bertucci, Noemi Buchi, Washett Bader, Patricia Bizzotto, Nguyen Baly, beeks, Ami-Bique, Martina Bertoni and BLACK QUANTUM FUTURISM.

Feminatronic #97 - Artist Alphabet...B is for (pt1)

Taken from Digital Lovers (GEN045). Pre-order now. 
Out in full on Genot Centre on May 9, 2021 on tape & digital.

Produced by https://soundcloud.com/eilieneilien
Coproduced by https://soundcloud.com/susiovet
Mastered by https://soundcloud.com/fausto_mercier
Artwork by Lenka Glisníková
Typography & tape design layout by Matej Vojtuš
Limited edition of 99 C38 tapes with on-body printing pro-dubbed by Headless Duplicated Tapes

"Digital Lovers is a 10-track trip through glowing ambience, mesmerising dream pop, musique concrète and deconstructed trance." (https://soundcloud.com/djmag) 

"Eilien weaves a web of entrancing harmonies and deep frequencies, along with the angelic musicality of their voice, aligning the album somewhere on a 5th-dimension parallel with early electronic pioneers, with smatterings of folk songwriting influence dotted into the futuristic ambient production." (https://soundcloud.com/inverted-audio) 

"It feels intimately connected to that imagined space [Cyberpunk Pioneer Bruce] Sterling described, an attempt to chart the network’s emotional coordinates and possibilities." (https://soundcloud.com/thequietus) 

DIGITAL LOVERS (GEN045) by https://soundcloud.com/eilieneilien is a captivating and perplexing articulation, dreamlike and intimate throughout yet uncompromising and enveloping in its realization. Entranced voices appear doubled, shifted, they take on a shimmering, cool quality. Through careful sparse arrangements, living, breathing, discrete music environments result, constructed using ruminating trance plucks; huge drifting synth washes and gliding, metallic pads. Incidental concrète material, crisp bass pulses and uncanny sound objects remind the listener of the digital root and conception of this music, in which stripped down computer music traces come to life as an animated whole. 

// Ellen Virman/https://soundcloud.com/eilieneilien (they/them) about the album
"Emotional audio synthesis ~ SuperCollider pop music ~ Digital daydreaming. 
The music on Digital Lovers is a special mixture of self-coded synthetic sounds and timeless pop-music. It refers to existing genres and phenomena, but defies any specific category creating a strong style of its own. 
My main sound producing tool is SuperCollider, a text-based audio coding platform. I’ve coded my own sounds, instruments and structures with the means of audio synthesis, sample manipulation and input signal modification. The thematic sphere floats between digital and organic. Synthetic walls of sound are mirrored to the mediations of the “natural” world, in the shape of field recordings, acoustic instruments and my voice. Love is searching it’s place in this spectre of digital and organic reality: excitement of future love, grief over fading love, love’s force for creation and transformative power of love.”

Digital Lovers

Buy // tape & digital

Eilien - Us (GEN045)

Decada

Account

The six tracks that constitute Hypnagogia have been written during 2021 and partially inspired by the reading of Stanislaw Lem’s book Solaris. The title refers to a transitional state of consciousness from wakefulness to sleep, during which one might experience sensorial hallucinations and lucid dreaming, and can tap into the pristine structures of the subconscious.
Hypnagogia portraits an imaginary cosmic journey of the Self that crash ends into a blinding sun.

credits:
all music composed and produced by Martina Bertoni
mixed by Boris Wilsdorf at andereBaustelle Tonstudio, Berlin
mastered & cut by Ruy Mariné at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin

Martina Bertoni: cello, electronics, voice

cover painting by Ted Berglund (all rights reserved)
artwork by kaidoh

karlrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hypnagogia
karlrecords.net

Hypnagogia

From E To W

To be released on Genot Centre on March 19 (tape & digital).
Pre-order now → https://genot.bandcamp.com/album/misinput-tycoon

On Misinput Tycoon (GEN052), https://soundcloud.com/fausto_mercier returns to Genot Centre with an album full of intricately engineered, futuristic sound explorations. Quirky, syncopated, even grimy melodies emerge between sounds reminiscent of cinematic automatic sliding doors, plasma-filled light cannons and full-spectrum boot-up sounds. The approach is bio-mimetic, elastic, fizzy, accelerating and decelerating, like listening to a process of wringing out an artificial fabric, or rupturing ultra-light fibrous materials in incredible resolution. More than ever, this album is littered with colorful, even contemplative segments: having an orchestrated, playful feeling. But make no mistake: more than mere intermezzos, this only a further dimension of the album's depth, the bright timbres ready to interface with a stroboscopic, liquid, granular counterpoint at any time.

// Roland Nagy (https://soundcloud.com/fausto_mercier) about GEN052
“I’m constantly watching pixels since I was 5. This album reflects wasted time and digital traumas. MISINPUT TYCOON is a sequel of my FULLSCREEN album from 2019 (also on Genot) - a sonic playground that feels much safer to me compared to my previous works. Also, it's the first album I made without hearing „What would XY think about this track?” in my head. These are my hymns for healing from the digital core - hope it will help.”

// BIO
Roland Nagy (he/him) is a Hungarian sound engineer, ex-media arts student and producer. Ever since 2016 he has released music under https://soundcloud.com/fausto_mercier moniker on labels like on EXILES, Kaer‘Uiks, Pointless Geometry, Infinite Machine or Genot Centre. His work in the field of electronic music production, while resonating with hardcore digital culture and bouncy rhythmic heaviness, is closely connected to his fascination for natural soundscapes and their fractal nature. In particular, Nagy skillfully manages to depict a violent, tense world populated of minuscule yet grand sound variations, intertwined in a web of apparently chaotic textures. He was part of Shape Platform roster in 2020.

Misinput Tycoon

Pre-order album

Fausto Mercier - sleipnir​/​seeltouch (feat. Ludwig Wandinger) (GEN052)

~ music for your mischievous children ~ 

use your headphones !!! 

Lullabai

Lifetime Of Happiness

Improvisation collaboration with cellist Tanja Orning, from the CD DrOx.

http://users.notam02.no/~natashab/cd_audio_extracts/drox.html

Zinc Finger (2007). From the CD DrOx.

WITNESS LIVE excerpt (BLEIE & Roy Shade/All That's Gone)

Forbidden Planet - The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

The Landing

London's Alis (@alismusic) debuts on APR today with 'Papercuts', exploring groove and movement in granular detail

12" available at:
Bandcamp: tinyurl.com/y34nlfvg
Boomkat: tinyurl.com/y3og5w5s
Juno: tinyurl.com/y2y7cqq7
Norman: tinyurl.com/y5auhlp5

Alis has spent over a decade exploring the intricacies of performance-oriented club music, releasing on labels like Don’t Be Afraid and Planet Mu, and becoming a staple in the Berlin and London scenes. Set for release on March 15, Papercuts is her Astral Plane Recordings debut, comprised of five lush, intimate tracks that are both entirely removed from a dancefloor-context, yet deeply preoccupied with groove and movement.

Honed at her Sunday System nights at London’s Rye Wax, Alis’ interdisciplinary practice comes to the fore on Papercuts with vocals extending far beyond their linguistical potential into a broader, more textural realm. Songs like “Status” and “BCC: me” walk the line of sonority and dissonance, nearing the precipice of abstraction without falling into the abyss. “Papercuts” and “Water” on the other hand offer a more concise narrative vision, proffering a version of hookwriting that fluctuates between meditative and commanding.

Recorded across several continents, it's no surprise that Papercuts tends to enliven interstitial spaces and Alis' unique disposition makes the cerebral accessible. Papercuts is out on March 15 on APR and will be available as digital EP and full color cover 12”.

Alis - Rely (Could I) [APR119]

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Electroacoustic Works for Halldorophone out on Karlrecords on 21.02.2025

Live

2025
04.10 - Romaeuropa Festival*, Rome (IT) 
28.08 - Atonal, Berlin (D) w. Ziúr & Sandi / S. Persico
06.08 - Space Odissey*, Reykjavík (IS)
26.04 - Listening Session*, After, Berlin
19.03 -  Morphine Raum, Berlin (D) w. Abul Mogard & Rafael Anton Irisarri

2024
22.09  Open Source Art Festival, Sopot (PL)
19.09  Horizons Refrain, Berlin (D)
28.07  Kiezsalon, Berlin 
26.04  West Germany, Berlin *

2023
02.12  Km28, Berlin (D)
14.10  Palazzo Grassi/Collection Pinault, Venice (IT)
01.08  SMS Film Festival, Uhreske H. (CZ)
04.05  Galilääkirche, Berlin  
31.03  Silent Green/Betonhalle, Berlin 
15.01  Arkaoda, Berlin

* Electroacoustic Works

https://linktr.ee/martinabertoni