This month in collaboration with Amsterdam-based label https://soundcloud.com/artificialdance, guided by DJ and producer https://soundcloud.com/interstellarfunk, we bring you a limited edition Tee accompanied by an exclusive mix for The EDWIN music channel, which unites cool-headed contemporary electronics with soft pushing synth waves, bipolar electro and ambient fourth-world atmospheres.

For full tracklisting and interview visit https://edwin-europe.com

To buy the T-Shirt go to https://artificialdance.bandcamp.com/merch/artificial-dance-x-edwin-long-sleeve

№ 99 - Interstellar Funk

Vid Li, d. 21:e December 2017 e.v.

Since forming in 2006 post-punk experimentalists Sebastian Melmoth have been on a thoughtful and adventurous musical journey. In a constant state of aural evolution, the London-based four-piece has a delivered a string of albums and EPs that variously touch on everything from garage-rock, grunge and lo-fi pop, to electro, new wave, dark ambient and music concrete, all the while drawing on a myriad of literary and artistic influences.

The band’s first release for Artificial Dance digs deep into their admirable and eye-opening catalogue and draws together some of the Amsterdam-based label’s favourites from the more electronic end of the band’s output. Entitled “The Dynamics of Vanity” – a comment on Western culture’s obsession with rehashing the past and the band’s own in-built distrust of artistic naval-gazing – the set is not a ‘best of’ retrospective but rather a ‘sort of’ selection of stylistically interconnected cuts that gives a very specific snapshot of the band’s work.

Check for example “Icarus”, a drowsy, hypnotic and sample-laden soundscape that effortlessly joins the dots between post-rock, pitched-down electronica and early morning ambient, or the slowly unfurling throb of thought-provoking opener “The Engineering of Consent”, a swelling, melancholic post-jazz meditation on propaganda and governmental mind control featuring spoken word samples from William S Burroughs in conversation with Brion Gysin, Timothy Leary, Les Levine and Robert Anton Wilson.

The showcased songs are typically hard-to-pin-down, too, with the re-imagined gothic horror break-up cut “Prosopagnosia’ and slow-burn audio addition of “Waiting For Godot” being joined by the wide-eyed morning dream-pop hallucinations of “Seeds (Descent Into Decadence)”. It all adds up to a collection that expertly showcases one engaging thread – of many – running through Sebastian Melmoth’s esoteric body of work.

Icarus

Trenton Chase - Planar Array
Artificial Dance 2020
AD009

Following his debut LP in June 2017, Trenton Chase returns with “Planar Array”, a 7 track LP on Artificial Dance. As half of Manie Sans Délire and the co-owner of June records, he’s known for his uncompromising sound that touches a wide range of genres. The release is heavy-hitting with distorted vocals, industrial textures and dagger-like synths, a satisfying array of wave, EBM and experimental music. From Transit Decay with the clunky bassline and depth at its core to the aggressive electronics in Narked. From the title track, Planar Array’s melodic high synths to the dreamy contracting offbeat of Doppler Shift. Trenton Chase brings the smoke out of the machine, progressively getting harder, faster and more destructive.

https://artificialdance.bandcamp.com/album/trenton-chase-planar-array-ad009

Trenton Chase - Planar Array (AD009)

PEKING SPRING ON NTS 27/10/2019

Artist: Sacred Lodge @coldgeist
EP Name: Hijos Del Sol
Track:  Invadir 
Label: OKVLT @dotdata
Date of release: November 26, 2019
Pre-order: https://okvlt.bandcamp.com/album/okvlt006-hijos-del-sol

OKVLT’s aficionados Sacred Lodge returns to the label with a 8-tracks tape ‘Hijos Del Sol’. A debut-album gathering tribal bangers and more introspective sonic rituals where polyrythmic percussions meets spanish incantations and shrieks. Well known for is project Coldgeist, Matthieu Ruben tries with his new moniker to conjure his sound design skills with more harsh and percussive techniques.

Premiere #74 Sacred Lodge - Invadir [OKVLT006]

Handpicked (1/11/20)

Sebastian Melmoth (2006-2020) was an experimental post-punk band from London.