Strange But Dance Music LIVE

Lord Jalapeños is back on the air with his sophisticated live-session, recorded especially for our podcast. As usual, we asked him a few questions.

1. Which artists has influenced you the most?

My drum teacher (and partner in crime when we used to play percussion together in his band), but also each musicians in my latest black metal/hardcore band - especially on the atmosphere side of a music - were artists that’ve teached me music but obviously shaped my taste. If we dive into Electro, I must talk about Dopplereffekt! Listening to this genre for the first time with their album "Gesamtkunstwerk" felt like a big slap in the face. The second slap came with François Dillinger’s album "Chasing The Red" : his vision of music and composing is unique, which only can leads to admiration and inspiration.

2. What new projects/releases with your participation are expected in the near future?

Mainly collabs! We’ve already began to work on ideas with François Dillinger, Obzerv and Cybereign. But the collab family is never big enough, so names like Bohll, Jensen Interceptor, Petr Drokov might also join the party as well :). Speaking about releases, I’m more than thrilled to announce that my first vinyl LP, "Loser Machine », will be released this summer on Science Cult. Also, you’ll see some Leopard appearing on International Chrome later this year. So yeah, I feel like a kid. I’ll give you more infos soon.

3. Which artists/labels is more relevant to you now?

Brokntoys, LDI Records, Micron Audio (please release more stuffs), Trust, Science Cult, are definitely labels to follow : they all share the envy of stretching the Electro sounds boundaries. But also, in a completely different style, Vastes Choses is a label to follow. They’ve this recognizable old and gritty tape type of sounds, heavily distorted, with a lot of rhythmic section inspired by Electro and Techno. About artists, the female Electro scene is coming up hard, rapidly growing up strong names : between Ekata, Imogen, Ivna J, Liza Aikin, Nastia Y, these artists needs full attention. But don’t forget to also keep your attention on DJ Stingray, Issu, My Boyfriend, R325, Tadan. Just to name a few.

4. What inspires you now to create music?

I enjoy more and more recording random stuffs with my phone (like the cheap version of field recording) : I’ve got sounds like the ring of a doorbell, the subway noise, a bunch of people talking, and I like to reshape them into something that will eventually leads me to a rhythm or a melodic part, and so on. What inspires me the most tho is how I feel at the moment (might sounds cheesy, sorry). Whether I’m feeling good or bad, it always feels natural to express myself through music. Even if it can takes from 1 up to 9 hours, I’ll simply stand behind my machines, turning knobs and pressing keys, until I’ve finished the track. It really has a catharsis effect on me.

Follow:
@lordjalapenos

Strange But Dance Music LIVE #05: Lord Jalapeños

Based in Buenos Aires, Cimarrón is a producer and sound artist who creates hyper-contemporary, genre-fluid compositions that blur the boundaries between experimental club music and Latin rhythms.
This live performance contains both unreleased work and tracks from his debut EP.

1. Which artists has influenced you the most?

I´m pretty sure my biggest influences are Arca and SOPHIE. I´m always at awe of the way they take their design and aesthetics to the extreme, they´ve taught me much about being an artist.

2. What new projects/releases with your participation are expected in the near future?

I´ve been producing quite a few pop tunes for a collaboration with an artist named TERRA, which should all come out in the second half of the year. Also, I´ve got some unreleased tracks I want to put out and I´m working on a second EP.

3. Which artists/labels is more relevant to you now?

Probably Arca as well, and also all the musicians working with the PC Music collective. As well as a few labels from Buenos Aires; Nodo, Trrueno, Agva, to name a few.

4. What inspires you now to create music?

It´s really hard to tell. I think it may be just the amount of fun I have with myself while doing so.

5. If it's not a secret, what set-up do you use when creating music?

It´s not a secret at all, I´ve owned quite a few hardware synths in the past but lately I find myself using only Ableton Live and an Elektron Digitakt to compose and perform music.

Follow:
@cimarron-se-fue

Strange But Dance Music LIVE #06: Cimarrón

LDWG is Barry White plays Muslimgauze while drinking an ice cold drink during a perfect storm. Is God with the Club C and the white socks. Or at least a man behind a lot of machines.

1. Which artists has influenced you the most?

- I don't have an artist in particular, I like several form of music and what I try to do is to put together in some new forms. I started liking the approach of punk music but I really enjoy many others genres from hip hop / grime to ebm /industrial, and every one is a part of my personal grown. In particular i would like also to mention the  the NEW DANCE SHOW as a container of groove and inspiration for my background ( it was a 90's tv transmission with all the best electro, dance and ebm stuff). I really like the way all different genre were merged during every episod into one big killer selection

2. What new projects/releases with your participation are expected in the near future?

- I'm really scared to reveal what's is in my future, as every once I've tell my plan I loose the chance to did it. So I prefer to not talk about. I'll constantly make music, and if someone like it he can take it and release it.

3. Which artists/labels is more relevant to you now?

- I like Maenad Veyl and veil label, Beau Wanzer, Filmmmaker, Amnesia scanner, Dj Overdose, UMWELT, and others that sure i'm forget to mention at the moment..

4. What inspires you now to create music?

- The shit that happens around and the silence that i like to listen sometimes

5. If it's not a secret, what set-up do you use when creating music?

- It is not a secret as i always put some live video rec on my youtube and instagram page. I really enjoy to have not a predefinite set-up, I used some gear for several years and other for some months, then change them and try different workaround really often . As a play only live rec jam, this kind of exploration makes creativity and production more funny and costantly up my interest in doing music. At the moment i use a lxr02, a pulsar 23, typhon, mfbsynth 2, tr606, liepzig analog solution and many other machine with a massive combo of distortion pedals.

Follow:
@ldwg-2

Strange But Dance Music LIVE #07: LDWG

An electronic music producer from Portland, OR. FLX, also known as Shane Teal, is a recording artist who has released music on labels such as Mindcolormusic, Evel Records, Gablonkers, and his own label on Bandcamp. His first released music in 2016, and has had consistent output in the styles of braindance, breakbeat, ambient, and electro. He hopes you enjoy this mix of all original music.

1. Which artists has influenced you the most?

- I was a massive fan of Rephlex and everything they put out. I really love the new wave of artists that came about right before they closed; Wisp, Jodey Kendrick, and EOD. And obviously I’m a huge Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, and BOC fan. I am also a movie buff, so I get inspired by older sci-fi and horror films i.e. John Carpenter + Alan Howarth.

2. What new projects/releases with your participation are expected in the near future?

- Currently, I am working on an EP for Evel Records, it should be a split with someone I won’t name at the moment. Also, another split with a producer I really admire. I am always working on releasing EPs/Albums on my own bandcamp and try do at least one a year. Oh, I also have a track coming out on a netlabel I run with a few other amazing producers. It’s called Gablonkers. This will be a compilation album. No idea when any of these will come out tho…

3. Which artists/labels is more relevant to you now?

- I always stick with the classics and never bore of my favorite records, but for more recent stuffs; Analogical Force, Love Love Records, WEME, and CPU to name a few. Bandcamp is amazing for finding obscure and not so obscure musicians that make incredible music, I dig through that a lot and find tons of great music. One recent album I like that comes to mind is Profane Architecture by Head Technician.

4. What inspires you now to create music?

- I just like the way I feel when I make music. I like challenging myself to learn and be creative. I think music is the best way to do that.

5. What set-up do you use when creating music?

- I have a small studio in the basement of my house. I mostly work in the box and use Ableton as my main DAW, but use a variety of other software like Renoise and Reaktor. I like to incorporate hardware as much as possible tho. I use the Minilogue XD all the time, Digitone, and a Sequential Take 5, among others. I use anything and everything, software or hardware.

Tracklist: 
Within 
Sidereal 
Triudan 
Seq shift 
Axsen [102318 Mix] 
Assimilate 
Collision 
GR77 (unreleased) 
Vector 2 
SH_Feziomdad 
Po>< Acid 
rod/\n_fulbrek mix 
Mig SE-2X 
Ce4-FM 
SQ8()ENRG [acid attack mix] 
Chaos Kiddies 

Follow:
Soundcloud: @flux-tracks

Strange But Dance Music LIVE #08: FLX

Franck Collin, aka Fleck E.S.C, is an Electro artist originally from France currently living in the buzzing metropolis of Tokyo, Japan.
Franck’s earlier experience playing bass and drums in bands, and his love of horror, science fiction and B-movies, naturally drove him to the Electro music scene.

Additionally, Fleck E.S.C has influences rooted in New Wave, Contemporary, Techno and Ambient music.

Fleck E.S.C tries to avoid the cliches of the Electro genre, leaning more toward the spooky side of horror and sci-fi and the cheap retro sounds in tribute of the movies he loves.

Never too serious, unpretentious, and always striving for fresh sounds, Fleck E.S.C’s music aims to distract the body and the brain.

Franck Collin has also worked in movie productions as a camera assistant .
He has also created music for Lipton Cafe Shibuya in Tokyo, theatre performances in Berlin, Germany and the soundtrack for the film,”Astroboy in Robotland”, by renowned director of “Delicatessen” and “The Lost Children”, Marc Caro.

He has also performed as Fleck E.S.C in a number of venues in Europe and Japan.

1. Which artists has influenced you the most?

- A lot of artists has influenced me over the years. For the ambient side of me are Brian Eno, The Orb and many movie soundtracks. Then I really got into Electro through a label called Electrolux where I discovered Anthony Rother, Kraftwerk Dr Scissors to name a few. But now, I realize that I am not very into the most purest form of electro cause I find it a bit always the same sound wise and composition wise. I realize then that Richard.D James is my ultimate master in terms of melodies, textures and innovation. Like Vibert is another guy I love just because he understands the vast possibilities of many electronic music genres. I really love all the Warp label artists from the 90s as well. 
 
2. What new projects/releases with your participation are expected in the near future?

- Few next releases planned for next year are so far an LP with Diffuse Reality and an EP with Science Cult label. I am also finishing the mix for a 13 track album that isn’t dance music. It’s more electronica, IDM, ambient,. I haven’t contacted any label so far for this project. 
 
3. Which artists/labels is more relevant to you now?

- Back to question 1. I love the 90s Warp releases. But also I’m a big fan of DMX Krew and Dopplereffekt, Cylob and I’m rediscovering the Rephlex label. This label is everything I love about electronic music. It’s crazy, innovating, beautiful, bold, always surprising.  
 
4. What inspires you now to create music?

- I can be inspired by anything. My mood, the news, a software, a piece of gear, a sample, a sound, a movie, a painting, anything really. 
 
5. What set-up do you use when creating music?

- I’m a very basic guy when it comes to make music. I use both softwares and hardwares. Digital and analog, a guitar and a bass guitar as well from time to time. I just okay things, practice and record, then I arrange the tracks. I mainly work with audio. The rhythmic part is made with a Nord Drum, a Elektron Digitakt and Model Cycles and a Polyend Tracker. For the synth parts I use A Dave Smith Mopho keyboard, Arturia Micro brute, arturia Micro Freak, an ARP Odyssey, ARP 2600 ( TTSH), a Moog Mother 32, à Moog Matriarch, a Sequencial OB6, à Roland Juno Alpha 2, a Korg Minilogue xd and few effect pedals. In the box I work with Aleton Live, soundforge and ACID. Old school ;-)

Follow:
Soundcloud: @fleck
Bandcamp: https://fleckesc1.bandcamp.com/

Strange But Dance Music LIVE #09: Fleck E.S.C.

Poladroïd is a project that started in 2000. After a debut on International Deejay Gigolos he went his own way and created Roulette Rekordz, releasing artists like Scape One, MANASYt, The WeeDJs and a bunch of various compilations... He also toured Europe and played mostly in Belgium with  ADULT., Ectomorph, Anthony Rother, Dopplereffekt and a long list of local artists...

He then took a break to resurface in 2019, relaunching his label at the same time. He has since released on Diffuse Reality, Detriti and appeared on Applied Research, Science Cult and Patterned Media. 

Known for the fierceness of his live performances, Poladroïd delivers his unique blend of electro with a relentlessness that has been constant over the years. Constructed like a movie with its twists and turns, his sets are an immersive experience in a strange world where only one thing is sure; you're gonna get a beating.

1. Which artists has influenced you the most?

- Mick Harris, J.K. Broadrick, Arvo Part, Steve Reich, John Zorn, Miles Davis, Lalo Schifrin, Cerrone, So many people it would be impossible to list.
When I started doing electro, Drexciya and Dopplereffekt had the biggest influence on me. I also have to mention Ectomorph and AUX88, mostly the Detroit sound. 
Then I discovered the west coast electro/glitch/idm scene, and I have to say that Ben Milstein's music left a deep imprint in my brain. 
Another major memory is going to the DMZ parties in London, around 2004. Its at that point that I started to produce an hybridized type of music. If you listen to my 2007 liveset in Liege, it is the perfect illustration. 

2. What new projects/releases with your participation are expected in the near future?

- For Poladroïd there's 2 things in the pipeline at this moment. 
A 5 or 6 track EP  but I didnt got any news about it for a couple of months so Im not sure if its still on
A double vinyl album to be released somewhere in mid 2023.
I'm very bad at demarching labels and selling myself so I  kind of gave up sending demos but  if you own a label and are interested, dont hesitate to get in touch with me.

3. Which artists/labels is more relevant to you now?

- Artists: Hexalyne, Datacrashrobot, Trichome, Henry Hearse, Syl Kougaï,  SMPL SMPL, Syrte, ....
People who go their own way and have stories to tell.
Labels: Detriti, Dead Channel Records, Hyperdub, these are the first to come to mind but there's others.

4. What inspires you now to create music?

- My environment.

 5. What set-up do you use when creating music?

- I was an hardware-only guy until I got back into music 3 years ago.
Today its mostly software (Ableton) but I still use a couple of Strymon pedals (Big Sky & Timeline), a DSI Evolver, a Matrix1000  and a DFAM.

Follow:
Facebook : www.facebook.com/poladroid.rr
SoundCloud : @poladroid-rr

Follow Roulette Rekordz :
Bandcamp : www.rouletterekordz.bandcamp.com
Facebook : www.facebook.com/rouletterekordzzz
Instagram : www.instagram.com/rouletterekordz/
SoundCloud : @roulette-rekordz

Strange But Dance Music LIVE #10: Poladroïd

Today we introduce you to the Electro producer and live act OBZERV, based in the U.K. His music inspired by concepts from the realms of science fiction and through his subtle observation of life.

1. Which artists has influenced you the most?

- There is not one artist that has inspired me the most, different artists are constantly inspiring me in different ways. Two artists that come to mind straight away are Animistic Beliefs and The Outsert. These two artist have been inspiring me recently to create music that doesn’t specifically confine to any genre and takes inspiration from different genres and cultures to create something that is different.

2. What new projects/releases with your participation are expected in the near future?

- I have not been working very much on releasing music at the moment but you can expect to see some of my electro work on Cultivated Electronics and GunFinger Food in the coming year.

3. Which artists/labels is more relevant to you now?

- I really have no idea. I want to release some of my new music eventually but I am always asking myself which labels would be good for me to release on. For listening pleasure I have been listening to mostly friends music recently, labels such as Patchbay Records, Gunfinger Food feel relevant to me at the moment because I personally feel involved in their journey.

4. What inspires you now to create music?

- I mostly inspired by my friends to create music. I am constantly working with friends and in the midst of collaboration I feel that my most creative side comes out. I feel a lot more inspired when working with someone than when I am alone, I think this is because you have someone to bounce ideas back and fourth with and I feel a lot less judgmental about my work.

5. What set-up do you use when creating music?

- I have been gigging a bit recently so have been using my hardware to write music for my live sets. I am using a Digitakt, Digitone, SH01A, Micromonsta, a rat distortion pedal and a strymon deco tape saturation pedal. I will create ideas with this set up and try to make them into full tracks later on using ableton to record the sounds.

Follow:
Soundcloud: @obzerv

Strange But Dance Music LIVE #11: OBZERV

Today we listen to a live session recorded especially for our podcast by the producer and live performer. Lokom cut his teeth in Grenoble where he discovered the electronic underground scene in the 2000s. He quickly developed a passion for live and especially FM synthesis. An avid bass music with tangy trend, Lokom now works under the banner of experimentation analog-psyche-conductive.

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1. Which artists has influenced you the most?

 - I’m not sure it's a hard question the best would to ask them lol, realy i don't know, maybe the Warp label sound design, and maybe the Spiral tribe, it's techno music nothing about what I’m doing actualy but they had an artistic influence probalby.

2. What new projects/releases with your participation are expected in the near future?

 - The label that follow me the more is Abstrakt Reflections, they are planning a VA early 2023 and I’m blessed, I’ll colaborate with a track called "circle mind". I olso work on a IDM abstract hiphop electro EP with a friend from south of france (we don't have send this to any label for now but we will work on this this winter).

 3. Which artists/labels is more relevant to you now?
 
- Abstrackt Reflections, Concrete collage.

4. What set-up do you use when creating music?

 - Ableton as a DAW, access virus C for the synths part & elektron machinedrum for spacy weird drums.

Follow:
Soundcloud: @lokom
Bandcamp: https://lokom.bandcamp.com/

Strange But Dance Music LIVE #12: Lokom

Today we have Christopher Lombardo as our guest. He is a composer, sound designer, and art director from Ft Lauderdale, Florida.

Which artists has influenced you the most?

- A lot to unpack in this question. 3 artists come to mind. When I was 11 years old, I was awakened to music and its power by Slipknot, which eventually lead to a love of extreme metal (death, black, doom, etc - metal was my first true love and that still shows). It was a chance encounter with a dude a full grade older than me. He walks up to me in Spanish class and says "here you need this" ... and hands me the Iowa record. They say life boils down to a few moments. This was one of them.
When I was 15, NIN inspired me to take production more seriously and that music didn't need to revolve around guitars and be angry all the time. Emotion was okay, and the spectrum of emotion did more for the music than just adolescent rage.
Around the age of 19, my group of college friends began experimenting with psychedelics, and coincidentally was around the time I stumbled into the Warp records. I think these two factors took me away from song and rock music completely. Prior to that I was still very much cemented in a "song" mentality. Squarepusher rocked me to my core and had me reevaluating all of my musical experiences and understandings I held at that point. I remember it feeling like a dam of inspiration had just burst - I didn't have to make traditional dance music, but I didn't have to be in a traditional band either.

What new projects/releases with your participation are expected in the near future?

- A small remix EP of my last release "Cephalgian" will be wrapped up once the final tracks are complete. I'm very much looking forward to Mitoma and Daed's interpretations, but will also feature some new tracks. I am working on a follow up EP but that has no concrete details to announce.

Which artists/labels is more relevant to you now?

- These days I find myself listening mostly to stuff outside of electronic music. I'm heavily into soul, folk, funk during my work day, actually. I find myself just enjoying the music vs analyzing (which is what happens when I listen to electronica (or metal)). While I was in the last round of production for Cephalgian, I was exclusively listening to acoustic guitar based music because it was so far away from what I was doing. The simplicity of just 3 chords and a voice is just fascinating to me - it's something I could never do.
There is so much music being created these days, and it is available to us so readily, it is harder and harder for me to sit down and connect with it.
Some recent discoveries or heavily repeated listens are:
AI Lover, Justin Townes Earle, Tonto's Expanding Head Band, Dave Van Ronk, Zamilska, Portal, TENGGER, Objekt, Skee Mask, Ital Tek, Street Sects, Spectral Voice, Bongripper, Junior Kimbrough, Dr John and Dragged Into Sunlight.

What inspires you now to create music?

- In my younger days I think I would've tried to say something profound here.
As an old man with more perspective? I've had an instrument in hand since I was 8 years old and  I don't think I'd be the same person without the music. It's an escape, I think about it all day, every day, and am in love with all it brings to my life. The tinkering, the artistic demands of crafting a track, the nerdiness, the unending search for something that's just out of reach, that deep understanding with other musicians, the hours and hours of debate with my friends, the gear collection.... the obsession.  I could go on and on - simple fact is, I fucking love music. I want to be part of it and live it and breathe it... that's more profound than inspiration to me.

What set-up do you use when creating music?

- My setup is forever in flux...especially my live performance gear. Since 2008 I've been producing almost exclusively on the computer but recent years have seen some eurorack addiction.

@christopherlombardo
https://christopher-lombardo.bandcamp.com

Strange But Dance Music LIVE #13: Christopher Lombardo

Daniel Pringle, aka The Jaffa Kid, spent years producing music in the digital shadows. Now he is enjoying some well-earned vinyl attention, Passing Signals coming hot on the heals of releases for 030303, Cold Blow and Gated.

Traclkist:
The Jaffa Kid-CAAT
The Jaffa Kid-SH-7N
The Jaffa Kid-Straza
The Jaffa Kid-Unfulfilled
The Jaffa Kid-SH-Velo
The Jaffa Kid-SH-Xxiam
The Jaffa Kid-Chaz Lemon
The Jaffa Kid-Hardcore Rittim
The Jaffa Kid-Space And Time
The Jaffa Kid-Annex
The Jaffa Kid-Mortis
The Jaffa Kid-Izire Base
The Jaffa Kid-Electrone Night Clubs
The Jaffa Kid-Part Of Me Died In Selkirk
The Jaffa Kid-Octaxonogon

Which artist has influenced you the most?

- Too many to mention, I get loads of inspiration from a lot of people of different genres of music, be it electronic or rock/guitar music/classical. For electronic, I would ultimately say my biggest influence/inspiration would be Richard.D.James. He's just fearless and totally true to himself and his sound, immensely talented individual. His music has got me through so much in my life and I am eternally indebted. I think my music has alot of the spirit of what he's doing but hopefully it's not plagiarized or a ripoff, I think I've found my own sound over the years.

What new projects/releases with your participation are expected in the near future?

- I have a new album coming out late feb/march on Anil Lal's Altered Sense label, it's a double with alot of breakbeat and early 90s UK Hardcore spirit. There is also a split ep I have coming out with InkiPak (Jon) on Wavefunction which will be great to put out. Also a follow up ep on 030303 to my 'Polysynthesis' ep I had out with them. There may also be further material coming out on Furthur Electronix at some point, currently just archiving/stockpiling new material for that.

Which artists/labels is more relevant to you now?

- Mainly the ones I've released on, kindred spirits and a huge influence on me. Different people on different labels, but they are all wonderful, cool people who are easy to get along with 030303, Furthur Electronix, Brokntoys, La Beauté Du Négatif, Withhold etc. All wicked labels with so much talent on them.
Special shout out and respect to Mateo, Anwar, Anil Lal, Steijn, Neil Fulcrum 4. The list is too long to write here.

What inspires you now to create music?

- Can be anything, art, music, film, literature, being alive and living in the current. Knowing that without my music I would have nothing. It's easy to stay motivated if music is all you have.

Follow:
Soundcloud: @jaffakid-1

Strange But Dance Music LIVE #14: The Jaffa Kid

Step into the world of Lloyd Stellar, the Dutch electro producer (Erik Griffioen) behind the mesmerizing machine-like beats and vocoder-driven vocals. As the owner of LDI Records, Lloyd's music delves into the unknown, exploring futuristic and dystopian themes like the consequences of man's greed and the relationship between humans and machines.
In addition to his studio recordings, Lloyd Stellar also gives live performances with his modular synthesizers, blending pulsating electro rhythms, adding another layer to the experience...
Lloyd has released music on top labels such as 20/20 Vision, Brokntoys, Science Cult, Avoidant, Hilltown Disco and Gated.

Which artists have influenced you the most?

- Legowelt, Kraftwerk, Burial, Anthony Rother, Plant43.

What new projects/releases with your participation are expected in the near future?

- Two EPs coming this year on Exploited Records and on Wave Function Records.

Which artists/labels are more relevant to you now?

- Plant43 is the electro artist i like the most these days.

What inspires you now to create music?

- I get inspired by messing around with my synthesizers and listening to music.

What set-up do you use when creating music?

- In the studio these days I mainly use: Vermona DRM1, Korg Prologue 16, Roland SH101, Roland JV2080, Roland Jupiter Xm and a bunch of Eurorack modules.
For my live set I use a whole lot of Eurorack modules and two 1010Music Blackbox samplers that are filled with loops of beats from my tracks. I use a modular Eurorack setup, because it is small enough to take with me in a backpack.

Tracklist:
Lloyd Stellar - Modular Planets
Lloyd Stellar - What Side Will You Be On
Lloyd Stellar - Would You Like To See Sound?
Lloyd Stellar - Two Eyes In The Night Sky
Lloyd Stellar - Untitled Track
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Lloyd Stellar - Just Hold On
Lloyd Stellar - It's All Over
Lloyd Stellar - Chemical
Lloyd Stellar - La Playa
Lloyd Stellar - The Disappearance Of The Cargo Cults
Lloyd Stellar - Virtual Values
Lloyd Stellar - Digital Hallucinations

Follow:
https://soundcloud.com/lloydstellar
https://www.instagram.com/lloyd_stellar/
https://www.facebook.com/LloydStellar/
https://www.discogs.com/artist/7867040-Lloyd-Stellar

Strange But Dance Music LIVE #15: Lloyd Stellar

Konerytmi is the brain-child of longtime Electro musician Kirill Junolainen. It's a fusion of Electro, Italo and Acid analog audio with a precise vision. Project started at 2019. Already has great releases on great labels. Also creates a lot of visual werk. Konerytmi is focusing on live performances now.

Which artist has influenced you the most?

- I’m old man in tastes. Brian Eno, Einsturzende Neubauten, Coil, Zodiac, early Tangerine Dream

What new projects/releases with your participation are expected in the near future?

- I continue to cooperate with awesome Rawax family. Will be released 4 great releases. There will also be very interesting releases on Radio Mars, Infiltrate, Free Voyage. there are still a lot of releases waiting for us in the future. Signed more than 30 vinyls in the next three years.

Which artists/labels is more relevant to you now? 

- Fischerspooner, Hacker, Legowelt, Kuldaboli, Stilleben, Bunker

What inspires you now to create music? 

- Synthesizers, synthesizers, synthesizers... and drummachines

Follow:
@konerytmi

Strange But Dance Music LIVE #16: Konerytmi

This Swedish entity contributed to live, real and in circumstantial surroundings. Mr. Eargoggle has a huge impact on the electro scene. Grown up listening to the electro funk sound of Egyptian Lover and similar funkateers, Luke Eargoggle, aka Lukas Pettersson, now lives by the beach in Sweden where he makes music in peace.  Luke maintains the record label Stilleben Records and released some of his ultra funky electro tracks through Dutch label Bunker Records, German label Kommando 6 and more. Tonight its back to back with his son Dataintrång! Electro is a nonstop routine.

Follow:
Luke Eargoggle: @dr-lindh
Dataintrång: @dataintrang

Strange But Dance Music LIVE #17: Dataintrång & Luke Eargoggle

We continue to introduce you to interesting and relevant artists in the exploration of unusual musical landscapes.
Today we have Alpha Visitor from Spain with his amazing and wonderful live set, currently based in Berlin and hiding under the pseudonyms such as Cr∆b nebula, CUCA NEGRA, Ivan Istochnikov, Iván Zapico, Planet∆ry.

Which artists has influenced you the most?

- All the music styles I've been listening to over the years like for example punk, shoegaze,  avant garde, minimal wave, etc has influenced me in some way in my different projects even if they are not directly related with my sound. But of course I guess I've always had favourite artists, some of them are Mika Vainio, Esplendor Geometrico, Xenakis, Coil, warp classics like Autechre, BoC, AFX, Two lone swordsmen, Gerlald Donald's thousand projects like Japanese Telecom, Arpanet, Black Replica, Heinrich Mueller.

What new projects/releases with your participation are expected in the near future?

- My next releases are going to be a 12" on a very cool label from Berlin. This as Cuca Negra, my more techno and noise oriented project. As Alpha Visitor I will release a digital LP on my label Pagan Shelter. From this live act only one track has been released so the others are looking for a good place :)

Which artists/labels is more relevant to you now?

- I tend to listen to a lot of techno and experimental artists, some are Emptyset, Svreca, Labour, SHXCXCHCHCXSH, Kerridge and Hospital Productions or L.I.E.S. Records.
Although I have been listening to electro for many years my Alpha Visitor project is relatively new. I listen to current artists that I love and inspire me like Jensen Interceptor, Animistic Beliefs, DJ Stingray or labels like Solar One, Stilleben and WéMè but I think where I really draw inspiration from is from artists that I used to listen to many years ago and now I'm getting it back; Rother, Boris Divider, Le Car, Ersatz Audio, Modern Love, Interdimensional Transmissions or Bunker labels, 
also bleep classics like B12 or LFO or even Gigolo artists like Dj Naughty.

What inspires you now to create music?

- I don't need a special inspiration to make music, for me it's basically a need, it's something healing, every day I have the need to spit out some rhythms, noises or melodies.

What set-up do you use when creating music?

- Over time I've had different setups, now I try to keep it simple, many songs I do with just ableton and software like arturia or NI synths. As hardware I am using korg minilogue, roland Se-02, digaitakt/digitone, pedals like Holy stain or T-resonator, sometimes I use field recordings, Soma Lyra too, depends on the day.

Follow:
@alphavisitor

Strange But Dance Music LIVE #18: Alpha Visitor

We are delighted to welcome ADJ back with his new live set with unreleased and forthcoming stuff after his acclaimed DJ set as part of our podcast series.

Which artists has influenced you the most? 

- It's really hard to say one artist who has influenced me the most as I've been playing for nearly 40 years and producing for 30 years so I will name a few of the biggest, not just for the music but the whole ethos.
My first influences in the 80's were people like RYUICHI SAKAMOTO, KRAFTWERK, GEORGE CLINTON, HASHIM, JAMES BROWN, UNKNOWN DJ, CYBOTRON/MODEL 500, a real mixture of funk and electro/hip hop. Then into the 90's definetly MIKE BANKS/UR for his/their whole ethos of faceless artists and djs who were not interested in fame but more about just spreading the sounds of the streets and underground parties.  
And artists like WEE DJS, CARL FINLOW, BITSTREAM/ADAPTA, BEN MILSTEIN, BOLA, PLAID, KHAN/AIR LIQUIDE Crew, PHOENICIA, SI BEGG, ANDREA PARKER.

What new projects/releases with your participation are expected in the near future?

- So as always there are lots of projects ongoing and recent stuff like my Renegade Transmission vinyl ep just released on SERENITY IN KEOS, our latest Pyramid Transmissions releases Alien Transmissions Vol 3 and J FRANK album this month.
I have just finished 2 remixes, one for PAUL HEIROPHANT for release on vinyl and one for Potential Differense due for release digitally and remixed one of my favourite artists in ADRIEN D'ELZIUS recently.
In Jan/Feb 24 the next release on PT will be the long awaited 2nd ADJ/PATHIC release on vinyl and in December I will re release my Bass, Blips and Other Dimensions LP with extra new tracks. This album was released nearly 15 years ago on PIP WILLIAMS' Shameless Toady label. I feel the IDM/Electro sound of the album was a bit out of it's time so I think it's time to let a new generation hear it. There is a whole lot more coming in '24 so keep your ears open and this live set gives a glimpse of some of my recent work, finished and unfinished!

Which artists/labels is more relevant to you now?

- I think there are a lot of great artists now, although you have to sort through a ton of generic music to find them. Artists like FLECK ESC, ISOLATED MATERIAL, CTRLS, SIGMA ALGEBRA, LECTRO COD E, J FRANK, ROEL FUNCKEN, SYRTE, BEN PEST, ADRIEN D'ELZIUS, HEXALYNE, GAMMA INTEL, HATCH, ERRORBEAUTY, POLADROID are all doing some really FRESH sounds and there are so many more great new and established artists out there doing amazing, forward thinking stuff. There's lots of labels releasing Dope material like SCIENCE CULT, WOODWORK, ANALOGICAL FORCE, MIND CONTROLLED RECTIFIER, ARKADA, PATTERNED MEDIA, MECHATRONICA our own PYRAMID TRANSMISSIONS to name a few. 

What inspires you now to create music?

- I suppose same as always man, my music is my rebellion to the main stream and the system, a lot of new people in the scene don't understand this yet, back in the day we had to fight to get this music heard, illegal raves, pirate radio stations, getting chased by police just to get this music out there, I still feel that street edge in everything I do.

What set-up do you use when creating music?

- My studio nowadays is a mixture of some of my old analogue loves 808, 303, Teisco 110f monster synth (1979 made by ARP) and some newer pieces like Elektron Digitakt, Analogue Overdrive and Korg Monotron delay. I also use VST's for more synth and sound effects.
I really like to change things up, like some trax will have Digitakt/808 or Battery Drums/Digitakt or 808 and VST Drum synths etc. This way the beats always sound different for each track and the sounds are always fresh (I hope). I think variety is the spice of life, i make many styles and never try to sound like anyone else. That is most important to me, having my own style and sound, no matter what sounds i'm making.

Follow:
@adj-808

Strange But Dance Music LIVE #19: ADJ

We are thrilled to announce a live set by Gab Gato recorded at Leoncavallo (Milan), 22 September 2023.

Gab Gato is a well known figure in Italy's underground scene since the 90's. Producer, illustrator and DJ he has performed in various clubs and festivals around Europe and is the founder of The Villains Inc., an indipendent label. He is a fan of Detroit's funk sound and his catalogue ranges from hip hop to techno, although he is mainly known for a dark and cold electro sound which is clearly inspired by the 80's and 90's music era. He has performed along side some of the greatest names in techno and electro worldwide: Juan Atkins, Alan Oldham, Dj Assault, Detroit in Effect, Anthony Rother and Dopplereffekt. He has releases partnered with Keith Tucker (AUX88), Dj Stingray, Bass Junkie and Max Durante.

Which artists has influenced you the most?

- The list would be too long so Ill stick to Electro/Techno artists:
Mad mike not only for his music but the overall social involvement. Cybotron, Aux88, Drexciya and their side projects, Robert Hood ... just the first few that come to my mind.

What new projects/releases with your participation are expected in the near future?

- A couple of Villains release are on the way in 2024,but I’d rather not anticipate anything. Im also closing some collaboration tracks and a couple of Ep for other labels. And after a long break Im also back to djing. Im also working on a new live set.

Which artists/labels is more relevant to you now?

- It's difficult to name a specific artist/label but there is a lot of good music out there. I have appreciated a lot of recent release both Electro and Techno and I still feel a good connection with the Detroit Sound. Id like to mention 'Nativist' by Ultradyne for the good music and the even better concept behind it.

What inspires you now to create music?

- The world around me is always a good source of inspiration.

What set-up do you use when creating music?

- Vintage Drum machines and synths, my beloved MPCs, a few digital synths as a Microkorg and computer where needed.

Follow:
https://soundcloud.com/gabgato
https://thevillainsinc.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/gabgato_thevillain/
https://www.facebook.com/Gab.Gato
https://www.youtube.com/@Gab_Gato

Strange But Dance Music LIVE #20: Gab.Gato

Mei's style is unusually detailed in description, reflecting her propensity for experimentation. As someone who enjoys pushing the boundaries, she is always where you least expect her to be. Throughout the early 2000s, Mei has set the standard for experimenting with abstract electronica and dark ambient music. She has ready several singles, EPs, and full-length albums. Her launch is set to go.
Her musical journey has evolved over the years through a mosaic of experiences and creations. It began with "PARTURA," an epic released in 2016 under UOVOOO/MORR MUSIC/ANOST. Exploring cosmogonies, it views life through a mythological lens, capturing the essence of original narratives and universal evolution, showcasing her love for symbols and contemplation.
This journey led Mei to new sounds, delving deeper into her own emotions. In 2022, "CARNATION" emerged as an EP illustrating her ability to navigate between serenity and chaos, intensely celebrating nature. The same year, "AUTOPSY" was born, reflecting her incessant need for innovation, both sonically and visually. Through this EP, MEI asserts herself as a multidisciplinary artist, ready to challenge conventions.
MEI’s commitment to the ideas she holds dear took shape with the track "HEARTLESSLY" in 2022 and 2023. In 2023, she collaborated with Jean-Louis Costes on "EQUINOXE," a preview of her upcoming album, "LES ÉTATS DE LA MATIÈRE." This piece, influenced by the "Cadavres Exquis" artistic movement, captures her desire to explore human complexity through art.
Each work is a chapter in her artistic journey, an invitation to dive into her universe, rich in emotions and discoveries.

Tracklist:
1. BURN DIRTY (CARNATION / June 2022 / ANT-ZEN)
2. FINGERS LINK A SOUL REMIX (Re-release single / JULY 2020)
3. HATARI (Exclusive unreleased single featuring Nah Eeto and Mei on vocals + composition / 2023)
4. SHADOWS RISE (My remix for EMPTY's EP / 2024 / FERROR RECORDS)
5. SILENCE LONGUE VERSION (SIGIL THERAPY-RESTITUTO / May 2023 / SCHEMATIC)
6. ENTRELUIRE LA FUGITIVE (THE 88 NOTES series 2 / March 2023 / ECUNDERGROUND)
7. NEON TYPE (Exclusive club version for SBDM / December 2023)
8. THE WITCH (SIGIL THERAPY-RESTITUTO / May 2023 / SCHEMATIC)
9. QUE PASA (SIGIL THERAPY-RESTITUTO / May 2023 / SCHEMATIC)

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@mei-music

Strange But Dance Music LIVE #21: MEI

Today we have BS-1 from Netherlands with his amazing live set.
Dark, raw and industrial. These three words describe the sound of BS-1. Supported by the biggest names in the underground electronic music scene like DJ Stingray 313, Alienata, Dave Clarke and Helena Hauff who featured The Only Exit in her BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix 2017 mix of the year.
With releases on Marguerita Recordings and Discos Atónicos and performances in Berlin’s Griessmuehle and Berghain his upward trajectory in industrial electronic will only continue to rise.

Which artist has influenced you the most?

- I have numerous of inspirations over the years but at the moment I hear in my more recent tracks the echoes of Front 242 and other early industrial/EBM bands.

What new projects/releases with your participation are expected in the near future?

- At the moment a friend and I are putting the finishing touch on a dark ambient album which will be released later in 2024. The project is called 'Moons Ov Mars' so keep your eye on that.

Which artists/labels is more relevant to you now?

- Author & Punisher is an artist I really admire at the moment. He really knows how to blend dark and harsh industrial music with metal. I've seen him live a couple of times and seeing him handling his home made controllers (which are awesome!) is a treat. If you haven't heard of him, check him out.

What inspires you now to create music?

- The urge to broaden my horizon, to learn and explore. Not trying to be stuck in proven formulas or to imitate.

Tracklist:

1. Destroyer
2. Hunt-Kill-Devour
3. The Only Exit
4. Fear of a Dead Planet
5. Machine Of Hate
6. Manifesto
7. Age Of Aggression
8. Kill Switch
9. The Chaos Engine
10. Finite
11. Where Evil Dwells
12. Soul Compressor
13. Pain Stimulus

All original music written and produced by BS-1.

Follow: @bs-1

Strange But Dance Music LIVE #22: BS-1

Sigma_ALgebra is a project that was born more than 10 years ago. The original idea of this project was based on having a good time and enjoying the creation of music that does not set boundaries or rules in its composition. The learning process has been sculpting a style that aims to stretch the electro style and sometimes to the borders of IDM.

Which artists has influenced you the most? 

- The artists that have influenced me the most are Boards of Canada, Amon Tobin, Aphex Twin, Plastikman, Autechre, Plaid among others. Also, from rock music, Ten years after, Led Zepelin, Allman brothers or Frank Zappa.

What new projects/releases with your participation are expected in the near future? 

- I am currently involved in several projects. I will participate in a multi-artist campaign on the Urban Concetions label dedicated to artists producing in the south of Spain. Additionally, I am involved in a split of artists from the Arkada label. I have a future project on the Tensor Norm label to produce another varied artist. I'm finally making a new ep with no label so far.

Which labels is more relevant to you now? 

- On my opinion, and always related with my own taste, Pyramid transmissions, Arkada, ,Science Cult, Brokntoys, Mechatronica, Digital Distortions and the Spanish labels Mikron records, Analogical Force and Urban Connections. 
Nowadays, the most relevant artist for me are Karsten Pflum, Noumen, Ben Pest, Anodyne, ADJ, among others.

What inspires you now to create music? 

- Knowing that perhaps there is an audience that may be somewhat interested in my music and on the other hand contribute and feed the electro and IDM scene.

What set-up do you use when creating music? 

- When I create music, I usually use two Elektron devices (Analog Rythm MKII and Octatrack MKII), Roland TB3 and finally Korg Monologue with some plugins of Arturia.

Follow:
@sigma_algebra

Strange But Dance Music LIVE #23: Sigma_ALgebra

Today we are insanely happy to present a fantastic and an amazing set by Steve Shears, the musician hiding under the name Interweave Electronics Aka Interweave Harmonic. We have been following his work for quite a long time and now we have the opportunity to share his exclusive set with unreleased material.

There's no information of you at all. Please tell us how you started your journey as a musician.

- I'm a hobbiest musician and been following electronic music since the late 1970s but never had much time to devote myself. Im not affiliated to any label as i usually self publish. I started writing electronic music in around 1990 (with a roland w30 workstation) because 80s Detroit never died for me and felt I could keep the flame burning. Musical ideas from the likes of UR, Drexciya, Derrick May, Car Craig, etc had a huge effect. And before that I was into 2 tone, Dub. Numan and Bowie. Everyone else is or has been doing 4/4 but electro offers many other sonic avenues because 4/4 is such a driving force it almost controls and dictates the track. So you mentally approach the music differently. Electro doesn't do that with the same vigour. You can if course think of staccato sequences with a robotic sound but you can just as easy hit one note off a monosynth or play a sample and let that seep in and muscially bounce off that. I like to explore those musical concepts. And that's only one such concept. You might instead have a vison or a feeling which is a very Detroit idea anyway. And people that live in similar areas are inspired.the same way but if they dont theyre inspired in different ways. So.i uae electro as that "concept conduit". I don't always write the more robotic stuff as there's plenty of fantastic people doing that and it's easy to sound similar but if a mono sequence has that edge ill use it. However my guess is you've got to be careful not to stray too far. And at any rate evolution takes time else you risk abrupt changes that lose people. But at the same time if I feel something works then I'll "blueprint" it and get it out there on soundcloud for responses and (eventually) self publish. 

Which artists have influenced the most?

- Mike Banks, Dave Clarke, Wendy Carlos, Ed Handley/Andy Turner, Richard D. James

What new projects/releases with your participation are expected in the near future?

- Generated Living LP due next followed by the “In Parts” LP which is more of a Detroitan' electro soul collection and features some of my personal favourite tracks. Finally I intend to release these MX series tracks as part of 2 or 3 LPs – they’ll need another mixing pass but I actually had a ton of melodies, beats, etc written for this so I’ll get around to doing something with them. Maybe a compo.  All on Bandcamp.

Which artists/labels is more relevant to you now?

- I’m not really up with current electro labels but I listen to a bit on Clone, Frustrated Funk and Cultivated Electronics.
Theres some great stuff being put out. Finlow, DVS NME, Orlando Voorn, and of course Anthony Rother. I love artists that evoke spacey atmospheres, hard energy, hauntology and weird stuff too so Mordant, Avian and Ghostbox. But i'm a bit eccentric in my tastes.

What inspires you now to create music? 

- I'm inspired by Science fiction concepts and I live in Croydon, which like some parts of London has a bit of an edge so that tends to filter in. 
I’m also big into the fact the corporations are seemingly using AI to delete people from their roles and I sometimes communicate that. I'm interested in the ideas of AI being put into machines and where that goes and also as to whether our goverments can even control it any more.

What set-up do you use when creating music?

- Matrixbrute, Minilogue XD, Behringer Boog and Neutron and various VSTS (Mostly Arturia and UHE). 

Follow:
@afterbirth-productions

Strange But Dance Music LIVE #24: Interweave Electronics

Electronic podcast since 2016.
The purpose and objectives of this podcast is not only to explore all sorts of different facets of Electro and Experimental Music, but also to reveal the influence on music through the location of the artist.