Amazing track and so deep in emotions. It holds it's magic whole 13.45. Just brilliantly beautiful. Thank you Mikko.

Each Thursday, Machine Club congregates at Club Tee Gee in Atwater Village, with its 5 rotating residents – Robert Lane, Stacy Christine, Gina Kuhn, Remy Marc, and Silent Servant – spinning new wave, italo, cold wave, post punk, mutant disco, new beat, EBM, industrial, NDW, and much much more.

Usually, two of the residents split the evening – occasionally with guest deejays invited to spice it up – but sometimes we just need the whole night to stretch out and express ourselves: a Solo Mission.

For our first Solo Mission, resident and Rubycon Records honcho, Robert Lane, drops 12" rarities and cherished favorites under the giant disco ball. Here's the closing two hours of the night for your enjoyment, and for our first published mix in 2 years of Machine Clubs nights. You're welcome.

Some highlights

John Rocca
Ministry
Voyou
CCCP
Depeche Mode
DAF

Robert Lane Machine Club Solo Flight (last 2 of 4 hour set) 2 17 22

Six sampler tracks from the 20-track compilation


Hot on the sold-out heels of the three previous Svart-issued early 80’s synth pop and underground electronic music compilations (Satan in Love, Dance For Your Life, Cold War On The Rocks comes the last part of the quadrilogy: Black Hole, that reaches the final frontier of collectable cult synth disco music: privately released and completely unreleased music from 40 years ago.

 

Black Hole has been again compiled by Mikko Mattlar, whose encyclopedic knowledge in the field of Finnish electronic music produces 20 cuts of electro-cult has helped him dig up 20 cuts of rare groove from obscure regional compilation records, seven inches of which only a test pressing exists, demo tapes and privately financed singles. Stylistically the compilation moves from 1979 disco funk as performed by Peak Funktion on their unreleased record to homebrewed synth visions by late 80’s bedroom wizards.

 

Interesting curiosities among the 20 tracks include the riveting dance number by Jarkko Väljä, who received some fame back in the day as a Michael Jackson impersonator, and released one 7” single, that has become an expensive rarity.  Another thing you wouldn’t believe existed at all if it wasn’t included here is “Israel Is Real” by We, a short-lived gospel vocal quartet, accompanied here by a drum machine and a synthesizer, which makes for an unforgettable and surprisingly catchy four minute piece of underground gospel disco from 1983.

 

The compilation Black Hole – Finnish Disco and Electronic Music From Private Pressings and Unreleased Tapes 1979-1991 will be released by Svart Records on double vinyl and CD on October 14th.

We: Israel Is Real

S Sense 16.9.22

Poetry From The Future

Wolfsmond (Samhain Version)

pre-order: IMPREC.com
release date: 11.25.22
format: 2LP

Tod Dockstader's Aerial series, an electronic/drone masterpiece, is cherished among fans of the artist's work and this first volume is available in a double LP edition of 500 copies with 100 copies on clear vinyl exclusively for Imprec mailorder customers. 

     15 years in the making, Tod Dockstader's Aerial series is sourced from his life long passion for shortwave radio. Dockstader collected over 90 hours of recordings, made at night, and comprised of cross signals and fragments plucked from the atmosphere.

       Opening with airwave drones, Dockstader gradually allows elements to slowly come and go, summoning an ominous atmosphere of ethereal cloud clouds. Malignant placidity continues, giving the feeling of eavesdropping upon late-night audio activity not unlike discovering number stations while sweeping the dials. These sounds pull you in as their density and rhythms come and go. 
 
      Backward voices, deep echoing choruses of conversations flowing under the surface, ocean sounds, pulsing electro-rhythms, all seem to be created via the collaging of many hours of source recordings. A masterwork of collage and juxtaposition by an overlooked pioneer of American electronic music. 

Artwork by John Brien (Imprec) is inspired by the propagation of shortwave radio signals throughout the earth's atmosphere. 

Press: 

"This return of Dockstader is something to cherish, not just because his output has been so limited and scarce but because what we do have is so intriguing, persuasive and cliche-free; the music of an inspired explorer who trails in nobody's slipstream."  The Wire

Unequivocably awesome...Grand in scope, colossal in sound. Mimaroglu Music 

One of the great figures of musique concrete composition. Dusted 

Somewhere in the invisible night, the signal remains strong, broadcasting anew. City Page

Tod Dockstader - Aerial 2 - 2LP - available 11.25.22

YouTube

Sandy Beach

Dawn moods for the early birds, courtesy of Sleepier & Impey aka Spirit Blue.

https://www.nts.live/shows/early-bird-show-spirit-blue/episodes/early-bird-show-spirit-blue-14th-december-2022

Mikko Joensuu: Pearly Gates

Svart Records

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