2023 has unarguably been a great year for Electro both with overall visibility for the public as well as with the sheer number of quality releases being put out over the year. With a newfound buzz surrounding my beloved genre, I'm hardly keeping up! I feel like It was a busy year both production-wise and promotion-wise for @DVSNME and @DarkScienceElectro respectively, however, I found some time to put together a mix of my personal favorite tracks from 2023. Thanks to all the artists and DJs for the promos that made this mix possible. (@dvsnme December 15th, 2023)

Alex Jann - Infomaterial @alexjann
Steve Allman - Initiate Experiment @steve-allman
False Persona - Headrush @falsepersonaa
Featherstone - Arrival @featherstone_adl
DJ Godfather - Funk For The Trunk @dj-godfather
Human Rebellion - Telepathic Groove @humanrebellion
Grow - F.T.P. (Mark Starr remix) @adamgrow
Sansibar - My Boom (Reptant remix) @sunnysibar
Client_03 - Panic Multiplier @client_03
Zeta Reticula - Ionization @umek
Reptant - Lizard Eyes @reptant_the_lizard
Noamm - Exobiology Radiation Assembly @user-766451490
Lunar Tropics - Venus In Virgo @michaelwalsh
CYRK - Attack Of The Blowup Dolls @cyrkmusic
Kenneth X - Bunkerdepp @ordelnar
Versalife - Polychron @conforce
No Hype Crew - Euler's Formula @sourcematerialrecs
Dip Shim - Digital Warfare @dipshim
Fleck ESC - Invisible @fleck
Faca - Whipped Cream @facabeatz
Funktor - Critical Point @funktor-sound
Mokotron - Push Back @mokotron
CEM3340 - Highwheel @cem3340cem3340
Ben Pest - Bad B @benpest
iNFO - Rhetoric @noisy-suply
Aether Pilot - Macrosphere @aetherpilot
Ninechecker - Generating Coastline @ninechecker
Sinitsin - Roswell @sin-it-sin
Boris Divider - Your Light @borisdivider
Robotron - Pornographix (feat @egyptianlover) 
Lefrenk - Plastic (Pablo Funk remix) @lefrenk
DL/MS/ - Thinner Than Idris @dl-ms
Lazercat - Void06 (KafkaCtrl remix) @lazercat
Nullptr - Portal @bovaflux
CH415 - Spaze Modulations @ch415
Ultradyne - Native Serenade @pi-gao-movement
DVS NME - Debt Trap @dvsnme
Djedjotronic - Not Real @djedjotronic
T/Error - Computer Controlled Future @t-error-5
Plant43 - Silent Core @plant43
Blackploid - Pulsation @martin-matiske
Solar Chrome - Maschinen Absurd @nika-farra
Silicon Scally - Super Fluid Tone @carlfinlow
Teslasonic - Trantor @teslasonic-minimalrome
Lwptch - Morning, Evacuate @lwptch
Moralez - Temple Of Light (@commuter remix) 
Eoism - Relapsing Cycles @eoism
Bass Junkie - Bubble Funk (Radioactive Man remix) @pak-jamz
Luxus Varta - Everlost @luxusvarta 
Viikatory - Heart Wave @viikatory
Parallel Planet - New Generation @maturre
Franck Kartell - Acoustic Intelligence @franck-kartell
Lowfish - Mostly Cloudy @lowfish
Global Goon - Digit Six @globalgoons
The Oscilloscope - Cinap @the-oscilloscope

www.soundcloud.com/dvsnme

Dark Science Electro

Dark Science Electro presents - Best Of 2023

Happy New Year 2024 to everybody, and hope your batteries are fully charged for another twelve months of exciting artists delivering electronica as per the highest quality standards. The vinyl junkie out of Madrid, Spain opening this new calendar year is probably the guy we pursued the most in 2023 to collaborate with us: Dani Surco. An underground born and raised DJ who represents the motherland gifted line-up of electro artists. The meex you're about to enjoy is nothing but the national standard. 

01. T/Error - You Can Only Go Forward [LDI Records] 2023
02. Negocius Man - The Sound Of The Resistance [Microm Records] 2023
03. Versalife - Overclock [Natural Selection] 2023
04. Mr. Blatman - The Wizard of Oz [Lunar Orbiter Program] 2019
05. Remora -Torpedo [Kraftjerkz] 2019
06. VR-System - Electro Queen [Clear Memory] 2022
07. Random Alias - Nufunk [Breakfast On Mars] 2021
08. James Shinra - Gritti [Craigie Knowes] 2019
09. Lowfish - Sound Equipment [Analogical Force] 2022
10. Komarken Electronics - Early Mornings [Brokntoys] 2016
11. Carl A. Finlow - Optogenetic [Epm Music] 2021
12. Exhausted Modern - Medium = Message [Brokntoys] 2022
13. Koova - Links [Brokntoys] 2015
14. Boris Divider - GenOp9 [Drivecom] 2021
15. Atom™ - Almost A Unit (0.9) [Raster] 2021
16. Shokh - Bleech [Brokntoys] 2023

More at https://soundcloud.com/danieljaraakasurco

SOULMEEX

Dani Surco - SOULMEEX 053

A show that’s been in the making for well over two decades, two hours dedicated to the most minute of the vinyl formats: seven inches! 
Robbie goes deep digging into the seven-inch shoebox and comes up with a glut of gold from far and wide. 
We get started in and around the year 2000, and revisit the turn of the millennium throughout this episode. The perverse world of V/Vm gets the platter spinning, the lager and fag ash stained “Rompford Rap” followed by some proper blip hop from Kid606 before Planet Mu sevens from Venetian Snares and o9.
Softer tones abound in this show with warm clicks and gentle electronics from Isan and Geiom. In a similar vein, Lowfish and the superb Skanfrom are well represented with some quality tracks from imprints like A.D.S.R. and Awkward Silence.
Heavier electro offerings arrive care of The Exaltics and The Suiciders. Much of this transmission is dedicated to a favourite genre of the seven inch format, synthwave. Gems from labels like Anna Logue, Genetic Music and Kernkrach shine with well crafted works of tear jerker machine pop. 
Never ones to shy away from some italo disco, Fake and Transport both feature for some mid 80s joy. The close is a shout out to our good pal Mark and a favourite of his from Nervous Assistant on Blind Prophet.
Thirty 7”s to enjoy.
V/Vm :: The Romford Rap (Hareward The Wake Mix) (V/Vm Test Records)
@kid606 :: Straight Outta Compton (V/Vm Test Records)
@venetian-snares :: Defluxion (@planetmurecords)
o9 :: No Delay for Days (Planet Mu)
@isan :: Hugs Now No Kisses (Hugo’s Sleep Time) (Static Caravan)
@geiom :: Blanket (City Centre Offices)
@he-exaltics :: Simple Answers (@solar_one_music)
The Suiciders :: Sex Mask (@x0xrecords)
@nachtliche :: Fullmoon (Cytown)
Death Domain :: Ethidium Bromide (@darkentriesrecords)
Beograd :: T.V. (@annaloguerecords)
@umrijeti-za-strojem :: Strana A (Genetic Music)
Südeten Creche :: Wound (Anna Logue)
Bloodygrave & Die Lust! :: Rattengift (Hertz-Schrittmacher)
Gertrud Stein :: Blümchen (Hertz-Schrittmacher)
Arnaud Lazlaud :: Le Malade Roi (Hertz-Schrittmacher) @automelodi
@adultofficial :: Modern Romantics (Ersatz Audio)
@lowfish :: Subs In The St. Lawrence (A.D.S.R)
Lowfish :: The Superuser (Awkward Silence)
Skanfrom :: Fragment (A.D.S.R)
Skanfrom :: Cashier (A.D.S.R)
@bakterielleinfektion :: My Life’s Unreal (Multi National Disaster Records)
@abfahrthinwil :: The Light (Expanding Records)
Abfhart Hinwil :: Radio Wellen (Toytronic)
@legowelt-official :: Berlin Ostbahnhof (Eat This Records)
@syndicatelectronique :: The Builders (Beta Bodega, Mass Transit Records)
Fake :: Brick (Passion) (CBS)
Transport :: Emotions (@nomorepop)
@rogervanlunteren :: Suspect (Heimelektro Ulm)
Nervous Assistant :: There Ain’t No God in the Sky (Blind Prophet Records)

Radio Relativa #42 - 7"s from Salvation

Unreleased, 2024

Far from that murderous Deadlands ground,
The land up swells; the dead still abound.
Traverses she those bygones of leprous civilizations
Those cities crumbled by the exhalted of oblivions.

Valkyrie

Valkyrie_3

Hey, Electro people ! Before going on summer vacation, we have prepared one more special episode for you. This time we have decided to pay tribute to Electro records and to its "Electro Transmission" series. We say goodbye to this iconic electro label since its founder, Alek Stark, decided to close it down and run away with the money that many fans paid for pre-orders. Yes, we are also included in this list of deceived people. It's a very sad story, to be honest, as Electro and its parent, Fundamental records, were unique in some way. So many records, with amazing designs and great music have been released. Everything was done with love & passion and finally it all ended badly because of one man's greed. What a drama. We express our sincere respect to all the artists who recorded music for this record label and to all fans ! In music we trust !

Playlist (vinyl only):
Datawave - Emeria -
Sound Synthesis - Elektrow -
UHU - Magic Computer -
N-Ter - Detroit Where It All Began -
Datawave - Aurora -
Mokotron - Wicked Bad Bass -
Transpac - Telecom 1B Syracuse - 
Noamm - Astronomer -
Sound Synthesis - Let It Be -
Kuldaboli - Perlan -
Kan3da - Contoso - 
Alek Stark - Time - 
T/Error - Transitions - 
Transpac - Telecom 1A pt.2 -
Mokotron - Push Back -
Transpac - Telecom 1A pt.1 -
Noamm - Massona -

Electro Boogie (episode 37: Electro Transmissions special)

A previously unreleased track from the 2022 reissue of Suction001

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Artists: Lowfish / Solvent
Title: suction001
Label / CAT#: Suction Records / suction001 (25th anniversary reissue)
Format: Vinyl 12-inch/Digital EP
Release date: November 11, 2022

2022 marks the 25th anniversary of Suction Records, the Toronto-based electro/IDM label founded in 1997 by two emerging producers, Lowfish (aka Gregory De Rocher) and Solvent (aka Jason Amm), the latter still overseeing the label to this day. The label’s inaugural release was a split Lowfish/Solvent 12”, marking both artists’ debut vinyl appearance.

Gregory and Jason had known each other since high-school, but a deeper friendship was forged during their university years, after Gregory introduced Jason to early Rephlex releases by Aphex Twin and µ-Ziq. Gregory had been making electronic music in his bedroom for more than a decade, but it was those Rephlex releases that ignited Jason’s passion to do the same. After several years of obsessive gear buying, music making, and playing tracks for each other, Lowfish and Solvent had hit their stride, and their demos even attracted the interest of legendary early IDM labels labels Skam (for Lowfish), and Isophlux (for Solvent). But things were slow-moving in those days — letters, faxes, phone calls… nothing was panning out. So that’s when they decided to start their own label, and put out 300 copies of this 12”, suction001.

The label was heavily inspired by contemporary artists like AFX, Autechre, and Panasonic, but on suction001, those influences collided with their ‘80s synth-pop and industrial roots to create something unique. 25 years later, it still sounds fresh, and like nothing else out there. On suction001, 808 drum machines are run through distortion and breakbeats are chopped and mangled, contrasting with melodic OMD-style leads and catchy synth-pop basslines — a sound the label would refer to as ‘distortion pedal new wave.’

Over the past 25 years, Suction’s sound has morphed and evolved, but in recent years has shifted back to it’s original Rephlex-inspired roots. That makes 2022 the perfect year to revisit this wild, 1997 debut, now reissued in a new, expanded edition for it’s 25th anniversary. The reissue adds 2 bonus tracks — a 1999 remix by Detroit electro-punk duo ADULT., along with a previously-unreleased version of Lowfish’s A1 cut, and also features new and improved artwork, including an insert with full label discography.

Limited to 500 copies, and comes with a Bandcamp download card.

Tracklisting:

A1. Lowfish “Helski Gotenks”
A2. Solvent “Course Hub with Garnish”
A3. Lowfish “Helski Gotenks (version)”
B1. Solvent “Flexidisc”
B2. Lowfish “Your Last Legs”
B3. Solvent “ESP (edit)”
B4. Lowfish “Peanut Butter Castles”
B5. ADULT. vs Solvent “Flexidisc (remix)”

suction001

Helsi Gotenks (version)

Canada’s foremost robot returns to his higher bpm electro-form with the “Thaw EP”. 

Four analog heavy tracks of melancholic system-100 and 808 workouts combined with icy strings and the catchy synth work he’s known for. Includes a previously unreleased version of the much-lauded “8_Op” (originally released on Satamile Records NYC, 2006) to ensure things heat and melt accordingly. A whirlwind of emotion, right on the cusp of bliss and melancholia. The artwork comes from Geometric Love / UK.

THAW

Theme To Tedium

An unreleased version of "The 7th." The original version of this track appears on the album Grey With Breaks on Suction Records.

Grey With Breaks

The 7th - Broken Version

Episode 805 of @DarkScienceElectro

Kobol Electronics - Dynatron
Koova - Release
Tainted Cell - The Machine Stops
Lowfish - Hypersensitivity 
Carl Finlow - Unintentional
The Hacker - Rhythmus Maschine
Mauro Nakimi - MiniFunk
MetaComplex - Mindshell
DVS NME - Antagonistic Contradiction
Holtz - 49
Heliopause - Desolation
Anthony Rother - Model SM
Datenträger - Audioechnik
Bewwip - QBB Faireup
Aphex Twin - minipops 67
Konerytmi - Kukka
S>>D - Nightgaunts

Dark Science Electro - Episode 805 - 2/21/2025

Episode 810 of @DarkScienceElectro

96 Back - 000
Umwelt - Abandon In Place
Order Of The Muffin - Looney
Cignol - Blanket Data
XY0815 - Karl-Heinz Gunther
D'Arcangelo - Callying Sybil 
Kerg - Unreleased
RXDX - Accretion Disk
Deemphasis & DVS NME - The March
/DL/MS/ - Honokida 
Mandroid - Manipulation Master
Obergman - Resemblance 
Lowfish - Mv37
Franck Kartell - Afterlife

Dark Science Electro - Episode 810 - 3/28/2025

Electro Boogie - is a podcast dedicated to Electro. Music is carefully selected by our experts who deeply, madly and truly in love with Electro !

Lowfish is battle-scarred Canadian electro and analog IDM producer Gregory De Rocher.
 
Founder of the Suction Records label (with like-minded Robot Jason Amm, AKA Solvent) in 1997 – Lowfish's extensive 20+ year discography spans releases and remixes on some of the world's most respected electronic music labels including:

Suction Records
Analogical Force
Ersatz Audio
Ghostly International
Satamile
City Centre Offices
Crème Organization
Noise Factory
Awkward Silence
ADSR
Vynalogica
Lo Recordings
!K7
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"Lowfish's music is deceptively simple, enormously catchy modern electro, eschewing currently fashionable digital trickery for good old analog skills" XLR8R

"Forget the watered-down schlock that passes for electro these days - this is pure, unadulterated synth music, and it rules" VICE

"Seriously, keine Verarsche! Hört mal genau hin, was sich da zwischen den Schaltkreisen entwickelt: ein Organismus, mehrere Zellen, Synthese dank 240 Volt!Lowfish, der bärtigste Bartträger von Toronto, forscht seit den späten Neunzigern nach Lebensformen im Schall. Gefunden hat er: zwei Dutzend EPs und acht Alben, die alle unter eigenen Label-Laborbedingungen entstanden sind. Sie enthalten Spuren von Delia Derbyshire, Mort Garson und Aphex Twin. Möglicherweise haben sich auch Tin Man und ein Dopplereffekt ins Petrischälchen verirrt. Wurscht, weil das ohnehin nur billiges Namedropping ist, um der organisch nach Luft hechelnden und ganz und gar lebendigen Gefühlsverwirrung einen Namen zu verpassen." GROOVE

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Two lads in Madrid and Valencia making mixes. Acid, ambient, disco, electro, electronica, house, italo, synth, techno, wave and heaps more.
Monthly show @radio-relativa, mixes on IntergalacticFM, @internetpublicradio and @narr-radio

DVS NME is an Electro music producer/deejay and Post Punk enthusiast living in Colorado. He runs a weekly mix series called @DarkScienceElectro (est 2010) and is actively producing under the name @DVSNME (est 2000)

His musical influences include, but are not limited to: Abstract Thought, Adult., The Advent, Aether Pilot, Afrika Bambaataa, Aphex Twin, Aloka, Andrea Parker, Animistic Beliefs, Annie Hall, Anthony Rother, Armec, Arpanet, AS1, Ashtar Lavanda, Audiogenetics, Autechre, Automat, AUX88, Bass Junkie, Binary Digit, Blackploid, Blatromen, Blotnik Brothers, Boards Of Canda, Boris Divider, Carl Finlow, CEM3340, Cignol, Client_03, Commuter, Composite Profuse, Comtron, The Consumer, CPU, Cyan85, Cybotron, Cygnus, Cylob, CYRK, Dark Vektor, Das Muster, Datawave, Datassette, Deemphasis, Delayscape, Der Zyklus, Detroit's Filthiest, Dez Williams, DJ Stingray, Dave Clarke, Helena Hauff, Dibu-Z, Digitizer, Ditone, DJ Di'jital, DJ Godfather, DJ Overdose, Djedjotronic, DMX Krew, Dopplereffekt, Drexciya, E.R.P., Dynarec, Ectomorph, Egyptian Lover, Ekman, Elecktroids, Electronome, The Exaltics, Heinrich Mueller, Exzakt, Fabrice Lig, Faceless Mind, FAH, Fleck ESC, Fotoapparat, FPU, Franck Kartell, Francois Dillinger, Galaxian, Gedanenexperiment, Gesloten Cirkel, Glass Domain, Go Nuclear, Gosub, The Hacker, Hadamard, Hardfloor, Headnoaks, Heinrich Dressel, Heurisitc Audio, The Hidden Persuader, I-F, Illektrolab, Imatran Voima, Inkamera, Isolated Material, Ivna Ji, IXRQ, Japanese Telecom, Jauzas The Shining, Jeremiah R., John Carpenter, John Selway, Kalson, Kan3da, Keith Tucker, Kobol Electronics, Komarken Electronics, Kon001, Konerytmi, Koova, Kraftwerk, Kronos Device, Krypton 81, Lake Haze, Lectromagnetique, Legowelt, Lithium Flux, London Modular Alliance, Low Tape, Lowfish, Luke Eargoggle, Luxus Varta, Luke Vibert, Luz1e, Machino, Maelstrom, Manasyt, Mandroid, MAS 2008, Maschine Brennt, Melogik, Mesak, MetaComplex, Microlith, Microthol, Miss Kittin, MNLTH, Model 500, Mono Junk, Morphology, Mr. Velcro Fastener, MSRG, Mumm, MystesSystem, N-Ter, Nebenprodukt, Newcleus, Nite Fleit, Noamm, Noise&Noise, Nomenklatur, NRSB-11. Nullptr, Oberman, Ole Micc Odd, Orgue Electronique, Pametex,  Paul Blackford, Pip Williams, Planet Pluto, Plant43, Polytron, Privacy, Q-Chip, R325, RA-X, Radioactive Man, Rebustape, Reedale Rise, Relaxant, Reptant, Retax Gorgon, Richard Easel, Robodrum, Rutherford, S>>D, Sansibar, Sbassship, SC-164, Scape One, Siak, Silicon Scally, Simulant, Skinny Puppy, Solar Chrome, Solvent, Solid Blake, Sonar Base, Sound Synthesis, Stingray313, Sync 24, Synth Alien, Syrte, T/Error, TecRoc, Terens K., Teslasonic, Thomas Kress, Textasy, Ticco Ross, Transparent Sound, UHU, Ultradyne, Umwelt, Underground Resistance, Unit Black Flight, Univac, VC-118A, VCS2600, Velocs, Versalife, Vertical67, Vessel In Distress, VLR, Voice Stealer, Volfram, Volsoc, Wee DJs, Weltwirtschaft, Will Web, Wumpscut, Xerodefx, XY0815, Zerkalo, Zeta Reticula, Zobol, Zwischenwelt, 96 Back, 240 Interceptor, and many more.

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