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electronic music #003 [Soundcloud Playlist]

November 2, 2020November 13, 2020 - by Matt

Our Soundcloud electronic music playlist series has now reached volume 3, featuring some great tracks from electronic musicians across the globe. Check it out here…

vcam – 77, a taster track from new album Arconide
In Electronic Music Reviews
vcam is the work of producer James Long, a resident of Snoqualmie, Washington (USA). After a 20-year hiatus, he’s back, with a new album. Fans of mid-period Autechre, early Richard Divine, and Arovane will enjoy his melodic, minimalist, electronic music. Here’s the lead track and single from his new album, which is titled 77. It’s wonderfully assembled, with a melodic, almost […]
Mary The First releases Stuck, taken from new album Digital Labour…
In Electronic Music Reviews
Mary The First (aka Maria Eilersen) is a musician from Stockholm, Sweden. In collaboration with producer Jari Haapalainen, she’s just released an album of dark electronic synth-pop. Together have they carved out an experimental, brooding electronic sound, exploring themes of digital integrity and climate crisis. The first track of the album is Stuck. Stuck is an energetic and edgy, […]
10 Essential Electronic Music Documentaries That You Need To Watch
In Video
Here’s some fantastic electronic music documentaries to inspire, entertain, and educate. These essential documentaries focus on technology, culture, history, and politics. I hope you enjoy them… Synth Britannia (BBC Four, 2009) A fantastic documentary from the BBC looking at the work of post-punk musicians such as The Human League, Gary Oldman and Depeche Mode, who brought the […]
SNSE releases Goodbyes, featuring Frankie Valli
In Electronic Music Reviews
SNSE is a producer from the US who’s following on from his debut single ‘Orisha’ in July with a great drum & bass track called Goodbyes. SNSE, aka Brando Valli featured his Dad on vocals. Most of us can’t really get away with that kind of thing and retain credibility, but Brando’s Dad is called Frankie… Here’s Orisha, released back in July, darker […]
Mart Avi – The Fifth Season
In Electronic Music Reviews
Mart Avi is a musician from Estonia, whose just release an album entitled Vega Never Sets. The Fifth Season is the sixth track from what is now his fifth album, released via the excellently named Porridge Bullet Records. The Fifth Season initially comes across like an 80’s mashup between Marc Almond and Depeche Mode. What’s great about this track is the way soon enough it breaks into […]
Happy Robots release Pye Corner Audio remix of Alice Hubble’s We Are Still Alone
In Electronic Music Reviews
Here’s a great remix by Pye Corner Audio of a track by Alice Hubble. We Are Still Alone is originally featured on her great debut album Polarlichter, which was released in 2019. Pye Corner Audio (aka Martin Jenkins) has created a wonderful dystopian, electronica remix, as you would expect. The Ghost Box artist sets the tone with an extended intro of bass growls, pulsating synths, and a […]
Ulysses remixes Zane Coppard’s Lost Upon The First Step.
In Electronic Music Reviews
I had to look up a definition of Witch House as it’s a genre that seems to have passed me by. As I’d recently gotten a lot of this kind of thing in my inbox I thought I’d better look it up… According to Wikipedia, ‘Witch House’ is a dark, occult-themed electronic music microgenre and visual aesthetic that emerged in the late 2000s and early […]
Safejas releases Balance
In Electronic Music Reviews
Lewis Shields aka Safejas is a Berlin-based producer working in the fractured seams of electronic music, producing sounds that feel both alien and familiar. Moving between the more exploratory fringes of club music and expansive ambient soundscapes, Shields’ music breathes with curiosity and fractious detail. Before he donned the Safejas moniker, Shields played bass and added electronics to […]
Massimo Pupillo – The Black Iron Prison
In Electronic Music Reviews
Just a cursory glance at the title should tell you that this will fit into the ‘dark’ category of ambient. Its a slow burner, and builds upon its pulsating foundation with squelching and belching sounds that slowly build in intensity. Later we move into some raw, delayed analogue sweeps that add some variation to the composition before we transition to a final section with a slower, […]
Manif – Not Expected
In Electronic Music Reviews
The current global pandemic, and subsequent lockdown has resulted in a great number of us forced into isolation, resulting in a wealth of creativity, and musical production. In Wiltshire, this has resulted in a 12″ vinyl release from electronic music producer manif. Small Steps is a 6-track collection of downtempo beats, electronic sounds, grooves and melodies. It’s minimal, moody, […]