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Month: April 2021
Tracklist:
Blacklight Smoke | Lines (The Hacker Remix) |
Dexorcist | Kindred Spirit |
Blacklight Smoke | Your Own Hands (Blacklight Smoke Remix) |
Luke’s Anger | Techno Nerds |
X-Coast | Track 4 |
Franck Kartell | Electric Sheep |
Matt Whitehead | Mystery of Mysteries |
Luke’s Anger | Space Grunge |
RNBWS | Nothing But Hardcore |
Dexorcist | Luna Saturni |
X-Coast | Track 1 |
Jerome Hill | League Against Jazz |
Ben Pest | Tilt Lock |
Aura Minimum – Structural Lines (Ambience) [Space Of Variants]
Liuos – Gravimetric Analysis [Insectorama]
Schulz Audio – Perseverance [Insectorama]
Natur & Substak – Fusion Dub III [ODrex]
Altone – Touch [Insectorama]
DeepChord – DC14 (A1) [DeepChord]
Heavenchord – The Way I See It [Greyscale]
Fluxion – Waves [Echocord]
Monolake – Occam [Chain Reaction]
23.4 – Initial Ratio [Insectorama]
Mikkel Metal – Frico [Echocord]
Deep and dark, residing in the zone where EBM and techno dwell. Various remixes of Black Light Smoke tracks on their Death Decay Magic imprint, all versions keep it down to the nitty gritty.
Choice pics for us are Black Smoke’s own off kilter remix of ‘Your Own Hands and techno legend The Hacker’s stripped down version of ‘Lines’. Check my show on Mutant Radio this week (14th April) for previews on both of these.
VA – All The Bleeps
Big, bad and heavy. Longtime supporter of the the weird and wonderful side to techno music, Toronto’s Trevor Wilkes runs the Fun in the Murky blog and label. He is also an amazing DJ/Selector and has been broadcasting his radio show regularly online, long before the days of facebook live.
In his words, the immense 4×12″ box set “represents the artists whose music I play the most on Bleep Radio. Literally and objectively played the most. I’m a big number crunching statistics nerd and have trended my own track-lists for years as many of you know. As a Canadian, far removed from where the music I like shines the brightest I consider myself very fortunate to have been able to meet with and play alongside a lot of these folks in person and not just via the stream.”
All the tunes bang as to be expected (including one of mine ;), however the super-standout track for me is the Ben Pest ‘Tilt Lock’, serious bang time !!!
We are now pushing the sounds we like via Instagram.
Link us up @flatlandfrequencies
New Label: Eastern Ears
Great to see local sound experimentalists and noise enthusiasts, Eastern Ear (formally NNSAC), have started releasing recordings of music performed at their events.
Their first release by Twinkle3, consisting of Clive Bell (shakuhachi and other woodwind), David Ross (drosscillator and percussion) and Richard Scott (electronics and analogue synthesiser), was a very memorable gig. So it’s great to hear the sounds again, in clean digital form (especially that wonderfully blooping and burbling EMS Synthi).
A mesmerising blend of futuristic alien rhythms, electro-acoustic interludes and 1950’s synthesis.
Eastern Ear are based in Norwich and organise regular workshops, performances/events, along with the excellent Yarmonics sonic arts festival in Great Yarmouth.
In case you’ve been living under a virtual rock, ‘Bandcamp Friday’ is where the website waives their commision fees for a day each month.
On one hand, this results in every artist with an instagram account shouting further into the void. But on the other, labels and artists are now planning their release schedule around this day, to capitalise on releasing and pre-releasing new music. So it is certainly worth a dig!
Here’s our top picks from yesterdays busy, yet fruitful Bandcamp Friday (2nd April 2021).