electronic

We’re back with #76 an ambient & electronic set with mostly Can Ayverdi in charge, both with the music and the text.

Started the last day of my thesis studies listening to Finnish electronic artist and another veteran of the netlabel and (possibly) demoscene Lackluster’s Yuki Yaki release Proof of Concept. I’ve been particularly drawn to the first two songs, some trademark oldschool IDM & Electronica for you to chew on.

Released last month on the ever-amazing 12 Rec netlabel Through All These Years of Trying To Belong is the collaborative work of netlabel veteran Emil Klotzsch and bass clarinettist Ruediger Krey.

Finnish electronic music composer Lauri Saine makes genrebending electronic music without falling into the cheesy electronic tapestry category that so many trip-hop artists often do.

Cologne based electronic music producer Napoli Is Not Nepal is one of the most underrated artists coming from Germany. Debuting on Shitkatapult in 2002 with Revolv_er with an idiosyncratic mix of pop and IDM I would have expected him to be better known, yet he never made big like T. Raumschmiere, Apparat or Telefon Tel-Aviv..

Hailing from capital of dubstep London, Digital Mystikz crew is Mala & Coki, plus Loefah and MC Sgt. Pokes, who run the DMZ label and host the bimonthly DMZ nights.

Just listened to a track off Ursula Rucker’s Ruckus Soundsysdom, where she describes her by saying “Try to stereotype and analyze me on myspace and okayplayer. Call me a spoken-word artist when I’m really a dope poet”. Yesterday when I was writing the Anthony Joseph post I thought on calling him a poet or a spoken word artist and chose the latter. After this song, I had to go back and change it!

Here’s a musical selection in his honour and a few obits and stuff, the music is supposedly Ballardian which is an adjective coined in his honour meaning “dystopian modernity, bleak man-made landscapes and the psychological effects of technological, social or environmental developments”. Expect the music to be quite dystopic and dark. R.I.P Ballard the godfather of dystopia and cyberpunk.