A thread for experimental, obscure and really interesting electronic music

I’m around! I barely have enough time to write for my official channels it feels. I was proper 40 year old last night, falling asleep on a couple of codeine in front of Deep Space 9. The... oddest drug fuelled evening I’ve had.
 
WiDGe-> said:
In other news, this is really good:



"Victory Over The Sun is the first Wanderwelle and Bandhagens Musikförening (Isorinne & Hypnobirds) collaborative album."

"‘’It happened in 1566 three times, on 27 and 28 of July, and on August 7, against the sunrise and sunset; we saw strange shapes in the sky above Basel.
During the year 1566, on the 27th of July, after the sun had shone warm on the clear, bright skies, and then around 9 pm, it suddenly took a different shape and color. First, the sun lost all its radiance and luster, and it was no bigger than the full moon, and finally it seemed to weep tears of blood and the air behind him went dark. And he was seen by all the people of the city and countryside. In much the same way also the moon, which has already been almost full and has shone through the night, assuming an almost blood-red color in the sky. The next day, Sunday, the sun rose at about six o'clock and slept with the same appearance it had when it was lying before. He lit the houses, streets and around as if everything was blood-red and fiery. At the dawn of August 7, we saw large black spheres coming and going with great speed and precipitation before the sun and chattered as if they led a fight. Many of them were fiery red and, soon crumbled and then extinguished.’’

-Samuel Coccius, 1566- "
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WiDGe-> said:
Yes. Varg! You'll absolutely want to get over Northern Electronics:

https://northernelectronics.bandcamp.com/

He has done some stuff with someone called Michel Isorinne in the past under the moniker D.Å.R.F.D.H.S. - their In The Wake Of The Dark Earth album is my all time #1.



I am more Isorinne than Varg when it comes to sound.
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I somehow forgot to like these posts at the time, but can we have more recommendations as good as these please @WiDGe-> :weed:
 
Zu-Klara said:
I somehow forgot to like these posts at the time, but can we have more recommendations as good as these please @WiDGe-> :weed:
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Most of this should be a Spotify away.

Anything by Michel Isorinne (or plain Isorinne).
Född Död - Studie I Närhet, Längtan Och Besvikelse
Varg2(TM) (because he has a new name now) - Star Alliance
KWC92 - Iran
Iori - Cold Radiance
Ripperton's two ambient albums Contrails and Sight Seeing
Donato Dozzy - Plays Bee Mask
Cass. - Postclub Prism
Albrecht La'Brooy - Healesville
stuff like the Air Texture series, but it depends on who is curating. I like Volume 2 & 5, 6 from memory. I've just been sent the promo for 7 but it is a bit dissonant for my delicate ears in January.
Pataphysical - Periphera
Civilistjavel - Civilistjavel 1 (you won't find this on Spotify, so look for youtube
Khotin - Beautiful You
Various Artists - The Harvest Of A Quiet Eye
Various Artists - Mono No Aware
Terekke - Improvisational Loops
I want to say Emra Grid - Shay's Vacation House, but only listen to that if you're ready for something that touches on the uncomfortable! I wrote about it here and it was quite a big album for me. I bought the glorious vinyl copy in the end.

I think that is a nice breadth of sounds! Some of it is blissy, some of it is dark, all of it is compelling.
 
Yeah, I'm a big fan. He sends me his new stuff when it hits, which is always nice. That was one such album, which I turned into a word dump:

https://inverted-audio.com/review/isorinne-speechless-malison/

Once you get into his stuff, you realise what aspect he brings to collaborations. Varg tends brings the abrasive side to DARFDHS, but Isorinne tempers it with a knack for reflective melody.

I'll keep my ear to the ground for more bits and pieces like this as the year unfolds.
 
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That Född Död album in the recommendations list turns out to be absolutely fucking spectacular and has been on repeat play all day. I shall be investigating Varg next (not least because he had his beardy finger in that particular pie). Also I see that the press release described it as “a beautiful portrayal of disappointment” :disco:

Definitely more bits and pieces please @WiDGe->
 
He's been around for quite a while, but I completely forgot about him for the last few years despite being obsessed by him in my youth, and not just because he looks like a terrifyingly enjoyable aryan shag. Anyone else into Vladislav Delay? It's the most organic and improvisational electronic music I've heard, there's probably a more profound Finnish word, but it's just so WISTFUL.

Lumi is probably his most accessible track, but don't worry, there are hour long ambient passages for when you really have nothing to do.

 
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I had a handful of Vladislav Delay releases when he first showed up but it's been a good while since I revisited them. I had the album on Chain Reaction and also one of the early Luomo albums, the title of which escapes me.
 
The utterly tremendous Isorinne has become the soundtrack du jour chez Zu, and there’s a certain Coilism about this one :weed:

 
here y'go - a 2-hour plus barely-moving "ambient" epic from US attic-dweller Kevin Drumm whose back catalogue is famously super cheap on Bandcamp. Stitch, if you will, this...

 
Zu-Klara said:
The utterly tremendous Isorinne has become the soundtrack du jour chez Zu, and there’s a certain Coilism about this one :weed:

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This is quite nice. I imagine it could be great for sobbing if I still had the capacity for such a thing.
 
Lucille said:
He's been around for quite a while, but I completely forgot about him for the last few years despite being obsessed by him in my youth, and not just because he looks like a terrifyingly enjoyable aryan shag. Anyone else into Vladislav Delay? It's the most organic and improvisational electronic music I've heard, there's probably a more profound Finnish word, but it's just so WISTFUL.

Lumi is probably his most accessible track, but don't worry, there are hour long ambient passages for when you really have nothing to do.

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we’ve been sent a new Vladislav album I think, but I’ve not checked it yet. Needed soft music this year.
 
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