Originally released in 1983, “Take A Chance” is a classic Italo-Disco classic anthem, now officially reissued in the same shape as the first vinyl release.
VA – Material Eléctrico Vol. III LP [BFE051]
Great compilation on Spanish wierdo label Burka For Everybody. The third volume of the series Material Eléctrico, a compilation of international mutant electronic underground. A tour around experimental electronics covering abstract rythms (Santiago, Black Zone Myth Chant), industrial EBM / new beat (Celldöd, Klack, Violet Poison, Bässt), minimal wave (Circa Tapes, Sam de la Rosa) and the great collaboration between Sam De La Rosa & Kyle Dixon.
Dead Husband – Luxe Kondo LP [W06]
Boston duo Dead Husband are responsible for the new and captivating release “Luxe Kondo”. Six varied and punchy tracks made up the long-awaited debut 12″ which as usual go hand in hand with a well prepared design and a white colored vinyl. Doubtless, this uplifting work is abounding with old and up-to-date influences and make clear that these tasteful guys share their love for Minimal wave, Electropop and Techno.
Kris Baha – In Your Arms [SLK007]
No stranger to the darkness, Kris Baha takes us by the heart this time for the 8th She Lost Lontrol’s release. The sound of this 12 extended EP is sad as it is romantic filling the void of most things that are present in our lives albeit momentarily. ‘In Your Arms’ is not the defeat but the endless struggle, the serendipitous celebration of loss. Within the lyrical confines as dark as the period that brought them to light, he screams about fighting and resisting in a cruel present through a selfless in-look for a outsiders perspective into what it means to him and us to have lost to love , lost to lust and lost to death. Every end has a beginning.
Ioannis Savvaidis – Phormix Podcast #144
Octavian Nemescu – Gradeatia / Natural (1973-83) [SR467]
Originally issued in 1984 by Electrecord, the only record label in communist-era Romania. Sub Rosa brings these two fantastic avant-garde electronic compositions back on vinyl in their Early Electronic Series. Octavian Nemescu was born in Pascani (Romania) in 1940. He studied composition with Mihail Jora at University of Music in Bucharest. As he was still a student, he imposed himself as part of avant-garde movement in Romanian compositional music. After 1965 he achieves works of the “open creation” type, of conceptual and environmental music. He involves himself after 1967 into the Romanian spectral trend. Starting with the work Concentric (1969), his creation has got archetypal vocation by cultivating an aesthetic of the essentializing. Gradeatia was composed in 1982. This piece was commissioned by the Electroacoustic Music Studio in Gent (Belgium) where it was elaborated. It was conceived as ambient music for Voronet Monastery (Moldavia), as an electronic-audio fresco paralleling the existing one, of mural-visual consistency. It happened in a historic moment when the communist regime in Romania demolished many churches. And this piece was conceived as a protest to these actions. Natural was composed in 1973 but finalzied in 1983. This music has a spectral aesthetic orientation and at the same time, processual and archetypal orientations.
Hipodrome presents Joshua Cordova
Joshua Cordova is our next guest in the Hipodrome. He is going to play in Gazette (Cluj) on February 1st and in Faust Cafe und Disko (Sibiu) on February 2nd.
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Ron Morelli – FACT mix 685
VA – Steeplejack V/A II [STPLJCK004]
Maschine pres. Northern Electronics @ Control Club (Bucharest) 11.01.2019
Imre Kiss @ The Lot Radio 17.12.2018
VA – RM241218 [RM241218]
The yearly compilation by R.a.n.d. Muzik Recordings, this time with the lizard wizard Reptant, his close friend Lou Karsh, Leipzig newcomer, Tim Schlockermann and a very special re-release of CRC’s ‘Influence Device 001’, originally released on the amazing Leipzig label, Zyntax Motorcity in 2009.
VA – SVEMIR 003 [SVEMIR003]
Slovenian imprint Svemir is the new offshoot on imprint Kanja and they are back with their third various artists compilation. This time round they come with three emotional electro tracks from Leipzig’s Eoism, the enigmatic Hawaiian Surfer, Bassik Grooove and Zagrebacki Elektric.
Romanian Artists to Watch in 2019
After a good 2017 in electronic music, the trend continued in 2018 with more electro, broken beat, new beat, industrial and EBM, with new artists jumping on this train, so I’m curious where this will go in 2019.
On the local scene, in Romania, things are evolving in a slightly slower pace, but still in a good direction.
Olivia b2b Charlie @ We Are Radar X Szum 16.11.2018
BLΔCKMOON77 – AMP//R Podcast #38
Jeff Mills – Str Mrkd [AX077]
The first release of a new Axis sub-label by Jeff Mills entitled ‘Star Marked’ with 4 tracks of Jeff Mills trademark techno tracks.
The SECT3000 – Basic Moves 08 [BM008]
The SECT3000 is Remco, little-known mid-nineties Swiss proto-techno producer, the younger brother of the synth player from Swiss new wave band Les Rêveurs Artificiels/Die Künstlichen Träumer. Once in a while, he would make a sporadic tune on his brother’s gear, recording it on 8-track tape, without ever mixing it down, then just archiving it in a closet at his parent’s house. Basic Moves got these tapes, made the mixing and mastering and not these two tracks are out for put listening pleasure.
Daniele Cosmo @ Operator Radio (Rotterdam) 10.12.2018
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