Misfortunes is a one-man synth project based in Thessaloniki, Greece and formed in 2014 by Ioakim Vasileiadis. Ηis affection for 80’s underground music is expressed by producing tunes that mix elements of synthpop and new wave. Misfortunes collaborates with various lyricists and poets. Misfortunes’ debut EP “Hybrid” was released by “Werkstatt recordings” on May 2017.
Pure Ground is a human electronic duo from Los Angeles. Luminance is a band from Brussels, Belgium, that was born in 2012. Their music could be described as New Wave, Synthpop, and Dark Electronics. Another band from the East of France, hailing from Reims, LE FUTUR Facile are a duo who play, as they define it, a ‘Dark Wave sombre et vague’, twisted and dissonant in the same vain of some bands around Teenage Menopause and Le Turc Mecanique labels. Using a minimal instrumentation based on drum machine, bass, guitar and a large use of synths, their intense and anxious, but also obsessive and paranoic sound is built with a dizzying array of hypnotic droning icy synths on one side and sleazy electro-post punk on the other, the sore, emaciated vocals further emphasizes a disturbing sense of loneliness, boredom, emptyness and desolation, slightly tempered by ironical lyrics. The tense and mesmerizing, synth driven title track, “Amour”, where instead the word ‘violence’ is repeated multiple times, as well as being one of the most addictive, was also the most suited to receive the remix treatment by the fellow French electronic producer from Reims, GrAnD bOrDeL. Bouncy bass-laden pulses lay the foundation, dark uproars of sound, hypnotic synth sequence, effected bouncing vocal samples, and stark drum patterns push and develop into an trance-inducing dark techno number filled with sweeping synths and propulsive, growing keys providing an understated and subtle epic quality, right for the most shadowy and sweaty of late night dance floors. (WhiteLight White Heat) New single from Froe Char (also a member of Illustration Sonore). Two stormy tracks further defining Froe Char’s sound which is a substrate of universes, mixing noise, dark atmospheres and techno with melodic vocals. Organic wave at it’s finest. Here’s the latest release from Dmitry Gruber, the artist behind the label Hjördis-Britt Åström from Rostov On Don, Russia. |