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I am an electronic musician who, as someone recently said to me, set up Feminatronic to act as "soft PR" for female electronic artists from all genres and styles. If I can give a little helping hand then why not?

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Reblog – The Mirror by People Like Us — The Future of Music One Record at a Time – ToneShift

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People Like Us | The MirrorDiscrepant (LP/DL) People Like Us (Vicki Bennett) has most definitely left her indelible mark on the world of experimental sound since the early 90’s, now and forever. Released on vinyl by Discrepant these eleven tracks on The Mirror were previously out on CD last year (Cutting Hedge). Bennett’s signature brand […]

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People Like Us ( Vicki Bennett) is a true master of the dark arts of plunderphonics.

“Since 1992, she has developed an immediately recognisable aesthetic repurposing pre-existing footage to craft audio and video collages with an equally dark and witty take on popular culture”.

You get to my age and it’s spot the song from my past but it’s done with such seemless magic that something so familiar becomes wholly new and shiny.

Vicki Bennett reflects on The Mirror, unlocking the archives and a curious cease and desist order

The Wire – May 2018

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Reblog – Ka Baird’s Transcendent Experimentalism — Bandcamp Daily

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The Spires That In The Sunset Rise member considers the negotiations between bodies and environments, time and space.

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I have known of Ka Baird’s music since starting this journey and I always felt that here was an artist who was wonderfully creative and expressive in her art.

This was proved to me when I watched her performance at Tusk Festival here in the UK via the livestream. Her presence on the stage was sheer “ecstatic energy and a cathartic experience” and her vocal manipulations and electronic processing of her flute was a joy to watch and listen.

But hey, don’t listen to me, make your own minds up –

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October 5, 2019 Feminatronic

” +/- is a two-track 30-minute lush synth exploration by the Kiev-based artist. Dramatic tempo shifts, devilish arpeggios and bittersweet synth sounds are at the core of this gem of an album.”

Electronic, ambient electronic, progressive, synth

Don’t be lulled into a false state of quietness…..

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National Poetry Day..at least here

October 3, 2019 Feminatronic

National Poetry Day gives me an excuse to repost a couple of playlists and a favourite of mine by electronic music pioneer Ruth White : )

Words translated from Charles Baudelaire, “Brumes et pluies” (Mists and Rains) Cover artwork by Henri Matisse.

‘late autumns, winters, springtimes steeped in mud,
o drowsy seasons i love and i praise you…’

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October 3, 2019 Feminatronic

Dominique Vaccaro: field recordings, tape manipulation, stereo looper

Experimental, abstract, field recordings, free form, improvisation, minimalist, reel to reel, tape loops, tape manipulation, tape music, texture.

Thanks to Toneshift for leading me to tonight’s listening. Read the review here –

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ICYMI – Hidden Gems: Various Artists, “Rien Ni Personne—A French Compilation” — Bandcamp Daily

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An overwhelming, glorious survey of the French experimental underground.

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Sonic Women — The Future of Music One Record at a Time

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https://www.mixcloud.com/ToneShiftNet/toneshift-on-mixcloud-origins-sonic-women/

Toneshift on Mixcloud presents a special edition of its history-defining and defying sub-series Origins: Sonic Women. And there are some fourteen exquisite nuggets to contemplate here. When designing a weekly podcast for our readers to listen to, I felt it necessary to offer some context and background, however diverse, as possible. I dug into the […]

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Playing tracks by
Meredith Monk, Laurie Anderson, Nina Hagen, Wendy Carlos, Björk and more.

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September 19, 2019 Feminatronic

Classical

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Reblog – Apophenia by Ale Hop

September 19, 2019 Feminatronic

Ale Hop | Apophenia
Buh Records (LP/DL)

Ale Hop (Alejandra Cardenas) is a Peruvian composer, based in Berlin and Apophenia (her sophomore effort after 2017’s Bodiless) is my second-look introduction to her work. Much of what Cardenas brings to the table are intriguing a/v eye of the mind processed through video and performance. What comes through as strictly audio should, in fact, be the soundtrack (or motto) for what we always strive to capture at Toneshift, a pure experimental spirit that abridges many genres and by-passes many more, in temporal vignettes that are 100% exploratory and fearless.

There are gentle, fleeting passages to Augury (as seen above) which starts these eight tracks with a heck of a moody ground. The percussion is sparse and spacey at times, the springing, bending effects play atop a near black backdrop, like counting stars. This is not a drone record, but manages to…

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