Here are this weeks throwback tracks, icymi : )
m i a m b i e n t
by Dendera Bloodbath
2016
experimental, darkwave, electronic music, harsh noise, industrial noise
The Great Panic
by Puce Mary
2014
experimental, electroacoustic, industrial, noise, power electronics
Trickling Light
by Anda Volley
2017
alternative, ambient, electronic, new age, dark ambient, dream pop, electro, gothic, indie rock
Phew…Just scraping the tip of the iceberg with these. As usual, no preferences, order, rank, whatever…
Everything is so throw away nowadays and has to be new and shiny. Yes, that’s fine but don’t be afraid to listen to something a little older than a year released.
This weeks’ throwback releases are –
Sea Of Negligence
by Dorit Chrysler
2011
electronic, experimental, ambient, experimental pop, soundtrack, synthpop, theremin, thereminmusic
Alle Sorgenti Delle Civiltà (The Sources Of Civilisation)
by Kema
2016
library music, psychedelic
Is it only the 14th December? There will be a few of these by the sounds of it.
This is the next collection of 20 releases, and it only covers the days December 8th to 12th twitter posts and I’ve barely scraped the surface of #released2020. It’s been a horrendous year for many but the releases have been eclectic, at times challenging and luckily, numerous.
In case you missed my explanation – Every year on social media and elsewhere, the big sites publish their end of year best of lists and this has always made me feel uncomfortable. On many, they are made up of the big names and labels, not very diverse and often narrow in scope. I also have a thing about the subjectivism of lists and rank. What one person says is great, another can’t see the fuss, often resulting in animosity and division…..Isn’t there enough in the world?
I decided a couple of years ago to try and cover as many of the new releases as possible, given my personal constraints, and have posted them under the moniker of I don’t do lists but this was released….This year I just used the #released2020 on twitter.
As usual, no order, no preferences, no rank, not exhaustive,….It’s easy…
http://www.panyrosasdiscos.net/pyr285-fulmedesh-caracoles-de-una-ciudad-enterrada/
Every year on social media and elsewhere, the big sites publish their end of year best of lists and this has always made me feel uncomfortable. On many, they are made up of the big names and labels, not very diverse and often narrow in scope. I also have a thing about the subjectivism of lists and rank. What one person says is great, another can’t see the fuss, often resulting in animosity and division…..Isn’t there enough in the world?
I decided a couple of years ago to try and cover as many of the new releases as possible, given my constraints, and have posted them under the moniker of I don’t do lists but….
This year I just used the #released2020 on twitter and here are the releases I’ve posted between December 1st to 7th 2020.
No order, no preference, no rank, not exhaustive,….It’s easy…
http://www.panyrosasdiscos.net/pyr290-rachel-devorah-radiant-drift/
http://www.panyrosasdiscos.net/pyr299-lauren-redhead-the-octopus/
I have always been reluctant to use hashtags, not sure why but after 8 years I think maybe I should join the modern age : D
I have begun to do the #throwback on twitter , an album on Tuesdays and one on Thursdays, no order or prefences, it just has to be released before this year but it is a good way to get more music that might have been missed a little spotlight. Here’s two quite contrasting releases to start –
Santiago
by Flavia Goa
2019
experimental, experimental guitar
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Where Time Meets Space
by Mila Chiral
2017
electronic, ambient, dance, techno
Agora
by Alёna Korolёva
experimental, field recording
Dream Signal
by Heejin Jang
live performance, noise electronics, field recordings
The life of Insects
by Ale Hop
experimental, ambient, improv, psych, sound art
We Q
by clang
Edith Lettner and Dafna Naphtali
electronic, ambient, ambient electronic
Maja S. K. Ratkje: Corona lockdown concert for TUSK Festival 2020
by Maja S. K. Ratkje
experimental, avant-garde, contemporary classical, experimental electronic, improvisation, voice
Trans-Millenia Music
by Pauline Anna Strom
electronic, ambient, experimental, meditative, new age, pioneer, synth
I’ve been looking through some of my drafts in a bit of a tidy up, and have found many that, for some reason, I forgot to post, like this one…Now’s as good as any…
National Women’s Hall of Fame Induction Sept. 14, 2019 –
Laurie Spiegel: (1945- ) A composer whose work appears on NASA’s “Golden Record,” (shipped out on the Voyager spacecraft) Laurie Spiegel is known worldwide for her pioneering work with early electronic and computer music systems. A cutting-edge thinker, her experience with early analog electronic music systems led Spiegel to innovate musically and instrumentally. She has focused largely on interactive software that uses algorithmic logic as a supplement to human abilities, thereby expanding access to creative expression for a far greater number of people than was previously allowed through traditional methods of musical training. The aesthetics of musical structure and cognitive processes have also been a focus of Spiegel’s work. Spiegel’s work has been re-issued, having appeared in the popular Hunger Games movies, highlighted in the 2018 BBC Proms, and featured in various museum settings where the intersection of electronic music compositions, the machines, and software used to create those compositions, and the visual arts have come together in harmony.
Four Electronic Artists Reflect on the Influence of Composer Laurie Spiegel
A little update…I’m still here but like many I’m taking stock of things. In the meantime, here’s some reading that you might be interested in –
Maryanne Amacher – Petra – The experimental composer’s Petra steps inside a cyberpunk cathedral. by Geeta Dyal
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Bristol in Stereo // Holly Herndon
Published on Apr 25, 2019
Holly Herndon talks about PROTO and not messing up the next internet in Bristol’s live and new music magazine.
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Chipzel has spent a decade making incredible music with Game Boys
“I thought it was super cool and really punk, and really futuristic and weird and nerdy,” she says of discovering the chiptune scene. “I just loved everything about the aesthetic.”
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Sam Liddicott explores the importance of this now forty year old release and Kate Bush as writer, performer and producer.
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‘She made music jump into 3D’: Wendy Carlos, the reclusive synth genius
“She went platinum by plugging Bach into 20th-century machines, and was soon working with Stanley Kubrick. But prejudice around her gender transition pushed Wendy Carlos out of sight”
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Resonance: Angélica Negrón and the Poetics of Musical Automata (November 2020) – I Care If You Listen
“The world is fortunate to have artists like Angélica Negrón who continually expand what is possible in the arts, and thus the human experience.” Read more from Sun Yung Shin on ICIYL!
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Cathy Van Eck – Between Air and Electricity is open access now, free and downloadable per chapter, you’ll find it here:
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Eclectic Electronic Soundscapes
In March 2020, TQ zine ( tqzine.blogspot.com/ ) put out a call for music related things for an upcoming special edition in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. I thought it might be a good chance to get the word out there to a wider audience that there are many female identifying artists creating ” left field, NAU – No Audience Underground “music. To be honest, some of us have had no audience at all and is one of the original reasons why I began Feminatronic 8 years ago.
That aside, I decided to take one of the playlist themes I use here and create an 8Track list with links to tracks and artists based on my then recent listening, from some of the Covid -19 hit countries around the world. Of course, we all know that now in September 2020, this list could be so much larger and would probably include everyone I follow here. In lieu of that here’s the link to who I am following on Soundcloud, which I add to regularly – https://soundcloud.com/feminatronic/following
As with all the playlists there are no preferences. They are jumping off points to discoveries. They are not meant to be definitive. Just let some of the tracks play onto the next….follow up on “sounds like”….see who’s following, many artists follow other artists….
Artists on this playlist are Poulomi Desai (UK / India), _blank [also known by human alias: Blanca Rego] (Spain ), Marta Zapparoli (Italy / Germany), Lương Huệ Trinh (Viet Nam), Todas Las Anteriores (Mexico / USA ), Laughing Ears (China ), Ch. Webster (France ) and Yuko Araki(Japan).
As a final note, I was asked if I would continue to contribute 8Track playlists to TQ for both publication and online and agreed to do it. The playlists are primarily but not wholly electronic artists, as I listen to so much that doesn’t quite fit the genre. I do try and include as much as I can on Feminatronic but some things stretch the general criterias I work to. This is where creating my 8Track choices for TQ has been liberating, because there I can include these artists and sounds, although I am sticking with two general rules. Firstly, to focus on artists that create music who mostly, but not exclusively, just happen to identify as female. Secondly, my listening suggestions fit loosely into the NAU soundworld, although there may be some leeway with this, but I think it’s always good to expand your listening horizons.
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