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I Don’t Do Lists but…pt 2

December 14, 2020 Feminatronic

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/

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I Don’t Do Lists but…pt 1

December 13, 2020 Feminatronic

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/

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#Throwback 11/12/2020

December 11, 2020 Feminatronic

I’m late to game using hashtags but unfortunately for you I aim to catch up….

Here’s this weeks two #throwback releases.

Happy Listening –

ج ن نƧEL—und Bacc uЯ—Round2אורجَنَّة
by ‡Starving Poet§
2016

electronic, experimental, noise, psychedelic, sound art

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Sinebeat Equations
by Skoddie
2018

drillcore, electronic, experimental, idm, ambient, breakcore, chiptune, glitch industrial, transgender, vaporwave

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#Throwback 4/12/2020

December 4, 2020 Feminatronic

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. I’m trying to post contrasting releases, so this week is a collection of noise artists and idm –

ladyz in noyz 3
by Various Artists
2013

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Cyclizine
by Lux E Tenebris – Now known as Meemo Comma
2016

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#Throwback

November 26, 2020 Feminatronic

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

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Some Good Reads…

November 13, 2020 Feminatronic

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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Kate Bush’s Never For Ever: From Promising Artist to Innovator and Influential Producer – November 11, 2020

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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Book Cover — **Between Air and Electricity**
Microphones and Loudspeakers as Musical Instruments
Cathy van Eck

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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Listening to –

October 16, 2020 Feminatronic

Whities 030
by SØS Gunver Ryberg

electronic, idm, dark ambient, experimental, noise, techno

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Listening to…

June 28, 2020 Feminatronic

Para-Ti
by Liliana Carvalho

Ambient, field recording, sound art, soundscape

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Spotlight On…

June 4, 2020 Feminatronic

Ain Bailey

Sound Artist, DJ, Sound Play

” uses field recordings and found sounds and are inspired by ideas and reflections on silence and absence, architectural urban spaces, and feminist activism. Her electroacoustic compositions are created for a variety of forms, including multichannel and mixed media installations, moving image soundtracks, live performance and dance ”

Ain Bailey

British Music Collection

Dr Norah Lorway

Lecturer, Researcher, live Coding, drones and beats

Music on the xylem record label

norah lorway

Anna Xambo, PhD
” Senior Lecturer at DMU. Experimental electronic music maker. Co-Founder of WoNoMute at NTNU. Co-Founder of online records label Carpal Tunnel.”