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8 TRACK

For a short while I wrote for the No Audience Underground zine TQ

For the past couple of years I put together playlists for the zine to introduce to a wider audience some of the artists that I had listened to since starting my Feminatronic journey. These lists were specific to the zine readership in that the music I selected was deemed to be more challenging, underground , experimental and not always solely female identifying artists. My aim was purely to get a predominantly male readership to consider things maybe outside their comfort zone and mine too.

Due to the natural development of the zine, my article was no longer required and so I thought that I would continue them here, starting with my very first –

My Listening 8 Tracker #1

I’m at the age where I spend a lot of time thinking about the past, some good and some not so good but the simple concept of my listening 8Tracker is based on happy hours of music discovery.
In case some of you don’t know, many years ago as a bored teenager a family acquaintance let me use her 8Track. Do you remember them? Huge cartridges that you fed into the front of a large wooden box, and with giant headphones on, you were transported to new sonic realms, in my case it was Roxy Music ‘Stranded’.
Taking this simple concept, I thought I would put together an 8 Track of my recent listening of musicians from around the world together with links. These artists create music that fits loosely into the NAU sound (there may be some leeway with this) but I think it’s always good to expand your listening horizons and after all this is my personal listening.
Oh, and they mostly also just happen to identify as female, unless otherwise stated ; )
No order. No preferences. Links where available .

Happy Listening.

eggshell
Suzanne Bedlam et les Herbes Folles
France

furiosa aa
https://soundcloud.com/ortie03/tracks

diy, electronic, experimental,noise


Taxidermia for Solo Cello and Electronics
Katarina Gryvul
Ukraine

https://katarinagryvul.bandcamp.com/

electroacoustique, electronic, experimental, ambient, avant-pop, cello, classical contemporary, ethereal vocals,experimental electronic


Wanna SEE
Itta
Korea

Experimental, shamanic, drone, ambient, psychedelic pop


Breadwoman and Other Tales
Anna Homler and Steve Moshier
USA

http://www.rebeccalee.info/

Experimental drone, electronic music, improv, sampling  sound art,sound collage, turntablism


To Vo
Excerpt by Luong Hue Trinh
Viet Nam

http://www.luonghuetrinh.com/

Electroacoustic


Isama Noko
Isabel Nogueira and Maia Koenig
Brazil / Argentina

http://isabelnogueira.com.br/

https://maiakoenig.bandcamp.com/music

Alternative, electronic, experimental, chiptune, noise


Eva Van Deuren aka
Orphan Fairytale
Belgium

Self made electronics, toy instruments, cassette loops, small keyboards

#ROLEMODELS

Here is the video I mentioned in my Instagram post

SPOTLIGHT ON…

Kelly Ruth

INSTAGRAM ROUND UP 20/12/2021

So, I’ve just had a little look at some of the Electronic History pages on Instagram and you wouldn’t have thought that there were any women in electronic music / instrument development but did find a few nice posts via Synth History –



#THROWBACK TRACKS 1/8/2021

Here are this week’s throwback releases and they have a definite Latin American feel…

Collection released 2020

electroacoustic, experimental music, improvisation


JACQUELINE NOVA: Oposición-Fusión (1968)

2014

experimental, ambient, electroacoustic, industrial, noise, ritual


2018

alternative, electronic, experimental, chiptune, noise


2018

electronic experimental


2012

drum & bass, experimental, cyberpunk, dark electro, dark electronic, experimental electronic, ghost noise, grave wave, psychedelic, witch house


2019

classical contemporary, experimental, acousmatic, electroacoustic, noise

THROWBACK TRACKS 25/4/2021

Eclectic as ever…

MNQ 120 Doris Norton – Personal Computer LP
2018

Electronic, cold wave, ebm, electro, minimal, synth techno


The Role of Purity EP (Mundus001)
by Sapphire Slows
2017

Electronic


Louis and Bebe Barron – Forbidden Planet
Original motion picture soundtrack 1956


Eclipse by Pril Smiley
1967


Fundamentals
by Analog Tara
2018

Electronic, ambient, dance, dub, electro, electronic jazz, house, supercollider, techno


Iceberg the Drift
by Christine Webster
2018

Experimental, darkambiant, drone, electroacoustic, minimalist, modular

SUNDAY AMBIENCE…

Not all Sunday’s have a quiet drift. Sometimes Sunday can sound like this and be challenging in a good way…

GOL, Ana-Maria Avram, Iancu Dumitrescu And Members Of Ansamblul Hyperion – Musique Directe (Full)

Volume 1, hence the title “Musique Directe”, shows the band facing the leaders of Roumenian spectralism Ana-Maria Avaram and Iancu Dumitrescu. Electric and intense spontaneous experiments, on the edge of electroacoustic music and primitive avant-garde.” – Soundohm

THROWBACK TRACKS 28/3/2021

Lov3 & L1ght
by RUI HO
2020

Electronic, dance, experimental electronic


Sofia Gubaidulina: Vivente – Non vivente (1970)
ANS Synthesizer


Sounds Of The City
by Maria Teresa Luciani
Original recordings 1972

“…. found sounds, radiophonic samples, tape loops, early electronic music experiments, mechanical folk, cinematic vision, sound design, educated music theory, political pop and high concept art-as-noise…” – finders keepers

library sounds, psychedelic


Constance Demby
Ambrosial Waves (Healing Waters)
2011

New Age, meditative, electronic, space music, pioneer

and finally…

Constance Demby – http://www.constancedemby.com/

It’s with sadness that I write that one of my long term heroines has died. Constance Demby was an important pioneer of electronic New Age and Spacemusic, a composer, multi instrumentalist and instrument builder.



#THROWBACK TRACKS 28/02/2021

Technically Inaccurate
by Skoddie
2018

Electronic, ambient, dark ambient, drone, experimental, generative


Hidden’ by Myristica. Music to meditate to.
2013

Electronic, piano, chill, meditative


Cosmic Bliss by Suzanne Doucet (music doucet & miraz)
2007

Electronic, New Age


Orbit Beyond
by Dawn Tuesday
2015

Electronic, ambient, drone, ambient space,