The new Secret Circuit album gets top of the list treatment on Bandcamp daily’s “Best Electronic Music on bandcamp April 2023″ round up thanks to Joe Muggs.
You can have a peek at what he says about the album (and the other great electronic releases from April) here or by clicking on the picture below
The always excellent Test Pressing have published a rather glowing review of the new Secret Circuit album, which you can read HERE
The 2xLP is comprised of 21 tracks recorded between 2020 and 2022 and comes complete with artwork by Eddie Ruscha and double-sided colour insert. You can pre-order a copy HERE
Our man in Bulgaria, mister Nikko Names of Puma & The Dolphin, was interviewed by Chromatic Club in Barcelona last week. Read about how the new EP “Phantom Impulses” came out and what else the future has lined up for Puma & The Dolphin HERE
Following hot on the heels of the Lost Transmissions repress, The Onrush Of Eternity now also gets the repress treatment…this time on dark green translucent vinyl. We’ve also ditched the rather cumbersome tri-fold sleeve and housed it in something a little more user/DJ friendly. You can order a copy HERE or click on the image or player below.
The mix for Oddity Radio (below) is accompanied by a short interview and playlist. Nothing new or too exciting being said in there but the website itself is a joy to look at. Plus there are many other great labels and DJs featured. You’re in for a treat. Click on my big face and it’ll take you there
Very pleased to finally reveal this “Influences” mix for Oddity Radio, a radio station and more that’s been set up by the man with the impeccable taste – Alexis Le Tan.
The mix features a carefully curated selection of artists that have perhaps resonated with me more deeply than others over the years; from such pioneering legends like Roedelius, The Residents, Conrad Schnitzler, K. Leimer and Beaver & Krause to later influences like Tim Love Lee, Legion of Green Men, Colder, Dada Munchamonkey and Defenders of the Faith right up to the present with contemporaries like Sascha Funke & Niklas Wandt, Raiders of the Lost Arp, Albino Sound, Len Leise and lots, lots more.
It’s a 30-track journey that I’m very pleased with and it was recorded well over a year ago and has been waiting in the sidelines for this project by Alexis to get off the ground. Finally that’s happened and you can hear it for yourselves.
“At first I decided to only pick records that existed prior to 2015, the year the label started. In other words I interpreted it as using the mix as an opportunity to showcase what HAD inspired its birth. Then I thought, fuck this weird limitation I’ve imposed on myself….there is so much great music being released NOW that I want to put on it. Besides, the label is constantly evolving so it would be weird to say the influences stopped after the label started. So in the end it encapsulated as much as I could possibly bring into it and despite its diversity, it’s still quite niche…” (GKM)
Turn on, tune in and don’t drop out!
Joseph Tagliabue provides some insight into the making of “Un’ Altra Forma Di Vibrazioni” and the cosmic web that inspired its creation for Italian blog “Drums & Chants“.
He also provided an interview for Spanish magazine “Who Music“
Thoroughly enjoyed doing this mix for Electric Shapes….even more so because I recorded it just last week and it’s not often mixes get published quite so quickly these days (I still have one from August 2020 waiting in the sidelines)….so it feels about as fresh as it can get. Features brand new music from Joakim, Superpitcher, Theus Mago, Ponty Mython, Puma & The Dolphin, Mytron & Ofofo, DJ Ground, NewDotCom, Space Drum Meditation in amongst Andrew Weatherall, Thomass Jackson, Cos/Mes, Feon, Fantastic Man, Beaver & Krause, Driftmachine and more.
Features lots of my favourite labels such as Optimo Music, Multi Culti, Höga Nord, ESP Institute, Tigersushi, Calypso, Golf Channel, Public Possession, Umor Rex, Mule Musiq and others.
Amazing new video for “Smoke & Fluff” by talented video/sound designer Paul Miller
GK Machine was invited to play a guest hour on the Get A Room: Sur le Transmetteur show on pioneering French analogue station Radio Nova.
Listen back HERE
Veslemes’ new album Apolithoma is amongst Juno Daily’s best new albums of the week and gets a reviews that really hist the nail on the head.
“Where exactly do you file your Invisible, inc. records? Do they sit in your wiggy groovers section, nestled between Second Circle and Antinote 12”s? Do you place them amongst the great multi-instrumental opuses of Hassell, Anderson, Wobble and Kalma? What about the spicy chuggers corner, for that set at Salon Des Amateurs you’ll never score? Or perhaps keep it amongst kin in the Scottish killers category, with all your Firecracker records and everything ever recorded at the Green Door Studio. What a delight, to have a label with such a voluminous catalogue of refined, accomplished and wide-reaching music that somehow seems to always groove, without dance music being anywhere near the forefront of creative concerns.
That’s absolutely true of Yannis Veslemes’ labyrinthine new album, Apolithoma. As the text explains, Veslemes was more concerned with J.G. Ballard future-shock, which he seems to have channelled into expansive, psychedelic soundscapes dripping with synthesis and a languid jazz demeanour. The title track alone feels fit to soundtrack a cyberpunk film noir, containing at least four or five striking, dramatic scenes within its 11-minute narrative. There’s also space for lopsided acid-pop-funk and more than a few hi-tech soundscapes that seem to summon the spirits of Art Of Noise and other Fairlight warriors. This is music as a high-protein meal with at least six ingredients to each dish – something complex and layered, to be savoured and digested slowly. But be warned, you may find yourself grooving whether you intend to or not. “
Artist and musician Patrick Belmont aka Strapontin has made this great video for the title track from his new single “Eunuque” on Invisible Inc.
If you haven’t managed to tune in to Invisible Inc’s “Outsiders” residency on Kiosk Radio (10am and 10pm, 3rd Tuesday of every month) you can catch up with what you’ve missed via this playlist on soundcloud.
Very pleased to announce that Invisible Inc has kindly been asked to take part in Brussels-based Kiosk Radio’s “Outsiders” project: a one-year residency at the station from February 2021 to January 2022 which will feature a different Invisible Inc artist presenting a one-hour show each month starting Tuesday 16th February.
These broadcasts will be on the third Tuesday of every month and will go out twice in the day to account for time zone differences: namely 10am and 10pm CET.
The first broadcast will be by GK Mach1ne with subsequent shows from Anatolian Weapons, Cantillate, Feon, Filibalou, In Fields, Puma & The Dolphin, Sigward, Sordid Sound System, TCB, Veslemes and YNV.
More info to follow.
It was an honour to be asked to curate an Invisible Inc label showcase for respected underground station Mutant Radio. The brief was to get artists on the label to record a one-hour radio show and to ‘takeover’ the whole station for day. The broadcast took place on Wednesday 3 February.
Representing the label were Komodo Kolektif, Sordid Sound System, Strapontin, Secret Circuit, Puma & The Dolphin, Double Geography and Veslemes.
The entire 7-hour playlist is now available on archive for streaming
An interview for Drum & Chants (Milan) from a few months ago has now been published. You can find it HERE.
The interview is accompanied by a mix hosted by Automat Radio (also based in Milan) that leans strongly towards “psych” (or at least my interpretation of “psych”…..in other words, it’s not just “psych rock”).
You can expand your mind to that here:
I have been following Mutant Radio, based in Tbilisi, Georgia, for a relatively short space of time, discovering the station only this year after Eva Geist appeared on the station. But in that short space of time I’ve been increasingly impressed with the roster of DJs that have appeared since and it became a station that I kept a close eye on, hoping one day to do a show for them. So when they got in touch a few months ago and asked me for a guest mix I of course jumped at the chance. The two-hour show was broadcast live on 5 November 2020 and can now be streamed via soundcloud on the link below. It’s mutant music from start to finish. Enjoy.
So, I’ve done quite a lot of mixes recently; all recorded at least a month apart, but due to delays will all be coming out quite close together….the most recent one to be recorded (but the first to appear online) is this one for the lovely folks at whypeopledance.
I had just finished recording a fairly leftfield/electronica/krautrock mix for one station using just Ableton and another mix that was my interpretaition of “psych” (with guitars and all!!!) on vinyl only….so, in light of this and with the statement “Why People Dance” bouncing around in my head, I wanted to do something that more reflected what I might play at a party with a dancefloor (do you remember those?)…using two turntables plus a laptop acting as a sort of third deck.
I’m usually terrible at trying to replicate that party vibe (I mean, it’s impossible really, isn’t it?) when there is no audience to bounce vibes back and forth with but I think partly because I’ve missed doing this so much it felt great fun to record. It was all done live and unplanned, as it should be. Hence you will hear a couple of wobbly mixes and numerous tracks by the same artist….basically just playing a lot of what I’ve recently gotten hold of…..plus a few old favourites thrown in too.
Anyway….hope you enjoy it…and if this isn’t your kind of thing just hold on until tomorrow…that’s when the “psych” mix will be appearing on Automat Radio in Milan.
GKMachine
The always great Test Pressing hot the nail on the head with this review of Double Geography’s “Indoor Gardener”
Netil Radio’s 3rd birthday 72-hour live stream during lockdown was a joy to take part in. Features some upcoming Invisible Inc tracks plus a whole host of other unreleased tracks and promos