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Some dark electronic early 80s to the warped electronic early 90s / brightness focus on UK label Rising High.


The Hafler Trio - The Work Of Washing
(“Not Alone (Médecins Sans Frontières)” 5xCD compilation - 2006, Durtro/Jnana)

Death in June - The Calling
(“Nada!” - 1985, New European)

The Sisters of Mercy - Floorshow
(“Alice” 12inchEP - 1983, Merciful Release)

Cocteau Twins - In Our Angelhood
(“Head Over Heels” - 1983, 4AD)

Soft Cell - Science Fiction Stories
(“The Bedsit Tapes” - 1979, Some Bizzare)

Front 242 - GVDT
(“Geography” - 1982, Himalaya)

John Foxx - Tidal Wave
(“Metamatic” - 1980, Virgin)

Anne Clark - Sleeper In Metropolis
(“Changing Places” - 1983, Red Flame)

Minimal Man - Run, Devil, Run
(“Hunger Is All She Has Ever Known” - 1988, Play It Again Sam)

Radiowaves - Radiowaves 4
(“Radiowaves” - 1995, Rising High)

Transform - Transformations
(“Transformations” single - 1993, Rising High)

The Hypnotist - Pioneers Of The Universe
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Loto Ball Show - Levy on the Eyeway
LP w/ Digital Download (Ltd. 500)

Ever hear of The Phantom Limbs? Ever see them live? Well, we did - And weren't sure if we wanted a baby bottle/our mother's breast or to throw someone into a wall. The Phantom Limbs left us a great legacy on Alternative Tentacles, one that made us follow (who was then known as Hopeless, but is now known as) Loto Ball on his journey from the Bay Area to Chicago, where he opened the Reversibe Eye Gallery and started his new musical endeavor, Loto Ball Show in 2005.

Loto Ball Show screams out much of the same ferocity as The Phantom Limbs while bringing in more variety in mood, more shifts in volume and pace, and more eclectic sounds. A driving key-board driven form of No-Wave post-punk with hints of jazz syncopation and Middle-Eastern scales.

Levy on the Eyeway is for the unique ear. Nine tracks packed with noise, percussion, energy, and "that voice."
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En forme de vaste méduse ! (Oui, nous aimons les méduses.) Mais aussi :

un mix nocturne proposé par Derek Sein avec :

Carlo Gesualdo /
Peter Phillips/
Koji Ueno/
Pyrolator/
Nellie Melba/
Gounod/
Kubelik/
Jun Togawa/
Slim Whitman/
Controlled Bleeding/
Saburo Kitajima/
Albert de Paname/
SARAH TULLAMORE/
MISTER COOK/
Herta/
Area/
Monika & Frauenoffensive/
Guernica/
WARMER SUDWIND/
Frank Tovey/
Sanagi/
DANIEL EMILFORK/
DJ SANDWICH DANGEREUX/
Diamanda Galas/
SONYA SLANY/
Audrey Riley/
Barry Adamson/
JLIAT/
Fiat Lux/
Oslo Telescopic/
Wayne County And The Electric Chairs/
Werkraum/
ANTJE HOPPENRATH/
Sort Sol/
AWOL ONE/
Depth Affect/
Trans-X/
Kishino You-1/
CHOEUR MA MERE/
Pacific 231/
Minimal Man/
Kiki/
Mike Batt/
THE BERLIN OPERA ORCHESTRA/
KURT CRESS/
De Mange Machine/
Outsider/
Synapse/
The Fair Sex/
TV Pow/
Quarks/
Stilluppsteypa/
YOUKI DESNOS/
FREDERIC POTTECHER/
Rummelsnuff/
Leisure Process/
Bobo/
Chibaradar/
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1. Wenn es sein muss - dann aber sofort (0:37)
2. Khaos Frequenz - Neurobeat Jingle (0:22)
3. Dorothy's Magic Bag (Feat. Spök-Jennie) - Ghost Ride (3:10)
4. Klinik - Slow Death (4:50)
5. Unheimliche Jungfrauen - Fröhliche Burschen Anno 1986 (1:22)
6. Scrot - Der Rhythmusmensch (Single-Mix) (3:41)
7. Dee D. Jackson - Automatic Lover (4:06)
8. The Sisters of Mercy - Lights (5:51)
9. Bizz Nizz - Don't Miss The Partyline (Single Mix) (3:44)
10. Finntroll - Skog (3:23)
11. R.t.z. - Dance Your Ass Off (Original Radio Edit) (3:12)
12. Soft Cell - The Girl With The Patent Leather Face (4:56)
13. Cubic 22 - Night In Motion (Relocated Remix) (4:22)
14. Die Ärzte - Lasse Redn (3:14)
15. Instans - Cause And Effect (4:53)
16. Minimal Man - The Light (3:05)
17. Scarecrow - Black Door (Provoke Demo) (4:38)
18. Krisma - Wrong Island (4:19)
19. AG Geige - Die Vier Söhne Der Frau Fanghänel (3:06)
20. Månegarm - Vargstenen (5:34)
21. Máquina Total 1 - Megamix (9:49)
22. A Blaze Colour - An Addict Of Time (3:15)
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click here for a streamable tag radio station of all the tracks listed below

Looking at my charts, you’d probably agree that I listen to too much minimal techno than is probably healthy. But that’s ok, I have sacrificed my health (and some would say sanity) to bring you 200 of the best minimal techno tracks that Last.fm has in its streamable tracks database.

In truth, I don’t sit there clicking track after track, but when I hear a track I like I tag it, so I can play it back one day. So a year after having joined Last.fm and having listened to easily over a thousand minimal techno tracks, I find myself having tagged 200 minimal techno tracks that I really like and that I think represent the best in minimal techno..

I’m the first to admit with minimal there are too many ableton jockeys trying to cash in with bland recycled sounds. But there are quite a lot of dedicated and talented producers out there who are out there pushing sonic boundaries and creating new rhythmic textures. …

The marathons vie with the sprints for your extended ears - we celebrate a new radio "decade" with a show dedicated to the long and short poles of our electronic spectrum. Fondling your lobes and drums, a whole nursery teeming with little giants!

Princess Tinymeat - Lucky Bag
(“You Bet We've Got Something Against You” - Cathexis) (compilation)

Coil - Journey To Avebury
(“Brainwaves” - Brainwashed) (compilation)

Riow Arai - Intro
(“Mind Edit” - Leaf)

Dokkemand - Slapp
(web release)

A Small, Good Thing - Richard Brautigan
(“Slim Westerns Volume II” - Leaf)

Colleen - John Levers The Ratchet
(“Colleen Et Les Boites A Musique” - Leaf)

Dymaxion - Ant'lrd Ally
(“Aha, Sissy Arsonist!” - Hemiola) (on Duophonic "Dymaxion X 4 + 3 = 38.33")

Aphex Twin - Father
(“Drukqs” - Warp)

Walter Ruttmann - Wochende
(“An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music / First A-Chronology 1921-2001” - Sub Rosa) (compilation)

Liliput - Split
(“Nag Nag Nag” - React)
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