Posts Tagged ‘Electronic Music’

Watch: ‘Ruins’ by Meersein

Posted: 30 October 2026 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
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What remains when everything we have built begins to fall apart? With ‘Ruins,’ the first single from the upcoming album Perfection, the artist explores a dark vision of a world pushed beyond its limits. The song confronts the consequences of relentless ambition, environmental destruction, and the loss of humanity in the pursuit of progress.

The lyrics paint a picture of a civilization in decline: poisoned air, collapsing skyscrapers, burning forests, and a sun that has become a cold, distant observer. The absence of laughter and children playing makes the devastation feel even more profound. This is not just the destruction of buildings and landscapes, but the loss of hope and the promise of a future.

At the heart of the song lies the recurring line, “We pushed too hard, we went too far.” It serves as both an accusation and a warning. The catastrophe is not portrayed as an unavoidable fate, but as the result of human choices and the belief that everything can be controlled, improved, or conquered.

The image of holding the sun in our hands before burning it down captures the central contradiction of human ambition: we have the power to create extraordinary things, yet we can also destroy the very foundations on which they depend.

As the first single from the new album, ‘Ruins’ introduces one of the album’s central questions: is the pursuit of perfection worth its price? With its apocalyptic imagery and uncompromising lyrics, MEERSEIN delivers a powerful reflection on a world on the edge – and the choices that brought it there.

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MEERSEIN is a solo music project blending the nostalgic spirit of 1980s synth music with dark atmospheres, melancholic depth, and contemporary electronic production. With the upcoming album Perfection, the project explores the boundaries between human ambition, imperfection, and the world we create.

Stream/download the digital single: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/meersein/ruins

The upcoming album Perfection is available for pre-order here: https://www.meersein-official.com/shop.html

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Meersein photo by Patrick Nelke

Watch: ‘My Heart Is A Wasteland’ by Neokosmos

Posted: 13 February 2025 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
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Canadian electronic music artist NEOKOSMOS is excited to drop a new single, entitled ‘My Heart Is A Wasteland’ via Portal label.

The Montréal-based artist comes back with an absolute wall of sound for the 4th single from this Full Moon series. This time, the project mastermind Aeon takes us through a journey of ethereal soundscapes that then lead to total chaos and destruction in a roaring chant of synthesizers. Filled with madness, this is an experimental industrial piece that leaves nothing in its wake.

Watch the official video here:

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NEOKOSMOS is the long-time coming audiovisual project of multi-instrumentalist and visual artist Aeon. For almost 15 years, he has obsessively put together the pieces one by one, exploring sound, image and scenography in a unique way that gives life to this vision of mystery and grandeur that is NEOKOSMOS. It is now time: enter the gateways to the ethereal, and experience the world of NEOKOSMOS.

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Swamp Sounds / Uncle Pops & The Dumbloods – Swamp Sounds / Uncle Pops & The Dumbloods

Posted: 1 April 2017 in Albums
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Bearsuit Records – 24th March 2017

Christopher Nosnibor

Talk about a car crash. This split release between Swamp Sounds / Uncle Pops & The Dumbloods isn’t so much a hybridised sound clash as a head-on train wreck. Bearsuit Records can be relied upon for giving a platform for the most eccentric crossover works going, and this meeting of Japanese electronic/experimental musician, Yuuya Kuno, aka Swamp Sounds, and Scottish musician/artist, Douglas Wallace, aka Uncle Pops & The Dumbloods certainly fits the criteria.

You might broadly call it an experimental avant-disco / elecro album, but then you might equally call it pretty much anything you like, because it’s a brain-bending whirlpool of stylistic elements, thrown together with a wild and reckless abandon, with no regard for the effect it may have on the listener’s psyche.

And so it is that shrill analogue tweeking and frenetic, messy electro beats crash into a wall of screeding, mangled noise that pulses and throbs. The first half of the album belongs to Swamp Sounds, and the opener, ‘Marionette’, piles more ideas and juxtaposing elements into a dizzying three and a half minutes than seems even halfway sane.

When Uncle Pops takes over for the second half and things down to a more sedate groove, the overloading static abates, but as on ‘Harry Smith’s Paper Planes’, there’s still weird, woozy note bending in abundance, along with interruptions of extraneous noise and unexpected incidentals, tempo changes and myriad pan-cultural influences in the mix.

The split works well, as it means it’s not all crazy, deranged noise and mental overload: while switching between shuffling, low-key passages and cinematic sonic bursts, ‘Portrait in an Egg Cup’ brings both atmosphere and impressively expansive aural vistas, and by placing Swamp Soinds’ more manic stuff on what would effectively stands as side one , the album gradually tapers into more ambient territory over the course of the later tracks.

Exploring deep into the seam of the strange and excavating new layers of the uncanny, it’s all spectacularly oddball and wilfully weird, but without being smug or irritatingly zany in execution.

 

 

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