Boomerang

 

Last year French producer and DJ Antoine Harispuru aka Golden Bug released his last album Piscolabis II, a weird mixture of disco-dub, electronica and psychedelic. During this year he released step by step remixes of the songs from this album.

The last one is the rework by Froid and it makes the song darker and a bit more flutes and spaced out than the original without leaving the guitar work by Lionel Limiñanas and the distorted grooves too far behind.

New Song On Sunday

 

This week didn't show much of new releases that are worth to be featured at this place. I listened a lot to Dub Syndicate's latest releases the recent days and to Antoine Harispuru's latest release as Golden Bug. It is a new collaboration with In Fields (sadly I couldn't find more information that it is another electronic musician). It's a combination of Golden Bug's electronic adventures in electronic house and In Fields dark sounds. A pulsating piece of music with many twists and turns. 

New Song On Sunday

 

Golden Bug is the stage name of Antoine Harispuru, a French music producer and DJ. I like his music, which is a unique mix of electronica, disco dub and psychedelia. During the week he released his latest album Piscolabis II.

The new tracks are wilder and the rhythms are heavier than on the previous album. The guitars of Lionel from The Limiñanas are sharp and the distorted grooves of the drum machines convey strange electronic impulses. 

The best example is L'Effet Domino, on which Ennio Morricone meets echoing beats, spherical synths and the voice of Anna Jean. 

L'Effet Domino

 

A few days ago French guitar duo The Limiñanas released released their latest collaboration with French DJ and producer Golden Bug. It seems like they found the time after several works together for a complete album. This song makes me curious for the whole album. It is a an example of great guitar works joining electronic beats. Sometimes it sounds like desert music on an electronic floor. Perfect for a ride in a cabriolet on a summer day.

2022 Long Part II

 

Part two of this little retrospective bring us a band that now after The Fall has gone are the last survivors of 80's indie-rock. Nigel Blackwell and HMHB are too long in business to make any worse album an so is The Voltarol Years another example how indie-rock should sound today. Powerful guitars and intelligent lyrics.

Mark Peters returned after his fantastic Innerlands from 2018 with another excursion into a wide country of guitar based sounds with Red Sunset Dreams. An album you can drift away and as the sound is not much enough Dot Allison lends her velvet voice to a few songs.

Antoine Harispuru aka Golden Bug is a French DJ and producer and I follow his works since a couple of years. Now he released Piscolabis his first full length record. A trip through electronic and guitars that I can't compare with any other artists - maybe The Limiñanas with electronics.

Another indie-rock and legends of experimental rock returned with rehearsals of their last period in the beginning of the new century. It is not necessary to explain Sonic Youth and In/Out/In didn't got much critical acclaim but for are these songs better than many others released this year. Maybe only because I always loved their music.

One of the most mysterious albums this year came from France. Société Etrange released with Chance a milestone of electronic music. Six songs without words, equivocal rhythms, accented bass and drenched in melancholy took me several times in 2022 into a trip to another dimension of sound.

A Mountain Of One is a London based band and if you want you can file them under progressive and psyche rock. But this is not all because you can find on Stars Planet Dust Me much more influences from music of the last decades. An album that grows the often you listen to it.

Our cosmic shaman also released another album. Nothing new or different to his former albums just a few good-time songs for feel-bad days.

Another band that can't make any bad album Reading's Sea Power. Everything Was Forever is just what I expected - a bunch of melodic guitar-pop with elements of electronica and post-punk.

Tokoyo No Kuni

 

Two years ago German Kompakt label released a Velvet Desert Music a compilation of electronic sounds inspired by the soundtrack of 60's/70's Western movies. This was the time I first heard about Golden Bug and their collaboration with The Liminanas. Golden Bug is the stage name of Antoine Harispuru a French DJ and producer known for his talented combination of disco-tinged house and electronica. Now he released his fourth album Piscolabis. Listening to a few of his new songs there is one that stands above all. It is a collaboration with Japanese artist Vega Voga and  combines a western approach to Japanese instruments with lyrical vocal samples, synth lines, percussion and sharp guitars. An eclectic mixture but fascinating.