New records from the week, the nights still ahead across Europe, two picks, one for the floor and one for the hours before it, and a deep cut for the dark.
This is the first issue of Elettronica Concreta, a weekly digest of experimental and dark electronic music that comes out every Thursday. Each issue gathers the week's new records and the nights still ahead across Europe, and every link points straight to the artist, the label or the venue. Then two picks and a deep cut: start with Miles on Short Span, and save Acronym on Field Records for later.
Records announced this week
Nights announced this week
A selection, not a full listing. Dates can change: check the official page before you go.
Dust in the mixer, hiss on the tape, and still everything stands up straight. These pieces were never meant to be kept: the minutes before the real work, played to clear the head. That's why they breathe. Dub drifts through them like smoke through a doorway, with iron underneath and a voice you'd recognise in the dark. Elegance, it turns out, can come from getting it wrong.
For the artist and the label: put it on your site, it links back to this issue.
Malm means ore: something buried, heavy, waiting. These pieces sound like weather in an empty place, a light that won't move, a melody frozen halfway through a thought. Nothing here hurries. Layer settles on layer until the room feels different, colder and closer at once. Nine years on, it still asks for the same things: darkness, time, and the nerve to let it get near.
For the artist and the label: put it on your site, it links back to this issue.
Every week, the issue: the records and nights we announced, our picks, a label in focus and a deep cut. Italy first, then the rest of Europe.