Hello everyone and welcome back to the Electronic Music Alliance - February 2020 Newsletter!
It's time to transmit the latest monthly update down to planet Earth from our orbiting EMAlien Mothership and fill you in on the latest goings on up here. As always, thanks to everyone who continues to support us and our artists by sharing all the good vibes on Twitter! It's been another beat-tastic month with more tunes being released through the community run Electronic Alliance Records label, more mixes on our EMA DJ Mix Series and we have a more in depth look at this month's Featured Artist, TRiP Music, which we'll tell you about later but first let's start with a look at the ol' numbers! EMA Community
It's been another awesome month for the EMA community as more Earthlings are warming to the electronic music and positive vibes we're spreading here! There are now over 2,000 awesome people who are following our EAR Twitter account now and we're edging closer to 150 members - it seems that a lot of you know where you can find a plethora of EMAzing electronic music! Here's a look at these numbers:
As ever, a huge thank you to everyone for the continued support! We're very grateful to you EMAzing followers and a big shout as well to our EMAliens on the Mothership making it such a fun and vibrant place to be! Looks like we will need another engineer call out to upgrade our city - these call outs are getting expensive! Regular Playlists
We have our regular weekly "hot of the press" EMA playlists going across the platforms that you listen to the most featuring tracks no older than 3 months from our members. To help rotate the latest beats, we've also added the Apple Music and Hearthis platforms to our rotation so there's no shortage of places where you can find our music! Here's a little reminder of our schedule:
Featured Playlist
Playlist extraordinaire Skaarl is back at it and it would be wrong of us not to include his "X" rated playlist, featuring the latest tunes he's picked for his "EMAliens X" collection! This is the 10th edition of his EMAliens series and is a great advert for the variety of sounds our talented producers can create. Be sure to follow the artists here, tune in and enjoy:
EMA DJ Mixes
After last month's announcement about starting our new EMA DJ Mix Series, we have continued the EMAzing vibes each week thanks to Miss EfeMBy and Radio Dark Tunnel. We have a 1 hour slot after Efemby's Techno Diaries on Wednesday evenings from 17:00-20:00 UTC where our EMAliens showcase their mixing talents along with a host of cool electronic music ranging from downtempo to house to drum and bass. Stream the latest mixes below:
Electronic Alliance Records
Our community run label Electronic Alliance Records continues to grow with a few more releases this month from our legendary bunch of producers as more EMAliens look to beam down their beats to planet Earth! Make sure you follow us on our Beatport page to keep in the loop about the latest releases. Wrap your EARs around these:
Featured Artist
Each month the Featured Artist section of our newsletter gives us a chance to find out more about a randomly chosen EMAlien who released with us in the previous month. So, for this month's newsletter, we're pleased to say that TRiPMusic is the chosen one and Nicky Havey had a chance to catch up with him - let's see how it went!
Hey hey TRiP! Congratulations on being the Featured Artist this month! We're all looking forward to hearing more about you and your music here so can you tell us a little bit about yourself, how you got involved in music - who is the mysterious "TRiPMusic" we see floating around the Mothership? Haha!
Wow, where to start on this one, my father had a wide taste in music, so from a young age I used to play from his collection of old Rock n roll records, he also had music like Kraftwerk “Autobahn” and J.M Jarre “Equinox” alongside groups like Atomic Rooster and Yes.
My teenage years were in a market town where entertainment was either booze and fighting or going to gigs, so me and my friends - who ranged from heavy metal lovers to psychobillies and goths - went all over South East UK to see live music. At a similar time a certain Gary Numan was releasing music that captivated my ears and imagination and I religiously collected his singles and from here a love of electronic music of all types and styles began.
Apart from dabbling with some analogue synths back in the day, my involvement with making music started when a work colleague introduced me to Reason , a DAW, probably near 20 years ago. I was hooked from the start and my friend also had a garage studio so it started from making demo’s to play to him, to sending out demo CD’s to so many record labels over quite a few years. I have kept a copy of every demo CD, rejection letter and review in a file as it marked a huge part of my life and I also received some great feedback and good reviews in magazines from the experience. I was also lucky to have a friend in published electronic band who helped and inspired me to learn and improve.
A few years ago I started putting my music up on Soundcloud and started using Twitter as a means to try and get my music heard, this led to joining Atom Collector and the EMA, where you can chat and learn / socialise / collaborate with other great musicians. I have been lucky to have collaborated with some great people/musicians over the past few years and this something I would love to continue. Along with Grand Space Adventure and T.C.Newman we formed an electronic industrial band called Trauma Particle and we have released a number of tracks and this has also been a fun learning experience.
Ah yes Gary Numan, phenomenal musician and was popular in our household growing up too! It's great to see you have joined a few networks and collaborated with other musicians as well. Perhaps you can tell us a little bit more about the type of music you make?
I make electronic music that can range from the heavier end of the spectrum through to more chilled and anything in between. My hashtag #Musicismytherapy is used for a reason, I use my creativity to “help” with the many issues that can crop up and have to be faced during life’s journey.
I think people will start using that hashtag a little bit more after reading that - music is definitely a therapy as a listener and producer too! Speaking of music, you released a tune with EAR last month called "Chill of Night" on the 1 Year Compilation, what was the story behind this one? Are there more tunes coming up in the TRiPMusic pipeline?
Currently I have two tracks underway, both collaborations for EAR records, one with Tripjacker which is called “Double Tap” which is finished and sounding immense and will be out early March and another brewing with Karnevor for an EAR collaboration album. I am also starting to work on a new TRiP track which is currently un named.
I am also really proud to be on EMA/EAR Future Sounds Anthology Vol 1, which is a superb compilation full of great artists with “Chill of Night” a dark, chilled journey into the darkness.
EMAzing stuff TRiP! We're licking our lips with anticipation of those releases! So the big question here to round off this interview - how did you get involved with or hear about EMA/EAR?
I was lucky enough to be asked at quite an early stage of the EMA to join , It is a great place to meet up with / chat /collab with other musicians across a large spectrum of styles and sounds and I am proud to be a member of.
And we're proud to have you with us mate! Thanks for being a part of it all and look forward to catching up with you in the Mothership again soon! You can follow TRiP on his Twitter, Spotify or Soundcloud links by clicking the icons and listen in to his music on the player below:
We hope you have enjoyed this month’s newsletter, let us know in the comments below and catch you soon for the next one!
Yours EMA (Bufinjer, DaveyHub & Nicky Havey)
1 Comment
Skaarl
2/29/2020 08:30:41 am
Nice update, EMA and EAR both seem to be getting much busier these days. Nice to find out a little more about TRiP too #Musicismytherapy
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