Greetings everyone and welcome back to another weekly showcase from the Electronic Music Alliance!
Each week on our blog, we bring you a selection of the freshest tracks from our members, specially chosen by one of our founders. This time round, it’s Bufinjer curating the playlist with music submitted by the EMA community on YouTube – have a listen below and let us know what you think in the comments! Artists Featured
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Cylotron Trip Jacker Eonlake Empty Sea Electrostatic Nightmare Disco Gribbles Primaudia Record icon DARK Forces of Nature Hegstraction Nicky Havey Awaking the Elements Skyline Tigers Bufinjer DaveyHub
We hope you enjoy this week’s selection, let us know in the comments below and catch you soon for the next one!
Yours EMA (Bufinjer, DaveyHub & Nicky Havey)
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Greetings everyone and welcome back to another weekly showcase from the Electronic Music Alliance!
Each week on our blog, we bring you a selection of the freshest tracks from our members, specially chosen by one of our founders. This time round, it’s Bufinjer curating the playlist with music submitted by the EMA community for SoundCloud – have a listen below and let us know what you think in the comments! Artists Featured
Here is a list of the artists featured in the playlist with a link to their Soundcloud profiles – make sure you give them a follow:
Andrew Gabriel
Cylotron Kindly Spoken Thieves HEGstraction Skeebo Empty Sea Skyline Tigers Primaudia Record DaveyHub Electrostatic Nightmare Disco Gribbles Nicky Havey Stick Up Boys TRiPmusic Bufinjer
We hope you enjoy this week’s selection, let us know in the comments below and catch you soon for the next one!
Yours EMA (Bufinjer, DaveyHub & Nicky Havey)
Greetings everyone and welcome back to another weekly showcase from the Electronic Music Alliance!
Each week on our blog, we bring you a selection of the freshest tracks from our members, specially chosen by one of our founders. This time round, it’s Bufinjer curating the playlist with music submitted by the EMA community on Spotify – have a listen below and let us know what you think in the comments. Artists Featured
Here is a list of the artists featured in the playlist with a link to their Spotify profiles – make sure you give them a follow:
Nicky Havey
Jinen Tronic Gribbles Skeebo iconDARK Primaudia Record Rico Pundrich Miss Efemby Hegstraction Awaking the Elements Electrostatic Nightmare Disco Skaarl HootGun Empty Sea Bufinjer Stick Up Boys Ethanol ADDiKtz Trip Skyline Tigers
We hope you enjoy this week’s selection, let us know in the comments below and catch you soon for the next one!
Yours EMA (Bufinjer, DaveyHub & Nicky Havey)
Hello everyone and welcome back to the Electronic Music Alliance - April 2020 Newsletter where we give you awesome Earthlings a run down of the latest goings on from our orbiting EMAlien Mothership!
Firstly though, we extend our well wishes to everyone in regard to the Coronavirus pandemic. Please stay safe and follow the guidelines of your respective countries. We also want to say thank you to all the health workers caring for the sick and everyone looking after the more vulnerable - you are all legends! As for EMA, a big thanks to all of you for the continued support and sharing all the good vibes on Twitter! It's been another EMAzing month with Future Sounds Anthology Vol. 2 being released on 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, Tripjacker! Let's dive in! EMA Community
We reached another couple of milestones this month as 4,000 of you awesome people are now following our EMA Twitter account and we have over 150 releases now through our community run Electronic Alliance Records label! Seems like you legends can't get enough of the music so we're just going to have to release more tunes for you! Here's a full run down:
Once again, a big thank you to everyone for the continued support and sharing our music! And of course, a big shout to our EMAliens on the Mothership, keeping everyone's spirits up and making it a fun place to be!
Regular Playlists
We have our regular weekly EMA curated playlists going across various streaming platforms featuring tracks no older than 3 months from our members, keeping things as fresh as possible! 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
We have another debutante in our Featured Playlist section this month in the form of Primaudia Record who requested some dark ambient tracks from the EMAliens to create the "EMA Darkside Anthems" Spotify playlist here. If you wanted to take a trip to the dark side then there's over 30 tracks for you to enjoy here:
EMA DJ Mixes
We have continued the cool vibes from the EMA DJ Mix Series 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. Feel free to stream the latest mixes below:
Electronic Alliance Records
Our community run label Electronic Alliance Records continues to grow with some more releases this month from our EMAliens who have been beaming their beats down from the Mothership! Make sure you follow us on our Beatport page for the latest releases. Wrap your EARs around these:
Future Sounds Anthology Vol. 2
After launching the Future Sounds Anthology Vol. 1 to celebrate our 1 year anniversary, we thought we'd release new compilations of this series every quarter and Vol. 2 was a blockbuster! There is a bit of a theme going with this release but you'll have to see if you can figure it out! One of our Co-Founders, Nicky Havey, wrote a comprehensive review taking you through all 20 releases by genre for you to enjoy!
Thanks to all the EMAliens who got on board with this release and to all the support from you awesome followers who have got involved with it and continue to share it on the socials! Here's the Spotify playlist in all its glory: Featured Artist - Tripjacker
Each month the "Featured Artist" section of our newsletter gives us a chance to find out more about one of our EMAliens and this time round, we're going to be quizzing Discord "High Flyer" - Tripjacker! We sent Nicky Havey over to find out more about the artist (digitally of course) and this is what happened!
Hey Mr Tripjacker, EMAzing achievement getting to the High Flyer status in our Discord! Now it's time for us to unravel a bit more of the "tripstery"... (I'll see myself out)! So can you tell us about the man behind Tripjacker? How did you get involved in music?
Hi Nicky! I’m an electronic artist and producer from Massachusetts.
Music has always been a big part of my life. I grew up in a musical household and there was always oldies and classic rock playing. We had a piano and I could play by ear by the time I was tall enough to reach the keys. As a kid and a teenager, I couldn’t walk by the piano without stopping to play. I was in a rock band in high school and I played music regularly until I joined the workforce and started a family.
I didn’t do anything with music for several years but even though I wasn’t playing, music was still very important to me. I listened to music all the time and went to a ton of concerts. I listen to almost everything except country music and most modern popular music. My music collection is pretty eclectic and you’ll find Frank Sinatra right next to Simple Minds right next to Sick of it All. My all-time favorite bands include Nine Inch Nails, Type O Negative, The Cure, Operation Ivy, Led Zeppelin and New Order. My favorite electronic artists are Underworld, Crystal Castles, Phantogram and Chemical Brothers. The genres I listen to the most are indie hip-hop, 80s new wave and classic rock.
A few years ago, I started making beats on a tablet on an app called Pocketband, and I ended up making several songs (it was a really powerful little app). I then learned a DAW called Acid and I made a few dozen songs that I never released. The music was pretty good but I didn’t know much about mixing or mastering, so those songs will probably never see the light of day. I sometimes think about going back and remastering them, but I’d rather move forward instead of looking back.
Another producer strongly recommended that I learn Ableton Live. I’ve been working in Ableton for the last couple of years and I love it. I still have a lot to learn, but my production skills have greatly improved over the past year. I’ve spent countless hours in the studio working on my craft.
Seems we must never mention Country Music around you as well haha! Despite your break, it sounds like you've come back pretty strongly and to great effect. With that variety of musical influences you mentioned, how does that come through with the type of music you make?
I make electronic music that probably doesn’t fit neatly into any specific subgenre. I tend to use big beats along with lots of synths and arps, and I like to chop up vocals and vocal effects. I create whatever comes into my head and I’m not looking to conform to any particular style. I’d probably have more commercial appeal if I stuck to one style, but I’m not interested in doing that.
Nice one and whatever works best for you, stick to it! It sounds like each new track is an exciting adventure with all these different styles, maybe we can call it "genre-fluid"! Speaking of tracks, what releases or projects have you got going on? You had a release on the Future Sounds Anthology Vol. 2 compilation as well didn't you?
Yeah, I’ve released five singles in 2020, including Escape My Algorithm on the latest EMA compilation album. I have several other tracks finished or nearly finished, and I plan to release some of them this year. I’m going to stick with singles for the foreseeable future, as it took me 18 months to finish my Ghosted album. It was a huge time commitment and I don’t know that albums make sense for me at this point. I’m really looking forward to getting vocals from Sketch tha Cataclysm for the upcoming EMA hip hop fusion project. I’ve been a fan of his for years, and it’s dope to be working with him.
Yeah there's definitely a different concept with albums and telling the story isn't there but both singles and albums have their merit for sure! Great to see you have a few projects on the go, looks like there's plenty to look forward to in the future! So the final question is how did you get involved or hear about EMA and EAR?
I’m pretty active on Twitter, and I randomly responded to a Tweet from the wonderful Miss Efemby. I didn’t know her at the time, but she was looking for tracks for a playlist. I sent her a track and she included it in the playlist, and then Bufinjer reached out to me and told me about EMA. The rest is history, and I’m very happy I joined the group. It’s introduced me to some great artists and great people and it has really pushed me to create better music.
I’ve made my best music since joining EMA, and that’s not a coincidence. There’s so much talent in the group that I felt I had to step up my game in order to earn my place. EMA has also opened the door for some really fun collabs. I did a remix for Skeebo, teamed up with Simon Irvine on a track, teamed up with TRiP on another one and Eonlake remixed one of my tracks. I’m open to doing additional collabs down the road when I’m back in the studio.
Ah man, thanks for the kind words and being a part of it all! We love having you around and can't wait to see what those collabs bring, it's been great getting to find out more about you. Take care and catch you on the Mothership again soon!
Although Tripjacker is taking a little break at the moment, rest assured, he'll be back with a bounce but in the meantime, you can follow him by clicking on the icons below and check his website here.
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)
Greetings everyone and welcome back to another weekly showcase from the Electronic Music Alliance!
Each week on our blog, we bring you a selection of the freshest tracks from our members, specially chosen by one of our founders. This time round, it’s Bufinjer curating the playlist with music submitted by the EMA community on YouTube – have a listen below and let us know what you think in the comments! Artists Featured
gribbles
Crimson Medici Primaudia Record Hegstraction mAncient icon DARK Beats of Burden emptysea Biting Point Electrostatic Nightmare Disco Letters From Mouse Bowlah Nicky Havey Daveyhub Bufinjer Awaking The Elements Stick Up Boys
We hope you enjoy this week’s selection, let us know in the comments below and catch you soon for the next one!
Yours EMA (Bufinjer, DaveyHub & Nicky Havey)
Greetings everyone and welcome back to another weekly showcase from the Electronic Music Alliance!
Each week on our blog, we bring you a selection of the freshest tracks from our members, specially chosen by one of our founders. This time round, it’s Bufinjer curating the playlist with music submitted by the EMA community for SoundCloud – have a listen below and let us know what you think in the comments! Artists Featured
Here is a list of the artists featured in the playlist with a link to their Soundcloud profiles – make sure you give them a follow:
Cylotron
Awaking The Elements TRiPmusic Hootgun Primaudia Record Andrew Gabriel mskra HEGstraction Electrostatic Nightmare Disco mAncient DaveyHub Skyline Tigers Bufinjer
We hope you enjoy this week’s selection, let us know in the comments below and catch you soon for the next one!
Yours EMA (Bufinjer, DaveyHub & Nicky Havey)
Greetings everyone and welcome back to another weekly showcase from the Electronic Music Alliance!
Each week on our blog, we bring you a selection of the freshest tracks from our members, specially chosen by one of our founders. This time round, it’s Bufinjer curating the playlist with music submitted by the EMA community on Spotify – have a listen below and let us know what you think in the comments. Artists Featured
Here is a list of the artists featured in the playlist with a link to their Spotify profiles – make sure you give them a follow:
Beats of Burden
Nicky Havey Skeebo Bufinjer Cylotron iconDARK Night Danger Joshua James Wittman Primaudia Record Andrew Gabriel Cosmic Cadence Hegstraction PulpStereo Empty Sea Electrostatic Nightmare Disco Skaarl Crimson Medici DaveyHub
We hope you enjoy this week’s selection, let us know in the comments below and catch you soon for the next one!
Yours EMA (Bufinjer, DaveyHub & Nicky Havey)
Greetings everyone and welcome back to another weekly showcase from the Electronic Music Alliance!
Each week on our blog, we bring you a selection of the freshest tracks from our members, specially chosen by one of our founders. This time round, it’s Bufinjer curating the playlist with music submitted by the EMA community on YouTube – have a listen below and let us know what you think in the comments! Artists Featured
Trip Jacker & TRiPMusic
Dinksteriznangel PulpStereo Eonlake Empty Sea Awaking the Elements Hegstraction Electrostatic Nightmare Disco Jansky Greenmamba Gribbles Nicky Havey Bufinjer
We hope you enjoy this week’s selection, let us know in the comments below and catch you soon for the next one!
Yours EMA (Bufinjer, DaveyHub & Nicky Havey)
Hello everyone and welcome back to the Electronic Music Alliance - March 2020 Newsletter! It's time for us to transmit our monthly update and keep you awesome Earthlings in the loop of the latest news from our orbiting EMAlien Mothership!
Firstly though, we just want to extend our thoughts and well wishes to everyone in regard to Coronavirus - stay safe and follow the guidelines of your respective countries to help combat this together! Also, to all the health workers caring for the sick and everyone looking after the more vulnerable, we say thank you - you are all legends! As for EMA, we'd like to say 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, TygerTyger! 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! Another milestone has been reached as we now have over 150 members and we're getting very close to 4,000 awesome people who are following our EMA Twitter account - 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 off 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
Featured Playlist debutante "Gribbles" comes up with a really cool concept with his "Crop Circles - EMA Calling Cards" playlist as he asked each of the EMAliens to send over their favourite track to include here! So this really is a showstopper in terms of the EMAliens bringing their best music to the fray. Maybe these tracks are responsible for the crop circles... who knows? Here's that very playlist below and, in his own words, if you like anything you hear, please consider following the artist on Spotify and social media:
EMA DJ Mixes
We have continued the EMAzing vibes from the EMA DJ Mix Series 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:
Future Sounds Anthology Vol. 2
Following the success of our Future Sounds Anthology Vol. 1, which launched to celebrate our 1 year anniversary, we thought we'd release new compilations of this series every quarter, with the next installment coming out on Friday 3rd April! There is a bit of a theme going with this release but you'll have to see if you can figure it out after release day!
Thanks to all the EMAliens who got on board with this release, we really can't wait to share this one with you! Featured Artist
Each month the Featured Artist section of our newsletter gives us a chance to find out more about on of our awesome EMAliens. So, for this month's newsletter, we're going to feature one of our "High Flyers" and all round pie loving goddess - TygerTyger! We sent the brave Nicky Havey on a scouting mission to see if we can find out more about Her Royal Pieness!
Hey hey TygerTyger! Congratulations on getting to the High Flyer status! I'm sure we're all looking forward to this one! So, who is Her Royal Pieness aka TygerTyger aka PiegerPieger?? Tell us a bit about yourself and how you got involved with music but most importantly, why you’re known by these frankly wonderful nicknames? Haha
Haha! Ok, so first things first, I actually started singing at the age of 1 and then any instrument that was in the house was abused by myself for as long as I can remember! Any instrument I could find I would play and I’ve always been singing - my grandmother also had a huge piano but I've always been surrounded by instruments.
I was a bit of a weird kid – I read a lot and started reading Shakespeare when I was 5! When I was 7, I fell in love with Classical Music as my Aunt would bring me to the opera and concerts once every two weeks when I was in boarding school in Paris. Jazz and Blues came a little later when I was about 10. I’ve always been in to tribal music and any form of music interested. Love Bluegrass, hate Country (this is the only genre you can beat me with a stick with)!
My most dominant heritage is my Russian heritage because it’s the culture I grew up in, I am also partially German, Austrian, Mongolian with a little bit of Syrian thrown in so a real mix of genetics.
I’ve listened to so much stuff in my life but in terms of female vocalists, Kate Bush influenced me a lot, Tori Amos too. I love Peter Gabriel. When it comes to music, Bauhaus, Dead Kennedies, Black Flag, Motorhead, Kiss, David Bowie (when he died, my heart broke as he was someone I’ve always wanted to work with), Queen (another one that got away was Freddie Mercury as I’d have loved to work with him too!), Prince, I’d have loved to work with him – there’s just so many influences! I have a soft spot for Mozart but Bach’s complicated structures mesmorised me. When I was about 7 or 8 years old, my Aunt brought me to this concert in a Church where they played this big Church organ and it was Bach – I was in love AND THEY LET ME TOUCH THE PIPE ORGAN! I’ll never forget that, it was great!
When it comes to classical singers and those who influenced me Maria Callas is another who warmed my heart, Enrico Caruso (love his voice) and I have a big thing for 1920s and 1930s music, particularly rag time. I had an extensive collection of gramophone discs before coming to the USA – just loved it – a part of me is stuck in that era, I’m not sure why!
Basically everything influences me from the 1 man travelling band to tribals, Celtic music, Irish folk, even rap music as long as it has meaning… but yeah, it ALL influences me! TygerTyger comes from the poem by William Blake, “Tyger Tyger burning bright, in the fores of the night” – I was in a relationship with a guy who was afraid of me and he gave me a handwritten version of that poem and it kinda stuck. Since then I’ve been using it for pretty much everything! PiegerPieger – YOU DID THAT TO ME! As everyone in EMA knows, my favourite food is pie! It’s the food of the Gods! However, say it after me, “No imposter pies!” You guys can keep the sweet potato and pumpkins but all the other pies are mine!
Haha! Well, you are the Empress of Pie so we couldn't let that one slip by! What an awesome collection of influences though, it's not very often we feature Classical music in our blogs so it's been awesome to find that out about you! How have all these influences impacted with the type of music you make?
You can probably guess that I make everything except country! Whatever tickles my fancy, one of my many voices will come out to play so I don’t really have a set genre but I always try to put a little twist and some harmonies. I layer vocals over each other depending on what comes in to my head.
OK, so we must never mention "Country Music" again...that may not happen now you said it! Now, I know we have worked on a couple of projects, maybe we can enlighten the good readers on these - do you have anything else going as well?
I have the Nebula track with you Nicky and the Gabriel remix track, which is part of a mini EP that came from a series of dreams I had. Then you asked if you could do a DnB version and I let you go for it! So far, that’s all at the moment. I’m waiting for people to send me tracks to collab with but I’ve been really sick and not feeling well, things with my personal life and my neurological condition will continue to affect me and add to that the coronavirus misery.
I did a tour once but it wasn’t for me and I just want the right people to find my music and like it. I’ll keep doing as many collaborations as I can – I like making song babies with people!
Yep, song babies are great fun to make haha! I did enjoy working on the remix of Gabriel and can't wait to share the Nebula collaboration with everyone soon as well! So, our final piece of the pie (ha!) - How did you get involved with EMA?
I think it was from Spotlight on the Artist and D-Vine was talking to you or I was sharing music and the EMA Founders were in there. You guys invited me in with a few others on that show, fed me pie and I took over the naughty corner and the rest is history! I’m definitely most active in EMA, Second Life & Open Simulator. You are my most talked to people on the planet and I love you very much.
Well, we love having you with us as well and you've definitely been keeping that Naughty Corner well occupied, certainly no dust collecting in that part of the Mothership haha! Make sure you follow TygerTyger by clicking on the icons 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)
Greetings everyone and welcome back to another weekly showcase from the Electronic Music Alliance!
Each week on our blog, we bring you a selection of the freshest tracks from our members, specially chosen by one of our founders. This time round, it’s Bufinjer curating the playlist with music submitted by the EMA community for SoundCloud – have a listen below and let us know what you think in the comments! Artists Featured
Here is a list of the artists featured in the playlist with a link to their Soundcloud profiles – make sure you give them a follow:
Awaking The Elements
Electrostatic Nightmare Disco Mskra Empty Sea Hegstraction Trip Music trx-01 Stuffamebobs Bufinjer Cylotron Chaos Studio Skaarl
We hope you enjoy this week’s selection, let us know in the comments below and catch you soon for the next one!
Yours EMA (Bufinjer, DaveyHub & Nicky Havey) |
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