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 channels – make sure you give them a follow:
Letters From Mouse
Tobb Peppsen Jansky iconDARK Simon Irvine DaveyHub Skyline Tigers Eonlake Skaarl Hidden Bytes PulpStereo Downward Spiral Mantra Electrostatic Nightmare Disco Bufinjer Andrew Gabriel Selfish Limbs Cosmic Cadence
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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Hello everyone and welcome to the Electronic Music Alliance - September 2019 Newsletter!
Another month chalked off here in the EMAlien Mothership as we have been busy scanning planet Earth for talented and active electronic music producers! New members have been welcomed aboard and more music than ever is blasting out through our futuristic technological speakers and getting released on our community run label Electronic Alliance Records. We'll also be finding out a bit more about the "myth beyond the trousers" (not as dirty as it sounds) as we shine the spotlight on one of our EMA "Heroes" - Skaarl. But first, a quick look at how we're doing in the community. EMA Community
For the statisticians amongst us, let's have our usual look at the stats from the last month. We're over the moon to say, WE'VE DONE IT! Over 100 EMAliens have now boarded the Mothership since we launched in January 2019 with every one bringing something unique and awesome to our weekly playlists! Here's to the next 100!
We're always so very grateful to all the support from you EMAzing followers who listen in to our weekly playlists! Big shout as well to all our EMAliens on the Mothership making it such a fun and vibrant place to be! Definitely going from strength to strength with each month thanks to everyone's interaction!
Regular Playlists
We've had a little re-jig of our playlist schedules over the last month and as you know, we like keeping the music in these posts as "hot off the press" as possible by 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
A new part of the newsletter this month is our featured playlist where we highlight our pick of the playlists put out in the past month. This one is mega and it's from our "Hero" Skaarl, who shared it with us this past week. It provides a snapshot of what our community is all about and it's called EMAliens V on Spotify!
Electronic Alliance Records
Our community run label - Electronic Alliance Records - is showing no signs of stopping this month with 8 releases for you to wrap your EARs around (badum tschh). Make sure you follow us on our Beatport page to keep in the loop about the latest releases. Here's what happened this month:
Featured Artist - Skaarl
This has been on the cards for a while and we didn't manage to get a full interview with our trousered friend until this month! So now we managed to locate the missing trousers, we wanted to find out a little more about Skaarl. He has many names in our community from Don Skaarlioni, Agent Skaarl and Senor Trouser Man to name a few, which we all use interchangeably in our Discord! Let's hear from the man himself :)
Hey hey Skaarl! What's up! Thanks for joining me here - it's great to finally have a chance to find out a little more about you! So, the first question is, "Who is Skaarl?? Or Don Skaarlioni? Senor Trouser Man" Haha! Tell us a little bit about yourself, how you got involved with music? Influences, roots etc?
Gotta love the nicknames, that's what I get for being different and posting a pic of my feet instead of my face.
I'm just some bloke from St Austell, although I've been based in north east Nottinghamshire for a number of years now. I have existed under various different names over the years, starting to think I need to start creating some new alter egos…hmm. Musically, I've been a musician since I was a kid, started off playing percussion in a latin band (both hand and tuned percs), then moved onto playing double bass in a jazz band, then bass guitar. I used to DJ until a few years ago (but didn’t really get along with the digital stuff, I prefer vinyl and a set of 1210’s), this was my main source of income at one point too. As for creating electronic music, I’ve been doing this since the 90’s.
Well, you can always ask us if you need any more help with "alter egos" haha! Great to hear about your background though and all the different things you did. How has it shaped your sound now? Would you say you make any particular kind of music?
I don’t really follow one particular genre, I describe it as “whatever happens, happens”, one track will be some kind of tech house influenced track, the next will be some chilled out jazzy thing, the one after that I’ll have trouble finding a genre tag for.
I’m planning to resurrect one of my old projects under the name One Devious Monkey (as played on Miss Efemby’s show last week). This was something I started back in 2011 and never did anything with, it’s in a more glitchy style of electronic music, I love all that stuff, it’s wide open to experimentation which is another of my things. I also do some other stuff that’s more organic, kind of jazzy and latin stuff, since that’s in a style I like to play bass. More on that later though.
It's always good to have a bit of flexibility in what you make, the sky really is the limit. Maybe you can dress that devious monkey up in your trousers haha! I'm sure our listeners would LOVE to hear all these different styles and sounds - what have you got lined up release wise?
Loads, I have ‘Nomad’ with winkandwoo on the vox, that’s coming out on EAR on 5th Oct, followed by one of my other releases ‘Back To Basics’ on the 13th. I’m currently re-releasing all my back catalog, so have a few of those coming up, the next one ‘South Of The City’ was re-released on 29th Sept.
Also a few collabs I’ve done a remix of Miss Efemby’s Crazy Head, which she’s going to be releasing on EAR shortly, another one on The Turtle Project’s upcoming release, and there is another one I’m currently working on with Bufinjer. I love doing these collabs and remixes. I should have a couple of remixes of my tracks materialising at some point, Miss Efemby is working on two of them, and there was another I sent to Forces of Nature a little while back.
Wow, you're certainly keeping yourself busy mate! Looks like EAR is going to heaving in the next few months with all these releases! Awesome stuff! So outside of EMA and EAR, where can people find you?
If it’s Friday, usually in the pub!
Ahh wait, you meant online right? You can find me on any of the links below, there's probably some I've forgotten!
Haha! Plenty of options then for people to find you if they can't catch you down the local! And finally, the big question, how did you hear about or get involved with EMA/EAR?
I was chatting to that Nicky Havey bloke when they were just starting it up and said it sounding like an interesting idea, then the next thing I got an invite to the group on the day EMA started (I had known the founders for a while before that to be fair).
EMA is a great group, always something happening in the discord, good supportive bunch of people to hang out with too…just watch out for that DJ Overlord!
Haha, yea I know that Nicky Havey bloke! Well, we're very grateful you joined us since day 1 and thanks for being such a supportive part of the EMAlien Mothership! You can listen to Skaarl's beats over on his Spotify profile below - enjoy!
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
Here is a list of the artists featured in the playlist with a link to their YouTube channels – make sure you give them a follow:
Trip Jacker
Adam Kindly Spoken Thieves Hidden Bytes DaveyHub icon DARK Bufinjer Dislocated Flowers Eonlake Cosmic Cadence Nicky Havey
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 channels – make sure you give them a follow:
Trip Jacker
Andrew Gabriel Skaarl Winkandwoo TRiPmusic Monotor Rico Pundrich Nicky Havey nakedverse Jansky Official The Worst Thing PulpStereo Bufinjer Hydro Fyter tobb
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
Trip Jacker
DaveyHub Night Danger iconDARK Alphabot Bufinjer PulpStereo Naked Congress Skaarl Winkandwoo Adam Radwan Nicky Havey Jordan Baywood Electrostatic Nightmare Disco Andrew Gabriel
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 to the Electronic Music Alliance - August 2019 Newsletter!
It hasn't just been the weather that's hotted up over the last month as we have also been stoking the fire in the engine of our EMA Mothership and gone at it full throttle! In this edition, we have a special in depth look at life with one of our "High Flying" members, Miss eFeMBy, but first, let's see how things have gone with the EMAlien community. EMA Community
For those of us who love our numbers, let's do our usual look back at the stats from the last month. It's been another incredible recruitment effort as we have welcomed in even more talented electronic music producers. Those engineers need to be called in again to make some more major upgrades to the EMA Mothership as we are getting dangerously close to the big 100!
We're so grateful to all the support from all of you EMAmazing followers who listen in and support our weekly playlists and so happy to be welcoming more EMAliens in to the Mothership too as we are going from strength to strength each month! We're happy to share our community and friendship with you!
Weekly Playlists
We like keeping things as fresh as possible in EMA by having our weekly playlists 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! We're going to be updating our playlist and newsletter schedule from next month so it will look like this now:
Meanwhile, enjoy our latest curation of electronic music from EMA Co-Founder DaveyHub with his awesome selection called "Music from the Mothership Vol 01":
Electronic Alliance Records
Our community run label - Electronic Alliance Records - has continued the momentum this month with 14 releases coming out for you to wrap your EARs around (badum tschh). Make sure you follow us on our Beatport page to keep in the loop about the latest releases. Here's what happened this month:
Featured Artist - Miss eFeMBy
At long last, we managed to synchronise our watches with one of our passionate and energetic "High Flyers" in our Discord and have a chat about all things Miss eFeMBy! In this part of the newsletter, we get to find out a little more about this talented DJ and producer from Germany as EMA Co-Founder Nicky Havey caught up with her.
Hello Miss eFeMBy! Thanks for joining me today, it's great to speak with you! So, the first question is, "Who is eFeMBy??" Haha! Tell us a little bit about yourself, how you got involved with music? Influences, roots etc? Hi Nicky! Thanks for having me on! Efemby is Denise from Germany aka Feel My Bass. I got the name when I was 16 from a friend. We were hanging around at his house and I said “I want to be a DJ” he said “OK we need a name! You do Techno, how about “Feel My Bass”? Then we came to the letters eFeMBy and we used “y” instead of “I” as it looks nicer!
I did Hard Techno and Trance from the beginning and practiced at my friend’s house, spinning vinyls and recorded it on tapes, so I only used the hardware and now I use digital too but only for my Techno Diaries radio show as it’s easier to prepare. I used the first Tractor Scratch (One) when it came out from Native Instruments and played with Timecode on vinyl at nightclubs with the laptop as it was a lot easier than carrying all my vinyl collection!
I started playing nightclubs when I was 18 as I had a few connections and had 2 gigs a week as a resident DJ on Friday and Saturday nights with some guest gigs for one or two hours. Wow, that's a pretty awesome history! How has it all influenced the kind of music you're producing now? When I prepare the Techno Diaries shows, I think my music is similar to what I put in there but I haven’t made music for long so I’m still finding out what my sound is and playing around with the production software I use. I’d like to make the darker sounds of Techno but I’m pushing a little bit out of my comfort zone with remixing Skaarl’s & Winkandwoo’s Daybreak track that isn’t Techno. I’d like to try producing Drum & Bass one day too!
Drum & FMBass? I'd LOVE to hear that being a DnB head and I'm sure others would too! Looks like you've got a LOT of stuff going on. Have you got any releases coming up or already out?
“Spring Feelings” is already out. Then I’m just waiting for the remix from Bufinjer and Rico of “Crazy Head” (I already have one from Skaarl, E.N.D. and D-Vine) and would love to have it as a full EP released on Electronic Alliance Records. Skaarl sent stems of “South of the City” and I want to remix that too. I want to enter the “Love or Lost remix contest” as well from the Deep Down Dirty label as the winner will get a DDD release. I get a lot of my Techno Diaries tracks from DDD as they send me unreleased music which I love! Yes the DDD crew are a great bunch and Maya is a very supportive label owner as well - had the pleasure of meeting her. Well, it sounds like there's plenty keeping you busy and we can't wait to release your music on EAR - some pretty great collabs going on! So, the big question here - how did you hear about EMA and EAR?! I had a collab with Bonnie & wavDr and DaveyHub saw I was working with them and asked if I wanted to be involved with EMA. I got the questions from DaveyHub about joining EMA and I answered “yes” to all of the questions but I actually answered every one individually so Davey had a huge essay to read when he heard back from me! Haha! Well, I know he read EVERY word of it! We're so happy you joined EMA and look forward to releasing many more tracks and enjoying more of your Techno Diaries shows! You can all follow eFeMBy at the links below via Twitter, Mixcloud, Radio Dark Tunnel and Soundcloud - why not have a listen to one of her Techno Diaries shows whilst you're at it too!
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
Here is a list of the artists featured in the playlist with a link to their YouTube channels – make sure you give them a follow:
Dislocated Flowers
Skaarl Sound Effects of Death and Horror GrevusAnjl Bufinjer Nicky Havey TygerTyger Electrostatic Nightmare Disco Dinksteriznangel nakedverse Naked Congress 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 Nicky Havey 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 channels – make sure you give them a follow:
Nicky Havey
TRiPmusic PulpStereo BABYLON-X DaveyHub crest of the syndicate Skaarl Miss eFeMBy GrevusAnjl DNPQ 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 Nicky Havey 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
Nicky Havey
DaveyHub Skaarl Winkandwoo Ethanol ADDiKtz Electrostatic Nightmare Disco Naked Congress iconDARK Jansky Official Andrew Gabriel Downward Spiral Mantra Babylon X Rico Pundrich TygerTyger 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 to the Electronic Music Alliance - July 2019 Newsletter!
It's holiday season here at EMA HQ with all of our founders being away to various parts of the world this past month so you may be forgiven for thinking things would be a little on the slower side... But that's not the EMA way! Slow? Ha! If anything, it seems to have sped up! Let's see how things have gone this past month with the EMA community! EMA Community
For the statisticians amongst us, let's do our usual look in numbers over the last month. It's been a pretty staggering recruitment effort as we welcome in many more talented electronic music producers and we have had to make some major upgrades to the EMA Mothership to help with this new influx of awesome EMAliens joining the party! Check these details out:
So as you can see, things are going from strength to strength with the introductions of more awesome electronic music producers and a big thanks to all of YOU cool followers who listen in and support our weekly playlists! We're happy to share our community and friendship with you!
Weekly Playlists
We do like to keep things as fresh as possible in EMA by having our weekly playlists featuring tracks no older than 3 months from our members. Now we've added Apple Music and Hearthis platforms to the rotation, there's certainly no shortage of places where you can find our music! We'll be updating our schedule this month but be sure to check out our latest EMAliens Spotify playlist courtesy of the man with the trousers - Skaarl - below:
Electronic Alliance Records
Our community run label - Electronic Alliance Records - has continued the momentum this month with 5 releases from 5 artists coming out for you to wrap your EARs around (badum tschh). Make sure you follow us on our Beatport page to keep in the loop about the latest releases. Here's what happened this month:
Featured Artist
Well, it has been a tricky month to get this section of our newsletter up and running again and we do apologise to our EMAliens for missing it this time round but we do have some great news from Efemby! Tomorrow, 31st July, she is starting her brand new weekly radio show featuring the finest Techno beats around! Her test show last month proved to be very popular and we can't wait to hear her on air TOMORROW 31st July 6-9pm Central European Time! We look forward to joining you in there too and we'll be speaking to Efemby for August's Featured Artist slot to see how she felt about it all!
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) |
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