Sursumcorda Magazine

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  • Pre-order the new Tulipomania album “Dreaming of Sleep”

    Dave Wesley, September 19th 2023

    Pre-order the new Tulipomania album “Dreaming of Sleep” here!

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  • New Chill Dub Techno from Racecorner on Insectorama

    Dave Wesley, November 12th 2021

    Releases like this are calling me back to my dub techno roots. Well done. Radiostation by Racecorner

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  • Guias Sonoras – New Experimental Ambient Label

    Dave Wesley, October 26th 2020

    Hello, followers of Arctic Dub (Sursumcorda). Thank you very much for your interest and support over the years. Since 1998, this label has focused on the dub techno genre and iterations thereof, and now the label is riding off into the sunset… but the Bandcamp page will remain online at https://arcticdub.bandcamp.com. Many thanks to Gabi […]

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  • Mixes – Unexplained Sounds Group

    Dave Wesley, May 25th 2020

    I have found voluminous experimental and ambient music mixes on Mixcloud from this prolific label. These are worth checking out for adventurous but listenable music, artist, and label discovery.

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  • Entrancing Dronal Modular – XVARR – Echoes of Time

    Dave Wesley, November 24th 2019

    XVARR – Echoes of Time by XVARR I love record stores for discovering music. Not-so-much in the mode of rifling through stacks and dropping needles. But, for witnessing the shopkeepers’ currently spinning selection. I’ve stumbled onto so many rubies in this way. Over the years. As was discovered the mysterious and entrancing XVARR – Echoes […]

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  • Haunting Gothic Rock From Istanbul – Rain To Rust – Flowers Of Doubt

    Wesley Mayhem, October 31st 2019

    I was lucky enough to receive this promo in my email inbox on a dark and gray Autumn morning. This is the type of expertly crafted gothic rock that gives inclement weather and depression an attractive patina. According to a fan review on Bandcamp “Mert Yıldız, who plays almost everything here, attains an enviable tone […]

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  • Mix – Richard Chartier October 2019 Mix for Dublab’s Between Two Points Radio Show

    Dave Wesley, October 24th 2019

    This is an enthralling spooky 2-hour odyssey. Perfect for your Halloween run-up. Between Two Points is a monthly transMIXion by Los Angeles based sound artist Richard Chartier for Dublab. A beginning, an end and the layered transitional sonic flow enclosed, ‘between two points’ explores textures, tones, place, and space, featuring experimental, avant-garde, ambient works from […]

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  • White Winged Moth – Scratch(ed) Music

    Dave Wesley, October 17th 2019

    If you woke up this morning thinking that you’d like to find a masterful evolving experimental drone track, you’ve landed on the right page, in this distant corner of the web. Not a lot more to say about this other than, “Wow.”  

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  • New Musique Concrete – BOTHBOTH by Stuart Chalmers and see monsd

    Dave Wesley, September 25th 2019

    For those of you that follow my music production, you’ll know that I’m a big fan of experimental use of spoken word and low fidelity music collage. This release (by prolific experimental music artist Stuart Chalmers) is a perfect fit for my esoteric tastes. I hope you also enjoy it. BOTHBOTH by Stuart Chalmers See […]

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  • MIX – SECRET THIRTEEN – STM 297 – ROSA DAMASK

    Dave Wesley, September 23rd 2019

    This wonderful mix rides an in between line of frightening industrial and melancholic intrigue. And, there’s even a smattering of dub techno sprinkled into the recipe. Bonus. Perfect for gray Monday mornings when one is feeling like a replicant.  From the Secret Thirteen intro paragraph: “Rosa Damask is the alias of Nastia Reigel, a Russian […]

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