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Wild Thing inspiration …
Song of the Day: Moving from yesterday’s electronica complexity by Leon Vynehall to an admirable exercise in catchy minimalism by Bristol’s Chris Barrett, who on this project restricts all his music to his charity shop purchased Yamaha PSS-170 keyboard
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Leon Vynehall’s second LP: Rare, Forever
Songs of the Day: Ambient yet restless, stop-start yet smooth, a couple of tracks of otherworldly, dynamic, ethereal electronica by the British producer and musician from his recent second album – Rare, Forever – out on Ninja Tune
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Nicola Cruz’s new EP Subtropique
Song of the Day: A mesmeric mix of beats, voices and electronica by the artist and producer from Quito, Ecuador, taken from his latest EP Subtropique
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Machinedrum, aka Travis Stewart, left, remixes Manchester trio GoGo Penguin
Song of the Day: Intricate, pace-changing and with beautiful narrative arcs, two versions of the recent piece by the Manchester experimental jazz trio of pianist Chris Illingworth, bassist Nick Blacka, and drummer Rob Turner with a new dance remix by American producer Travis Stewart
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SOPHIE: 1986-2021
Songs of the Day: Following inventor Lomond Campbell yesterday, another musical pioneer from Scotland of a different kind – two tracks by the extraordinary genre-pushing electronic trans artist who tragically died last month
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Fragmens III by REAL DOGS. It’s not the first …
Song of the Day: This delightful instrumental composed of the retro sounds of old 1980s video games comes from the experimental electronica artist’s latest, and bitty album, Fragments III, all full of wonderfully oddball whimsy
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Avalon Emerson’s EP - 040
Song of the Day: Majestic electronica that builds from beats and scratches into shimmering synth waves by the New York artist from her latest EP, 04), out on the AD 93 label
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Nation of Language
Song of the Day: “So now we find ourselves in the waiting room of history … holding hands through this absurdity.” Beautifully poignant lyrics for a world in limbo in this new song by the Brooklyn trio their 80s new wave electro-pop
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The album cover of Diamond Mine (2011)
Song of the Day: Continuing with more Scottish-flavour collaborations, more exquisite songs, here by Fife's Kenny Anderson joining forces with the English electronica musician and producer from the 2011 album Diamond Mine
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Racing Yello? Dieter Meier and Boris Blank
Song of the Day: After the perfect pace and beautiful simplicity of Kraftwerk's Autobahn, here's a contrast race forward from handcraft in Germany to flashy millionaire Switzerland, snorting that white line of road into an 80s concoction of speed-and-coke-crazy synth sampling
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Kraftwerk in more recent performance of that timeless classic
Song of the Day: Our previous two selections have been big synth pop hits, but here is where that all really came from – down an unclogged motorway all the way to Düsseldorf, and the timelessly influential work of Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider
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The Human League, featuring Phil Oakey, third from left.
Song of the Day: More love song action, and groundbreaking synth pop, following yesterday's Eurythmics, with Phil Oakley and the Sheffield crew pumping out a classic from the 1981 album Dare
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The odd couple. Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart.
Song of the Day: The 'love is' mini-theme today moves onto to a different genre – early 80s electronica pop, served up by the enigmatic Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart
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Warp(ed). Plaid's Andy Turner and Ed Handley (sort of)
Song of the Day: Connecting to yesterday's Nicolette song, one from her album 1996 producers, the electronic music duo Andy Turner and Ed Handley. This inventively witty track from the 2003 album Dial P (Warp) builds beautifully with a series of clicks, beats and buzzes, with a video by the French collective Pleix that satirises the world of marketing and meat production
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From the cover of Nicolette's album Let No-One Live Rent Free in Your Head
Song of the Day: Alongside Tricky, another collaborator who appeared on Massive Attack's 1994 album Protection, Scottish/Nigerian Londoner Nicolette Love Suwoton's slightly forgotten gem from her brilliant second LP Let No-One Live Rent Free in Your Head, is a sensual mix of electronica, pop, jazz and and trip-hop, yearning for an apolitical utopia
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Jane Weaver
Song of the Day: A beautiful example of the work of singer-songwriter from Widnes, and who is based in Liverpool, from her 2017 album Modern Kosmology, with a transcendent theme in experimental, folktronica
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Squirty ... The cover of Lone Taxidermist's album, Trifle.
Song of the Day: Electronica erotica from the extraordinary singer and makeup artist Natalie Sharp and band, combining rude humour with bodily boldness, from the new album entitled Trifle
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Jeff Mills … the microcosm and the macrocosm
Song of the Day: Revolving from yesterday's Planetarium, we sample a Holst-inspired suite of full classical electronica played with orchestra and written by the Detroit DJ best known for techno
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Soulwax new album artwork for From Deewee
Song of the Day: After a short break we return with some brand new work from the Belgian band also known for their 2ManyDJs remixing, here with powerful studio session work featuring three drummers
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Gorillaz
Song of the Day: It's time to enter the breakthrough virtual Japanese anime world of Jamie Hewlett and Damon Albarn, produced by Dan The Automator, here inspired by the film The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
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