And more electronic news this week.
If this isn’t electronic music news, I don’t know what it is. We’ve officially introduced Skynet to the music industry, except it’s called (the somewhat less cool) Endel. The Berlin based company have designed an AI based music service that generates music for you to help you sleep, focus or relax. This got the Warner Music scouts frothing, apparently, because they’ve just signed Endel on a 20 album record deal. Yes, an algorithm just got a 20 album deal. Endel’s sounds are “designed to gently rise and fall in line with your immediate internal and external conditions like location, time zone, weather, and heart rate.” The future is nuts, my friends. You can download the Endel app now or listen to pre-recorded albums via the usual streaming services.
House music ‘it-girl’ Peggy Gou has announced a new EP and the birth of her own record label: Gudu Records. The two-track EP will be called Moment, and you can listen to the A-side ‘Starry Night’ now. The track features her once again singing in both Korean and English, blending a ‘90s style uplifting piano-house line with a jackin’ bass line and enough pop sensibilities to get this played on radio as well as the dance floor. Gou’s had an astonishing 12 months and has become a fashion icon in her own right – ruffling the feathers of grumpy underground house purists through her collaborations with high street fashion labels. But the music is good and she brings a huge vibe to the dance floor when she plays, so all power to her, I say. Moment will be out via Gudu on April 19.
We’re coming up to crunch time for Lounge, the last of the 29 parties for 29 years celebrations are nearing. If you’ve recovered from last weekend’s 24-hour Pleasure Planet odyssey and are keen for more, this weekend’s highlight will no doubt be Bunker’s final Lounge party. The Melbourne techno crew have pulled out all the stops for this one with a line-up of local legends and mainstays of Bunker over the years, all going back to back. We’ve got Moopie b2b NERVE, DJ Kiti b2b Chiara Kickdrum, Sam Hilton b2b Tim Heaney, PWD b2b Hyper Binary, D-REX b2b Matt Radovich and Adrian Bell b2b Different Shades. Pre-sales are sold out, but they’ve assured us there’ll be a healthy allocation of door sales, so get in early – kicks off at 10pm on Friday March 29.
By Michael Cusack
