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The playlist: electronic – Panama Brown, M.E.S.H. and Hilde Marie Holsen | Musique Non Stop

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Monday, June 29, 2015

The playlist: electronic – Panama Brown, M.E.S.H. and Hilde Marie Holsen

Our latest roundup of the electronic scene offers abstract futurist statements, 1980s testosterone swagger and essential Ibizan poolside selections

Here’s further proof that the Janus crew in Berlin are making some of the definitive statements in today’s electronic avant-garde. Avoiding stiff-collared conservatoire pieces and milquetoast prettiness, M.E.S.H – like Lotic, Total Freedom and other Janus acolytes, as well as peers like Arca and Holly Herndon – uses the syntax of trap and techno, but in garbled futurist statements. Epithet is another bunch of tea leaves to parse for meaning: there are startled sirens, placid twinkles, shuffling bursts of breakbeat, and pounding drums that sound like bailiffs battering in your doors of perception. All the violence and instability of digital culture is laid bare.

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by Ben Beaumont-Thomas via Electronic music | The Guardian

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