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First of all, and because it cannot be said often enough: нет войны | ні війні | No War How to help the people in Ukraine ______________________________________________________ This coverage was created via Musosoup  #Sustainablecurator Click here  and run your own campaign on MusoSoup Picture Credit: VI Productions IRYS - Weirdo Release Date: March 31, 2022 Duration: 03:43 Genre: Dark Pop / Synthwave Origin: Berlin , Germany Berlin-based independent artist IRYS is constantly providing us with gloomy and ethereal soudscapes for the darkest of dancefloors, dungeon clubs, or celebrations. IRYS' first appearance on MangoWave was in October 2021 when her single release ' Circles ' was presented. Now with the sixth single 'Weirdo', IRYS is back in the new year 2022 The song is driven by a scratchy synthetic bass line that fills up the room like a heavy carpet woven from Post Punk, Darkwave, and dreamy psychedelia. Above this massive foundation, the air is full of shny s...

 First of all, and because it cannot be said often enough: нет войны | ні війні | No War How to help the people in Ukraine ______________________________________________________ This coverage was created via Musosoup  #Sustainablecurator Click here  and run your own campaign on MusoSoup Picture Credit: Russell Joslin & High Black Water Russell Joslin & High Black Water - Streetfight Release Date: April 15, 2022 Label: selfrelease Format: Digital Duration: 04:25 Genre: Post Punk / Dark Pop / Synthwave Origin: London , England Russell Joslin  from the Greater London area in England has formerly been known for his Folk and Acoustic sounds. During the lockdowns in 2020 - a time when many band musicians decided to start going solo - Joslin  laid foundation of his new project calld Russell Joslin & High Black Water. Writing and recording with a whole new approach and thereby rediscovering his own musical style, the English artist has produced materi...

   First of all, and because it cannot be said often enough: нет войны | ні війні | No War How to help the people in Ukraine ______________________________________________________ Picture Credit: Korfian Korfian - Propaganda Release Date: March 25, 2022 Label: selfrelease Format: Digital Duration: 23:13 Origin: Athens , Greece Genre: Dark Pop / Gothic Pop Greek multidiscipline creator Korfian unleashes his Propaganda upon the war-torn world - a deconstructed post pop album full of loud statements and pompous images. Coming from the graphic designer background, Korfian subtly senses and transmits the militarist vibe, actively utilising the visuals in the process of arranging the uneasy landscape. Painfully relatable and concise, Propaganda gathers, processes and reinvents the doomed spirits of the last decade both lyrically and musically. Send-off serves as an intro - a monologue, a manifest that sounds like something that could have been on a Parliament album in a pre-nu...

 First of all, and because it cannot be said often enough: нет войны | ні війні | No War How to help the people in Ukraine ______________________________________________________ Psy'Aviah - Bittersweet (Deluxe Edition) Release Date: April 01, 2022 Label: Alfa Matrix Format: Digital Duration: 02h 52m Genre: Trip Hop / Dark Pop / Synthwave Origin: Antwerp , Belgium This year we can congratulate Yves Schalke not only on the twentieth anniversary of his project Psy’Aviah, but also on the release of a new album. The album that completes the trilogy conceived by him will be available on April 1st on all streaming platforms. So far, only 4 out of 42 (!) tracks are available for review and your listening pleasure, but judging by them, this album fully continues the theme of two others from the trilogy - “Lightflare” (2018) and “Soul Searching” (2019)  Ever since the release of “Lightflare”, I have noticed a very precise approach to vocal production. While listening, there is n...

Picture Credit: Jiva Jiva -  חַיִים Release Date: September 15, 2021 Length: 02:53 Genre:  Darkwave  /  Trip Hop Origin:  Ashkelon ,  Israel 'חַיִים' (or 'Haim' in Latin letters) is the newest single by Ashkelon's rising star Jiva. Together with Ukrainian producer Dmitry Dubrov , the talented artist from Israel has produced a stunning song about the power of belief, and about the power that internal beliefs and attitudes can have on external manifestations. On gentle and soothing piano sounds, Jiva Taranenko  initially breathes soft vocals and thereby opens the stage of this sonic reverie. This theme then gets supported by strong and yet comforting Trip Hop and Darkwave sounds. And so, an elegant movement is created that reminds of a campire and its smoke dancing through the dark of the night. Jiva's 'חַיִים' is a song to close your eyes and let the feelings happen to. Probably the most intense, beautiful, and emotional song, Jiva has released so far. ...

     Psy’Aviah – Sunbird (feat. Oliviya Nicole)   Release Date: October 1, 2021 Label: Alfa Matrix Format: EP Length: 43:20 Genre: dark electro, dark pop, synthpop, indie pop, dream pop Yves Schelpe, the mastermind behind Psy’Aviah, is by no means a newbie to the electronic music scene. The Belgian-based act was established in 2003 and since then has been producing diverse, high-quality releases. The latest one is dedicated to the new song, “Sunbird’, and is packed with a dozen remixes of all shapes and forms.   Psy’Aviah is signed to Alfa Matrix, an underground electronic label, and seems to always stay a bit below the mainstream radars, but definitely can’t be called obscure - Yves worked with a few famous artists, like Kyoko Baertsoen of Hooverphonic, Jennifer Parkin of AYRIA and Jean-Luc De Meyer of Front 242.   And this kind of explains exactly what you are about to hear - a full 45 minutes of sterile 90’s nostalgia worship, wrapped in every style imag...

Picture Credit: Aude Debout  (artwork) Chris Floyd  (photogtaphy) Amy Louise Ryall (styling)   Jem Doulton - Perfect Picture Release Date: August 27, 2021 Length: 03:55 Genre: Shoegaze / Dark Pop Origin:  London ,  England Here is part five of Jem Doulton 's project in which the London-based musician records twelve songs together with his friends. Once the dozen is full, they will be featured on the upcoming album "Perfect Picture". This review hence is about the title track. This time, Jem Doulton  gets instrumental support by Ben Doulton  (lead guitar), Jamie McCredie  (rhythm guitar), Luke Barlow  (saxophone), and Kevin Troublant  (moog). Together they play a song that is dedicated to everyone who has made bad experience with their step parents. Perfect Picture by Jem Doulton Different to some of the previous releases from this series, 'Perfect Picture' sounds a lot darker and less dreamy. In the verses, Jem Doulton  and his gue...

Picture Credit: IRYS   IRYS - Circles Release Date: August 19, 2021 Length: 04:34 Genre: Dark Pop / Post Punk Origin: Berlin , Germany 'Circles' is the fourth single by Berlin-based artist IRYS. The gloomy sound feels like the loops your thoughts go round and around in when going through tough times. Thus, the single is a sonic analogy to a long gaze into a mirror which arouses ruminating thoughts, loops and spirals of inner monologue. A remorseless and harsh synthetic Post Punk theme drives the verses forward on which artist IRYS spreads her hitdark and mesmerizing vocals. On several layers the intensity of the sound increases until it climaxes in the colourful and boppy Pop chorus. But as it happens to be in such 'Circles', the darkness returns, and therefore the thrilling synthie lead does too. IRYS' 'Circles' is the sound to be dragged away to - an intense Synthwave and Dark Pop. Music from every post will stay in the  MangoRotation  playlist  for 14 da...

Picture Credit: Golem Dance Cult   Golem Dance Cult - Grotesque Radio Release Date: May 25, 2021 Label: selfrelease Format: CD / Digital Length: 20:31 Genre: Post Punk / Darkwave / Industrial Origin: England / France Laur  and Charles  are Golem Dance Cult. Years ago, the two musicians have played in a band together. Since then, time has passed, but the two artists have stayed in contact, and have recently released their first EP "Grotesque Radio". On six tracks they create a nihilist soundscape that they themselves describe as "an old Hammer horror movie directed by Dalí and recoloured by Andy Warhol". "Grotesque Radio" is an ideal soundtrack for dungeon parties. With their cold, claustrophobic, hopeless, and dark sounds, the six songs revive late-Cold-War-era rock and electronic music. Golem Dance Cult go back to the heyday of Gothic Rock, Wave, and Industrial, and partially remind of Punish Yourself, Cinema Bizarre, or early Einstürzende Neubauten. T...

Picture Credit: Jiva Jiva -  חושך Release Date: June 16, 2021 Length: 03:35 Genre: Darkwave / Trip Hop Origin: Ashkelon , Israel In May, the single "מנטרה" by Ashkelon's exceptional artist Jiva Taranenko  was featured on MangoWave. Click here to read and listen . Today, I am extremely happy to present another powerful song by the gifted musician from Israel's Southern coastal region. Jiva is providing us with ethereal and sensual vocals on atmospheric soundscapes created by Plotnik82. "חושך" (Hebrew: "Dark" or "Darkness") is built on a trippy and glitchy carpet of synthetic psychedelia. The dark and yet smooth soundscapes contain gorgeous breaks which create further thrill to the ethereal atmosphere, and finally gently strummed strings add a beautiful heat to the sound. This psychedelic sonic artwork is being completed by the stunning vocals of Jiva Taranenko . Smooth and yet powerful, the artist enchants her audience, and once more I th...