2021-03-13 14:54
Photography by Mundo Urbano (Bruno Lopes, 2021)In Greek mythology, Persephone (/pərˈsɛfəniː/ pər-SEF-ə-nee; Greek: Περσεφ… Read More
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2021-02-28 18:41
Cover Art by Mundo Urbano (Bruno Lopes)Ferdinand Domes is an all-around electronic music producer with a current focus on experimental tracks. "Horror Childs Orient" (cassette tape rel… Read More
2021-02-28 15:48
Negative Image of Ruth Asawa's Wire Sculpture, 1950s, Photo by Imogen Cunningham [© The Imogen Cunningham Trust. Artwork © Estate of Ruth Asawa]Ruth Asawa (American, 1926–201… Read More
![HANIA RANI - Esja [reissue] (Gondwana Records)](https://cdn.blogarama.com/images/posts_thumbs_site_id/312/31238-1161155505.w320.jpg "HANIA RANI - Esja [reissue] (Gondwana Records)")
2021-02-25 15:05
HANIA RANI - Esja [reissue] (Gondwana) "Esja" was released in April 2019 with Gondwana Records, who have released so many of my favourite artists in the past. The compositions were bor… Read More
2021-02-23 22:50
BAB - Aïdour (Crowdspacer) Culminating at 430m of altitude, mount Aïdour has been looking over the city of Oran for centuries. Legendary tales and myths are born in this place that… Read More
2021-02-21 16:25
"Exotica" is The Brand New series of Exotic/International / Rare grooves mixed & selected by Bruno Lopes (also known as Mundo Urbano).Tracklist:01.Anestis Delias - To Haremi Sto Hamam (M… Read More
2021-02-15 14:32
Art work by Mundo UrbanoM.U. PODCAST #116 (FEBRUARY 2021), Mixed and selected by Mundo Urbano (Bruno Lopes). Stay home, stay safe. Love you all xoxo MU. Follow Mundo Urbano on Facebook, Inst… Read More
2021-01-24 17:03
Carmen Villain - Sketch for Winter IX: Perlita (Geographic North) Ever the aural adventurer, Carmen Villain has long traversed a boundless array of sounds, deftly moving from art nouveau pop… Read More
2021-01-23 18:16
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2021-01-22 22:19
Anatolian Weapons / LINJA - Split EP (Serenades Russia) A new release by Serenades features a magical adventure created by two talented artists from Russia and Greece. Believe it or not, wit… Read More
2021-01-16 13:49
Original Photography by Aurélie Raidron«A veil is an article of clothing or hanging cloth that is intended to cover some part of the head or face or an object of some significan… Read More
2020-12-30 17:16
Lisa Lerkenfeldt – Collagen (Shelter Press) The music of Naarm/Melbourne composer Lisa Lerkenfeldt channels a unique wavelength of foreboding, interstitial electronics, incorporat… Read More
2020-12-28 15:26
DID A MIX FOR DESIGNER GENES.An artifact is an item made or given shape by humans, such as a tool or a work of art, especially an object of archaeological interest. In archaeology, the word… Read More
2020-12-12 22:51
Gavilán Rayna Russom - Transverberation (Voluminous) [VOL011] Long ago, in the days before Rayna quit drinking, one of her favorite cocktails was something of her own invention called… Read More
2020-12-12 10:16
Catherine Christer Hennix - Karlheinz Stockhausen: Unbegrenzt (Blank Forms Editions) Unbegrenzt is the third in an ongoing series of archival records of the unheard music of Swedish co… Read More
2020-12-06 17:58
"Exotica" is The Brand New series of Exotic/International / Rare grooves mixed & selected by Bruno Lopes (also known as Mundo Urbano).EXOTICA #005:01.CHRISTINA VANTZOU - Wild Beast (Edi… Read More
2020-12-01 15:00
Moncler Leave No Trace Sneakers in Black, Style: 09A4M7034002SH4999, French brand Moncler is world-renowned for its superior craftsmanship, rich history, and its effortless ability to merge… Read More
![VARIOUS - Curated By Neel (Camera Magmatica) [CMC001]](https://cdn.blogarama.com/images/posts_thumbs_site_id/312/31238-2318737870.w320.jpg "VARIOUS - Curated By Neel (Camera Magmatica) [CMC001]")
2020-12-01 13:23
VARIOUS - Curated By Neel (Camera Magmatica) [CMC001] Camera Magmatica launches its compilation series, focusing on out-of-the-radar experimental electronic music, each time curated by an ar… Read More
2020-12-01 11:10
VARIOUS - Wound Without A Tear: Australian Ambient & Experimental Music 1993-2008 (Daisart) Wound Without A Tear is a compilation of “Australian” Ambient and Experimental Mus… Read More
2020-11-30 22:16
Acne Studios black boots take cues from functional elements of hiking gears. They're crafted from soft-grained leather with a padded ankle cuff and rubber heel cap, then set on a lug sole.&n&hell…Read More
2020-11-30 13:20
Piezo Ft. Sunun – Water Chamber | Piezo (NoCorner) [NC7006] A metaphorical depiction of a coming of age ritual in a Zulu tribe, extended over time, under the sun – re-told in the… Read More
2020-11-30 12:49
MISCHLING - Through The Lights Static (Sores) Debut full release by DSM's hallucinogenic noise project 'Mischling'. A trippy ride through dark landscapes and ice-cold waters. This is where i… Read More
2020-11-22 22:17
"Ruminandum" was taken from "Corpse To Corpus" released July 3, 2020, on Berlin's aufnahme + wiedergabe record label. Video by Chris Campion (Multiple Man) (via The Brvtalist) Read More
2020-11-21 14:27
Cover Art by Mundo Urbano (Bruno Lopes).An angel is a supernatural being in various religions. The theological study of angels is known as angelology. The word angel arrives in modern Englis… Read More
2020-11-15 13:36
Pauline Anna Strom - Marking Time is taken From Angel Tears in Sunlight. Available February 19, 2021. Angel Tears in Sunlight is Pauline Anna Strom’s first album in over thir… Read More
2020-11-07 18:33
Klaus Schønning - Lydglimt (Frederiksberg) Klaus Schønning was born in 1954 in Denmark and started his musical career as a street musician in Copenhagen earning money to r… Read More
2020-11-07 18:23
FLORA YIN-WONG - Holy Palm (Modern Love) Holy Palm’ is the debut album by Flora Yin-Wong, an artist, writer, DJ, and journalist, summoning the ghosts of her life in a masterful me… Read More
2020-10-31 13:32
Enzo Mari, Struttura n. 895. Luce e movimento, 1967. Enzo Mari (27 April 1932 – 19 October 2020) is an important figure in Italian design, although he has been known to freq… Read More
2020-10-25 16:30
Various Artists: Music For & Theatre - Volume Two (Music From Memory) ‘Music For Theatre And Dance – Volume Two’ is the second in a small series of EPs that will focus… Read More
2020-10-25 16:16
ACTRESS - Karma & Desire (Ninja Tune) “Karma & Desire” includes guest collaborations from Sampha, Zsela, and Aura T-09, and more. It’s “a romantic tragedy set… Read More
2020-10-18 11:20
BLACK TO COMM - A C Of M (Cellule 75) * Edition of 100 * “The first two weeks of lockdown I was sitting in my kitchen paralyzed just like everyone else, following the news a… Read More
2020-10-11 14:51
Shapes - Beyond Reflection (Umor Rex) As one half of Phantom Horse, his long-serving electronic duo with Ulf Schütte, Niklas Dommaschk co-produces beautifully muted, Kraut-inspired jams… Read More
2020-10-03 21:10
Cover Art by Bruno Lopes (Mundo Urbano) for www.radioquantica.comMundo Urbano #44, Aired 24/09/2020 on radioquantica.comTracklist:01.Galactic Serpent Society - Lucifer Rising (Phormix)02.Oli… Read More
2020-08-29 19:30
Jabu & Sunun - Lately / Lately Dub (Do You Have Peace?) New 7” from Jabu & Sunun, first made on Lower Cheltenham Place & performed at youngechosound . Editio… Read More
2020-08-29 10:18
Upper surface of a coral. “Fossil corals from Central America and West Indies.” Smithsonian Institution. National Museum. Bulletin 102, pt. 1. 1919.via Internet Archive Read More
2020-08-29 10:14
Argynnis idalia and Phyciodes. The butterflies of the District of Colombia and vicinity. 1932. via Internet Archive Read More
2020-08-01 19:11
Photography by Bruno Lopes (Mundo Urbano), posted 23/07/202 on Instagram.TRACKLIST:---01.Jackson Veil Panther - The Body Man (Avon Terror Corps)02.AUTUMNS - Left It (Clan Destine Records)03… Read More
2020-07-26 19:20
Artwork by Cameron Jamie.Kassel Jaeger - Swamps / Things (Shelter Press) Over the last decade, Kassel Jaeger, the moniker of the Paris-based composer, writer/theorist, producer, and director… Read More
2020-07-04 22:45
AGENT 15 - Viral Blasphemy (Industrial Complexx) Agent 15 is a project born in this new pandemic era, formed by Francesco Rachele (Søulless, Geometria Nervosa) and Felipe Novoa (Magnu… Read More
2020-06-07 15:50
CAMARADES BRETON - Camarades Breton (Gang Of Ducks) The album has been entirely recorded by the artist at home, using only a CMX-5000 CD-J, a twin CD-mixing system rack distributed by Pionee… Read More
2020-05-30 11:11
EARTH TO MICKEY - Brace & Bit (LA Club Resource) Meet the pop brainchild of Delroy Edwards & Mickey van Seenus -- Earth to Mickey. The mercurial Los Angeles producer known for experi… Read More
2020-05-09 11:28
Episode #42 Cover Art by Bruno Lopes (Mundo Urbano) for Radio Quântica, Aired on May 8, 2020 on radioquantica.com."Fetishism" A fetish (derived from the French fétiche; which co… Read More
2020-04-26 18:29
Vivien Goldman - Launderette (Staubgold) First-ever reissue of Vivien Goldman’s legendary „Launderette“ 7“, produced with Adrian Sherwood and Public Image Limited&rsq&hell…Read More
2020-04-26 11:16
This fresco depicts Agamemnon’s sacrifice of his eldest daughter, Iphigenia (Ἰφιγένεια). Agamemnon, a Greek military leader, was willing… Read More
2020-04-12 08:08
“Tasmanian Tiger” (Thylacinus cynocephalus), now extinct, is one of the largest known carnivorous marsupials, evolving about 4 million years ago. The last known live a… Read More
2020-04-06 20:23
Mask, a form of disguise or concealment usually worn over or in front of the face to hide the identity of a person and by its own features to establish another being. This essential characte… Read More
2020-04-02 21:51
NUTS & CO - Kangourou (Camisole Records) Kangourou by Nuts & Co is inspired by Dadaism, ancient tribes and natural life. They self-produced and released this album in 1982. The resul… Read More
2020-03-15 14:37
Christina Kubisch - Italienische Stücke/Italian Pieces (Tochnit Aleph) Release of conceptual and performative pieces by Christina Kubisch composed & realized between 1974 and 1984… Read More
2020-03-14 10:36
Episode #41 Aired on Radio Quântica on March 13, 2020. Covert art by Bruno Lopes (Mundo Urbano), Photography by Luca Del Pia. From a play "Tragedia Endogonidia" by Societas Raffa… Read More
2020-02-26 20:23
Artwork by: Noah M / Keep AddingCARLO GIUSTINI - Custodi (ROHS!) ...” it’s as if someone has dusted off a 1920’s 78rpm and played it back for you. The only thing is yo… Read More
2020-02-22 18:42
Brand New series of Exotic/International / Rare grooves mixed & selected by Bruno Lopes (Mundo Urbano).Tracklist:01.Ronald Snijders - Natural Sources (Everland Austria)02.Doug Hammond … Read More
2020-02-09 13:02
Steve McCurry (born February 24, 1950, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American photographer, freelancer, and photojournalist. His photo "Afghan Girl", of a girl with piercing green eye… Read More
![ELEMENTS OF JOY - PI 08 [Ï€08] (Pi Electronics [Ï€])](https://cdn.blogarama.com/images/posts_thumbs_site_id/312/31238-1551231590.w320.jpg "ELEMENTS OF JOY - PI 08 [Ï€08] (Pi Electronics [Ï€])")
2020-02-07 22:17
ELEMENTS OF JOY - PI 08 [π08] (Pi Electronics [π]) This is the eighth Pi Electronics vinyl output, coming from the French producer under the project name Elements of Joy. Also kno… Read More
2020-01-18 11:42
Mixed & Selected by Bruno Lopes (Mundo Urbano) originally back on July 31, 2008. Aired 17/01/2020 on Rádio Quântica.MU. EPISODE 40 DESCRIPTION01.Autistici - Broken Guitar Vi… Read More
2020-01-12 17:46
Tracklist:01.Justice & Tertius- Essential 4 Life02.A Forest Mighty Black- Tides (Peshay & Flytronix Mix)03.Subject 13- Mystical Flyte04.Smoke Screen- Nu Breeze05.Matrix- Fluid Motio… Read More
2020-01-04 21:35
Arabic text design and calligraphy by Islam Shabana. Photos by Madison Dinelle. Design and layout by Jesse Osborne-LanthierMSYLMA – Dhil-un Taht Shajarat Al-Zaqum (Halcy… Read More
2020-01-04 19:22
Andre Breton – Union Libre (a poem by Andre Breton embossed in Braille on a photograph) – Image via wikiart.orgAndré Breton was an influential French writer and artist who… Read More
2020-01-03 22:21
OBRA VA .01 marks the first release of the Brazilian label OBRA. The collective emerged from Sao Paulo’s bustling scene and over the years has expanded out of the borders to Lisbo… Read More
2020-01-02 19:34
De Sang Froid - Vox Dei (Mannequin Records) Killer french minimal/industrial / electro tunes from A// aka Le Syndicat Electronique (Alexandre Gand), French precursor musician, and performer… Read More
2019-12-28 23:35
In no particular order, these are some of my 2019 winners:PART IBERNARD PARMEGIANI - De Natura Sonorum (Recollection GRM/Editions Mego)JAY GLASS DUBS - Epitaph (Bokeh Versions)HARRGA - H&eac&hell…Read More
2019-12-28 20:37
In no particular order, these are some of my 2019 favorites:PART IIWANDERWELLE & BANDHAGENS MUSIKFÖRENING - Victory Over The Sun (Semantica)ASTRID SONNE - Cliodynamics (Escho)VALLMO… Read More
2019-12-21 21:12
PHILLIP WERREN - Electronic Music (Manufactured Recordings) An astounding, epic journey into the more obscure areas of early electronic music, Phillip Werren’s Electronic Music is a we… Read More
2019-12-21 21:12
DOUG HAMMOND - Spaces (Manufactured Recordings) Released in 1982, Spaces features alto saxophonist Steve Coleman and cellist Muneer Abdul Fataah writing with Hammond as the Doug Hammond Trio… Read More
2019-12-11 07:33
TRACKLIST:00.THE ADVENT - RADAR 06 (MORD)01.BURIAL - NIGHTMARKET (HYPERDUB)02.CARLES SANTOS - Bv (purge.xxx)03.CHRIS PETIT & MORDANT MUSIC - SIDE A (purge.xxx)04.EYE - ACQUA VERA (KNEKEL… Read More
2019-12-07 10:58
DISSEMBLANCE - Over The Sand (Mannequin Records) Exploring the balances between pop songwriting structures, 80s cold wave bedroom style electronic production, and dreary gloom rock, Paris ba… Read More
2019-12-01 14:37
Athens based feminoise artist Veronica Moser aka Sylvia Crystal (Phormix, Systolic Records).this mix includes tracks from SSSS, restive plaggona, eomac, anfs, tzusing, HyDrone, Last Days of… Read More
2019-11-30 10:24
"Symbol "- The word symbol derives from the Greek σύμβολον «symbolon». A mark or character used as a conventional repr… Read More
2019-11-30 10:17
KIRK BARLEY - Landscapes (Thirty Three Thirty Three) Landscapes is the latest release from prolific Yorkshire born composer and producer Kirk Barley. Across a tight 34-minute runtime, the al… Read More
2019-11-23 23:33
ERGOMOPE - AMEK 037 (Amek Bulgaria) "Етиологии" is a collection of sonic petroglyphs, washed away from the violent currents of the Black… Read More
2019-11-10 10:56
UNKOWN MOBILE - Daucile Moon (Pacific Rhythm) Daucile Moon, which follows Unknown Mobile's releases on No Bad Days, Normals Welcome and Young Adults, started four years ago in Vancouver when… Read More
2019-11-10 10:54
THE HERS - Tough Cunt (reissue) (Death Is Not The End) Louis Johnstone aka The Hers’ (aka Wanda Group, Arafat Group...) originally released "Tough Cunt" on September 11, 20… Read More
2019-11-09 12:17
LEUK & KO - Monniken In 'T Riet (Rubber Holland) Leuk en Ko is the Dutch bastard child by Unit Moebius members Jan Duivenvoorden and Richard van den Bogaert. Creating a vault of ha… Read More
2019-11-03 12:41
Taken from the album "Respires": born from the intertwined etymologies of spirit and breath, the results of Baird’s singular approach to extended vocal technique and radical notions of… Read More
2019-10-27 19:45
«Death» is frequently imagined as a personified force. In some mythologies, a character known as the Grim Reaper causes the victim's death by coming to collect that person's soul… Read More
2019-10-26 21:04
VA. Industrial Complexx Vol. 1 (Industrial Complexx) Industrial Complexx was born in February as a medium linked to dark, transgressive, experimental, eclectic and dissonant electronic music… Read More
2019-10-19 09:03
ELIANE RADIGUE - Chry-Ptus (Important Records) Eliane Radigue's Chry-Ptus is her very first piece for the modular synthesizer. It was composed in 1971 using a Buchla 100 which had recently b… Read More
2019-10-14 12:17
Brand New series of Exotic/International / Rare grooves mixed & selected by Bruno Lopes (Mundo Urbano). Tracklist:01.ILL CONSIDERED - Covertly (Ill Considered)02.SONIDO GALLO NEGRO… Read More
2019-10-07 20:36
SARAH DAVACHI - All My Circles Run All My Circles Run is the fourth full-length release (released first on Students Of Decay) by Montreal-based electro-acoustic composer Sarah Davachi and he… Read More
2019-10-05 08:22
VARIOUS - Gost Zvuk 5 Years (Gost Zvuk Russian Federation) Five years ago, the expression ‘Russian electronic scene’ had borne a tone of futurology and expectancies rather than a… Read More
2019-09-29 17:51
Andrew Pekler - Sounds From Phantom Islands (Faitiche) Faitiche presents a new album by Andrew Pekler: Sounds From Phantom Islands brings together ten tracks created over the last three year… Read More
2018-03-04 10:57
Luke Sanger - Traversing Timelines (Frequency Domain) The eighth release on Frequency Domain is one of the label’s most hypnotic yet: a deep and potent collection of ambient worlds by… Read More
2018-03-03 15:31
Mahesa Almeida - A LT O/P A N ( Hasana Editions) Mahesa Almeida is a visual artist, oblique musician and video game connoisseur from Jakarta. Previously known as half of a visual/sound bange… Read More
2018-03-03 12:31
“Joan” ジョアン is the debut album of Joan, composed and produced by the portuguese fellow João Melo (aka Mind Safari). Pads, textures in… Read More
2018-03-03 09:12
ISMO LAAKSO - Ofelia (Sahko Recordings) In a way that resonates with our most febrile musical dreams, Ofelia sounds like a scrambled radio transmission which modulates with jazz-wise logic a… Read More
![Christoph De Babalon - If You're Into It, I'm Out Of It (Cross Fade Enter Tainment [CFET])](https://cdn.blogarama.com/images/posts_thumbs_site_id/312/31238-2438044352.w320.jpg "Christoph De Babalon - If You're Into It, I'm Out Of It (Cross Fade Enter Tainment [CFET])")
2018-02-07 13:47
Christoph De Babalon - If You're Into It, I'm Out Of It (CFET) «A late ‘90s neo-noir ambient and D&B masterpiece - imagine if The Caretaker made fierce, unrelenting Jungle … Read More
2017-12-07 13:07
Rabit - Les Fleurs Du Mal (Halcyon Veil) «...Rabit gestures his sounds with a remarkable freedom of rhythmic meter and freehand strokes that belies its meticulous construction below th… Read More
2017-11-03 13:48
Burial - Pre Dawn / Indoors (Nonplus Records) This is Burial as warehouse shadow dancer, properly committed to the heavy hours of the rave. Pre Dawn rolls out at 140bpm with s… Read More
2017-10-13 08:53
ROSS 154 - Hybrids EP (Applied Rhythmic Technology) Emerging in the golden wake of Jochem Peteri aka Ross 154’s Strike reissue, legendary Dutch techno label Eevo Lute Musique pre… Read More
2017-10-08 15:48
TAFI ALL STARS - Outside Rhythm (Autonomous Africa) Too often these cross-continental projects can sound like spiced up tech-house, but not this time, as they find a fine, loose balance of v… Read More
2017-10-08 10:56
WALTER GIBBONS - Jungle Music (Strut) Walter Gibbons was a crucially important figure in the history of dance music, one who has become particularly renowned for his pioneering of the remix… Read More
2017-10-07 10:41
GROUP RHODA - Wilderless (Dark Entries Records) Pairing poetically abstract, observational lyrics with exquisitely adroit drum programming and lissom synth contours dripping with hooks, Wild… Read More
2017-10-05 06:52
ERRORSMITH- Superlative Fatigue (PAN) At long fucking last Errorsmith ( Erik Weigand) relinquishes his long awaited new LP for the good of the dance, twysting Black Atlantic rhythm patterns… Read More
2017-09-09 12:26
2017-08-30 12:29
Hype Williams - Rainbow Edition (Big Dada) Hype Williams get a pretty headstone with the Rainbow Edition, hustling ’20 joints strictly for the whip …& ppl 2 fat for fedoras… Read More
2017-08-09 12:18
CROWW - Prosthetics (The Death Of Rave) The long-awaited debut release by yung new producer Croww for The Death of Rave, somewhere between a mixtape, imagined soundtrack and demonstrative sh… Read More
2017-07-14 15:16
Shackleton - Behind the Glass (with Anika) (Woe To The Septic Heart) Shackleton curves back to Woe To The Septic Heart! with British-German singer-songwriter Anika as his new vocal mus… Read More
2017-07-14 15:01
V/VM Brabant Schrobbeler (Boomkat Editions) The Brabant Shrobbelèr is a searing selection of classic and unreleased New Beat productions by James Leyland Kirby aka The Caretaker, aka… Read More
2017-05-16 19:21
Part I - German Army (mixed and selected for Mundo Urbano In April 2014)Part II - Ekoplekz (mixed and selected for Mundo Urbano In November 2011)Ekoplekz Tracklist: 01. Geoffrey Burgon… Read More
2017-04-14 17:56
SUN ARAW - THE SADDLE OF THE INCREATE (Sun Ark) As you might expect from a trip to the desert with Sun Araw, you’ll lose your own herd quite quickly, and mirages, fata morganas and the… Read More
2017-04-10 12:20
Carla dal Forno is an Australian singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, currently based in Berlin. She is a member of the groups F ingers and Tarcar, and formerly cult Melbourne outfi… Read More
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