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CBLS is a new live electronic band based in San Francisco. Veterans of the SF music scene, two keyboard players and a drummer came together to push the boundaries of live instrumentation and electronic music. Blending melodic house and alternative dance music, CBLS strives to make people move with the group's signature use of live drums, big organic bass lines and tight synth leads.

SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/cblsmusic

Hailing from Taipei, Taiwan, a city with a thriving nightlife that goes until the wee hours of the morning, Yuka grew up with the birth of the electronic music scene in Asia in the late 90s. Taiwan is a renegade democratic island that becomes independent from China. With a mix of Taiwanese, Dutch and Japanese, Yuka cut her teeth as a producer and DJ in London in Camden Town, training under the London Sound Academy. She plays regularly in San Francisco at venues such as 1015, Midway, Monarch, Bergerac, the Endup, Lion's Den, Asiento, Mars Bar and Northern Ducks.

SoundCloud : https://soundcloud.com/yukaswat 

Sensitif is a Bay Area electronic dj specializing in disco, dance & synthy grooves. Make sure you're hydrated and brought your dancing shoes, because as the Beastie Boys said, it's all about body movin'.

https://soundcloud.com/sensitifmusic

CBLS is a new live electronic band based in San Francisco. Veterans of the SF music scene, two keyboard players and a drummer came together to push the boundaries of live instrumentation and electronic music. Blending melodic house and alternative dance music, CBLS strives to make people move with the group's signature use of live drums, big organic bass lines and tight synth leads.

SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/cblsmusic

ANOTHER [Dead] LOVER (formerly Another Lover) is a San Francisco-based, indie-electronica, electronic fusion, trip-hop, psychedelic band. The band began in mid-2014 in the Outer Richmond district of San Francisco and consists of A.J. Fiorella (guitars, bass, keyboards, synthesizers, programming, sequencing, vocals), & and the enigmatic lead vocalist, Dann Corona.

SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/another_lover

“Often when music is constructed with synths and other electronically generated sound makers, their level of exactitude and control is such that the vocalist will either wittingly or otherwise seek to emulate the relative artifice of the soundscape. This is often done to great effect, think Kraftwerk. But what if there was a unit whose music was synth-generated but the vocals were coming from  a hot-blooded, singing-for-the-cheap-seats approach? If done well, it’s a case of two great tastes that taste great together, which brings me to System Exclusive. 

Their multi genre/time period collision is like a car accident where all parties walk away not only unscathed but sure they had a great time, like two different recording sessions sharing the same space and making it work. Vocalist Ari Blaisdell (previously of Lower Self, The Beat Offs) co-exists excellently amidst the driving beats and synth waves and her guitar further helps to jailbreak the tunes from the often sterile entrapments that synths provide. Matt Jones (previously of Male Gaze, Blasted Canyons, and continuing Castle Face behind-the-scenesman)’s smart use of live drums bring great juxtaposition against the machines. Ari’s irony-free sincere delivery is the perfect closer on this very cool record, recorded ably by Enrique Tena Padilla (Osees, Wand, Beach House) in their backyard studio mid-pandemic and adorned with original artwork by Miles Wintner (L.A. Takedown, Mr. Elevator, Devon Williams). If you don’t get this slab of goodness, well, that act of non-compliance will confirm you as the pain-in-the-ass that many have described you to be in great detail during Zoom chats. How dare they! Prove them wrong! Reduce their snark to mere pseudo-intellectual piffle! Your lifeline arrives in March. Grab it.”

- Henry Rollins

Bandcamp: https://systemexclusive.bandcamp.com

Music I imagine when science turns to fiction and only lovers left alive.

Darkwave, minimal wave, post-punk, industrial, techno

SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/mattlament/tracks

CBLS is a new live electronic band based in San Francisco. Veterans of the SF music scene, two keyboard players and a drummer came together to push the boundaries of live instrumentation and electronic music. Blending melodic house and alternative dance music, CBLS strives to make people move with the group's signature use of live drums, big organic bass lines and tight synth leads.

SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/cblsmusic

Ponyskull is one girl, two synths, and a drum machine. Her heartfelt songs are true confessionals of finding (or losing) herself in San Francisco. She specializes in honest ballads and angsty love songs, with her earnest vocals front-and-center, supported by electronic drums and thick synths. Inspired by everything 80s, she blends her singer-songwriter sensibilities with her New Wave aesthetic in a way that’s both vulnerable and danceable.

Bandcamp: https://ponyskull.bandcamp.com/

Maya Songbird is a mystic electric superstar. Songbird mixes Disco, Electro, Pop, and Funk to make her own out of this world sound influenced by being raised in the colorful and historic Castro District in SF. Themes of liberation, self-love, feminism, and empowerment permeate the artist’s extensive and diverse discography.

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/MAYASONGBIRD

Bijou Noir [BEE-zhoo nw-are] is an alternative electro pop project founded by composer/singer/producer Augustus Watkins. Bijou Noir deftly calls on diverse influences from neo-soul, indie pop, synth-laden anthems, and goth-tinged industrial while continually subverting expectations. Watkins' watery lyrics weave tapestries of vulnerable emotion while his vocals can burn or balm with singular skill. Bijou Noir’s sophomore album, Expatriarch, was released in 2021. Watkins has opened and shared stages with the likes of Lizzo, Polica, SHIV-R, Angelspit and Communist Daughter, Originally from Minneapolis, Bijou Noir is currently based in Los Angeles.

Bandcamp : https://bijounoir.bandcamp.com/