Experimental drone artist Space Whaler has a new EP out this week, featuring two ten minute-long pieces. He incorporates field recordings of the elements as they interact with droning guitars. It’s patient and relaxing yet intensely studies the detail of each soundscape, finding tranquility in petite water streams and eroding rocks. Once it gets warm out, this EP would be
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Experimental electronic artist Rod Stench has a new record out today. Consisting of meticulous sample-heavy cuts, Stench penned these compositions while trying to make sense of 2020’s chaos. He incorporates mind-fucking samples to paint interesting scenarios including kidnapping the senator, pig grunts, chasing ambulances, sweating at night, and kisses. Amanda Huff appears on “Ambulance Chaser” and John Bebeau contributes samples
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Odd Person, one of several of August Traeger’s experimental projects, has a new EP out on Poverty Electronics. Carving a path through intelligent dance music, harsh noise and techno, Traeger explained on Bandcamp that the sounds here were created by feeding corrupt MIDI data to VST synths. There’s visuals attached to each track as well. This is some true computer
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Experimental electronic artist Moustache Bride has yet another batch of work out. He continues his wizardry in the territories of synths and noise, like we’re walking through a futuristic sanitarium. Each sonic passage is like a new corridor. We’re pleased to see Moustache Bride hard at work at his compositions during quarantine, and we hope to get a plethora of
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Experimental percussion artist Jon Mueller has a new record out today. We are welcomed by “Whose Emptiness” which puts us in a trance of abandoned buildings and desecrated trinkets through textural percussion. We then enter “Black Glass,” which adds an immense layer of mystery with rippling, reverberating frequencies. Among the instruments Mueller employs with these pieces are singing bowls, gongs,
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Gavella Glan is a dark ambient project of Joseph Mlodik (of Noctilucant). He’s got the debut record out under this name, and it was created out of isolation in early quarantine. He stated on Bandcamp that this is the album he’s wanted to create since he was a teenager; it’s got a rich fantasy theme using awe-inspiring ambient synths, haunting
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Experimental artist Jon Mueller has a video out accompanying his forthcoming record “Family Secret” which drops on the 22nd. He’s known for centering texturally rich percussion as his music’s primary driving force as opposed to conventional melodies. The photography is by Nik Feijen and video is by Kaveh Soofi; it consists of the still interiors within desolate edifices, some intact
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Cyberchump is the duo of Mark G.E. and Jim Skeel; in this project they work with experimental electronic soundscapes to emphasize movement through sound. Their latest record consists of one single composition spanning over fifty-one minutes. Cinematic and grand in nature, this piece invokes imagery of alien planets rife with biological anomalies as well as eerie caverns of unnatural rock
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Experimental artist Jared Spiegelhoff is out with a collection of tracks he’s crafted over the last few years. There’s both acoustic and electronic elements; the opening track even utilizes what sounds like aluminum cans, the fourth track contains bird calls, and the fifth track incorporates rain sounds. Creating experimental music in of itself is sonic wizardry, but Jared Spiegelhoff in
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Matt Glassel has a plethora of projects under his belt whether it’s punk, noise, or an experimental mixture. His latest release is under Scatterbrain, where he experiments with tape loops and samples. The EP is presented as an exploration of his brain, as demonstrated by the cover art, where everything that makes Matt who he is takes up a piece
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Milwaukee dark ambient projects Noctilucant and Psyclopean teamed up with Germany-based Visions of Ulnahar for a record where they each do two tracks. They conceptually focus on the texts of Lovecraft and Cthulhu Mythos through droning dungeon synths and industrial movements. The three artists build off one another as the gothic narratives expand. It’s mysterious, apocalyptic, and bleak like stumbling
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Experimental-ambient composer David B Collins is out with a new record containing two extended pieces. “Polar Vortex” is a frosty modular synthesizer soundscape inspired by Tristan Muriel’s “Winter Fragments.” “Loom” is a singing bowl and modular synthesizer track inspired by the intricacies and textural shifts of a tapestry. Both pieces employ their sound sources in many dynamic ways; spectral analysis
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Experimental-electronic artist Nicholas Elert has a new record out and he takes us in a dark synth direction. It feels like it could be the soundtrack to an ’80s sci-fi flick. He said he’d been inspired by early electronic artists from the ’70s as well. Imagery of looming towers, difficult escapes, stealthy maneuvers, and unfriendly planets are all over this
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Experimental-ambient project The End, I Love You! is out with a new record, featuring pieces written at various times in the last two years. The first track is a massive narrative with peaks and valleys, the third track oscillates with echoes in the fog, and the final track is an eager yearning that begins optimistic but descends into anxiety as
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Electropunks Life Puzzler are out with a single from an unreleased space opera album. Industrial and gargantuan in power, the song certainly feels like a beer-soaked intergalactic battle. Maybe they’ll give us more from this lost record, who knows.
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Experimental electronic artist Adoptahighway has a new record out today – his first in five years. Barry Paul Clark said that he’d confronted mental health obstacles in the last year and took time to repair his relationship with being a musician. The record’s title refers to living comfortably with your shadow-self, with each track’s title seeming to be mantras in
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Experimental lo-fi artist Llich is out with his debut full-length album. Made up of material written over the course of twelve years, it’s an emotional excursion through small deaths and larger failures, as Charlie Hoehnen states on Bandcamp. There’s elements of folk, doom, pop, and emo from track to track.. Hoehnen sings of viscerally dark matters in grief, anger, and
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Alien beatmaker Hot Science recently joined the roster over at Triple Eye Industries, and this new EP is his first release with them. It’s glitchy and industrial, from the frantic speed race of “Cyber Sail” to the spacey bounce of “Al’s Run” to the explorative jungle-jam of “Wildcard.” Hot Science showcases immense electronic precision with plenty of rich atmospheres, and
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Experimental electronic project Amphibient came out with a new album on Halloween. It’s got an intergalactic, mysterious feel similar to the project’s last record “Tales From the Space Race” but there’s a heavier noise rock influence here. The record invokes imagery of our land’s most extraterrestrial-looking rock and waters, which creates a nightmarish yet composed odyssey. There’s piercing synths, other-worldly
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Ben Slowey talks to the experimental trio.
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Experimental artist Space Whaler’s latest single is a supernatural introspection, released on Halloween as a spooky treat. Inspired by a photo shoot where he and his sister dressed as ghosts, the Whaler sings about what it’d be like if he actually was one. It begins light and ambient but the guitar crescendos as he croons, eventually breaking into a dooming
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Lo-fi pop artist llich is out with a new single. He personifies the titular mythical creature, sharing a visceral description of becoming one himself. It’s got an experimental quality; the guitar triumphantly gallops as the industrial rhythm booms behind it. Charlie Hoehnen’s vocals are fittingly haunting. It’s a solid piece from llich and we look forward to more from him
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Experimental electronic artist Moustache Bride has had a prolific output this year; this is his ninth record of 2020. Once again, the Bride tinkers with playful synth soundscapes and avant-garde sonic structures that feel like Ren and Stimpy episodes in space. He’s collaging elegant words in the track titles such as “Fiscal Feudalistic” and “Diminish Industrious.” The song “Denial Conversation”
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Experimental artist Jake Marin’s new release is a fifteen-minute long ambient piece. Featuring feathery acoustic guitar and droning singing bowls, it’s a listen that feels anxious but in a subtle way, living up to the song’s name. The drones crescendo in the final moments, elegantly contrasting the guitar. Jake Marin is one of the artists to know in Milwaukee’s DIY
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Earthsect is one of experimental artist August Traeger’s many projects. His latest record features droning ambience containing field recordings, giving the sensations of meandering precariously through land, sea, and air. The second track features loops of delicate strings in a haunting display, while the fourth track contains a creaking cremation simulation. If you are a fan of tense, minimalist soundscapes
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