Electronic project Black Lines, Din Sky is out with their first release in five years. It’s five tracks that merge chiptune and K-pop for a most retro-future audiovisual experience, created utilizing the XBAND network and recorded through an SNES. If you’re ready to race through a classic 90’s video game, look no further than “Antisummer Club SPC-700.” Plus, a 52-page
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Eric Blowtorch is back with a new single, and this one finds him taking a country western-bluegrass direction. It’s the tale of an adorable woman born and raised in the countryside who serves up looks yet is sweet as can be. The song is about a minute and a half long which gives Eric Blowtorch just the right amount of
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Electronic project The Vicuna 100 just put a ton of music out on Bandcamp – here’s one such release. It’s two tracks of spacious, glossy soundscapes that send us into a hypnotic, meditative state – each nearly twenty minutes long. The first track incorporates some light techno while the second track favors brightly shining ambient. Be sure to check out
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Experimental artist and composer Sbowe is out with a new EP. Utilizing electric cello (Rachel Icenogle) and programmed drums (Adrian Harpham), the two tracks here create massive, textural, exquisite movements that feel poetic as they feel intentional. It’s like we’re observing both the gorgeous and tense moments of nature unfold in real time, punctuated by a variety of cello sounds.
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As Oak are a group whose sound encompasses elements of folk rock, slowcore, experimental and ambient. Their new EP is out today and it’s full of dense soundscapes that give plenty of room for emotive movement. You can tell that the members really listen to one another with patience and intention, bringing an overall somber demeanor that is both sensitive
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Pendrop Poet has returned with a new album this week. There’s 17 tracks here that encompass the Poet’s ruminations to the instrumentation of folk, electronica, indie rock and hip hop. It’s a cathartic body of work that seeks to liberate by touching on topics like exhaustion, oppression, revolution, self-ownership and being forced to participate in this capitalist hellscape while alternating
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Phatbrane maintains a consistent lo-fi groove on a new EP.
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Postureless sets the tone and then changes it rapidly with a new beat tape.
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Cyrus Chrome and Skymall deliver the visual from the title track of their new EP.
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Ghostly Hill is a six-song adventure of an EP.
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Alternative artist and producer ThatGuyEli dropped a new single this week. He combines a driving guitar riff with stomping trap production and dreamy vocals as he ruminates on a relationship gone sour. Love’s gotten in the way of life and ThatGuyEli is weighing what’s holding him back versus what’s meant to be. It’s an introspective moment from ThatGuyEli that continues
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The instrumental single feels like the dawn of a new day.
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Long-running experimental band Boy Dirt Car released new music this week. Recorded live in the studio, these two tracks consist of compositions released on previous tapes, complete with introductive dialogue before each. Laden with cacophonous soundscapes, industrial textures, chantlike passages and haunting samples, “Sinner or Saints” is a 34-minute dedication to Boy Dirt Car’s prolonged journey through noise and improvisation.
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Psych rock group Painted Caves released a new single this week. It’s a song about who is feeding off of who; Ali Lubbad sings of his heart sitting on the border between two lands and he begs to know where he fits. There’s a triumphant feel here like we’re on a great pursuit of deeper meanings. Additional instrumentation is provided
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Experimental electronic artist Odd Person has a new compilation out via Aerozine 50. These cosmic synth passages incorporate elements of vintage techno and wondrous space imagery. The lore is explained by Odd Person like this: the Secant Archives have floated through the universe for millions of years – originated from ancient times of atmospheric temples of sentient crystals – and
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Improv noise duo Normal Rituals are out with a new album via Portland, ME’s Tracedobjects. Peter J. Woods and Eli Smith join forces once again as wise mages of sound and art, delivering the clicking, clanging, clattering, crashing and cooking of unconventional electronic and guitar utility. A drone rumbles underneath scattered guitars in “A Silver-Plated Weapon” while “Before They Vanish
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NineIsHuman flips a pair of Breonte tracks to give them a new energy altogether.
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Max Devereaux and Michael Sodnik experiment over the course of a new release.
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The fifth ambient piece from the former Black Eagle Star reminds you there is beauty surrounded by ugliness.
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Experimental noise-electronica project Death Tape Super Bass has the first new tape in a few months out. Clangorous, metallic techno cuts – some conventional length, some extended – are built with layered industrial sounds and textures arranged along the drilling, pounding, slicing rhythms. There’s an overall dystopian atmosphere here; the synths and abrasive noise embellishments send us upon the mist
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A bout of Covid doesn’t sideline Rum Revere from creating.
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Noise artist Lucky Bone recently put out a lot of work on Bandcamp; this week we’d like to share the first two (of four) releases. The first is “Waiting-Room”, a 26-minute composition of 8-track tape loops. The second is “Music for Moving Body”, which is like a collage conceptualized as background noise for while you’re driving, representing the motion and
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Schoepke and Hawk take you for a sonic journey on an atmospheric jam.
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Experimental artist Sam Mullooly released a new 21-minute composition. Built around electronic psych-pop production, this piece is warm, optimistic and inviting. Mullooly sings of destiny and being set free from pain, with backing vocals from Michelle Astorsdotter. The whole thing is a great odyssey about seeking truth and liberating oneself through a conquest of self-actualization. Also, there’s a really awesome
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The experimental brass artist plays with tones on his new release.
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