AUDIO: Wisdm Giovanni – “The Love Arrangements”
Allow Wisdm Giovanni to slow things down for a bit.
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AUDIO: Michael Jantz – “Peace 3ree”
Experimental-psychedelia artist Michael Jantz released an EP this week. It’s three tracks that continue Jantz’s hazy, sun-kissed odyssey through peace and nature, but this time it’s divided into movements. There’s wonder, then there’s discombobulation, then there’s abrasiveness. Michael Jantz has been juxtaposing serenity and surrealness with his output, and this EP is a premier culmination of such.
Read moreAUDIO: Noctilucant – “In A World Of Human Wreckage”
Dark ambient project Noctilucant has returned with a new album. The story goes like this: you come across a city thinking it’d be utopian only to discover the exact opposite – a tyranny-ruled municipality of cybernetic overlords. You escape, but find that all that’s left of the world is desolation and destruction of what was once our planet. The story
Read moreAUDIO: Michael Jantz – “Peace! 2”
Experimental-psychedelia artist Michael Jantz (formerly Black Eagle Child) follows up his recent debut single under his own name with a sequel. This one begins with a thumping bass repetition before a guitar begins wandering, coated with this hiss of lo-fi recording. We feel like we’re watching a grainy tape of animals in their natural habitats from decades ago. Michael Jantz
Read moreAUDIO: Jack Calvey – “75 Degrees F Jam w/ Trucks Above”
Experimental artist and cellist Jack Calvey is a new one on our radar. His latest release is a jam under a bridge in downtown Milwaukee (near Potowatomi Casino). With wind rumbling and humidity in the air, Calvey plays a string medley that captures the springtime joy as cars pass overhead. Definitely check out Jack Calvey’s previous releases where he works
Read moreAUDIO: Death Tape Super Bass – “Organ Grinder”
Experimental noise project Death Tape Super Bass released yet another tape last week. Adam Steinmetz utilizes modular synthesizers, samplers, drum machines, and other sound toys to assemble this collection of minimalist techno embedded with a couple abstract noise cuts (“Small Man, Big Head” and “Hollandaise in the Sun”). Death Tape Super Bass records are a reliably zany sequence, and “Organ
Read moreAUDIO: Michael Jantz – “Peace One”
Experimental-psychedelia artist Michael Jantz, once known for project Black Eagle Child, is out with a new track. Spanning almost six minutes, it’s got a lo-fi quality to it that evokes imagery of walking through a humid, hazy meadow. With an underlying repetitious guitar riff, there’s an additional guitar that explores space with gradual confidence, giving a “floating” feeling. It’s Michael
Read moreAUDIO: Liida – “State of Continuum”
Electronic project Liida’s got a new record out. The theme here is positivity, so these five tracks embody the shuffle forward. There’s a sense of courage, adventure, and prosperity that permeates through whimsical, instrumental pop-scapes. The beats are catchy while incorporating uniquely arranged textures and effects. “State of Continuum” is an optimal choice to put on your headphones with and
Read moreAUDIO: Dennis Hawk & Dave Schoepke – “Daybreak Star”
Wellness music artist Dennis Hawk teamed up with experimental percussionist Dave Schoepke for a new single that’ll be going straight to your yoga playlist. As the title implies, this piece is warm and bright akin to awakening, with ambient sensibilities accompanying wondrous flute passages. It’s the first of much to come from Dennis Hawk and Dave Schoepke’s collaborative prowess, but
Read moreAUDIO: Jack Lusk – “The Pursuit”
Electronic artist-composer-guitarist Jack Lusk dropped a new track this past week. As the title implies, there’s a tense and frantic tone, with meticulous elements that weave between speeds. It’s like you’re either running or hiding from something, never too safe. Get your blood flowing with Jack Lusk’s “The Pursuit.”
Read moreAUDIO: Docx – “Through The Embers”
Docx captures the calm after an explosive moment on a new track.
Read moreAUDIO: Lyric Advisory Board – “Lipstick Detox”
The group explores Americana on their new album.
Read moreAUDIO: J. McCoy – “All I Have Left to Give”
Experimental ambient artist J. McCoy has a new album out of tracks he made when he returned to Milwaukee two years ago. Mesmerizing layers of modular improvisations stack up like ladders into the sky with “All I Have Left to Give.” Deeply textural like majestic sunsets, these tracks are patiently optimistic yet hellacious in atmospheric texture. J. McCoy has been
Read moreAUDIO: Docx – “Better Days”
Experimental artist and producer Docx’s latest single is a burst of hyper electronica. It’s a track about feeling unstoppable and on top of the world, unfazed by foreseeable obstacles. Clocking in at a minute and eighteen seconds, “Better Days” is an intoxicating banger with the vitality to wake you the fuck up and get you going. Docx has been pushing
Read moreAUDIO: Rum Revere – “Simpatico Indeedy”
Experimental electronic artist Rum Revere released a new record this week. Themed around game show dating submissions, this album has fun with big ol’ dinosaur brains, a journey through paradise, and a custom sweatshirt designer among other silly things. Brock Gourlie has always been one to emphasize entertainment as much as meticulousness, turning fragmented humor into ambitious hip hop beat
Read moreAUDIO: Mike Neumeyer – “Starting to Dream”
Experimental percussionist Mike Neumeyer released a new album. We’ve gotten to know Neumeyer pretty well over the last year with his many instrumental compositions utilizing marimba, bells and chimes, but he’s got more up his sleeve – Neumeyer sings here! This record is an exuberant, positive exercise in actualizing Neumeyer’s increasingly layered creative vision, inspired by his father’s recent passing.
Read moreVIDEO: Docx – “You Will Not Know”
Experimental pop artist Docx has visuals out to the song “You Will Not Know” from recent EP “Episode 11111111.” With effects by evilVenus, we observe a Hello Kitty-type character moving across the screen like in a video game while shadowy red-and-black figures haunt the background. The protagonist runs pasts increasingly dark messages of discouragement and nihilism, forth towards ostensible doom.
Read moreAUDIO: HogHead – “Health, Beauty & Eternal Youth”
HogHead is a new project that finds Eliot Hess and Tom Olwig of math rock duo Beach Burial joining forces with Milwaukee noise icon Peter J. Woods. Entirely instrumental, their debut album feels like a walk through the neighborhood during the pandemic with a head full of chaotic feelings. The Hogs have fun with complex melodies, where the riffs and
Read moreAUDIO: Death Tape Super Bass – “Boring”
It’s only April and experimental noise project Death Tape Super Bass has been on a roll this year with a third tape out now. Alex Steinmetz finds himself comfy in minimal techno territory without feeling any need to restrict himself from getting cacophonous or abrasive at times, even throwing in some whimsical interludes. With thumping bass lines and buzzing industrial
Read moreAUDIO: Auntie – “!”
The producer comes straight out of left field for an unconventional beat tape.
Read moreAUDIO: Space Whaler – “Never Knew/A New Day EP”
Experimental-ambient artist Space Whaler has a new EP out. It’s three tracks that feel like we’re watching the sun rise and set in deep introspect; “Never Knew” features a minimalist melody and obfuscated lyrics, “What You Could Do” is something of an interlude that cries out into the sky, and “A New Day” hovers amid droning notes. Space Whaler loses
Read moreAUDIO: Josh Evert – “Another Deity”
Experimental pop artist Josh Evert, known for his work with Silver City Studios, is gearing up to release his debut full-length album “7 Islands” and he’s out with the first single. “Another Deity” is inspired by the poetry of Danez Smith and carries a sunny, nautical feel with esoteric lyrics – we look forward to the album in full. Evert,
Read moreAUDIO: Illicit Eagle – “Illegible Eagle”
Experimental sound artist Illicit Eagle is out with his sophomore album. It’s 21 tracks of all kinds of samples and sequences, akin to the soundtrack of a wonky, cartoonish dream. Anton Sieger creates collages of bird sounds, old movie dialogue, scattered instruments, and fragmented electronica. It’s a mercurial yet jovial experiment from Illicit Eagle.
Read moreAUDIO: Pulpa de Guayaba – “Talk to Me”
Latin reggae-soul band Pulpa de Guayaba’s latest single is your new favorite morning song. It’s a love tune about the person of your dreams that appears before you in real life; you like everything about them you see and invite them to come along with you for the ride. With a horn solo like a singing heart, “Talk to Me”
Read moreAUDIO: Lucky Bone – “Dream Journals & Glass Coffins (4, 3, 7 & 8)”
Noise project Lucky Bone has a new album out, inspired by recent dreams. Each suite consists of collaged pieces of harsh noise, pop-sensible songs, and distorted samples that all make for a most surreal listening experience. Lucky Bone shares on Bandcamp what specific imageries are represented in each track, some fragmented while others vivid. Luther Price’s film “Warm Broth” and
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