Experimental noise project Death Tape Super Bass released a two-piece last week. Think of these tracks as oddball dance cuts, with minimal techno sensibilities and industrial-esque textures that feel like footwork in a wonky dream. Thrifted keyboards and old samplers were used here, giving something of antique feel. It’s been exciting to follow the work of Death Tape Super Bass
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Sn3k’s album sounds like a caffeine overdose.
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Experimental artist Tony Catania’s latest album consists of compositions birthed from creative euphoria. The first eleven tracks encompass “Songs Ad Libitum” while tracks 12-14 are “Three Pieces for Electro-Acoustic Duo” performed with Nicholas Elert, and the final track “Portal” features Jay Mollerskov. Everything on “Songs” is improvised; Catania uses tenor saxophone and found objects to explore sonic spaces. “Three Pieces”
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Wisdm Giovanni delivers 20 tracks on a new beat tape.
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Dark ambient project Illuminated Void is out with a new album – and it’s a single 38-minute track that feels like an entire realm. Occult-tinged movements of neoclassical and desolate folk-psychedelia dwell between the ethereal and the abyssal, effectively traversing peaks and valleys of mood. It’s a record designed to bridge fantasy of imagination with realistic wonder, which it accomplishes
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Experimental noise project Restraint Malfunction brought us a new track this week. Many of Restraint Malfunction’s pieces have a “fiery” quality to them, and this one exemplifies that in full force. Over twelve and a half minutes, a searing cut of devilish oblivion is explored. Get a feel for apocalyptic noise set ablaze with Restraint Malfunction’s “Heat Magnet.”
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Experimental percussionist Jon Mueller’s latest composition consists of several performances in one. Recorded in the Buckland Museum of Witchcraft and Magic (Cleveland, OH), Mueller uses repetitive drum patterns whose rapid pulsing swells into choir-like phenomena encircling the entire room. It’s an ensnaring exercise from Jon Mueller and a welcome addition to his catalog of envelope-pushing rhythm.
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The experimental producer gives a simple synth line new life.
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Experimental noise project Lucky Bone is out with their first record in eight years. It’s two elongated tracks of noise that bask in spontaneity and freedom. These tracks were made with methods such as said music box and tape manipulation, with the second track seemingly consisting of many shorter pieces collaged together. Textures range from harsh static to high-frequency clinging
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Experimental band Permanent Murkers are out with a new concept album. It’s described as a “site-specific electro-acoustic improvised audio drama” that seeks new perspectives of sonic space, amplifying creative potential through “tunnels.” Instruments used here include trumpet, bass clarinet, keyboard, accordion, cajon, percussion and whistling. Permanent Murkers find distinctive cohesion through energetic conduits with “Tunnel Vision.”
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Harsh noise project Restraint Malfunction released a new album this week. Walls of noise engulf us like the fires of Hell, diving into different textures over four tracks. It’s volcanic, abrasive, and excruciating in sound palette and certainly lives up to the aggressive imagery evoked by its title. Restraint Malfunction delivers a powerful exhibition of fiery noise cuts with “Merciless
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Ambient-electronic artist Crone has a new album out on Sickle Moon Recordings. These tracks tread carefully into liminal spaces, juxtaposing enchanted awe with subconscious fear. It’s like walking into dense fog, morbidly curious about what you’ll find while knowing that through the mist you’re being watched. Electronica flutters while prone to spontaneity, frequently accessing different emotions as place, color, and
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Experimental percussionist Mike Neumeyer is at it once again. This marimba piece details the story of a kid who would rather play video games than study, but once the teacher tells him to try playing music, he discovers a deep love for it. As such, there’s a keen sense of excitement and wonder that burgeons with Mike Miller’s curiosity. It’s
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Mike Neumeyer continues to expand on his sonic exploration by simply adding a bell.
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Experimental-electronic artist Andres Crovetti has a new single out. Spanning six and a half minutes long, it’s an ocean of synthesizers that evokes awe. The electronics gradually strip down in the second half but continue dancing alongside atmospheric samples until static swallows everything in the final minute. Find yourself in a digital trance with Andres Crovetti’s “0nE.”
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Emo hip hop-industrial artist X Harlow is out with a new EP today. This release is five tracks and expands the medieval influences and coldwave cacophonies of their previous records but with a heavier lyrical component. These songs touch on addiction and drug-related deaths, expressing grief and disgust through confrontational social critiques. X Harlow has always stylistically blurred the lines
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C. Vadi heads into the woods for on-site drone recordings.
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Harsh noise duo Normal Rituals have a new record out on FTAM Productions. It’s two tracks each about twenty minutes long, featuring guitar, synthesizer, and scrap metal. Things are plucked and played sporadically yet spaciously, carefully yet chaotically. Eli Smith and Peter Woods explore different paths of sonic communication with “Double Gesture.”
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Experimental jazz artist Andrew Trim is out with a new record. With the likes of Barry Paul Clark on bass, Nick Lang on drums and Dan Pierson on keyboards, Trim brings a flurry of ensnaring rhythms and lively psychedelia. The quartet dwell from a place of immediacy and intention, reaching mesmerizing altitudes through precise creative communication. If you’re looking for
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Chamber rockers Nineteen Thirteen have a new single out. It’s pretty self-explanatory; Janet Schiff’s soaring cello accompanies Victor DeLorenzo’s determined drum pattern long enough to swell into an epic, adventurous anthem. A monologue takes place in the second half, acting like a sort of guided meditation describing the instruments interacting with one another. This could be a solid end credits
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Experimental noise project Death Tape Super Bass has a new album out. Alex Steinmetz describes it as “dead serious authentic circus music” that gets progressively muddier as time goes on. Some tracks have techno sensibilities while others carry industrial electronica; there’s gruesome imagery of gouged eyes, severed heads, worms, a frog becoming a person, and other monstrosities. Death Tape Super
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Mike Neumeyer expands upon the marimba for a new composition.
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The long-distance band comes together for a sonic experiment on their debut album.
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The Marimba maestro teams up with a Dutch artist for a new collab.
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Experimental artist Kendraplex is out with a new album. It’s two compositions that each last around twenty minutes long, collaging many jams of different creative methods into eclectic broad displays. Guitar, voice, reel-to-reel and cassette tape loops, organ, field recordings, and electronic beats are all instruments of Kendraplex’s process; Sam Cook contributes with modular riffs as well. Each movement feels
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