Category Archives: Experimental

Poor Isa ~ dissolution of the other

Since 2017, the record label Aspen Edities has been harboring a group of (mostly) Belgians who don’t seem to put much stake in “genre”. On the one hand, the label’s most recent release, a surging, nearly abrasive exploration of speaker-vibrated

Poor Isa ~ dissolution of the other

Since 2017, the record label Aspen Edities has been harboring a group of (mostly) Belgians who don’t seem to put much stake in “genre”. On the one hand, the label’s most recent release, a surging, nearly abrasive exploration of speaker-vibrated

Fire-Toolz ~ I am upset because I see something that is not there.

“We’ve lost nothing”, a floating text states within a simulated, 2000s-game-graphics brick building whose modernist layout spells Bauhaus 19th century industrial warehouse. In the video for “It Is Happening Again / Mantra-ing & Golgotha: Double-Bind (Prequel)” our camera-eye transitions seamlessly

Fire-Toolz ~ I am upset because I see something that is not there.

“We’ve lost nothing”, a floating text states within a simulated, 2000s-game-graphics brick building whose modernist layout spells Bauhaus 19th century industrial warehouse. In the video for “It Is Happening Again / Mantra-ing & Golgotha: Double-Bind (Prequel)” our camera-eye transitions seamlessly

HIIT ~ For Beauty Is Nothing But The Beginning Of Terror

Improvising is fun. Or at least, many career musicians eventually grow to prefer the relative freedom that improvisation allows, the focus on sound rather than technique and on creativity rather than the execution of a predetermined pattern. Classical musicians are

HIIT ~ For Beauty Is Nothing But The Beginning Of Terror

Improvising is fun. Or at least, many career musicians eventually grow to prefer the relative freedom that improvisation allows, the focus on sound rather than technique and on creativity rather than the execution of a predetermined pattern. Classical musicians are

Future Daughter ~ Nye Krigere

Nye Krigere (New Warriors) started as a stage play about two warriors constructing elaborate machines.  One such mechanism is seen on the cover and in the video below.  According to Future Daughter, these creations are “shields of meaning around an empty

Future Daughter ~ Nye Krigere

Nye Krigere (New Warriors) started as a stage play about two warriors constructing elaborate machines.  One such mechanism is seen on the cover and in the video below.  According to Future Daughter, these creations are “shields of meaning around an empty

Various Artists ~ ০

The face in the album cover is rather a distorted mask, a grimace with eyes no longer organic, but loosened flesh. With bare, paradoxically frail-looking aluminum teeth, it is immersed in a gray vacuum that indicates there is no person

Various Artists ~ ০

The face in the album cover is rather a distorted mask, a grimace with eyes no longer organic, but loosened flesh. With bare, paradoxically frail-looking aluminum teeth, it is immersed in a gray vacuum that indicates there is no person

Philip Holm ~ Trådlös

One of summer’s most original records is a left field surprise, although the equipment used to make it can be found in many traditional basements.  Trådlös is performed on a repurposed sewing machine, which begs the question: if the original owner

Philip Holm ~ Trådlös

One of summer’s most original records is a left field surprise, although the equipment used to make it can be found in many traditional basements.  Trådlös is performed on a repurposed sewing machine, which begs the question: if the original owner

Various Artists ~ С​п​а​д​о​к

One might begin with the 297-track Massive Hutsul Sample Pack, which includes pigs, ducks, chickens, cats and dogs, car washes, rivers, waterfalls, toys, drills, bells, musical instruments and occasionally a song.  These pieces, some only a second long, were recorded by

Various Artists ~ С​п​а​д​о​к

One might begin with the 297-track Massive Hutsul Sample Pack, which includes pigs, ducks, chickens, cats and dogs, car washes, rivers, waterfalls, toys, drills, bells, musical instruments and occasionally a song.  These pieces, some only a second long, were recorded by

Léa Boudreau ~ Limaçon

Léa Boudreau is an artist we’d love to meet, not only because of her music, but because of her interest in designing “hybrid and ambiguous creatures.”  Her curious circuitry imitates robots, animals and other fauna, blurring the line between entities.  The

Léa Boudreau ~ Limaçon

Léa Boudreau is an artist we’d love to meet, not only because of her music, but because of her interest in designing “hybrid and ambiguous creatures.”  Her curious circuitry imitates robots, animals and other fauna, blurring the line between entities.  The