Patrick R. Park : Sports Themes For Psychonauts

Electronic musician Patrick R. Park works under different names like Black Tempel Pyrämid, Kösmonaut, Teeth Of Glass and LIFE EDUCATION. But on his newest release he’s just Patrick R. Park. Heady electronics, grizzled synth lines, and that rarified Colorado air have gone in to his latest release for Ethereal Mother Tapes. Sports Themes For Psychonauts is […]

Kingston University Stylophone Orchestra : Stylophonika

Have you ever played on a Stylophone? Hell, do you know what a Stylophone even is? If you don’t, it’s this small, black bar with a stylus attached to it that acts as a sort of pocket keyboard. Its sound is that of a micro theremin; ghostly, but lo fi. I imagine that if I’d […]

Alone 1980 : Street Trash From Outer Space

With the return of Sweden’s Alone 1980 means another solid imagined soundtrack. This time around it’s Street Trash From Outer Space, a title that I could have very easily eyed on the wall of Video World back in 1985 while looking for The Evil Dead or Pieces. Following up his previous Vol. 1, Vol. 2, […]

Jonas Munk : Altered Light

Musician, label runner, and all around sound wizard Jonas Munk has a knack for building sonic masterpieces with nothing more than guitars, synths, and racks of blinking lights and patch cables. I liken Munk’s ambient/new age work in Manual, Billow Observatory(with Auburn Lull’s Jason Kolb), Ulrich Schnauss, and his solo work to falling slowly through […]

Dressel Amorosi : DeathMetha

I’m not sure what’s happening on Dressel Amorosi’s dark and slinky DeathMetha, but I sure as hell like it. Prominent Rickenbacker bass lines, Fender Rhodes, and an array of vintage synths all come together to make the coolest, funkiest soundtrack to a movie you dreamt up on an absinth fever dream. The band is synthesist […]

Jerry Cantrell : Brighten

When I think of Jerry Cantrell I think of a little rock and roll dive club in Niles, MI called The White House in the summer of ’92. It was this literal old white house in the outskirts of Niles that had the best cover bands in the Michiana area. There were some bad ones, […]

The War On Drugs : I Don’t Live Here Anymore

Adam Granduciel’s musical career path as The War On Drugs has been a pretty interesting one. Musically starting out in an almost place of experimentation with touches of pop elements on Wagonwheel Blues. His Dylan-esque vocals coalescing with his space-y folk strumming was a hint of great things to come. But with Slave Ambient in […]

Isvisible Isinvisible : Ghosts Of Mann

Simon Pott, aka Isvisible Isinvisible, makes heady and raw electronic music with the modular synthesizer. But what is a lot of the time long improvisations with the circuital beast with most that compose this way, is a more emotional, melodic one with Pott. He seems to wrangle stories and moments from his instrument, and back […]

Burial Grid : Shores Of Quiddity

If you stop by more than once in a while over here then you should know who Burial Grid is. For the newbies, Burial Grid is the electronic musical project of Adam Michael Kozak. Kozak leans into the darkness in his music, giving an unflinching look at both the darkness in the world as well […]

Rupert And Ray : Rupert Lally Scores Ray Bradbury

Rupert Lally has proven to be quite adept at translating the literary world into the musical world. Even when he’s just building on an original horror theme(as on albums such as Maniac’s Almanac and The Prospect), Lally engulfs the listener in that world. The best composers do that. But when he’s pulling inspiration from the […]