Heavy-hearted in the Midwest since 2011
Back in October the family and I took our annual vacation. Typically that falls in June/July, but thanks to the world shutting down in 2020 we decided to get away in late fall. Sure, the pandemic was still running hot and heavy, but our vacation was being spent in a cabin in the woods of […]
Read More RadioA guy died at work yesterday. I didn’t know him. He was a contract worker who had only been at our facility for a couple of weeks. He was on the shop floor running one of the CMM machines. I barely know a handful of machinists, and ones I’ve worked with(generally speaking) for the last […]
Read More PerspectiveI won’t pretend to understand completely what’s happening on Dimensional Stardust, but what I do know for sure is that it moves me. Pulling from abstractionism, avante garde, and otherworldly vibes, this album feels like finding something obscure and alien only to stare at it long enough to find beauty in the unknown. Rob Mazurek […]
Read More Rob Mazurek & Exploding Star Orchestra : Dimensional Stardust2020 took its toll on so many, both from those that suffered from Covid-19 to the family members that watched their loved ones deal with it(and in many cases lose that fight alone in a hospital bed.) Besides the actual virus itself, there was an overwhelming paranoia and dread we all dealt with, in-particular those […]
Read More Premiere : Watch Mines Falls’ Darkly Surreal Video For “From Behind Glass”I won’t pretend to know much about dance music. Techno, acid, house EDM, IDM, there’s just too much information to cram in my late 90s 256GB brain. But following record label Soundtracking The Void I’ve expanded my electronic musical palate quite significantly. For example, their newest release is Darse & My Flower’s Adore. This is […]
Read More Darse & My Flower : AdoreI’m a year late to this party, but I’m so glad I finally arrived. Jeff Parker’s Suite For Max Brown is nothing short of brilliant. A coming together of jazz, hip hop, experimental sound collages, and an almost futurist psychedelia that brings to mind the best of 70s fusion that sought to open our brains […]
Read More Jeff Parker : Suite For Max BrownIf you tuned into my conversation with Darren Page a couple weeks ago you’d know that he has a brand new BurningTapes album just waiting to drop and blow your minds. The co-runner of Burning Witches Records and mastermind behind the electronic project BurningTapes wrote and recorded this new LP over the last couple years […]
Read More Burning Tapes Drops Surprise “Odds On Evil”Stephen James Buckley, aka Polypores, makes electronic music that sits just on the cusp of chaos. He builds synthetic worlds and narratives with the modular synth, an unpredictable machine that while it may never be tamed completely it can be controlled just enough to blow open minds. The unpredictability and exploratory nature of the instrument […]
Read More “Connection With The Machine” : The Wired World of Polypores’ Stephen James BuckleyIf the name Nigel Mullaney doesn’t ring a bell, it’s because for a good portion of his career he’s worked behind the scenes. You may not have heard of his name, but more than likely you’ve heard his work via Netflix, DC, Marvel, AMC, Fox, HBO and the BBC. His work as an in-session programmer […]
Read More Nigel Mullaney : The NavigatorAn instrumental synth cover of Elliot Smith’s “Angeles”. How does that sound to you? Well if you’re not sure all you need to do is hit play on Correlations’ cover of the classic Smith track to know it sounds pretty amazing. That cover, along with ten other original synth-heavy compositions make up the 2018 album […]
Read More Late Night Drive : The World Of Correlations’ ‘Aftermath’