Label & Artist Profiles
BMH & Jettenbach at Breeze Block Beats, Frome UK (18.03.2023)
Brighton, UK
New York, USA
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Leipzig, Germany
Berlin, Germany
so cool to see Frome listed on the Drone Day 2023 list!
Buderim, Australia
Prairie City, Oregon USA
Rab, Croatia
Kent, UK
Frome, UK
Derby, UK
Nottingham, UK
Oxford, UK
California, USA
Rab, Croatia
Devon, UK
Kent, UK
New York, USA
couldn't resist...
Zagreb, Croatia
Texas, USA
Tours, France
London, UK
California, USA
Toronto, Canada
Manchester, UK
Marbella, Spain
London, UK
California, USA
California, USA
California, USA
California, USA
Manchester, UK
Manchester, UK
Manchester, UK
Frome, UK
Frome, UK
London, UK
London, UK
Texas, USA
Dublin, ROI
Some AI toad-love from 'gods of synth'/andytuohydesign!
Malaga, Spain
Dalston, London, UK
Turku, Finland
Hamilton, Canada
Frome, UK
Boulder, Colorado. USA
Madison, WI, USA
Adventurous Music
Music label. Leipzig, Germany
Adventurous Music is a non-profit artist collective that has evolved from some different other artist groups around the beginning of the 21st century. By then, these artists had already been organizing audio-visual events in outstanding locations such as monuments, galleries, and museums as well as in clubs, bars, and cafes, and they continue to do so.
Since 2013, Adventurous Music has also created a bi-monthly podcast featuring music by artists and on labels we enjoy.
In 2019, we started our own non-profit micro-label focusing on the release of experimental electronic music. As a format, we exclusively chose limited printed goods (such as cards and books in small editions of < 100) that include visual artwork and a download code for the music.
Amp Records
Netlabel based in Guadalajara México. This netlabel focuses on electroacustic and experimental works.
Concrete, Drone, Experimental-Electronics, Industrial, Granular Music, Noise, Electroacustic, Ambient, Field recordings, Dark Ambient, Glitch, Psychedelic, Microsound, Improvisation, Montage, Soundscape.
Broken Bottle Productions
An independent artist collective and record label.
Portland, Oregon USA
-I'm afraid of what
-is after life as much as
-I'm afraid of now.
Human Geography Recordings
Southwest, UK.
DIY Experimental Micro Tape Label from David A Jaycock & Andrew Burge.
Primarily interested inSoundscape, Drone, dark and psychedelic folk.
Off
Brussel, Belgium
Off is a Belgian based label founded by Alain Lefebvre in 2007.
1000+1 Tilt
a. There is nothing to be (when you grow up)
b. Life is too short to waste it dealing with assholes
c. At the extreme end of representation, nothing remains, or what is left is precisely that: remains
Point Source Electronic Arts
Point Source is an electronic music record label, media arts service, and creative community.
quiet details
quiet details is a new label with each release being an artist's own unique interpretation of that phrase
Ryu Recordings
A label set up by a former resident DJ at the world's famous Slimelight and having releases/remixes on leading labels such as World Serpent, Ant Zen, Point Source Electronic Arts, Component Recordings and Errorgrid, Ryu Recordings aims to bring you the best in alternative electronic music
SENSA
Sonic Exploration Network of Southern Africa
A platform for exploratory music and sound art. We seek to cultivate a regional community of practitioners of experimental, improvisational and otherwise avant-garde forms of sonic expression, with a focus on creating a supporting, nurturing environment, as well as increased public exposure, for alternative forms of musical creativity.
Vivarium Recordings
Future sounds label run by Daniel Rauch
Electronic Experimental Dream Vapor
Founded by Joseph Bailey & Benjamin Noggle, 2018.
VV-VA
Beirut, Lebanon
VV-VA is a home for elusive, left field, and heady electronic music. What started as a space to share experimental sideprojects and unreleased collaborations within an intimate circle of musicians in Beirut is organically transforming into a fledgling platform that releases peripheral, outcast, and personal pieces or bundles.
_your inner prison
We are a small independent record label focusing on industrial, IDM, glitch, noise and rhythmic noise, dark ambient, experimental music etc.
Alinovsky
Brussels, Belgium
Alain Lefebvre aka Alinovsky started to play drums with various Belgian bands early 1976. Until late 1985 he played withTuxedomoon, Anna Domino, Winstong Tong, Blaine L. Reininger, Vini Reilly (The Durutti Column), Anne Clark, Alan Rankine, Antena and Benjamin Lew among others. In 2007 he started his label Off (400+releases). When not working for the label, he tries to take time to record stuff…
Andreas Davids
Since 1998 I've been musically active with my project xotox in the field of industrial and rhythm and noise.
Apart from xotox, I prefer to release Dark Ambient, IDM and Experimental. As DJ ANDX, I produce mixes of all kinds, but the focus is always on dark ambient and related genres.
Andy Roid
England, UK
I have been messing around with synthesizers since the early ‘80s.
As part of psychedelic tripsters Here & Now, I toured throughout the UK and Europe.
I started doing solo shows in 2019 and have played gigs and festivals throughout the UK.
I also play in ambient dub ensemble Rubber Bus, ambient improv weirdos Somnambulance & Glastonbury based psych-pop band the Anarchetypes.
anthéne
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
bradley sean alexander deschamps, curator of polar seas
Astral Engineering/ Simon Rees
Engineering on the astral plane. Reality you cannot rely upon since 1992.
The Astronaut
'Arrived 20 years back, sniffed the air, opened his flight case, closed it again soon after and left just as swiftly.’
ASVMR
Huntington, West Virginia
₳ §ƚɾαɳɠҽ ᗐιʂιƚσɾ M̶ყ R̳ҽαρҽɾ-- VCR shinigami. "I'm here for you"
Axiome
Axiome is a Belgian duo, currently split between Belgium and Germany, formed around 1990/1991 by Olivier Moreau and C-drík Fermont aka Kirdec. Axiome perhaps followed a unique path : from their industrial and power noise onset to glitch, breakcore, acid, and as of today, their own interpretation of electro, they keep challenging what they have done in the past.
bdou
Pronounced, 'do'.
Black Hair Rolled In Dried Blood
He sits in a small room listening to their conversations and speaking to himself.
They all listen, dying to answer their own questions. He watches his own likeness reflected in the broadcast on the screen and recognises no-one.
Black Pill Machine
New York
Black Pilled, Experimental, Dark Ambient Vibes from New York
"In A Time Of Universal Deceit, Telling The Truth Is A Revolutionary Act" -George Orwell
BMH
Black Magic Holiday. Music project of Kate Bosworth (of Dark Train fame) & Matt.
Black Sun High Desert
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Exploring sound-based creative expression in high desert of Northern New Mexico.
Bro Biden
Brobient side-project. I also record under CHROM-47 (formerly 'Man') and am the lead singer of The Hot Food Department.
Chantelle Gray
Johannesburg, South Africa
Chantelle Gray uses modular synthesizers, the Korg MS-20, the piano and gestural composition to create soundscapes.
Charles Monroe-Kane
Charles Monroe-Kane is a Peabody award-winning journalist with over 23 years of national on-air radio experience. He is also the author of Lithium Jesus: A Memoir of Mania. In addition, he is a recording artist with A.M.P.-RECS - a music label based in Guadalajara México that focuses on electro acoustic and experimental works.
Christopher Alvarado
Christopher Alvarado is a multi-instrumentalist from Salt Lake City, America, who has been playing and performing ambient, experimental and sound manipulation in various guises since the mid 1980s.
Clay Monke
UK
Experimental machine music from Luke Phillips.
Cravune
Italian sound artist and music experimentalist currently based in Berlin, Germany.
Limited edition releases via Minimal Resource Manipulation (UK), Here Free Press (US), Falt (FR) and Detriti Records (DE).
Monthly show on CAMP Radio.
Cr(A)wE
Solo Improv Dark Ambient Guitar Soundscape Dronez with occasional contributions, the sound of the impending apocalypse and fridge buzz
Crossing Bridges
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The multi electronic genre project of Paul G. Marchesani
A part of the Forest Kids Collective
Daniel WJ McKenzie
Daniel W J Mackenzie produces work that explores various notions of listening to music and sound, combining composition, improvisation, non-musical sound and field recordings. Despite a broad range of tools and processes, there are consistencies in the nuances with which the work is constructed and presented, and the substantial presence of deep emotion and atmosphere.
The Dark Jazz Project
Birmingham, UK
The Dark Jazz Project is an experimental adventure into the abyss by Musician and Composer Andrew Spackman (SAD MAN, Nimzo- Indian). Here he brings his typically quixotic and mercurial approach, fusing Jazzcore, free improvisation, dark ambience into a melting pot of noise, rhythmic chaos to create a dark and unsettled future. Think Sun Ra meets Vladislav Delay.
Death Drive
Death Drive is the solo project of Athens-based producer Kostas Karamitas.
diseasesofvenus
Derby, UK
dov is a one man soothing psychedelic freak out solo musician/artist from the midlands u.k
dissociate
Minneapolis, USA
Science fiction-inspired dark electronic project from Jonathan Ford is spontaneity personified. For over 20 years, Ford hasbeen manufacturing aural chaos from hardware sound sources, live synthesizers, triggered samples and abused filter banks in real-time. Each Dissociate performance offers a unique exploration, bringing forth instant musical discoveries within this confined aural space.
DJ_Iterate
DJ_Iterate, aka Mystified, aka Thomas Jackson Park from St. Louis, Missouri. 'Multi-genre artist, coder, thinker, imperfect person'. Once known as the band 'Mystified', Thomas Park and his various incarnations focus on organic, enjoyable generative music, whether machine-made, performed live, or both.
DOLLGARM
Ambient experiments written in the dark; short story soundtracks to disturb and delight.
Draama
New Delhi, India
I don't know when there'll be a next time. You have to continue your own revolution of consciousness, your own sonic andolan, something you have already begun.All the resources thus far lie in the hands of the rich and as such they control the musical and cultural agenda. Before this can happen, there has to be solidarity between conscious peoples, a setting aside of petty ideological differences.
Dragon
Former resident DJ at the world's famous Slimelight and having releases/remixes on leading labels such as World Serpent, Ant Zen, Point Source Electronic Arts, Component Recordings and Errorgrid, Dragon now launches the inaugural release for Ryu Recordings
Druida
Carlos Pompeu, aka Druida and other names too
Quatro Barras, Brazil
Dystopiker
Sweden
Dystopian musician attempting to describe our somber past, present and future.
Euripides Altintzoglou (EA) is a senior lecturer in Fine Art & Photography at the University of Wolverhampton. He is a practicing artist and theorist, that examines the correlations between being and the emergence of political agency, and the phenomenology of change. His works have been exhibited around the world.
Themis Altintzoglou (Θ) is a sound artist based in Norway. He is well-known for his dark ambient, noise, and drone music, which has been released on different labels such as Industrial Coast, Total Division, Deathbed Tapes, Oxidation, Zoharum, and many more.
Envelope Muse
Denmark, Australia
Dark Ambient Industrial Noise Artist.
Envelope Muse: Dystopian sound for a dystopian world.
Field Lines Cartographer
Lancaster, UK
Atmospheric, sometimes dark, occasionally
bucolic soundscapes. "shimmering... unsettling" -The Wire
"The sound of big, strange worlds"-Electronic Sound magazine.
FLUX-US
Andrew Shackleton produces audio/visual art, under the name FLUX-US, to create immersive experiences which are intended to be transcendent. Always working from the premise that "we come from the darkness into the light" he explores and utilises esoteric, occult and psychedelic themes with both visuals and sound. He has produced work for night clubs, multimedia performances, installations for galleries and a promenadesite specific morality play.
Francis Theberge
Active since 2001, TiND (thisisnotdesign) is a video art group renowned on the Montreal scene for having developed their own techniques for live audiovisual creation. By hijacking common analog audio equipment such as the distortion pedal, TiND creates singular imagery that visually echoes the original sound material.
Their live performances are laboratories for real-time experimentation: a perfect mix of controlled improvisations with prepared interventions and mastered errors. Francis Theberge is the main character behind TiND.
Francis Theberge is also a long-time member of the artist collectives Global Noise Movement and Adventurous Music. He is also known as Thibörg.
You can find excerpts of his video work on vimeo and his DJ work on mixcloud.
Gnostic Rebellion
Gnostic Rebellion are an audio/visual Esoteric Electronic duo comprising Andrew Sloan (rhythm and beats) and Andrew Shackleton (melody, texture and visuals) based in Frome, Somerset UK. Hardware synthesisers, sequencers and sample based sound modules are used.
Grave Of The Opal Golum
Jason Stevens and Dave Madden. This output was manipulated and reassembled in December 2020 with the vague themes of Solstice, hibernation, the kitchen sink perspective of Throbbing Gristle, the morphing juggernaut of Bitches Brew, screams from Pharmakon, the dark atmosphere of Lustmord, and the dynamics of Drew McDowell. With this Grave of the Opal Golem was born.
Grey Frequency
Grey Frequency is the project of UK-based artist Gavin Morrow. Through the manipulation of electronics, field recordings and found sounds, he explores themes of memory, modern mythology, and the world of audio disintegration.
GURU BOBOL
Tours, France
Guru bobol is a one man band since 2012, playing with hypnotic and ambient sounds, improvisation and analogic synthesisers.
Healer Oran
Andrei van Wyk aka Healer Oran is a Johannesburg-based composer, musician and sound artist who has worked in the mediums of dance, film, performance and sound installation. He is currently an MA student in History at Rhodes University focusing on soundscapes, sonic history and dispossession in the Eastern Cape of South Africa.
HELA
HELA [heːlɑ] v.
: to make free from injury or disease : to make sound or whole
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: as a complete entity
F. Iosefka is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and performative sound artist based in Sweden.
Hendekagon/ Signalstoerung/ Audible Masticators
Multidisciplinary artist, micro-label manager, and event organizer. Also known as halo7, Audible Masticators, and Hendekagon. Part of the bands, Interessengemeinschaft Für Industrielle Klangerzeugung and Vaduzer Hand. Co-creator of the Global Noise Movement Noise Floors at Wave Gotik Treffen, the Anakronism series, and Industrialisation. Co-founder of Global Noise Movement and Adventurous Music.
the humble bee
Tape dust from Craig Tattersall.
Hunger
Solitary, ambiguous.
Hypnotic Transmissions
When making music, naming songs and doing the cover artwork, I try to build a story through it all. I never want to just put a release together without making sure that every element is there for a reason. I believe art is in everything around us and every genre of music has something to offer.
iKKi Duo
iKKi Duo
(Zeynep Ayşe Hatipoğlu and Fulya Uçanok) is an experimental music duo, featuring cello, piano, everyday objects with electronics. They are both performers, improvisers, composers and artist researchers, exploring contemporary, experimental, and non-conventional musicking practices. Their paths crossed in 2016 at Istanbul. Since then, they have been hooked on sounding together.
INYAN
DJane and Musician. Co-founder of Adventurous Music and Global Noise Movement. Co-creator of the Global Noise Movement Noise Floors at Wave Gotik Treffen, the Anakronism series, and Industrialisation. Experimental electronica. Plays the flute, guitar, piano, and vocal cords, but never ever plays the same set twice.
Jack Hertz
Jack Hertz is an artist/programmer/synthesist & producer from Pacifica, CA
and is person behind the Aural Films label.
John Americus Witt
John Americus Witt (3 February 1809 – 10 December 2010) was an American composer in the Modern Unclassical tradition. Known primarily for his posthumously released four-part symphony, “Cyclothymia”, musical scholars have long surmised that there are any number of works yet to be discovered. Any attempts to uncover said lost work have thus far been unsuccessful, though it is rumored that a trunk of ancient manuscripts, Reel-to-Reel tapes, DAT’s, and a few burned CD’s were recently acquired by a private collector. One can only hope that these make their way into the public forum, if only to shed some light on this largely mysterious figure.
John Wiggins
John Wiggins is best known as an Emmy winning film and television sound designer, working for HBO and his own production company, Wonderland Sound. Wiggins is a master of the techniques of musique concrete, his experimental work often consists of painstakingly arranged synthetic and natural sounds that create extraordinary "living" audio environments. In 2017 Wiggins was one of the distinguished winners of "PRESQUE RIEN" Luc Ferrari Prize.
Jon Watkins
The Ghost of/that is Jon Watkins is a Composer/Guitartist in a small room but a big world from the land of Montreal
JONNY
“JONNY is a dabbled in music project that focuses on Serene ambient textures and thrilling Jungle/DnB beats. I don’t have any music theory so mainly I wing it and see what happens”
kaolu_euphony
kaolu_euphony as independent music composer, bedroom music producer, arranger, sound designer, begins in 2013.
Tokyo, Japan
KASA
Cape Town, South Africa
helo is an artist based in Cape Town, South Africa creating solo sound works under the title "kasa" since 2003. Creating sound and trying to capture it has always been a raw, DIY experience out of necessity due to the lack of resources and no formal training. influenced by punk, shoe gaze, atmospheric drone, noise, folk, doom, drone, metal, hip-hop, broken things & orchestra.
Kate Bosworth
Presenter of Dark Train on Warminster Community Radio every Monday 2200hrs GMT.
Noise purveyor with BMH.
Kidaisey
Visual Artist from the UK, expressing through multiple genres - UK Jungle to Experimental Textured IDM - from Post-Rock Shoegaze to Sludge Doom Metal. Sharing what I create along the way.
Kid Mania
Experimental artist / producer / DJ living in Northern Ontario, Canada.
KiEw
Lüneburg, Germany
What happens if you put an entire table full of effects, controller, mixer, synthesizers, tiny noise machines and groove boxes between a bass and a guitar? Then certainly KiEw from Lüneburg will enter the stage and light a firework of danceable sound between dadaistic electro-punk, rhythm’n’noise and breakbeat loaded industrial-techno.
Kῦμα / The Logically Undefined
Andy Green aka Kῦμα, The Logically Undefined, Quest… is an electronic music producer, sound designer & DJ.
Purveyor of sonic beats & pieces since 1990.
Music For Your Body - Music For your Mind!
K43DG3
Kentucky, USA
Contemplative psychoacoustic soundscapes.
Sculpted noise; sometimes soothing, sometimes uncomfortable. Sometimes both.
the [law-rah] collective
expect the unexpected, and even then you're way off ...
the [law-rah] collective is a (mostly) utrecht-based collective of artists working with words, sounds, rhythm, structure, chaos and anything we can get our hands on.
in the field of electronic music active since 2001, but the first seeds were planted in 1993.
"i wonder what the future holds"
- the sky's gone out, bauhaus
The Lifted Index
Atlanta, Georgia
The Lifted Index is an ambient electronic project from Daniel DeWitt. Based outside of Atlanta, Daniel creates music with synthesizers, voice, and electric guitar. Emphasizing texture and emotion, The Lifted Index conjures sonic worlds within songs.
Malady of Knots
Wirral, UK
Experimental electroacoustic project beginning in 2009.
Manuel Carbone
Experimental sound recordist. Electroacoustic enthusiast. Abstract compositions, field recording, synths and tape loops.