Caustic rock straight from Chicago - What would happen if Tom Waits joined Velvet Revolver? Ahab Rex.
Chicago's own electro pop duo combining elements of New Wave, Noise and Krautrock with a healthy dose of drum & sax freakout.
Beehatch is the new project from
Phil Western
(Download, platEAU) and
Mark Spybey
(Dead Voices On Air, Zoviet France, Download).
Dead Voices On Air has been Mark Spybey's main creative outlet for nearly 20 years now. As a pioneer of experimental soundscapes and visual music, Dead Voices On Air creates a confrontational puzzlebox of sounds erupting from a bevy of mysterious sources.
Electronic artist from Chicago who blends layered, plodding backbeats and textured synth washes for his own blend of electronica.
Matthew Schultz
(Lab Report) has unveiled his newest endeavor - The Division - a reconstruction of ancient spells and rituals reinterpreted aurally by one of the leading dark ambient artists of our time.
Chicago electronic artist - combining elements of 80's electro, cutting-edge IDM & bouncy melodies steeped in indie influences.
Dark ambient, experimental electronic band from Colorado - with 6 full-length releases in addition to more than a dozen compilation contributions.
Khamsa Khala is an ethno-industrial musical project that combines the love of middle-eastern music and Moroccan culture with experimental recording methods and deep sound manipulation.
Chicago experimental artist combining a dynamic mix of sounds, textures and techniques to his unique compositional style that is both soft and loud - busy and silent - tender and brutal.
The music is an oddly cohesive combination of dark post-punk and a near-blues/folk version of minimalist pop, and the characters in many of his songs have deep romantic, social, and psychological problems.
Chicago's own
MR RUSSIA blends two basses with synthesizers, drums, and snarky, blunt, and sometimes devilish lyrics, that is described as “a slash-and-burn mix of adrenaline and melody” (Jim DeRogatis of the Chicago Sun-Times).
Noisepoetnobody is an all hardware electronic artist based in Seatlle, WA with professional experience on slide guitar, samplers, modular synthesizers, MIDI and voltage control sequencers, lots of digital and analog effects processors, loopers, and objects wired to contact microphones.
Chicago electronic artist - "This guy has all the right approaches to be the next Prodigy" -
Future Music
Rapoon
is Robin Storey - the pioneering ethno-ambient artist with over 40 musical and visual releases to his credit. Robin is also a noted visual artist, painter and animator.
Chicago solo artist bringing an experimental, lo-fi approach to rock music. "An eclectic genius with an innovative knack for blurring musical boundaries" -
Rockpile
Robert Scott Thompson is a composer of instrumental and electroacoustic music among other forms. He has achieved significant critical acclaim from the more than 30 releases tin his catalog.
Described by Rinus Van Alebeek, organizer of Das Kleine Field Recording Festival in Berlin, as 'a novelist', Simon produces episodic and dramatic works, composing from field recordings he has gathered during numerous projects and international travels.
