Rolling "Experimental Is A Shitty Descriptor But Whatev" 2017

I never know where to post these so there, I made a thread for it. Please fill it with all your creepy drone, dark ambient, broken electronics, weird techno, abstract noise, and all the other things that make normal people wonder what the hell is wrong with you.

I'll start off with this 2016 list from L'Ombre sur la mesure (from one of the guys behind the now-defunct SWQW):

30. 1991 – No More Dreams (No More Dreams) (Ambient, Synth, Experimental)
29. Ryo Murakami – Esto (Bedouin Records) (Drone, Indus, Noise, Ambient)
28. Carla Dal Forno – You Know What It’s Like (Blackest Ever Black) (Synthpop, Goth, Post-Punk)
27. Skee Mask – Shred (Ilian Tapes) (Techno, House, Breakbeat, Electronica)
26. Monadh – Muara (Further Records) (Ambient)
25. Bethan Kellough – Aven (Touch) (Ambient, Field Recordings, Modern Classical)
24. Acronym – Entagled In Vines (Semantica Records) (Techno, Deep Techno Ambient)
23. Pinkcourtesyphone – Taking Into Acount Only A Portion Of Your Emotions (Editions Mego) (Ambient, Experimental)
22. Thomas Köner – Tiento De La Luz (Denovali) (Ambient, Modern Classical)
21. Dedekind Cut – $uccessor (NON – Hospîtal Productions – Self released) (Electronic)
20. Various Artists – Scandinavian Swords (Northern Electronics) (Techno, Deep Techno, Ambient)
19. Valerio Tricoli – Clonic Earth (PAN) (Experimental, Field Recording, Musique Concrète, Ambient)
18. Claire M Singer – Solas (Touch) (Drone, Electro-acoustic, Modern Classical)
17. Yves de Mey – Drawn With Shadow Pens (Spectrum Spools) (Electronic, Experimental)
16. Elodie – Grisailles (La Scie Dorée) (Modern Classical, Acoustic, Free Improvisation, Ambient)
15. Christine Ott – Only Silence Remains (Gizeh Records) (Modern Classical, Experimental)
14. D.Å.R.F.D.H.S – Förensligandet (Northern Electronics) (Ambient, Techno, Experimental)
13. Saåad – Verdaillon (In Paradisum) (Drone, Ambient, Experimental)
12. Tape Loop Orchestra – The Invisibles (Other Ideas) (Drone, Ambient)
11. Roly Porter – Third Law (Tri Angle) (Drone, Ambient, Noise)
10. Resina – Resina (130701 – Fatcat Records) (Modern Classical, Drone, Ambient)
9. KETEV – I Know No Weekend (Portail Editions) (Ambient, Experimental, Techno)
8. Ian William Craig – Centres (130701 – Fatcat Records) (Ambient, Drone, Folk)
7. Restive Plaggona – Non Serviam (Several Minor Promises) (Techno, Indus)
6. Biosphere – Departed Glories (Smalltown Supersound) (Ambient, Field Recordings)
5. Kerridge – Fatal Light Attraction (Downwards) (Techno, Noise, Indus)
4. Unearth Noise – Prayer And Resonance (Lullabies For Insomniacs) (Ambient, Drone, Tribal, Experimental)
3. Abul Mogard – Works (Ecstatic) (Ambient, Drone)
2. Autechre – Elseq 1-5 (Warp) (IDM, Experimental)
1. Puce Mary – The Spiral (Posh Isolation) (Power Electronics, Noise, Indus)

a friend this week pointed this out to me :

https://abulmogard.bandcamp.com/album/works

i tried : not for me.
too isolationist for my ambient groove.
however, could be one for this thread.

Just listened to this and it's really engaging beatless music, very different textures from track to track: http://www.tinymixtapes.com/news/keru-not-ever-premieres-new-album-tereza-out-month-infinite-machine

RIP time travel

might start a rival thread to continue my entirely inexplicable beef (not a real beef) w/ dinsdale

seriously though, there does seem to be a divide between ambient weird and crazy weird. time travel usually favoured the former, I usually favour the latter. so there might be something in the alternative 'weird stuff NO AMBIENT NO BORING' thread. rolling attention deficit?

I'll still visit

crude dichotomy: kaitlyn aurelia smith goes here, katie gately goes there

so where is this other thread?

might start a rival thread to continue my entirely inexplicable beef (not a real beef) w/ dinsdale

seriously though, there does seem to be a divide between ambient weird and crazy weird. time travel usually favoured the former, I usually favour the latter. so there might be something in the alternative 'weird stuff NO AMBIENT NO BORING' thread. rolling attention deficit?

I'll still visit

I made this thread precisely because my kind of stuff almost never seems weird enough for the time travel thread. I suspect overlap will kill one of the two threads (probably this one) but I'm all for beefs so there.

re: Abul Mogard, got a friend who's a big fan too but I never managed to really get into him. It's pleasant enough but on the boring side of the boring ambient imo.

This is boring improv from Matt Christensen (of Zelienople) & Eric Eleazer:
https://mattchristensensolo.bandcamp.com/album/matt-christensen-and-eric-eleazer-longform-improv

Basically this was meant as a more inclusive version of the time travel thread.

Full disclosure: I linked the new Kevin Hufnagel on the post-Fahey thread the other thread because I couldn't find "time travel".

*the other day (other week?)

That Kevin Hufnagel album was pretty cool

It's last year, and I linked to it in the voting thread but Space Camp 1991 was a cool listen and probably fits in this thread...

Getting the year off to a good start:

Alice Kemp 'Fill My Body With Flowers And Rice'
Dave Phillips 'Rise'

btw my plan was to keep this one going as the rolling experimental/non-four-on-the-floor club music thread: Rolling Footwork / Juke / Batida / Shangaan/ Chaabi / Other

Ha, I never checked that thread because I honestly have no idea what any of those genre names mean (assuming that they are genre names).

https://ouijaboys.bandcamp.com/

Atari-controlled MIDI organism vs. free-blowing, Califone turntable feedback, crickets, birds etc.

https://likeavillain.bandcamp.com

Saw her live a couple weeks ago and she was astonishing. Mostly treated vocals and clarinet.

https://indexical.bandcamp.com/album/organvm-perceptvs

deep learning analysis of pop song wave files, breaking them into individual instruments, creating artifact-riddled sheet music which is then played in real time by large ensembles and it sounds incredible -- at first it sounds as if it's filled with timing errors and wrong notes, but all the 'wrongness' is actually over-precise analysis of some of the original arrangements, and as you listen over time and the pieces somehow hold together and get tighter and tighter, you realize that they kind of aren't strictly errors, there's some kind of turbo-charged high level thinking going on

whole album is completely amazing, especially 'ring of fire', 'jungle boogie' and 'crazy', but I think they made a good choice leading with the madonna

Some very quiet sound art stuff that has been feeling pleasant today: https://jeffreydavidmorton.bandcamp.com/album/ini-al-andering-usic

https://utechrecords.bandcamp.com/track/conversions-of-the-three-copal-perils-emanation-body

this track is oh my god

Enjoyed it

wow the Happy Valley Band is excellent

Online audio installation streaming 24/7 until Feb 28. In their (Instant Places') words, "an evolving sound sculpture composed of three-minute modules with three seconds of silence between each module. ":

In the online audio installation Carbon Sugar Air, Instant Places generates and broadcasts slowly evolving sound objects inspired by the natural forms and processes of lichen symbiosis.

http://naisa.ca/carbon-sugar-air/

[Full disclosure: I know these people as well as Jeff Morton, who made the last thing I linked.]

I can't keep track of where droney stuff goes these days but this is good, from the guitarist of Implodes

https://soundcloud.com/hitd-3/sets/matt-jencik-weird-times

Yeah, that was good. Does he have more stuff like that?

https://infrequencyeditions.bandcamp.com/album/particles-waves

excellent work

that Jencik album (xxp) is my first great record of 2016, any genre. beautiful stuff.

he is a kind person too
i'm glad his album is getting some exposure!

i found out about it from marc masters on twitter. it is really good. it made me check out implodes, who are OK but not really my thing.

i like implodes
he also played with slint! remember when we went to see the slint movie?
matt j also did a solo guitar thing at the hideout that was really enjoyable (part of the monthly resonance series)

thanks for the Jencik, I've only sampled the first few tracks so far but I feel like this is going to be right up my alley

well fuck sleep I'm going to listen to the whole thing

I liked Noyes/Olsen too. I want to listen again when I can play it louder.

jamming to and enjoying this right now
https://mascarponediscos.bandcamp.com/album/true-history

the pull track is just a sped up version of thinking plague's "organism". speaking of which thinking plague has a new one set to drop tomorrow. their last few records were so cheery! i'm sure it will be an upbeat and uplifting experience.

ugh seriously half this record is just chunks of _in this life_ sped up. i don't know what the other half is but i'm betting jaikel didn't have anything to do with creating it. jaikel better hope steve feigenbaum never finds out about his "album".

yeah wtf

I mean I'm not against sampling/manipulation as a form of making music but this is just zero-effort nonsense

ha wow! in the age of vaporwave I am getting used to barely altered varispeed appropriation and still somehow having it feel legitimately 'authored' but for whatever reason, this guy putting his name on this seems notable for moral slippage

just happy to be on a board with members that can trainspot Thinking Plague in a 90 minute window, maybe the alt reality where 'In This Life' is standard album that every prog rock fan venerates is real after all

/is _a_ standard album

Happy Valley band is quite funny for those two songs but not sure if I could take a whole album of it

probs fav album art of the year, records p good too (choice cut is 'all deth is u')
https://hausumountain.bandcamp.com/album/drip-mental

I've been getting into Andrea Pensado's Soundcloud. Meticulous digital noise compositions.

nxd that is great and it belongs on my thread not this one just fyi

yes, this is silly. but arbitrary vanities of nebulous difference doth a messageboard make

wowzers that hausumountain label is a veritable treasure trove of variegated mentalism thanx nxd !

yeh that walkthrough album is really cool, one of my favs of last year

https://billygomberg.bandcamp.com/album/transition

v richly detailed and textured drone-ish material

Guys: http://caseysokol.com/?page_id=793

V cool interactive algorithmic/generative piece that is different each time you play it.

new stuff from Draugurinn. dark ambient Norse-obsessed stuff from France (which admittedly sets off a couple of "who's yr crew" alarms)

pretty nice

https://draugurinn.bandcamp.com/

https://bogbodiesmigro.bandcamp.com/

i really liked the album that robert stillman put out last year. this is his new band/project bog bodies, which is more experimental, but seems interesting. multimedia stuff incorporating film and improvised music. a little jazzy a little post-rock a little droney.

really into this ellen arkbro release "for organ and brass," great melodic drones of ... organ and brass: https://open.spotify.com/album/4Hljg3AmimZRK9dnyhVPTJ (sorry for the spotify link but it doesn't appear to be on bandcamp or elsewhere)

i love dense clouds of organ and/or brass so this is like catnip for me

Philly noise merchants Tidal Archive do a 24-hour ambient drone performance once a year and they are at it right now! Check it out...

http://www.twitch.tv/tidalarchive

Listened to the Arkbro this morning and enjoyed it. I saved it on Spotify and will keep it in mind when I'm buying music.

Maybe on the melodic end for this thread but I like this : https://missingorgans.bandcamp.com/album/old-speakers
Nice cover too

― na (NA), Monday, March 20, 2017 7:55 AM (four months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i missed this until now but this dude put out another album in april: https://missingorgans.bandcamp.com/album/overground-fantasy

This is pretty cool: https://neuguitars.com/2017/08/14/video-dai-fujikura-sparking-orbit-for-electric-guitar-and-electronics-on-neuguitars-blog/

(A piece for electric guitar and electronic signal processing, with some actually lyrical and beautiful moments)

I really like this Mana album on Hyperdub. Synth album, very little percussion, but it has a lot of motion. I've found myself listening to it a lot.
https://mana1.bandcamp.com/album/mana-creature-hdb111

The Iglooghost record is a monument to detail and production effort. So much happening all at once and from bar to bar, but somehow it's all clear in the mix and sounds stream-of-conscious in the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvXATt7m1tE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48KBi0a9Iq4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt8OkM1PDZQ

oh i forgot about this artist!
i liked chinese nu yr when it came out, will check this :)

whoa

wrong thread, that shit's totes attention deficit ;)

kind of loses me by being melodically unengaging, but bear in mind i am ruined in this regard and if you're just into cool beats then this has 'em

in fact this has a very similar should-like-but-don't effect on me as flying lotus, whose label this is seemingly on

Yeah there are melodies everywhere but not a lot to hang on to. I think it's literally ADD music in some ways (although less so than some of his other stuff).

i really like this record!
a mash up of sorts of lots of stuff i've been enjoying recently

https://tenthcourt.bandcamp.com/track/supercell

Wolf Shield - Supercell. This recent release is a little more interesting than the usual electronic/pop stuff coming out, to my ears at least.

some things i enjoyed over the weekend - sorry that they don't all fit here

IT IT - formal odors https://ititpgh.bandcamp.com/album/formal-odors
'this heat' kinda experimental art pop

infinite bisous - w/love https://infinitebisous.bandcamp.com/album/w-love
very relaxing ambient pop

golden teacher - sauchiehall withdrawal youtube.com/watch?v=GFpnkgd6iok
this track is giving me 'liquid liquid' vibes

Golden Teacher are ace!

Glad this one is coming out, such a cool banger: https://soundcloud.com/do-the-astral-plane/loft-heffalump-szare-remix-1

For those compiling your year-end lists, this playlist includes all the available tracks on this thread as well as all the tracks from rolling attention deficit 2017 -> 999999999999 -> 999999999999999999 (division be damned), organized sorta-not-really chronologically in order of mention:

ILM's 2017 Rolling Art Rock, Noise and Experimental Sounds Thread(s) Spotify Playlist

man you're really asking for a 700-word l.jagz post

hopefully he posts it on the other thread though

thank you for thinking of us

― imago, Thursday, 7 December 2017 21:35 (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you're no fun

This duo improvisation on solo marimba with real-time Ableton Live processing goes to some beautiful places: https://dbergeron.bandcamp.com/releases
(Marimba player was a colleague years ago.)

hey no new threads yet?
sorry if i missed them

this off the quietus today is p good
http://thequietus.com/articles/23902-slow-place-like-home-when-i-see-you-ice-cream-album-review

i haven't heard anything by him before but its certainly soothed this quite grey morning :)

there's a new thread that I pledged to merge my own concern with but it's taken off in a very bobbins-y direction that i really want little to do with

will check this out though!

ｂｒｉｎｇ ｂａｃｋ ｔｉｍｅ ｔｒａｖｅｌ

Rolling Experimental Electronic & Misfit Club Music 2018

the lack of a comma between 'experimental' and 'electronic' is pissing me off and making me think i need to start something time-travelly, yeah. i don't even think orange milk would be so welcome there

listening to slow place like home! intriguing so far...

oh this is good!

feels like what might have happened if the beta band had followed up heroes to zeroes, in a good way

Yeah this is p good

went through it twice, safe to say my favourite record of the year so far!

l e v a r t e m i t k c a b g n i r b

― nxd, Wednesday, 24 January 2028 12:25 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Do we have a rolling thread for retro, completely un-experimental, electronic music? Y'know: the sort of thing released by Polytechnic Youth, Castles In Space, A Year In The Country and the like.

some great news!
fire toolz vs nmesh :D
https://www.tinymixtapes.com/news/fire-toolz-release-interbeing-remix-collection-suite-309-shares-nmeshs-absolute-cut-throat-remi

might just start a thread for time travel, noiselectronic, experimental, bleep bloops, vaporwave, orange milk 2k18?

it would need to be distinct enough from the 'experimental electronic' thread already in play but yes!

what is orange milk?

label responsible for death's dynamic shroud, giant claw, loads of other exciting US electronica. is elysia crampton on them?

ah! thank you

crampton isn't but they're still great

xps good shout i'll remove the electronic bit

Hmmm yeah, I guess I think of Orange Milk as being a little less functional, more cartoon-y, maximal, and heavier on internet detritus collage than what I'm into personally. Cool that they seem to have really found an audience though.

sounds like a description of haord music!

what makes Orange Milk different from the other dozen labels that release giant claw, death dynamic shroud.wmv etc?

not too much i guess, i didn't put too much thought into the thread name but shudda outlined genres rather than labels in hindsight

Park Jiha: Communion -- really lovely Korean multi-instrumentalist stuff

https://parkjiha.bandcamp.com/album/communion

yeah, saw this one on bandcamp daily (I think?) it's really nice

v relaxing listen - great stuff