Soleilmoon Recordings
Since 1987, Soleilmoon Recordings has been at the forefront of the experimental music community, releasing a wide variety of records that share the common goal of expressing abstract ideas through
technological means. Much of the music on Soleilmoon falls on the dark side of the electronic spectrum, infused with ethnic percussion, horror-show dronescapes, or arcane knowledge. At times, Soleilmoon's catalogue is difficult, but it is always well worth investigating.
Alp
Kitchen appliances, everyday electronics, and boiling water provide the source material and inspiration for an album that perfectly captures the feeling of sterility evoked by the spaceship in 2001.
At Home with Alp
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1999
Ayers/Everall/Harris
By exchanging and reconstructing material from one another, this trio has amassed a bleak dark ambient album of gaping off world drones that could originate from an orbit just outside the solar system. It's that cold.
Mesmeric Enabling Device
Controlled Bleeding
From their beginnings as one of the first pure noise bands, Controlled Bleeding has embraced a broad constantly changing palette of grandiose gothic vocals, furious industrial grind, and bleak dark ambient.
The Poisoner
DNA Le Draw D Kee
The Legendary Pink Dots like to think of themselves as a family. So it makes sense that a project would emerge from one of the families within the Legendary Pink Dots. DNA Le Draw D Kee is the ambient project of LPD frontman Edward Ka-Spel and his former wife Elke Skelter.
DNA Le Draw D Kee
Eyeless In Gaza
If some boisterous romantic stumbled into a darkened living room and began crooning love songs to accompany a meandering psychedelic improvisation, it might seem out of place. But it would sound like Eyeless in Gaza, and it would sound right.
Song Of The Beautiful Wanton
Randy Greif
Randy Greif programs his computers and samplers to process sound as though
it were directed by a paranoid schizophrenic with a warped sense of history and theatricality.
Verdis Requiem
Illusion of Safety
Illusion of Safety make sinister excursions into harsh collages culled from an oversaturated media and synthetic subsonic rumbles. Is it safe?
Bad Karma
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1998
Indonesian Soundscapes
Put away your wallet. Ignore the political unrest that surrounds you. If you want to experience the rich aural culture of Indonesia, you need travel no further. Indonesian Soundscapes will take you there.
Indonesian Soundscapes
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1999
Laminar
Laminar amplifies an array of nearly imperceptible sounds to construct massive collages of textural noise, falling quite into the noise pantheon alongside Merzbow's explosive feedback and John Duncan's early work with shortwave crackle.
Ante-Chamber
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1999
Lustmord
Combine your darkest, most unnerving nightmares with tonalities that make your chest cavity rumble. Plumb the depths of your psyche and your spleen. Pull yourself together and experience Lustmord. Terror has never been quite so beautiful.
Paradise Disowned
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1984
Daniel Menche
Daniel Menche's majestically abject orchestras of low-end incendiary rumbles and white hot shards of noise are atonal serenades for the lady in the furnace in David Lynch's Eraserhead.
Field of Skin
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1998
Vidna Obmana & Asmus Tietchens
Asmus Tietchens is the German master of pre-industrial electronic formalism and Vidna Obmana is an accomplished impressionist of quiet ambient. Together, they have embarked on a handful of projects, recycling each other's work with exciting results.
Motives for Recycling
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1999
Nick Parkin
Nick Parkin builds looping collages culled from ritualistic performances, maintaining an aridity of sound similar to the more ambient passages of Muslimgauze.
Island of Dust
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1999
People Like Us
People Like Us has dredged the bottom of the pop cultural barrel to find uncanny samples of sexual innuendoes, silly musical interludes, and ample scatological references for some wonderfully ironic and deftly humorous plunderphonic work.
Hate People Like Us
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1999
Johnny Pinkhouse
How technology has changed. To download the MP3s of these recordings is to step back into history. Johnny Pinkhouse's collection, Bad Acetate, documents a handful of home recordings of bad jokes, songs, and inconsequential babbling made on recordable acetate vinyl in 1949.
Bad Acetate
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2000
Rapoon
Rapoon makes unexpected sounds with his extensive collection of tablas, hand drums, and ancient harps by employing a variety of primitive analogue looping techniques and filters to produce haunted mantras for off-world nomads.
Raising Earthly Spirits
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1993
The Silverman
The Legendary Pink Dots employs the contrasting highly developed aesthetics of its various members to produce a bizarre musical stew. As the Silverman, Pink Dots keyboardist Phil Knight pursues his own unique vision to create a dense psychedelic miasma.
Silvermandalas
Storey/Ayers/Greif
This unique trio comprised of Robin Storey from :Zoviet*France: and Rapoon, Nigel Ayers from Nocturnal Emissions, and Randy Greif conducts experiments in "you mailed to me so I'll mail to the other guy" musical collaboration. Their work together results in an impressive triptych of vertiginous textures and drones.
Nail of Pious Bride
Perfidious Albion
Build a Poison Fire
Z'Ev
At times, Z'ev's dense percussive clatter sounds like a bunch of guys having a pipe fight in a warehouse. At others, his industrial strength gamelan ascends to complex polyrhythmic tonalities.
Opus 3.1
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1999
Zoviet France
:Zoviet*France: transforms improbable sounds that come from lo-fi technology, faux-ethnic percussion, and everyday noise by employing multiple looping situations that slowly dissolve into ecstatic droning mantras.
Digilogue
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1996
