A compilation of creative commons electronic experimental music from March 2011. Featuring lots of great music, including "Transmission 07" from Subterrestrial's Transmissions from the Hollow Earth.
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This self-titled release from Subterrestrial is a collection of chiptune and micromusic recorded between June 2010 and July 2011. Some tracks were recorded for compilations (most of which never saw release,) many more were recorded specifically for this collection. Styles range from ambient to post-rock and experimental utilizing 8-bit, analog and circuit bent sounds. With twelve tracks, there's bound to be something on this collection for everyone.
It isn't often that I write and post a review for this blog (chalk it up to my own laziness/selfishness) but when I do it's usually of The Netherlands' Infinite Inertia. Usually known for producing some of the deepest, darkest minimal ambient atmospheres, he's really outdone himself with this latest, Lovecraftian-themed release. "The Colour Out Of Space" presents us with a decidedly more dense and complex soundscape where ancient monstrosities call from the deepest depths and snatches of melody lure us into madness like a siren's song. Highly recommended if you're looking for your next "soundtrack without a movie."
This podcast (apparently uploaded some time in April) features Subterrestrial's track "The Lava Tube" from our album "Nature is Infinite" on Webbed Hand Records. (dis)PERSE Dispatch is a weekly broadcast on DFM RTV, Netherlands produced and hosted by Alan Herrick of Auricular Records. Offerings include ambient, experimental, noise, soundart, shoegaze, glitch and difficult music as well as explorations of some of the latest offerings from netlabels and some rare archival material. Don’t be surprised if we have the occasional live in studio performance and/or interview as well.
"The City Beneath" is a longform dark ambient piece inspired by the epic, groundbreaking 1927 science fiction silent film "Metropolis" by German director Fritz Lang. The composition explores the themes presented in the film and in particular, the subterranean city of the oppressed working class. The City Beneath" was composed and recorded in early May of 2010 and released as a CDr on Black Drone: 13 Series on May 13, 2010 (catalog # 13-7) in an edition of 26 copies. By 2011, "The City Beneath" was completely sold out and had gone out of print. The original recording was very slightly tweaked, cleaned up and overall remastered in late July 2011 and re-released on Subterrestrial Netlabel. New front and back covers were created from the original graphic materials.
