breaking the waves - audio_z

audio_z (Tautvydas Bajarkevicius) is a sound artist and curator from Vilnius, Lithuania.

breaking the waves is another journey through abstract flow of rhythms, cinematic soundscapes, minimalistic melodies, intertwining collages and dense ambiences, composed by Lithuanian sound artist audio_z. Download it now.

Violet - Iron Music for Uncorrugated Youth

»Iron Music For Uncorrigated Youth« is a somewhat surreal experience. The A side basically finishes where it started, a prolonged drone that might appear static and looplike, but when closer examined reveal a universe of microscopic details and organic development. The B side is quite the opposite. While still firmly rooted in the drone, it manages to hold four distinctly different parts. What sounds like slowed down old records (it's actually Autoharp and tape loops, if anyone is keeping tabs) give way for oddly phrased field recordings, erratic rhythms and more of those weird drones. All in all »Iron Music For Uncorrigated Youth« is reminiscent of waking up in a pool of sweat from a fever induced dream. Not really scary but not quite pleasurable either. But still an experience you'd be sorry to have missed.BUY IT NOW!

Violet - live @ Empowerment Through Extremity Fest 04.25.08

Grinding autoharp & turntable with foil + electronics.

Cutest Puppy in the World - A Warm Winter

The Cutest Puppy in the World is Bryan Rhodes (of Baltimore) and Layne Garrett (of Washington, DC). We explore emergent forms, extremes of saturated and empty space, scorched remnants of the familiar. Our music is all improvised.

Since the summer of 2005, we have performed extensively in DC and the mid-Atlantic region alongside many amazing musicians. In 2005, we self-released a CD-R entitled ::shut in the basement::. It made free103point9's Top 150 of 2005. Sockets put out FINFOLK in early 2006, with cover art by renowned collage artist Joseph Mills. The record received critical praise from Terrascope, Fakejazz, and Noiseweek, among others. Apotrope came out in April 2007 on New American Folk Hero, to giddy smiles and shrieks of delight the world over. And now A warm winter here on Zeromoon.

These two improvisations were recorded on January 23, 2008 in Washington, DC. Instrumentation includes prepared/de-tuned guitar, various keyboards/synthesizers, found objects, and voice. We were wearing t-shirts in our unheated basement.

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Preliminary Saturation - Cigarettes & Sandpaper

Preliminary Saturation is the electro-acoustic, free improv, drone-duo in which Dutch sound artists Wouter Jaspers and Steffan de Turck combine their forces. To some extent, both might be better known for their solo-projects: Franz Fjodor and staplerfahrer, respectively. As Franz Fjodor, Jaspers displays a fascination for the darker side of life; with self-made instruments he creates a sound that shippers between droning soundscapes, depressed noise and dark folk. His style signature varies with his mood: from psycho chants to punk screams, from guitar oriented drones to field recordings. De Turck plays around with crunched and broken (micro)sounds, electro-magnetic waves and noise. Sometimes in a back-to-basics analogue setting, other times solemnly using his powerbook. Every once and a while, they come together in the safe harbor of one of their living rooms, pop open a bottle of wine, light some cigarettes and start improvising as long as the mood is right. It's how this recording was made.

In October 2008, Jaspers and De Turck will team up for a tour that will take them along the US East Coast, both playing shows as their individual projects and as Preliminary Saturation.

Make these boys of noise proud and download it now.

xedh - exadh

Miguel A. García (aka xedh) is one of the few artists working in the laptop domain that manages to go beyond the sterile audio terrain that many practioners of digital music tend to get lost in and never find a way out. Xedh exploits the pristine frequencies and extreme sonic range...and still ensures that his music has some muscle and perhaps a bit of humor. In his new mp3 ep for zeromoon he uses sounds from a few artists (simon daniel, thierry massard, & rafael flores) and throws in some of his own using a mixer, mics, sine waves, and treated sounds. In his own words: "It's somehow curious to watch in an almost unconscious way how links
generate themselves, in this case between people/sounds connected by their escape from more established shapes. The
hidden face of one of the most active characters of the most extreme
german industrial music, a french critic-poet with the rediscovered sin
of youth, and a living legend among the Iberian experimental music scene.
I really was Between them, myself and the intention of a piece
which I expected to make them to engage in a dialogue and to exist here
and now together: a kind of tribute to the others. But when i tried
it, i had to face the impossibility of generating something real
without having them transformed, internalized, absorbed, and to
finally recognize myself in them too. I couldn't deny myself.
So what this piece brought up was the confrontation between
differences, between the other and self, between the foreign and own,
the external, the internal, outside, inside, confused to be just
one. A piece about being human." Sounds good to me, now go get it.

Otto; or music for dead people

Zombies. Love. Sex. Revolutionary politics. Otto; or, Up with Dead People is the latest film from Bruce Labruce, coming soon to a large screen near you. Hopefully. In the meantime its premiering at Sundance and next month in Berlin. Oh, and it has music by Violet + Bumsteinas + Lapelyte, Alexei Borisov, and v+ultra milkmaids, all released on zeromoon or soon to be released.