Mohave Triangles

Mohave Triangles is the same guy I wrote about exactly a year ago while in a post about Realms. Same guy, similar music, but this time even more focus and more determined to make his way through the psychedelic drone tape underworld than ever. Great stuff, recommended for zoning out to your drug of choice. Available for free download from his Bandcamp page.

Dry Valleys / Mohave Triangles Split (Sacred Phrases, 2010)

Vision Quest (Sacred Phrases, 2010)

Astral Holograms (Digitalis Ltd., 2010)

Haze for Daze (Digitalis Ltd., 2011)

Tapes 'N' Tapes

A.V. Club decided to create a documentary series. This one is of special interest to the readers of this blog (including Our Humble Author), because it treats about Chicago based tape labels. Included so far are: Neon Blossom Records (led by aforementioned Daniel Smith, aka Red Electric Rainbow), Priority Male Tapes, Catholic Tapes, Fliff City and Plustapes.

Red Electric Rainbow & Dead Pilots

Red Electric Rainbow is the self proclaimed "face melting music" pseudonym of Chicago, IL citizen Daniel D. Smith. Under this moniker he creates long, freeform synth drones. He is also the founder of Neon Blossom Records. You can also visit his website on Tumblr. Thankfully Daniel is fully aware of the Internet era and puts all his OOP stuff online. Here is a HUGE collection of links to his albums:

Aerosol Hangover
...And Into the Glow We Go...
Children Blush Tortured Mist
Domestic Bliss
Endless Sodium
Fluorescent Landscapes, Vol. 1
Fluorescent Landscapes, Vol. 2
Fluorescent Landscapes, Vol. 3
Floating on the Leaves
Fuck in New Day
Love is a Haunting Refrain
Nightlife
Pale Blue Blossom
Peyote Disco
Shanghai Complex
The Skeleton of God
Tooth & Nail
Wasteland Jazz Unit / Red Electric Rainbow Split
The White Whale Sings, The Blue Whale Cries

Daniel has also a more noisy moniker Dead Pilots, in which he combines walls of harsh noise with processed samples of piano and guitar.

Schematics
Fuck Out the Murder Virus

Dderrick Thomas - Frequency Modulation Music Floats

Frequency Modulation Music Floats (2011)

Raw kosmische musik synthesis. The first track is wall of drone a'la Bee Mask or KTL, the second track is a basic rhythm-driven affair a'la early Cluster. Worth checking out (you can download it for free from the site, too).

Disfigure Mare - Delta Maidenhair

Delta Maidenhair (2009)

One of Jeff Witscher's many projects - this one's definitely on the calm ambient side. Released on the quality label Agents of Chaos. Grab this if you like Marble Sky.

Carl Calm

Carl Calm is the alter-ego of Eric Lanham, who is 1/2 of Caboladies. While "Dayglo Port" is a very Caboladies-like affair, full of bubbly, sunlit drones and sometimes quite noisy atmospherics, "The Sag" is a much more rhythm-driven, pulsing album, which adds refreshing minimal techno stylings to the usual dreamy drones. Check it out!

Dayglo Port (2009)

The Sag (2010)

Arid Hunter

Arid Hunter is a band from Brooklyn, NY that specializes in purely improvised, droning, primitive, primeval and ritualistic soundscapes. Using synthesizers, vocals, wind instruments, drums and probably a myriad of other sound-making devices, they create an atmosphere reminiscent of darker moments of one of many Jooklo permutations, Sunburned Hand of the Man at their most improvised or a less melodic NNCK. Listen and downlaod their album from their Bandcamp:

________^_^_^________ (2010)

Windy & Carl - first 3 albums

Sorry for the lack of activity lately, guys, but it's my final year at the university and I'm pretty goddamn busy writing my MA thesis (about psychedelic music no less!) and studying for the exams (actually, that will begin soon). But I'm still finding some time for writing on this blog. Today I'll give you three first albums by the amazing drone/post/spacerockers Windy & Carl. Since they are ridiculously hard to find on the blogosphere, I've uploaded them myself. Enjoy!

 Portal (1995)

Drawing of Sound (1996)

Antarctica (1997)

I can upload other albums by Windy & Carl, if you have any requests.

SYV

SYV are a rock group from Norway that came into being in the late 90s. Their music can be described simply as krauty motorik psych. In their own words: SYV's music could be described as weird and unexplained, sort of disconnected yet totally tuned in, laidback but sharp and quite bizarre in places. Fans of Circle will probably enjoy this a lot. Check out their Myspace page, too.

Click on the covers to download.

SYV - No Slack!

SYV | Myspace Music Videos

Problems That Fix Themselves - Seconds

Problems That Fix Themselves is a moniker of Chicago, IL based musician Joshua Tabbia. "Seconds" is an eclectic collection of pastoral drones, sudden outbursts of (almost harsh) noise and driving electronic beats. The album is also available in a cassette form on Already Dead Tapes label. Also, make sure to visit Joshua's page.

Click on the album cover to download.