Members: Mark Rydyger. Genre: Ambient, Electro, EBM, Synthwave. Biography: Started sometime around the 2000, Holon is the solo vision of musician Mark Rydyger. Know for his tight programming style of sharp rhythms and fluid medolies, Mark describes his methods as being “half human and half Artificial Intelligence. Heavily inspired by cyberpunk and 90s-era electronica, Holon takes techno-EBM techniques flood it with a spacy, ambient fullness.…
Members: Mark Pritchard, Tom Middleton. Genre: Techno, Ambient, Industrial. Biography: Originally a solo venture for the highly prolific Mark Pritchard, Reload truly found its voice when Tom Middleton joined the project for the “Autoreload” EP. As Tom became more heavily involved, the duo produced their now legendary “A Collection of Short Stories” album–which due a limited pressing, remains highly sought after to this day. The…
Members: Pavlo Storonsky. Genre: Dark Ambient, IDM, Downtempo, Electronica, Industrial, Glitch, Drone. Biography: Tineidae is a Warsaw-based project of Ukrainian composer Pavlo Storonskyi. As Tineidae draws from an array of genres and styles to produce a unique blend of beat-heavy industrial IDM, ambient electronica, and atmospheric soundscapes. Influenced by science fiction, especially cyberpunk , Storonskyi’s works tells aural stories of dark futurist wastelands, dystopian megacities,…
Members: Daniel Kiley, Raymond Lewis. Genre: Dark Ambient, IDM, Downtempo.. Biography: Sense Sense is an experimental electronic project from Ashford, Kent, UK. They describe their sound as, “Futuristic, sophisticated, hi-tech soundscapes that wouldn’t sound out of place with some mech anime playing. Immersive mood music to match the world of tomorrow.” Albums: • Tomorrow’s World (2012) • Perfect Symmetry (2015) EPs: • After Dark EP (2010) •…
Members: Ryan Hill. Genre: Ambient, Dreampunk. Biography: Shenzhen-based ambient/electronic producer Kagami Smile has been one of the most prolific musicians over the last couple years, dropping nearly a dozen records of swelling, meditative lo-fi soundscapes. A couple highlights includes his 2018 release “Anxiety” and 2020’s Blade Runner-inspired “Dream Residue” album. Lush and mesmerizing, Kagami Smile’s music is a dreamlike mesh of ambient-techno alive with fluid soundscapes,…
Members: Eric Peterson. Genre: Ambient, Dreampunk. Biography: In Quantum (IQ) is a dark project originally from Sweden now based in the United States. Peterson’s interest in making music began when a friend him a mix tape of older industrial music acts such as Einsturzende Neubauten and Skinny Puppy. In his own words, “I was immediately hooked on how synthesizers, drum-machines, and aggressive vocals ran through multiple distortion…
Members: David Russo. Genre: Ambient, Downtempo, Dreampunk. Biography: Hong Kong Express was a vaporwave project created in 2014 by experimental electronic artist HKE, founder of music labels Dream Catalogue, TKX, PYRAMIDS, Nirvana Port, Vault EVE, and Vault XYO. Originally used as the main alias for the artist, Hong Kong Express was put to an end after the 2018 release of the album, “Hong Kong Express.”…
Members: Barrett Busch. Genre: Dark Ambient, Drone, Soundscapes, IDM. Biography: Haloed is a dark ambient IDM project by Barrett Busch. The project is best know for its “Off-World” album which is a re-imagined soundtrack of the film Blade Runner. From the band’s bio: Frequencies from another place. Recommended uses: meditation, dreaming, focus, catharsis, transcendence. Albums: • Off-World (2017) • Paradox Lost (2019) • Suspended Annihilation (2019) EPs: •The…
Members: David Elsener. Genre: Ambient, Dreampunk, Atmospheric. Biography: Fornax Void is an audiovisual arts project founded by David Elsener in 2012. David’s educational background lies in Visual Communication and Computer Technology. Before other topics, the project’s main source of inspiration is the technology and design language of the late 20th century. Practically, the work of Fornax Void makes extensive use of older technologies: vintage digital…
Members: David Russo. Genre: Ambient, Dreampunk. Biography: DARKPYRAMID is a pseudonym of Dream Catalogue label runner and prominent vaporwave artist HKE (aka Hong Kong Express). With many vaporwave artists taking influences from other genres like trap, pop, dubstep, funk and soul, found sound, and ambient, there’s a multitude of dynamic and fantastic music being made under the vaporwave umbrella, DARKPYRAMID is move stylistically illusive. Using…
Members: Norman Kawasaki-Gucc, Frankie Franksi, Scraps. Genre: Ambient, Dreampunk. Biography: 2814 (stylized in fullwidth characters as ２８１４) is a British-American collaborative ambient and dreampunk project of the electronic musicians Luke Laurilla and David Russo, aka Telepath テレパシー能力者 and HKE (an abbreviation of the earlier moniker “Hong Kong Express”) respectively. The duo is best known for its sophomore album, Birth of a New Day (新しい日の誕生), described…
Members: David Russo, Luke Laurila. Genre: Ambient, Drone. Biography: Avoid reality with this brand new, aesthetically pleasing alternative by guiding cool guy Norman Kawasaki-Gucci and his gender non-binary, otherkin journalist friend Frankie Franks. Also along for the ride is Scraps, his robot dog! By exploiting the same reiterative game mechanics and cliched story for the millionth time in your short, precious lifespan! ⁍ What you choose…
Members: Unknown. Genre: Dark Ambient, Soundtrack. Biography: CYBER CRASH 2000 produces ambient soundtracks for imaginary movies. From their bio: Despite a limited run at the time of release, Pak Nam-Gyu’s 1987 tech-noir classic CYBER CRASH 2000 has gained a small cult following among 20th century completionists. Equally praised for its ominous predictions and panned for its overuse of cyberpunk clichés, the film dealt with complex themes…
Members: Uwe Schmidt (aka Atom™) Genre: EBM, Techno, Glitch, Biography: Atom™ (real name Uwe Schmidt) is a German composer, musician, and the mind behind Lassigue Bendthaus. He began making music in the early 1980’s, first playing drums, then switching to programming a drum computer after he had heard a Linn Drum on the radio. In 1986 he debuted Lassigue Bendthaus’ first single, “The Engineer’s Love,”…
Members: Unknown. Genre: Ambient, Downtempo. Biography: Central Industrial is a shadowy collective of seasoned producers who cut their teeth with breaks, IDM, ambient and all other late 90’s forms of UK underground music. Inspired by the works of William Gibson and Mamoru Oshii, Central Industrial‘s music flow in an almost narrative fashion, weaving an aural stories without words. The band’s first album, “Tuned To A Dead…
Founding Members: Shikhee D’iordna. Genre: Industrial Biography: Android Lust is just one person and the brainchild of musician Shikhee D’iordna. Born in Bangladesh, grew up in England and later moved to the New York City. After two independent label releases Shikhee released The Dividing on her own in 2002, bringing her to the attention of Projekt Records, who signed her and re-released the album. Outburn…
Members: Rob Lioy. Genre: Ambient, IDM, Glitch. Biography: Taking his name from the Cyberpunk 2020 off-shoot card game Netrunner, the once elusive Access To Arasaka has seemly come out of nowhere to take the electronic music community by storm with his debut full-length CD album ‘Oppidan‘ in 2009. The Rochester, NY producer’s cyberpunk influences are evident as he skillfully paints each sonic soundscape with expert…