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The project of Ithaca, New York’s Alec Koone, Balam Acab — named after a Mayan demigod who created rainbows by piercing clouds with arrows — began as an experimental noise project while he was still a Pa high-school student. He resuscitated the name a couple of years later being a …

Graham Repulski is a prolific lo-fi songwriter located in Philadelphia but originally from Ridgefield Recreation area, NJ. Everything about his brief, trebly music recalls middle-’90s Led by Voices, through the surrealist lyrics/game titles and collage-like artwork to his penchant for burying extremely catchy melodies in heavy levels of tape hiss, …

Psych-rocking space travelers Eternal Tapestry hail from Portland, Oregon, and were founded by Nick Bindeman (Jackie-O Motherfucker) and Dewey Mahood (Plankton Wat), who came together musically around their joint worship from the music of Neu! and guitarist Sonny Sharrock. These were became a member of in 2006 by Nick’s sibling …

A producer seemingly motivated by George Clinton, Prince, Larry Noticed, the Neptunes, Bugz in the Attic, and Sa-Ra in slightly different quantities, FunkinEven — given birth to Steven Tony Julien in Western London, Britain — is among the essential artists from the revered Eglo label. He debuted on Eglo in …

London-based experimental collective Grumbling Fur was created out of the daylong group improvisation that occurred in 2011. Like-minded players Daniel O’Sullivan, Antti Uusimaki, Alexander Tucker, Jussi Lehtisalo, and David Smith emerged jointly, having known one another from playing in likewise dark and experimental rings like Pharoah Overlord, Guapo, and Mothlite, …

John Kowalski and Rian Trench constitute Solar Bears, an Irish electronic music duo heavily inspired by film ratings and research fiction. Utilizing a variety of digital and acoustic musical instruments, their eclectic compositions range between pastoral downtempo meditations to guitar-driven neo-disco and indie pop tracks. The duo shaped in ’09 …

U.K. manufacturer Mumdance, aka Jack port Adams, provides navigated his method via an eclectic batch of styles right from the start of his musical profession, taking in from grime to kuduro. Developing up in rural Sussex on the diet plan of ’90s hardcore, jungle, garage area, and early-’90s electric guitar …

California-based experimental musician Brian Pyle (also of Starving Weirdos and RV Paintings) uses the name Ensemble Economique for his single ventures, starting from dark, Shamanic drone to mystical, echo-heavy psych rock to shadow-dwelling goth/darkwave. He initiated the task with On the Feet of Nameless Streets, an record of clattering, sometimes …

Something of the supergroup of second-generation New Zealand rock and roll celebrities and their pals, BARB is made up of Liam Finn, Eliza-Jane Barnes, Lawrence Arabia, Seamus Ebbs and Connan Mockasin. Finn and Barnes — the boy of Break up Enz/Crowded Home’s Neil and girl of Jimmy, respectively — got …

After making music in the German city of Jena in the later ’90s, Robert Witschakowski’s underground electro and techno bass alias the Exaltics became among the stalwarts from the burgeoning electro revival wave from the mid-2000s. Beginning in 2007, he create Solar One Music with Nico Jageiella (Crotaphytus); this might …