Experimental Music Playlist – And down the rabbit hole we go…the title says it all. This is not the deep end of experimental, noise, drone etc. though. It may temporarily warp your cranium but its listenable enough to keep you from any permanent damage.
“After the release of their debut, ‘Desire’, a record of otherworldly club music suffused with erotic vitality, the queer South African artist underwent training as a traditional Nguni spiritual healer, or sangoma, accepting the call from above to serve their earthly and ancestral communities. Their second album, On the Romance of Being, is a collective affair, with Marea stepping out from behind the laptop to front a 13-piece band culled from South Africa’s avant-garde jazz and experimental music scenes. Together, they take a leap from Desire’s digitized churn to swooning orchestral soul, dancing across the divide between flesh and spirit.” – Pitchfork
A third album ‘The Baddies of Isandlwana’ is due Nov.9, 2023.
On the Romance of Being – 2023
This video is a good segue into the second album
Desire – 2020
A sneak peak track from ‘The Baddies of Isandlwana, due Nov 2023. By this account it sounds as bombastic and powerful as anything they’ve put out. Really brings together both energies of the previous 2 albums.
Benjamin Kilchhofer is not new to the world of recorded music, yet he doesn’t seem to fit into a particular scene or group. As an outsider he is, however, fully immersed and melded into his own universe. He mentally escapes to a parallel world and weaves an alternate reality which would otherwise not exist in his daily life. Kilchhofer avoids the spotlight and therefore isn’t really visible in today’s culture of ever changing content and social media. This is where Marionette steps in to attempt to shed as much light as possible on this unique and incredibly talented artist. – Soundcloud
Lussuria’s opiated atmospheres bring together dark and brooding Industrial signatures with augmented and re-purposed fragments of songs and spoken word that somehow create an uneasy ambience that lingers in the memory long after the music comes to a standstill. The album, “Industriale Illuminato” follows the fantastic “American Babylon”, a collection of tracks originally released on Hospital Productions as a cassette-only trilogy. The new album picks up where “American Babylon” left off, with a sullen, murky texture that leads the listener into a concrete catacomb of paranoia and despair. Total party time….- Soundcloud
https://soundcloud.com/farewell-forever/farewell-forever-lussuria
More of a library of strange arrangements than music, Felicia Atkinsons Hand in Hand combines experimental electronica with voice and spoken word.
Meredith Jane Monk is an American composer, performer, director, vocalist, filmmaker, and choreographer. Since the 1960s, Monk has created multi-disciplinary works which combine music, theatre, and dance, recording extensively for ECM Records. Her music is vocal based and highly experimental. Wiki
https://www.theguardian.com/music/tomserviceblog/2012/nov/19/contemporary-music-guide-meredith-monk
A Dark Ambient mixtape of all performing artists at 25YLOKI in Paris September 9-10, 2016.
Materializing from the intergalactic zone of Queens, New York, Macula Dog produce a bonkers electronic music that floats through star clusters and old Radio Shacks.Two guys sit opposite each other, one with an electronic drum kit, the other with a large assortment of synths and samplers. Both have damaged-looking alien puppets sitting on their shoulders. They create the kind of music you imagine the Devo-loving shift manager at a cryogenics warehouse would play late at night. – Noisey
Brazilian experimental beat maker Pazes
https://soundcloud.com/pazes/sets/withabandon
Kane Ikin is an experimental musician from Melbourne. His music – equal parts narcotic and kinetic – conjures industrial landscapes in crystalline definition. Concussive rhythms surround a glistening soundstage, creating a cinematic experience for the mind akin to a modern-day Blade Runner or Akira soundtrack. Kane has delivered two outstanding works in 2016. The tense and atmospheric “Modern Pressure” (Type Recordings) and its dancefloor-minded companion “Basalt Crush” (Latency Recordings) have both received high acclaim from Boomkat, Juno Plus and Bleep, drawing comparisons to Raime, Andy Stott and Demdike-Stare. Kane’s next work, “Sensory Memory” (Echovolt Records), will be released late 2016. Resident Advisor
Melt Yourself Down are a London based band who incorporate elements of North African musical styles, punk, jazz and funk. The band, according to saxophonist Pete Wareham, aim to produce “Nubian party punk”
https://soundcloud.com/rutabaga/sets/melt-yourself-down
Experimental noise artist Lesley Flanigan.
Before Gavin Russom was building instruments for Black Dice and James Murphy and performing in LCD Soundsystem, there was Paper Eyes. Taking jagged tape-loops and beat-up synthesizers, Russom bashed together industrial music, house, no wave, disco and noise and still ended up with music that sounded fun. Russom’s work will get a second life next month when he releases Source Cognitive Drive – Transmissions 1996-1998a compilation on Not Waving’s Ecstatic Recordings- Fact Magazine