Luke: grue fodderHard to believe this is more than ten years old. Troum were one of the first dark/drone projects I got into, and this one - a themed album about a deluge in 1392 - is one of their best. Solid and doom-inspiring.
This is a strange little ambient/electronic EP that sounds a bit like what'd happen if you summoned the Cenobites in Japan. Halfway between percolating ooze and train station jingles.
https://gerpfastkolektif.bandcamp.com/album/winter-garden-flowers-ep
Winter Garden Flowers / EP, by お花屋
3 track album
Another Campbell Kneale-adjacent thing, this Lugosi album sounds a bit like tuning a radio beneath powerlines, but with more mystery.
https://campbellkneale.bandcamp.com/album/monarch
Monarch, by LUGOSI
4 track album
One person in the middle of nowhere (West Wyalong represent!) armed with a bunch of pedals and a guitar, makes chrome-plated doomed-spaceship rock.
https://deathcomet.bandcamp.com/album/1976
#noxp #bandcamp #music #experimentalmusic #guitar #noise #noiserock #FLANGER #deathcomet
1976, by DEATHCOMET
8 track album
Buddhist doom, naturally.
Bhaisajyaguru, by Dhyana
3 track album
Some heavy jazz jams that are straight FIRE. Seriously great.
https://thesurefiresoulensemble.bandcamp.com/album/step-down
Step Down, by The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble
10 track album
An embarrassment of primitive guitar riches. Some seriously good fingerpicking and propulsive playing.
https://tompkinssquare.bandcamp.com/album/imaginational-anthem-vols-1-3
#noxp #bandcamp #music #fingerpicking #americanprimitive #guitar #imaginationalanthems
Imaginational Anthem Vols. 1-3, by Various Artists
38 track album
An excellent intro to an improv harp-with-effects genius.
https://marylattimoreharpist.bandcamp.com/album/collected-pieces
#noxp #bandcamp #music #experimental #harp #marylattimore #improvisation
Collected Pieces, by Mary Lattimore
6 track album
This album is an excellent and righteous mixtape.
UNTITLED (Black Is), by SAULT
20 track album
Some dystopian beatwork? Yes please.
https://raster-raster.bandcamp.com/album/super-trigger
#noxp #bandcamp #music #frankbretschneider #electronic #dark
Super.Trigger, by Frank Bretschneider
9 track album
As joyfully stupid and foul as the words on the cover suggest.
Filth Ouroboros, by Casket Huffer
8 track album
This collection of forgotten postpunk/electronic gems from the '80s (and its sequel) is QUITE THE JAM.
https://minimalwave.bandcamp.com/album/v-a-the-minimal-wave-tapes-volume-1
V/A The Minimal Wave Tapes: Volume 1, by Various
14 track album
The Minimal Wave Tapes Volume 2, by Minimal Wave
14 track album
A beat tape influenced by Silent Hill and Junji Ito? Sign me up for this bummed Boards of Canada type stuff.
https://shitao.bandcamp.com/album/tomie-tape
#noxp #bandcamp #music #creepy #shitao #electronic #ambient #darkambient
川上 富江 [Tomie tape], by Shitao
10 track album
Time for a Peak Me album: Field Recordings of Fridges does exactly what you'd expect, and is mystifyingly appealing.
https://kiksgfrlabel.bandcamp.com/album/field-recordings-of-fridges
#noxp #bandcamp #music #fieldrecordings #refrigerators #experimentalmusic
Field Recordings of Fridges, by Various Artists
14 track album
Egyptian guitar-and-synth excellence.
https://sublime-frequencies.bandcamp.com/album/omar-khorshid-guitar-el-chark-vol-1
#noxp #bandcamp #music #synth #guitar #egyptian #OmarKhorshid
Omar Khorshid – Guitar El Chark Vol.1, by Omar Khorshid
14 track album
Neubauten/junk Cave-vibed industrial DIY horrors.
Sibling Lovers, by Kollaps
8 track album
Where hardcore and black metal combine to have a car smash.
https://serpentcolumn.bandcamp.com/album/kathodos
Kathodos, by Serpent Column
11 track album
And now for something EVEN MORE GRIM. Like a slowed-down Electric Wizard on cold medicine.
https://cough.bandcamp.com/album/ritual-abuse-deluxe-edition
Ritual Abuse (Deluxe Edition), by Cough
6 track album
How 'bout an Italian/French/Portuguese underground electronics/dark ambient tribute to HP Lovecraft from 1997?
https://eighthtowerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/nyarlathotep-a-tribute-to-howard-phillips-lovecraft
#noxp #bandcamp #music #HPLovecraft #electronicmusic #darkambient #compilation
Nyarlathotep - A Tribute To Howard Phillips Lovecraft, by Various Artists
8 track album
Reconstructions (suppositions?) of ancient Egyptian music. (He has Greek and Roman stuff on his page too.)
https://michaellevy.bandcamp.com/album/the-ancient-egyptian-harp
#noxp #bandcamp #music #egyptian #ancienthistory #reconstruction #michaellevy
The Ancient Egyptian Harp, by Michael Levy
5 track album
Field recordings and classical instruments in a kind of Feldman-by-the-sea mix. Not as isolated as their later work, but still brilliant.
Lost Seas, by Lowered
6 track album
Longform harmonium drone pieces with the sound of sunlight and birds coming through a St-Denys window.
Droomharmonium, by Hellvete
4 track album
Of course if we're doing drone, there's this minor miracle.
https://coilofficial.bandcamp.com/album/time-machines
Time Machines, by Coil
4 track album
This one is, I think, still doing pay-what-you-want. CHRÇH provide some incredibly focused doom vibes with no song shorter than nine minutes. Sludgy and harrowing!
https://churchdoom.bandcamp.com/album/light-will-consume-us-all
Light Will Consume Us All, by CHRCH
3 track album
This artist makes background music for his hair salon using synths embedded in the wall. It's pretty great, dunno about the haircuts though.
https://muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/reboot-a-repetition
Reboot a Repetition, by Nakayama Munetoshi
6 track album
Another organ-of-darkness windblown epic from the Eaglestone stable.
https://eaglestone.bandcamp.com/album/old-swamp-preacher
#noxp #bandcamp #music #eaglestone #rock #acid #psychedelic #soundtrack
Old Swamp Preacher, by C H A P E L
6 track album
A haunting piece of truly chthonic mystery.
https://auroraborealisrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-other-side-of-the-island
#noxp #bandcamp #music #thestargazersassistant #darkambient #creepy #experimental
'The Other Side Of The Island', by THE STARGAZER'S ASSISTANT
3 track album
An album of dark ambience marking our INVASION OF THE MOON.
#noxp #bandcamp #music #compilation #experimental #weirdfolk #MOON
Mysterium Lunae: A Requiem For The Invasion Of The Moon, by Various Artist
6 track album
If you look into the void it plays you a sick riff.
Death Around Us, by Black sun Void
5 track album
A smeared morning portrait.
In an ever-changing world it is reassuring to know that Diamanda Galas will always strip the paint from your soul.
"Composed in 2020 during the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, the first incarnation of the work was played as a sound installation at the Kapellen Leprosarium (Leper's Sanctuary)"
FUCK YEAH IT WAS.
https://diamandagalas.bandcamp.com/album/broken-gargoyles
#noxp #bandcamp #music #experimental #diamandagalas #voice #terrifying #queen
Broken Gargoyles, by Diamanda Galás
2 track album
Moving spheres, here's some compositions of chance that mix field recordings, bird shit, inked strings, electronics and some proper Icelandic strangeness.
https://hallasteinunn.bandcamp.com/album/strengur
#noxp #bandcamp #music #hallasteinunnstefansdottir #experimental #classical #contemporaryclassical
strengur, by Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir
15 track album
Pulling this one out again: go and give Eugene and co. your money for an album that feels like a fucking rip in the universe. Supremely intense stuff you need to hear.
An Evil Heat, by OXBOW
9 track album
Another gear-switch: this sampler is more joyous and bold than anything in my usually-grim wheelhouse. So good.
Tanbou Toujou Lou: Meringue, Kompa Kreyol, Vodou Jazz, & Electric Folklore from Haiti, by Various Artists
20 track album
Hawthonn: kind of what would happen if Dead Can Dance were more interested in folk horror and magic. And, y'know, better.
https://xetb.bandcamp.com/album/red-goddess-of-this-men-shall-know-nothing
Red Goddess (of this men shall know nothing), by Hawthonn
5 track album
Next up: an older record, but it's still on Bandcamp so they will receive more of your cash anyway! Low's SECRET NAME, which I haven't heard for years, and remains a lot more spare (and a lot stranger) than I recalled. Still brilliant.
RIP Mimi.
Secret Name, by Low
12 track album
When I wrote this it was a work day, so I'm enjoying the mostly summery and occasionally creepy third volume of the New Weird Australia series. I mainlined these on release but haven't listened to them for a while, and I'm still finding projects to check out.
https://newweirdaustralia.bandcamp.com/album/new-weird-australia-volume-three-nwa003
#noxp #bandcamp #music #experimentalmusic #newweirdaustralia
New Weird Australia, Volume Three | NWA003, by New Weird Australia
16 track album
Requiring a bit more energy now so I've decided to reenter the world of vampiric buddhist black metal from India.
https://siddhatthagotama.bandcamp.com/album/-
#noxp #bandcamp #music #metal #blackmetal #siddhatthagotama #गौतमबुद्ध
पुनर्जन्म भाग १, by गौतम बुद्ध
4 track album
Back to concentration, so here's Dean Hurley's album of ambiences from the third season of *Twin Peaks*. Very much recommended.
https://deanhurley.bandcamp.com/album/anthology-resource-vol-i
Anthology Resource Vol. I: △△, by Dean Hurley
18 track album
Some just-intonation lap steel used to create drones heavy with the image of woods in winter.
HALF-DRAGGED, by Henry Birdsey
4 track album
Continuing the drone towards sound bath extremes: this Phill Niblock album MUST be played at mind-breaking volume. Somehow, it's never brittle – kind of like a non-angry Glenn Branca. Superb stuff.
G2,44+/x2, by Phill Niblock
2 track album
An album of Japanese metal music as in "music made using metal" rather than "haha guitars go brr".
SELECTED METAL WORKS, by VELTZ
6 track album
In case you were wondering how low things can go, here's an album of contrabassoon works. Gritty.
https://didierguigue.bandcamp.com/album/compositures
#noxp #bandcamp #music #didierguigue #contrabassoon #contemporary #classical
Compositures, by Didier Guigue
4 track album
Imagine if Lightning Bolt was more metal, and also a one-piece band in which a bearded man plays bass drum and amped cello in his underwear. That's Mr Marcaille, and he rules.
https://mrmarcaille.bandcamp.com/album/heavy-freak-cello
#noxp #bandcamp #music #metal #french #mrmarcaille #cello #underpants
HEAVY FREAK CELLO, by Mr Marcaille
13 track album
Late night work? Time for some preacher intonations and radio noise laid over mournful Canadian music. This is an amazing album, just incredibly grim.
#noxp #bandcamp #music #asilvermtzion #grim #experimental #postrock #GYBEadjacent
He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts Of Light Sometimes Grace The Corner Of Our Rooms..., by A Silver Mt. Zion
8 track album
Lawrence English, head of the exceptional Room40 label, provides some heavy-as-fuck ambient drone spurred into life by a T.S. Eliot poem. All his stuff is good, but this is particularly fine.
https://lawrenceenglish.bandcamp.com/album/wilderness-of-mirrors
#noxp #bandcamp #music #experimental #ambient #lawrenceenglish #room40
Wilderness Of Mirrors, by Lawrence English
8 track album
And in "same name, different vibe" stakes, the newest Black Angels album might be doing the same thing that they've always done, but bloody hell they're good at it. Grim, fuzzy times ahoy.
https://blackangels.bandcamp.com/album/wilderness-of-mirrors
Wilderness of Mirrors, by The Black Angels
15 track album
This Oren Ambarchi/Johan Berthling/Andreas Werliin album is the best Necks album I've heard this year (2022).
https://orenambarchi.bandcamp.com/album/ghosted
#noxp #bandcamp #music #experimental #orenambarchi #johanberthling #andreaswerliin
Ghosted, by Oren Ambarchi / Johan Berthling / Andreas Werliin
4 track album
This is a krautrock beat jam. So very, very good.
https://orenambarchi.bandcamp.com/album/sagittarian-domain-10-year-anniversary-edition
#noxp #bandcamp #music #experimental #orenambarchi #krautrock #motorik
Sagittarian Domain (10 year anniversary edition), by Oren Ambarchi
1 track album
Still on the Oren tip: check out this sampler for his label, Black Truffle. If you like slightly odd or challenging stuff, there'll be something on here for you to latch on to.
Black Truffle At 10, by Various (mixed by Oren Ambarchi)
27 track album
"Pop noise" is how a band member describes this. Psych noise? Loose experimental? Machines wired up and making odd sounds? Whatever, it's pretty great, still.
https://yellowswans.bandcamp.com/album/bring-the-neon-war-home
#noxp #bandcamp #music #noise #experimental #ecstatic #yellowswans
Bring The Neon War Home, by Yellow Swans
5 track album
I love me some Birchville Cat Motel, but even in their catalogue this two-disc monster – particularly the album-length title track - is an enfolding drone wonder. Supremely joyous, which is a rarity in this neck of the noise.
https://campbellkneale.bandcamp.com/album/beautiful-speck-triumph
#noxp #bandcamp #music #birchvillecatmotel #rock #experimental #noise #drone
Beautiful Speck Triumph, by BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL
6 track album
With large v/a albums things can be a bit dicey, but this one seems to get the (dark) vibe of Lynch's world right. Electronic and strange.
https://noproblematapes.bandcamp.com/album/sounds-from-the-black-lodge-a-tribute-to-twin-peaks
#noxp #bandcamp #music #experimental #ambient #electronic #compilation #twinpeaks
Sounds from the Black Lodge: A Tribute to Twin Peaks, by Various Artists
25 track album
And here, a second volume while we're at it.
#noxp #bandcamp #music #experimental #ambient #electronic #compilation #twinpeaks
Sounds from the Black Lodge: The Return - A Tribute to Twin Peaks, Vol. II, by Various Artists
42 track album
One-person drone doom done right. Fat, slow riffs, occasional phaser, big gong on the cover. Play it LOUD.
(Part of me likes this because it feels like the sort of thing I could maybe do. Hmm.)
Pillars Of Creation, by Mantras
5 track album
Does precisely what it says on the tin. To be played loud as balls.
https://ellenarkbro.bandcamp.com/album/for-organ-and-brass
#noxp #bandcamp #music #classical #contemporary #modernclassical #ellenarkbro #drone #durational
For organ and brass, by Ellen Arkbro
3 track album
Folk, spirituals, and black metal in a sort of darker-than-Wovenhand mixture that just WORKS. Incredibly strong.
https://zealandardor.bandcamp.com/album/stranger-fruit
#noxp #bandcamp #music #folk #rock #blackmetal #zealandardor
Stranger Fruit, by Zeal and Ardor
16 track album
In which Keiji Haino and SUMAC combine to destroy the world with sound and songs about being a love junkie.
#noxp #bandcamp #music #keijihaino #sumac #rock #metal #onslaught
American Dollar Bill - Keep Facing Sideways, You're Too Hideous To Look At Face On, by Keiji Haino & SUMAC
5 track album
Kosmische/acid folk noodlings with a distinctly universally-stoned feeling. Big "released in an edition of three by a private press in 1973" vibes.
https://pranacrafterbbib.bandcamp.com/album/bodhi-cheetahs-choice
#noxp #bandcamp #music #pranacrafter #experimental #krautrock #kosmische
Bodhi Cheetah's Choice, by Prana Crafter
7 track album
With vocals by RAT KICKER, it's time to get into the coffin and grind the afternoon away.
https://depraver-us.bandcamp.com/album/suffering-in-the-coffin-a-crippling-crush
#noxp #bandcamp #music #metal #depraver #blackmetal #thrashmetal
Suffering in the Coffin | A Crippling Crush, by Depraver
9 track album