Friday, October 02, 2015

BANDCAMP IS THE NEW CASSETTE CULTURE: Dark Ambient Edition

It's fall, Halloween is around the corner, so let's get moody with these FREE! listening/download contemporary internet releases of a decidedly strange and obscure nature. If Lovecraft's Miskatonic University had a college radio station, these albums would be on heavy rotation.



Ak'chamel: "Old Norse Mara" - Like the Residents attempting to summon occult entities (or The Elder Gods), this album is dark, distorted, evil ambience, culminating in the compelling "Death Was On You From The Moment of Birth." But it's then followed by an utterly incongruous surf-punk instrumental(?!). No matter, a demonically-possessed muppet then takes over the lead vox for the next track. (The more overtly shaman-istic "Fucking With Spirits" is plenty cool, too.) Price: Name your price.

Sasha Olynyk: "1955" (EP) - What is this, a '50s crooner & an EZ orchestra collaborating with Portishead? It's hard to tell thru the hallucinogenic fog. 25 minutes of mysterious melancholy,  sometimes quite beautiful, a la Boards of Canada, only Olynyk really is Canadian. The moment in "Surfers Dream" where the "Rebel Without A Cause" soundtrack morphs into the song is magical. Price: Name your price.

Hanetration - "Murmurist" ep - One of our fave ambient-ists. "Begin" is indeed a great place to begin; the gently clanking percussion + church organ drone of "Sundown" = one of his best ever. Price: Free


Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel: does what it says on the tin. Tho sometimes joined by guests, most of these free releases are by an Atlanta, GA duo who deliver deep drone instrumentals that sound nothing like the Space Age sounds you'd expect from theremins, or the usual country/Hawaiian-isms of steel guitar. All live, all improvised. Price: Name your price. See also: http://duetonline.net/sample

6 comments:

icastico said...

Just have to...

https://aboombong.bandcamp.com/
https://psychicenemiesnetwork.bandcamp.com/
https://azwarm.bandcamp.com/

Thanks for the post. Nice stuff.

Andrew McIntosh said...

Appreciate the introduction to Duo for Theremin and Lapsteel. "Bells From Saturn" sounds very nice to me.

Mr Fab said...

Yes, their stuff is quite lovely...from what Ive heard. They have so many releases i feel like I've only scratched the surface.

Anonymous said...

Try this for size Sir:

https://laobsound.bandcamp.com/album/exotica-music-and-other-savage-stuff

Top notch exotica.

I am not a robot

Mr Fab said...

Hey, The Left Arm of Buddha! Yes, very good, I do like them...and could have sworn I wrote about them here? (checks blog) No, apparently not...

Mr Fab said...

icastico: just checked out psychic enemies network (couldn't resist that name) and it is very cool n creepy indeed, nice work.