Experimental Electronic Music
Nineteen shadow-bound composers unite for a two-hour Lovecraftian descent into Arctic dread—an immense dark ambient ritual where bowed strings, frozen winds, and unseen beasts awaken the terror of H. P. Lovecraft’s Mythos and the howling presence of Ithaqua.
Hollow Earth myths and post-apocalyptic visions merge in this sonic descent into subterranean folklore, where lost civilizations and unseen beings haunt vast underground realms. Featuring artists like Dead Melodies, Beyond the Ghost, The Next Commuter, Northumbria, Dronny Darko, Claymation, and Ugasanie, these dark ambient soundscapes evoke ruined cities, cryptic transmissions, and shadowy creatures. Through dense drones and haunting textures, we’re guided into the aftermath of civilization—where memory, myth, and decay converge.
A new wave of acting performances and narratives that challenge traditional literary conventions of detective stories or crime novels, shift the focus toward deeper existential themes and highlight aspects of the human condition.
With Lifeless Ground, Sjellos plunges listeners back into the dark, mechanical abyss introduced on his last album Transmission Lost (2013), intensifying the grim sense of desolation and uncertainty. Each attempt to move brings flashes of forgotten memories, or fractured images of a past life.
Atrementia was composed exclusively with circuit bent hardware, home-made oscillators, pedals and electric guitar fed through analog processing. Your memories are dressed in black. I can see them, you cannot hide from my lost eyes. What I hear are warm, analog noise and looped pedal drone balance light and dark, for day dreamers and long nights of reflection.
All I can find to explain what is here are endless crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and motivations, a dark noir album filled with harmonic textures and creeping reverbs.
What is the difference between abandoned and forsaken? Dark tension, pounding under sustained horror and tension. This goes on forever. We are tourists here, and can go at any time. Peering into the darkness, we linger.
The signals swerve, trapped forever between electronic space ambient and interplanetary sci-fi. The final chapter tells the tale, but the various preceding tracks of galactic movie magic theme soundtracks also are each and all awesome.
The emotional ebbs and flows are deliberate with guitar and piano speaking to our unconsciousness.
35 minutes of pluvial drones replete with soft white/grey noise and sotto voce spoken word possess a mesmeric quality that transcends the reductive description herein.
