EXPERIMENTAL

Jónsi & Alex began as a Sigur Rós side project around 2003 under the name Riceboy Sleeps. On November 24, 2006, they released their first picture book with the same name as their project. One thousand hand-numbered editions were produced, and only available in Iceland. However, they released a second edition in July 2007, but it was not hand-numbered.

To spread the word of the book’s publishing, Somers and Jón held an art exhibition at Gallery Turpentine in Reykjavík, Iceland.In August 2007, they went to Arkansas to hold their first exhibit outside of Iceland. In October of the same year, they held a third exhibit at Melbourne International Arts Festival and were part of the Sequences Art Festival in Reykjavík.

The two have released two singles: “All the Big Trees” and “Daníell in the Sea.”

They also contributed the song “Happiness” to the Dark Was the Night charity compilation album produced by Aaron and Bryce Dessner of The National. At that time, the duo were known as Riceboy Sleeps.
Their debut album Riceboy Sleeps was released in Europe on July 20, 2009

Download: Riceboy Sleeps (2009)

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Sigur Rós

Parachutes

Frakkur

Bibio

experimental — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:40:10 +0000

Bibio is the recording name of British music producer Stephen Wilkinson. A resident of West Midlands, England, Stephen Wilkinson developed a passion for experimental music during his time at Middlesex University in London, where he studied “sonic arts”. He developed his own style of music, drawing from contemporary experimental electronica bands such as Boards of Canada, and incorporating field recordings and found sounds. Electronically modified guitar melodies and droning synthesizer sounds are a recurring theme in his pieces, causing many people to label his music as a hybrid of electronica or intelligent dance music and traditional folk music. His music has recently been licensed for commercial campaigns by L.L. Bean and Toyota.

Bibio’s first release on Mush records, Fi, was released in 2004, followed up in 2006 by the release of Hand Cranked, also on Mush. In June 2009, he signed with Warp Records, and in June of that year, released his third studio album Ambivalence Avenue.

Download:

Ambivalence Avenue (2009)

Vignetting the Compost (2009)

Hand Cranked (2006)

Fi (2004)

Web: Myspace Page, Website

Max Richter

experimental — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:22:52 +0000

Composer Max Richter was born in Germany in 1966 and grew up in the UK. He studied composition and piano at Edinburgh University, the Royal Academy of Music and in Florence with Luciano Berio.

He has released four solo albums: Memoryhouse (2002), Blue Notebooks (2004), Songs From Before (2006), and latest, 24 Postcards In Full Colour (2008), a collection of miniatures meant to be used as ringtones.

Download:

24 Postcards In Full Colour (2008)

Songs from Before (2006)

The Blue Notebooks (2004)

Memoryhouse (2002)

Web: MySpace Page, Website

Balmorhea – Remembrance

experimental — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:34:48 +0000

Balmorhea

Klimt

experimental — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:01:16 +0000

Klimt is a Polish ambient/shoegaze one man band of Antoni Budzinski.

Firstly check their myspace page and listen ”Spowiedz Syren”

Download: Jesienne Odcienie Melancholii (2008)

Web: Myspace Page

The Last Shadow Puppets

experimental — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 09:18:54 +0000

The Last Shadow Puppets is a indie band that consists of Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys, Miles Kane of The Rascals and composer/producer James Ford.

Download:

The Age Of The Understatement

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Sumner McKane

experimental — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:56:09 +0000

Sumner Mckane is a guitarist and composer from Maine. He performs both as a solo artist, & as part of ‘The Sumner Mckane Group’ along with bassist Joshua Robbins, and Todd Richard on drums and percussion.

Download:

North

Night Blooming Cereus

What A Great Place To Be

Two If By Sea

Web: Myspace Page, Website

Ulrich Schnauss

experimental — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:33:55 +0000

Ulrich Schnauss was born in the northern German town of Kiel in 1977. During his formative years, he came to love a wide spectrum of music, ranging from My Bloody Valentine to Tangerine Dream, from Chapterhouse to early bleep and breakbeat tracks. There was not much opportunity to see his musical heroes in Kiel, so he moved to Berlin in 1996. By that time, Ulrich was already a prolific musician in such genres as ambient and drum and bass, with a variety of pseudonyms. These earlier works soon caught the eye of Berlin electronica label CCO who took him up. Soon his submissions to CCO developed into Ulrich’s first album under his own name, entitled Far Away Trains Passing By. It became an electronic classic; listeners were smitten with the lush instrumentation and the emotional impact of his elegant music. Yet nothing could prepare his growing army of supporters for the next record, A Strangely Isolated Place, which slowly came together in 2001. The album truly displayed Ulrich’s youthful indie influences and established his pedigree as an outstanding electronic composer. A Strangely Isolated Place has become one of those extraordinary and rare occurrences: a record that slowly grows in stature by virtue of its overriding ability to deliver more than the usual arid and academic treatises on the state of the synthesizer.

Download:

Goodbye

A Strangely Isolated Place

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Parachutes – Tree Roots Turn To Forts

experimental — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:19:35 +0000

Parachutes