Albums To Check Out This Bandcamp Friday
From some particularly heavy, heady trance rock on Fuzzed Up & Astromoon to ambient cyberpunk worldbuilding, here are 7 albums to check out this Bandcamp Friday!
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As always, there’s a cornucopia of incredible music to get into this Bandcamp Friday. Portland’s Heterodox Records are firing on both cylinders, with two absolutely unmissable LPs from some of their strongest artists. Psychedelic music is alive and well as well, taking on some particularly compelling new shapes and sounds that dare i say even sound…. modern?
That’s just scratching the tip of the iceberg. Read on and bury yourself in imaginative, compelling, inspiring, visionary music!
7 Albums To Check Out This Bandcamp Friday
clippzclippedoutclippingz - silicon based life problems (HTX 134)
One of Heterodox's earliest artists return with a beautifully blurry blend of techno, IDM, and drum 'n bass. Like emerging out of a smog cloud into a valley of jade and waterfalls. Life as a silicon-based lifeform can be confusing; it can also be a revelation.
Production Unit Xero - The sky was the color of a television tuned to a dead channel [HTX133]
Heterodox Records labelhead invokes the greatest opening line of all time (tied with The Haunting of Hill House, naturally) for a moody ambient evocation of Neuromancer's Chiba City. Exquisite immersive worldbuilding from PUX, as always. Essential listening.
Nicola Cruz - Data Passenger EP (Klasse Wrecks)
Classy EP of sturdy techno/house bangers from Nicola Cruz on the ever-essential Klasse Wrecks.
IO Audio Recordings - 2017 (Fuzzed Up & Astromoon)
Crushingly thick, ferocious trance rock with a kosmische/electro bent. Like hurtling through a traversable wormhole towards a pyramid made of glass. Tranquil yet enervating.
White Canyon & the 5th Dimension - S/T (Fuzzed Up & Astromoon)
SUPER heavy, heady cosmic rays from White Canyon & the 5th Dimension. Shrutti boxes and muscular breakbeats summon the Age of Aquarius.
Pocket Dimension - Pocket Dimension
Charlie Butler opens up a rift in space and time using only a Pocket Operator drum machine on this hypnotic EP for Newcastle-Upon-Tyne's Cruel Nature Records.
Ivan the Terrible - Time is a Grave (Library of the Occult)
Some unexpected progressive psychedelic rock from Newcastle-upon-Tyne’s Library of the Occult records. Now with 1000% more vibes and sax!
This article originally appeared at MicroGenreMusic.
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