I started researching Japanese IDM/glitch artists and I’ve stumbled on two that I really like. If you’re into Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, Autechre etc. you’ll like Ryoji Ikeda and Aoki Takamasa as well! Glitch is seriously my new drug.

This first video is made by a fan, and I love it. This is “Data.Microhelix” from the album “Dataplex” by Ryoji Ikeda.

Buy Ryoji Ikeda’s music here!

This is Aoki Takamasa’s “Mirabeau”, off his album “Parabolica”.  The audiovisual display is by Ryoichi Kurokawa.

Buy Aoki Takamasa’s music here!

Hollow Head by tangentbot

This is a new song I wrote yesterday and finished at around 2 this morning. This reminds me of my old stuff, as it is all industrial-ish, but I’ve incorporated some obviously new techniques into it. There are even some ridiculous sounding synth guitars in it which I absolutely LOVE. I’ve gotten fed up with not finishing music. I may get fed up with not playing live shows, eventually.

I just wrote “absolutely robots” a few days ago, which you should check out here if you haven’t already.

I’ve been working on this one forever. I finished two songs as part of another project and I was so inspired that I loaded this one up and finished it as well! There are a couple ideas I toyed with, structure-wise, that I really haven’t used before, and I’m excited that everything turned out so well.

Here it is in all its dithered-down, mp3 glory:

Absolutely Robots

My newest release, “You Are Used To This Advertising“, is finally available on iTunes.

As you may well know (or not), I re-released my first album, Cyclops’ Lament,  a few days ago. My good friend Chris Harris has posted a very nice mini-review of the album as his “Album of the Month September ’09“. Thanks, Chris!
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