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Violet - Iron Music for Uncorrugated Youth

2008-05-12T18:32:00.004-05:00

»Iron Music For Uncorrigated Youth« is a somewhat surreal experience. The A side basically finishes where it started, a prolonged drone that might appear static and looplike, but when closer examined reveal a universe of microscopic details and organic development. The B side is quite the opposite. While still firmly rooted in the drone, it manages to hold four distinctly different parts. What sounds like slowed down old records (it's actually Autoharp and tape loops, if anyone is keeping tabs) give way for oddly phrased field recordings, erratic rhythms and more of those weird drones. All in all »Iron Music For Uncorrigated Youth« is reminiscent of waking up in a pool of sweat from a fever induced dream. Not really scary but not quite pleasurable either. But still an experience you'd be sorry to have missed.BUY IT NOW!

Violet - live @ Empowerment Through Extremity Fest 04.25.08

2008-05-10T08:00:00.002-05:00

Grinding autoharp & turntable with foil + electronics.

Cutest Puppy in the World - A Warm Winter

2008-04-27T20:15:00.002-05:00

The Cutest Puppy in the World is Bryan Rhodes (of Baltimore) and Layne Garrett (of Washington, DC). We explore emergent forms, extremes of saturated and empty space, scorched remnants of the familiar. Our music is all improvised.

Since the summer of 2005, we have performed extensively in DC and the mid-Atlantic region alongside many amazing musicians. In 2005, we self-released a CD-R entitled ::shut in the basement::. It made free103point9's Top 150 of 2005. Sockets put out FINFOLK in early 2006, with cover art by renowned collage artist Joseph Mills. The record received critical praise from Terrascope, Fakejazz, and Noiseweek, among others. Apotrope came out in April 2007 on New American Folk Hero, to giddy smiles and shrieks of delight the world over. And now A warm winter here on Zeromoon.

These two improvisations were recorded on January 23, 2008 in Washington, DC. Instrumentation includes prepared/de-tuned guitar, various keyboards/synthesizers, found objects, and voice. We were wearing t-shirts in our unheated basement.

Go and get it.

Preliminary Saturation - Cigarettes & Sandpaper

2008-03-30T07:27:00.002-05:00

Preliminary Saturation is the electro-acoustic, free improv, drone-duo in which Dutch sound artists Wouter Jaspers and Steffan de Turck combine their forces. To some extent, both might be better known for their solo-projects: Franz Fjodor and staplerfahrer, respectively. As Franz Fjodor, Jaspers displays a fascination for the darker side of life; with self-made instruments he creates a sound that shippers between droning soundscapes, depressed noise and dark folk. His style signature varies with his mood: from psycho chants to punk screams, from guitar oriented drones to field recordings. De Turck plays around with crunched and broken (micro)sounds, electro-magnetic waves and noise. Sometimes in a back-to-basics analogue setting, other times solemnly using his powerbook. Every once and a while, they come together in the safe harbor of one of their living rooms, pop open a bottle of wine, light some cigarettes and start improvising as long as the mood is right. It's how this recording was made.

In October 2008, Jaspers and De Turck will team up for a tour that will take them along the US East Coast, both playing shows as their individual projects and as Preliminary Saturation.

Make these boys of noise proud and download it now.

xedh - exadh

2008-02-23T16:18:00.003-05:00

Miguel A. García (aka xedh) is one of the few artists working in the laptop domain that manages to go beyond the sterile audio terrain that many practioners of digital music tend to get lost in and never find a way out. Xedh exploits the pristine frequencies and extreme sonic range...and still ensures that his music has some muscle and perhaps a bit of humor. In his new mp3 ep for zeromoon he uses sounds from a few artists (simon daniel, thierry massard, & rafael flores) and throws in some of his own using a mixer, mics, sine waves, and treated sounds. In his own words: "It's somehow curious to watch in an almost unconscious way how links
generate themselves, in this case between people/sounds connected by their escape from more established shapes. The
hidden face of one of the most active characters of the most extreme
german industrial music, a french critic-poet with the rediscovered sin
of youth, and a living legend among the Iberian experimental music scene.
I really was Between them, myself and the intention of a piece
which I expected to make them to engage in a dialogue and to exist here
and now together: a kind of tribute to the others. But when i tried
it, i had to face the impossibility of generating something real
without having them transformed, internalized, absorbed, and to
finally recognize myself in them too. I couldn't deny myself.
So what this piece brought up was the confrontation between
differences, between the other and self, between the foreign and own,
the external, the internal, outside, inside, confused to be just
one. A piece about being human." Sounds good to me, now go get it.

Otto; or music for dead people

2008-01-20T20:44:00.000-05:00

Zombies. Love. Sex. Revolutionary politics. Otto; or, Up with Dead People is the latest film from Bruce Labruce, coming soon to a large screen near you. Hopefully. In the meantime its premiering at Sundance and next month in Berlin. Oh, and it has music by Violet + Bumsteinas + Lapelyte, Alexei Borisov, and v+ultra milkmaids, all released on zeromoon or soon to be released.

Robertas Kundrotas & Gintas K - "Septyni Tiltai Pasaulio Centre"

2008-01-12T15:55:00.000-05:00

Gintas K has been working as a sound artist exploring minimal digital sounds, sine waves, noise, glitches, microwaves and acoustic vibration, making music for films, sound installations. Kundrotas Robertas, poet, prose writer, playwright. Since 1990 he is editor-in-chief of the legendary new music magazine "Tango", since 1999 he is editor-in-chief of publishing house "Pasvires pasaulis." "Septyni tiltai pasaulio centre" (Seven bridges in the centre of the world) was recorded October 13, 2007, at the audiovisual poetry festival "Tarp: Vasaros 5" which took place at the
Vasaros 5 Mental Hospital, Vilnius, Lithuania. Download it now!

Critikal - Graphorrhea

2007-12-25T10:49:00.001-05:00

graph·or·rhe·a - noun
The writing of long lists of meaningless words, as occurs in some manic disorders.

Graphorrhea, when utilized in artistic processes, is capable of producing 'original' results, especially if certain human-technical decisions help channel the process…

Critikal is an international dynamic project comprised of four artists. Each new work is constructed by one member using sound material and structural concepts from the other members. This time the album was created by Dmytro Fedorenko, transforming pieces from Andrey Kiritchenko, Jeff Surak, and Tobias Åström.

Critikal was founded by Andrey Kiritchenko, Jeff Surak, and Jonas Lindgren, who left and was later replaced by Dmytro Fedorenko (Kotra) and Tobias Åström (Militant Fields).

The last Critikal festival appearances featured Dmytro Fedorenko and Andrey Kiritchenko with Jeff Surak live via video from his Washington DC studio. BUY IT NOW!

Myo - "Light"

2007-12-11T19:25:00.000-05:00

Myo is Cory O'Brien, an improviser who works with plexiglass, dry ice,
and computer. 'Light' is a collection of live and studio recordings
that focus on very active sounds in a minimal framework.

Light was created with free software, and is licensed under a Creative
Commons Sampling+ License. Art is by Aghost. Download it now!

Caustic Castle - "Static Attack"

2007-11-04T18:57:00.000-05:00

Caustic Castle is Kenneth Yates, also of the improvised noise duo's Harm Stryker (w/ Constant Mauk) & Insects With Tits (w/ Chefkirk) and an organizer with the HzCollective. Kenneth Yates utilizes the no-input mixing technique coupled with live processing using the on-board mixer EQ's, various filters, effects pedals and aux-sends to re-route the paths in which the feedback loops interact. With his music usually comes an abstract visual fascination with architecture and its psyhogeographical effects on the human psyche. Lately I've been working with abstract visual manipulator Eric Eaton who uses looped 16mm film, detourned slide images, and stop motion video. Inspired by past revolutionary art and social movements like DaDa & the Situationiste Internationale, Caustic Castle struggles to find a parallel between art, sound & social unrest. Download it now!

Goem | FDW - Live @ Warehouse

2007-10-02T09:53:00.000-05:00

Live recording of Goem|FDW from September 8, 2007 at the Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music in Washington DC. Dutch experimental music pioneer Frans de Waard creates ultra minimal techno with subtle electronic textures. Download it now.

Safe - Public Domain

2007-09-01T22:30:00.000-05:00

Safe is a new collaboration between Tyler Higgins and
Dave Vosh. Using electronics, acoustic instruments,
and modular synthesizer, they build slowly evolving
complex layers of sound. Download it now.

Cheapmachines - Convergence

2007-07-20T19:35:00.001-05:00

Philip Julian has been an active part of the experimental music underground since the late 1990’s recording various works under the name Cheapmachines which operates at the interface between noise electronics, generative software, field recordings, tape music and long-form drones.

Contact microphones, amplified metal objects, domestic radio receivers, instrument effects pedals, environmental/found sounds, tape loops, damaged electrical devices, analogue synthesizers, turntables & “prepared” vinyl, computers.

Download it now!

Northern Machine - Live at Sonic Circuits

2007-05-28T21:15:00.000-05:00

Continuing our series of releasing audio documents from last year's Sonic Circuits festival in zeromoon's lovely hometown of Washington DC is this live set from Northern Machine. Dark ambient drone something generate by two men with a mass quantity of equipment. All done live. You know what to do. Download it now.

Violet - A Demonstration of Error Mechanics

2007-05-19T08:28:00.000-05:00

Tüsüri: "Bi Saiakera EP"

2007-03-18T20:40:00.000-05:00

I get overloaded with demos...as if I have nothing else to listen to do much less listen too. But once in awhile there is a glimmer in the mud that attracts the eye, and in this case the ear. Tüsüri is Oier Iruretagoiena, and he comes from the most industrial side of Gipuzkoa (Basque Country) according to his bio. His 15 minutes of zeromoon fame is a delightful side tour into field recordings and radio static shaped up into something special. Very beautiful, and created "in the dark." Download it now!

Violet - Bricks & Bullets

2007-02-17T21:17:00.000-05:00

Just received a few copies from the Arterija label in Ukraine of this new release by Violet. This album features extracts from live sets in Warsaw, Kaunas (Lithuania) and some "studio" tracks recorded minutes from the district line. Its noisy, its heavy and full of gaseous drones. I like it even better after I've listened to it. From the label website: "In this work Zeromoon main man Jeffrey Surak delivers some textured industrial drone and microsound soundscapes. Though it is sometimes harsh and noisy but intense enough to keep the listener in. Most of the recorded material is played live in various locations." The title was inspired by buildings in one dilapidated Warsaw neighborhood which were pock marked by gunfire from WWII, not far from the Zubroffka Vodka factory. Enjoy a few excerpts, and then buy it for $7: Gas | Zubroffka.

Michael Gendreau - Live at Sonic Circuits DC 2006

2007-01-14T22:13:00.000-05:00

Michael Gendreau has been a musician since the age of 6. After 35+ years and numerous projects, releases, and collaborations, Gendreau performed at the Sonic Circuits Festival in Washington DC on October 2006 using old record players amplified with accelerometers, and sine waves. Download it now!

Violet - Universam

2006-12-21T12:06:00.000-05:00

New on Live Reports, the Nexsound imprint for concert recordings by nexsound related artists. This performance took place in a Kiev music shop on a quad sound system and the show was one of ten during the 2 week-3,000 mile-six-country-endurance tour with Francisco Lopez and Michael Gendreau in the summer of 2005. A favorite set of Violet, its got the power drones that you love and a lot more. $8 and its yours! See the catalog for order info.

If, Bwana - Live at Sonic Circuits DC 2006

2006-12-12T16:14:00.000-05:00

If, Bwana is the spawn of the godfather of the 1980's independent hometaping network, Al Margolis. This track is his live performance at the 2006 Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music which took place in Washington, DC. Minimal yet dense drones of a menancing and etheral nature for intense yet scary listening. Download it now!