![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Normal Music - Generic - Normal Music
Yet another release by this mysterious project. Dark beats, drones, clicks&cunts.
Source: Normal Music
Keywords: Deep techno; ambient, glitch, soundscapes
Downloads: 8,263
Average rating:  (5 reviews) |
| V. - la55 [zero121v] - v.
V.'s attempt to record an album of unlistenable music, that somehow ended up being, well, the opposite. Still filled with moments at their attempt to play something like rock with drums and guitar but they are way off the mark. Spastic improv falls into ambient abstractive beauty.
Source: www.zeromoon.com
Keywords: Avantgarde
Downloads: 4,577
Average rating:  (1 review) |
| Gauez pasatzen diren barkuentzako musika - Soinuaren historia naturalaren museoa
The Natural History Museum of Sound was founded in the haunted house on Third Street in Louisville, Kentucky on a day in September of the year two thousand and one. Founding members were Tim Ruth, Zan Hoffman and Rinus van Alebeek (thatâs me writing this). In the weeks prior to the institution, the mansion had seen and heard many charming sounds. The result was that every single object be it animal, vegetal or mineral, was aurally possessed...
Keywords: drone; field recordings; experimental
Downloads: 527
Average rating: (1 review) |
| Dead+Hurt - Optotron EP - Dead+Hurt
GLITCH PUNK LIVES! Two masters of drone pop and glitchcore join forces in this no holds barred demonstration of swedish glitch punk. Thomas Eklund (aka Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words) and Jonas Lindgren (Critikal, The Hurt I Feel Is My Hurt) mix up field recordings and electronics into this rhythmic outing with badasss 'tude.
Source: Dead+Hurt
Keywords: dark; avantgarde, drone; Doom Metal; Glitch Punk
Downloads: 4,703
Average rating:  (1 review) |
| No Unauthorized - Invasion [zero141a] - No Unauthorized
Originally released in 1987 on Watergate Tapes, this 8 song album by No Unauthorized is one of this french band's best releases. Landmark indie french electro pop from the hometaper underground. Catherine-Vocals, percussion, synthesizer Christian-drums, drum machine, bass, percussion, synthesizer Marc-Guitar, bass Michel-Synthesizers, tapes, guitar, ambiance, electronic devices Veronique-Vocals, percussion
Source: www.zeromoon.com
Keywords: Electropop
Downloads: 6,947
Average rating: (1 review) |
| Second Violin - Victoria [zero107a] - Second Violin
Free noise music improvisition of a surrealist nature mark the second album by Second Violin, recorded mostly live in Louisville, Kentucky during a 4 hour performance by Rinus Van Alebeek (vocals, feedback), Zan Hoffman (drawer, sampler) and Jeff Surak (prepared violin). Adam Bohman returns for a short appearance on one track. The second half is a live duet between Zan Hoffman and Jeff Surak on prepared violin and drawer.
Source: www.zeromoon.com
Keywords: Improv
Downloads: 4,923
Average rating: (1 review) |
| Myo - "Light" - Myo
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. myosound.com
Keywords: improvised; digital; noise music
Downloads: 1,326
Average rating: (1 review) |
| Caustic Castle - "Static Attack" - Caustic Castle
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 [ http://hzcollective.blogspot.com ]. 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...
Keywords: no input; electronic; experimental; noise
Downloads: 1,306
Average rating: (3 reviews) |
| Cheapmachines - Convergence - Cheapmachines
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,...
Keywords: drone ambient noise
Downloads: 2,546
Average rating: (2 reviews) |
| Various Artists - Pandora's Wooden Bucket - International Experimental Electronic Music Compilation [zero134a] - various artists
Pandora's Wooden Bucket was originally released as a 2xc90 set in 1989 on Watergate Tapes. On each side were two groups from a particular country exploring a particular theme. Netherlands - Death: Death Pact, Odal France - Sex: Vox Populi!, No Unauthorized Italy - Revolution: F.A.R., Lyke Wake Germany - Sleep: Cinema Verite, Die Rache
Source: www.zeromoon.com
Keywords: Experimental
Downloads: 9,851
Average rating: (4 reviews) |
| Northern Machine - Live at Sonic Circuits - Northern Machine
This recording documents Northern Machine's live Performance on October 7, 2006 at the Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music in Washington DC. Northern Machine are Pat Gillis: synths, organ, effects. Bill Warford: Bass guitar, psaltry, bowls, effects. http://www.hc3music.com/nm.htm
Keywords: dark ambient drone electronic music
Downloads: 6,259
Average rating: (1 review) |
| Sumerki Project - Salve - Sumerki Project
Sumerki Project - Salve This group, headed by Jevgeni Zolotorevski, from Tallinn, Estonia. Sumerki create modern electro pop with a dark experimental edge. 1. Salve 2. Requiem for Ilja Redikson 3. Dusha Velichit 4. Coda Jevgeni Zolotorevski - analogue keyboards, sound effects, declamation Anna Docenko - humming, Russian Orthodox singing, electric organ Damian Skowron - Gregorian singing Virsik - chewing cat sounds Mihhail Yasinover - electric guitar Nastya Pechegina - crying child sounds
Source: Sumerki Project
Keywords: Experimental; Dark Ambient; dubtech, electro, experimental
Downloads: 4,184
Average rating: (1 review) |
| -1348- - Diary of the Plague Years [zero103a] - -1348-
This is collection of tracks spanning the life span of -1348- from 1983 to 1991 and was released on Staalplaat's Bake Records imprint. It includes the best tracks from several cassette only releases by Watergate Tapes. The music ranges from harsh noise to surrealist compositions.
Source: www.zeromoon.com
Downloads: 18,711
Average rating:  (1 review) |
| CD-R - Concentration - CD-R
CD-R is the noisey future of russian youth. With their ep "Concentration" the listener is submerged in a nocturnal corridor of machine hum with the only respite being a blast of radio static and lofi noise played at over saturated levels. Then CD-R goes beneath audible levels to further destroy your subconscious mind. A pleasant operation is guaranteed. "Project CD-R started in December 2002(Moscow) by Nikita Golyshev and Stas Bobkin...
Source: CD-R
Keywords: Loud/noise
Downloads: 4,140
Average rating: (7 reviews) |
| Diensteingang - das naturhistorische museum der klänge
Rinus Van Alebeek & Tibor Macek's latest outing under the nom de plume das naturhistorische museum der klänge is an excusion to places unknown, where pigs fly and ice cream is just around the corner. Field recordings, snatches of dialogue, random singing, and a little pig combine to make a true hero sandwich.
Keywords: Field Recordings; Experimental; Musique Concrete
Downloads: 13,793
Average rating: (1 review) |
| Zanoisect - Museum Of Frenzy [zero110a] - Zanoisect
Museum of Frenzy was recorded at various museums of the Smithsonian Institution using three cheap low quality portable tape recorders-one cheap "boombox" and 2 dictaphones. Zan and Jeff each recorded the environment. when they each had thirty minutes they switched tapes, and played back what was recorded and that was re-recorded onto one of the tapedecks. they walked around and played the tapes, waved them around, played with the volume, cover the speakers with their hands, changed the playback ...
Keywords: Found Sounds
Downloads: 1,440
Average rating: (1 review) |
| Dead Violets - Organ Grinder - Dead Violets
Dead Violets is Jeff Surak of Violet and Thomas Ekelund of Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words doing free form noise and drones. This 3 track ep is a mashup of subterranean pulses, electro-acoustic static, and damaged electronics. more info: http://www.zeromoon.com/violet/ http://www.deadwords.org
Source: Dead Violets
Keywords: drone; noise; dark ambient; death metal; grindcore; experimental
Downloads: 3,603
Average rating: (1 review) |
| Ubeboet - Red and Black Remixes - Ubeboet
Ubeboet (m.a.tolosa) invited 4 artists to remix his excellent album "black and red" which was released by earlabs in 2005. The original work featured field recordings, radio and turntables. Here each artist-Asher, Arturas Bumsteinas, Mathieu Ruhlman, Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words-picked one track and deconstructed it to create a new work. m.a.tolosa also runs the fine con-v label.
Keywords: drone; field recordings; experimental; lowercase; lofi; remixes
Downloads: 6,678
Average rating: (1 review) |
| Various Artists - Raped By 4 Valentines Day - Compilation With Controlled Bleeding, F/i, 37 Pink [zero135a] - Controlled Bleeding, F/i, 37 Pink
Cassette compilation originally released by Watergate Tapes in 1985 featured three leading hometaper/experimental artists of the day: Controlled Bleeding, F/i, 37 Pink.
Source: www.zeromoon.com
Keywords: Ambient/noise
Downloads: 34,086
Average rating: (2 reviews) |
| Kapotte Muziek - An Apology is Necessary - Kapotte Muziek
This anthology covers the first three years of the legendary Dutch project Kapotte Muziek, created by Frans De Waard. "Yes it is. You are about to hear and view material that was released by Kapotte Muziek in 1988. It was an anthology of works from the first three and half years of existence. A lifetime it seemed back then, a mere drop in time when I look back on it now. I compiled this tape in 1988 for the US branche of my label Korm Plastics, run by Jeff Surak, who was the driving force behind...
Source: Kapotte Muziek
Keywords: Noise; Experimental
Downloads: 18,740
Average rating: (3 reviews) |
| R.R. Habarc - Nem Itt, Nem Most - R.R. Habarc
R.R. Habarc is based in Budapest, Hungary and created this audio score for Gyula Valkó and Ákos Bánki's live mud painting project. Nem Itt, Nem Most (Not Here, Not now) contains only electronically made sounds and uses only one stereo channel. Pulsing electronics and subsonic surreal drones are the focus of this work.
Source: R.R. Habarc
Keywords: Experimental,Electronic
Downloads: 2,269
Average rating: (2 reviews) |
| V. - LLE ' nipbuillapan hinpia [zero125v] - v.
V.'s proclivity for absurd titles at full tilt on this album. LLE ' nipbuillapan hinpia features dark rhythmic exercises interspursed with short blasts of textured noise all culled from percussion, prepared violin, hurdy gurdy, tapes, and knives.
Source: www.zeromoon.com
Keywords: Experimental
Downloads: 982
Average rating: (2 reviews) |
| Arturas Bumsteinas - Placido - Arturas Bumsteinas
Arturas Bumsteinas is a digital media artist from Vilnius, Lithuania. He has released several works in MP3 and CDR format, and performs frequently in various countries of Europe. Placido explores a number of approaches to digital music: at times abstract, other times the source material floats to the surface, only to shatter into a million fragments. "at the same time when i was editing these tracks Laura was sitting by the warm stove and doing some needlecraft...
Source: www.zeromoon.com
Keywords: Experimental
Downloads: 8,524
Average rating: (4 reviews) |
| Zavoloka - I - Kateryna Zavoloka
Kateryna Zavoloka hails from Kiev and here she dishes up some sweet tracks comprised of rich and abstract analogue/digital noise, melodies and idm like drums. http://www.zavoloka.com
Source: www.zeromoon.com
Keywords: Electro/IDM/Experimental/Breaks
Downloads: 6,486
Average rating: (1 review) |
| Violet Shifts - Resita Mold [zero009r] - Violet Shifts
Violet Shifts - Resita MoldA collaboration by Jeff Surak and Frans De Waard resulted in this exercise for acoustic drones using autoharp and guitar. A clear ringing sound with pulses and humming. Hypnotic. This includes a bonus track not available on the original 20 3" release.
Source: www.zeromoon.com
Keywords: Drones
Downloads: 2,359
Average rating: (2 reviews) |
| Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words - Scars/Shards - Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words
All source sounds recorded on a Sanyo M-5799 micro cassette recorder between the 10th and 14th of October, 2005. Edited and processed on the 13th and 14th of October 2005. Dedicated to the shards and the scars you left behind. www.deadwords.org
Source: Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words
Keywords: Antimusic; Drone Pop
Downloads: 1,892
Average rating: (1 review) |
| CD-R - Hide and Seek - CD-R
CD-R is a young Moscow project by Nikita Golyshev. Use of old soviet synths and effects combined with modern techniques and laptop makes an interesting combination of different styles of noise music - "fusion noise." Noisey, fractured soundscapes transform into broken rythms and melodys. This is the second release by CD-R for zeromoon
Source: CD-R
Keywords: Noise; Experimental
Downloads: 7,957
Average rating: (1 review) |
| Mystery Hearsay - Honey Anvil Syrup [zero139a] - Mystery Hearsay
The second part of the Mystery Hearsay trilogy for zeromoon. The beat is ferocious, the guitars seering, this is old school post industrial beats at its heaviest and finest. Heavy mixing and editing by MC Ladno.
Source: www.zeromoon.com
Keywords: Rhythmic Noise
Downloads: 1,465
Average rating: (1 review) |
| Tube Alloys - Tube Alloys
Music labels are bombarded by demos, more than they possibly can ever listen to. Sometimes a few demos rise above the onslaught and demonstrate originality and hold your attention. But a small label can't release everything on a CD. So what does one do with the good music that one gets and can't afford to release? Tube Alloys is a project by Zan Hoffman (zh27.org) and Jeff Surak that combines, smelts, and delivers a new work derived from the best parts of some very good demos...
Source: zeromoon.com
Keywords: Experimental
Downloads: 605
Average rating: (2 reviews) |
| Kotra - Volt (Fire II) - Kotra
Kotra, aka Dmytro Fedorenko, explores extreme audio terroritory. Or should one say audio terror? With this EP he presents 5 tracks of intense, minimal frequencies. The emphasis here is on testing your pain threshhold. Also doubles as a sonic enema. Not responsible for hearing damage or blown speakers. Visit kotra's site for info on his excellent CD "Dissilient" and other fine releases. http://www.kotra.org.ua
Source: Kotra
Keywords: Noise
Downloads: 1,437
Average rating:  (2 reviews) |
| Reche+Ubeboet - coll.01 - Reche+Ubeboet
This is a collaboration between Pablo Reche (Buenos Aires) and Ubeboet (Madrid) and was recorded in 2004-2005. Not your typical boring ambient sounds, Reche+Ubeboet prove to be masters of the drone genre presenting three tracks filled with suspense and tension.
Source: Reche+Ubeboet
Keywords: Experimental; Drone
Downloads: 3,226
Average rating: (1 review) |
| V. - pbpagarol fiancees [zero123v] - v.
Material featured on this recording extracted and decomposed from previous v... releases and unreleased sources. Extreme glitch noise concrete. A classic album by v.Originally released by Staalplaat's Bake Records imprint and 2 separate editions by zeromoon. All out of print.
Source: www.zeromoon.com
Keywords: Abstract
Downloads: 870
Average rating: (1 review) |
| V. - awrkid [zero120v] - v.
One of the most popular albums by V. covers a wide terrritory of sounds and styles from ambient glitch, free improv noise, and ambient field recordings. Using a wide array of instruments from hurdy gurdy, drums, samplers, tape, and found objects, v. creates a potent mix.This release was originally made for the Black Orchid label as cassette release. However 2 CDR editions were released by Zeromoon, the first 20 in a deluxe canvas and wooden cover, the second 100 copies in the standard Zeromoon v...
Source: www.zeromoon.com
Downloads: 1,599
Average rating: (1 review) |
| Andrey Kiritchenko interprets Second Violin - VE.COND.SIO.LIN - Andrey Kiritchenko
Andrey Kiritchenko (www.nexsound.org) is well known from his CD releases on Zeromoon, Adnauseum, and his own Nexsound imprint. Here he remixes a track from Second Violin's "Victoria", which was a live improvisation between Zan Hoffman on prepared drawer (a dresser drawer with wires and strings attached and filled with trash) and Jeff Surak on prepared violin (as depicted on the release cover). You can hear the original acoustic improv here: http://www.archive.org/details-db.php?mediatype=audio&i...
Source: www.zeromoon.com
Keywords: Electroacoustic
Downloads: 1,255
Average rating: (1 review) |
| New Carrollton - That Was Really Great [zero111a] - New Carrollton
This is a collection of odds and ends and rareties. Live bits, compilation tracks, alternate versions, lost works scanning almost the entire lifespan (1986-1991) of the infamous Washington DC area agricultural band (as in pre-industrial).
Source: http://www.zeromoon.com
Keywords: Experimental
Downloads: 1,177
Average rating: (2 reviews) |
| Violet - Let the Sunshine In [zero003] - Violet
Violet's first release "Let the Sunshine In" is a surreal and warm holiday of sound. Using a record player, guitar, autoharp and tape nothing really sounds like it is. Strange and dark. "Violet, one of the formations that remixed and reconstructed a track by Andrey Kiritchenko, released a 3 " CD on the same label, being Zeromoon. This 3" subtitled Music for record player, guitar, autoharp, tape features four tracks...
Source: www.zeromoon.com
Keywords: Experimental
Downloads: 11,594
Average rating: (1 review) |
| Violet - Sometimes in The Quietest of Moments... [zero002r] - Violet
Violet's "Sometimes in The Quietest of Moments the Pipes Don't Fit and the Bathtub Makes you Scream and the Toaster Wants Your Blood" is a remix of the MiniDisk release by Sweden's WNQST//LNGRN - "Sometimes in the Same Night That's Everywhere The Same Right Now & Forevermore" - a 2 hour+ drone fest, condensed into 9 tracks on one 3" cdr. Drones, abrasive skips, and minimalism. Limited edition of 23 copies long out of print...
Source: www.zeromoon.com
Keywords: Experimental
Downloads: 4,188
Average rating: (1 review) |
| New Carrollton - If He's an Ass Here, He Won't Be a Horse There [zero131a] - New Carrollton
The only "studio" recording by 2nd period of New Carrollton where everything was not just a live recording session. Heavily under the influence of Nurse With Wound at the time, NC assembled this strange album that was released as a 90 minute cassette tape by Watergate Tapes in 1986. It was later reissued as a 60 minute cdr by Staalplaat's Bake Records imprint. Editing the original tape to 60 minutes was easy to do, since the original release included intentional filler material, to confuse the l...
Source: www.zeromoon.com
Keywords: Experimental
Downloads: 2,589
Average rating: (1 review) |
| Mystery Hearsay - Feed-X [zero138a] - Mystery Hearsay
First installment in the Mystery Hearsay trilogy for zeromoon. Psychedelic noise, harsh swirling collages of sound over flow on this disk assembled by MC Ladno.
Source: www.zeromoon.com
Keywords: Loud/noise
Downloads: 815
Average rating: (3 reviews) |
| Ellende - The Proof Is In The Pudding [zero012] - Ellende
Ellende - "The Proof is in the Pudding" Drones, vocal murmerings, and a heavy does of strangeness comprise this ep from this Tokoyo based group. Sort of dark ambient, but a bit too weird.
Source: Ellende
Downloads: 1,213
Average rating: (2 reviews) |
| Frans De Waard - 8 Lines [zero010] - Frans De Waard
Frans De Waard - "Eight Lines" Empty voice mail messages received as audio files via email are the source material for this new ep. Static, beeps, and slowed down voices. Unsettling and full of apprehension.
Keywords: Mechanical
Downloads: 1,289
Average rating: (1 review) |
| xedh - exadh - xedh
xedh is Miguel a. GarcÃa from Spain. From the artist's notes about this piece: "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...
Keywords: experimental; digital noise; musique concrete
Downloads: 649 |
| Sovmestnoye Predpriyatiye - 4/4 [zero119a] - Sovmestnoye Predpriyatiye
Sovmestnoye Predpriyatiye was a Moscow, Russia collective of junk improvisors, who made music with household objects and cheap electronics (when they could get their hands on it). The quartet played a few concerts in Moscow before dissolving in 1995. Free musique concrete.
Source: http://www.zeromoon.com
Keywords: Experimental
Downloads: 889
Average rating:  (0 review) |
| v.+Zanstones - NOW! [zero137a] - v.+Zanstones
This is a concert recording took place in Now Music and Fashions in Arlington, VA on May 2001. Zanstones and v. each performed a set then collaborated for a third joint set. Found sounds, percussion, homemades, record player abuse plus extra noise.
Source: www.zeromoon.com
Keywords: Improv
Downloads: 1,974
Average rating: (0 review) |
| Various Artists - Zeromoon Sampler [zero004r] - various zeromoon artists
Nine tracks in 6 minutes, this business card sampler gives a quick overview of zeromoon artists. Tracks by v., Critikal, Second Violin, Pleasure Girls, Normal Music (remixed by Violet), v.+Sumerki, Normal Music, TheMCE (remixed by Andrey Kiritchenko), and Violet. Please visit the zeromoon label website for more information.
Source: www.zeromoon.com
Keywords: Avantgarde
Downloads: 3,049
Average rating: (0 review) |
| -1348- & Stolen Government Binder Clip - Enmarge [zero101a] - -1348- & Stolen Government Binder Clip
This legendary concert collaboration between two of Washington DC's infamous experimental projects was never properly released, although a few cassette copies did circulate across the globe, it is being presented here for the first time in its entirety. Recorded live on April 1 (Fool's Day) 1987 at Enmarge, in Adams Morgan, Washington DC. Whacked out electronic rhythms, turntable abuse, hawaiian guitar, freaked out science teacher vocals, and acid electronics...
Keywords: Experimental
Downloads: 1,128
Average rating: (0 review) |
| New Carrollton - Static [zero112a] - New Carrollton
Two live radio shows by New Carrollton on WMUC-FM 88.1, College Park, MD (University of Maryland). Recorded on May 6, 1988 and July 8, 1989. Strange industrial ambient using homemade instruments and electronics.
Source: New Carrollton
Keywords: Experimental
Downloads: 384
Average rating: (0 review) |
| Violet - Green [zero005r] - Violet
Green is a 40 minute live recording for sine wave, guitar, and record player. Despite a minimal setup the sound is thick and dense revealing furious activity buried beneath the loud drones. Please visit the zeromoon label website for more information.
Keywords: Electroacoustic
Downloads: 1,956
Average rating: (0 review) |
| Normal Music - Brev [zero006r] - Normal Music
Normal Music have a very nice take on glitch, as evidenced on Brev (Zero Moon 3" CD), their way of subverting the autonomy of beat regularity, as well as their approach to the dubly layering of various analogue and digital noises, put them far ahead of a largely sleepy herd. The basics here get so cracked at times that I imagine this'd be capable of breaking people's bones on the dance floor if played at the right time and volume...
Source: www.zeromoon.com
Keywords: Clicks+Cuts
Downloads: 2,190
Average rating: (0 review) |
| Rinus Van Alebeek - Kulissen Abriss [zero008r] - Rinus Van Alebeek
Snippets of everyday life with a strange and weird warmth. Beyond field recordings, Rinus punches holes through the fabric of time. Recorded in in Berlin, Dresden, and Wuppertal, Germany. Rinus is an itinerant writer-sound collector, currently residing in Italy in a small village with no phone nor internet.
Keywords: Found Sounds
Downloads: 3,818
Average rating: (0 review) |
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