What is the sound of a color? Is it the same as the color of a sound? If so, it must be both bright and dark, rich and dry. It must sing its hue to the world, and paint its pitch across the sky.
Featuring bass clarinet.
Breaks expose facets – facets offer perspectives. Such variety is less transparent, but it rewards amply. Yet it also carries risk – the danger of a a breach too far, and an edge too sharp.
Featuring piano.
Dark Layers of granulated endlessness.
Block chain spirits, that free themselves.
XR travelling with sound implants.
We end the year 2025 like it began: with some darker sound art IDM by Bourbon Military. Beginning with a new/an old year’s speech to the masses (transcription & translation included in the zip file), the release then transforms into a multi layered adventure in sound, session elements, neural stimulation, a concert of despair, hope and light , which is quite matching for the year. This is the soundtrack for a next virtual Blade Runner movie. For the time when Hollywood Hans will be retired.
en: www.phonocake.org/roark243
de: www.phonocake.org/roark243_de
Past youth, on the shelf,
a funfair passes through the city,
The circus sends the animals afar.
Longing melodies, charming beats, and playful layers lead to a cheerful lightness, overlaid by melancholic acoustic waves that send the mind and heart on a journey through time. The sweet memories, whose taste we can still recall, are served up bittersweet on a platter—a gift overflowing with moments of sunshine and playful joy, mixed with tears of happiness, farewell, and longing.
Sami Konzo’s gift to the world and to Phonocake, also somehow fitting for Children’s Day on June 1, which was also Phonocake’s official birthday—its 23rd, officially founded on June 1, 2003. In our usual style, we’re naturally a week late in presenting this musical treat to the grown-up kids and fans.
www.phonocake.org/emptyjar
TEXTET was produced by Takuro Takeda some time ago, but is only now seeing the light of day. In this work, Takeda explores ambient drone landscapes marked by silence, resonance, and urban atmosphere.
The title evokes a fragmented transmission, while the cover — a building beneath a dark blue sky — suggests a space suspended between memory and emptiness.
Throughout the album, slow-moving drones, analog feedback, and degraded textures create an immersive and contemplative experience. Inspired by Japanese environmental minimalism and industrial drone, Takeda builds dense yet subtle compositions where sound seems to slowly expand through space.
A hypnotic, nocturnal, and deeply atmospheric record.
Being well-used does not necessarily entail being used up. Many items require a period of breaking in – resulting in a resilient litheness that allows for optimal performance.
Featuring clarinet.
So-Called Solutions To The Human Predicament
by Charles Rice Goff III
1 Alex In Wonderland
2 Degeneration Blues
3 The Shriek The Shape The Stare
4 Pay The Subscription
5 Trapped Again By The Weather Merchants
6 Holy Psychedelics
7 So-Called Solutions To The Human Predicament
8 A Permanent Coffee Break
9 I Am Your Analgesic
Goff created the recordings for “So-Called Solutions To The Human Predicament” during the first half of 2026 at the Taped Rugs Studio in Kansas City, Kansas, USA. This collection explores some edges of composition that can be achieved with outdated technologies and an attitude unconcerned with established genres of music. No artificial intelligence ( AI ) was employed in sculpting the recordings presented here.
INSTRUMENTATION :
Voice
Korg R3 Vocoder/Synthesizer
Yamaha VSS-30 Sampler/Synthesizer
Artiphon Orba
Casio AP-24 Electric Piano
Micromoog Analog Synthesizer (original, 1977)
Sounds Sampled From Various Pre-Recorded Cassettes
Hello Kitty Squire Strat Electronic Guitar
Stylophone
Boss RC 20X Loop Station Loop Duplicator
Panasonic Portable Cassette Tape Recorder
Canon Digital Camera Recorder
Diane The Mannequin Hand
SOFTWARE :
Amazing MIDI Wave-To-MIDI Converter
Polysoft MIDI to Mp3 Converter
Musescore MIDI Scorewriter (Version 0.9.6-0.7, 2011)
Roxio 2011 Sound Recorder
Cool Edit Pro II Multitrack Recorder
Audacity Multitrack Recorder (Version 2.1.2, 2015)
Several Plug-In Audio Sound Effects
Microsoft Talk It (1997)
NOTES:
1 Alex Butler helped inspire Track 1: “Alex In Wonderland.” Goff produced a video to accompany this recording in February, 2026. This video and its background story are posted at the link below:
https://archive.org/details/AlexInWonderland
2 Special thanks to original –Ing percussionist: Dennis Briggs, who unknowingly helped create Track 6: “Holy Psychedelics,” by providing Goff with a guitar strap that allowed Goff to limit neck and shoulder pain while picking and strumming.
This colleciton is available on CDR and cassette.
Performance/Engineering/Production
by Charles Rice Goff III
Copyright 2026 by Taped Rugs Productions
www.tapedrugs.com
“Stay well, stay kind to each other, do unto them as you would have them do unto you, be a good person, and enjoy music. This is the story of life. Enjoy music, and be a good person – be a good person to other people, and enjoy music. Then you’ve got it all.” – Sonny Rollins
Featuring jazz trio of organ, drum kit, and clarinet.
Mini-album inspired on Dune (1984) movie directed by David Lynch.-
Collaboration remix/mini album with Confield, polish artist.-
all the original tracks can be found at:
https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Confield%22&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22audio%22
Confield is an experimental industrial artist from Poland. For listen his full discography visit:
https://confield-project.bandcamp.com/
/ Humanfobia is a dark experimental duo from Chile.
https://humanfobia-official.bandcamp.com/
https://humanfobia.jimdofree.com/
– All music by Confield.
– Remixed, artwork by Sábila Orbe.
– Vocals,model in the cover: Mist Spectra.
Tokyo-based artist Ash Room presents a new sonic statement, pushing his exploration of rhythm and repetition into uncharted territory.
Building on previous experiments blending Nyabinghi influences with techno, this latest project replaces conventional percussion entirely with the powerful resonance of traditional Japanese Wadaiko drums.
Every sound source, texture, and sample originates from Japanese materials, creating a deeply immersive and culturally rooted sound palette.
Designed for private spaces rather than crowded dance floors, the music embraces loops, noise, accidents, and the unexpected. Hypnotic, raw, and intimate, Ash Room crafts a listening experience for the solitary listener.
In the embrace of the unreal real, we are often overwhelmed. We chase loose notions, seeking candor but finding confusion. It is only through directness that we can discover our intention – act simply, and simply act.
Featuring tenor saxophone.
All music by Black Market Brains.-
Mini-album Inspired by RING book by Koji Suzuki.-
For more Black Market Brains music visit:
soundcloud.com/blackmarketbrains
Full Ring album:
soundcloud.com/blackmarketbrains/sets/ring
Horror Synth, Electronics and Industrial celebrations of Sleazoid Cinema and EBM Grooves from US.
How does lightning reach the ground?
Inexorably and without repetition, it follows a critical path. Where resistance is least, it descends – and consumes.
Featuring orchestral strings and brass, percussion, detuned piano, electric guitar, drum kit, organ, alto flute, boys’ choir, synth, and effects.
Well, what’s this? The guitarist who usually goes berzerk on the guitar with “Die Leere im Kern deiner Hoffnung” is now releasing an album of acoustic songs as FC Stoffel. Few people have seen this side of him so far, but that’s about to change.
As a father of two and a proven master of spontaneous songwriting, it’s no surprise that FC Stoffel has written songs from time to time over the years to entertain his children. And that he’s occasionally performed them for small groups. Of course, always only upon their insistent requests. Due to the ever-growing demand, he has now recorded these songs under his bed over the course of the past year. Recorded and sung in one take with just two microphones. Everything is very direct and unvarnished, a bit raw and not perfect, but full of wit and charm. May young and old and small and big alike enjoy it.
V/A compilation inspired on classic vampire movies.
But mainly on Lust for a Vampire (1971)
Compiled, artwork collage by Sábila Orbe.-
Patience is the new chapter from lou & len, a Portuguese project inhabiting the space where noise meets tenderness. Influenced by the sensory vertigo of My Bloody Valentine and the spectral harmonies of Cocteau Twins, the duo crafts songs wrapped in an enveloping haze of liquid guitars, ethereal vocals, and melodies that seem suspended in time.
Between beautiful ambient noises and textures of diffused shimmer, Patience transforms vulnerability into sonic catharsis.
An album both intimate and expansive, where each track pulses like memory, dream, and distortion in perfect communion.
A must listen!!!
Entwined, betwixt and twisted – beneath a silken sheet. A before and an after, with a coupling on the beat.
Fertility is but assured, as opposites will meet. This is a fecund evening, where creation is complete.
Featuring alto saxophone.
Breaking in isn’t always about burglary – it can also refer to the process of getting a new thing settled. Fresh, crisp – but not yet pliable. It takes use and time for many materials to reach their optimal point.
Featuring clarinet.
Arcs, is the new record of by Masato Abe inspired by a vast cosmic cycle, tracing the arc from the origin of life through explosive diversification, into the present age, and toward an eventual ending.
Each track reflects a moment within this imagined continuum, suggesting both repetition and parallel unfolding across time. Blending ambient and drone styles, the work creates immersive soundscapes that evoke scale, mystery, and quiet transformation.
Arcs invites listeners to contemplate existence, continuity, and renewal, offering a meditative journey that resonates beyond linear storytelling and into something expansive.
It’s easy to unfocus – it only takes a moment. That moment can stretch and blur and become something else. Yet there’s more to all this than just being along for the ride. The capacity to experience is an unparalleled wealth.
Featuring piano.
