Data Cult Audio

About: Manuel Amezquita is a transmedia artist based in México. The artist generates his esthetic pursuits plumb the integral linkages between electronic sequences and mind loops. Consumed by 90 ́s techno he simultaneously assume numerous positions, inhabiting a space between art and dance music. Architect of landscapes, Lewis_33 pene- trates the undead skin between solid matter and the immaculate. The moniker sustains a long and abstract relationship with data and the way that day by day transmutes to the cultural system; artifacts inside the matrix that distor the interaction between lifeforms and their creations. His taboo-free composition system generate pieces that commune with a single style, as a result the spectrum of his production navigates from IDM, EBM, Ambient, Proto-Techno, Noise, Avant-garde rock, concrete music and/or Click-Hop. Lewis_33 can be said to emanate different tonalities in each of his creations, sometimes illuminated and discreet like listening to ambient music and sometimes as d

About: Daniel Miller grew up in North West London as the son of refugee actors from Vienna. In 1978 he founded Mute, the influential independent British label, formed with the release of his own 7” single, The Normal ‘Warm Leatherette’ / ‘TVOD’. Since then, Daniel Miller has expanded Mute to include publishing and management, with offices in London and New York and recently revived the NovaMute label. Running parallel to its strong commercial track record the guiding spirit behind Mute has always been one of artistic freedom and creative adventure. Mute has nurtured and worked with artists as diverse as Depeche Mode, Laibach, New Order, Liars, Goldfrapp, Erasure, Swans, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Throbbing Gristle, Telex, Apparat and Can. Daniel Miller has produced some of the most groundbreaking releases and is a well respected and sought after techno DJ, playing regularly worldwide. Miller is a keen street photographer and has given a number of talks relating street photography to modular synths. Links: ht

About: Tangled Waves is a Franco-Estonian live modular synth / audiovisual duo, formed in London and based in Montreal. Tangled Waves' line art, digital drawings and animations are created live by Katrin, while Olivier pilots the Tangled Waves modular system (Eurorack). Alien worlds, impossible creatures, blinking space machines, live performance and one take recordings... What could possibly go wrong? Links: Instagram: @wavestangled https://tangledwaves.bandcamp.com/album/signal-from-valis https://www.tangledwaves.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmOxh30CS5qFkw01Wf_CsAg

About: Dfaniks is an experimental electronic music producer and filmmaker born in Mexico city and raised in Nyc. Links: Instagram @dfaniks - Facebook https://www.facebook.com/dfaniks Releases - https://music.apple.com/us/album/taken/1503324420 https://errorgrid.bandcamp.com/album/centipede https://dfaniks1.bandcamp.com/album/save-the-robots Videos - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNWze5hes4Y&t=154s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cai6PIcmYSk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNFhcTz6ui8

About Bill Pettaway: After a storied career working with Timbaland and artists such as Missy Elliot and Justin Timberlake, Bill Pettaway’s search for new sounds led him down the rabbit hole of modular synthesis. Now he explores the unique and fleeting sonics of noise, still always searching for that newest sound. Links: https://www.instagram.com/pettawaybill/ About Skarekrow: Skarekrow is an electronic/experimental producer and artist. As a lifelong musician, he draws on his roots in jazz and hip-hop, and seeks to blend in his inspirations from anime and video game soundtracks - always on the hunt for new sounds and styles. Links: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2z2NPNh6HUuy05jVe0fgAv?si=6X_IQsKCTi2kh2oHcAcDaw&nd=1 https://skarekrowmusic.bandcamp.com/ https://www.instagram.com/skarekrowmusic/ https://www.tiktok.com/@skarekrowmusic?

About: Multimedia artist Korey Luna began performing music in 1999, with Midnightmare. Quickly he transitioned from Bass Guitar, Electric Guitar, and Keyboards. He spent a year with Dead Sexy, and eventually was enlisted into Red Youth, where he met long time collaborator Lenny Hamaker. Being a life-long congenital heart disease patient, Korey had a fourth open-heart surgery, which atrophied his strength. Premeditatedly, he began a journey into Modular Eurorack synthesizers. During recovery he and Lenny formed the duo “Imitation Growth”. Their premier public performance was April 1st 2018 for Resonant Frequencies in Oakland, CA. In 2019 Korey partnered with Rich Hogben to create a new live show called “Piqued” which features two Electronic music artists per month, before a live audience, with a Q&A session. This show has continued as a virtual event. Mastering by Lachlan Fletcher Links: kzluna.com
https://kzluna.bandcamp.com/ https://www.kzluna.com/northbeats.html https://www.instagram.com/koreyzluna/

About: Portland-based multimedia artist Veronica "Vern" Avola makes electronic music that combines a ferocious wall of sound with a deceptively subtle sense of dynamics. One could call it noise music, except that Avola puts enough into weirdly shifting harmonics as she does into abrasion. One could also call it drone, but Avola's approach to synth music is too rhythmic, itchy, and restless to fit easily under that label. She's shared bills with artists including Mammifer, Thrones, Big Business, The Tenses, Oxbow, Daniel Mehcne, Bana Hafar, and  has collaborated with electro-pop eccentric EMA, to give you some idea of the difficulty of pigeonholing the project. She has been performing  and touring in bands since 2005, and has been performing solo since 2008. She's had the honor of having several releases on labels such as Sige Recordings, Gravity Records, An Out Recordings, Accident Prone Records and Nadine Records, as well as releasing her most current works on her own label EMS Records. Links: https://verns

About: Sombre Lux is part man, part machine – seeking to understand human emotion through sound. Fixated on the concept of universal balance, the cyborg creates gritty sci-fi soundscapes with hints of light. Oregon producer, Jordan Jacks, lent his memories to Sombre Lux’s pursuits, while forgotten tomes of magick and ancient technological systems, found along his journey, help to guide the process of creating sonic talismans. 01001101 01110101 01110011 01101001 01100011 00100000 01101100 01101001 01110110 01100101 01110011 00100000 01110111 01101001 01110100 01101000 01101001 01101110 00100000 01110101 01110011 00100000 Links: https://www.instagram.com/sombre_lux/ https://sombrelux.bandcamp.com/ https://open.spotify.com/artist/24JAXboXlwPxBAMNY8wXBA https://soundcloud.com/sombrelux https://www.facebook.com/sombrelux/

About: Daedelus is Alfred Darlington, cornerstone of Los Angeles' Beat Scene and founding faculty of Berklee's EDI principle instrument program. Releasing albums since 2001 and touring widely, recently acting as artist in residence at S.E.T.I. they have set their ambitions on the stars. Links: https://daedelusmusic.bandcamp.com

About: Just a runt on the scene with just one album release (early 2020), Jaeki is making big noise in so-called Tucson, AZ. Their sound tends to find itself balancing between ethereal ambience and brutal electronic destruction. Jaeki blends field recordings, self made piezo instruments, modular synths and sampling to make noise loosely inspired by vaporwave, hnw, broken electronics, drone, free jazz, dada, etc... depends on the day! Links: https://jaeki.bandcamp.com/album/yellow-jacket-weather https://www.instagram.com/j4eki/

About: Composer, sound artist and sound designer focused on using spatial sound in multidisciplinary projects. Radek is working as a lead sound designer and music composer for Precyzja Foundation and director of Wave Folder Records. He manages and designs new media art projects. Radek supports product development and designs sound for number of synth makers and Eurorack module manufacturers. He makes music for theatre, film and game sound design. He collaborates with dance choreographers, visual artists creating new media works and audio-visual installations. Working with artists across cultures he creates new works linking traditional music and electronics. Links: http://www.wavefolder.net/ https://wavefolder.bandcamp.com/ http://radek-rudnicki.net/

About: Marie Ann Hedonia, has been playing Eurorack modular synths since the middle of 2018, she is fascinated with the endless sonic possibilities of modular synthesis. Exploring and practicing musical composition on modular synths inspired her master’s thesis on metacognition and individual artistic process. She works solo, and collaborates with @pablumpicasso in the synth-punk outfit, Operation Bingo. She recently released an EP, available now on Bandcamp. Operation Bingo, released their first album, titled “Content.” on Bandcamp January 8th, 2021. Links: Solo Bandcamp: https://paulandmariescountrykitchen.bandcamp.com/ Operation Bingo: https://operationbingo.bandcamp.com/

About: Aelk Minsur has been experimenting with sound since he was 16 years old and manipulated field recordings have always played a central part. It started off with recording friends at house parties, hiding micro cassette recorders under bus stop benches, or tapping telco junction boxes in neighborhood alleyways that would capture candid and occasionally illicit phone conversations. He would then edit these recordings on hardware samplers and 4 track cassette recorders to create a library of sounds to use in his music. Fast forward 20 years and field recordings still play a vital role but are now captured primarily from construction sites, warehouses and factories where he works as an industrial electrician. This set was created especially for Data Cult and features the signature aspects found throughout Aelk Minsur’s work – heavy beats, textured synths, and mangled found-sound. Links: https://linktr.ee/aelkminsur

About: More emergent than intentional, this piece is a long form exploration in sound design and rhythm that alternates between structured composition and abstract soundscape. Titled Mirage, it contemplates the emergent impact of technology on human culture and belief. It’s a moment of consideration and intrigue presented with patience and composure, while intensity and tumult regularly peak in from not too far away. Nord Modular G2 and MaxMSP. Created in Oakland and Humboldt County, CA. Malarki is an instrumental electronic music project that reinterprets the complexities of the natural world, in particular the tension between serenity and disharmony and the natural imbalance between creation and failure.  Ranging in style from Rhythmic Glitch and IDM to Textured Dark Ambience to Intense Industrial Soundscapes, the music is a challenging and emotionally honest reflection of our place in the modern world.  Created by bay area computer scientist Patrick Coleman, Malarki combines rhythmic ambience, abstr

About: Yumi Iwaki is an electric sound artist and lyricist based in Tokyo. She layers sound with her sampled voice, modular synthesizers and small synthesizers particularly OP-1 and OP-Z. Links: https://muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/living-distances https://iuwerecords.bandcamp.com/album/connected-1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iwakiyumi/?hl=ja Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/iwakiyumi

About: Hailing from Oxnard CA, NMX (short for Necro_Mechanical) is an up and coming producer / DJ. Having honed his skills for several years as a member of industrial project Artifact Corruption, as well as the founder of Club Fallout, he is now set to unleash his dark rhythmic soundscapes upon the world. Ominous, bleak and brutal, his sound is a journey into a a dark landscape of sound. With industrial rhythmic pulses and urban tribal percussion set upon dark soundscapes and nods to dark techno, dark ambient and power noise, NMX has crafted a blistering sound that leaves listeners wanting more. Tension, suspense and atmosphere are found in equal measures along with a dark cinematic fashion that allows certain parts to shine through. Links: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdQ0kdQkYMiuIPVkWytEesQ https://music.apple.com/us/artist/nmx/1476331806 https://artifactcorruption.bandcamp.com/

About the music: This piece, Sequence of Isolations, is very much influenced by the long period of isolations this year, and as such perhaps mostly a study in solitude. Main voices are heard from the Moog Mother-32 and Subharmonicon, as well as drones and effects from the 4MS SWN, Instruo Ts-L, MI Rings, as well as plenty of reverb, delay, and modulation effects. It's evolved from the usual long-form ambient style Kim has performed under the monicker Dreamhub, but which have now transformed into a modular journey merging the past and the present into future explorations of raw electronic sonic territory and it's many facets. About Kim Bjørn: Also known as the creator of Bjooks, Kim has mostly been known as the author and designer he is. However, as an electronic musician, he's been active for over a decade with a multitude of long-form ambient sets performed in the US, Iceland, Hungary, and Denmark, at festivals, or at more intimate settings of self-study and meditation. Links: http://bjooks.com http://drea

About: Proximal/distal is the electronic music project of Jennifer Trezza. A longtime hardware enthusiast, she has been producing music for over two decades and is currently based in the PNW. Links: https://soundcloud.com/prxmldstl?fbclid=IwAR30IPFiF4XK9MVvFLnpSINNcoh07xpVSC3mDRaKNJNjk2oURZUPYFHPXoE https://www.instagram.com/proximal_distal/?fbclid=IwAR0C7bTciUm9TSNfdEGGYNEf9yMw-0quJvcaVWIhi8wZMIr9-vjO_vwxBzE

About: Giacomo Vanelli, also known as Giackxx (7 October 1975) is an italian musician and composer. Vanelli’s solo work consists mainly of electronic music. He is a founder and member (synthesizer and programming) of The GrOOming. The band released 3 albums and is today mainly involved in experimental electronic music works. Giacomo Vanelli’s music is almost entirely created with modular synths and is characterised by a melancholic atmosphere that lingers between the digital and the natural. The electronic composition is guided by a random modulation of events. With modular synths, the artist is free to experiment and sample, leaving behind any conventional idea of melody. The Feeling in Public album is a collection of 9 tracks and strongly evokes a clear music landscape of human emotion and spiritual transformation, reinforced by the typical repetitive lines of synth. Links: https://linktr.ee/giacomovanelli https://www.facebook.com/milanomodulare/ https://instagram.com/milano_modulare?igshid=smydwstcgzu

About: Paul Stillwell is a musician and composer who is fascinated by the darker side of sound. Influences range through Psychedelic Rock, Dark Ambient, Berlin School electronica, and Musique Concrète.  The Canadian Electronic Ensemble, of which he is a long-time member, has had a profound impact on his musical style and sensibilities.  In 2016, Paul founded the Frequency Freaks Workshops – an inclusive community of composers, musicians and electronic instrument makers. He is also a co-organizer of the Toronto Sound Festival which features talks on mixing, mastering, sound design, field recording, game audio, audio for VR, composition for large and small screens, instrument building, and live performances. As a solo performer, Paul works under the moniker Intrepita.  During the day, he works in IT specializing in Network Security.  There will be a new solo album coming in the near future! Links: https://paulstillwell.bandcamp.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8HKMMmmt0jRMXLv6A2GdhA https://www.youtube.c