Data Cult Audio

About: Half Danish and half Hong Kong Chinese, Martin Yam Møller enjoys large and jarring contrasts. He composes music in many genres, from lyrically ironic lofi-folk-pop to instrumental soundscape ambient music, which is represented in his DataCult Audio episode. He draws Inspiration a range of sources, from the classics Beatles and Boards of Canada to instagram musicians Hainbach and R Beny. The tools he uses to make music can be both old and slightly broken 4-track cassette recorders or the latest and greatest VSTi plugin or semi-modular synths. Even acoustic guitars have their place in his compositions, played both traditionally or with chopsticks and an eBow. When inspiration wanes, he makes sample packs and releases it through his email list, which can be signed up for on his website: http://martinyammoller.com/ DataCultAudio Ep.128 music composed and recorded by Martin Yam Møller sept 2019 Extra tape music for this release contributed by Rasmus Rune Larsen. Links: Video of full DataCult Audio Ep.128

Gloom Mountain Gospel is Jason Vapor and Goldie Paris. They create an ever evolving soundscape that ranges from dark ambient to chaotic noise they refer to as ELECTRO GLOOM. Jason Vapor is also one of the founding members of the Tri-Cities Synth Club and also books electronic music in a hand full of East Tennesse venues. GMG have several self GMG perform regularly through out the southeast including the upcoming Equinox 16 festival outside of Asheville, NC. GMG have several self-released albums and one album on Heterodox Records. https://www.gloommountaingospel.com/ https://www.facebook.com/GloomMountainGospel/ https://www.instagram.com/gloommountain/ https://gloommountaingospel.bandcamp.com/ https://soundcloud.com/gloommountaingospel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC22Us_BZ_rolt0kcsoLefNA https://open.spotify.com/artist/21YAvyDR6nhOGgfgbUuEBA https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/artist/gloom-mountain-gospel/

About: Noam Belkind aka Gn(o)me is a Chicago native that started making music around 2000. Armed with a 4 track, a Juno-60, a Korg Mono/Poly, an array of pedals and circuit bent noise makers, Noam soon was playing synths in punk/hardcore bands. During this period he released 2 albums with the band Tusk. Between 2006 and 2016, he moved quite a bit for work. Living in a variety of places such as Michigan, San Diego and Philadelphia, Noam finally settled in Phoenix, Arizona. Here he discovered modular synthesis, and dove in head first. These days he is making music using mostly random source euroserge, monome grid, arc, and Norns, as well as er301.  Links: Instagram: @gnomedrone https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQGCo7sHJWkt5BC2iN301tw https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Musician-Band/Tuskgrind/posts/ https://tuskgrind.bandcamp.com/

Artist Info: Ámbar was formed in 2016 by Barcelonan artists Patricia Ferrer and Héctor Sousa. They spent years grinding down the sharp edges of their sound. This sound is a series of Voltages, connections, filters, and sequences reverberating inside them that translates through modular systems, synthesizers, and rhythm machines. They mix their classical education from Liceu de Barcelona with Drone, Ambient, Techno and trance. Their enjoyment of free improvisation results in an ethereal sound intended to guide listeners towards a unique and transcendental experience; where the auditive concept connects with the limbic. Each performance is unique in concept, psyche, and execution.   Artist Links: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_ambarmusic_/?hl=en Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiaUTSezRv88J9XpBdn_wTQ Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/ambar-823396196 Bandcamp: https://secuencialaberintica.bandcamp.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/xAmbarx/

About: Justin Olson began his music journey with the Violin at age 3 before joining the Phoenix Boys Choir at age 8 where he learned to sight read sheet music and was featured as a solo vocalist. Following his involvement with the Phoenix Boys Choir, Justin went on to play Saxophone in the Junior High School Band and began to learn the Guitar at the age of 12. During this same year, Justin acquired a 4-track tape recorder and began to record himself and write songs. Justin continued to write songs and make recordings through High school, where he joined his first band, which won the “battle of the bands,” and where he performed with the high School Choir. In College, Justin shared his songs in live performances and open mics. This was a great way to build confidence as a performer, and learn the satisfaction of sharing your creations with the world. As an artist, it is easy to become lost in your head and process, live performance is a very important tool to receive feedback and input that guides your c

About: Corry Banks aka BBoyTech is a hiphop producer, emcee and founder of both BBoyTechReport.com and Beatppl.com. BBoyTech coined the phrase “ModBap” to denote the fusion of his experiments in modular synthesis combined with boombap music production. He has released several underground hiphop albums as an artist / emcee and several instrumental hiphop albums. An IT Pro and Musical Artist, Corry “BBoyTech” Banks launched bboytechreport as a merging of his passions in music and tech to give a hiphop perspective on music tech, something that there wasn’t a lot of just a few years back. Since then, his pioneering contributions in ModBap have nurtured a movement in experimental modular synth based hiphop production. Links: http://www.bboytechreport.com https://beatppl.com/ https://www.instagram.com/bboytechreport/ https://twitter.com/bboytechreport https://www.youtube.com/bboytechreport

About: Franck Martin, born in France, draws his inspiration from the works of Jean-Michel Jarre, Vangelis, Tangerine Dream and also from various artists like Iannis Xenakis and Hughes Le Bars. His first album, released in 2016, is a timid exploration of the tools for Electronic Music Production. Some tracks are influenced by the years he spent in Fiji and in the Pacific Islands and were often composed during his travels. His more recent albums are sonic experiments using an ever evolving modular synthesizer, often recorded in live conditions. Franck Martin continues his exploration in the creation and production of electronic music, whilst meeting other fellow artists from San Francisco and the world Links: https://www.peachymango.org https://franckmartin.bandcamp.com

About: Spices Peculiar is an improvisational looping project lead by Dante Villagomez out of Pittsburgh, PA. Since 2015, he has crafted and controlled his unique sound to flow through a blend of Ambient Electronica and Worldbeat. Debuting a podcast in 2018, Spices Peculiar's Night at Sea aims to shift the mind towards the land of Nod. Peaceful meditation through ambient improv with local musicians. New episodes released every Tuesday. Subscribe via SoundCloud. Links: https://www.spicespeculiar.com/ https://spicespeculiar.bandcamp.com/ https://m.soundcloud.com/user-707117249

About: Skoddie is an unapologetically queer, non-binary woman making compelling electronic music that resists categorization, but draws heavily on techno as a starting point. This techno, however, is not the whitewashed, male-centric kind that has come to dominate event rosters with sounds that “destroy” and “kill.” No. This techno, while infectiously rhythmic, and even quite dark at times, is lush and powerful in its femininity. This is music that breathes in, around, and through techno, ambient, drone, and more, but takes listeners to new places altogether. Skoddie sounds how plants grow. Skoddie’s rapidly growing musical CV is a reflection of her dynamic energy and visionary sound. She has performed at some of the most dynamic events in LA, including Modular On The Spot LA, FM+, Vayu Sound, Late Breakfast, and Fem Synth Lab. Her music has been featured on the Rightly Horrified vol. 1 compilation by Knife Play – Curating from Hell, the Synthdactyl Program on KSPC, and At Waters Edge on RadioSpiral. Skoddi

About: Kris Kaiser fell back into the world of music only a few years ago. Currently she co-runs modular synth company Noise Engineering with her husband Stephen, but her musical background goes back to an early age. She was born into a musical family: her grandmother was conservatory trained in piano and her grandfather was a professional jazz pianist. Her father grew up playing piano and drums and she inherited that love of percussion…despite her parents refusing to get her the drum kit she wanted. They supplanted that with drum pads (Yamaha DD-5. Quality stuff.). Shortly after that came the keyboard and she was hooked. A long series of events led her to choose biology over music and she fell into a bioacoustics hole for many years. All through school, she made no music, but rather traipsed through neotropical swamps listening to the love songs of frogs and broadcasting traffic noises in pristine forests: part of her dissertation and research as a biology professor examined the effects of anthropogenic

About: John McVay, a.k.a. Go As DeatH, sources sounds from found-cassettes, tape loops, and field recordings which are then modified with guitar effects pedals and loop pedals to compose densely-layered soundscapes. Responsive mixing leads the compositions, with a focus on blending and creating a meditative, yet creepy and unsettling tone. Rolling loops and swirling distortion meander across a vast, expansive void, dragging muffled transmissions of voices from the abyss that whisper warnings within crowded electrical pulsations. A smothering force bombards with over-saturation and disarms our sensibilities. It embodies conflicting qualities: introspective/loud, evolving/constant, vast/dense, peaceful/turbulent. This collection of recordings crackles; covered in dust, melted, these tapes are riddled with decay. The tracks presented here are based on improv and are edited very little from the live recordings, showcasing the crunchy and slippery textures of the magnetic tape involved in creating and recordin

About: From the acidic and dusty factories of the electronic underground, through the devastating and pure immaculate nature of Sardinia, is born an explosion of anger and melancholy darkness. This sound is the transformation of electronics into an orchestra of cinematic proportion created by mebitek aka Claudio Melis. Born on the island of Sardinia, Claudio was living in Bologna, Italy when he created the mebitek project in the late 2003.  In the beginning, mebitek's sound was influenced by Bologna’s underground music scene and was mainly hard techno with tribal influences. Over the years, Claudio’s experimentation led him to develop a “cinematic electro dark ambient” cinematic music. In addition to music, Claudio also creates art installations such as his 2016 creation ‘The Sensegration Box’, short films such as his trilogy “The Unconscious”, and video art. Links: http://www.mebitek.com https://twitter.com/MebitekOfficial https://www.youtube.com/mebitek https://mebitek.bandcamp.com/ https://soundcloud

About: Vara Sky is Amy Swart. She demonstrated a talent for music at an early age, learning how to play several instruments at a private elementary school on a full scholarship in Rochester, New York. She continued with vocal and piano lessons throughout her teenage years until she moved to Colorado at age 19. After going to her first rave as a teenager, Amy became obsessed with “how they were making those sounds,” and began organizing underground parties with her friends, DJing with a laptop and a mixer. In 2010 she moved to Los Angeles, California and was classically trained in composition at the Herb Alpert Music Academy on a performance-based scholarship. To her, music is an energetic language we connect with one another through and all of her compositions are written with the intention of connection. Her influences are rooted in industrial music and she cites Trent Reznor as one of her biggest inspirations. She wrote music for the 2017 documentary film ‘Parque Central’, directed by Ricky Gaona. Her

About: Though most known to musicians as the founder of Noise Engineering, Stephen has been creating music and sound for nearly his entire life. Early experience started with childhood piano lessons and playing bass in an orchestra throughout his teens. As the use of computers to make music became feasible Stephen experimented with every format he could. This eventually grew into a small MIDI and analog studio. Around this time Stephen was also finishing his undergraduate degree in Mathematics while making his living developing software. Soon after in a fit of extreme wanderlust he uprooted his entire life and moved to Dallas, Texas to get another degree. This degree was for video game programming and led to Stephen moving to Los Angeles for a job. Eleven years of audio software development for video games ensued. Stephen worked closely with sound designers to implement systems and tools for a popular video game franchise. During this time was Stephen’s second introduction to modular synths which rapidly beca

About: Random Brothers consists of two siblings, Randy Danistha and Nara Anindyaguna. Their music is inspired by the randomness found in everyday lives. With this belief that randomness can lead to new and unexplored grounds, the duo uses a modular synthesizer as a weapon of choice to create random patterns of sound, and over time compile the patterns to form musical arrangements. The duo lives on the philosophy that the music they are creating is a showcase of art in the form of sound; meaning that their music should be experienced as you would a piece of art in a gallery. Listening to their album should give the same sense as entering an exhibition, and taking the time to enjoy the works of art one by one; in this case, track by track. Like most exhibitions, the artists would try to make the artwork engaging, and interactive to the audience. During live performance, the Random Brothers experiment, by using a frequency that is known to trigger creativity in the brains. The hope is to spark creativity amo

About: Alissa DeRubeis currently resides in Portland, OR, where she works for 4MS and S1. A co-founder of the S1 Synth Library and Synth Library Prague, Alissa enjoys teaching intro workshops at home and around the world, patching pre-amps and resonant filters, and playing improvised music. Links: www.alisssa.com

About: Lon Lon is the project of Benjamin Sochko, a synth-obsessed gearhead, the runs a small label called Sinetology. Sinetology reflects Benjamin’s interest in gear by featuring hardware based artists, and releasing everything from ambient and noise, to techno, electro and IDM. He also throws local monthly nights revolving around hardware, live PAs and all vinyl mixing; with intentions to remain as true to the machines as possible. On a personal level, Benjamin is an avid lover and user of modular synths. This love has caused him to venture into collecting synthesizers of all sorts, and recently to venture into video synthesis. He finds excitement and inspiration in being able to control sound and visuals with machines each with their own character. For Lon Lon’s Data Cult Audio set, the audio was recorded live to tape with Oliver Long & Raph helping out manning synths and pedals. Links: Sinetology: https://sinetology.bandcamp.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9E14BuSL9B-_vND80b_8vg Soundc

About: Scottish sound artist and composer Jimmy Peggie uses microsound recordings, electronic fragments and atmospheres as a basis for producing sparse, environmentally based, digital sound pieces. As an electronic sound artist his practice is not focused on music and the traditional use of harmony, melody or rhythm. Rather, It’s more concerned with sound in all its forms and the way it can be used to convey emotion, and for artistic expression. His work uses cinematic sketches woven together to put the spotlight on what may be obvious but also what lies beneath the surface - a meditation on small details that are often hidden or lie unseen and unnoticed. Low volume particles, silence, drones, and happy accidents feature on both a noticeable and also perhaps subliminal or subconscious level. “Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.” ― Marcus Aurelius With an extensive background in rock, jazz and improvisation his current focus is sound co

About: Tulpa | Dusha projects are two worlds, expressed by Anna Martinova, DJ, music producer and a singer. Anna is originally from the Baltic Sea, born in Dobele, Latvia, currently living in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Her DJ career started in 2000, playing styles like Dark Psychedelic Trance, Tech Trance, Old School Goa Trance. Circa 2014, Anna started to playing around with Dark Progressive, as this this style was closest to her Tulpa DJ sets. She began to have an interest in DAWs such as Reason, Ableton, and Logic. This interest eventually lead Anna to enroll in the SAE institute. After getting her Electronic Music Producer diploma in 2012, Anna started the MM - Micro Monkey project. The MM project explored her interest in deep, melodic aural journeys, and harmonically transformed into Dusha project. It was here she found her musical voice. Dusha is mainly ambient oriented subliminal audio journeys, which evolved into Anna's interest in modular synthesis. Meeting Erica Synths visionary Girts Ozolins, A

About: Chaka, Philly native and Central High School grad, grew up on a diverse diet of local music ranging from Schooly D to Sun Ra.  He's brought those learnings to various projects across a multitude of genres.  He has work under the name Trikonometry using midi and software synthesis.  In the past couple of years, he has focused strictly in the hardware synthesis realm, and has a deep and abiding passion for the Eurorack format. Links: https://soundcloud.com/chaka-benson https://www.facebook.com/chaka.benson https://bandcamp.com/chakabens