The Covid-19 crisis has hit local music venues very hard. As an artist and performer I felt the need to help in anyway I could, thus this compilation was born. Here you'll find a wide range of forward thinking, electronic based musicians who have graced many of London's (UK) independent music venues. We've all come together in this one moment to support the venues that normally support us. Therefore, all profits of this release will go to three chosen London venues. These are: Iklectik, Hundred Years Gallery, Jazzlive Camberwell.

Please give generously!

Blame - Flummoxed
Blame is from the South London improv collective Ashcircle. Blame plays unrelenting feral micro-concreté. Inspired by lockdown and a lack of access to outside space. ashcircle.bandcamp.com


Doctor Steveo – Another Day
You have an appointment with Doctor Steevo!
I am Doctor Steevo, I am French I live in Oxford UK. My music conveys my personal voyage and perspective through my unique sonic palette. I make modern music for modern life, a mix of Electronica , rock, pop, Trip Hop, chill out , break beat and experimental music.
www.doctorsteevo.com


Oneirologist – The Hours of Darkness
The Oneirologist is a project by Rick Jensen exploring possibilities of electroacoustic music in composition and improvisation, as well as film and video experiments. The Oneirologist has released over 40 albums, performed live many times and made 33 films. Started in 2013 it is mostly a solo project but has released several collaborative albums: https://theoneirologist.bandcamp.com/

This track was recorded during lock down after a busy few years I hadn't done much recording that wasn't live and finally had a chance due to the imposed restrictions.


Luke Knott – Momentum
Luke is a composer, programmer and audiovisual engineer making noisy, meditative music under his own name and as part of the J.O.R.W. collective.
hollowform.bandcamp.com
jorw.bandcamp.com

Momentum is an improvisation using over 30 iterations of short loops displaced in time and space (the piece is performed in surround sound, with each loop panned to its own position). The player controls the selection of samples and the time difference between the iterations to create new rhythms and tones derived from the original sample.


Matt Atkins – Shroud
The piece is constructed from recordings of electro-magnetic fields genertated by various articles of electrical equipment including a laptop, mobile phone, plug sockets, fore alarm unit and a chip and pin machine. The various elements were originally intended to be played through quadrophonic speakers as part of an 'invisible exhibition'.


Adam Paroussos - Murmurations and the Fool
Adam Paroussos composes soundscapes for film, dance and live art. He runs multi-disciplinary improvised events called ‘Crossspace’ in London. Ongoing collaborations and collective work includes Sound Writing Kollab, SubPhonics and Petri Delights.

‘Murmurations and the Fool’ is a journey through the psyche of a Jester, composed with self-made instruments, trumpet, electronics and samples. This piece is part of a performance that took place at Candid Arts Trust for ‘Murmurations’ exhibition 2019.
adamparoussos.bandcamp.com
adammk25.wixsite.com/adamparoussos


Mathr - el day de lay
Claude (<https://mathr.co.uk>) is an artist from London, UK,
interested in the complex emergent behaviour of simple systems, unusual
geometries, and mathematical aesthetics.  The track "el day de lay" is based on time-varying rhythmic delays and filters in a feedback system.  This version of "el day de lay" was excerpted in one piece from a single live take with no overdubs or edits.


xvelastín – Desilencing the Sea, Part 1
xvelastín is a British-Chilean sound artist, vocal performer and theatre sound designer. His pieces use creative technology to expand and undermine voice and performs often in solo and collaborative work in a range of contexts and scales. The first two tracks of a live recording, 'Ghosts // Creation' and 'Ocean Gargle' represent the synthesis and exploration of the voice of the first life in the ocean, or something. Featuring an amplified metal projector stand played with a pair of violin bows, the sounds of me choking on some water and a clavinova. I've mixed it in 3D binaural so best experienced with some big headphones in the dark.


Cerpintxt – Combing her torso to a pile
A post-ape progress report from the cosmic madhouse, through the medium of voice, auto-destruction, wind-guided, meekly ritualistic, discordant experiments in protoconversation.

Combing Her Torso to a Pile is the third layer for the musical game to be conducted in ‘Dialectically Mediated Distance from Oneself’, a ritual-based discourse in perceptions of the self and its extensions, within the symbolic network of intersubjective relations. The spaces in between tangible articulations of experience; the hum too loud or the voice too soft, which signify an overbearing presence in their own right.


Tarik Haskic – Syrinx
Tarik Haskic is a musician and artist mainly interested in the therapeutic value of sound and listening. He explores this theme across performance, multimedia, installation work and experimental music using homemade instruments, found material, discarded consumer electronics and field recordings.

The song Syrinx was made with sounds recorded at The Old Biscuit Factory in Bermonsey, which includes singing birds, self-made glass rattles and a drone session recorded on the roof.


Laura Netz - Medial Dark Ages
Laura Netz (Barcelona, 1982). Participant at hacking culture and noise scene has taken part in many international events, such as exhibitions, workshops, conferences, and concerts. She also promotes the series Sonic Electronics taking place in London, various venues, where inviting different artists from the community influenced by noise, experimental, electronics and open source music.

Medial Dark Ages, a Live AV Performance by Laura Netz consisting of experimental electromagnetic power noise with DIY circuitry and a handmade synth. The audiences’ subconscious and altered states are activated to an open experimentation of feelings and knowledge.


Bloom’s Taxonomy - Obrigada Nada
Bloom's Taxonomy is an experimental electronic producer and composer based in South London. This track originated as sound design experiment attempting to replicate a hand-pan (or 'hang') using a soft-synth and a large wok found in a kitchen cupboard. While not quite achieving optimum 'hang', it did create quite a nice, evocative metallic sound. Riffing on a Launchpad Pro, and combined with some field recordings made in a cave in Sicily, this track emerged. The title is unrelated to the content, merely selected from a list of 'pleasing phrases' the artist has collected on his phone's notepad over the years. 


Phil Maguire - zm/1-4


Omphalopticon – Farhad
omphalopticon.bandcamp.com
www.youtube.com/channel/UCOCn1xElNd9WTLvO0RybRtw
blog.navelgazers.co.uk

"Farhad" was produced in 2014 when I was working on my album Cold Sauce. It didn't really fit onto Cold Sauce and is unlike anything I've recorded before or since. My friend Chris Anderson can be heard talking at the end.


For Humours – The Gifting Cube
For humours is a three-piece drone rock band from London playing atmospheric improvised music with a psychedelic influence.
forhumours.bandcamp.com


Discount Gnostic - Scenes from Full English Nightmare - Ribble Bus Station
Chris Hill is a performer, improviser and sound artist who regularly attends the John Russell and Eddie Prevost’s Workshops and currently plays with the London Improvisers Orchestra as well as Anthony Donovan’s Murmurists Project.

This piece is part of an ongoing project which attempts to map specific temporal locales by drawing upon imagined and reimagined sonic memories. Nebulous perhaps; uncanny, on occasion; the insistent drip of recovered place; then and now,;here and there. Fanfare like but made of shadows, a psychic smog.
For recordings - https://discountgnostic.bandcamp.com/


Phil Durrant – Krell to Dust and Rings
Born near London in 1957, Phil Durrant is a multi-instrumentalist improviser/composer/sound artist who currently performs solo and group concerts.

As a violinist (and member of the Butcher/Russell/Durrant trio), he was one of the key exponents of the "group voice approach" style of improvised music. In the late 90s, his trio with Radu Malfatti and Thomas Lehn represented a shift to a more “reductionist” approach.

This piece features two ‘generative’ music patches. The first is based on the ‘Krell patch’ re-imagined by Todd Barton. After about two minutes a second more clangorous pattern emerges into the mix. All sounds were created using the iOS App miRack.
www.facebook.com/philsowaridurrant/
linearobsessional.bandcamp.com/track/zero-coast


Maddiganprojects – They’ll come for you


Tony James Morton - Fragments#1
Fragments is a new body of improvised electronic music by sound artist Tony James Morton. Each piece is entirely constructed, in real-time, with samples taken directly from vinyl records. Inspired by techniques that were instrumental in the development of hip-hop music, the work combines prerecorded samples from existing compositions to create an altogether new piece of music. However, Fragments pushes the boundaries of sampled based music into new territory, exploring modern digital techniques and methods.
www.tonyjamesmorton.com


Album photo by Oleg Magni from Pexels