Famine

Toronto-based artist, producer, and engineer Famine has been a sleeper cell of the IDM / Technoid / Industrial scenes for the past few years and is now ready to pounce. With an EP and CD releases on the Canadian label Bugs Crawling Out Of People, plus several remix (Fractured, Dym, Worms Of The Earth, Displacer, It-Clings) and compilation appearances (BCP, Artoffact, … Read more

Mechanical Steering

Biography_ Mechanical Steering is Maciej Paszkiewicz, native of Poland since 1981. In 1999, Maciej began creating electronic sounds influenced by the blistering noise of European metropolises, the alluring diversity of random urban machines, and the permanent contrast between human emotion and social chaos. While searching for a unique style to express his aural vision of  human … Read more

Phylum Sinter

Biography_ Detroit-based electronic music maestro C. Todd, who’s recent compilation appearances for Xynthetic, M-tronic, IDMuziq, Unfinished Monkey, Envizagae, and Tympanik Audio, as well as a fantastic remix for Hecq (Hymen), have generated quite a buzz in 2007. Phylum Sinter will bring his unique appetite for experimental IDM to the Tympanik table with his first full-length release titled ‘Amongst Fauna and Wiring‘ … Read more

Zinovia

Athens-born Zinovia Arvanitidi has been honing her music-composing skills from very early on by learning piano at the young age of 8. By age 15 she began composing music and over the next several years studied classical music, piano, and music theory earning various diplomas in such fields as harmony, counterpoint, fugue, music technology, sound composition, advanced … Read more

[Haven]

Hailing from Poland, Marcin Jarmulski revealed his true persona in 2005 with the release ‘War Office Propaganda‘ under the guise of [Haven] In 2009, Tympanik Audio released [Haven]‘s new album ‘Plastic‘. A gradual scorching dirge that reveals itself amidst an impeccable quilt of tight beatwork, sleuthing throughout memorable soundscapes, and airy atmospheres. With heavy basslines, delicate sampling, infectious, … Read more

Zentriert ins Antlitz

Biography_ Underground electronic music legends Zentriert ins Antlitz join the Tympanik Audio artist roster for a monumental new full-length CD release planned for late this Fall. After three CD releases for COP International and several free album downloads including last year’s excellent ‘Diametral‘, the German trio of Holger Meuler, Jürgen Warkentin, and Marc Friedrich releases their newest collection of work simply … Read more

Totakeke

Totakeke is Frank Mokros, New York-based producer that began releasing his music through the now defunct Frozen Empire Media label in 2003. Since then, he has managed to capture the attention of electronic music audiophiles and critics alike with his first release for Tympanik Audio titled ‘eLekatota – The Other Side Of The Tracks‘ in early 2008. While … Read more

Undermathic

Undermathic is Maciej Paszkiewicz, native of Poland since 1981. In 1999, Maciej began creating electronic sounds influenced by the blistering noise of European metropolises, the alluring diversity of random urban machines, and the permanent contrast between human emotion and social chaos. In 2008, Maciej introduced his new concept: Undermathic. A remarkable venture into thickly-layered Electronica, moody backdrops, … Read more

ESA

ESA (Electronic Substance Abuse) is a name that has been on the lips of rhythmic noise addicts worldwide since its first compilation appearance on Hive Records in 2005. Hailing from the United Kingdom, Jamie Blacker and his hellfire debut album ‘Devotion, Discipline, and Denial‘ hit the streets via Hive in 2005 and introduced his unsuspecting listeners to a monster of … Read more

Unterm Rad

Unterm Rad is Mike Slansky, Chicago native, graphic designer, audio engineer, and composer. Mike has been making electronic music for well over 10 years under many monikers:  Rekt, Aural,  Month of Grey, has collaborated with countless musicians, and remixed the likes of Hecq, Claus Muzak, Totakeke, Zentriert Ins Antlitz, Testube, and Textbeak. With his solo project Unterm Rad, Mike explores the … Read more

Worms Of The Earth

The idea of Worms of the Earth emerged in 2004, though it gestated until 2007 when the first workings came to light. Since then, a critically-acclaimed full length and an EP have been released on Canadian experimental/industrial label Bugs Crawling Out Of People, numerous remixes and compilation appearances sculpted, as well as 50+ shows across the eastern US … Read more

Erode

Originating as guitarist for the popular German metal band Heaven Shall Burn, Alexander Dietz now protrudes from the opposite side of the music continuum to bring Tympanik Audio listeners his debut electronic album ‘Horizon‘ under his pseudonym Erode. As his band Heaven Shall Burns conquers the German music charts with their hit album ‘Invictus‘ in 2010, as well as the formation … Read more

Ex_Tension

Ex_Tension is the French duo composed of Vincent Gendrot alias Vxt (composition, programming) and Pierre-Yves Hohmann alias PY (Composition, samples, noises). Since 1997 from their laboratory in Strasburg, the band has honed their craft, their works falling in a determined Industrial aesthetic with a dense and hypnotic style, tinted by technoïd sounds and dark atmospheres. With … Read more

Tangent

Hailing from The Netherlands, drummer and sound designer Ralph van Reijendam and vocalist and sound engineer Robbert Kok decided to combine their mutual interest in electronic music and write together under the name Tangent. The duo began combining their talents to meld acoustic instrumentation with electronic experimentation in a highly contrasting manner. The result is a … Read more

Anklebiter

Hailing from Portland, Oregon, Tanner Volz began cultivating his talents for creating electronic music in the early 1990s with the post-Industrial band Thine Eyes. From there, the eclectic project ML was realized and went on to release prolific works on such labels as Toast and Jam, n5MD, En:peg, and Piehead Recordings. With several releases under their belts, ML tired of each other’s smells and branched … Read more

SE

SE is Sebastian Ehmke, born and raised in the former GDR. Drawing inspiration from the feelings and views that dominate his lucid perspectives on life and the brutal world that surrounds him, SE conjures up spectacular aural journeys through his unique imprint of complex and melodic electronic and classical music. In this spirit of experience driven inspiration, Sebastian … Read more

R.ROO

An emerging young talent from Kyiv in the Ukraine, r.roo (aka Rugaroo) has proved his skills for combining beauty and beats with clever sound experimentation through his 5 releases in less than two years. With eight years of formal musical training, r.roo became completely devoted to composing intricate piano melodies and ultimately ignited his desire to share his gift … Read more

Pneumatic Detach

With previous releases on Frozen Empire Media, Hive Records, and Bugs Crawling Out Of People, a plethora of remixing and producing credits, and memorable live performances around the world, Pneumatic Detach now brings his signature brand of sonic brutality to Tympanik Audio. ‘[ko·mor·bid]‘ is chocked full of unrelenting rhythmic noise and furious broken beats expertly laced with stunning dark ambience. Executed … Read more

Pandora’s Black Book

 In between composing the harsh, uncompromising mayhem of his main project, Lucidstatic, Alaskan native James Church utilizes his prolific side-project Pandora’s Black Book to focus on more secular dark Industrial rhythms and dense ambient atmospheres, all carefully wrapped up in alluring beats and meticulously crafted synthwork. After releasing his debut CDr album on CRL Studios in 2007, ‘Deconstruction … Read more

Normotone

Normotone is the solo project of Bruno Laborde who has been fascinated by the unlimited potential of computers and synthesizers since 1994. Over the past decade, Bruno has significantly honed his programming and sound design skills originally acquired through his former projects Axonal Warfare (1994-1997) and Neon Cage Experiment (2003-2006), as well as producing remixes for such artists as HIV+, Ex_Tension, … Read more

Opposite Exhale

Opposite Exhale is Netherlands-born Eelco Jellema, a young man who is walking on the borders between classical music and broken electronic mayhem. After a four year-period of silence, the project was refound in early 2008 and ultimately caught the attention of Tympanik Audio with his demo CD in the summer of 2009. With his newest creation ‘Nothing Lasts‘, Opposite … Read more

Lucidstatic

Biography_ From the cold landscapes of Alaska comes a talented new artist by the name of Lucidstatic. With his prolific blend of glitch, breakcore, industrial, and idm, Lucidstatic is by no means an imitator, but rather an innovator of the hard electronic sound. With an impressive dossier of remixing and collaboration credits, including Unter Null, Otto Von … Read more

Known Rebel

Known Rebel is an electronic music duo from Ibiza, Spain consisting of Germán Escandell and Jaime Irles. Formed in Barcelona in 2009 while they were students, Jaime and Germán began experimenting with different styles of electronic music such as ambient, breaks, glitch, and others. In 2010 they self-released their first EP and then their first album … Read more

Geomatic

 Formulated in Amsterdam, Holland in 1996, Geomatic has refined and preserved Industrial and dark ambient innovation from day one. From their early efforts came the 2nd full-length album from Geomatic on the French label M-tronic titled ‘Blue Beam‘. Futuristic, complex, and wholely cyber-tronic, ‘Blue Beam‘ placed Geomatic among the ranks of electronic sleeper cells within the electronic music underground. Now, Geomatic offers their latest works … Read more

Haujobb

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Haujobb is Daniel Myer (Architect, Destroid, Covenant) and Dejan Samardzic (Dots + Dashes). Founded in 1993, Haujobb has managed to remain on the fore-front of the Industrial music scene for almost 2 decades, producing some of the most innovative and forward-thinking Electro/Industrial music in the genre’s history. Albums such as ‘Freeze Frame Reality‘, ‘Solutions For A Small Planet‘, ‘Ninety-nine‘, and … Read more

Flint Glass

Biography_ Flint Glass is a Paris-based dark electronica project that has been described by critics as representing some of the most innovative sounds-styling towards electronica, rhythmic noise and dark ambient genres. Flint Glass is a one man project of Gwenn Trémorin, formed in 1999. Not only a musician and producer, Gwenn also manages the outstanding experimental … Read more

Fractional

Belgium-based Fractional describes his music as “Gothic Erotica“, a dark and brooding Electronica with a strong Jungle aftertaste. Fractional literally vomits his brokenbeats and tortures them into submission, waxing them with various bleeps and crackles, smearing almost mystical pads on their bruised bodies. “A fusion of the harsh erraticism of drum’n’bass and short-circuiting IDM glitchiness with sweeping … Read more

Displacer

With three ground-breaking albums in 3 years for the revered French label M-Tronic, Michael Morton, Toronto-based electronic music composer and visual artist, has established himself as a driving force in the world of modern dark electronic music. Performing live with such legendary acts as Xingu Hill, S:cage, Terrorfakt, Converter, Manufactura, Haujobb, Fixmer/McCarthy, and Legendary Pink Dots, a multitude of … Read more

EyeScream

EyeScream is the project of Andrey Novikov from Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Initiating his music creativity in 2006, Andrey has been experimenting and mixing with a variety of different styles and sounds under the moniker EyeScream. With 4 album releases, an EP, and nearly a dozen compilation  appearances, EyeScream finally joins the Tympanik Audio family for the release of his new album … Read more

Comaduster

Comaduster is the solo electronic project of the Canadian musician and sound designer, Réal Cardinal. Staring from a young age as a drummer, Cardinal quickly turned to writing his own compositions with computers and a modest assortment of gear. In 2008 Cardinal took a postition at BioWare Edmonton as a game sound designer on the ‘Mass … Read more

C.DB.SN

c.db.sn weaves a stirring emotional experience in to his music, capturing the listener with thick ambiance and cinematic atmosphere for the movies in one’s mind. c.db.sn is short for Chase Dobson and is the first solo project of the Denver-based producer. With a palette of computer-based synthesis, processed field recordings, and spacious environments constructed from heavily processed guitar, … Read more

Candle Nine

From his humble beginnings as an acoustic songwriter in Michigan to his recent move to Tympanik’s hometown Chicago, Candle Nine has always immersed himself in the aesthetic of reinvention. From his first experience with a sequencer in 2006, the mysterious Candle Nine has done little else but constantly reshape and refine his own sound based upon his own … Read more

Black Lung

David Thrussell is a poet trapped in the body of a hillbilly, or a hopeless romantic hidden in the twisted frame of a dark electronic musician. Late at night Thrussell fantasises that he actually lives next door to Hieronymous Bosch in Medieval Europe and has hallucinated the whole dreadful modern era while suffering from acute … Read more

Endif

Endif was spawned in 1991 by Jason Hollis as a means of extracting the sounds and songs rattling around his cranium. Experimentation, live performance, technical accumen, and pushing aesthetic boundaries are core values. Emphasis is placed more upon energy, emotion, context and texture than on stale commercial formulas, towering arrangements or catchy pop hooks. The output … Read more

Broken Fabiola

Created in 2001 by Karloz M., the man behind heavy Electro-Industrial act Manufactura, he sought out to explore a world of thought and emotion that was separate from his other musical works and projects. With Broken Fabiola, Karloz, along with vocalist Nissa and fellow producer/vocalist Sharon Blackstone, aimed to provide darker and more personal works within the forms of haunting … Read more

Aphorism

Aphorism‘s Josh Pyle is no stranger to electronic music. Drawn to the darker end of its spectrum in the early 90′s, Josh spent years in the Industrial music scene. Involved in a number of projects, Josh relocated from Texas to Chicago in 2000. With a music background spanning well over 15 years, Josh’s project Aphorism began to … Read more

Access To Arasaka

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Biography_ Taking his name from the “Cyberpunk 2020″ off-shoot card game “Netrunner”, the once elusive Access To Arasaka has seemly come out of nowhere to take the electronic music community by storm with his debut full-length CD album ‘Oppidan‘ in 2009. A futuristic journey of a cerebral nature, demonstrating a virtual equinox of surgical beatwork and densely-layered … Read more

Autoclav1.1

First known for his promotional work within the electronic music scene, Tony Young aka: Autoclav1.1 turned his hand to writing music in late 2004. Since then he has had numerous successes including two EP’s, two albums and a remix collection for Hive Records, and five albums for Tympanik Audio, all of which have cemented Autoclav1.1 as … Read more

Ad·ver·sary

Biography_ Hailing from the Canadian electronic music underground after a decade of Techno and Industrial DJ and promotional work, Ad·ver·sary is Jairus Khan. While providing North American tour support for such acts as Terrorfakt, Antigen Shift, Cyanotic, Adam X, Iszoloscope and others, his many remixes of such Industrial Noise icons as Converter and Iszoloscope have enjoyed heavy club and airplay around the world. Now, Ad·ver·sary is … Read more

Atiq & EnK

Atiq & EnK formed in 2007 by Guido Van Den Brink and Pim Arnoldus in the Netherlands. Where Pim comes from a metal background before dwelling in the electronic music realm, Guido made his start in event promotion in Rotterdam during the first decade of the new millennium. In 2007 Guido started his own record label Mindtrick … Read more

Disharmony

Under-rated, yet revered with undying admiration by the already initiated, this Slovakian duo has (un)quietly scorched the underground Electro-Industrial scene for many years, releasing several continuously morphing collections of work to the awe of fans and music critics alike. With a unique blend of dark electro, IDM, industrial, and electronica elements, Disharmony has managed to set … Read more

Subheim

Biography_ Subheim is the deeply personal project of electronic music composer and visual artist Kostas K., a downtempo, experimental venture fusing IDM elements with rich ambiance and female vocals by Katja. Complex and uncompromising, Subheim‘s debut album on Tympanik Audio is full of intricate rhythms, deep reverbs, and bitcrushed sounds, combined with pianos, cellos, and beautiful synthwork. Haunting melodies and … Read more

Tapage

For well over a decade now, Tapage has been writing a wide variety of experimental electronic music. In his work he uses anything from tracker software to coding his own tools in SuperCollider and circuit bending all sorts of gear. Tapage has formulated his own style, experimenting with the vast possibilities of electronic sound manipulation. Inspired by … Read more

Stendeck

The name Stendeck is derived from a variation of the final strange Morse code radio message sent by the plane Stardust on August 2nd, 1947 before its mysterious disappearance. Based in Lugano, Switzerland, Alessandro Zampieri, the man behind Stendeck, began his musical career at a very young age exploring music within the confines and possibilities of the piano. Stendeck was … Read more

Dirk Geiger

Dirk Geiger was born in 1975 in Tübingen Germany. Even in his younger years he was involved in music. At the age of 15, Dirk took up DJing and within a few years began to produce his own music and formed the band Kraftmaschine which he still takes an active part in today. In 2002, he formed the … Read more

MultiColor

MultiColor was created by Russian musician Anton Guskov. As often is the way, Anton’s love for music is rooted in his childhood in the form of a record player spinning pop music of the ’80s. As time passed his influences grew from rap to rock, alternative to classical, and eventually lead to electronic music and a … Read more

Integral

Biography_ in·te·gral 1. Of, pertaining to, or belonging as a part of the whole. 2. Essential to completeness of the whole. 3. Consisting or composed of parts that together constitute a whole. 4. Lacking nothing of completeness; complete; perfect; uninjured; whole; entire. Integral is a whole consisting of David Rotter and Rafael Milatz. The German duo … Read more

Tineidae

Since childhood, Ukrainian composer Pavlo Storonsky has been fascinated with the universe. His visual and audio observations of the vastness of space have served as inspirations for creating his spacious and often poetic electronic symphonies. Citing musical influences such as Burial, Access To Arasaka, Jean Michel Jarre, Subheim, and Bad Sector, Pavlo credits the magnetic … Read more

Idlefon

Idlefon is Hesam Ohadi, a computer musician and sound artist based in Tehran, Iran. He gravitated toward creating electronic music in 2006 after experimenting with various styles of rock and metal music as a drummer. Hesam created a soundtrack for Arash Radkia’s animated short film ‘The Radiologist’s Room‘ in 2009 and released a track on ‘Ear … Read more

Legiac

Legiac began in 2007 with the collaboration of Don and Roel Funcken (Funckarma, Quench) and Cor Bolten (Dif:use) to create their first full length ‘Ming Feaner‘ on the Sending Orbs label. Combining intricate electronics with crisp beats and punchy melodies, ‘Mings Feaner‘ was met with open arms by intelligent dance music community. A synth guru with … Read more

Poordream

Poordream is Greek-born composer and sound designer John Valasis. From his Athens-based studio, he delivers scoring, foley and sound fx services for a great number of local and international clients. John’s clientele includes prestigious brands such as Native Instruments, 8DIO, Virgin, Vice Magazine and the BBC. As of 2014, John belongs to the roster of Ninja Tune’s publishing house … Read more

Zeller

With his excellent debut release ‘Audio Vandalism‘ in 2008 on the German label Hymen Records, the French Industrialist Zeller turned to Tympanik Audio in 2010 to offer our listeners his new album ‘Turbulences‘. At once a whirlwind of tight Industrial rhythms precisely punctuated by shuddering basslines, crafty breakbeats, and chaotic soundscapes, Zeller‘s ‘Turbulences‘ accentuates unrelenting brutality and captivating aural serendipity. An eclectic … Read more