Tag Archives: self-released

Plastik Mystik – Plastic Mystic (Self-Released)

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Label Description: The debut release.

How do you spell the band name??

Recorded in 2025 by Torin Carmichael, Bobby Lirette and Shae Breton at CU Denver.

Mixed by Torin Carmichael and Bobby Lirette

Mastered By Carl Saff

Cover art and Liner art by SwooDiss (Lumerian Picnic) ((Kieran))
Back Cover Art by Marcelo Andres Perez (of Scorplings) and SwooDiss

Filmmaker – Undercurrents (Self-Released)

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Label Description: ‘Undercurrents’ is an interconnected body of work that drifts into moods and mind travel through the slower side that distances from prior dance/club-intended tracks, a new yet familiar exploration in search of emotional resonance, resemblance and tonal identity following the downbeat, hazy granular synthesis and low lit atmospheres developed on recent and not so recent releases.

For enjoyers of the sound palette from previous albums like Motion Pictures Regime, Screening Plexus, Land Of Hidden Variables and Diffractions but also for new listeners discovering Filmmaker’s catalog.

Music & artwork by Faunes Efe
Recorded in Envigado, Colombia in early 2026.

Stevia Sphere – Parallel Universes Of The Spherical Kind (Self-Released)

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♫This album is part of the Stevia Sphere: Rainbow series – Downtempo/chillout albums, each with a different theme, color and sound.

♫Theme: Space

♫Color: Blue

♫Main influences: Minimal techno, synth pop, kosmische musik

•Music & 3D render by me.
•Image editing by Hysteric Pixie Nightmare Girl
nightmaregirl.bandcamp.com

•Music software: Renoise, Sunvox, Audacity
•Music gear: Eurorack Synth, Visionkey-2 Toy Keyboard, Yamaha PSR-E383 Keyboard, Behringer Model D, Behringer XM8500 Microphone
•Image software: Blender, GIMP, Adobe Lightroom

Dan DiPiero – Cry Babies (Self-Released)

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cry baby pod (dandipiero.substack.com/podcast) is a show about popular music and the people who study it.

After making some bump music for the first season, I decided to try making something more coherent for future episodes.

I’m still not great at ableton but I learned a lot doing this one. The two tribute tracks involved attempts to reproduce music that inspired me as a means of learning the software better.

Proceeds from this album will go to support the emergency relief fund for Hampshire College, and then later something else. More details about the music and the work it supports can be found here: dandipiero.substack.com/p/cry-babies and here: www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/hampshire-college-workers-emergency-relief-fund

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whatsisname – Displacements (Self-Released)

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Label Description: Here is my thirteenth self-released album. The title was particularly guided by the opening track, and the appearance of distortions in my daily life and, I suspect, the lives of many others too. The presence of déjà vu has also been keenly felt here, although those past echoes seem more akin to prophecy and prediction.

I would describe this as predominantly ambient music, but featuring some occasional glitchy, synthetic elements.

All tracks were originally recorded between October 2021 and July 2023. Final mixing and mastering took place between November 2021 and December 2024.

I think it’s interesting to note that the number of instruments and effects used on this album is quite low in comparison to earlier releases.

Genre: electronica, ambient, glitch

Written, recorded, mixed and mastered in 24-bit audio by Whatsisname

Paramnesia and Polarised recorded and mixed in EnergyXT2.7
Extinguished recorded and mixed in EXT64beta3-mar23,EXT64beta4-jun23
Antarctica and Bathe at Your Own Risk recorded and mixed in MuLAB 9
Dissolve recorded and mixed in MuLAB 8
Lens recorded and mixed in EXT64alpha5,EXT64beta4-jun23


Instruments: FMERA2, Z3TA+2, Iris2, DUNE, Reaktor5, Tassman4, LABS, Rapture, Ultra Analog VA-2, Absynth5, Lounge Lizard Session, Skanner XT, Zebra2, DUNE2

Effects: Shimmer, EQuivocate, Gain3 Stereo, Satin, kHs Gain, Aether, Ozone 7 Imager, Blackhole, 4 Band EQ, Amplifier, B2, Supermassive, High-Low Shelve EQ, Auto Pan, Grainstrain

All tracks mastered in 24-bit audio using T-Racks5:

Linear Phase EQ
EQP-1A
Brickwall Limiter

SANFORD – Wave Frequency (Self-Released)

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Label Description:

Wave Frequency is a collection of songs written across 2023 and 2024 that attempt to capture a variety of moods that shift seasonally throughout the year. An Energetic summer leading to an Indulgent fall harvest season, then into the Anxieties of the winter months and finally into a Regenerative spring, and repeating all over again. This is the first release as SANFORD that Daniel Sanford has made, though you might be familiar with his older work as Douibyorthst.

Written, performed, and produced by SANFORD
Cover art by SANFORD