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Maria W Horn is a composer hailing from the north of Sweden, based in Stockholm since 2011. She is interested in the manipulation of time and space through sonic extremes - oscillating between minimalist structures and piercing power electronics utilizing both digital and analog synthesis as well as acoustic instruments and audiovisual components. Her work examines aspects of human perception - how audiovisuality and overload/loss of perceptual stimuli can conspire to transcend everyday life and invoke alternate mental states. Read more on Last.fm

Jessica Ekomane is a French-born and Berlin-based electronic musician and sound artist. Her practice unfolds around live performances and installations. She creates situations where the sound acts as a transformative element for the space and the audience. Her quadraphonic performances, characterized by their physical affect, seek a cathartic effect through the interplay of psychoacoustics, the perception of rhythmic structures and the interchange of noise and melody. Read more on Last.fm

Laurie Spiegel (1945), a lute and banjo player by training, is a Chicago-born and New York-based composer of computer music who reacted to the futurism and dadaism of the early pioneers by developing an original aesthetic borrowed from folk music, creating relatively atmospheric and melodic music via arcane mathematical algorithms. Kepler's Harmony of the Worlds, Spiegel's realization of Johannes Kepler's book "Harmonices Mundi" was chosen for the Read more on Last.fm

Morte Macabre is a dark progressive rock band formed by the members of two important Swedish progressive bands from the 1990s, Landberk and Anekdoten. Morte Macabre released their only album, "Symphonic Holocaust", in October 1998. The album is comprised of covered themes from horror movies, like "Cannibal Holocaust", "City of the Living Dead" or "Rosemary's Baby". The music and atmosphere on the album are characterised by excessive use of mellotron and synthesizers Read more on Last.fm

Gloria Coates (October 10, 1933 in Wausau, Wisconsin - August 19, 2023 in Munich, Germany) was an American composer formed in Chicago, Louisiana State University, New York's Cooper Union Art School and Columbia University. She wrote 16 symphonies, 10 string quartets and numerous songs and chamber works which have been performed by leading orchestras and performers internationally. Her mentors were Alexander Tcherepnin and Otto Luening . From 1976 she lived periodically in London, England and Munich, Germany; and from 1989 -1999 in New York. Read more on Last.fm

Linda Perhacs is an American psychedelic folk singer-songwriter, who released her debut album "Parallelograms" in 1970 to scant notice or sales. The album was rediscovered by record enthusiasts and grew in popularity with the rise of the New Weird America movement and the Internet. It was reissued on CD and 2-LP in 2005, and again in 2008. Native of Mill Valley, California, United States, Linda Perhacs spent many years away from the music industry (mostly spent as dental technician). Read more on Last.fm

Sinoia Caves is another name for the analog synth wizard Jeremy Schmidt, who is also a principal member of the critically-lauded, maximal-rock band called Black Mountain. In addition to his solo music and his contributions as part of Black Mountain, Schmidt is also known for his work as former member of the celebrated space rock band Pipedream and as a part of the Destroyer-related band called The Battles. Read more on Last.fm

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There are multiple artists performing under the name Bada. 1. Choi Sung-hee (최성희), known professionally as Bada (바다), is a South Korean singer, composer, musical actress and television presenter. She debuted as a member of the South Korean girl group S.E.S. in 1997. She released her first solo studio album, A Day of Renew, in October 22, 2003. 2. BADA is a black noise/psych rock Swedish collective devoted to free improvisation and loud contaminations. Read more on Last.fm

Catherine Christer Hennix (C.C. Hennix) (1948-2023) was a Swedish-American composer, philosopher, scientist and visual artist associated with drone minimal music. Hennix was affiliated with MIT's AI Lab in the late 1970s and was later employed as research professor of mathematics at SUNY New Paltz. Hennix began her musical studies in the 1960s by exploring the music of the art music composers Iannis Xenakis and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Hennix met La Read more on Last.fm