Experimental Frequencies

Fabio Orsi – Stand Before Me, Oh My Soul

Fabio Orsi – S...

For some, expressing oneself is a difficult task. It takes away any aspect of security one may have been clinging on to and opens up ...

Damian Valles – Fixtures

Damian Valles –...

Damian Valles is the curator of the 'Rural Route' series on Standard Form. Judging by the artists involved with the series it would be safe ...

Grouper – Hold/Sick

Grouper – Hold...

There’s no denying the aching beauty in the music of Grouper aka Liz Harris from Portland, Oregon...

Archers By The Sea: They were floating over the mountain, they were kings

Archers By The Sea: ...

French artist Vincent Caylet has been active in the experimental underground scene for some time now. Beginning his solo career (to the best of my ...

The Fun Years – God Was Like, No

The Fun Years –...

With 2008’s “Baby, It’s Cold Inside”, The Fun Years established themselves as being amongst the cream of the crop of the modern ambient and experimental ...

Marta Mist – Fawn / Marta’s Lament

Marta Mist – F...

Marta Mist have made the choice to remain as anonymous as possible. They choose to give as little away about themselves as they can; all ...

Piano Series Vol.3

Piano Series Vol.3...

Daniel J. Gregory of Dead Pilot Records returns with his third in the series of short piano based mixes entitled "Eventually, when we've tired out ...

Pete Swanson – Feelings In America

Pete Swanson –...

Yellow Swans were a great band. A noise band that shifted from thumping day glow rave-tronics, to blistering slabs of skull crushing noise, to blissful ...

The Gentleman Losers – Rural Route No. 5

The Gentleman Losers...

Samu & Ville Kuukka are The Gentleman Losers. Having released 2 full lengths to date, one on the loveable City Centre Offices and one on ...

Dead Pilot Fly-By

Dead Pilot Fly-By...

Dead Pilot Records are a label that deliver quality bespoke releases on a regular basis and never fail to impress. We felt is was high ...

Clem Leek – Holly Lane

Clem Leek – Ho...

Album Of The Week: : From the opening clock chime to the closing string cadence, “Holly Lane” is soaked in atmosphere and emotion; be ...

Rural Colours Vol.4

Rural Colours Vol.4...

The Rural Colours series has been quietly releasing tiny runs of 3” discs for a few months now and much like its elder sister Hibernate ...

Stars Stolen Left for No-one (Review)

Stars Stolen Left fo...

White Hills are a band with a true identity. They know exactly who they are, what they want to sound like and how they want ...

Piano Series Vol.2

Piano Series Vol.2...

We mentioned Daniel J. Gregory's (Dead Pilot Records) first Piano Series instalment some time ago now and felt the Vol.2 session was equally worthy of ...

Andrew Hargreaves Defragment

Andrew Hargreaves De...

Fragility is a beautiful thing. Like the delicate nature of a spiders web, built so immaculately, or the innocence of a child yet to experience ...

Lost Tribe Sound: One

Lost Tribe Sound: On...

Getting compilation albums right is hard work; but worth it. A good compilation can open listener’s ears to a wrath of musicians they may have ...

Rafael Anton Irisarri – The North Bend

Rafael Anton Irisarr...

Photographs can tell a story. With just a simple picture of a person or a place, a whole story can unfold. Thoughts and feelings are ...

Fennesz / Daniell / Buck – Knoxville

Fennesz / Daniell / ...

There’s beauty in the unexpected; in the moments of real randomness and unplanned events. That is why improvised music is one of the truest ...

Ólafur Arnalds – …and they have escaped the weight of darkness (Review)

Ólafur Arnalds R...

In his latest album, Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds looked to the work of Hungarian director Béla Tarr for inspiration, in particular his film ...

Machinefabriek  Duotoon

Machinefabriek Duot...

Before I even considered collecting my thoughts together on this new release from Rutger Zuyderveldt aka Machinefabriek, I felt it necessary to reacquaint my self ...

Noveller – Desert Fires

Noveller – Des...

When we talk about Ambient music, most people think of music that can be played in the background and ignored. Music that requires zero attention ...

Evan Caminiti – West Winds (Review)

Evan Caminiti –...

It’s getting late, the sun is lowering itself behind the canyons and tumble weed is rolling on past your feet in the breeze. Lonely land ...

Scott Cortez and Thisquietarmy – Meridians

Scott Cortez and Thi...

Scott Cortez may not be a familiar name for some of you. Up until fairly recently, I too had no idea who he was...

Piano Series Vol.1

Piano Series Vol.1...

First in the series of short piano based mixes by Daniel J. Gregory of Dead Pilot Records...

Dead Pilots Vol.2

Dead Pilots Vol.2...

Dead Pilot Records front man Daniel J. Gregory returns to Fluid Radio with his second mix exclusive...