Happy Halloween from the graveyard shift ghouls and zombies here at Insomnia Radio. Today we have a special feature off the brand new 2013 Electronic Music Group Compilation, “The Last Halloween, Vol.II”. The...
CherryTeresa: Unborn...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
To the lucky ones: LA blogger, musician, and self-professed skeptic CherryTeresa has the following excellent piece up on her website featuring some profound spoken word over what sounds like AIR inspired electronic goodness....
Smokething: Weekende...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
While the experimental electronic tracks by San Francisco artist, Smokething, may be a couple of years old, they deserve a second or fifteenth listen from us and other listeners. I found this outstanding track at the old...
StaG: Too Late Now
posted by Charles Stepczyk
“Forward change can be such a scary thing / For the misty-eyed,” croons Will Walden on StaG’s “Too Late Now,” the coda to Stereocure’s second label compilation. When Stereocure began in August...
cLn: Beats and Break...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Callan Alexander is based in Brisbane, Australia and produces chilled, glitchy electronic beats under the moniker cLn. He self describes his music as falling somewhere along the lines of that of producers like Flying Lotus,...
Swimming in Speakers...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Recently the upstate New York folktronica duo SWIMMING IN SPEAKERS inserted themselves into the landscape of new releases with the debut full length, “Guessing the Others”, a conceptual LP requiring close to four...
L’Orange: Alon...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
The Mad Writer is L’Orange’s new LP which made its debut this past Nov. 20th. The track Alone is the first single and features the smooth vocals of Blu conjoined with a mellow beat layered over with at least one...
All India Radio: Don...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Earlier this year Australian band All India Radio released their latest album Red Shadow Landing. To follow that they just released a free EP with the first track from the album, featured today, with three other rare tracks....
Terracotta Blue: Rav...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Terracotta Blue is Jay, an electronica enthusiast from Maryland who is inspired by dark mellow beats and his first love, hip-hop rhythms. He’s written a seven song release called Ravencrest, a follow-up ode to autumn...
Dark Patrick: Chugai...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Dark Patrick consists of Ukrainian Eva and Englishman Paul, two outstanding musicians who pull together elements from a variety of differing musical styles using a wide array of instruments. For today’s track...
Letting Up Despite G...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Now based in Austin, Letting Up Despite Great Faults is the indie electro-based sonic diary of founding member Mike Lee. Since their 2009 self-titled debut LP they’ve refined and expanded their sound, bridging the gap...
One Finger Riot: Mil...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Los Angeles-based band One Finger Riot has released its second album Fly By Life. The album features the single Miles which is today’s Dose. Fly By Life is s the second One Finger Riot full-length released in 2012 and...
Cea Marie: Big Ol...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Since our last feature, New York’s Christina Abbott has released an entire album of songs this year entitled ‘The Swan and the Sparrow’. A few are recognizable [Everything is Byte Sized, The Other End of...
State Shirt: The Roa...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
State Shirt is Ethan Tufts, a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist that writes and records all of his music in a tiny bedroom studio, filled with a myriad of worn instruments and cheap electronics. The SongFight website...
Tycho: Hours
posted by Stuart Morrison
Tycho is the music project of San Francisco based artist Scott Hansen (ISO50). This is the first single from his Album Dive. Tyco is appearing at the South By South West music festival in Austin Texas, this week. This also...
Rae Spoon: Crash Lan...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Rae Spoon is an indie electronic musician out of Montreal, with “I Can’t Keep All Of Our Secrets” being Rae’s sixth full-length release. A pop/electronic album about the complexity of grief, it focuses on a...
Vienna Ditto: Bells
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Vienna Ditto are a 3 piece self described Voodoo Sci-Fi Blues band from Reading, Oxford and London, comprising Hatty Taylor on vocals, Nigel Firth on guitar and Laptop, Scott Lawrence on Drums and Laptop. They started off...
Germany Germany R...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Today’s electronic feature to help launch us into the new year is by Victoria Canada’s Germany Germany (aka Drew Harris). This single, Take Me Home is from Drew’s album Adventures (17 tracks) released via...
Moon Holiday: Capsul...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Monday’s taster comes from the debut EP by Moon Holiday, aka Sydney Australia’s – Alex Ward. Moon Holiday’s self titled debut EP draws its name from Alex’s childhood in China – the Moon...
Grand Pianoramax: Ro...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Berlin-based duo Grand Pianoramax takes a bold step into 21st century experimental electronica on Smooth Danger, out on 1st May. Partially recorded in Mumbai, India and largely influenced by the Berlin underground, the...
Papermaps: Can’...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Papermaps‘ self-titled debut album is coming out April 19th. This is a stand-out track from the ten track full-length. Canadian band, Papermaps is a Toronto-based rock quartet formed by producer/songwriter Dean Marino...
School of Seven Bell...
posted by Stuart Morrison
The third track from their July release Disconnect From Desire to be featured on the Daily Dose The album, produced by band member Benjamin Curtis and mixed by Jack Joseph Puig, was recorded in the band’s home studio and...
All India Radio: The...
posted by Stuart Morrison
From their new (eighth) album The Silent Surf The Silent Surf is the eighth studio album by Australian Downtempo/Electonica artist Martin Kennedy, assisted by Steve Kilbey, and known as All India Radio. This track, The Bomb...
Pigeon John: Before ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Pigeon John returns with his first new album in 4 years. “Dragon Slayer” represents a shift for PJ as he takes on full production duties and hand crafts his most personal album to date. Pigeon John’s second...
Flyafter: Make Me Sl...
posted by Stuart Morrison
From another of our favourite Netlabels, today we bring you Flyafter from 23seconds.org. A first for the daily dose, a band from Indonesia. Flyafter mix acoustic styles with shoegaze tinged electonica. Their first EP is...
Return to Mono: Doom...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
San Francisco’s RETURN TO MONO returns to our blog this morning at 6AM with breathy yet beautiful sonic perfection in their newest album Framebreaker, hitting shelves in a few short months on Nov. 10. Doomsday Device,...
Song of Return: The ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
This is the new name for the Glasgow, UK based band Union of Knives, changed up in early 2010. We discovered this Glasgow, UK based group through Admiral Fallow’s Facebook page. They were posting about a compilation...
Baths: Maximalist
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Cerulean is the auspicious debut of L.A.’s Baths. Evolving out of Will Wiesenfeld’s varied [Post-Foetus] project, and inspired by the energy of the city’s burgeoning beat scene (Daedelus introduced Anticon to...
Raygun: 1st of the Y...
posted by Stuart Morrison
For the first Daily Dose of 2010 we bring you some Electronica from Raygun’s Remixes EP. Happy New Year from all of us at Insomnia Radio. Raygun is the project of Jason Howell. He says of this release: “I...
Tealights: Exit
posted by Stuart Morrison
Their debut EP will be released on on Sept. 29 TEALIGHTS is an indie-electronica band with classical infusions founded in June 2008. Early into its conception, the band found itself experimenting with vox harmonies,...
State Shirt: Compute...
posted by Jason Evangelho
This marks the 2nd State Shirt appearance on the ‘Dose: If you dig this track, make sure to check out “Time To Go” which Charles featured on our Daily Dose feed a couple months back. State Shirt sculpts...
Faunts: Feel.Love.Th...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Formed in Edmonton, Alberta in the fall of 2000, Faunts original lineup consisted of brothers Tim and Steven Batke and Paul Amusch. After turning an old office space into a studio, the three spent a full year creating...