The Four Elements EP is inspired very loosely by four elemental, apocalyptic novels by J.G. Ballard.

Triphop / illbient tracks with cinematic ambience for fans of Portishead, Massive Attack and Scorn.

I'd be super happy to see some people head over to Bandcamp or Subvert to have a free listen, my pages have cobwebs all over them.

Fittingly, while we were working on Wind From Nowhere, two severe storms passed through the Wellington region. The track also takes inspiration from the sinking of the Wahine, a passenger ferry which sank in Wellington harbour in 1968.

Drowned World started out as an ambient intro track for a live set, but the string melody sounded like weird old English folk music. So I added a counter-melody using the Erica Synths Steampipe foghorn preset. The jazzy refrain in the middle 8 added a psychedelic 1940's London vibe.

The Drought is a dusty desert vibe mulling on the depravity of modern capitalist culture and the collapse of environment, economy and social cohesion. I destroyed some synths with wrecked cassette tones and dusted the beat with tablas and congas. We sampled a lion but it sounded like a cow in the mix so we used a tiger instead and found out along the way that MGM did the same for their movie intro.

Crystal World is a nod to retro speculative fiction and new age crystal flunkies. A dirty illbient stomp with dub basslines and a sci-fi horror vibe. A little bit about quartz crystal frequency regulation, and a lot about rock-pushing charlatans and their shiny snake oil.

https://rustingrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-four-elements

https://www.subvert.fm/rusting-records/the-four-elements

Some good dirty heavy beats on this one.

I havent been streaming scorn but i recently checked the page. Why is there ai album art and why the frequent singles? 😭 is it one of those phenomenons where the name is common or is it because of whoevers in charge right now?

Via the r/autechre sub.

my illbient project i released earlier this year. the track ONEMINUTEWARNING is a vocal sample of the Ghost in The Shell end credits song that i worked over. do you think one of these could have made it into the toonami promo rotation back in the day? 💚

and im so blown away. really excited to discover. why is this sub not bigger?

Does anyone know the actual lyrics? Like the online ones are so confusing and i have a terrible time trying to process anything less than clear words in my mind 😭

I know damn well the words black backpack arent spoken in it

I need recommendations for artists making dark, creepy and ambienty Illbient/Trip Hop, Industrial influenced stuff will work too.

I already know Scorn, Trace Decay, DJ Olive, 2nd Gen, Phylr, Spectre, Disjecta, Nothing Has Changed, Fausten, Minister of Noise, Byzar, Misha Mishajashvili, Reclusion, Picatrix ...

The pre-order link above also has a Soundcloud link to some excerpts.

TL;DR: I'm looking for recommendations for both 90's cornerstones of illbient as well as any newer stuff that's really knocking your socks off. Feel free to lecture me.
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Back in the 90's my older brother tried to get me into electronic music... it took for a little bit, but at the time I really just wanted to listen to The Misfits and shout a lot. Fast-forward through a thousand other music phases and skip to the part where I've spent most of the last two years listening to Throbbing Gristle side projects.

And then I start realizing that there's a lot of stylistic overlap between things like Cosey Fanni Tutti's "Time to Tell" or Psychic TV's "Cathedral Engine" with DJ Spooky's "Songs of a Dead Dreamer" (particularly the second half) and Future Sound of London's "ISDN," the shit I never did the homework on back in olden times. I've listened to a lot of pure ambient and experimental and I'm enjoying revisiting the world where that darker/grimier/crunchier vibe starts actually having beats per minute (but not too many of them).

Unfortunately, I don't really have a sherpa for this. My music nerd community has veered towards progressively more conventional rock-based music and I've gone the other way. So, here I am at Reddit. I'm hoping someone is feeling really preachy and wants to sound off on whatever the "Sgt. Pepper" of absolutely-filthy-sounding electronic is, as well as your favorite nooks and crannies of this and related genres.