By Location » USA: California » Type: Experimental
ADLM (AFTERDINNERLIQUIDMINTS): Fresh Association
Surreal raps on heroin beats; psychedelic synths over bottom-heavy industrial nerdcore trip-hop; and a some live instruments mixed in to break up the technology.
Recommended if you like El-P, Living Legends.CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $7.00
AZA: Tamghra Wushen
Does modern Tamazight (Berber) music include bottle tops and scissors? It does for AZA. An amazing array of instrumentation, wonderfully calibrated, dynamically metered and soulfully sung. Warning: Jam packed with inspiration for your dancing and listenin
CD price: $15.00
BLUE HERON (CA): Tabula Rasa
Spiritual psychedelic rock.
Recommended if you like Animal Collective, Akron/Family.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
THE LIVING SUNS: Self
Their abrasive, complex, classic-rock style—influenced by the likes of King Crimson, Pink Floyd and other usual suspects of progressive stoner music—the Living Suns also count such bands as Pedro the Lion, At the Drive-In and Radiohead as components.
CD price: $12.99
DAVID PILTCH: Minister of the Interior
Noted bassist David Piltch (kd lang, Bill Frisell, Holly Cole, Loundon Wainwright III, Joe Henry, Madeleine Peyroux) releases his debut solo album, with shades of jazz, Americana, art pop, and friendly experimentalism.
Recommended if you like k.d. lang, Bill Frisell.CD price: $12.97
BROOKS GIBBS: The Audio Evangelist
Electronic music combined with powerful preachers- like Billy Graham, J Vernon McGee, and others. Guest vocalists include Phil Wickham, Sarah MacIntosh, Phillip LaRue. This is an innovative project to share the Gospel through super-hip music. Amazing idea
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
KRIS TINER / MIKE BAGGETTA: There, Just As You Look For It
The bi-coastal duo of California trumpeter Kris Tiner and New York guitarist Mike Baggetta deals with a music that is spare, ethereal, and highly exploratory, "clearly cut from cloth that hasn't been designed yet." (–Improvijazzation Nation).
CD price: $11.97 / MP3 price: $11.97
LA FIN DU MONDE: Life As It Should Be
Epic, memorable, instrumental progressive rock
CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
DAN POUND: Touching The Space
Hyper-gamma pulses and breathing textures take you on an inner voyage, beyond the senses, to find the space that resides between inner and outer.
CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $11.00
ETCHED IN RED: Dylate
"Etched in Red is a progressive rock band that mixes heavy metal with insight and emotion to create sounds of punishing aggression."
CD price: $13.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
DJ BABU, DJ RHETTMATIC & FANATIK: Wild Stylus
Groundbreaking EP demonstrates the classic hip-hop song format with a twist. All of the verses are scratches instead of lyrics, and the beats are all from original and classic hip-hop breaks.
THE SPEAKERS: Yeats Is Greats: The Speakers Sing the Poems of William Butler Yeats (and more)
quiet experimental folk-pop songs--seven of the songs are Yeats poems set to music
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $6.00
THE CONCRETE PROJECT: The Concrete Project
Hip hop infused with funk, soul,and a splash of rock and roll. Three amazing lyricists and a live band bring something new for your ears to vibe to.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
EVOLUCID: Kundalini
A unique and eclectic debut, blending underground hip-hop with elements of jazz, metal, funk, and philosophy.
CD price: $12.97
DCAP WON: Gate 2 Wire
Filthy and funky ass Hip Hop/Hyphy/Rock.
Recommended if you like Slick Rick, Lil' Wayne.CD price: $10.00
NICK VASALLO: The Burning
Crossing the boundaries between classical and metal. Dark, experimental, and truly unique.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
DEVOTED SPIRITS: The Answer
Former members of Earth wind and fire. elements of that sound
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
COSMO SPEEDWAY: Evolution of the Bicycle
We've got tech beats, real beats, good times, bad times, found sound, tape loops, french horn, watermelon, moog, cello, piano, Cholula, and a gold spray-painted 12 string guitar that stains our clothes when we play it.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
PROCYDE: Bang It Out The Box
a two member hip hop group from the west coast with a unique style and sound. (music is fire)
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
BRAVE MONSTER: EP
Direct and to the point, this rock sound hits like a punch to the face.
CD price: $7.95 / MP3 price: $4.95
UPSIDE DOWN UMBRELLA: Are You Walking in the Rain?
A combination of tightly fused electronic rhythms, textures, and manipulated field recordings with airy, crystalline guitars always present, Upside Down Umbrella offers up a varied mix of rainy day soundtracks, somber strains, and buoyant, undulating cade
MP3 price: $12.97
ECLYPS: BlacOut Mixtape Volume 1
Eclyps is one of those rare, clever, and strictly street rebels. That whenever this cat is around, theres always a problem.... like a phull moon on alert...so stay alert or stay sleep.He stay throwin sh#t over yo heads....Get Down Wit The New Invention
Recommended if you like Method Man.CD price: $12.97
CHRISTIAN KIEFER: Exodust
Minimalist composition built on repeating phrases and written onto a desolate folk landscape. Accordions, slide guitars, and banjos mingle with the voices of ghosts and history.
CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Thing Asunder
Imagine that Max Ernst, Jacques Derrida, and Alan Turing produced a radio show - it might well sound like this.
CD price: $12.95
QUESE IMC: bluelight
Indigenous Underground hiphop about social change, activism, culture and classic hiphop.
CD price: $15.00
THE GRIZZLY OWLS: By Night On My Bed
Their debut album that sounds one part like a David Lynch soundtrack, and one part like a spaghetti western soundtrack.
CD price: $12.00
AUTUMN THIEF: Autumn Thief
The Autumn Thief is an organic roots rock jam band that makes it's home in the Central Valley of California.
CD price: $5.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
SUBUNDERGROUND: Subunderground
From the bowels of the suburbs, re-emerge to foul discovery . . .
CD price: $7.99 / MP3 price: $4.99
DAN POUND: Lunar Effect
Ambient electronic, shamanic, intergalactic space music
CD price: $13.99 / MP3 price: $12.99
TAPESTRY OF PRAISE: Wall of Fire
Soothing blend of deeply personal melodies that lift and heal the spirit.
CD price: $13.99 / MP3 price: $13.99
SCARAB: In Difference
Not your traditional rock band that brings elements of various types of music together; latin, arabic, asian, and jazz rhythms melded with an 80's hardcore and post-punk aesthetic.
Recommended if you like The Jesus Lizard.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
REJN: Myriad Facade
Ethnically driven Spanish and Middle Eastern microtonal melodies with visceral metal-esque rhythms and avant-garde guitar work to pioneer a new genre of music: World Fusion Hard Rock.
MP3 price: $12.97
A SCRIBE AMIDST THE LIONS: Tell
Dynamic indie rock with a heavy/melodic approach to catchy prog[ish] rock. Different.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
DAN POUND: Still Of The Night
Ambient electronic new age tribal/techno space music
CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $10.99
