They Came from Hell is an audio production company, formed by Philippe Gerber and Chris Gilmore in 2023; focusing on the creation of sample libraries, virtual instruments and custom licensed music.

This page will be used as a portfolio for mixed and mastered works done at Vitória Régia Studios

BLK w/ BEAR advocates a communications aesthetic wherein audio/visuals are distilled to key base components through image pixelation and sound/time manipulation. We celebrate the physical manifestation of misfired communications, broken language and broadcast interference. We champion delay and decay. We champion audio bleed, field recordings and the deconstructed surface noise of altered vinyl recordings. We herald cyclical repetitions and misappropriated realignments, intentional over-processing, signal saturation and digital malfeasance, audio pranksterism. Through aggressive enlargement and recontextualization of the mundane and every-day we hope to usher listeners and viewers into a deeper introspective relationship with previously familiar – now unstable – environs.

Trace Recordings artists BLK w/ BEAR have garnered glowing reviews and international airplay for the thought-provoking and moving 'Wish for a World Without Hurt' collaboration with London's ROTHKO and the limited edition 'fahrenheit_drafts' 12-inch single. Audio has accompanied film/video projects in NYC and London and selections from 'Wish for a World' were used in the Discovery Channel's poignant 'The Flight that Fought Back' program. The four-track 'Version 3' extended play is available for download at the Long Division with Remainders '14 versions of the same EP' project site and now available in a box set collection with all fourteen versions plus an additional digital-download outtakes EP including a 21-minute remix of BLK w/ BEAR's Version 001. Additional material has been released through Little Cracked Rabbit, Public Record, and Sonic Circuits - District of Noise.

Addition projects :: THAT / BLK TAG / STYLUS / the sloth ensemble / Littlebytes / Halfbytes / THAT CLOUD ... more.

Podcast: https://www.mixcloud.com/toneshiftradio
Toneshift (2010- )

Toneshift is an aggregate of articles and reviews by artist TJ Norris (2010-2020). In 2021-24 it became a podcast with over 200 specialty shows, artist and label spotlights + more. In 2025 we returned under the umbrella of the artist residency Camp (French Pyrenees) with the podcast: Toneshift. Stay tuned: https://www.tjnorrisart.com/toneshift

Young Astronauts Club is a stadium rock group featuring singer / songwriter / guitarist / multi-instrumentalist / producer Mic (Michael James Macintosh), singer / songwriter / keyboardist / multi-instrumentalist / producer Krs (Crystal Dawn Macintosh) and a continuously active, rotating cast of musicians, vocalists, producers, sonic / visual artists and remixers. As primogenitures of post rock, their collective mission is to continue to bring music forward, into the 21st century and beyond.

Contact: macintosh@gmx.com.

http://soundcloud.com/blkwbear
Vist the official Soundcloud page for BLK w/BEAR; STYLUS turntable ensemble; and BLK TAG collaboration with Chris Videll (Tag Cloud).

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