This is a track my buddy Nolan and I did back in 1999 specifically to mess with a local dance club. It's kind of a dark jungle track at heart, but there's a SEVERE breakdown of style featuring an odd vocal sample courtesy of Shane Weber that definitely messed with some people's 'groove'

heavy light

Vello RInse

Pace Relations

new album: Loner Veils!
also available as part of the new 5-cassette box set. checkout halicon.bandcamp.com for more info // 

This track was originally a demo from 2011, soon after Reznor & Ross made the slide from from the "future dystopia" of Year Zero to the "ongoing dystopia" of The Social Network, and I think the influence that soundtrack had on me at the time shows pretty clearly. I also think it's a good anchor point for the album, straddling the line between droning or hypnotic rhythms and jarring bouts of crushing distortion.  I had a lot of fun refreshing this mix in the studio last year; distorting the piano through an old Moog synth filter and a wash of Afterneath Reverb before being chewed up by this old Rand-O-Matic pedal I recently came across. With the video, I tried to capture that push/pull as the ominous undertones fight for balance against the more hopeful, if warped, piano melodies.

Loner Veils

Halicon - Million O'Clock

The ongoing pandemic has brought me the time and inspiration to dig deep into the archives. I spent a good bit of time mining old hard drives, cassette tapes, floppies and zip disks to create a series of releases over 2020 & 2021 while I finish up an album of new material. This is the fifth release in the series. 

This was originally to be a kind of b-sides collection ep for a handful of songs I really liked, but were cut from the previous four releases due to time or flow, but as I worked through it... it took on a life of it's own and grew into what feels to me more like a full & coherent album: Loner Veils. Twelve tracks spanning from 2002 - 2012. Some with fresh mixes, a few with added harmonies and other sonic flourishes, and still others left entirely as they were

Climpendor

This track represents a great nexus of two huge influences that helped sculpt how I approach music in my formative teenage years. Both Nine Inch Nails and Aphex Twin fed my lifelong desire to meld chaotic noise and beautiful melodies together into a cohesive package, and I can't think of a better way to honor the uncompromising artistic integrity of Trent Reznor and general chaotic nature of Aphex Twin than choosing to cover an original piece of music by one submitted to the other for a remix album. " - (halicon)

credits
released August 18, 2023
By Trent Reznor and Richard D. James
Copyright Kobalt Music Pub o/b/o Leaving Hope Music, Inc.

At The Heart Of It All

Very old track, late 90s. Seem to remember imputor? wanting to include on the back_up ep, but it was too long. Nearly as long as the whole release!  My dad thinks it sounds like a cat throwing up.

Synaptic Peripherals

Parallax

Found this digging through some old disks. fruityloops, probably around 2001? 2002? 

Tetherbane

Released 2002-05-21

4-track EP composed/recorded to crappy casettes in 1997-98.
Digitized and mastered by Darrin R. Wiener @ The Velcro Lounge.
3" handmade CD-R limited to 100 copies. 

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Back_up

citrene

new old stock!  

from 2004. 
released 2020

Vacant Splines

Scissor Slip

Wrote this one in-flight to the west coast for some shows on a dying laptop in early 2002

tractor surfing

Reticulation

Triangle Park

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