impulse nine loves you and this playlist is how that love is expressed

The Streets

The Next

The cover is an illustration of my mom, based on a photo of her from when she took a combat medicine course. They didn’t have a uniform or helmet small enough for her, but she went anyway, because she was the original heavy metal mama.

The earliest demo I can find for Heavy Metal Mama is from 2009, although I think the original idea was sometime in 2006 or so.

Heavy Metal Mama

Music for flagging hearts and and hard times. Written in realization that even trusted news sources can be poisonous if the information is pointless drivel meant to drive us to despair. We must step back from the Void.

Call of the Void (Quiet)

Call of the Void (Noise)

Call of the Void

This is about as pretty a melody as we can do. With inspiration taken from Zero7 and Cinematic Orchestra, as well as contemporary lofi and a pinch of Phil Collins' drums. Hacky & Bird guided the lofi aspects, and Yahli contributed the live drumming parts. Otherwise written and performed by impulse nine as a break from an upcoming album.

Rainy Day

A collaboration between impulse nine and Hacky + Bird, this is a brief respite from a burning world. A moment to catch your breath.

These Riots Grow Roses

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Static

Original psytrance song with heavy bass arps, smooth pads and a lovely little chiptune melody near the third part. Last album share before they're released. I might still tinker with this one a little, maybe change some of the arrangement in the first part but otherwise I'm liking it as a finished demo. Enjoy.

The Path by Sadi Kalen ©2025. All rights reserved.

The Path

I Want It All

For over 20 years, impulse nine was a private home studio project, but has expanded to include musicians from Tucson and around the world. After hundreds of demos and untold hours, impulse nine is being presented to the world as a mostly-instrumental amalgam of shoegaze, hard rock, and post-rock, with influences from ambient, 90s rock, and other places.

Heavy Metal Mama

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