Defrag is extreme sound design and audio rhythmic experimentation of Jeff Dodson, a composer and sound designer living in Los Angeles CA.

Defrag's influences like IDM, dubstep and experimental abstract glitch, filter into his music. With his classical background giving it a more cinematic progression. Orchestrated strings, piano, classic analogue synths and software processing add up to a fusion of analogue warmth, modern classical and raw digital abstraction.

That he chooses instead to make his attention to detail the vehicle for his songs rather than their focus is not only admirable, it’s a definitive comment on his priorities and where they lie. Defrag makes complicated music, but you can completely forget that in the moment and just experience it. 

(bio by IDM Discovery)

Tracklist: 
(Album - Track)

Unreleased - Kubris
Lost Lands - With Insects In My Head
Lost Seas - Drift I
Idle Lines - Idle Lines
Unreleased - The Traveller
Unreleased - Deckard
Lost Skies - Rankin Decay
Lost Lands - At A Harbor Of Dreams
Unreleased - A Single Saint (Feat. Vocals by Hypnoskull)
Float - Square
Unreleased - Halt Lizardman
Idle Lines - We Are Foam
Lost Skies - Melody 4
Drown - Everything I Do Is Drown
Drown - Stilt Walkers
Idle Lines - Anjuray
Lost Seas - Arrival
Float - Descent
Float - Atlas
Idle Lines - Still Marks
Float - The Lighthouse
Lost Seas - Drift II
Lost Skies - They're Not Angels
Emissions / Type Scar


DEFRAG's 5th LP has just released on Hymen Records and is a combination of 3 story EP's (lost lands, lost seas, lost skies) and a condensed vinyl LP version entitled Lost Worlds. Each digital EP tells the journey through its track titles and blistering rhythms of a planet falling apart and the civilization enduring travels through each biome:

https://hymen-records.bandcamp.com/album/lost-lands
https://hymen-records.bandcamp.com/album/lost-worlds

@runsilent

Website (sound design): https://rainfall.film/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/DEFRAG0
IG: https://www.instagram.com/lamentelement/

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Hello

Here you will find good music and interesting audio constructions, for the vast majority by other people.

I wish you an excellent rest of your life ... a day is too short = )

2024/01/05
I decided to follow the bigger accounts here, and follow the others in my other account.  Previously I would simply drop them from my list when they got too big, to make room for new ones.  By putting them here, in this account, I don't worry about forgetting anyone anymore = )

2023/12/19 a little later Update: I now can also answer messages.

2023/12/19 Update: I can now edit my profile in this present account : )

2023/11/21
My previous account was suspended or terminated a few days ago for a reason unknown to me, so this one may be temporary if the other one comes back to life in the not too distant future ; )

https://soundcloud.com/user-957729823

Cheers!

I needed this extra profile to be able to follow more profiles, but check out https://soundcloud.com/backspace for some of my dj-sets and you should absolutely check https://soundcloud.com/indexidm - the non-profit for outlier electronic music that I'm part of.

Backspace promotes artists and organizes events, at the moment with friends through https://soundcloud.com/indexidm

Backspace is also a DJ with a show on Radio Tonka (The Hague FM)

I'm not often logged in here

Igloo Magazine is an electronic music e’zine publishing articles about current, classic and upcoming music from around the globe. Our mission is to introduce readers to the burgeoning undergrowth of electronic musicians by covering a wide range of genre’s including ambient, experimental, dub, dubstep, shoegaze, electro, techno, drone, IDM, industrial, post-industrial, and all the debris in between. Pulling together a vast tapestry of like-minded contributors, the virtual Igloo doors officially opened December of 2000. We consistently seek to provide coverage for musicians creating left-of-center music that is not necessarily covered in general music media. Igloo Magazine publishes articles in the capacity of Newswires, Reviews, Features and Profiles for artists that wouldn’t normally receive the light of digital ink.

Sound Designer // Composer // Alcoholic

Learn more about our work at www.rainfall.tv



We're a non-profit that promotes outlier electronic music. Based in The Hague (NL)

Next event:
Sunday 5/010/2025 
SONIC WAVES / The Grey Space, The Hague
w/ @marijnswillens @kasparkazil and @doktoro_1
https://thegreyspace.net/program/sonic-waves-2/

Saturday 1/11/2025 
HYPERFOCUS / The Grey Space, The Hague
w/ TBA

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