Mostly electronic, experimental, melodic music - peppered with catchy melodies and salted with interesting chord progressions.

Seattle shoegaze/dreampop/darkwave/indie band. 


"... a Joy Division/Siouxsie/Sound/Sad Lovers & Giants/Cocteau Twins stew that hasn’t lost any evocative power. With their Peter Hook/Pornography Cure bass, cascading pre-shoegaze guitar shivers, challenging rhythmic complexity, and the lissome, downy-tones of female singer Kim House, this a stimulating band 4AD, Factory, Static, or Korova could have signed." - Jack Rabid, Big Takeover, Jack's top 40 + top albums of 2017

ANTONIONIAN
Antonionian is California's Jordan Dalrymple -- drumcrusher, beatslayer, multi-instrumentalist and erstwhile keeper of the Subtle sound. As one of that cult-hallowed sextet’s chief producers (along with Adam “Doseone” Drucker and Jeffrey “Jel” Logan), Jordan had a heavy hand in crafting those inimitable electro rap-gone-Kraut scores. But with Antonionian, the longtime sideman who also plays with French pop act General Elektriks and experimental supergroup 13 & God, steps out from behind the curtain to carve out his very own post-everything avant-funk.
Jordan’s is a propulsive and dreamlike sound that finds him bending voice, electronics and various acoustics to his unique ends -- something that nods to the dark art-rock of London archetypes This Heat, “Paisley Park”-era Prince and contemporaries TV On the Radio, albeit channeled through one man. Antonionian is a result of a compact musical lineage. Jordan’s mother was a singer, his father a classical percussionist, and their son was sitting behind a kit by the age of 3. By high school, he was versed in piano and theory and had begun teaching himself guitar and practicing drums five hours a day. His dad had to soundproof the garage.
In 1996, Jordan followed his band Conglomerate from San Diego to Berkeley. Dax Pierson was a member too, and a record store job or two later, they formed Subtle in Jordan’s Oakland flat. There, above a Chinese restaurant, the group recorded its first four EPs with Jordan in the role of Can’s Holger Czukay, engineering and editing the experiment. He also toured with cLOUDDEAD and an early version of WHY?, Reaching Quiet.  In 2004, Subtle released its debut LP, A New White. On the band’s first tour, their van rolled and Dax was paralyzed from the neck down.
That moment proved both devastating and edifying. Like his colleagues, Jordan doubled down on music, and the results were two more increasingly imaginative Subtle albums -- 2006’s For Hero: For Fool and 2008’s ExitingARM -- as well as countless hours on the road before they disbanded in ’09. Since, Jordan’s been hitting skins and buttons for General Elektriks (Honeycut and Blackalicious collaborator Hervé Salters), fine-tuning the long-awaited second album from 13 & God (the Notwist + Themselves), and crafting his solo debut as Antonionian, a name aptly inspired by the hypnagogic works of filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni.
Antonionian s/t (anticon./Discograph)
With his debut solo album, Subtle’s Jordan Dalrymple marches into the unknown following the dissolution of his groundbreaking band. Luckily, the unknown was that group’s terra firma, and he’s perfectly at home in the wilds he pioneers as Antonionian. Taking a cue from his project’s namesake -- modernist Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni -- Jordan reveals a world of dreamlike detachment and depth, colored by spare dialog and impressionistic imagery, over a score that ranges from propulsive lo-bit hip-hop to three-dimensional avant-funk.

Soft Kill and related projects. 

IG: @softkillpdx
email: softkillpdx@gmail.com
US booking: natasha@flowerbooking.com

DJ Lesley is a music nerd who loves spinning a whole mess of genres (psych rock, new wave, minimal wave, dark wave, disco, soul, garage rock, yachty smooth tunes, soul, etc.). Her radio show, Strange Day Radio, broadcasts every Friday on Valley 104.9 in Carnation, WA. Sometimes you might even catch her occasionally DJing out and about in the Snoqualmie Valley.

Distant Sound of Trains is Josh Robert Thompson.

Hellbach is a Berlin based composer and producer of electronic music. Using his uncompromising analogue approach, his compositions are an eclectic blend of various genres like ambient, Berlin School and Neoclassical, with influences reaching from Brian Eno to KRAFTWERK.

His new album 'Hikikomori II' is about Yamada Hanako. She lives in Setagaya, a district of Tokyo. She is a so-called rental sister, paid by the parents of the Hikikomori Yamada Taro,  to visit their son two times a week. For three hours she sits in front of his room and speaks to him through the closed door. Taro never answers. Lately, she writes him letters and slips them underneath his door. She doesn't know if he reads them.
This is for you, Hanako.

Radio DJ at I Hung Around In Your Soundtrack and Sing-songer for the band Plasticstatic.

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