Multi-instrumentalist composer and producer from the UK and based in Amsterdam, Origin ST creates contemplative and sometimes melancholic ambient electronic music.

Here are some original solo piano pieces...  some mixes from my podcast... some exclusive track premieres...  and some tracks from the albums I review on Headphone Commute... Enjoy!

Releases on Beacon Sound, Doom Trip, Drawing Room Records & Longform Editions

For booking inquiries, please email info(at)crueldiagonals(dot)com.

Since 2016, Los Angeles-based multimedia artist, Cruel Diagonals (aka Megan Mitchell), has been creating critically acclaimed experimental electronic music and intriguing visuals. Though classically trained as a vocalist and well-versed in jazz standards as a youth, Cruel Diagonals applies her brilliant voice to compositions and improvisations that are the antithesis of staid tradition or arid academic exercises. Rather, she optimizes her minimal gear setup with an instinctual adventurousness and an acute sense of the most chilling and moving atmospheres and timbres, favoring fluidity of tones over the grid-like modes of much electronic music. Cruel Diagonals augments these elements with exquisite vocalizations and field recording extracted from decrepit industrial sites and West Coast nature zones in order to reveal their 
expressive properties, thereby forging a unique sonic palette. 
These skills first manifested on her 2018 debut album, Disambiguation (Drawing Room), which earned rave reviews in The Wire, Pitchfork, NPR, and other publications. Cruel Diagonals' sublime live performances include her own abstract visuals that act as an “interwoven, continuous narrative” to her music. You can sense geometry and geology intersecting, the organic and the inorganic melding. These mesmerizing, riveting shows led to Cruel Diagonals getting booked at the prestigious MUTEK.SF and Desert Daze festivals in 2019. 
Cruel Diagonals has gone on to record for respected labels Beacon Sound, Longform Editions, and Doom Trip while taking her sound into deeper strata of textural complexity and vocal dexterity. Marked by a grave ethereality, releases such as Pulse Of Indignation(2018), Monolithic Nuance (2018), A Dormant Vigor (2021), and Fractured Whole (2023) feature beautiful singing amid discordant, sinister electronics. In these stark contrasts, you can hear an artist fighting to transcend psychic and physical trauma, finessing a path to inner peace. Making the ineffable deeply intimate, Cruel Diagonals is a surrealist sound sorcerer who is just beginning to journey through labyrinths of her own enigmatic design.

After years of producing music under various guises, Jon Charnis found his true calling in the slower, darker, and deeper spheres of House music. The re-invention manifested beyond music as the former DC native relocated to the city of Los Angeles while launching his new moniker (his actual birth name). From then on it didn't take long for him to make an impression. His track 'Prophecy' was spotted by Innervisions boss Dixon, who signed the track to his prestigious Berlin based label after road testing it at some of the world's premier parties. He followed this up with an official remix of Art Department and Damian Lazarus' Burning Man anthem, ‘Robot Heart’ on No.19 records. The streak continued with releases on more top labels including All Day I Dream, Supernature, Connaisseur, and Endless.  
Jon Charnis's music receives regular support by renowned DJs such as Dixon, Lee Burridge, Tale of Us, Hernan Cattaneo, and John Digweed to name a few. As a DJ, Jon Charnis' international profile rose just as quickly. With gigs at Space, Ibiza and Sonar, Barcelona under his belt, his first year saw Jon playing across the globe at other hotspots in Berlin, Munich, London, and Amsterdam. Jon is a regular fixture at Burning Man, where routinely helms the Robot Heart bus, as well as party hotspots such as Cityfox, Zero, SXM Festival, and Modernity. As the world returns to normality, 2022 sees a fresh start for Jon Charnis with a fresh new forthcoming EP on All Day I Dream as well as joining their roster at ADID showcases. The journey continues..
As a DJ, Jon Charnis' international profile has risen just as quickly. With gigs at Space, Ibiza and Sonar, Barcelona already under his belt, 2013 saw Jon playing across the globe at other hotspots in Berlin, Munich, London, and Amsterdam. This will be a year to watch for the fast rising DJ and Producer .

Jon Charnis has received support by world renowned DJs such as Art Department, Dixon, Tale of Us,  DJ Tennis, Audiofly, Thugfucker, Steve Lawler, Audiofly, and Anja Shneider, to name a few.

This page will mostly be used to premier new tracks.

Est. in 2017 Flag Day is a US label focused on promoting experimental music, harsh noise, musique concrete, ambient and soundtracks

quiet details
a record label where each release is an interpretation of the name
curation, art, mastering, design by fields we found

https://linktr.ee/quietdetails
https://quietdetails.bandcamp.com

fields we found
musician, mastering engineer, visual art

https://linktr.ee/fieldswefound
https://fieldswefound.bandcamp.com

zakè is an American ambient artist. His genre-spanning approach to ambient results in work seemingly still; glimmering with texture & artifacts, yet anchored by a driving, gravitational pull. zakè approaches each record as a marker of time- a relation gestured in the name Past Inside the Present, the ambient/drone label he founded in 2018. 

2023: Past Inside the Present, Azure Vista Records, Dunk!Records & Zakè Drone Recordings

zakè has worked with these prominent artists: 36, The Sight Below, Benoît Pioulard, bvdub, Jonas Munk, Joachim Spieth, James Bernard, Markus Guentner, City of Dawn, Tyresta, marine eyes, Rafael Anton Irisarri, T.R Jordan, Ossa, Slow Dancing Society, Black Swan, Christina Giannone, From Overseas, Wayne Robert Thomas, Ai Yamamoto, Warmth, Pausal, Lucy Gooch, ASC, Belly Full of Stars, anthéne, Aural Imbalance, Innesti & more.

zakè has appeared on compilations with Ryuichi Sakamoto, Taylor Deupree, Julianna Barwick, Simon Scott, Claire Deak, Emilie Levienaise, Goldmund, r beny, Stephen Vitiello, Corey Fuller, SVLBRD, Olan Mill, Purl, KMRU & more.

“Thoughtful ambient music, right when many of us need it most.”
Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork

“Perfect listening at low volume, zakè’s output serve as a perfect escapist tool from our current surreal predicament.”
Headphone Commute

“zakè’s music represents a personal longing for others to feel content with switching off, for self-reflection & stillness.”
Ari Delaney, Epic Games - Bandcamp, Inc.

https://www.glasbird.com/

glåsbird
​a sonic expedition
glåsbird is an anonymous project by an established artist, built specifically to branch into the world of composing music for film and creating far-flung fictitious journeys. working alongside british record label whitelabrecs, glåsbird is developing a series of albums, each themed around different geographic locations.

Cover photography in Novaya Zemlya, taken by Uliana Prokhorova

r beny is following