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The current music scene is great because of the places where music is made and the experiments that are repeated by each personality. For individual creators, it is much more valuable to have an environment where they can come into contact with a large number of personalities than to be spread.

Not Underground. Not Mainstream. Just Left Ground.

Left Ground Music stands outside the boundaries of genres and scenes.
We are neither part of the mainstream nor the underground—we exist in the “left ground”, a space where sound refuses to conform.

From electronica, dub, and ambient to post-rock textures, our releases carve out soundscapes that demand attention, not background listening.
Born in Japan, our music captures the collision of urban noise and natural silence, offering listeners a sonic experience that feels both familiar and alien.

This is music for those who walk the edges of reality.
This is Left Ground.

Cristian Varela - Magnetophere incl. remixes 12"
https://www.juno.co.uk/products/1078372-01

Samuel L Session, Van Czar, WSM - Krasked 12"
https://www.juno.co.uk/products/935495-01

Robert Armani 30+ Years Remixes Series 2x12"
https://www.juno.co.uk/products/962148-01

Robert Armani - Ambulance Remixes 12"
https://www.juno.co.uk/products/912301-01

Robert Armani - Hit Hard Remixes 12"
https://www.juno.co.uk/products/856375-01

Tim Baker & Cubr1k - Last Dance 12"
https://www.juno.co.uk/products/903100-01

TPMP - Hardester High Frequency 2x12"
https://www.juno.co.uk/products/865923-01

Links to my music: http://wsm.onl
More links, more music: http://amsq.de

DJ sets: Bukowski-live, Heilbronn / KitKatClub, Crack Bellmer, Liquid Sky aka Maze, Berlin / Tanzhaus West, Frankfurt / Villa Nachttanz, Heidelberg, and others

Live sets: Abraxas Augsburg / INM Institut für Neue Medien Frankfurt / Schlachthof Wiesbaden / Waggon Offenbach / Walpodenakademie Mainz and many other venues

Labels: ANALOGmusiq / Electronic Muzik Organization / Generated Samples / Techno Parade Music and some more

I'm in rock, jazz and avantgarde music for more than 40 years. Today, my focus is on electronic music: techno, minimal, detroit, hardtechno, industrial, contemporary and experiments. 

Contact:  nonstop (at) amsq.de

Photo by Sarah Dussa at THW, many thanks

I was trained in tradition, yet I stepped beyond its walls. Sound is my language, not to decorate but to liberate. Composer, performer, and listener — one fire, three sparks, inseparable.

I write and compose to uncover what is hidden: the truth buried beneath power, the dignity of the ordinary, the current of awareness that flows through all.

I belong to no authority, only to sound, to truth, to the silence from which all begins. My work is not mastery, but remembrance — a manifesto in every note, every word, every breath.

I am a composer of the 21st century: a studio artist. The studio is my forge, my battlefield, my sanctuary. Machines hum like choirs, circuits burn like torches, cables twist like roots in the earth. Tradition breaks open in this fire — the score turns to light, the instrument becomes the world itself.

To be a studio artist is to seize sound at its rawest, to sculpt electricity and breath as one, to summon the invisible power that belongs to all. Here music is not bound by walls, not enslaved by profit, not tamed by form. It is free, untouchable, unending — a living flame for the century that is ours.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTC61PkxNbw&list=RDqTC61PkxNbw&start_radio=1

Curly Compositions from a German Composer.

UK creatives should listen to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK4wBWiozyM

You must hear this: https://vimeo.com/52766051

*****

Ed Brunsden was kind and patient enough to interview me for  his blog Desert... Mountain... Dust...  - you can read it at https://desertmountaindust.blogspot.com.au/2017/02/tuonela-primitive-progressive.html

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ~ Aldous Huxley

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. ~ Jean Cocteau

All music is beautiful. ~ Billy Strayhorn
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I've become addicted to drone. Again. I was the kid with his head on the piano, listening to the overtones die away, or pressing his ear to the steel hull of the ferry, enthralled by the sounds it created. I was the kid who formed wordless songs to accompany the sound of train wheels on a long journey, or hummed along with the fan on a hot day.

In the 60s I used to play my 45s on 16, or backwards, or by hand using razor blades as stylii.

I made cut-up tapes on a cheap cassette recorder in the 70s and experimented with reel-to-reel in the 80s. 

Thank you Subotnick, Lygeti, Coltrane, Jimi, Mimaroglu, Eno, Cluster, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk, Throbbing Gristle...

I am not a musician. I am a scavenger of sounds. I use the most basic software to process those sounds, stretching and filtering until something emerges that makes a joyful noise. Or not...

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Robert Knote