message on a plate

“Dark Wonder in Nevermore” is the third descent in Ofb1t’s Cinematic Dark Ambient series — a surreal sonic architecture built not to soothe, but to haunt, rupture, and hold you within the folds of its disfigured dreamscapes.

Each track is a zone of bodily excavation, inviting you not to escape reality but to experience its underside: the melancholy, absurdity, and fragile ecstasies that flicker beneath the surface of human life. This is ambient music that refuses to become just "ambient music," because it honors the ineffable and the non-human within. Darkness here is not a metaphor for meaning or truth. It is a terrain — shifting, unsolvable, alive — where feeling outruns language and contradiction is allowed to persist, uncorrected. It’s the collapse of the need for meaning altogether, a space where dissonance, mystery, and excess remain sovereign.

Through hiss, static, sounds of ghosts in the machine, and melancholic harmonic decay, Ofb1t crafts a cinematic space (a real, material, sensual space) of broken lullabies and emotional radiation. The tracks are not linear; they bleed, shimmer, and stutter like memories too complex to narrate. These are sounds with a will to engage and resonate with impersonal forces and the cosmic vastness, absurdity, mystery, and dreadfulness of which we are all a part. Our bodies know this already, without the need for an alphabet.

“My Heartbeat is a Radio for My Catrinas” plays like a haunted frequency.

“Lullaby for a Patchwork Girl” cradles a body that never belonged to oneself.

“Found Shelter of Lost Futures To Live In” builds a non-place, a Nevermore, where discarded dreams might still breathe.

This album is also a philosophical act: an experiment in sound as ontological defiance. Against the sterile normalcy of polished ambient — often designed to relax, numb the senses, and further support the sickening cult of productivity and consumerism — Ofb1t affirms contradiction, vulnerability, and deep mystery. The cinematic here is not a genre cue; it’s a method of world-building through fracture.

There is no resolution here. Only intensity.
There is no safe return. Only dark wonder.
For becoming-with scarred ghosts. 

Lullaby for a Patchwork Girl

Where Sorrow Bleeds into Wonder & Melancholy

Liminal Wasteland

Dark Wonder in Nevermore

Dancing in the Void

My Heartbeat is a Radio for My Catrinas

Found Shelter of Lost Futures To Live In

LIVE: A live-only electronics podcast by Beautiful Machines

LIVE004 features Louf, recorded at the BM showcase in London on 08.06.25.

Louis Fitton aka Louf is a London-based producer and co-founder of Valby Rotary, who builts live sets that seamlessly traverse the realms of club music, electronica, and ambient synth.

Setup: Moog Minitaur, Roland Tr-8, Faderfox PC-12, Novation LaunchControl, Ableton

Louf:
@louisfitton
www.instagram.com/loufmusic/

Beautiful Machines:
instagram.com/beautiful.machines_/

LIVE004: Louf

the tunnel + the light

an album about finding your freedom and all of the distractions along the way. it's ok to be messy. the point is to learn and love and care and accept yourself through it. the point is to grow. to find your freedom. to create. to be. 

listen when you feel alone. when you're moving through something big and in need comfort. when you feel yourself start to self destruct. when you're too far gone. when you're ready to lift yourself up and break old patterns. when motivation and inspiration feel like medicine.

Most of all, listen when you wanna vibe out to the human experience. Thanks for being here. 

Written by: Jordan Corey
Produced by: Ryan Aicklen, Jordan Corey 
Feature Producer (try me, feel me, canadian rockies): Danny Thrasher
Keys: Jason Goldstein 
Mix/Master: Rich "Daktyl" Lonbay
Vocal Mix (feel me): Harry Burris
Mix/Master (feel me): Ryan Aicklen, Danny Thrasher 
Album artwork: Robert Tulchin
Album Photography: Amina El Kabbany 

friend like me

somethin somethin

do the thing

try me

the story

WHY US

GUARACHA FATALE

Tommy Value is a techno artist and founder of Beautiful Machines: an event series, label, and podcast promoting live electronic music

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Angelo Ro is electronic music producer an song writer /dj known for blending Synthwave, techno,deep house,house, electronica into immersive soundscapes. With a deep rooted passion for music and technology, he continually pushes sonic boundaries, integrating AI generated sounds and innovative production techniques.Inspired by the rhythms of Detroit techno, the grooves of classic house, and the textures of ambient electronica, his music transcends genres, captivating audiences worldwide. Whether in the studio or commanding the dance floor, Angelo Ro's cutting edge approach and evolving sound make him a dynamic force in the electronic music scene.
{DEEP HOUSE IS WHERE MY HEART IS AND PASSION IT IS  ALL ABOUT FEELING THE GROVE}

Ofb1t is an electronic music composer, singer, producer, digital artist and performance artist, assembling multiple rogue potentiating machines.

His work embodies a dark, cathartic and fragmented world — one of rupture, reinvention and strangeness. Born of chaos, guts and excess, it’s driven by impersonal forces of life, intensity and chance. Here, metanarratives like Truth, Reason, Reality, Being, Meaning, Identity and Human reveal their inherent futility.

Where language crumbles within the raw force of viscerality and the ineffable, Ofb1t explores themes such as the absurdity and mystery of existence, angst, the non-human within, desire, immanence, multiplicity, madness, transformation, alienation, mortality, technology and interconnectivity.

Free from fixed genres and styles, Ofb1t continues to expand his multifaceted body of work, challenging the commercial and homogenizing standards of mainstream art and entertainment. His creations often reflect a deep, critical engagement with social, psychological and philosophical issues.

Rooted in a lo-fi/DIY ethos, he draws from the Avant-Gardes (Dada, Surrealism, etc.), conceptual art, glitch and goth art, dark fantasy, anime noir, mixed media, AI hallucinations, posthumanism, and poststructuralism. His sound mutates through darkwave, gothic rock, post-punk, noise, cinematic dark ambient, techno-electro, industrial, dark indie-pop, glitch, hardcore, and beyond.

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