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Probably the worst one man industrial band from Escondido.

Virus B is the musical project of Virginie Borriazzi, a composer and a guitarist interested in manipulating the sound. She attempts to create an unlimited universe...

Many of the tracks here were produced using Reaper software. Vocals were recorded with a condenser microphone, and guitars were recorded directly into a sound card with amp emulations. All other sounds were created using virtual synthesizers or real-world sounds that were then processed.

For several months, no computer has been used in the creative process.  The gear for composing, recording and mixing is : Akai MPC One, Roland SP-404 MKII, Novation Circuit Tracks, Novation Circuit Rhythm, Arturia DrumBrute Impact, Zoom H2N. A computer is only used for the final step of production : mastering.

No AI is involved in the tracks of this project.

Zoom Unit - 21st century avant rock fused with electronica. With a helping of krautrock on the side. Served up by Andy (Duke) Whitehurst and Andy Pidluznyj. Best sampled loud! 
 https://zoomunit.bandcamp.com/follow_me

ZU2 was written and recorded remotely in lockdown. All words and music by Zoom Unit:

Andy "Duke" Whitehurst - Vox, Guitar, Bass, Microkorg, Assorted Electronic Sounds

Andy Pidluznyj - Vox, Bass, Korg Kaossilator, Arturia Microfreak

Review of Zoom Unit's last album, ZU, by Dom Gourlay of Under The Radar magazine:
 
"Perilously uncertain times call for purposely uncompromising sounds. So, it’s just as well that New Apostles' Andy Whitehurst and Andy Pidluznyj, the creative duo behind Zoom Unit, have exerted all their energies into crafting a soundtrack befitting of the times.

Clocking in at just under 50 minutes in total, ZU encompasses a range of human emotions. There’s an underlying message in every one of the nine pieces here and it’s not for the fainthearted. Whitehurst and Pidluznyj might just have stumbled across their finest collection of material to date."

"Nobody knows it but A.J. Kaufmann is a national treasure of Poland." - David Bixby.

A.J. Kaufmann is a Polish poet, composer, and underground musician whose work has spanned nearly three decades of DIY experimentation. He began writing music in 1998, releasing his first solo cassette Adam Sandosa the same year. After moving to Berlin in 2000 to study music and poetry under Johann Gottlob von Wrochem, he expanded his interests to improvisation and contemporary sound art.

In 2002 he co‑founded the duo Strange World in Poznań, recording a series of longform tapes blending original material with reinterpretations of underground classics. Two years later he launched Die Rote Erde, a project that remains active intermittently to this day.

Between 2005 and 2008 Kaufmann focused on home‑recorded demos and experiments, while his literary debut, Siva in Rags, appeared in 2008 via Kendra Steiner Editions. From 2008 to 2010 he prioritized poetry, but returned to studio work in 2010, recording his first full‑length album Second Hand Man with Andrzej Mikołajczak. It was released on vinyl and CD in 2011.

From 2011 to 2014 he continued publishing poetry (including Hosannah Honeypots) and recording demos, culminating in the American release of Stoned Gypsy Wanderer (Kendra Steiner Editions, 2014). The album marked the end of his early U.S. period.

Between 2014 and 2021 Kaufmann remained active across poetry, composition, improvisation, and collaborative recording. In 2021 his project Fairyport Convent was signed by The Swamp Records (USA), resulting in two CD releases and his 2023 solo album Bard’s Woman in the Cool of the Summer Breeze. He worked with the label until late 2025.

Parallel to his solo work, Kaufmann co‑founded several notable projects:
• Sauer Adler / Säure Adler (2012–2025), whose debut Revelation (2013) and later vinyl releases on Ramble Records (Australia) earned international attention.
• Psychedelic Mayhem (from 2022), including the 2023 session Supershroom.
• Bezkwit (2024–2025), an improvising trio praised for its raw, avant‑rock energy and comparisons ranging from Captain Beefheart and Can to King Crimson.

His catalogue also includes numerous short‑lived experimental aliases, as well as a significant body of electroacoustic work released under the name Adam Majdecki‑Janicki on the French label Snow in Water Records, beginning with Eimi (2020). The album helped define his contemporary sound and received praise from figures such as Maurizio Bianchi.

Kaufmann has also collaborated extensively with the Texas label Herby Records, which issued multiple vinyl releases starting with Stoned Gypsy Wanderer 2 (2020). Artist Justin Jackley has designed many of his covers, and in 2018 Kaufmann organized Jackley’s first Polish exhibition in Poznań.

His latest album, released on January 1st, 2026, marks a return to “folk in a crooked mirror”: Kontynent Mu — the only one that doesn’t exist, yet still has its own post office, its own storms, and its own anthem, sung by fish that have never seen the sea.

Since 1998, A.J. Kaufmann has continued to explore the intersections of word, sound, image, and noise — always evolving, always restless.

"Nobody knows it but A.J. Kaufmann is a national treasure of Poland." - David Bixby.

Between the next project proper, experimenting, sharing archives and new demos, and reposting tracks I resonate with.

Die Rote Erde (Red Earth / Czerwona Ziemia) is A.J. Kaufmann’s psychedelic experiment, solo or with guests. Inspired by Burroughs, Krautrock, MacLise, Free Jazz & early industrial, it blends guitars, synths, samples, tapes & field sounds into noise, drones, punk, ambient & kosmische.