Sounds
This is yesterday’s tomorrow. Modern kosmische musik, hauntology, musique concrète, library music and other lost audio research, pervade the landscape. These electronic sound experiments recall a half-remembered past and strangely familiar futures.
Scott records and designs under various musical aliases. You can find all of these releases on Soundcloud and YouTube.
Automatic Fields
(Between) the Detritus
The EP opens with the sprawling, haunted track Magnetic Daughters. Tracks like Symmetry of a Terminal Pose and Brief Lives of Intersecting Lines are marked by influences via experimental sound artists like Tim Hecker and Fennesz, while Vox-1 recalls Loveless era My Bloody Valentine.
Phase-Shifting Legs
Vernacular Anxiety
Vernacular Anxiety is the first release under this new moniker. Rhythm and melody are often at odds with one another. Traditional approaches to musique concrète and sound collage have been reinterpreted through synthesizers and modern electronics.
Neon Bubblegum
BETArituals
BETArituals is the first single from "Trance State Disasters" the new album by Neon Bubblegum. The single fuses modern kosmische musik with 80’s cinematic synth. Sequencers swirl beneath soaring solar synth pads creating memories of sounds and experiences that seem close at hand and engineered all at once. B/W Dada Shoes.
Neon Bubblegum
Trance State Disasters
Trance State Disasters is a meditation on memory; darkened arcades, VHS nights, Saturday morning marathons. Transmissions that span a detritus of sonic touchstones over the course of a lifetime. This is synth prog excess that reaches into the back of your mind.
FM010 Jacques in Analogue
Music For Chairs
For the 10th and final release in the Fading Machine series, we return to Scott’s original musical alias, Jacques in Analogue. Music For Chairs is a unnerving melding of drone and noise music. Ultimately, it is an album that pushes the boundaries of experimentation, going beyond Jacques in Analogue’s style of modern kosmische musik.
FM009 AUTOMATON™
Baroque System Memories
Baroque System Memories is the first single from AUTOMATON™. Hauntology meets damaged Electro Trap. Baroque System Memories, is a single that never existed, only in some parallel world. B/w Hologram 76, AUTOMATON™ is the 9th release in the Fading Machine series.
FM008 Our Spectral Sound System
Telepathic Transmissions From the Elsewhere
Telepathic Transmissions From the Elsewhere is a post trip-hop, psychedelic joy ride around England. Dark synths and vintage drum loops pervade every corner. It’s a coach tour full of folk horror and 70s sci-fi peculiarity. Be prepared for many stops along the way!
FM007 Fading Machine Library Music Catalogue Vol. 1
Strange Sounds, Other Worlds
Inspired by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and Italian library music of the 1970s, Strange Sounds, Other Worlds: Fading Machine Library Music Catalogue Vol. 1 is an EP of incidental music and themes using horror and sci-fi genres as a musical touchstone.
FM006 Plastik Pop Cinema
Today’s Future Tomorrow
Today’s Future Tomorrow moves from free jazz improvisation, to No Wave noise blasts, and deranged 80’s synth pop. Heavily influenced by German experimental music, via bands like Neu! and Harmonia, Plastik Pop Cinema creates a schizophrenic musical experience.
FM005 Automatic Fields
The Mood Machine
Automatic Fields creates its own version of shoegaze music; dream pop enveloped by plunderphonics samples and sci-fi atmospheres. Slowly evolving melodies move under a sea of noise, constructing ever-shifting sound collages. A strange, unsettling vision of the future.
FM004 Our Spectral Sound System
Theme From The Dread of Lower Droop
Our Spectral Sound System release their first single, Theme From The Dread of Lower Droop one day before Halloween 2020. The track is three and a half minutes of proto-prog delivered via dark triphop drum and bass grooves, swirling psychedelic organs and plunderphonic samples.
FM003 Jacques in Analogue
Mondo Elektrik (Aural Experiments and Transgressions)
Explore infinite worlds beyond our own with this slab of modern kosmische musik. Jacques in Analogue's first full-length album, Mondo Elektrik (Aural Experiments and Transgressions), takes the listener on a journey through experimental music both past and present.
FM002 Jacques in Analogue
Stare Into the Eye
Influenced by the the film music of John Carpenter and the experimental sounds of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, the latest single from Jacques in Analogue, Stare Into the Eye, is a strange and disturbing ride into the unknown.
FM001 Jacques in Analogue
Dilated Horizon
Dilated Horizon is a heady mix of various genres including ambient, library music, trip hop, film music and a bit of shoegazing for good measure. Influenced as much by John Carpenter as the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Dilated Horizon is as strange as it is familiar.
This is the first release in the Fading Machine series.
Sound and Visuals
Short films, promo videos and music videos inspsired by various sound experiments.