Jekyll2026-08-07T13:10:50+01:00https://earthrid.com/feed.xmlEarthridEarthrid releases unusual electronic music.Covolux – Tape Therapy2026-08-06T00:00:00+01:002026-08-06T00:00:00+01:00https://earthrid.com/posts/2026/08/06/Covolux-Tape-TherapyHere is a side to Covolux that has not been heard before. The mood is ostensibly lighter and brighter, but the palpable feeling of mystery remains. Original music and field recordings are mixed with the sonic remains of vintage self-help cassettes that have experienced transformation and rebirth in the hands of Covolux. ‘Tape Therapy’ offers a surprising, surreal and yet strangely soothing experience. If fleeting sensations of mirth, confusion or slight unease should arise, try reversing your head.

‘Tape Therapy’ is available from Bandcamp.

]]>Earthrid‘This is Darkness’ reviews ‘Mechanatones’2026-08-02T00:00:00+01:002026-08-02T00:00:00+01:00https://earthrid.com/posts/2026/08/02/This-is-Darkness-reviews-MechanatonesOur thanks go to This is Darkness for reviewing Mechanatones by Kemlo and the Zones of Silence.

“Featuring experimental electronic sounds, evolving drones, and catchy synth work, this is an impressive album that is impossible to pigeonhole.” – This is Darkness

‘Mechanatones’ is available from Bandcamp.

]]>EarthridNew release ‘Time Traveller’ by Toxic Chicken2026-07-14T00:00:00+01:002026-07-14T00:00:00+01:00https://earthrid.com/posts/2026/07/14/Toxic-Chicken-Time-TravellerNew release! Earthrid is proud to present ‘Time Traveller’ by Toxic Chicken. Time is precious, so make the best of yours and listen now. We think this is an amazing album and we hope you will love it too.

“A small symphony of motion, comfort and home.”

‘Mechanatones’ is available from Bandcamp.

]]>EarthridNew release ‘Mechanatones’ by Kemlo and the Zones of Silence2026-06-14T00:00:00+01:002026-06-14T00:00:00+01:00https://earthrid.com/posts/2026/06/14/MechanatonesHere is the short-awaited follow-up to ‘Neurology Bingo’, the narrowly acclaimed debut album by Kemlo and the Zones of Silence.

‘Mechanatones’ shares the surreal, hypnotic, trompe-oreille approach of its predecessor but treads new ground, evoking the Far East (End of London?), rivers in the sky, an escape into space… or whatever your imagination brings you. This is an album for the attentive listener, and we hope that each listen will bring you something new.

‘Mechanatones’ is available from Bandcamp.

]]>EarthridNew release ‘Confidence!’ by Toxic Chicken2026-05-01T00:00:00+01:002026-05-01T00:00:00+01:00https://earthrid.com/posts/2026/05/01/Toxic-Chicken-Confidence%20copyToxic Chicken brings you Confidence!!

Only Toxic Chicken’s melodic sensibilities could reassure big synthesisers that it’s fine to unwind while convincing miniature keyboards that they are much more than toys. Find your most comfortable chair and absorb the goodwill that flows from this collection of uplifting tunes. Listen with confidence! And keep on clucking!

Toxic Chicken is the main solo project of the prolific but always inventive multimedia artist Kai Nobuko.

‘Confidence!’ is available from Bandcamp.

]]>EarthridNew release ‘Neurology Bingo’ by Kemlo and the Zones of Silence2026-03-25T00:00:00+00:002026-03-25T00:00:00+00:00https://earthrid.com/posts/2026/03/25/Neurology-BingoSynergetic sound work and a touch of surrealism from a new collaboration between electronic musicians with contrasting but complementary methods.

Neurology Bingo is the debut release by Kemlo and the Zones of Silence, a collaborative project by Kai Nobuko (of Toxic Chicken etc.) and Kevin Busby (of Carya Amara etc.)

These long-burrowing denizens of the electronic music underground have always enjoyed each other’s work but have distinct approaches to musical experimentation.

The question of how best to unite styles and methods into something that would be its own creature was an intriguing conundrum that was carefully explored through audio alchemy, painstaking production and patient consideration, but Kemlo and the Zones of Silence’s unique personality was at last plain to perceive and the puzzle was then swiftly completed.

Indeed, a follow-up album was then rapidly completed too, and it shouts at us that it must be heard soon! We will not argue in the face of such confidence and shall release it with unprecedented haste. Listen to this space…

In the meantime, please take a seat and play Neurology Bingo.

‘Neurology Bingo’ is available from Bandcamp.

]]>EarthridNew release ‘Scumbag’ by Toxic Chicken2026-03-01T00:00:00+00:002026-03-01T00:00:00+00:00https://earthrid.com/posts/2026/03/01/Toxic-Chicken-ScumbagToxic Chicken comes to us with a fresh bag not of scum but of a dozen songs. They certainly all sound sunny and only rarely scummy, but sometimes they harbour dark themes. There are no threats, however, but just the promise of the purest of tones from analogue synthesisers, which were played with feather-light finesse by Toxic Chicken, with the help of the dextrous digits of digital sequencers to get the grooves going. Scum dancing!

‘Scumbag’ is available from Bandcamp.

]]>EarthridMonolith Cocktail reviews ‘Quirky & Perky’2025-12-08T00:00:00+00:002025-12-08T00:00:00+00:00https://earthrid.com/posts/2025/12/08/Monolith-Cocktail-reviews-Quirky-and-PerkyMany thanks to Brian Bordello for his kind review of ‘Quirky and Perky’ by Toxic Chicken:

“Quite wonderfully tuneful melodious instrumental shenanigans are oozed from one’s speakers… A truly great fun listen.”

Read the full review on Monolith Cocktail and get your copy of the album from Bandcamp!

]]>EarthridNew release ‘Quirky & Perky’ by Toxic Chicken2025-11-07T00:00:00+00:002025-11-07T00:00:00+00:00https://earthrid.com/posts/2025/11/07/Toxic-Chicken-Quirky-and-Perky-releasedIt’s Quirky Friday! The new album by Toxic Chicken is here.

‘Quirky & Perky’ is exactly that. It’s an eccentric, ebullient set of sounds from staccato synthesisers and old electronic toys, with quaint and peppy peculiarities, a modicum of metallic percussion and lots of bubbly, unconventional cheerfulness.

The album is available for the price you think is right, with no minimum. All proceeds go to Toxic Chicken.

‘Quirky & Perky’ is available from Bandcamp.

]]>EarthridNew Carya Amara compilation tracks2025-10-26T00:00:00+01:002025-10-26T00:00:00+01:00https://earthrid.com/posts/2025/10/26/Carya-Amara-evangelismSome news from elsewhere… cover

One of These Tributes Vol. 2: inDirect eVANGELISm (Chapter 3: Epilogue) is the last in the series released by Mahorka in association with Aurora.

Carya Amara contributed covers of ‘Irlande’ and ‘L’Ours Musicien’.

This excellent 17-track compilation is available from Bandcamp.

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