Collapsed Structures releases “no13” by Dagshenma

The tag “experimental” gets tossed a lot in music journalism, but what the hell does it actually mean? Is it just music that plays with forms or stretches the genre boundaries a bit? What about stuff like no13 by Dagshenma on Collapsed Structures, a “topological” music album featuring true electronic experiments based in totalism, glitch, and software-bending? That’s pretty experimental, […]

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Collapsed Structures releases “SYZYGY” by Sour Gout

Let me see here… a “syzygy” is defined as “a straight-line configuration of three or more celestial bodies in a gravitational system”. So that’s what Hades was waiting for in Hercules (the Disney movie, y’all). SYZYGY is also a new album by Sour Gout released on the post-industrial label Collapsed Structures, which is based in Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada. […]

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Collapsed Structures releases “Utopia” by Night Terrors

Remember when hardvapour was a thing? Man, that feels like forever ago – doesn’t it? Only two or three years have passed! Utopia by Night Terrors is not hardvapour, but it gets pretty close to the similar pseudo-industrial milieu – especially compared to artists like Halo Acid. Available through the Collapsed Structures label, Utopia is a four-track EP that consists […]

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Collapsed Structures releases “Eschatology” by Ross Birdwise

Collapsed Structures is a semi-new label that’s run out of British Columbia, Canada. It focuses on “post-industrial” music, which generally comprises experimental ambient music and artists who combine retro-aesthetics with futurist music. Eschatology (which refers to religious study of end-of-the-world scenarios) by Ross Birdwise is a new full-length album of experimental ambient that features multiple short tracks bookended by single-length […]

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Collapsed Structures releases “Gardens Lost to Time” by Arcipluvian

Gardens Lost to Time is a new full-length release from Arcipluvian, who’s touched all corners of modern cyberpunk-influenced music from vaporwave to dreampunk. This release is available on the Collapsed Structures label, and it more than almost any currently on the label wears well the tag “post-industrial”. Expect cacophonous rhythms (I wouldn’t go so far as to call them “beats”), […]

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Collapsed Structures releases “Prevailing Dark” by Animalman

Collapsed Structures is a “post-industrial” label out of Vancouver, Canada that releases a variety of cyberpunk and experimental albums. Animalman is one of the label’s main artists, and today saw a fresh EP from him by way of Prevailing Dark. This release combines the artist’s evolving predilection for hi-fidelity industrial music with dark ambient and scintillating cyberpunk music. Recommended for […]

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Collapsed Structures releases “Holocryptograms” by Lila Tirando a Violeta & Snakepiss

Holocryptograms is a collaborative album between Lila Tirando a Violeta and Snakepiss, the former of which is a Uruguayan vaporwave/hardvapour artist; the latter, hardvapour. Holocryptograms mixes original vocals with ghost tech instrumentation, creating a somewhat gothic atmosphere to be played in an underground Chinatown club at 2AM. It’s available for $4 CAD as a digital download; a cassette release is […]

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