Recording: The Databats

Artist: The Databats

Song: Frog Battery

Recorded at Handlebar (Grandma's Secret Spices 3: A Night Of Experimental Music), August 28, 2019.

The Databats - Frog Battery

This self-described "computer contaminant, trip-hop/glitch band and art collective" closed out this night of electronic experiments with the evening's most song-based set, but there were still plenty of sonic diversions and sampledelic sidelines (as well as this spoken word/reading based piece) to keep things interesting.

[The Databats will be opening for Stoneburner at Bovine Sex Club on Sunday, October 27th.]

Recording: Xuan Ye + Brigitte Bardon't

Artist: Xuan Ye + Brigitte Bardon't

Song: [excerpt]

Recorded at Handlebar (Grandma's Secret Spices 3: A Night Of Experimental Music), August 28, 2019.

Xuan Ye + Brigitte Bardon't - [excerpt]

A rare joint set from these sonic explorers found them engaging their shared passion for expropriating and deconstructing pop culture detritus from different angles. The set played out as a tableau with two subjects, each twisting their radio dials and hearing voices in the æther — and then singing back to them. Not so much a folie à deux as a small act of act of digital defiance, claiming a spot in the sonic wasteland and making a stand.

Recording: Mike Barber

Artist: Mike Barber

Song: [excerpt]

Recorded at Handlebar (Grandma's Secret Spices 3: A Night Of Experimental Music), August 28, 2019.

Mike Barber - [excerpt]

Mike Barber started off his set of modular synth dirges and sawtooth yawps with this PSA, a bit of postwar Rotary Club civics that sounds painfully on-point when its analysis is applied to our here and now.

Recording: Sonja

Artist: Sonja

Song: [excerpt]

Recorded at Handlebar (Grandma's Secret Spices 3: A Night Of Experimental Music), August 28, 2019.

Sonja - [excerpt]

Sofie Mikhaylova, who performs as Sonja, is also known as a DJ and founder of the Biblioteka Records label. She opened up this night of experimental electronic sounds with a concise set of hardware-sequenced blipzones, issuing splorps and wet glops from her synths before slowing the clock down.

[Sonja will be performing at Track Could Bend #56, coming up on Tuesday, November 5th at Wenona Lodge.]