Kaelin Bougneit - Utopia! Utopia! Echo, blithe apocalypse!

As Subviolet gears up for a busy 2018, I wanted to share a small omen of the things to come. Utopia! Utopia! Echo, blithe apocalypse! is a loop of minimalist music made in Ableton Live and turned loose alongside a Live project file to help you inspire your own compositions. The B-side comes from a late night duet with my old apartment heater...

The artwork is taken from a children's book my aunt Susannah illustrated for my brother and I as kids. I rediscovered the book recently and snapped that photo because I loved the haunting watercolor bleed.

You can download the EP here as well as the Ableton Live project file for the song.

In other news, catch a little video of Zero Tep's performance at the first Phuture Collective monthly! It was a great time, and I got to connect with a crowd of people I never had before. Energetic and carefree all around.

Infinity Pool - Infinity Pool out now!

Subviolet Records is proud to bring you Infinity Pool, a brand new collaborative project between Hot Science (of Milwaukee's Nice FM production house) and Zero Tep. Wavy and colorful, Infinity Pool's eponymous debut EP is a shot of energetic synthpop right to your brain.

Read an interview with the duo over at Milwaukee's Breaking and Entering!

Grab a copy of Infinity Pool in the Subviolet Store

Zero Tep - "Beep Beep" with MC Architecture

Hear some brand new Zero Tep music featuring MC Architecture.  The rapper has a to-be-titled EP in the works.

Zero Tep also has a show coming up in Portland, OR with CRIMES, LSV, Bottles. Young Lit Hippy, and Synchronistic. Saturday, September 16 at the Paris Theatre; tickets start at just $5 for early birds!

Kaelin Bougneit - "Three Voices and a Jigsaw" Out Now

Subviolet label head Kaelin Bougneit has released his first solo album, Three Voices and a Jigsaw, a psych-ambient record pieced together from private recordings from the past decade.

Presented in four distinct movements, some of the 17 individual pieces have been manipulated and resampled many times over a period of years to reach their current form.

The album drifts dynamically between pastoral ambient psychedelia, patchwork hynogogic hymns for synthesizer and guitar, and spatially-inspired improvisations recorded in quiet moments. Songs about Wisconsin roads like "Highway 18 to Dickeyville" and "Highway 55 to Langlade" conjure colorful images of midwest forests and farmland, while songs like "Drone for Predatory Butterflies" and "Color Waves" encourage an almost meditative sense of inner space.

Download Three Voices and a Jigsaw for FREE from the Subviolet Store!

Alternatively, stream Three Voices and a Jigsaw on the online service of your choice: Spotify | Apple Music | Google Play | Amazon | Tidal 

Forthcoming solo album from Kaelin Bougneit: "Three Voices and a Jigsaw"

Operating strictly under aliases until now, Subviolet label head Kaelin Bougneit will be releasing his first solo album Three Voices and a Jigsaw. A collage of recordings made privately over the last 10 years of studio work, Three Voices and a Jigsaw is half present, half past. Presented in four distinct movements, some of the 17 individual pieces have been manipulated and resampled many times over a period of years to reach their current form.

The album drifts dynamically between pastoral ambient psychedelia, patchwork hynogogic hymns for synthesizer and guitar, and spatially-inspired improvisations recorded in quiet moments. Songs about Wisconsin roads like "Highway 18 to Dickeyville" and "Highway 55 to Langlade" conjure colorful images of midwest forests and farmland, while songs like "Drone for Predatory Butterflies" and "Color Waves" encourage an almost meditative sense of inner space. 

Three Voices and a Jigsaw will be released Monday, June 5 for FREE!

Listen to the second movement, "Highway 18 to Dickeyville/Niagara Storefront/Morning over Lake Geneva/The Phantomboats are Black/High Avenue/Concrete Abandon/Gaze".

Zero Tep - A Trick of Physics + 2 new collaborations

Zero Tep's new album, A Trick of Physics, is finally available! A Trick of Physics is a retrofuture melt of jazz fusion, footwork patterns, and late-night Moog jams. Inspired by natural phenomena (the "everyday psychedelic") and library music, the album is a compositional dive into the beautiful and exotic.

Find A Trick of Physics everywhere digital music is sold!
Subviolet Store | Soundcloud | Spotify | iTunes | Google Play

Zero Tep also has two new tracks out via Portland music family Phuture Collective. One is "Excitosis (feat. K the Infinite)," a very personal song about loneliness and purpose. The other is a song by Noer the Boy featuring Zero Tep called "Numbness." Listen to both below:
Zero Tep - "Excitosis (feat. K the Infinite)"
Noer the Boy - "Numbness (feat. Zero Tep)"

Read the interview with Zero Tep and K the Infinite here!