Various Artists

Spencer Zahn is the LA-residing bassist/multi-instrumentalist and composer who has released several albums both as a solo artist and as a collaborator. His music is marked by openness - spacious sonic spaces rich with contributions from his creative community.

Cloud Assets

Spencer Zahn

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Bandcamp

Aisha Vaughan

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tp Dutchkiss is the solo moniker of LA-based producer Spencer Hartling. His debut full-length, high functioning, out now on Leaving Records, is a probing eleven-track collection teetering between jittery beats and experimental songwriting. Imaginatively high-functioning, but also just functioning while high, it turns to an array of unorthodox recording techniques to build melody into the very structures of dance music it straddles. high functioning works it all out, breaking through to a new place of earnestness.
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Though technically presenting a first effort, Hartling is no beginner. Owner and operator of Wiggle World recording studio, tape loop experimentalist and co-author of zine Show Invisibles, or How to Make a Tape Loop, his solo live performances are workshops in improv ambient and dubbed out, forward-thinking hardware play. A member of “rock” band Harry the Nightgown, the fledgling experimentalist thrives in collaboration, having lent his chops to ventures with artists like Colloboh, Cherry Glazerr, Ohr and Qu’ran Shaheed.
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Sam Gendel is known for his work with saxophones and wind controllers. Benny Bock is a keyboardist, composer, producer and sound designer from Oakland, California. Hans Kjorstad is a musician and composer in the field of contemporary microtonal music, informed by Norwegian traditional music and experimental improvised music.

Sam Gendel, Benny Bock, Hans Kjorstad

rahul, isa, kabir, &amp; sky make glitchy avant pop ?!

toso toso

GUY BLAKESLEE

young creator/writer/ 
producer/farmer 
changing the world through sound, one beat at a time. 
LOVE. EQUALITY. CREATION.

Jahsh Banks

listening to the stories of the land

Noah Klein

http://livingearth.la/

Sam Wilkes plays bass guitar, Craig Weinrib plays trap drums, and Dylan Day plays electric guitar.

Sam Wilkes, Craig Weinrib, Dylan Day

Searcher of sounds Exploradore de sonidos afectos, espacios y tiempos en un loop siempre cambiante.
Searcher of sounds affects, spaces and time in an ever-changing loop.
Listening as a tool to tune in with the environment around us in pursuit of possible worlds of coexistence and collaboration between all vibrant matter. less

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Fabiano do Nascimento & Matthewdavid

https://leavingrecords.com/ohayou

Paige Emery is an artist, herbalist, and plant dreamer exploring ways of remembering the Earth. Her music practice is intertwined with visual and performance art, plant medicine and healing rituals, all of the expressions affecting one another. Paige’s previous musical work has been in the context of performing sound pieces for healing rituals within art installations and gardens to guide people through ecological journeys within a site-specific place.
Intercommunications grew out of the humble place of singing to plants in her garden every morning after she meditated with them. This morning ritual led her to finding a new relationship with voice and more-than-human language through offerings of sound. These songs were seeded from a daily practice of plant communication, language becoming deconstructed through the mixing of vocal layers and sounds of the environment, playing at the meeting place of harmony and chaos, life and death. The music integrates these expressions into electronic landscapes using only the same single keyboard Paige has had since she was an adolescent. Each song represents a pathway to and from communicating with plants, while the album as a whole serves as an arc through different states of being on a healing journey with their medicine - opening, sensing, letting, washing, waking, dancing, calling, following, swelling, enduring, decomposing, which in the end leads to another opening. These states of being are inspired by the continual cycles of nature that we can continue to learn from.

Paige Emery

https://paigeemery.com/

Hailing from Chicago, M.A. Tiesenga is a musician, composer, and multidisciplinary visual artist presently living and working in Los Angeles. As prolific as they are autodidactic, Tiesenga’s creative practice includes not only composition, but print-making, pen and ink drawing, visual scores, and participation in numerous musical groups, including, notably, the Eastman Saxophone Project (“ESP”)—of which they are a founding member—and the grammy-nominated collective Wild Up. Across mediums, Tiesenga balances a rigorous attention to craft, procedure, and structure while simultaneously inaugurating the requisite space for spontaneity, play, and the stranger fruits of creative mysticism.

m.a. tiesenga

https://martatiesenga.format.com/

https://www.laphil.com/musicdb/artists/9059/ma-tiesenga

https://www.wildup.org/people/m-a-tiesenga/

This Trio is very Californian, even though Surya is based on the East Coast . . .We swim together in the Pacific Ocean, Vibing, bonding, talking, listening, riding the Waves . . .as often as we can.
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Surya Botofasina, Nate Mercereau, Carlos Niño

Lionmilk & Club Diego

Ahnnu’s music often sits in an underappreciated but rich intersection of the shared history of ambient and hip hop. Often built around finding the pocket in off kilter ambient loops and exploration of shifting textures, Ahnnu lingers in the subtleties of sound. Change is the only constant. Sometimes anchored by explicit beats or rhythms, other times free form, Ahnnu can make extensive use of recognizable samples, or drift into pure abstraction.

Ahnnu

Low Leaf is a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, composer and producer that combines an array of genres, ever-expanding in a spectrum of its own. Exploring sound healing and plant consciousness as a part of her spiritual practice has greatly influenced her approach to music, painting, and more recently film making. In a world of illusion she insists on using her creative gifts as an instrument of truth, love, and liberation. Her ability to challenge conventions and push the boundaries of artistic expression leaves a lasting impact on those who experience her work.

Low Leaf

https://www.lowleaf.earth/

AshTre Jinkins is an LA-based producer and DJ. Known for his involvement with the Low End Theory community, his work now takes on a new role in the world of uptempo electronic music. Ranging from low end hip-hop to techno and left-field deep house.

AshTreJinkins

Born of a live, improvisational, collaborative session on Dustin Wong’s long-running Dublab show, both musicians regard their working relationship as among the most intuitive of their careers. Complimentary indeed: Wong’s background with guitar and Brin’s history on drums (particularly his tenure in heavy music) ensure a fitting pairing.

Brin & Dustin Wong

Fabiano is a Rio de Janeiro-born, LA-based multi-string guitarist, composer and producer with an ever-expansive sound, borrowing from the traditions of samba and choro while echoing elements of modern jazz, pop, experimental &amp; electronic.

Fabiano Do Nascimento

https://fabianomusic.com/

Having cut his teeth producing warped and bombastic beats as a core member of cLOUDDEAD, Nosdam has since gone on to record and release some of the most revered work in the post-millennial, abstract hip-hop world. Through his solo productions and various collaborations and remixes, the Anticon co-founder traces an indelible strain of super-saturated, no-fi found sound weirdness that intersects 90's sample-based boom bap, shoegaze psychedelia, and ethereal ambient drone.

Odd Nosdam

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odd_Nosdam

https://linktr.ee/nosdam

Carlos Gabriel Niño (born February 16, 1977) is a Californian music producer, percussionist, performer, arranger, composer, musician, programmer, radio host, DJ, music consultant, poet, and event organizer, based in his hometown of Woodland Hills, California. Niño has been involved in the production of more than 150 records and has toured with various bands and as a DJ throughout Europe, Japan and the United States.

Carlos Niño & Friends

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Amrita “Ami” Kaur Dang is a South Asian-American vocalist, sitarist, composer and producer from Baltimore. Her sound blends elements of North Indian classical, noise/ambient electronics, beat-driven psych and experimental dance pop. The work references her hybrid identity as a first-generation South Asian-American, Sikh upbringing, musical education, as well as the chaos and spirituality of the landscapes of both Baltimore and urban India.
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Picking up her first sitar when she was twelve years old, Dang has studied North Indian classical music (voice and sitar) in both New Delhi and Maryland, and she also holds a degree in music technology &amp; composition from Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. Following in the footsteps of artists like Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass, she seeks to advance the sound of contemporary experimental, pop, and electronic music with the sounds of South Asia—through vocals and sitar, ragas, and sampling. And vice versa, she aims to bring a broader sound palette to the legacy of South Asian music. These goals are a lifelong mission. To that end, she has collaborated with Animal Collective, William Cashion (of Future Islands), James Acaster, Thor Harris—to name a few. She has provided tour support for Beach House, black midi, Grimes, Lower Dens, Florist and more.
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Ami Dang

Ana Roxanne

andrew cs

http://andrewcs.info

Youtube

idiosyncratic/enigmatic Quebec-based beatmaker

aNTOJE

an Artist and Engineer with the intention to heal the world with sound and spread the beauty of Indian Classical Music in between new york &amp; new delhi

Arushi Jain

https://modularprincess.com/

asatonemusic (at) gmail (dot) com

Asa Tone

AV Moves is the project of LA’s multi-instrumentalist and experimental composer John Jones, previously known as Nerftoss (see Spirit Advantage LR034, 2014).

AV Moves

Batry Powr is the experimental ambient project from Hundred Waters frontwoman Nicole Miglis.

batry powr

Bauhaus are a four-piece from Northampton, England, composed of Peter Murphy (vocals, occasional instruments), Daniel Ash 
(guitar), Kevin Haskins (drums), and David J (bass). Venerated and highly influential, the band emerged from the post-punk alternative music scene of the early 80s with a string of innovative albums and a powerfully dramatic live presentation. 
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Bauhaus

Benedek

Black Taffy

Blake Mills & Sam Gendel

a strand of rhythmic audio expressionism

brin

Twitter

Brogan Bentley

Cakedog is the juke/footwork alter ego of abstract beatmaker Ahnnu, aka Leland Jackson.

Cakedog

Sharing a variety 
of Music that I've made with Friends. Records, Singles, Mixes and Bandcamp Exclusives.

Carlos Niño

Celia Hollander

http://www.celiahollander.com

Experimental electronic musician based in Baltimore, MD.

Colloboh

Cool Maritime

experience all the love in your heart. 
we're on that tip. 
joyful things

ddust direct

http://ddust.direct

Deantoni Parks is an American now wave/avant-garde/experimental drummer, songwriter, film director, actor and record 
producer. He is the founder, producer and drummer of the New York band KUDU, and one-half of the writing duo We Are Dark Angels with producer and keyboardist Nicci Kasper, also a member of KUDU. We Are Dark Angels scored Paul Schrader's film, Dog Eat Dog. 
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Deantoni Parks, Technoself

devonwho

http://www.devonwho.com/

Dntel

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dntel/367729124808

http://dyingsongs.tumblr.com/

from the sea, in the woods. searching for rhythm.peace 
intellect 
energy

droopy eye

Elliot Bergman

Best DJ in the world J Rocc gives you six bootleg bangers of electro ecstasy as Flaunt Edwards channeling legendary party people like Ron Hardy, Larry Levan, DJ Harvey, and Kraftwerk.

Flaunt Edwards

Francesca Heart is a musician, dancer and researcher with volcanic and marine origins in Southern Italy. She's currently exploring computer music as a means of incantation.

Francesca Heart

Futurangelics showcases three musicians, Brin, Dntel, and More Eaze, all accomplished and respectively unique, congealing as a trio to create something subdued, but in that subtlety deeply rewarding, almost loyal. It feels familiar, but like a friend that has gone away and finally come back to hang again, full of secrets. A world of lights glaring on the windshield as the car glides through the pre-dawn tenderness. For fans of these respective artists, you will find their signatures (cascading microsamples, enveloping synthesis, misty ambient/pop) peppered throughout, but it is those moments where you can’t tell whose hand you’re holding that become the most exhilarating. In those mysteries there is a very peculiar and enchanting softness.

Futurangelics

Galdre Visions is a Leaving Records supergroup comprised of Olive Ardizoni (Green-House); South Asian-American sitarist, 
vocalist, and composer Ami Dang; Diva Dompé (Yialmelic Frequencies, Diva &amp; The Pearly Gates); and harpist/composer Nailah Hunter. These 4 artists were drawn together during 2020's pandemic to remotely create collaborative music reflecting this uncertain moment in history. 
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Galdre Visions

Glia & Matthewdavid

Green-House is a project birthed by Olive Ardizoni and now officially a duo project featuring long-time collaborator and confidant, Michael Flanagan. Approaching the project with an intentional naivety, they craft songs that find freedom through simplicity. They hope to create a space with fewer barriers as both a performer and a listener.

Green-House

https://linktr.ee/Green_House1976

Berlin-based experimental musicians: the composer N. (Niklas) Kramer, and percussionist, J. (Joda) Foerster

J Foerster / N Kramer

John C Jones

http://www.jj-av.com

John Carroll Kirby

Josiah Steinbrick is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer based in Los Angeles, California.

Josiah Steinbrick

Julius Smack is the Los Angeles multi-instrumentalist musician, producer, &amp; movement experimentalist Peter Hernendez - founder of the influential Practical label.

Julius Smack

Kara-Do

&quot;It is the drunken bird's dream, the mouldy instrument, the evil music box, the song of half past 4 am joy, people bathing in fairy's pee and releasing the enchanting sound and the tantalizing sound.&quot; -Ralf Normaali

Kemialliset Ystävät

http://www.kemiallisetystavat.com

Kiefer

LARAAJI

LA native, jazz pianist, composer, and producer Lionmilk is here to share the sounds of life and it's unforgiving patterns

Lionmilk

Los Angeles’s Maral has spent the past half-decade quietly honing an approach that meshes the latest in club music contortions, a range of pulverized dub effects, and samples from her library of Iranian folk, pop and classical musics.

Maral

https://linktr.ee/maralpush

Matthewdavid

http://leavingrecords.com

MATTIE

Mndsgn.

http://www.mndsgn.biz

more eaze is the long-running project of composer/multi instrumentalist mari maurice. her work touches upon a myriad of genres &amp; often explores themes of gender, identity, perception, and the mundane. her compositions have been widely released on a number of international labels including orange milk, astral spirits, phinery, and lillerne tapes among others. as a performer, maurice regularly collaborates with various composers and improvisers such as claire rousay, michael pisaro, richard kamerman, seth graham, and christina carter.

More Eaze

Muwosi

Berlin-based ambient musician &amp; artist

N Kramer

LA based harpist &amp; composer. instagram.com/nailah.hunter

Nailah Hunter

Nico Georis is a keyboard player, producer &amp; songwriter from California. He produces music from his studio at Granny's Dancehall in a ghost town near Death Valley. His music, a unique amalgamation of global influences, presents an imposing total aesthetic that is all his own - at once bracingly psychedelic and achingly nostalgic.
Since childhood, Georis has always straddled (or, rather, negotiated) multiple dimensions, flitted between the rigors of classical training and DIY experimentation—studying under a disciple of Franz Lizst (a mentorship that would enshrine the piano as his primary instrument), then squirreling away to the basement of his childhood home, strewn as it was with his father’s instruments and home-audio equipment, to play and record freely.
Despite his evident virtuosity as a trained pianist, Georis has, across numerous chapters, persisted in his renegade and exploratory approach to music. He has dedicated his talents to songcraft, broadly-defined — channeling unseen (or inaugurating altogether new) worlds that morph seamlessly across genres.
His notable original music releases to date include:
(2018) Plant Music Vol. 1 - “Shirley Shirley Shirley!” 
An otherworldly document of his experiments in plant music, using midi technology to connect a variety of flora to analog synthesizers, letting their biodata create music that is strange and breathtaking. &quot;A most magical and enthralling musical piece, a hypnotizing and dreamy indulgence for both the ears and the mind as well. Shirley Shirley Shirley! is one of the most interesting albums I've ever heard...&quot; -sputnikmusic.com
(2022) Desert Mirror 
&quot;...a steamboat floating in the clouds from the echoes of thunder...&quot; -Waltz Tokyo, Japan. 
&quot;...psychedelic soul piano tunes, celestial music...&quot; -MatthewDavid, Leaving Records
(2022) A Rainbow In Curved Air // Music for Slot Machines 
“Nico’s work is very impressive and the best take off on Rainbow I have heard. Obviously he went very deep into it and created something very special.” - Terry Riley 
“Twinkling electronics and magical game bubbles to the max.” -KFJC 89.7 FM
(2023) Cloud Suites 
“Trickling rainbow icicles floating on candy clouds” -KFJC 89.7 FM 
“Layers of trickling, harp-like delicacy, music that is alive with peaceful purpose and made to float on.” 
-Backseat Mafia
Upcoming releases include: 
New EP, Music Belongs To The Universe coming in 2025 via Leaving Records. 
New single “Get Free” (featuring KB Brookins) for the new Red Hot Compilation Transa, out Nov 22nd.

Nico Georis

https://www.nicogeoris.com

Aaron Ray aka RAAYS is a producer, multi-instrumentalist, and sound architect, always approaching music through a lens of curiosity. It’s from this intuitive sense of wonder he synthesizes earthly fragments with cosmic soundscapes, reflecting it all back as shimmering ambient, experimental jazz and radiant left-field electronic beat music ~ space jungle 

Raays

Ras G & Koreatown Oddity

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Some Call Me Mr.Ras..... Others Call Me Mister _G.....U Can Call Me MYSTERY _G aka BROTHA THERE 
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Ras_G & The Afrikan Space Program

http://afrikanspaceprogram.tumblr.com/

Sam Gendel & Sam Wilkes

Sam Gendel

Sam Wilkes records music. Composer, Producer, Arranger, Bassist. Performs live primarily playing a fender precision bass. Sam Wilkes lives in Los Angeles, California.

Sam Wilkes

About Sam Wilkes
Los Angeles-based composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Sam Wilkes makes fluid, meditative jazz filled with ambient and even psychedelic textures. A string of albums on Leaving Records since 2018 including his collaborative 'Music for Saxofone and Bass Guitar' collaborations with Sam Gendel have seen him featured in the New Yorker and praised by the New York Times, Pitchfork and Stereogum amongst others. Notable collaborations and session work include Maggie Rogers, Chaka Khan, KNOWER, Louis Cole, Jacob Collier, Dijon, Rufus Wainwright and Dean Blunt.
About Jacob Mann
Jacob Mann is a pianist, keyboardist, composer, and arranger from Las Vegas, Nevada. Currently based in Los Angeles, he is a founding member of jazz/funk groups Max Ox, Shrek Is Love, and the JacobMann Big Band.
As a sideman, he has performed with Louis Cole, Genevieve Artadi, Sam Wilkes, Lee Ritenour, Moonchild, Jacob Collier, Bob Mintzer Big Band, Michael Mayo, and Grace Kelly. Since 2017 Mann has played with the funk/pop/jazz group KNOWER in over thirty countries.
As an arranger, Mann has worked with Peter Erskine, Julie Kelly, Richard Smith and the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra. His original big band compositions have been performed around the world by high school, college, and regional professional bands.
Mann may be most well-known for his “One Minute Jazz Lessons” YouTube series, which aims to teach jazz one minute at a time.

Sam Wilkes & Jacob Mann

Samiyam

Sana Shenai

Sharada Shashidhar's soulful voice takes inspiration from jazz and Indian classical music, that influences her songwriting and productions. Her elaborate harmonies and vocal creativity come together in a new beat-orientated spiritual jazz.

Sharada Shashidhar

Surface to Air Missive

Swan's Chamber

If your heart's softer than it was before, you've been loved.

SWARVY

http://swarvy.com

The Growth Eternal

Time Wharp

supersonic gentleman, saviour of rock &amp; roll + manimalist singer/bonglighter sojourner of bold loveℰ trancefarmers.tumblr.com

TR A NCE F ARℳ E RS 愛

http://facebook.com/trancefarmers

Uppy whole-heartedly embraces computers, internet, and music technology to realize the Uppy experiment. Uppy is also 
described as an inner-child collaboration with artificial intelligence as means to bring technology back to a place of love.“I’m in love with my computer. I send my computer and the internet love, blessings, and gratitude every day”. 
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Uppy

V.C.R, born Veronica Camille Ratliff, is a multidisciplinary recording artist, composer, violinist, and published author that uses music and literature to inspire and uplift her audience. Born into a musical family in Memphis Tennessee, she was classically trained in violin and gospel choir beginning at age five. Homeschooled, her mother taught her to read and write which inspired her to cultivate her creative gifts until present day.
V.C.R uses her eclectic musical background to carefully craft songs that are not only healing but direct tributes to her favorite singers and composers such as Minnie Riperton, JDilla, Chaka Khan, and Tchaikovsky. The hybridization of her direct influences, gospel, soul, funk, and classical music combine to birth her own genre called CINEMATIC SOUL. Her dreamy movie-like approach to her projects takes the listener on a journey through her thoughts transporting them to their own universe.
In 2019, V.C.R wrote her first book entitled “The Creative Black Woman’s Playbook”, and The Creative Black Woman’s Network was created by V.C.R as an physical extension to the book - the purpose of the network is to celebrate black femininity, honor our rich heritage and history, and to empower creative black women internationally. It is our goal to inspire the monetization of every gift and inherent talent we possess.

V.C.R

https://vthemartian.com/

White Magic is artist, vocalist, pianist, percussionist and composer Mira Billotte

White Magic

https://www.facebook.com/whitemagicmusic

http://whitemagiccult.tumblr.com/

William Tyler & Luke Schneider

Star-projecting music by Samira Winter.

Winter

whatever feels good i make lil digital tunes in my bedroom ~she/they san francisco

Xyla

Yialmelic Frequencies is the therapeutic instrumental music from Diva Dompé channeled from a place in another dimension 
called Yialmel. Yialmelic Frequencies collects the instrumental layers Diva has created and archived at dublab.com for her monthly guided-meditation radio show “Yialmelic Transmissions” 
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Yialmelic Frequencies

http://divainparadise.com

experimental electronic music from deep los angeles