Once a week, Stack delivers a mix of the most interesting new music on the web, handpicked by the Hype Machine team. Here's a recent mix.
Jim Kang - Skisk Skisk Skisk
MeFi MusicFollow “I wanted to participate in the 666th Disquiet Junto, so took by first idea and first takes to get this…” on Oct 6th →
Jessika Kenney & Eyvind Kang - Eclipse
Chicago ReaderFollow “The eighth edition of the Frequency Festival begins in Chicago on Tuesday, February 20. This annual event (COVID canceled the…” on Feb 8th →
Jim Kang - L-Amp
MeFi MusicFollow “A lamp interfering with a guitar cable. Or: the other way around. I have a lamp that interferes with my…” on Feb 3rd →
Jim Kang - Phase the Blood
MeFi MusicFollow “A Slayer-style riff played on one guitar and a version of that riff that has an extra half beat so…” on Dec 18th, 2023 →
Jim Kang - Flying Fortress
MeFi MusicFollow “Music for taking on a big space thing. I originally wrote one of the riffs on guitar and was planning…” on Nov 22nd, 2023 →
Jim Kang - Instructions for Your Next Life
MeFi MusicFollow “Some sick fucking shit. (Warning: Gets loud.) I was working toward the goregrind ideal of making sick fucking shit, but…” on Oct 29th, 2023 →
Jim Kang - Doing Things
MeFi MusicFollow “This is my tribute to doing things, Doing Things. Making dinner, taking a walk, looking for objects — you name…” on Oct 19th, 2023 →
Jim Kang - Signals in the Valley
MeFi MusicFollow “Three virtual players, separated enough that it takes seconds for sound to travel to each other, nonetheless try to listen…” on Oct 3rd, 2023 →
Jim Kang - Subbubbling (v. 2)
MeFi MusicFollow “Dream noise, made via granular synthesis. I used a field recording provided by the field recording of a rainy day…” on Sep 27th, 2023 →
Jim Kang - Moving Walkways
MeFi MusicFollow “It's a tribute to moving walkways throughout the United States and all over the world.” on Sep 26th, 2023 →
Jim Kang - The Orb, Ascending
MeFi MusicFollow “No one said ascending would be easy. (There's a lot of low humming in this, so it may be hard…” on Sep 24th, 2023 →
Jim Kang - Little Spanish Vertigo
MeFi MusicFollow “This is a Spanish Flea noise remix I did several years ago. I was inspired to post it by Television…” on Sep 17th, 2023 →
Jim Kang - Imagined Scandinavian Dance
MeFi MusicFollow “I have no idea what Scandinavian dances sound like, but I thought this riff sounded vaguely like Elegy-era Amorphis and…” on Sep 10th, 2023 →
Jim Kang - Ghost Banquet Speech and Award Presentation
MeFi MusicFollow “Toasts with ghosts. I think it's dungeon synth in spirit, though it does have a beat. I started it around…” on Jul 6th, 2023 →
Jim Kang - Middlesex Fells
MeFi MusicFollow “A granular synth piece fed by a crunchy field recording. This was made using a two-second sample I recorded at…” on Apr 25th, 2023 →
Jim Kang - In a Bomb
MeFi MusicFollow “A noisy piece derived from a vibraphone sample. I wrote a crude granular synthesizer (a thing that plays piece of…” on Apr 9th, 2023 →
Jim Kang - The Sound of Carrying On No Matter How Terrible It Gets
MeFi MusicFollow “The latest Junto prompt asks you to do something out of tune, so I put my phone next to my…” on Apr 3rd, 2023 →
Jim Kang - Pressures Accumulating
MeFi MusicFollow “This is a piece for (synth) strings, trumpet, and drums. The solo was put together partly via guitar and via…” on Mar 28th, 2023 →
Jim Kang - Grow Together with the Miasma
MeFi MusicFollow “Piece composed with a genetic algorithm for this Junto challenge about evolution. Here's the web app I built to generate…” on Feb 14th, 2023 →
Jim Kang - Rabbit's Shop
MeFi MusicFollow “Here is some Sunday comfysynth for you. I imagine it playing in an RPG shop run by a rabbit that…” on Jan 29th, 2023 →