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| NAME | TITLE | GENRE | GOAL | ABOUT | COUNTRY | STATE/PROV | CITY/TOWN | LISTEN |
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| ABSTRXN | Heliosphere | Electronic, Synth | LP (10 tracks or 35 minutes) | ALL PROCEEDS from the sales and streaming of this record will be donated to Humane Indiana, Northwest Indiana’s premier animal shelter. Both members of ABSTRXN have rescued beloved pets from this shelter, and hope you can help us give back. Each of the songs on this record began life as analog synth based performances, written and sequenced outside a computer/daw. These works were recorded into the computer, and additional production and overdubs were added. At their heart, they are live performances, capturing different moments in time. | United States of America | Illinois | Chicago | https://abstrxn.bandcamp.com/album/heliosphere |
| bikeseathead | preoccupied and young | Pop | Single (1 track or 5 minutes) | more indie pop! collaborated b/w Downers Grove, Illinois and Sunnyvale, California | United States of America | Illinois | Downers Grove | https://bikeseathead.bandcamp.com/track/preoccupied-and-young |
| Chicago Songwriters Club | A Numbers Game | Indie, Pop | LP (10 tracks or 35 minutes) | Members of the Chicago Songwriters Club were randomly paired off to each create a song based on a randomly assigned number. | United States of America | Illinois | Chicago | https://chisongwritingclub.bandcamp.com/ |
| Chip Chop | Back to the Hoi Polloi | Rock | LP (10 tracks or 35 minutes) | It's another rock album, with a few punk songs, a few proggy synth songs, a couple heavy shoegaze songs, and a couple throw-aways, because who has time to make 10 good ones? Recorded at home, by myself, except for an organ solo by my friend. It's such a stressful project, but also fun! | United States of America | Illinois | Chicago | https://chipchop.bandcamp.com/album/back-to-the-hoi-polloi-rpm-2022 |
| Coyote Senate | Cataract | Synth, Metal | LP (10 tracks or 35 minutes) | A combination of minimalist and drone metal. Synths and heavily distorted guitar tracks loop in and out of short vocal bridges. Side A is a 20 minute drone metal jam with a nod to Mount Eerie. Side B has a Postal-Service-style synth bop, followed by contrasting guitars and synths, then a long chill wash to bring it all down. | United States of America | Illinois | Chicago | https://alonetone.com/CoyoteSenate/playlists/cataract |
| Nick_Jones | Reflexively_Processing_Midlife | Ambient, Electronic | EP (5 tracks or 20 minutes) | I made an ambient album where I pushed myself to not use a click at all and just improvise on pads and keys. I used endlesss in solo mode for the first track and was able to pull some nice pieces out of that. Also, as the end of February is my birthday I also used this project as kind of a sonic journal as I process more of midlife. | United States of America | Illinois | Chicago | https://nickjones26.bandcamp.com/album/reflexively-processing-midlife |
| Starbender | Cogs | Rock, Guitar | LP (10 tracks or 35 minutes) | It's a concept album about corruption, hidden knowledge, and ultimately how humans need to learn how to have compassion for one another. | United States of America | Illinois | Chicago | https://soundcloud.com/starbender/sets/cogs |
| Sunil K Chopra | The Sparkling Void | Indie, Singer-Songwriter | LP (10 tracks or 35 minutes) | I made an album with Ardour on Linux. I made it for my own sanity. And to hopefully crystallize ideas for other people.. | United States of America | Illinois | Chicago | https://sunilkchopra.bandcamp.com/album/the-sparkling-void |
| Texturions | Den Of Scorpions | Rock | LP (10 tracks or 35 minutes) | Our 15th year RPM Challenge album. Recorded on 4 different DAWs with various instruments and virtual instruments. | United States of America | Illinois | Willowbrook | https://texturions.bandcamp.com/album/den-of-scorpions |