Steven Hess

Listen to the strange and beautiful soundscapes of Cleared . Cleared is the longstanding project of Chicago based Steven Hess and Michael Vallera. Since about 2009 they have released albums on Immune, Utech Records and Touch. Their work is characterised by repetition and layering, a near complete enmeshing between the duo, often utilising environmental sound and obscuring and processing to the point of abstraction any hints of instrumental sound. It's a truly unique sound world.

Listen to the strange and beautiful soundscapes of Cleared

. Cleared is the longstanding project of Chicago based Steven Hess and Michael Vallera. Since about 2009 they have released albums on Immune, Utech Records and Touch. Their work is characterised by repetition and layering, a near complete…

We are very happy to announce the forthcoming release of our new album “Lustres”. Preorder at Room40 Bandcamp, and you get the title track to listen to until the official release date. Thank you in advance!

Cleared
Lustres
CD/dL
Release date: March 6, 2026

room40.bandcamp.com/album/lustres

touché

The Dead Flag Blues is a Christmas song

YouTube video by Brian Eno - Topic Backwater (2004 Digital Remaster)

Brian Eno: Backwater - from his album, Before And After Science, released on this day in 1977 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rvci...

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ICYMI - Cleared ‘Hexa’ CDs are back in stock over at the @touch33.net headquarters and shipping now! Copies are making there way to distributors as well. If you don’t own a physical copy and would like to, you can now make that happen. Thx!

clearedreleases.bandcamp.com/album/hexa

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Followed by some computer worship.
#CDFriday. Embrace the glitch 💿

Doom & Gloom From The Tomb Stars of the Lid Forever The brilliant Stars of the Lid came to an end a few years back with the sad passing of co-founder Brian McBride. But Stars of the Lid is forever — as a new fan-driven website....

Stars of the Lid Forever! Check out a new, very nicely curated site devoted to the band's live recordings, spanning 1997-2016.

we have to go back. to warn them.

Hang on, a pause is by definition temporary. Permanent is the opposite of temporary. “Permanent pause” is an oxymoron, a contradiction. If you want to be president of the US, don’t you think you should learn English, @realDonaldTrump ?

I need to hunt this one down

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Sounds of the day

Ash Ra - New Age of Earth
Mohammad Reza Mortazavi - Nexus

“Data Crunch”: AI Boom Threatens to Entrench Fossil Fuels and Compromise Climate Goals A new report titled “Data Crunch: How the AI Boom Threatens to Entrench Fossil Fuels and Compromise Climate Goals” from the Center for Biological Diversity warns the booming artificial intelligence in...

The U.S. is the biggest emitter of carbon emissions from AI, making up 45% of the world’s emissions.

It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends.

We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.

We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.

screen grab from video of the incident. Dude dressed up like Max Headroom wearing sunglass is laughing.

Happy anniversary to the Max Headroom incident, the greatest example of signal hijacking.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea...

HAPTIC ‘Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions’ was released one year ago. Celebrate with us by either purchasing the release, if you haven’t already, or, if you have, by listening to it at a low to moderate volume at some point during the day.

www.lineimprint.com @richardchartier.bsky.social

Required listening

The President of the United States is publicly calling for the political prosecution of his political opponents, urging the death penalty because they urged soldiers to uphold the rule of law.

This should be front page news everywhere. It is not, which tells much about how we got to this point.

while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.

Happy #CDFriday to all those who celebrate

Radian // Rhiz // 1998

Hell of a soundtrack, hell of a movie.

A photo of a sign, white text on red background: JESUS... WHO IS HE? WHY DID HE COME?

When I arrive at the party

Sounds of the day

NIS ♾️

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Excellent news!

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Record of the day 🎧

KLF - Chill Out