Passed Recordings

Ed Herbers

Migration was released five years ago, so to celebrate the milestone, I'm giving away copies for free! Outside of writing music, one of my other passions is photography. I often focus on taking pictures that capture rare moments or new perspectives of the world. For this project, each song was inspired by an image I took that conveys a similar location or mood, highlighting the fragile beauty of Earth. Selections from this album have been featured across several dozen episodes of Echoes, a long-running syndicated public radio show in the USA, and was ranked in their Top 25 albums in March, 2023. I never expected this to gain so much traction, and it's really been a surreal experience knowing these songs have been played on radio stations across the country. I still can't believe that so many people have heard and connected with these songs. I truly appreciate all your support! -Ed

Ed Herbers

A group of space-faring scavengers are navigating a remote region of the galaxy when the ship’s sensors alert them to an unidentified object looming in the distance. “Sensors detect a massive freighter up ahead. Looks like it was powered down and abandoned out here. Its callsign is coming through as “Tartarus,” but there’s no other data available (manifest, origin, destination). I’m sure we could salvage some useful scrap from it—let’s dock and check it out." Although the ghost ship appears to be empty, the crew quickly discovers that they’re not alone…and a simple salvage mission becomes a desperate fight for survival. Inspired by media like Dead Space and Alien, Tartarus is an atmospheric and immersive dark ambient, sci-fi horror/suspense experience.

Passed Recordings

Our annual retrospective label sampler, giving a little taste of what we are all about.

Exit Chamber

A bit of a grab bag of tracks I've submitted for various compilations (slightly remastered in some cases), some remixes by good friends and a handful of remixes I did.

Exit Chamber

The seeds of this have been slowly growing for years, ever since I first read about long-term nuclear waste warning messages and the work of the Human Interference Task Force. I struggle to plan for next week, so it blows my mind that some people can be looking thousands of years into the future and thinking about how to keep our descendants safe from the problems we've created for ourselves. It gives me just a little hope that *someone* out there might be thinking about humanity's distant future.