Silber Records

Various Artists

Back in the 1990s when I was first making music & had few resources for finding musical instruments I fell into buying toy instruments at thrift stores. Some have been used pretty prominently in my work over the years (a small reed organ, a few cheap keyboards, cheap glockenspiels, the Mega Mouth Warp'r). I always wanted to put together a comp featuring kid toys. So here it is 30 years later. Enjoy.

Muscle Mass

Sometimes you see a movie when you are two years old & it becomes a massive part of your imaginary world for your entire childhood. You can't shake it out, it's more of a fact than something you like or don't like. Move with it instead of resisting the revolution.

Various Artists

Years ago I saw a segment on CBS Sunday Morning about a banned chord progression referred to as "The Devil's Interval" or tritones & it sat their in the back of my mind as something is should explore at some point. The idea kept coming up like a bad penny in other random pop culture music things over the next decade or two. So here we are. Soothing. Interesting. Demonic.

Muscle Mass

Resuscitating micro-ep from Muscle Mass

Various Artists

We first started doing our heavily themed compilations all the way back in 2000. Eventually when we started doing a dozen releases a year & I started touring a few times a year they fell by the way side. Then in 2019 when Droneuary took off as far as being a way to have an excuse to get in touch with friends, the themed compilations started back up. I reach out to the Silber regulars with a weird idea I have been thinking about pursuing & see if anyone else wants to take part. We have done three compilations of field recordings & in this fourth installment we limited it a little further saying all recordings were to be in the home. The results vary from ambient to dance to industrial. Always listen & hear the world in a new way.

Brian John Mitchell

Best known for his guitar work as Remora & electro-acoustic drones in Small Life Form, we’re pleased to present the reissue of Brian John Mitchell’s first release under his own name, four and a half. It’s a drone piece 4.5 hour long that he recorded from 2006-2012 revisited & remastered in 2026. Somewhere between the soothing sounds of the medical machinery keeping you alive & the industrial sounds of the first half of a shift at a factory, the piece is about the way we experience sound today & the musicality of noise. Originally inspired by Mitchell’s routine of taping down keyboard notes to make drones to fall asleep to & a time constraint of the music software of the era, this is a piece of sound more than a piece of music. Fall asleep with us to enter a world of deadly decaying dreams.

Muscle Mass

Micro-EP of minimalist dance from Muscle Mass. A command. Fill the earth & subdue it. The artificial body. A resurrection of the past or something new? The sky is still blue. Everything that changes stays the same. The body moves.

Muscle Mass

Micro-ep of dystopian dance anthems from Muscle Mass. Do you want to live forever or would you like to know more?