Silber Records

Muscle Mass

Muscle Mass returns with short vignettes of drone dance for Christmas.

Various Artists

Sometimes we do little comps of folks reworking the same Christmas tune. I kinda picked this one at random only to be told by multiple artists that the tune was too hard to make work, but we do still have a few versions for you.

Various Artists

Merry Christmas! Our most Christmas-y related release of 2020 with 8 takes on the Christmas classic Jingle Bells. A couple versions are pretty true to the original & some barely recognizable. From ambient to goth, check it out & spread the word.

various artists

Silber's free Christmas compilation from 2004. Back then giving it away as a free download ended up costing a few hundred dollars in bandwidth overage. Hope you dig it!

Various Artists

5 tracks of experimental Christmas music.

Small Life Form

Small Life Form is back for the holidays with a drone to summon the spirits of the season or maybe to drive them away. No speakers were destroyed in this recording.

Muscle Mass

New Muscle Mass about nostalgia, aging, & sci-fi apocalyptic body motion music. Listen along & groove with us like it's 1993. Something like that...

Small Life Form

Thirty-some years ago when I was first learning about the roots of a lot of the industrial, goth, post punk, no wave, & experimental music I discovered the 1960s classical composers who bowed piano strings, manipulated audio tape, used metronomes as instruments, & created soundscapes rather than melodies. Ligeti, Crumb, Cage, Stockhausen, Riley, Copland, the list goes on forever. In a pre-internet world where record stores were dominated by indie rock, finding the music was difficult with a lot of reading books from the library describing the compositions & how traditions & norms were being broken making imaginings of the music in my head that often had little to do with the music when I would actually hear it years later. I did eventually find a store that specialized in classical music & the owner spent time with me pointing me in the direction I was seeking & seemed genuinely excited to have someone to talk to about Ligeti, but of course they closed one day & I have yet to find someone with his depth of knowledge without pretension. At any rate a few years later I started Small Life Form to experiment with sound in the ways I thought appropriate to my materials at hand as I knew I would never have the discipline to end up in a space to write for an orchestra. Now feeling full circle I find myself listening to a classical station on the radio that fades in & out of range & recording snippets on my phone to make loops to stretch & reverse & reverberate & distort. It makes me feel young again. A savage need to explore sound in a way that doesn't use the tricks & clichés I've developed over 30 years while still being influenced by them. Collaborations with composers dead centuries before I was born. This is Small Life Form in the fall of 2025.