The planetary audible sound of inaudible things — What if someone told you that the inhabitants of a certain planet are planning to get together to play one neverending orchestra in which every muscle move belonging to a person is a note on an instrument? And what if we tell you that we know a planet where this…

How easily the music business shrugs everything off — First: France’s Black Zone Myth Chant It should not come as a surprise when the music that appeals to the worried thinkers and finger-tapping warriors of our generation should always sit somewhere in singularity: a place for the undiscovered and a shelter for the Grand Unified Theory. Black holes suck even the light in and leave…

How to burn one million innocent dollars — KLF was the band that left us in the true sense of the word. They took their music with them. They took their legacy with them. They burned a million pounds, filmed it, and let us watch their entire revenue from the music business turn to dust. They called themselves…

The fecund and creative machinery of permanent sadness — Why does everything make more sense when it comes from isolation and lonely places, if not drugs and narcotics? Why do we love the voice of our favorite musicians more as they delve deeper into anti-depressants? …

Two From Emptyset and Gaffe of a Lifetime — Emptyset’s Subtopia In early 2015, as for the greedy nekroblogophiliac (definitely not a word) vultures, as we have become, a full read of a superb but sadly non-breathing blog has become a nightly activity for us. Subtopia is penned by Bryan Finoki. Although there is no musical content in this abandoned library…

Interview with Alexander Heir — This interview was conducted as of March 23rd, 2015. Strangely enough, it still holds water. A combination of factors drove us to ask a few questions from a GONGENHUM favorite NYC industrial/electronic punk rebel Alexander Heir. Most important of which is the peril of intelligent life on planet earth! …

Forgotten futures through the sounds of Evitceles (Bulgaria), The Silence (Japan), and El Huervo (Sweden) — We have handpicked three hauntological tunes of different flavors and countries. We hope longing for a dead future does not become one of your daily chores, but the pleasure can keep you tied to the post for future references and wisdom. Burial-like Hauntology From Bulgaria I, too, will never be able to adjust to…

An invitation to the darkness of Demdike Stare and to leave pop for around seven minutes — According to papers, music is allegedly not a very Darwinian concept. There is no survival of the fittest when it comes to music. Especially contemporary music! Here’s a fact: does anyone in the world remember that in Eurovision Song Contest 2012, Engelbert Humperdinck represented the United Kingdom in the final…

Haunted choirs of Wolf Maps and Mirage — It would be dull, easy, and straightforward if we fill these white spaces with Kierkegaard and Nietzsche quotes and somehow relate them to the drone sound of UK sound artist Wolf Maps. But those quotes could apply to anything tagged with emptiness! This is what the world has come to…