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Dry and sometimes lo-fi pieces, often involving piano. Everything sounds quite intimate, like being in the room with someone. Another pretty much anonymous artist, apparently in Canterbury.

Has heaps of: Acoustic instruments, Glitches Decades active: 2020s Location: Unknown Entry last updated: 17/06/2023

OP Lilypad

OP Lilypad artist photo.

Project of Auckland music maker Jonathan Glenday, who also makes dance tracks as Fly Nights and plays guitar in Long Distance Runner.

Has heaps of: Drones, Synths Decades active: 2020s Location: Auckland Entry last updated: 17/04/2023

mHz

Mo H. Zareei has the most fortuitous initials for a sound artist with an interest in the foundational blocks of electronic sound. So, yeah, his releases show up under “mHz”, as in “millihertz”. Mo is an Iranian sound artist based in Wellington, where he lectures in composition and sound art. Most of his releases to date have music of interest to ambient fans, with his most recent releases in very sparse, almost completely beatless territory.

Has heaps of: Drones, Glitches, Synths Decades active: 2010s, 2020s Location: Wellington Entry last updated: 17/04/2023

Tofujuice

Tofujuice makes long, usually soft ambient tracks with varying amounts of noise.

Has heaps of: Drones, Synths Decades active: 2010s, 2020s Location: Wellington Entry last updated: 07/04/2023

èvia

èvia dropped their debut on Chicago’s Lillerne Tapes and is keeping pretty anonymous. Crisp, bright, concise electronic sounds.

Has heaps of: Drones, Glitches Decades active: 2020s Location: Unknown Entry last updated: 12/03/2023

Box of Hammers

John Kingston layers up fx-laden guitars under this alias. He’s also been collaborating, introducing other primarily acoustic instruments into the mix of what he does.

Has heaps of: Drones, Guitars Decades active: 2020s Location: Wellington Entry last updated: 03/03/2023

Peace Point

Cycles album cover

James Erwin has an album of bright and sparkly synth stuff that nods to dance culture and song forms, but minus the drums.

Has heaps of: Synths Decades active: 2020s Location: Wellington Entry last updated: 29/11/2022

Ike Zwanikken

Photo of Ike Zwanikken

Ike’s music has a bit of a conceptual bent, often featuring clean digital synths, spoken word samples and dramatic bursts of sub bass.

Has heaps of: Acoustic instruments, Glitches, Synths Decades active: 2010s, 2020s Location: Auckland Entry last updated: 20/11/2022

Jack Woodbury

Woodbury is Wellington-based composer “juxtaposing noise and glitch textures against ambient materials”. He’s got two albums via Rattle Records, one solo and one with Peter Lilley.

Has heaps of: Acoustic instruments, Field recordings, Glitches Decades active: 2020s Location: Wellington Entry last updated: 17/10/2022

Alan Brown

Although he might be better known for jazz piano, Alan Brown’s recent music has gone very textured and ambient, with some parts generated by software, some parts improvised.

Has heaps of: Acoustic instruments, Synths Decades active: 2010s, 2020s Location: Auckland Entry last updated: 02/10/2022

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