Ingenii Records

01/17/2025

Forgot to share this at the appropriate time, but 2024 was our best year yet. Thank you so much for the support! 5000 listeners in a year is a nice milestone.

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01/14/2025

We’re excited to share "Spectral Transmissions '24", a collection of the singles we released in 2024. Clocking in at just under 20 minutes, these 8 tracks are an unflinching and raw unguided tour through joyful sonic experimentation encompassing math rock, noise, electronic, post-rock, and ambient music. Our 2024 output features incredibly talented collaborators, strange instruments, and audio samples spanning three centuries.

Some of the highlights include:

•a mathy, eerie space odyssey featuring relentless Moog synthesizer arpeggios and warped glockenspiel
•microwave doors slamming
•dumbells clinking
•an abandoned film score from 2014
• Aaron Abrahamson Cote ripping steel pan over a noisy Christmas song

Thank you for being part of this wild ride. "Spectral Transmissions '24" is out now on all streaming platforms—we hope you enjoy listening.

Thank you for a great year.
D. Majestic and The Spectral Band

01/09/2025

🚨NEW PLAYLIST🚨
Providence 2024: music released by PVD-based artists in 2024. What did we miss?

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12/09/2024

some cool insight into A Troop of Echoes's new release:

Experimental postrock mixtapes getting covered in print media in the year 2024. Wild stuff.

Thanks to Rob Duguay and The Independent for the great writeup! Link in comments.

12/07/2024

This is the sound of a dissonant and angular math rock band morphing into a more serene post rock band. We've caught them in mid-morph. This music is muscular and weird and complex and bursting with joy.

Our most raw release yet, "Infinite Hits 3" is curated from jams, demos, and live takes from 2010-2012, as we evolved from the sound of "Days in Automation" towards what would become "The Longest Year on Record".

Nick curated and sequenced this one, and we love how it shows off a raucous side we haven’t previously captured on record.

Out now on your favorite platform that pays us money, theoretically.

More releases coming in 2025!

12/05/2024

congrats on a great year!

Role call?!? Friends, family, and whoever our other 12,000 listeners are, thanks for sticking around! 🤩 It’s been a super fun year of recording, and we have a few more single releases scheduled before the end of the year! We appreciate you! 🎧🌴

11/29/2024

A noisy post-punk version of Wham's "Last Christmas" with STEEL DRUMS???
A NOISY POST-PUNK VERSION OF WHAM'S "LAST CHRISTMAS" WITH STEEL DRUMS!!!

🎄🚨NEW CHRISTMAS SONG JUST DROPPED🚨🎄
Noisy post-punk. Steel drums. Analog synthesizers. George Michael. Fuzz bass. Glockenspiel. Christmas music. Distortion pedals. On an ordinary day, these things belong far, far apart. But we are no ordinary Spectral Band.

Our latest collaboration with Panoramic View’s Aaron Abrahamson Cote is a highly unusual spin on a Christmas classic: an electronic, noisy, steel drum-infused post-punk take on Wham's "Last Christmas." Released on the Ingenii Records imprint, the track melds steel drums, fuzzed-out bass, crunchy distorted guitars, buzzing synthesizers, and processed drums into a lush, enveloping, abrasive soundscape. Airy glockenspiel floats above the fray, while audio samples of an unhinged preacher railing against the satanic nature of Christmas provide the experimental textures seasoned listeners have come to expect from The Spectral Band.

But the real star on top of the Christmas tree is Cote’s nimble and expressive steel drum. He expertly navigates a harmonic and emotional journey with nuanced phrasing and a dynamic touch. Tasteful layers of tape delay, saturation, and other delightful forms of audio degradation augment the organic warmth of the steel drums while intertwining them with the track's harsher electronic textures. There’s no reason to think that steel drums would sound appropriate on a punk version of a Wham! Christmas song. But these steel drums sound haunting, otherworldly, and essential.

Streaming links in comments.

11/21/2024

11/21/2024

A Troop of Echoes hit some nice milestones this week. Check them out if you haven't yet.

Hit a few milestones this week - 1000+ monthly listeners and our first song to hit 10,000 streams on Spotify. Thanks for all the support over the years, and we can't wait for you to hear Infinite Hits 3 dropping in a few weeks.

11/21/2024

sent me a drum track and it turned into a tribute to our friend. I wrote some words about in the explanation, but additional ideas have surfaced:
This recording seemed to awaken the idea that someone as supportive as him has embedded his presence into us. Our ideas are empowered by those who give us the space to succeed as ourselves. Read the rest, and listen to music express our emotions at https://panoramicview.bandcamp.com/track/a-touch-of-grace

11/15/2024

Last month's streaming numbers for our catalog are in (mostly and ). 23,000+ streams, which is not too bad. But more than 19,000 of those, or a little over 80%, were unmonetized/unqualified. Meanwhile, Spotify is making record profits. Something's not adding up here.

11/11/2024

D. Majestic and the Spectral Band just released a single cut of an abandoned film score commissioned in 2014. Lush and gloomy - great stuff.