https://zacbentz.bandcamp.com/album/songs-about-everything-dying-around-us-including-us

Videos for each song can be found here: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFE6HOhuWrBpB9THrX9vdmH_WQ2GY3AgI

Below is something of an explanation of what each song means to me, but you may find other interpretations. I would hope so, at least.

“Sticks on Skins”
A friendly glow rides a muted rhythm, approaching through the mists, illuminating a larger, endless expanse.

“Older than Bones”
Before there were bones, mountain ranges and vast oceans ebbed and flowed under the wind.

“The Seal Cannot Be After the Doorway”
The cows have left the barn. The cat’s out of the bag. The genie is out of the bottle. You can’t put toothpaste back in the tube. The door is open behind us.

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“More Fire in More Places”
An alarm sounds, but it’s already here.

“Strange Years”
Sit. Take five minutes for yourself. And five for everything you’ve lost.

Everything by Zac Bentz (ASCAP)

released May 31, 2024

https://zacbentz.bandcamp.com/album/music-product-sounds-for-no-audience

“MUSIC PRODUCT: Sounds for no audience. (Side effects may include wisps, new colors, and unwanted feelings of hope.)” is the third in a series of ongoing meditative explorations from auditory atmospherist Zac Bentz, aka Dirty Knobs. Following on the heels of the much darker “666666SUPERSATAN,” the three gentle pieces in this collection are interconnected by the same base tones, with each piece teasing out new layers and interactions while adding their own unique elements.

Everything by Zac Bentz

https://zacbentz.bandcamp.com/album/666666supersatan

released January 6, 2023

Three extended dark meditations. Rituals, summonings, incantations, trance-inducing mantras, temporary escape hatches. All elements were recorded live, though not necessarily together at the same time. No “loops” in the traditional sense, and almost no editing. Captured moments in time to be re-released as needed. Maybe to bring a little fire into frozen places.

Everything by Zac Bentz.

https://zacbentz.bandcamp.com/album/music-product-sounds-for-black-hole-tourism

Dirty Knobs – MUSIC PRODUCT: Sounds for Black Hole Tourism.
(Side effects may include total perspective, roundabouts, and poor films.)

released September 2, 2022

Everything by Zac Bentz.

https://zacbentz.bandcamp.com/album/music-product-sounds-to-facilitate-creativity

Dirty Knobs – MUSIC PRODUCT: Sounds to facilitate creativity.
(Side effects may include wealth, adoration, and eventual ruin.)

We seem to be nearing the event horizon when all “content” is generated by an AI to suit our exact needs in the moment. An infinite playlist of moods. At its best, this could help us focus, or get through a tough time. At its worst it could easily turn us into nothing more than revenue streams until we burn out like overused rechargeable batteries. (Hmmm…maybe a good idea for a movie franchise…)

That’s where the concept and title of this release comes from. However the music within it is anything but artificially generated. All core elements were performed on analog equipment (without using sequencers) and captured live. It was made using a new discreet, easily portable “instrument” I finally managed to complete. A modular analog Eurorack system. Rather small compared to most, yet capable of producing its own galaxy of sounds. (Though I will admit that track 4 uses an additional outside effect pedal.)

Hopefully there will be more in this series. I wanted to wait until I had a couple more compiled before releasing them but let’s be honest, tomorrow is a wish until we’re there. Let’s not wait.

Thank you for your support. I hope you can share this with anyone who could use it.

released June 10, 2022

Everything by Zac Bentz (ASCAP)
©2022 Xero Music

Pressure. Uncertainty. Paranoia. Amplified by an overcrowded, remorseless city. A perviously unseen but always suspected malevolent existence begins to seep through the darkest cracks in the concrete, and Edith D. begins to lose her mind. Voices, rot, and a leering figure pursue her. What she sees in blinding, disorienting flashes sends her careening out of the city, into the countryside, where she is far from alone. Exhausted, consumed, Edith D. abandons her fear, emerging on the other side of

Music and cover design by Zac Bentz.
Cover artwork by Amy Abts: www.etsy.com/shop/aasartshop
©2020 Xero Music

Heliomori
by Dirty Knobs

Combining the Greek “helios” (sun) and the Latin “mori” (to die). Surfing the harmonic sounds of light, and sinking into its absence.

All tracks performed and recorded live (more or less) at Painted Moth studio.
Everything by Zac Bentz (ASCAP)
©2016 Xero Music

http://zacbentz.bandcamp.com/album/true-norwegian-black-drone

“Listen to the aching, end of the world atmosphere in Låtefossen Tåke posted above, and imagine yourself climbing the hill posted in the artwork to take a final, knowing breath of air before the world permanently clouds over and snuffs away all life in oppressive blackness.” – toiletovhell.com/gazing-too-long-into-the-abyss-erasing-the-sun/

“The waves and gentle drones are prevalent holding you in place, feeling the world around you. But something is beginning to seem quite wrong with this picture.” –terrarelicta.com/index.php/reviews/all-reviews/5158-dirty-knobs-true-norwegian-black-drone