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@cdbaby.com has really screwed me over on my recent album. Release day was a month ago and it's still not on streaming services. Customer service is out to lunch. After 16 years I will be switching distributors.

I reviewed the beautiful new album from Daryl Groetsch (who also makes records under the name Pulse Emitter), a lush collection of ambient soundscapes representing the depths of the ocean.

Big thanks to Daniel Bromfield @pitchfork.com for this excellent review. “Fathoms is a frictionless listen, but there’s a stubborn sense of craft to it, and that’s what distinguishes it from the streaming-era onslaught of music with little purpose except to be pleasant.”

New digital album out today! 🌊🫧 Fathoms, by Daryl Groetsch. Inspired by Earth’s oceans, and reading Rachel Carson’s 1951 book on the subject, The Sea Around Us.

New digital album available for preorder today! 🌊🌊🌊 Inspired by Earth’s oceans.

Stoked to have made this list!

Tide Pools is #3!

What on earth to do with old test pressings. Is there any value in these things?

Here’s an interview I did for @igloomag.bsky.social

I had no idea Florian Schneider was so into saxophones and horns.

Pulse Emitter - Tide Pools reviewed on @pitchfork.com by Daniel Bromfield 🪼 "On Tide Pools he ramps up to the level of his labelmates, both in its progginess and in the way it seems a little more computerized than his earlier works, with MIDI playing a bigger role." 🔗: pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

🪸🐡🦑 @pulseemitter.bsky.social - 𝙏𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙋𝙤𝙤𝙡𝙨 reviewed in Futurism Restated by @philipsherburne.bsky.social So happy to see this album featured alongside fellow Chicagoans - Bitchin Bajas & Sam Prekop! read & subscribe to this essential newsletter @: futurismrestated.substack.com/p/fr-138-tid...

My new LP reviewed in The Wire! “A masterwork of synthesizer programming and sound design, Tide Pools is an impressive and absorbing evocation of our natural world and its countless organisms moving in concert and chaos.” pulseemitter.bandcamp.com/album/tide-p...

This Sunday - October 5th - in Portland, Oregon: It's the Pulse Emitter - 𝙏𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙋𝙤𝙤𝙡𝙨 album release show! featuring: @pulseemitter.bsky.social Saloli Analogue Dream Research Presented by @brainfoodbread.bsky.social and @moonglyph.bsky.social 11 AM at Speck's Records 8216 N Denver Ave 🌞🦑🪸🎶

Out today! 🌊TIDE🌴POOLS 🐠 LP/CD/shirt/mug pulseemitter.bandcamp.com/album/tide-p...

Portland show and album release for my new one, Tide Pools!

I composed a recorded piece of music that will be played during the reading at this book release!

🪸 OUT TODAY new single from @pulseemitter.bsky.social from Tide Pools - coming out on 09/26 "Tide Pool 1" 🌊🌊 with his network of latticed synth arpeggios & washed out pads percolating against each other, Daryl conjures the atmosphere of a inlet teeming with sea creatures & swirling eddies.

Two tracks streaming, musical merch available for pre-ordering, t-shirt and mug just added, check it all out at: pulseemitter.bandcamp.com/album/tide-p...

OUT TODAY new single from Pulse Emitter's upcoming album "So Many Leaves" 🍂🌀 maybe the most percussive track on the album, Daryl dials in thick synth bass & glitched out snare patterns before he sends us down a whirlpool of warp-speed arpeggios 🌊 Tide Pools out 09/26 on LP, CD, digi, & merch w/DL

A joke in the manual for Waldorf’s iOS recreation of their famous Microwave synth.

🌊 Pulse Emitter's new track "Energy Flying" - featured in @hearingthingsco.bsky.social by @cushac.bsky.social Consider opening the wallet of your heart to this wonderful subscriber-supported music publication! @pulseemitter.bsky.social's new album 𝙏𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙋𝙤𝙤𝙡𝙨 releases September 26th on LP/CD/digi:

ANNOUNCING: 𝗣𝘂𝗹𝘀𝗲 𝗘𝗺𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝙏𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙋𝙤𝙤𝙡𝙨 🫧🌊 out Sept 26th on LP, CD, & digi We're so happy to have world's nicest man Daryl Groetsch back in HausMo zones with a spellbinding new LP that finds him dipping his toes into progressive synth composition, jazz-inspired harmonies, & intricate rhythmic swirls.

A new Pulse Emitter LP/CD on @hausumountain.bsky.social is coming! —Tide Pools— September 26. Hear the single “Energy Flying” and preorder today.

Tomorrow in Portland at the great Turn! Turn! Turn!: @pulseemitter.bsky.social Bliss River Me Sure to be a soul-revealing journey! Starts at 8 pm.

#SomaFM promo listening 🎧 Daryl Groetsch - Blotted (2025) Long form darker drone. I listened to about a half hour of this. It’s a soothing deep drone in constant slow movement. I like it. If you’re a fan of drones - give it a try. darylgroetsch.bandcamp.com/album/blotted

More (and sooner) gig announcements coming shortly, but already made a flier for this one in Portland next month. Hope to see my PDX people out and about!

Not big into album anniversaries but this a big round number and one of my favorite albums of all time - Prefab Sprout's 1985 Steve McQueen/Two Wheels Good is 40 today.

New album today. Blotted consists of a low, undulating synthesizer tone that has been honed to the perfect gauzy texture to assist in blotting out the world. Designed and tested for sleep.

Steps Ahead, 1980s fusion band featuring Michael Brecker. Lots of synths, lots of vibraphone. Great stuff!

I love the music in The White Lotus. Always something surprising and primal. And it’s layered on almost every scene! The best music on a TV show I can remember. I wish I could write music like that.

I just sold a djembe at 6:30 AM on my front porch in the freezing darkness. Very eager and stoked buyer.

I recently listened to an interview with Dwight Yoakam. I don't know his music but he mentioned he checks his mixes on a JBL Clip bluetooth speaker. I tried it, it works. It's a great representation of the way many people will actually hear your music, so if it sounds good there... Thanks Dwight.

So thankful this one was around the house when I was a kid.

Played a show last night. My big hand hit the transport controls accidentally and stopped the music. So I did that two more times in the set to make sure everyone knew I meant to do it.

Logic Pro’s new Quantec Room Simulator, so good… 🤤😶‍🌫️

I’m playing in Astoria, Oregon. An afternoon of meditative experimental synth/tape/electronic sounds. With Million Mists (Jamie Potter of Brother Raven).

In Albuquerque, New Mexico. Almost every night I watch the sunset out of my hotel window as if it were a movie.

My new one, Above the Shore, is on this.

A new digital release is out today! Long-form ambient. Available wherever you listen to music.

The Steve Roach show last night was so good 💙

A new digital release is up for pre-order today! Above the Shore is a long-form ambient album. It is 75 minutes long and designed for relaxing or napping to, carrying the listener to a deep place of calm and well-being. A 5-minute radio edit is also included.

Having a Iasos listening day: Angelic Music, Timeless Sound, and Jeweled Space. ✨💎😇

I have a few albums at FMA (Free Music Archive) that are licensed Attribution-NonCommercial so you can use them in your videos, etc. without a Content ID claim. freemusicarchive.org/music/Pulse_...

I’ve been working on lots of new music, as Pulse Emitter and as Daryl Groetsch, for which I am very stoked. Also, I made a new workspace upstairs.

Made the paper. A review of Prophecy, my first successful attempts at ambient space music from ~25 years ago, released last month. With vintage photo!

I'm on this list 🙏

I've always loved the soundtrack to Æon Flux (the original animated series). Pleased to see the music by Drew Neumann streaming now (and on vinyl).

Finally made copies of Waiting Forever, the third album of my dungeon synth project Endless Fog. Hand-engraved tapes, card stock J-cards. endlessfog.bandcamp.com/album/waitin...