B ( ) TONG

B°TONG is Chris Sigdell, an experimental electronic musician. He developed a soft spot for early industrial textures and pioneering ambient soundscapes while cutting his teeth in cult industrial band NID (1995-2005). A mysterious and shadowy figure he has ended up assembling sounds of such chilling creepiness that it makes Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2 sound like a collection of sugar-coated lullabies. The sound of B°TONG feels a lot like an agonizingly slow crawl through a dark tunnel where the dim light at the other end never gets closer.

B°TONG builds an interesting body of work that moves in various directions at the same time. From dealings with ambient and isolationism on one hand and experimental music, ranging from the soft microsound end to the more engaging noise end, in a clever combination of ideas…

Since 2005 he’s played more than 300 concerts all over Europe and North America and appeared at electronic and industrial festivals such as: Audio Art (PL), Les Digitales (CH), Norberg Festivalen (S), Temple Of Silence (PL), PNEM Sound Art Festival (NL), Kildemose Festival (DK), Støy På Landet (N), Zeit Für Lärm (DE), Lab30 (DE), Ausklang Festival (DE), Shift (CH), Unser Industrie (DE), and Sinus-Series (CH). B°TONG has released more than 10 albums on labels like: Hots (SP), Silken Tofu (B), Greytone (I), Drone Records (DE), Attenuation Circuit (DE), Verato Project (DE), Noecho Records (UK) Gears Of Sand (USA).

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