Circuit Rider UK: Derek Rogers and Lee Noble are two of the most interesting experimental musicians working today. Last year, Rogers’ Saturations forged a new path in long-form drone music, and this year Noble’s Ruiner is one of the best records of any kind.

Steve Flato is a musician whose primary focus is on composition with material sourced from improvisations of himself or collaborators. Flato is concerned with process, chance, and the line between improvisation and composition, synthetic and natural sounds. He is additionally concerned with impurity, taking processes and concepts and freely interchanging them without the process necessarily dictating form.

Monochromacy is a noise/drone band from Chula Vista, the solo project of Esteban Flores (Beware We Are the Werewolves of Belial, Looming, Mudhead). Minimalistic drone is saturated with affecting chords - overblown to complete cacophony as volume and amplification become instrument – leaving the listener lost in a saturnine soundscape.