Drone can be exciting, it can be challenging, and in the case of Kyle Landstra’s Bathing In Melatonin, it can be absolutely lovely and snuggly and warm and cuddly. His label, Wise Owl, believe in free music, so you can download his latest release, Recurring Dreams, now, without feeling at all guilty. Do it! Now! (Because I can’t upload it for technical reasons I don’t understand!)

(Factimonious hat tip)

Next up – the challenging.

Graham Dunning, who is one half of Blood Moon, has done something peculiar with a squeaky toy, and the result is, in his words, “a droning bovine chorus, like a slaughterhouse dirge or a barnyard lament”.

Give it a try. Really.

It’s over here and it’s called Pig Drone.

Finally – the uplifting.

Well, as uplifting as any song is that has a woman punching herself in the face as it’s cover.

Moderat’s A New Error is not actually 100% drone, but it seemed sort of appropriate, and gee-whizz if this ain’t the most fun I’ve had listening to a new tune in goodly while, yes siree.

So – here it is: Moderat – A New Error Moderat – A New Error

Just in case we get asked for it to be taken down, in which case you can also find it on this chap’s blog.

Unless they get him, too, in which case you can find it here.

Unless they get them, too, in which case – oh, I don’t know. Buy it? But why would you buy something you hadn’t heard? It isn’t even on their myspace. Good tune, though.

(By the way – thanks to Asya for this one!)

We’ll hopefully have a podcast from these guys in the near future, providing their set got recorded. They sound like some kind of scary experimental free jazz movie score, which complemented the beautiful drone set by Jonathan Fisher of Hippocamp nicely.

Get down to the next one anyway. It’s like going to the Royal Philarmonic but on acid and without your mum. Burst Couch runs monthly in churches around Manchester.