{"id":11830,"date":"2026-01-20T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=11830"},"modified":"2026-01-17T22:02:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T22:02:25","slug":"new-release-machinefabrieks-spelonk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=11830","title":{"rendered":"New release: Machinefabriek\u2019s \u201cSpelonk\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cronicaelectronica.org\/245\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/cronica245-2026_1440-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11826\" style=\"width:520px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/cronica245-2026_1440-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/cronica245-2026_1440-260x260.jpg 260w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/cronica245-2026_1440-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/cronica245-2026_1440-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/cronica245-2026_1440.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;re super proud to announce the first release of 2026, Machinefabriek\u2019s new album, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cronicaelectronica.org\/245\/\">Spelonk<\/a>\u201d. This album presents three tracks build with \u201chardware jams\u201d recorded with his live setup. It\u2019s all quite hands-on, with effects pedals, an oscillator, and electronic gadgets. The magic happens when combining different recordings, layering them, and hearing what happens. Listening is always a favorite moment in the process, with a welcome element of surprise. It\u2019s all about creating alien landscapes \u2014 alien also to me too \u2014 that are exciting to explore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rutger Zuydervelt (also known as Machinefabriek) combines elements of ambient, noise, minimalism, drone, field recordings and electro-acoustic experiments. The music can be heard as an attempt to create sonic environments for the listener to dwell in. Finding tension in texture, tone and timing, the result can be very minimalistic at first glance, but reveals its depth upon closer listening. The devil is in the details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zuydervelt was born in 1978 in Apeldoorn (The Netherlands) and now resides in Schiedam. He started recording as Machinefabriek in 2004. Since then, Zuydervelt released a steady stream of music on labels such as Western Vinyl, Type, Important, 12K, Entr&#8217;acte, Miasmah, Consouling Sounds, Western Vinyl Eilean and Edition Wandelweiser. He also composed for dance performances and films, and collaborated with various artists, like Michel Banabila, Gareth Davis, Steven Hess, Sylvain Chauveau, Aaron Martin, Dirk Serries, Dead Neanderthals, and many more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cronicaelectronica.org\/245\/\">Spelonk<\/a>\u201d is available as a limited-release CD or a download from Cr\u00f3nica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re super proud to announce the first release of 2026, Machinefabriek\u2019s new album, \u201cSpelonk\u201d. This album presents three tracks build with \u201chardware jams\u201d recorded with his live setup. It\u2019s all quite hands-on, with effects pedals, an oscillator, and electronic gadgets. The magic happens when combining different recordings, layering them, and hearing what happens. Listening is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=11830\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New release: Machinefabriek\u2019s \u201cSpelonk\u201d&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[620,301],"class_list":["post-11830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-releases","tag-620","tag-machinefabriek","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11832,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11830\/revisions\/11832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}