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Sleep Deprivation – Streaming Channels

Posted on 5th March 2025 in Mixes, News, Releases, Video

We recently launched our own series of live streams under the “Sleep Deprivation” name, intended to give us a little more freedom to try out long-form ambient and experimental pieces. We’ve got recordings and live-streams featuring music from our archives, along with new original works and generative experiments, where the machines take over.

https://www.youtube.com/@SleepDeprivation23

“Welcome to Sleep Deprivation, a sonic refuge for the sleep-deprived and the restless. Our channel delivers deep, hypnotic dystopian drone music, a fusion of dark ambient soundscapes, industrial undertones, and eerie atmospheric drones designed to lull you into a trance-like state.

Whether you’re battling insomnia, overactive thoughts, or the creeping silence of late-night solitude, our immersive soundscapes will envelop you in a world of slow-burning tension and melancholic serenity. Let the distant hum of decaying cities, ghostly transmissions, and mechanical lullabies guide you into the unknown.

Perfect for: Midnight thinkers, cyberpunk dreamers, and those seeking a surreal escape.
Sounds of the future’s ruins: Haunting drones, deep reverbs, and synthetic echoes.
Sleep… or surrender to the void.

Subscribe now and drift into the dystopian dreamstate.”

Music For Moore Street Substation – Out Now

Posted on 30th November 2023 in Releases

Our latest ambient work and the soundtrack to the exhibition of My Brutal Life at Moore Street Substation, is out now on streaming platforms, digital download and a tasty limited edition CD.

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My Brutal Life – Exhibition Video and Soundtrack

Posted on 12th November 2023 in Releases, Video

With the upcoming release of the Music for Moore Street Substation soundtrack, we’ve also decided to release the full video as produced by Amoeba Design. This AV production was originally presented at the exhibition of My Brutal Life at the Moore Street Substation in Sheffield during October 2023.

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About the Video
A combined study in Concrete, Brutalism, Photography, Typography and Sheffield’s rich Electronic Music History.

Inspired by photos of Sheffield and the psychogeographical nature of the surrounding environment and moments in time captured by Martin Dust, inspired by their music and photography amoeba combined creative bespoke parametric typography, ai and machine learning with real-time motion graphics to create a unique glimpse into one familiar yet strange Brutal reality we all see a version of everyday

Reflecting the brutalist history of Sheffield, set to the music of The BlackDog. The film was initially made for the My Brutal Life Installation at Moore Street Power station, now utilised here with the captured impulse response reverb of the power station’s interior and evolving in live AV sets with the electronic act.

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Music For Moore Street Substation – 1/12/23

Posted on 3rd November 2023 in Releases

Coming in December 2023, we’ll be releasing the original soundtrack for the My Brutal Life exhibition held at Moore Street Substation. The final work featured remixes and new compositions, all created for the immense location of the event.

This new ambient album will be available to download, on all digital streaming platforms, and on CD, including a very special deluxe package.

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Further Details
“When we discovered that we could use the top floor of the Moore Street Substation for the exhibition of My Brutal Life, we couldn’t believe our luck. For us, this brutalist icon is a perfect fit for My Brutal Life, so we decided immediately to lean into the unique nature of the building.

It’s one of our favourite brutalist buildings in Sheffield and provides a massive space for the event. It’s rarely open to the public and often shrouded in mystery. Many people, even locals, don’t know what the building is.

The space did, however, have problems. The soundcheck for the audio revealed a particular issue – the immense space has a massive natural reverberation of over 9.7 seconds. The original album and soundtrack for My Brutal Life wouldn’t work in this environment, with the bass and drums creating an overwhelming sense of claustrophobia. We returned to the studio to remix the existing tracks and create new pieces to fit this space. We wanted people to feel comfortable and spend time with the art.

As a result, we had a very different soundtrack to the original, so we’ve decided to release the full audio as it was heard in the Moore Street Substation.”

Little Sheffield

Posted on 4th August 2022 in News, Photography

Martin’s new photo book, “Little Sheffield – The Changing Face Of Sheffield S3”, is now shipping!

Buy Direct: https://www.martindust.photography/store/p/littlesheffield

Having previously focused on the fading modernist landscapes of Brutal Sheffield and Brutal Yorkshire, photographer Martin Dust now zooms in on Sheffield’s former industrial heartland to capture details hidden among the dereliction and development – before they disappear for good.

For decades, Martin’s creative life has revolved around a portion of central Sheffield that straddles the River Don – a once dense district around the Wicker and West Bar whose fortunes have undulated over the years just like the rise and fall of his beloved city’s hills. Having been invited by 5Plus Architects to document the area’s transformation as some of its few remaining factory buildings bite the dust, he embarks on a mission to dig into its physical history while also excavating some Sheffield evocations of his own.

From skeletal pubs and half-hidden bridges to musical echoes and workshops that once rang with industrial noise – the kind made with hammers, not drum machines – Martin Dust’s Little Sheffield is a book that brilliantly connects them all.

“Martin is an urbanist, offering us a view of Sheffield that we will never witness again. Part autobiography, part psychogeography, part documentary, here we are witnesses to the spirit of a city that constantly reinvents itself, captured beautifully in photos and words.”
Robin Rimbaud – Scanner

“Martin’s curious lens seeks out romance in the ruination and detail in the decay. A pause in time and reflection on a place of flux and changing fortunes. Never a picture postcard place, S3 is finally ready for its close-up.”
Roger Quail – The Box/My Life In The Mosh Of Ghosts

“Martin’s forensic approach draws on the past in a neglected present, illuminating overlooked parts of the city during a time of transformation. Exploring place and memory, he brings ruins and rubble to life, documenting details and unmasking the stories behind them via his own unique urban schemata.”
Nick Bax – Human

“A look at Sheffield that is almost certainly going to be lost in time if it wasn’t for this book. Brilliant.”
Claire Reynolds – Smile Magazine

Brutal Five To One Mix V2 – Out Now

Posted on 4th August 2022 in Releases

As one of our favourites, our recent “Brutal Five To One Mix” has been revisited, updated and remastered for a full release as a compilation.

“This mix was created at Park Hill while photographing the flats for a future project. It draws upon all of the music we’ve been making about Sheffield and Brutalism, along with a few choice selections from our catalogue, all to create a vibration that can never be seen.

The needs and polarization of our society feed heavily into the collective consciousness, often among people who’ve never lived in social housing or on a large estate. Life is complex enough but when it involves negotiations with businesses, committees, funding bodies, and of course, individuals with very subjective opinions, the original vision will always be compromised. This clash of differing ideas and demands can create something new that would have never existed. Unfortunately, that rarely pleases anyone.

This mix and the selected tracks within it were created with these feelings in mind, bringing together conflicting thoughts and ideas to envision a new internal landscape.”

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Live In Barcelona 25/03/2022 – Out Now

Posted on 2nd June 2022 in Releases

Recorded live in Barcelona, this album provides a journey through our work from the last 18 months, taking cues from the Dubs, Music For Photographers and Brutalism projects. The music and the visuals of the live performance document the brutalist architecture, found at home and in the locations we visit, while also reflecting its place within the landscape and our lives.

Using original photography, this live AV show developed the visuals using artificial intelligence and neural networks to create new constructions, worlds and visions for a version of a future just over the page.

The Black Dog and Amoeba Design are working together to realise a series of art projects for live events and gallery installations, all under the banner of My Brutal Life, an ongoing series of projects encompassing music, photography, books, exhibitions, 360 audio-visual events and live performances.

This live performance marks the end of the first year in developing this body of work.

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Fighting Modernism EP – Out 6th May 2022

Posted on 5th May 2022 in Releases

“Fighting Modernism” features three new tracks to continue the Brutal EP series and expand on the concepts of the well-received Music For Photographers album.

“People don’t like change, their era always was and still is the best. They no longer live on the edge of the page, they’re trapped in a nostalgic Ponzi scheme that they never asked for.

Modernity traps you emotionally, locking you into a “small island” mentally, but who the hell dreams of going back to the bronze age? The romantic in you died when you moved to the city, you gave up the right to be so judgemental.

Fight back, grey over green. Don’t let them convince you that they know better: they’ll ply you with platitudes while planning you out of existence.”

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Concrete Reasoning EP – Out Now

Posted on 3rd March 2022 in Releases

Concrete Reasoning builds on the foundations of Music For Photographers and Brutal Minimalism with three fresh reinforced cuts, all inspired by the colour work of Le Corbusier and matching the ambitious lines striking across the skyline.

Let’s face it, who else in electronic music is writing about brutalism and architecture?

As always, the bass is ever-present, waiting for the minimal patterns to play out like echos traversing new structures. For this to exist in its intended form, the war for Grey Over Green must begin.

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