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Artist
The Amazing Doctor Tentacles
12+ albums
about
Little is known about the anonymous producer known as “The Amazing Doctor Tentacles.” What people do know is that his base of operations is in Dallas/Fort Worth (in his own words, as its “premier EDM darkwave supervillain”) and that he has 20 years of electronic music production experience. Through those years, he often worked under the radar and under various pseudonyms on a multitude of projects and now-defunct weblabels. He only surfaced on social media as of 2021 when he began to release singles on a monthly - and sometimes even weekly - basis. He abandoned DAWs after years of use in favor of drum machines and live synthesizers for his “creepy banger” sound. His genre is as odd and stitched together as his pressed-suit steampunk look. On the Fringes of Sound said his style “pushes the limits of genre combinations … Incorporating pieces of drum and bass, chiptune, and even hints of dubstep … and gives a very hectic feeling as it switches tempos and rhythms on a whim.” His beats are kinetic, heavy and bring what reviewer Lars Haur has often called “SNES boss battle energy.” Puls8 Radio (formerly Only Human Radio) described his music as sounding “like tentacles wrapping around” the listener and that one “wouldn’t want to listen to it in bed at night.” His bizarre synths rarely fail to wiggle, morph and transmogrify as they pulse like hallucinations through his productions. He isn’t afraid to show his synth patching chops on his Tiktok and Instagram. In Spring of 2021,
