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Artist
The Fractal Skulls
12+ albums
ambientelectronickosmischedronepsychedelic drone
about
Using the basic building blocks of analogue generated loops and minimalist drone, The Fractal Skulls weave subtly evolving patterns of hypnotic sound to produce kosmische music that transcends the sum of its deceptively simple parts. The man behind the Skulls is 24 year old Christopher Smith, a studio engineer by day, whose recorded work first emerged on a brace of limited edition cassette/CD-R... releases in 2010-11. His father’s job in the RAF meant Chris spent much of his early childhood in Belgium and Germany, which maybe informed the Continental drift of his later musical development. Eventually settling back in the UK, he became involved in making music with various garage/psych bands at school, before attending music college, where a free-thinking tutor turned him on to the work of John Cage and Steve Reich, encouraging his compositional experiments with tape loops and transistor radios. After leaving college, Chris spent some time working with ambient composer Marvin Ayres, before landing his current day job, working (and living) at a studio ensconced in the bucolic but isolated heart of the English countryside. Key to The Fractal Skulls’ music is the use of repetition to create an immersive and all encompassing sonic environment. While careful to avoid grinding any axes against digital production, Chris is single-minded in his adherence to analogue sound sources, with his musical setup currently revolving around a core of synths, phaser pedals, echo unit, drone co
