After a six-month break, here is another Mixcloud mix. It’s a spooky mix about curses. Featuring tracks by Thavius Beck, Dalek, clipping., Fatboi Shariff & Bigg Jus, Triple 6 Mafia, GZA, Flowdan, The Bug, G36, SlowPitch Sound, Dean Hurley, and Olivier Deriviere.
It’s both quite similar and quite different from what I have previously done. Hope you enjoy it.
2025 Update V
•August 2, 2025 • Leave a Comment2025 Update IV
•July 10, 2025 • Leave a Comment
New John Lithium album released early this month. Collection of experimental industrial ambient drone tracks, recorded between 2023-2025. Special thanks to everyone for their patience.
Also, I contributed sounds to the newest album from the experimental collective h{EE}l. Featuring Executive Producer Prick Wolf / PDMF / Volker Störtebeker / apnodi / KR Seward / Steven Leak / John Lithium / ChrisV / Peter J. Evans / James Ghost / Scott Bazar / Jordi Heras Fauque / C.P. McDill / Oystein Q. Jorgensen / {AN} EeL.
Other than these releases, I have mainly been focusing on my music promo blog and netlabel. I have a few side-project ideas that have been sitting in storage for a while, but still need to nail down exactly what the best sound and aesthetic should be for them.
Thanks all and stay hydrated out there.
John Lithium – Timestream Tone now available!
•May 13, 2025 • Leave a Comment
2025 remasters of “Timestream Tone”, a composition intended to facilitate meditating on and/or dreaming of time travel. Original tracks were recorded sometime between 2010-2012. The first track is the “original” mix, and the second is a recently re-discovered extended mix, which to my knowledge has never been made available online until now.
John Lithium – Psychic Negation now available!
•May 10, 2025 • Leave a Comment
The sound of enclosure. Disconnection. Your mind is vulnerable to unseen forces from within and without the aether. You need to protect yourself from the gnawing void. Psychic Negation.
The project has gone through various iterations over the years. The genesis of this project came through an album, titled “Psychic Negation”, which I released on Archive.org back in 2010. This released featured extremely PaulStretch processed ambient audio. People seemed to be interested in this sort of recording, so I soon recorded a sort of ‘sequel’ where I would remix the entirety of the recently released “Insomnia” album in a similar manner (this time using the native DAW sample stretching processes though, which results in varying degree of pitch shifting etc).
This version features updated source material from the 2020 remaster of the “Insomnia” album featuring 24-bit audio as well as adjusted mixing and mastering when appropriate, which ultimately helped bring several audio details that were originally somewhat buried in the mix.
This is minimalist industrial dark ambient, taking inspiration from Lustmord, Sleep Research Facility, and Controlled Bleeding’s “The Poisoner” album. Liner notes written at the time also mention influences from Arnold Böcklin and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
This One’s For You.
John Lithium: All production, mixing, and mastering.
Reon Moebius: Additional production in the original “Insomnia” sessions.
Art by John Lithium.
John Lithium – STEMS now available!
•April 8, 2025 • Leave a Comment
Label Description: Collection of stems/core tracks recorded between 2020-2023. Features material from the Time Theories EP, Ephemera compilation, and 2023 EP, including previously lost material from the Time Theories sessions. Includes a mix of dark ambience, beats, industrial, and noise. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.
2025 Update III
•March 26, 2025 • Leave a Comment
Hello all. Hope this finds you well. Have been keeping fairly busy recently. One new single and two compilation appearances have been recently released.
New single “Will & Volition” out this month. Headphones with good bass sound is recommended. This track was also released on YouTube and Instagram, but due to their respective compression procedures, one will get the best sound quality from Bandcamp.
Two ‘new’ tracks were also included in the recently released Sounds For The Soul ambient compilations. Be sure to check out both of the full releases here:
https://soundsforthesoul.bandcamp.com/album/ambient-compilation-7
https://soundsforthesoul.bandcamp.com/album/dark-ambient-comp-5
2025 Update II
•February 7, 2025 • Leave a CommentHello all. I have recently been releasing some old and new compilation tracks on my YouTube page, most of which have not been uploaded to my personal Bandcamp page. Here are a few:
John Lithium & {AN} EeL – The Dip & The Drift Now Available!
•February 7, 2025 • Leave a Comment
Hello all. I am proud to announce that I have a collaborative EP with {AN} EeL just released today on his label. As with my previous appearances on some of his h{EE}l collaborative collective, I provided some of the base sound materials, which he would further refine and mutate. Turning lead into surrealist, experimental, avant-garde gold. This one is arguably a bit spookier than some of my previous appearances but then again we live in darker times. Headphones are recommended for this one.
I’m really happy at how this turned out and I hope you will be as well.
2025 Update I
•February 1, 2025 • Leave a Comment-Deleted all music review posts from the former version of this site, as well as a few additional posts that either were obsolete or referenced releases or planned events that didn’t happen.
-I have been slowly adding some obscure tracks from the vaults to my YouTube and/or Bandcamp pages. Here is one from 2014 that was originally released under a different pseudonym I used briefly:
2024 Update V
•December 24, 2024 • Leave a CommentHello all. A few quick updates to round out 2024:
-I was fortunate enough to have the “Cousin Silas & John Lithium – Nocturnal Lullabies Volume 28” (https://cousinsilas1.bandcamp.com/album/nocturnal-lullabies-volume-28) appear on the “black_ops 100 for 2024” favorites list (https://taktentradio.com/?cat=7022). Also, several friends of the label and known associates are also on here so check it out!
-I have a new mix of an old track on the new “Quadrants 4 – Part 1” compilation recently released by The Cousin Silas Emporium. As always, many of the Emporium members also contribute tracks to Argali every once in a while, so well worth your while to give it all a listen.
-Also have the “single version” of my “Winter Solstice” songs on the new Petroglyph Music compilation.
-I was fortunate enough to be interviewed by the Internet Daemon netlabel. I am both more and less boring than you would imagine. Check it out here (https://cian-orbe-netlabel.blogspot.com/2024/12/interview-to-john-lithium-2024.html).
-Finally, I updated my Discography page.
-I’m hoping to be more musically active in 2025, as I was sidelined a few times this year due to some short-lived health issues, as well as a longstanding internet issue that lasted for about three months before it finally got resolved. Hope everyone is doing well out there, take care, and stay safe out there.
