Sampler Vol.2 
A compilation featuring musical artists from Washington dc, Maryland, Virginia, Washington state.
Domingues & Kane
DOMINGUES & KANE - Classically-trained cellist and viola da gamba player Amy Domingues and multi-instrumentalist/composer Dennis Kane have performed for years in the Washington, DC indie/experimental scene in collaborations with others. Finally working together under the name Domingues & Kane, they weave the eloquent resonances of the viola da gamba with electronic treatments, keyboard, and guitar to create a rich sonic fabric. Drawing from traditions as varied as Renaissance counterpoint, basso ostinato, and improvisation, the duo forges a new instrumental genre all its own.  Domingues & Kane released the first viola da gamba/electronics hybrid recording from Washington, DC - “Gut + Voltage, viola da gamba & electronics in synthesis”  on Verses Records in March 2016.

Domingues and Kane website
Domingues and Kane Facebook
Insect Factory
Insect Factory is music from Washington DC area musician Jeff Barsky. Insect Factory focuses on texture and mood, building layers of dense sounds that slowly evolve into hypnotic and atmospheric drones. 

www.insectfields.org
insectfactory.bandcamp.com
Tristan Welch
Tristan is an experimental musician/artist from northern Virginia. He creates sonic soundscapes with guitar, incorporating loops drenched in reverb, delay, and distortion. Tristan takes influence from many minimalist and avant-garde composers, and creates highly chromatic pieces. His use of repetitions and layering creates an immense, dense sound. He calls his compositions, “Heavy Ambient Movements”.

http://tristanwelch.bandcamp.com
Ted Zook/Bob Boilen
Ted began studying guitar in Chile & Uruguay (the latter under Luis Acosta), continuing upon his return to the U.S. in the early 60’s under Sophocles Papas (classical) & Frank Mullen (jazz).  From ’99 to 2012, he studied improvisation under cellist David Darling, a study that continues under the auspices of the Music for People organization, which conferred him an Honorary Graduate certification in 2011. In addition to his work with Bob Boilen, Ted is involved with The Lost Civilizations Music Project, Chimiak & Zook and Rosati & Zook.

Bob Boilen is the current host and the creator of NPR's online music show All Songs Considered. He is also the creator of the Tiny Desk Concert series for NPR Music, hosting intimate performances at his desk. Bob writes electronic music with friend Michael Barron; both were founding members of the psychedelic dance band Tiny Desk Unit (1979–1981), for which Boilen played synthesizer. Boilen continues to write music with Michael Barron in a band called Danger Painters and also writes and releases solo music.

http://lost-civilizations.tumblr.com/
http://avec-la-muse.tumblr.com/
https://soundcloud.com/uberepic-productions
Tag Cloud
TAG CLOUD is the solo project of Chris Videll (BLK TAG, Lab Mice, Safe Fast & Effective). Electronic and acoustic drone/noise/other since 2009. 

Tag Cloud Facebook
http://tagcloudposts.tumblr.com/​
Dubpixel
Dubpixel (AKA Doug Kallmeyer) has been touring internationally for over a decade- composing, performing,  mixing both audio and video with counterpart Monica Stroik. The outcome is a balanced blend of improvised multimedia in a live setting, while  sonically the studio recordings are heavy forays into electronic synthesis and layered sequences.
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Dubpixel at Verses Records
http://www.dubpixel.com
James Wolf
James has been a member of the Washington, D.C. independent music community for 21 years. In that time, he has played violin, guitar and keyboards on recordings and live performances with Air King, Laconic Chamber, La Reproduction Interdite, From Quagmire, The Gena Rowlands Band, The Nitrate Hymnal orchestra, The Picture is Dead, Fern Knight (Philadelphia), The Orchid, Sourdeline (France) and in collaborations with Doug Wolf, Jeff Barsky (Insect Factory) & Chris Videll (Tag Cloud). James’ latest cassette release, “on se lève” was released on Verses Records in May 2016.

James Wolf Facebook
Rogue Collective
Based in the Washington DC area, Rogue Collective explores "the gap" between classical and popular music through collaboration, original composition, improvisation and performance. RC takes the form of a string quartet—a configuration of instruments that has been at the forefront of music making for centuries—and re-imagines it for a contemporary audience.

Rogue Collective Website
Gel-Sol
Gel Sol is a Seattle-based Prog Rock fan and Ambient producer Andrew Reichel, aka Gel-Sol, harkens back to the typical Ambient House extravaganza of bands like The Orb, while at the same time refining their synth-heavy and sample-laden formulae with his own unique blend of Space Age rocket eruptions, television advertisement idiocies and gargantuan melodies that glow and shine in multiple colors.

http://www.versesrecords.com/gel-sol.html
Dennis Kane
​DENNIS KANE is a composer and multi-instrumentalist from Washington, DC. His work is informed equally by early classical, electronic and minimal music, as heard in his latest works, “Music for Keyboards” (found on this compilation) and ”Confluence" -  Simultaneously adventurous and soothing works, which highlights Kane's love of contrasts; melody and repetition, acoustic and electronic instruments, form and formlessness. 

Dennis Kane at Verses Records