2020-Present
A long-running archive of recordings by Detroit-based composer and producer Paul Hanger.
The project moves between acid electronics, ambient environments, and psychedelic blues language. Tracks appear less like traditional releases and more like transmissions: fragments of atmosphere, brief weather systems, small scenes from an expanding sound world.
Across more than 150 recordings, the catalogue unfolds like a field log. Rhythms drift between club propulsion and cinematic space, while guitar enters and exits the landscape like heat lightning.
The artist sometimes refers to the work as cinematic acid.
A long-running archive of recordings by Detroit-based composer and producer Paul Hanger.
The project moves between acid electronics, ambient environments, and psychedelic blues language. Tracks appear less like traditional releases and more like transmissions: fragments of atmosphere, brief weather systems, small scenes from an expanding sound world.
Across more than 150 recordings, the catalogue unfolds like a field log. Rhythms drift between club propulsion and cinematic space, while guitar enters and exits the landscape like heat lightning.
The artist sometimes refers to the work as cinematic acid.
Title
Year
Project
BPM
Notes
Status
Access
Consonantal
2025
Argos
120
Constructed from a child’s spoken alphabet, the track channels Squarepusher-esque rhythmic intensity before thinning into upward drift. The final gesture is literal: a gunshot followed by crickets, reframing the preceding transcendence as fragile. Levitation interrupted by dusk.
Released
Le Détroit
2025
Argos
140
Le Détroit barrels forward on bare-fingered riffing, somewhere between Berry’s locomotion and Hendrix’s electric elasticity. It feels uncontained, like the take was captured before anyone could suggest restraint. Feedback can melt steel beams.
Released
Changes
2024
Archives
140
A chilled jungle foundation carries a glossy continental synth lead, steady until an organ slips in and reframes the entire atmosphere. What begins as club nostalgia detours into something stranger, slightly unwell in the best way. Rave tent pitched wrong.
Rosey Red Fingers
2025
Argos
110
rides a repetitive electronic pulse, steady and grid-bound, while a guitar threads through it with restrained insistence. A brief, soaring passage surfaces almost accidentally, then recedes, as if the song forgot it was supposed to climax. Solo appears. Shrugs. Vanishes.
Released
Antoine de la Mothe, sieur de Cadillac
2025
Argos
106
Driven by a reedy, repeating synth line, the piece wanders through variations before returning to its central figure. Sagal’s clipped phrasing becomes texture rather than joke. Momentum accumulates, recedes, and ultimately ends mid-thought. Colonial rhythm. Abrupt exit.
Released
Death Valley
Cowboy
2025
Argos
100
A reedy synth whistle sketches the desert outline while the bass holds a steady, self-assured pulse. Then the guitar abandons gravity, expanding into molten, skyscraper-warping sustain. Frontier stance, orbital melt.
Released
I Can’t Stay
2025
Argos
120
Built as a respectful echo of electric blues freedom, it rides stripped-down drums and a road-burned riff. A brief bridge lifts the fog, then the groove snaps back with renewed altitude, reaffirming motion as doctrine. Momentum is the message.
Released
Bloom
2025
Argos
96
Unfolds as a sweeping vignette of fragile ambition, tracing a child’s imagined sovereignty before the dream fractures without warning. The arrangement holds its breath in the aftermath, then gathers into a brief moment of defiance, rising against inevitability before slipping gently into the sea. Defy briefly. Drift softly.
Released
Fall in the Sea
2025
Argos
110
A wall of chords pushes against a precise boom-bap frame, small glitch textures blinking underneath. The momentum breaks open into altitude, then regathers its mass and resumes the charge. Air break. Engine resumes.
Released
Akira
2025
Frontier Sessions
100
Composed in real time alongside Ran, this piece borrows the architecture of early-2000s house but slows the transitions, stretching tension until a deliberate drop reframes the scene. It plays as if empire were just another unstable frequency.
Silk banners in subwoofers.
Released
Control Point ii.2
2025
Frontier Sessions
76
Built on piano motifs, driving beats, and corrosive acid lines, gestures toward western iconography only to undermine it. The space feels staged, then destabilized, leaving the listener uncertain whether to settle in or move on. Frontier flickers. Stakes pulled.
Control Point ii.3
2025
Frontier Sessions
60
Part of the map-making series within Frontier Sessions, it begins as an almost ambient coordinate, anchored by a remote, possibly wandering piano figure. Midway, a restrained house beat surfaces, reframing the space from wilderness to structure. Survey hum. Club blueprint.
Control Point ii.4
2025
Frontier Sessions
96
Beginning in motion, Control Point ii.4 pairs driving percussion with a rubbery, brassy low-end figure that stalks the mix from start to finish. Additional textures stack and interlock as the track unfolds, each new layer widening the terrain without breaking stride. Forward pulse. Terrain unfolding.
Control Point iv.5
2025
Frontier Sessions
70
Driven by relentless motion, the track builds industrial momentum before a submerged element ascends and overtakes the skyline. The figure holds its position without judgment or comfort, existing beyond the listener’s stakes. Rail heat meets apparition.
Ain't & Even
2025
Frontier Sessions
100
Built on airy organ textures and loose, elastic percussion, Ain’t & Even sustains the tension of an overture without resolving into a main act. The momentum rolls forward with intention, only to dissolve before declaration. Prelude breathes. Never declares.
A Hundred Doomed Hurrying Brains
2025
Frontier Sessions
120
Floating acid textures give way to angular, digital space. There is no locked chamber or climax—just passage, room to room, each threshold already unsealed. Secret level, no resistance.
I'll See You Again
2025
Frontier Sessions
120
Toy melody. Heavy bass. It smiles while everything shakes. He leaves.
Wait Here
2025
Frontier Sessions
100
Sad synth. A voice in the distance. The drums move without asking. The bass doesn't care. Everything rides together anyway.
...and what is this place?
2025
Frontier Sessions
76
Long breath of organ. It cracks. It comes back. Stuttering drums threaten. The beat arrives anyway. A small celebration at the edge of the map. The clouds clear. You're fine.
Second Door On Your Left
2025
Frontier Sessions
86
Long breath of organ. It cracks. It comes back. Stuttering drums threaten. The beat arrives anyway. A small celebration at the edge of the map. The clouds clear. You're fine.
Sunset Ludicrously Dies
2025
Frontier Sessions
140
a pathetic guitar solo limps in, loyal to a sloppy day. the sky splits wrong. color turns chemical. the sunset doesn't fade, it fractures. bad trip light everywhere. but you're still here.
Remarkably Nothing Is
2025
Frontier Sessions
96
wonder first. then the fracture. fear. sadness. a flash of joy that doesn't hold. what's left tastes wrong.
The Moon's a Balloon
2025
Frontier Sessions
96
atmospheres fold into each other. icarus flies, but not too high. someone is still scolding him from below. maybe tomorrow he reaches it. tomorrow keeps arriving. no one ever dies there.
Novella
2025
Frontier Sessions
100
a small, dangerous book. too pretty for your age. the language glows. you know you shouldn't look. you look anyway. something
forbidden, praised in the same breath. your head doesn't explode. it just opens.
forbidden, praised in the same breath. your head doesn't explode. it just opens.
Midnight Cantina
2025
Axis
106
twin suns long gone. the room smells like ozone and cheap liquor. horns chatter in a language you almost understand. then the guitar slides in sideways, too loud, too late. someone nods. the band keeps playing.
Precession
2025
Axis
120
the room tunes itself. stray notes circle. someone tests the floor. then the pulse locks in. detroit wakes up. it doesn’t stay polite. the rails bend first.
The Man with the Golden Eyeball
2025
Axis
86
snowfield silence. a lone figure at the edge of the map. no mission briefing. no escape route. he builds a cabin instead. the cold stays honest. something like nirvana settles in.
Lotus-Eaters
2025
Axis
100
nothing urgent. nothing sharp. the day drifts. sweetness in the air. no one remembers why they were leaving. it’s calm. it’s perfect. it’s suspicious.
Gold Mountain
2025
Axis
86
they come hungry. backs bent. hands split open on iron and stone. the mountain isn’t gold. it never was. it’s dirt and debt and something harder than both. maybe it’s more. maybe it’s a lie. they climb anyway.
Silver Tumbleweed
2025
Axis
140
a piano shimmers on the horizon. you swear it’s only a day away. sand in your teeth. light bending wrong. then the peyote opens its eye. the saloon dissolves. the road keeps moving. so do you.
Some Kind of Dog Thing
2025
Axis
96
old circuit bones under it. sweat and wood and low ceilings. then the guitar starts bending the walls. it walks like a blues. it smells like a blues. something in it isn’t loyal.
Siren
2025
Axis
65
rain on the driveway. garage door open. drums fall in with it. soft guitar, voice low. thunder splits the sky. the siren wails somewhere far off. you don’t move. lawn chair. tree. clouds sliding over everything.
Warm
2025
Axis
96
warm images stack. coasts dissolve. houses slide into water. smoke lifts. the news says it isn’t real. flames climb the walls. you nod. this is fine.
Lost Tempest
2025
Axis
140
a storm crosses empty water. still strong. still loud. no one there to name it. it wonders if that makes it smaller. you stand off the shore. it sees you. it calls out.
Jobab
2025
Axis
86
a man walks the shore and argues with the sea. he climbs inside the fish on purpose. it’s warm. there’s wine on the table. this is not exile, it’s interior design. he laments anyway. the sorrow is real. the comfort is real. somehow both are sublime.
Abscond
2025
Axis
140
you see the checkmate forming. quiet. inevitable. you make small moves anyway. not to win. to slip. you leave the board. the escape becomes you. feral now. unruled. checkmate.
Wah-Wah
2025
Axis
140
toe forward. heel back. not a trick. a pulse. the pedal breathes instead of shouts. it isn’t a solo, it’s a slow cry. tears form. then lift. you thin out. you’re nowhere. you’re everything.
Zeze
2025
Axis
106
a small room of light. a tiny creature who will not stay tiny. you look and know this second is already leaving. no drama. just warmth. it’s light work.
The Story of Adam and Eve is a Metaphor
2025
Axis
120
opens dark. thick air. then a rolling chord lifts it and carries the weight somewhere else. it isn’t about the fall. it isn’t what you were told. it keeps unfolding.
Night Watch
2025
Axis
135
rain again. you strike a note just to hear what it does. it doesn’t bounce off the street. it comes back from inside you. the sound stays. it tells you the truth. you were always part of this.
Seven Zeroes
2025
Axis
96
roadside motel. key on the plastic tag. the crt hums blue. you light a cigarette and let the wind in. obscure sci-fi flickers across the wall. nothing urgent. just night, humming.
Fortune Smiles Upon You
2025
Axis
140
the door finally opens. the work shows its face. you ask if this is the day. you decide it is.
Lucid
2025
Dangit Diane
140
Built on urgent percussion and a body-toned pulse, “Lucid” traces the contours of sentience within weight and gravity. The momentum carries forward, not toward transcendence, but deeper into presence before softening at the edges. Matter hums. Mind travels.
Released
Eight Bells
2025
Dangit Diane
100
Structured around eight evenly separated bell tones, the piece turns a naval signal into an existential meter. The bells persist regardless of distraction, functioning less as alarm and more as inevitability. Chime counts what we ignore.
Released
Purgatory
2025
Dangit Diane
100
Stages a vast underworld where eruption replaces sky and lightning fractures the horizon. The river Styx moves steadily through the center, its ferryman silent and indifferent. A distant light appears high on a mountain ridge, and the music strains subtly upward toward it, but ascent proves impossible. The effort remains suspended, unresolved. Climb attempted. Gravity answers.
Released
Acclaimed
2025
Dangit Diane
76
Measures ego against the horizon of eternity, exposing the smallness that grandiosity refuses to see. The arrangement gathers weight as consequence rather than punishment, the burden self-fashioned and fully inhabited. At its close, the track does not repent; it shrugs, offering a final line that reframes the reckoning as perspective: beauty to one, destruction to another. Shrug beneath collapsing stars.
Released
Under the Bodhi Tree
2025
Dangit Diane
100
Built around flowing textures and subtle motion, “Under the Bodhi Tree” traces the sensation of existing without appetite. The sound of water threads through the piece, a reminder of impermanence, while the surrounding tones lift into gentle affirmation. Still mind, luminous ground.
Released
Following Orpheus
2025
Dangit Diane
106
Charges forward in manic pursuit, convinced it can reverse what has already been sealed. The journey feels almost hilariously bold in its optimism, as though the door were briefly opened just to test resolve. When the inevitable reversal arrives, it does not explode. The momentum thins, and the figure fades into the space it tried to defy. Descent promised. Exit revoked.
Released
Holy Wagon
2025
Dangit Diane
96
Framed in a deceptively simple tonal language, Holy Wagon allows spiritual certainty to sound comfortable. Subtle textures underneath imply that the real movement is elsewhere, unnoticed beneath vanity and self-assurance. Vanity rides, truth hums.
Released
Alighieri
2025
Dangit Diane
140
Alighieri imagines Dante within the turbulence of his own era—political fracture, exile, violence enacted by human hands. The track suggests that the truest inferno is civic and self-made, a tragedy authored rather than ordained. Its swell rises into a sublime ache and then holds there, suspended like a photograph in a frame, neither resolving nor retreating. Exile captured mid-breath
Released
Feather of the Ma'at
2025
Dangit Diane
100
Unfolds in dense, cavernous atmosphere, its weight pressing outward like eternal stone. The ritual of the heart weighed against the feather becomes less mythology than condition: existence measured by something lighter than doubt. A voice resonates through the hall—not summoned, but ever-present—an authority shaped because humanity required it. The verdict is spoken, not debated. Measured beyond pleading.
Released
Dream Sequence
2025
Dangit Diane
86
Positioned at the boundary of waking awareness, Dream Sequence explores the turbulence just beyond coherent thought. Chaos and message blur together, suggesting that the divide may be illusory. The invitation is implicit rather than forced. Portal or projection? Decide.
Released
Nothingness without End
2025
Dangit Diane
135
Positioned between theological paradox and devotional routine, Nothingness Without End paints eternity as intangible rather than dramatic. The structure resists definition until a sudden guitar ascent slices through the field, asserting motion inside immeasurable space.
Scale infinite. Comprehension small.
Released
Sundowning
2025
Dangit Diane
100
Inhabits the fragile interval where clarity flickers before fading. Minor chord changes thread through a narrative guitar line, articulating pain and loss without collapsing into despair. The track holds lament and celebration in tension, suggesting that praise is less objective truth than perception shaped by longing. Its sweetness lingers like light at the edge of evening. Last light. Tender reckoning.
Released
Elpenor
2025
Dangit Diane
140
Framed around the brief arc of Elpenor’s existence, the piece treats memory as selective architecture. Celebration, accident, oblivion. The tragedy is not dramatic but ordinary, suspended between story and disappearance. Footnote under endless stars.
Released
To Die, To Sleep
2025
Dangit Diane
76
Framed as a live set, the track oscillates between wakefulness and release, rhythm and stillness. It refuses to separate life from death, instead presenting them as parallel surfaces held up for inspection. The final gesture is neither triumph nor tragedy—just clapping hands. End begins. Someone claps.
Released
Imagine Dr. David Bowman in the South of France
2026
SiuSam
76
He saw the face of the unknowable.
Now he watches the tide.
Now he watches the tide.
Released
Make Up Your Mind
2026
SiuSam
110
You think the choice is heavy.
The field does not agree.
The field does not agree.
Released
the Communists have (very) fine eyes
2026
SiuSam
86
Little soldiers wind up.
The blues runs them over.
The blues runs them over.
Released
Fever on the Shore
2026
Unknown
86
heat crawling up your spine. ocean pretending innocence.
Released
Born Under the Killing Floor
2026
Unknown
140
raised on splinters and low notes. learned to love the pressure.
Released
Landing Yonder
2026
Unknown
140
wheels hit something that might be earth. nobody checks twice.
Released
Had to Part
2026
Unknown
120
knife clean. no speech. just space where you used to stand.
Released
Red Moon Rising
2026
Unknown
120
blood light on the water. something old climbs out and doesn’t wipe its mouth.
Released
Down the Mississippi
2026
Unknown
110
brown river chewing fence posts and prayers. you float or you drown polite.
Released
Huckleberry
2026
Unknown
100
barefoot liar with a pocketknife grin. sugar on the tongue. dirt in the teeth.
Released
Fragrant Harbor
2026
Unknown
86
sweet rot. perfume over rust. somebody’s leaving and smiling about it.
Released
I Disappear
2026
Unknown
140
slip out the back while the jukebox still moans. ghost with fingerprints.
Released
Ever Victorious Army
2026
Unknown
106
drums too loud for the truth. medals pinned to a moving target.
Released
Captain, we're in a memory
2026
Unknown
100
compass spinning like it owes money. past yelling from the crow’s nest.
Released
Suma Garden
2026
Unknown
106
blossoms heavy with secrets. bees drunk on something darker than honey.
Released
Catch Up
2026
Unknown
120
running after a train that never slows. lungs on fire. grin intact.
Released
Airplanes on the Roof
2026
Unknown
140
steel birds roosting where they shouldn’t. gravity blinking first.
Released
Here He Comes
2026
Unknown
120
shadows line up in uniform. the floorboards start practicing confession.
Released
Constantine
2025
Nowhere/Everywhere
135
Small cloistered bells
Harpsichord in afternoon
A father whispers
Harpsichord in afternoon
A father whispers
Released
Have You Ever Been Over There?
2025
Nowhere/Everywhere
135
Distant slope of green
He finds meaning in small things
The sky does not move
He finds meaning in small things
The sky does not move
Released
Little Mole
2025
Nowhere/Everywhere
135
Small under the grass
He knows how to move mountains
He stays very still
He knows how to move mountains
He stays very still
Released
Chuck’s Royal Fleet
2025
Nowhere/Everywhere
100
Perfect twilight hour
A fleet moves without command
The trees lean closer
A fleet moves without command
The trees lean closer
Released
Go Shopping
2025
Nowhere/Everywhere
120
Perfect temperature
Everything wants to be held
Nothing wants you back
Everything wants to be held
Nothing wants you back
Released
Hard-Boiled Wonderland
2025
Nowhere/Everywhere
106
Easy promises
We trade warmth for something sweet
It melts in our palms
We trade warmth for something sweet
It melts in our palms
Released
Kitty Hawk
2025
Nowhere/Everywhere
140
From the dune you watch
A fragile wing touch the wind
Sand holds your small breath
A fragile wing touch the wind
Sand holds your small breath
Released
Liminal
2025
Nowhere/Everywhere
110
Between here and there
Flowers keep their quiet watch
Nothing calls your name
Flowers keep their quiet watch
Nothing calls your name
Released
Perpetual Gossip
2025
Nowhere/Everywhere
106
Piano in the next room
It plays to voices you cannot hear
Bells come and go smiling
It plays to voices you cannot hear
Bells come and go smiling
Released
So I Can See
2025
Nowhere/Everywhere
86
Organ in plain light
Drums ready the square
Feedback elbows a view open
Drums ready the square
Feedback elbows a view open
Released
Too Bad
2025
Nowhere/Everywhere
106
You expected a singalong
Then the ceiling caught guitar
Too bad, you live here now
Then the ceiling caught guitar
Too bad, you live here now
Released
An Unexpected Party
2025
Nowhere/Everywhere
106
I was keeping to myself
Then the house started multiplying people
No one asked permission
Then the house started multiplying people
No one asked permission
Released
Nice Move
2025
Nowhere/Everywhere
140
Not a told-you-so
You waited, then moved clean
That is why it held
You waited, then moved clean
That is why it held
Released
The Jungle
2025
Nowhere/Everywhere
110
Apocalypse by way of theme park
No one knows who planned this
We drink and keep moving
No one knows who planned this
We drink and keep moving
Released
The Same Old Explosion
2025
Nowhere/Everywhere
60
The same bright arpeggio returns
Time changes the room around it
The laugh stays, but only in memory
Time changes the room around it
The laugh stays, but only in memory
Released
Chitlin
2025
Nowhere/Everywhere
120
Leaves the ideas behind
Drops you in the circuit, already moving
Guitar swings like a fire poker
Drops you in the circuit, already moving
Guitar swings like a fire poker
Released