Pulse Emitter / Daryl Groetsch

Pulse Emitter – Tide Pools
Released on LP, CD, and digitally September 26th, 2025
On the Hausu Mountain label
Listen at Bandcamp, Apple Music, Spotify

“A masterwork of synthesizer programming and sound design, Tide Pools is an impressive and absorbing evocation of our natural world and its countless organisms moving in concert and chaos.” –The Wire

“Ambient synthesist Daryl Groetsch’s third album for Hausu Mountain is one of his proggiest and most challenging, a head-spinning trip through a low-res waterworld.” –Pitchfork

More reviews: The Quietus, PopMatters, Igloo, All Music

Daryl Groetsch – Above the Shore
Self-released digitally on April 2, 2024
Listen at Bandcamp, Apple Music, Spotify.

Working both as Pulse Emitter as well as under his own name, Daryl Groetsch creates soundscapes as varied as they are vast and vivid. I like to think of his releases as planets, because whether they’re dark or bright, cold or pleasant, each seems to have an atmosphere all its own. His latest release, Above The Shore, perfectly captures those qualities across a single serene track that languorously stretches out to over an hour. The wide-frame Groetsch uses melts away the further you move into this excellent long-form piece. – Bandcamp Daily: Acid Test

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