The 'Gum Drop XCV: Hear Chad VanGaalen's Black Mold, Win A Motorola Rival A455

Black Mold is the electronic project of 2009 Polaris Finalist Chad VanGaalen. Debut LP Snow Blindness Is Crystal Antz (out 8/11 via Flemish Eye) is a collection of instrumental sounds created mostly via acoustic instruments, bells, vintage analogue/hand-built modular synths, etc. See, for example, the lovely, otherworldly cello explorations of opener "Metal Spider Webs." It premiered in this weeks' Drop. While we had him, we asked Chad about the song and the project. He let us know, among oth...

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