Zenon Slawinski – The Beginning Of Time
Sonic Thee – Speaker
Pilesar – Every Blade of Grass
The Moderate – Conversation
Teen Mom – Boyfriends
Mark Sylvester – Pulse (In 7)
Fields Burning – Joy’s Desire
Miyazaki – Opportunist
Eddie From Ohio – Mimosas In Missouri
Projekt Eins – Virtuoso
Hayley Fahey – Tuesday Morning
Azure Vox – The Best Part
Bellfount – You Still Love Me (Instrumental)
Jon Camp – Interrupted Transmission
Bells and Hunters – Sense of Time
Astronaut Jones – Farther
Rumpole – Just BDF
Ricky Eat Acid – Can You See Its Bloom
Young Rapids – Melt
Terrill Mast – Venetian Corridors

Screen Vinyl Image – The Midnight Sun
The Orchid – Decompressor/The Last Dive
Jon Camp – All Is Fine Past the County Line
Aaron Agre – Time Window
Dissonance – Chlorophyll Daffodil
Elijah Cole – Green Dolphin Street
The Jet Age – The Only Difference
NUNS – False Architect
The Funk Ark – Bouzouki Song
2nd Story Band – Junior
Beautiful Swimmers – Running Over
Sriram Gopal – Bengali Dhun
Exit Vehicles – Paint
K-Loe Black – 144 Thousand
Wicked Olde – Old Joe Clark
MUDGE – Adora Jar
Flasher – Tense
Romantic States – Hourglass
Q and Not U – Wonderful People
Pilesar – Stickbag 1ne

Flash Frequency – Vibration
Incredible Change – Ecce Mono
Sansyou – The Enthusiast
The Universal Friend Rays – Side A
Throw Me A Rope – Punk Theory/No Theory
Fields Burning – At The Break Of Day
Jonny Grave – The Rebel in the Herringbone
Dissonance – Picnic at the Disco
Nice Breeze – Transparency
Shannon Gunn and the Bullettes – Blue Moo
David King – Solar Impulse
Astronaut Jones – Game Theory (ft. Frank Mitchell Jr.)
Jau Ocean – Foolish Games
Jeremy Padow – Rising Chords, 6/8
Language of Sleep – Act II
Wild Coast – Stare Scared
We Were Pirates – The Cheapening
Pilesar – Balaphobic
Timmy Sells His Soul – Hallways
Brûlée – Begging Bowl

Home World

As the song moves from polyrhythms to luminous ambient tones, it resembles a soundtrack to footage of an alien landscape. But Mullinax, 37, places his inspiration closer to Earth.

“A few years ago, my wife and I visited some friends in Oregon and they took us to see the famed Octopus Tree on the coast,” writes the composer and music instructor in an email. “It must’ve made an impression on me because I kept it in my head for a while, and knew one day I was going to use that name for something.”

“Octopus Tree” (listen below) is the first song recorded for Home World, Mullinax’s latest album and his first release under his real name. After two decades recording and performing as Pilesar, he decided it was time for a change.

“Pilesar had all this history and baggage associated with it,” Mullinax writes. “I wanted to free myself from all of that, so dropping the name seemed like the best way to go about it. In a way, it was like taking off a mask. I had the freedom to become the musician that I’ve always wanted to be.”

The change let Mullinax tighten his approach to music, too. “I noticed a lot of my earlier records were all over the map aesthetically, so I wanted to try to rein things in and focus on creating a mood or an idea that could sustain a whole album,” he writes.

The musician released Home World in August, posting it as a free download on Bandcamp. Now the prolific artist says he’s already working on his next few albums, some of which he plans to release in early 2016.

As trippy as Home World is, it’s not Mullinax’s most mind-expanding project. That would be his Music Discovery Lab, which he describes as “a workshop for kids, teens and adults that helps them explore the artistic potential of all sound.”

Mullinax wants to turn the Music Discovery Lab into a career.

“My goal is to make it a full-time job one day, going around to schools, throwing a bunch of toys on the floor and making a racket with all the kids,” he writes. “It’s a blast.”