Operated by mastering engineer and musician Nathan Moody, Obsidian Sound provides mastering and mix review services to independent artists and labels with unique visions, with projects ranging from albums and singles to film scores and sound art installations.
What makes Obsidian Sound different is its unique approach to understanding artists’ artistic intent, and the amount of feedback and guidance provided to every client.
Obsidian Sound specializes in all manner of projects that might sit on the edges, boundaries, and overlaps of established genres: electronic, ambient, lo-fi, modular synthesizer music, noise, experimental, sound art, contemporary avant garde, noise rock, industrial techno, indie pop, melodic punk, crossover metal, psychedelic rock, and much more.
Obsidian Sound is proud to count hundreds of independent artists and producers as its clients, from Hainbach to Howie B, from members of Sonic Youth to Scanner, not to mention scores of independent artists embarking on their first releases. The results have been released by labels and entities such as the estate of Allen Ginsberg, SA (Spitfire Audio) Recordings, Rhodium Publishing, Mystery Circles, Chase Bliss Records, Errorgrid, Pelagic Records, Aural Canyon, Jacktone Records, Flag Day Recordings, Bloxham Tapes, Lost Tribe Sound, the YouTube Audio Library, and many more.
Some recent projects are listed below. Get in touch for consultations, quotes, or questions.
Constant Shapes - Surroundings
V/A - Music for Another Sky
V/A - From the Source, Vol. 1
Orange and Mountains - Gloomy Lights
Lost Chocolate Lab - SF Batch 2
Fugitive Color - Moons
Stone Law - HF Geometry
Kokoku - The Lost Tapes
Cryptomeria - Entanglements
Ilyia - Tamazula
Johnny Woods & Josh Ascalon - Ghosts...
Rynning & Seneviratne - Magnetism
Gerald Fjord - Receiver
SaneSun Martyrs - Refusal of Man
Sunbeamer - Halcyon
Boscio - If We Seek With Intent
Malarki - X7e4
Various Artists - Resonant One
Naramata - Kohoutek '73
Calendar Crowe - Couldn't Face It
Moon and Sea - Control
TL3SS - Crushing Me
Todd Barton - Pulses 7"
Joe Shoemaker - Flowers and Weeds
M.0 - Back to Form
Steven Rogers - I
The Local Field Report - MTSLCT
Rob Winstone - Care
Hainbach - Assertion
User Friendly - Sickle
Lyburnum - Black Waters Over Blue
Aqeel Aadam - Hollow Moon
Go By Ocean - Mend the Morning Light
Drexler - Blossoms
Leo Wolf - Magnolia
Corey Holms - Vestige House
Mattesque - Esqueded
Avi Pfeffer - A Lasting Impression
Lost Chocolate Lab - Serious Frosting
François Minaux - Devotion
Barton Bayard Moody - Start from Silence
m.0 - Solace
Eric Schlappi - The Doomed City
Portrait Eyes - Map Fragments
Scott Metoyer - Currency Patterns
Gays Hate Techno - Vol. 4
Cathode Ray Tube - Dark Roads...
Pablo Swiss - Desert María
Jen Kutler - Disembodied
Gerald Fjord - Signals
Aqeel Aadam - Daydreams
Ryan J Raffa - Landscape and Self-Portraits
Tim Held - Music to Lose Come Down To
Seesound - Falling (Installation)
Nathan Moody - Shades
j bowman - A Better Place
Mousy Magazine - Life of a Leaf
Extinction Fields (Installation)
Xexyz - Melt
Lumerians - Yellowcake 7"
Constant Shapes - Rainbow Rituals
Scott Metoyer - Via Negativa
Nathan Moody - Heliopause
CloudOceans - Krome Avenue
m.0 - Streams from the Subconscious
Hugo R.A. Paris - Threaded Habitat
Methyl Lily - Animal Love Songs
User Friendly - EP2
TL3SS - EP II
Normandy Falls - AOTA
Sunbeamer/Escapecraft - Crucimedusina
Nicolas Lalonde - Demain Matin
m.0 - Rituals in Time
Luminist - Infinity Mirrors
Meatprisoner - Test
Corey Holms - Intrusive Thoughts
Franck Martin - Elements
Alexander Maschke - Superimposed
Raoul van Herpen - Tempered Rhyme
Coffinkeys - Save Me From the Light
Untilled Sound - Transit Maps Vol. 1
Ryan J Raffa - With Silence
Constant Shapes - Enchantment
Rosetta - Sower of Wind
r beny - eistla
Jörgen Kjellgren - Mediterraneo
Hark Madley - stream
Eric Schlappi - Icarium
Mylar Melodies - Videomusik
Billy Faithful - Vocabulary
Zona - Appel Du Noir
Jörgen Kjellgren - Chasing Silence
Pablo Swiss - 155mph
Various Artists - Resonant Frequencies
Marc Straight - I Am Venom
Donald Crunk - Pacific Pivot
Lindell Todd - Requiem for Tom Crawford
Various Artists - The Wrong Side of Mystery
Gerald Fjord - Good Morning, Midnight
Isolated Infants - Maths Kid
Nathan Moody - The Right Side of Mystery
Dark Sparkler - Year One
Decrem - Premium Outlet Mall
Autotectonic - GRYPNOS
Corey Holms - The Veneer Fades
Raoul van Herpen - Perpetuum Impromptu
Mylar Melodies - datacult 59
Resynthesize - Data Cult Audio Mix
Various Artists - Warm Data
Sunbeamer - Outside/Inside
Shipwreck Detective - Midnight Lace
Joss Manley - Compiled Randomness
Nathan Moody - Études III: Red Box
Corey Holms - The Hidden Cost
r beny - Cascade Symmetry
Nathan Moody - Études I: Blue Box