Alien Metal Pasta

The Artist

Tachy Bunker is a project operating at the fringes of experimental electronic music, built around a fascination with microtonal tuning systems and alternative temperaments. Rather than working within the standard twelve-tone framework that dominates Western music, the project explores exotic scales like 22edo, 31edo, and just intonation shrutis, treating each tuning as its own emotional palette. The sound sits somewhere between metal, glitch, and avant-garde computer music, dense and confrontational but with a strange playfulness threaded through it. This is music made for listeners who like their genres blurred and their tuning charts weird, and Alien Metal Pasta pushes that identity further into unfamiliar territory.

The Album

Alien Metal Pasta is structured almost like a field guide to alternative tunings, with each track's title flagging the temperament used to build it. That framing turns the album into a kind of tour: 22edo and Bohlen-Pierce on the opener, 11-limit shruti scales, 31edo, 15ed28:8, and various "improper" bendings of just intonation and twelve-tone. The production leans into digital density, layering fractured metal textures with granular processing and unusual harmonies that can sound alien even when they resolve. Thematically, the record plays with imagery of oceans, forests, aliens, and ritual, using tuning itself as a way to make familiar sonic worlds feel dislocated. The closing "Phare Acapellae," marked "free," steps outside any fixed system entirely.

Listen For

Microtonal harmony as mood. Each track wears its tuning system openly. Notice how "Aquatic Nebula (22edo & BP)" feels different from "Phare en Forêt Noire (31edo)," and whether the tuning shifts change the emotional weather.

Textural density. The layering across tracks like "Fifteenth Alien Fractal (15ed28:8)" and "Kakenukete Sosasen (improper 12)" is thick and shifting. Listen for how individual elements surface and get buried again.

Structural pacing. Track lengths and dynamics vary wildly across the record. Pay attention to where the album gives you space to breathe versus where it piles on, especially into "Vigil of the Void."

Vocal treatments. "Offer Your Soul (improper 12)" and the closing "Phare Acapellae (free)" foreground voice in very different ways. Notice how the human element is processed, ritualized, or left exposed.

Ritual and cosmic themes. Titles like "Vigil of the Void," "Offer Your Soul," and "Aquatic Nebula" gesture at ceremony and outer space. Listen for how the sound design chases those images.