Stellar OM Source for Progressive Electronic

Gualdi has produced six LPs and released a number of singles and splits, along with a collaborative live album with kraut-drone ensembles Ashtray Navigations and Family Battle Snake. A compilation of work from three of her early CD-Rs, Trilogy Select, came out via the Olde English Spelling Bee label in 2010. While Gualdi's work is mostly a hermetic affair, her rare collaborators include Oneohtrix Point Never's Daniel Lopatin, who performed on two tracks on 2009's Ocean Woman, and No-Neck Blues Band drummer David Nuss, who appeared on side two of the same year's LP Rise in Planes. Stellar OM Source contributed a remix along with fellow pioneers Lopatin and James Ferraro (to both of whom Gualdi has been compared) to the 2011 reissue of German percussionist Harald Grosskopf's most well-known album, Synthesist (an influential LP for Gualdi). Her 2013 work, Joy One Mile, showed her departing from the strictly kosmische textures of her earlier material and incorporating influences from techno and house.

With the demands of personal life and motherhood leaving little room for music, Gualdi took a hiatus and sold nearly all her equipment. Fresh inspiration from touring and playing live led her to revive Stellar OM Source a few years later, culminating in the release of the I See Through You EP in 2019, which continued the dance music direction she pursued before her hiatus.

Stellar OM Source will resonate with fans of neo-kosmische revivalists such as Emeralds, Bee Mask, Panabrite and Pulse Emitter, while her later work is recommended to devotees of Manuel Göttsching, Heinrich Dressel and Newclear Waves.

I see you've already voted No, but her early material (for which she was best known for years) is really anything but (and she really only transforms around 2013, long after her formative kosmische years). Have you checked out Rise in Planes, for instance? It's pretty much classic krautrock drift, formatted like an old classic vinyl with a side-long track per side.