Artist, musician, composer and producer Andrew Spackman—known for projects including SAD MAN, The Dark Jazz Project, Nimzo-Indian and Cars From The Future—creates immersive, darkly imaginative electronic worlds that blur the boundaries between sound art, experimental music and cinematic atmosphere. Over the past decade he has released more than 30 albums and over 400 tracks, building a distinctive sonic language shaped by tension, texture and psychological depth.
Working across dark ambient, post-industrial electronics, drone, noise and experimental composition, Spackman’s music often feels like stepping into a shifting environment—shadowy, uncanny, and driven by a strong sense of concept and world-building. His work resonates with listeners of Blanck Mass, Gazelle Twin, Ben Frost, Tim Hecker and The Haxan Cloak, while retaining a highly personal, art-driven edge.
He has released music through labels including Cruel Nature Records, Irregular Patterns, Mortality Tables, Accidental Records, Wormhole World and Cue Dot Records, and his work has been championed across major platforms: BBC Radio 3 (Late Junction), BBC 6 Music(Mary Anne Hobbs, Jamz Supernova, Stuart Maconie’s Freak Zone, New Music Fix with Deb Grant & Tom Ravenscroft), BBC Introducing Mixtape, Resonance FM, Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide FM, and more. He has received coverage in Electronic Sound Magazine, DJ Mag, Monolith Cocktail, Louder Than War and The Wire, with his work featured on The Wire Tapper 55 compilation.
Critics describe his sound as:
“Weird, interesting, challenging… slightly discombobulating.” —
Jamz Supernova, BBC 6 Music

“I kind of wouldn’t mind if that track went on forever.” —
Deb Grant, BBC 6 Music

“More bite than a cage of hungry wildcats.” —
Electronic Sound Magazine

“Like a moon-guided abstract fear… a ghostly voyage aboard a Kubrickian, Lovecraftian, Tarkovskyian space freighter.” — Monolith Cocktail
"It’s cinematic in scope, brilliantly written and composed, and it definitely leaves its mark on the listener." Bobby D Gant, Iniquitous Glory
"Close your eyes, listen carefully and allow yourself to be transported."
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‪“relentlessly obscure and prolific British music maker”.
9/10 DJ Mag
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“Like a Loony Tunes Cage or Stockhausen, banished to a makeshift potting shed”.
Monolith Cocktail.
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“It sounds like Major Force mashed with Wagon Christ and Les Rita Mitsouko;
a sort of electro-operatic funk.”
Monolith Cocktail
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“Electronic music that nods in the direction of futuristic glitch school pointillism”.
Electronic Sound Magazine
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“so many disparate ideas into its brief, sixty-second existence, from muted house-style riffs, deep beats and a frantic jumble of melodies that sound like a stroll around a dimly-lit games arcade.” further dot
“These are pieces that jerk around like they’re being attacked with an electronic music cattle prod, all quirky beats, skewed melodies and sounds that feel like they’re splintering and fragmenting inside your ear canal.”
Mat Smith
Radio Play
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BBC 6 Music - Jamz Supernova, Mary Anne Hobbs, BBC 6 Music - New Music Fix - Deb Grant, Tom Ravenscroft, BBC Radio 3 - Late Junction, BBC 6 Music - Stuart Maconie Freak Zone, Tom Robinson BBC Introducing Mix Tape, NTS Radio, Resonance FM, Z Radio, Rinse Radio (France), New New World Radio (Moscow), Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide FM (UK), Radio Free Matlock, Dark Train, Reform Radio and Brum Radio., Bristol Community Radio, BBC West Midlands, Artfefaktor Radio (Mexico City) , Tak Tent Radio, Neon Hospital, Radio Regent (Canada) and various internet shows such as the Target Shoots Next, Phantom Circuit, Gated Canal Community, Transmitter down, The Sevenths Wave, Transmitter Down, New Ratio Radio, Radio Panik (France)
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Notable achievements
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His music has been reviewed in DJ Mag (9/10 singles review) Electronic Sound Magazine, Monolith Cocktail music blog, Mojo Magazine and the Wire Magazine.
His music was featured on The Wire Magazine Tapper 55.
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In October 2022 Andrew contributed a track to Matthew Herbert’s Accidental Records release “Antechamber Music 2”.
In May this year Andrew was included in Holly Herndon’s first collection of NFT’s using her AI digital voice Holly+.
In 2020 Andrew collaborated with storyteller Francis Lowe to create a spoken word and soundtrack album of strange and supernatural tales across time for the Cue Dot label called Stories from an Island.
In 2019 Andrew was commissioned by BBC Radio 3 DJ Nick Luscombe (and Creative Director of Musicity Global) to create a 15-minute musical work in collaboration with Anna Palmer (Dorcha) for a large-scale light installation that was performed live on NYE at Coventry Cathedral.
​Andrew Spackman has remixed many artists including Holly Herndon, Steeling Sheep, The High Llamas, Gemma Cullingford, Lumpen Nobleman, Scissorgun, Alex H Duncan, Matters, Vula Veil.
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As an Artist
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I have worked on a range of large-scale projects including: being commissioned by Musicity Global for the Coventry City of Culture to create a 15 minute musical work for a large scale light installation by Architectural practice Neon, that took place on NYE at Coventry Cathedral. (2019); devising and setting up the Drawing Orchestra, a 10 piece orchestra of illustrators who improvised drawing live on IPads and projected these drawings to a 30 minute especially commissioned score at the Tin Arts Centre, Coventry. (2020), curated the Ideas of Noise Festival in Coventry (2020), Exhibited photographic project at the Possession show at Lanchester Gallery, Coventry and the Bangkok Arts and Cutural Centre (2015), exhibited as the arts duo, The Habsburgs, “How to Paint” at the Midland Arts Centre, Birmingham (2013), exhibited of artwork as the “Habsburgs” for Hull City of Culture- Fountain 17 in association with Hull School of Art and Design/ Armitage Shanks (2017). In 2009 I was shortlisted to the final 5 of the West Midlands Region for the Artist Taking the Lead”- Cultural Olympiad project for my proposal to build a large grass covered hill in the city centre.
Other selected Exhibitions and Performances include: Contributed music and video piece for Cultural Central Midsummer Festival alongside RSC, Motionhouse, Multistory, Birmingham Royal Ballet (2020); exhibited screen prints at the New Art West Midlands Salon Exhibition at the Waterfall Gallery BMAG (2015); performed as part of the Coventry Biennial at the Herbert Art Gallery; performed at NoiseFloor conference at Staffordshire University. (2015); exhibited miniature guitars at “The Function of Folk” - Third International Illustration Research Symposium at the Ethnographic Museum, Krakow, Poland (2012); exhibited miniature guitars at "Instrumental - Does making things make you human" – Contemporary Fine- Craft and Design - Group exhibition at Aspex gallery (2012); Performance as OHMMM (Orchestra of Home Made Musical Machines): London Short Film Festival (2012); ‘The Art of Noise’ Exhibition – The Public, West Bromwich (2011); Axis Arts Centre (2011), performed at the ‘InTime Experimental Music symposium’, Coventry (2011); exhibited drawings at the Seawhte Drawing Prize, Coventry (2011); Exhibited various sculptural objects at “Unruly Objects’ exhibition, Lanchester Gallery (2011); Exhibited “Foundation Stone 2” at West Midland Open 2010, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (2011); Exhibited Kinetic sculpture/sound/type piece “ the Fontomatic” at the Plus International Design Expo (2009); Exhibited “The Fontonola” at the Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry (2007); Exhibited the “The Fontonola “ at the Plus International Design Expo, Birmingham (2007)