Someoddpilot Records
Under underground, since 1999. Resurrected in 2024 after a 20 year hiatus. Electronic, post-rock and metal. New releases and reissues.
09/25/2026
New single!! Black Cross Hotel tear open “The Seam.” Out now. First new music since ‘Songs for Switches.’
It started as one of six ideas Sanford Parker put down on an afternoon when the rest of the band was busy, working off the vibes of 1987 Ministry. It came back as a song about, in Marcus Eliopulos’s words, “the space where our individual worlds overlap and collide, where tension turns into harmony.” Engineered and produced by Sanford at Hypercube. Art by the band & Chris Eichenseer of Someoddpilot.
Listen everywhere. Link in bio.
Sunday, Black Cross Hotel rip Cold Waves XIV at Metro with King Woman, Youth Code, Lead Into Gold, Spike Hellis and Insula Iscariot. Doors 6, show 7.
Black Cross Hotel Sanford Parker Hypercube Cold Waves Festival Metro Chicago Kris Esfandiari Youth Code PAUL BARKER Spike Hellis INSULA ISCARIOT
09/18/2026
Tonight Friday 9/18 🎉🎉🎉 The best of the under underground Public Works Chicago
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07/08/2026
Wonder Woman in a leather corset on a Sunday night 🔥
Black Cross Hotel at Subterranean 6/28
📸 Chris Eichenseer Someoddpilot
07/03/2026
Caught 𝐒𝐋𝐎𝐖𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐄 with Deaf Club with our own Black Cross Hotel Sunday night Subterranean
📸 Chris Eichenseer Someoddpilot
What you’re missing 🤯 when you haven’t yet experienced Chicagos first and only art & design & music non-venue venue. Last Fridays every month, and now 2nd to last Fridays too.
Like your favorite corner bar but for Art & Design. The under-underground is alive and well at Public Works
Brought to you by Someoddpilot Records
seen here: PLAY series feat The Opus & brianlkelly23
05/12/2026
Well hot damn 🤗 there’s just something about all that neatly packaged cellophane.
🎉Tapes are in! 🎉 Bandcamp is ready to take your $$. IDM is back. Get it while it’s hot. Only 100 available.
05/01/2026
The love is in the air! Electronic music, IDM, whatever you want to call it, has a home at SOPR, &
Shows at an art & design gallery look like this 😵💫 Scroll through and see if you’ve been missing ❤️
Our 4th (!!) label showcase, to a full house of friends and family, last Friday was a moment we will all remember.
25 years of friendships and collaborations between .hq .music are the stuff of dreams. We’ve made this a home for all. Long live Midwest electronic music!
Huge thank you to everyone who celebrated with us - you’re all part of the family, whether you like it or not.
This was a prelude to Dawn of Digital, opening tonight, Friday May 1st! A celebration of the visual culture surrounding this one.
Join us! We’d love to have you. DMs welcome. Rsvp link in bio.
04/24/2026
The electronic music obsessed! Today is the day!!! 🎉🎉 Nothing short of a Midwest IDM revival is at hand.
Decades long masters of the craft drop their “since the 90s” skills on ‘s brand new remix record “Echoes of Echoes Within” which releases everywhere this very day.
An absolutely stunning collection of laptop music’s finest from .music .hq machwhat, &
Pick it up on CD and cassette at our and stream it everywhere. Links in bio.
Chicagoans can catch the action LIVE tonight as 4 of the artists take the stage at ‘s PLAY event - Friday 4/24 8-11pm.
A who’s who of Someoddpilot Records artists, friends and collaborators, this is a group of musicians who have performed & written together for over two decades.
Most of them appear on the last remix compilation released on SOPR, ‘s “evil vs. evil: the kids in the neighborhood pick up their bats and remix abrasive stuttering” in 2003. They are reunited here 23 years later, with more to come from each of them on future SOPR releases.
Sanford Parker, who plays bass in , records and mixes most current SOPR music from a recording studio located in the old office on the north side of , which, uncoincidentally, sits above a concrete bunker that serves as a rehearsal space for many of the artists on the label. .music has been in multiple bands with the label founder and members of . both still machine and are one half of metal band Beak and The Timeout Drawer. And on and on. To say SOPR is a family affair is nearly an understatement.
What comes with years of friendship is an undeniable shorthand that hastens collaboration, love and most of all, fun.
Thank you for listening! Someoddpilot Records is your home, too.
📸 by ray dybzinski
Video & design by ,
04/23/2026
It’s a genuine CD! The remix record is in. Releasing tomorrow PLAY004.
Grab yours: $20 door donation, $30 includes CD.
It’s been 20 years since we made one of these. ✌️📸
04/22/2026
🔥Chicago IDM revival🔥this Friday! Calling all laptop & electro curious music enthusiasts. This one’s for you.
On Friday, April 24th, we are gathering the architects of the Chicago underground for a rare evening of live electronics and experimental sound.
*IDM = intelligent dance music, late 90s term
This show is a resurrection of the energy that defined the legendary Monday night PLAY series at throughout the 90s and early 2000s.
We’re bringing together veteran musicians and core SOPR roster members for a night of performances from artists who rarely, if ever, take over the PA.
THE LINEUP:
(Sean Wolfe & Dan Smith) hq ( & )
(Jason Terchin — Timeout Drawer)
(Jon Slusher & Jason Goldberg — Timeout Drawer, Beak)
THE DETAILS:
Friday, April 24th
Doors 8PM | Show 8:30PM
(2141 W. North Ave.)
ADMISSION & EXCLUSIVES:
$15 suggested donation at the door.
$25 donation includes a copy of the brand new SOPR remix cassette or CD: “Echoes of Echoes Within”—dropping officially at the event. 💿📟
Come for the sound, stay for the community. Drinks and NA options provided by our friends at , , , and . 🍻
RSVP via the link in our bio.
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2141 W North Avenue
Chicago, IL
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| Saturday | 12pm - 7pm |
| Sunday | 12pm - 7pm |