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 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."
Gordon Rutherford, Louder Than War
“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
Alongside his career as a musician, Spackman is an established visual artist, illustrator and creative educator, bringing a multidisciplinary sensibility to every project. Some selected projects include: Sad Stories – published a collection of short stories by music Journalists and writers (2022); the Drawing Orchestra, a 10 piece orchestra of illustrators who improvised drawing live on IPads, the Tin Arts Centre, Coventry. (2020), exhibition of photos at the Possession show, Bangkok Arts and Cutural Centre (2015), the arts duo, The Habsburgs, “How to Paint” at the Midland Arts Centre, Birmingham (2013) and Hull City of Culture- Fountain 17 in association with Hull School of Art and Design/ Armitage Shanks (2017); exhibited screen prints at the New Art West Midlands Salon Exhibition at the Waterfall Gallery BMAG (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); 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); shortlisted for the Cultural Olympiad project for my proposal to build a large grass covered hill in the city centre (2009); 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)