CHXMERAS are an experimental electronic duo based in Vancouver, BC and a transatlantic collaboration between UK/Canadian musician Paul Finlay from the North East of England and nêhiyaw/Denesuline musician Jarrett Martineau from Treaty 6 territory in Canada.
They weave immersive, cinematic sounds and angular dub, deep ambient, experimental techno, mutating noise, and hip-hop rhythms, into a genre-bending, otherworldly experience.
CHXMERAS’ haunting 2024 debut album, Terminal City, was released on Virtua94 Records and hailed by RANGE Magazine as “a multilayered cinematic masterpiece". It charts a sonic passage through the echoes and ruins of late-stage capitalism, environmental degradation, and urban decay.
Using modular synths, drum machines, live efx, field recordings, film samples and live improvisation, CHXMERAS take listeners into a hallucinatory landscape where fractal paths, lost futures, and the disorienting present collide.
Their follow up EP Second Sight is a 27-minute flight through intricately arranged rhythms, bit-crushed melodies, and modulated fragments of a post-rave, post-club world. Where their debut album, Terminal City, was steeped in haunted landscapes, urban decay and echoes of faded wastelands, Second Sight is about standing face-to-face with the immediacy and uncertainty of crisis—where sonic premonitions of the future don't just arrive, they accelerate toward you in real-time.
