Chicago electronic veteran Mark Solotroff is mapping distance instead of running from it. His new single “The Geometry Of Separation,” streaming now at Everything Is Noise, pairs his analog synth world with Wrekmeister Harmonies’ JR Robinson, and it points straight at A Diagnosis Of Distance, the full-length arriving November 20.

“SOLOTROFF has a very particular way of building captivating, impenetrable and vivid soundscapes that very easily get under your skin to various outcomes.” – Everything Is Noise

Everything Is Noise is currently streaming “The Geometry Of Separation,” the new single from Chicago-based electronic music veteran, artist, and multi-instrumentalist MARK SOLOTROFF. The track features a guest appearance by Wrekmeister Harmonies’ JR Robinson and comes off SOLOTROFF’s upcoming solo offering, A Diagnosis Of Distance, set to drop on November 20th.

A Diagnosis Of Distance treats separation – from places, from people, from earlier iterations of the self – as a condition to be mapped and analyzed rather than a narrative to be resolved. Operating at the intersections of drone, dark ambient, synth noise, tape music, and post-industrial soundscapes, the album was built by MARK SOLOTROFF from analog synthesizer, keyboard, drum machine, cassette manipulation, and source recordings gathered across Chicago, Berlin, Mexico City, and Cuernavaca. The record rejects geographical placement in favor of clinical observation, naming the internal mechanics of isolation across five expansive tracks spanning over 50 minutes: unexplained pressure, the cold architecture of an empty room, an unyielding frequency, and a degraded broadcast across time.

Rather than approaching the project as a strictly solitary work, SOLOTROFF invited key collaborators – Isidro Reyes (Anatomy Of Habit, BLOODYMINDED, The Fortieth Day), Joshua Strachan (Vaura, Blacklist, Desolation Colony), and JR Robinson (Wrekmeister Harmonies, The Mercury Impulse) – to contribute to specific tracks, weaving their distinct voices into the album’s bleak, analytical framework.

Offers SOLOTROFF, “Working with JR Robinson on ‘The Geometry Of Separation’ naturally recalled the intuitive dynamic behind Records Of Human Behavior, our 2024 album together as The Mercury Impulse. JR reacted to the basic looped piano phrase that I shared with him, sending back a deeply moving keyboard piece that locked into the core melody and built upon the song’s existing atmosphere. Fans of JR’s work on the last Wrekmeister Harmonies record, Flowers In The Spring, will immediately feel the weight and gravity he brings to this collaboration.”

Adds Everything Is Noise in part, “While the previously released single ‘Dense Anchorage’ was a rougher endeavor, ‘The Geometry Of Separation’ juxtaposes fleeting feelings of beauty and dread, the latter surfacing somewhat unexpectedly through the repeating piano melody that appears sparsely throughout the ten-minute duration, each time against a different backdrop that shifts effortlessly between hopeful and haunting hues. The organic tone, with its so-called imperfections and all, drives the entirety home comprehensively, providing an empathetic promise of a record that will move you to another plane of existence.”

A Diagnosis Of Distance was recorded by MARK SOLOTROFF and mastered by Collin Jordan at The Boiler Room in Chicago, maintaining a careful sense of distance and dimension within the post-industrial drone that SOLOTROFF composed.

A Diagnosis Of Distance will be released on CD and digitally. Find preorders at the MARK SOLOTROFF Bandcamp page, where first single, “Dense Anchorage,” can be streamed.

A Diagnosis Of Distance Track Listing:
1. Dense Anchorage
2. The Geometry Of Separation (Feat. JR Robinson)
3. Phantom Tenant
4. Signals Of A Former Self (Feat. Joshua Strachan)
5. This Absent Room (Feat. Isidro Reyes)

MARK SOLOTROFF Live:
11/13/2026 Untitled Fest – Nashville, TN w/ Ámes Sanglantes, Arzat Skia, Coldship Passage, Death Pact International, Frontier, Imminent Death, Viodre, Vatican Shadow, Lussuria, more…
11/20/2026 Fringe Records – Ridgewood, NY w/ Cruor Incendia, Desolation Colony, DJ Pieter Schoolwerth

About MARK SOLOTROFF

MARK SOLOTROFF’s artwork and music focus on the development of cities, the human body’s navigation through urban environments, and interpersonal interactions, particularly in an age of digital fragmentation. As the vocalist of the doom band Anatomy Of Habit and the heavy electronic band BLOODYMINDED, and the founder of the early post-industrial band Intrinsic Action, SOLOTROFF has a longstanding presence in the underground music world. With over 40 years of experience playing analog synthesizer, his synth work has been central to BLOODYMINDED and Intrinsic Action. Under the name Super Eight Loop, he recorded and released 100 hours of lo-fi analog synth music. His synth is also an element of the dark-ambient group Nightmares and the Milan-based post-industrial trio Ensemble Sacrés Garçons. In 2024, SOLOTROFF co-founded the synth-driven duo The Mercury Impulse with JR Robinson of Wrekmeister Harmonies, releasing their debut album, Records Of Human Behavior, that August.

SOLOTROFF has collaborated with numerous bands, contributing synth and/or vocals. His relationships range from a four-year role in Wrekmeister Harmonies to live appearances and studio recordings with artists and bands including The Atlas Moth, Azar Swan, Brutal Truth, Consumer Electronics, Indian, Locrian, Plague Bringer, Sigillum S, The Sodality, Sshe Retina Stimulants, and Wilt. His synth work is also featured in remixes for The Body, Statiqbloom, and Snow Burial. On November 28th, 2025, he contributed the track “Terminal ’25” to Metal Machine Music: Power To Consume, Vol. 1, a 2xLP compilation curated by Shaun Cohen and released as a Record Store Day Black Friday exclusive via Sony Music / Legacy Recordings.

As a solo artist, SOLOTROFF continues to focus on tenebrous analog synth music. His bass-heavy soundscapes have been described as unsettling to some and calming to others, serving as soundtracks for navigating metropolitan terrains. Starting in 2017, he released a series of recordings as limited edition cassettes, later compiled into three 2CD sets titled Strategic Planning. SOLOTROFF has since released the solo album You May Be Holding Back (2020), followed by Not Everybody Makes It (2021). These albums reflect on themes of isolation and loss, accompanied by self-published books featuring urban and architectural photographs that expand upon the albums’ imagery. In late 2022, he released a 2xCD set, Return To Oneself, compiling a series of digital singles and a previously unreleased long-form synth piece. Solotroff released Today The Infinite, Tomorrow Zero in 2023, followed by In Search Of Total Placelessness in April 2025.

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