Album / CD / Download
ERS
Released May 1, 2026
Released by ERS
All music by Ard Bit & Radboud Mens
It is said that the sea of Mara Silen appears on no map. It moves between moments, not between shores. Across its grey surface drift islands without origin; Kure, Elming, Kosrea, Iturup, Laterne, Aland, places that exist only when someone dreams of them. Their shores are made of memory, their stones breathe the silence of what once was. Those who travel upon it sometimes hear voices beneath the waves, echoes of those who listened too long, until they became part of the water themselves. It is said they are now the current that brings the islands forth, and draws them back into nothingness.
Album / CD / Download
DƎЯRDE (Dronarivm)
Released April 17, 2026
Released by DƎЯRDE (Dronarivm)
Distributed by Fonodrooom
Original drawing by Rnul interactive
Juxtaposed is a testament to what unfolds when the ego steps aside and something deeper takes over. Through these compositions I explore states of surrender and introspection, searching for a connection beyond the surface.
“𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦, 𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘱 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦”
~ Igloo Magazine
“𝘈𝘳𝘥 𝘉𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤 𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘧 𝘪𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦, 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘣𝘦𝘥, 𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘱𝘦𝘥, 𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨.” ~ Choonreview
“𝘈 𝘥𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘭𝘺 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.” ~ De Subjectivisten
“𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴, 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘨𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘴, 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 — 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭. 𝘈𝘯 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰, 𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺: 𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦, 𝘥𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘭𝘺 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺.” ~ Rockerilla
Small physical object / Mini CD-R
Ard Bit
Released – February 8, 2026
Composed in 2024 for Cities & Memory.
Found again and released as a small physical object.
Sea recording by Rafael Diogo
Found again and released as a small physical object.
Sea recording by Rafael Diogo
“Each piece invites surrender, unfolding at its own pace until surroundings seem quietly overtaken.”
Igloo Magazine
album / download
Ard Bit
Released – January 9, 2026
In the final light, clouds seem to move slowly across the sky, without direction or urgency. What remains is not so much a moment, but a condition: colour shifting, time stretching, movement slowing.
This album emerged quickly and spontaneously, shaped within a short span while the impulse was still warm.
A small gift, passed on without delay.
album / CD-R / download
Ard Bit
“I celebrate the art of careful listening….” — Igloo Magazine
“….one of the best installments yet, a set of shifting soundscapes that are all built on a deep, terrestrial rumble.” — Bandcamp, The Best Field Recordings of June 2026
“……een langzaam evoluerend klanklandschap…..minder afzonderlijke tracks; meer als een film.” — De Subjectivisten
Album / CD-R / Download
Ard Bit
“The entire album is about peace: finding peace, then creating peace of one’s own. While listening, one may feel a similar level of holiness as the artist experienced in his travels.”
~ A Closer Listen
“En als je de laatste seconde hebt gehad, staat er toch nog een achtste track op, die ook nog eens een kwartier lang deze natuurlijke, ongrijpbare en vooral ook bezinnende schoonheid brengt.”
~ De Subjectivisten
“Het resultaat rolt voorbij als een innerlijke film, mysterieus en meditatief”
~ Gonzo (circus)
ALBUM / CD-R / Download
Ard Bit
Released – October 23rd, 2024
Part of the ongoing Field Recordings project.
→ View project
“Biologerend, verwonderend, adembenemend, in de houdgreep nemend en gewoonweg van een natuurlijke schoonheid.”
~ De Subjectivisten
“Field Recordings – 05 Bohemia is an excellent collection of sound collages, created with phonographic elements. The complete pieces are reconstructed settings from a human perspective.”
~ Igloomag
ALBUM / CD-R / Download
Ard Bit
Available for purchase on my Bandcamp page or by e-mailing your order to post@ardbit.com
Released – July 5, 2023
Part of the ongoing Field Recordings project → View project
“Het is een schitterend kleinood en reisdocument(aire) geworden”
~ De Subjectivisten
“The ambient backdrop Ard Bit waves as to underline the quiet and slow country life depicted in the field recordings. All of which I think is beautiful, even when I think some of this could extend beyond the few minutes this lasts.”
~ Vital Weekly
“….over the course of seven tracks and 21 minutes Janssen amalgamates a plethora of often times washed out, cut up or otherwise unidentifiable fragments of Field Recordings with experimental electro-acoustic treatments….”
~ Nitestylez.de
ALBUM / CD-R / Download
Ard Bit
Released – June 1, 2022
Part of the ongoing Field Recordings project → View project
“On one of those days when things slow down (or seemingly do so), I sat back and played this album a few times in a row, too lazy to get up and write these words or to want to change the tune, so in that sense, it was a most successful album. (FdW)”
~ Vital Weekly
EP / Download
Ard Bit
Released – February 9, 2022
Part of the ongoing Field Recordings project → View project
“These are sculpted selections of field sounds, creating an informative flow for your listening enjoyment. Instead of instruments, the composer is using recordings and arranging selections from the spectrum of audio that has been captured.”
~ Igloo Magazine
EP / Download
Ard Bit
Released – April 9, 2021
Part of the ongoing Field Recordings project → View project
“These are sculpted selections of field sounds, creating an informative flow for your listening enjoyment. Instead of instruments, the composer is using recordings and arranging selections from the spectrum of audio that has been captured.”
~ Igloo Magazine
EP / Stream
Ard Bit
Published – December 23, 2025
Users brings together older tracks and new material, moving between rhythm-driven pieces and ambient works. The EP was originally made with a clear release intention, but when that path disappeared, the project was left without a destination.
For now Users lives on Soundcloud, as a place where these pieces can be heard. Some tracks look back, others move forward. Together they form a snapshot of a period that never fully settled, but still feels worth sharing. Enjoy listening.
Live album
Ard Bit & Radboud Mens
Released – December 1, 2025
These recordings come from our live concerts at Fluister and Harmonic And Nonadaptive Sounds, supporting the release of our double-LP Marking A Boundary With The Turning Point, performed in October and November 2025. We played without a plan, following sound, space, and attention. What you hear is exactly what unfolded on those moments: fragile passages, sudden turns, noise, tension, and quiet moments.
Thanks to Wilbertjan Vlot (Fluister) and Hans van der Velden (Harmonic And Nonadaptive Sounds) for the Invitation.
Cover photo and video by Hans van der Velden
Album / Vinyl / Digital
ERS
Available for purchase on my Bandcamp page, by e-mailing your order to post@ardbit.com, or in recordshops worldwide.
Released – June 9, 2025
Marking a Boundary with the Turning Point was originally released as a limited edition CD on Shimmering Moods, with only 50 copies produced, selling out during the pre-order phase. Now, it returns in the format it truly deserves: a double vinyl edition! Limited to 200 copies, hand-numbered.
All music by Ard Janssen & Radboud Mens
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu at Schwebung
Artwork & design by Ard Janssen
Manufactured by Record Industry
Distributed by Clone Distribution
ERS 12/15
“An ambitious and quietly dazzling release, this is ambient music as architecture: expansive, intimate, and brimming with quiet wonder. A standout of 2025, and a testament to two artists in rare alignment”
Igloo magazine
EP / Digital
Ard Bit
Released – December 23, 2024
Unlike traditional drone compositions, these tracks are intentionally concise, offering condensed moments of resonance and evolving forms; a brief escape into stillness. With remixes from Amazing Bubble II, this release invites you to take a quiet moment to listen and immerse yourself.
Amazing Bubble Drones (Radboud Mens Hypnotic Remix) | Exploring Ambient Depths
ALBUM / CD / Digital
Shimmering Moods
Released – June 7th, 2024
Working with Radboud Mens on this album was a true pleasure, an inspiration, and a joy. We pushed this album to the limit, listening and revisiting it until everything felt just right, yet the spontanity remains intact. Even now, the album feels perfect in every way—from the creative process to the album art and the label. The limited CD edition sold out in just a few days, but you can still enjoy the download.
This album explores the tension between horizontal and vertical musical events. The horizontal elements create an illusion of immobility, yet within this apparent silence, small acoustic events introduce an elusive dynamic. What one listener perceives as an inconspicuous sonic detail might be considered by another as the focal point of their auditory experience.
All tracks played, recorded, mixed, edited and mastered by Ard Janssen & Radboud Mens
Artwork by Aldje van Meer and Radboud Mens
Design by Ard Janssen
ALBUM / VINYL / Digital
Phainomena
Available for purchase on my Bandcamp page, by e-mailing your order to post@ardbit.com, or in recordshops worldwide.
Released – 26th of September 2022
In 2011, Ard Janssen was one of the first musicians to grace Shipwrec. Now, some eleven years later, the sound sculptor returns for a full album on Phainomena. Music for Delirious Episodes brings together eleven compositions. Ard Bit is known for his delicate, almost brittle, works. This collection focuses on that same fragility that fascinates Janssen.
From the first steps of “Troubled Veil”, the listener is absorbed into a digital weave of field recordings, everyday undulations, other day modulations and loose harmony. Traditional instruments, string and wind, are filtered and re-imagined. The mundane echoes of routines are reborn as the percussive hum of pieces like “Stripped” and “Broken Respirator (White Funnel).” Behind the shifts and shuffles lurks something triumphal. Memories are given new form through audio carvings. Birdsong is handcrafted through knob tweaks, elephant trumpets bellow past swells of electronic insects as a glowing sun rises through the speaker. Hazes of static are shorn back, as in “Seppuku”, to allow moments of intense focus and reflection. And then we return, to that ephemeral beauty that permeates this record, with the final embrace of “Awakening Delusion”. An artist who finds the extraordinary in the often overlooked, or unheard.
All tracks composed and produced by Ard Janssen
Artwork & Design by Niels Vrijdag
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu (Schwebung Mastering)
Distributed by Clone Distribution
Video for “Awakening Delusion”, directed by Jelmer Noordeman (Void_3_4_)
EP / cassette / download
Ard Bit
Released – February 17, 2021
Another episode of strange stories and emotions wrapped up as
Part II in the AMAZING BUBBLE series.
The series is based on improvisation sessions with modular synthesis and field recordings as main ingredients. I am interested in the quest for that sorely harmony by weaving modular basses, melodies, drones, noises and rhythms with manipulated field recordings. For me a world to enter, to create amazing bubbles.
Limited Edition Cassette
➝ 25 copies
➝ Hand numbered
➝ Double A-side
Artwork and graphic design by Niels Vrijdag
Mastered by Jochem Paap @STOOR
REVIEWS
Video for ‘NTRZPM’, directed by Sibe Kokke // NOTDEF
EP / download
Ard Bit
Released – December 4, 2019
No random thoughts and no distractions, just me and the music. Suddenly it was there, this drone, noise, ambient piece. It was probably simmering for a while…
Maybe this can be a series, we’ll see.
credits:
cover photo: Yvette de Reuver
EP / cassette /download
Ard Bit
Released – September 25, 2019
Available for purchase on my Bandcamp page, by e-mailing your order to post@ardbit.com
Ard Bit’s fourth EP blends field recordings, soundscapes and rhythmic sources into melancholic and atmospheric layered constructions. The Rotterdam- based dutch composer and sound artist has several releases on Lowriders Recordings, Shipwrec and Symbolic Interaction, and now comes with a self-released new episode of strange stories and emotions.
Artwork: Meinhard Spoor
Mastering: Rudi Arapahoe
Official Video of ‘Ffog’, directed by Joost Kosir // Dirty Brown
Single / digital
Ard Bit
Released – July 24, 2018
Summer is in full swing and i want to share a track to celebrate life. It’s a kind of good vibe electro thing. Grab it for free, high quality or any other format you like.
Whatever you are doing this summer, enjoy to the fullest!!
In memoriam of Hannie de Reuver <3
Yve is mastered by Rudi Arapahoe
EP / download
lowriders recordings
Released – November 29, 2014
A coincidence, a satisfied feeling or being in the now leads to very special moments. Moments I have been looking for to build the story. Stories that are told through harmonies, rhythms, noises and field recordings. Every track has his own theme. Together, they are one; Ellioth EP
EP / cassette / download
Lowriders recordings
Released – May 23, 2012
Yelleen EP consists of 6 tracks. Cribble and Vixen were made in collaboration with Jor Mesin (part of the beatrotateproject). The two tracks are a step further away from the IDM straitjacket but it stays in the touch and feel of the latter. The transparency and openness is what gives it its unique character.
Alphabets Heaven, Julien Mier and Strand are on the remix duties for Yelleen.
EP / vinyl / download
Shipwrec
Released – April 7, 2011
Split EP with Astroposer.
“Ard Bit takes rolling bassdriven dubstep into dark and abstract dimensions. AstroPoser lightens things up and shows how glitch, hiphop, dubstep and idm should sound when you put em all together”
album / cd / download
Symbolic Interaction
Released – August 19, 2009
This is my debut album and it has received remarkable attention
“Spanon is a consistent slab of music that is rewarding and demands repeat listens”[Igloo Magazine]
“Designed as a brilliant compromise between dubstep and IDM, Spanon is an album that will delight the aesthetes of the genre.” [Chroniques Electroniques]
Mixtapes & Radio work
mixtape / streaming
Ard Bit
Made as a longform listening moment.
Originally created for Joseph Aleo’s Soundwave project (2023).
mixtape / streaming
Stookhoksessies
An 80-minute journey through the shadowed world of Field Recordings. Sounds blur and intertwine, revealing stories that unfold through drifting and disorientation. A deep listening experience. Headphones on.
mixtape / streaming
INDEx
The Hague-based electronic music platform INDEx invited me for their 17th episode. I have compiled a one hour mix for your listening pleasure.
mixtape / streaming
studio ruwedata
In this mix I take you to a intriguing and dynamic world of electronics, beats, ambient, jazz, noise and sound collages. With every mixtape I ask myself the question: what story do I want to tell? But as a result, I easily lose myself in detail. For this mix I’ve tried to focus on diversity and atmosphere to keep it office-proof, whatever that means. The story unfolds itself, enjoy!
mixtape / streaming
Stookhoksessies
finished a mix for Stookhoksessies with old favorites, fresh stuff and fieldrecordings.
Appearances
compilation / digital
Australian Bushfire Compilation | Touched Music
Electronic Music Compilation project by Roel Funcken, Julien Mier and Magda Kozuba
This project is an international collective effort to generate funds for the rescue, preservation and safe sanctuary of koalas and other vulnerable wildlife affected by the unprecedented catastrophic fires of the Australian Black Summer (September 2019 – February 2020) resulting in a massive loss of habitable forests.
Curated by Roel Funcken (Funckarma)
Photography by Magda Kozuba
Design by Florence Meuleman (moiCflo)
Mastered by Bob Macc (Subvert Central Mastering)
compilation / digital
Puerto Rico Relief | not on label
20 artists join in to aid in the reconstruction effort after Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico in conjunction with the charity “Friends of Puerto Rico”.
All proceeds go directly to Friends of Puerto Rico, they bridge between education and cultural communities in Puerto Rico and its diaspora and are actively raising funds that invest in communities that support educational, cultural and development programs in Puerto Rico. As part of the organisation’s commitment, 100% of the donations received for the Hurricane Maria Recovery Fund will be to invest to rebuild Puerto Rico through the thirteen centres managed by the Boys & Girls Clubs in Puerto Rico.
compilation / digital
Touched 3 / Touched music
417 electronic, ambient & modern classical musicians come together for this amazing cause.
compilation / digital
discovery 1 / soft recordings
Discovery series aims to promote new artists and sounds in the experimental music community; including ambient, drone, electronic, noise and modern classical genres.
compilation / digital
Touched 2 / touched music
All proceeds being donated to Macmillan Cancer Support
It was an honour to have contributed to this huge compilation with Machinedrum, Autechre, Brothomstates, Plaid, FSOL, Nathan Fake, Orbital and many others
compilation / cd / digital
the silence was warm vol.5 / Symbolic Interaction
I wrote this track for the compilation album The Silence Was Warm vol. 5
compilation / digital
The electro compendium / anti-social network
Collaborated with Roel Funcken for this compilation
compilation / cd / digital
the silence was warm vol.3 / symbolic interaction
I wrote this track for “The Silence Was Warm Vol.3” of Symbolic Interaction
compilation / cd / digital
tured in been / onrecords
‘Tured In Been’ features artists from all over – with the thematic constant being a love of creamy electronica. I felt honoured to have my debut on this compilation amongst other great artists.