This site represents a 45+ year-long experimental audio journal.
Maharadja Sweets is a lifelong home recording enthusiast, recording his first album at the
age of 10 in 1981.
As a teenager
on Long Island in the mid-to-late eighties, he submitted early albums to WFMU's seminal Lo-Fi radio show, where his music
was played a number of times.
In the ensuing decades he sweated out his artistic muse mostly in isolation,
recording trunk loads of material.
Sweets crossed paths with the underground cassette world of the 2010's when he met Seth of Orange
Milk Records (which Rolling Stone has called "the world's most vital cassette label") at an open mic in Brooklyn.
In 2012, Orange Milk released Sweets' seminal "Engines of
Joy" album to critical acclaim, Impose Magazine calling it "a tape of mysterious honesty; purely experimental, forward
thinking, disturbing and beautiful, showcasing a raw, personal and mystical vision."
Sweets followed it up with the epic low-tech space opera "In
An Orange Milky Way," which Lars Gotrich of NPR named one of the best 25 cassette albums of 2012.
Since then, he has released numerous creative
and adventurous albums in a variety of genres.
His work has been featured in an exhibit at New York Public Library of the Performing Arts, and been
lauded by such publications as Wire, Tiny Mix Tapes, and National Geographic Indonesia.
