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Hamworthy Common (Parts I and II)

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:46:11 +0200

released on BFWrecordings by riverrun

Played, collaged and produced by Daniel Land. Single release (of sorts) from the forthcoming album, working title "Modern Landscapes", due in January 2009 riverrun is the ambient side project of Daniel Land, whose band Daniel Land & The Modern Painters have released two EPs, and a 7" single on Sonic Cathedral records. Their debut album "Love Songs For The Chemical Generation LP" is released in November 2009 on Saint Cecilia Records with a little help from Rough Trade and features contributions and collaborations with Mark Peters (Engineers) and Ulrich Schnauss.

Tags:EXPERIMENTAL, AMBIENT, DRONE,

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The Psychiatric Years EP Vol. 1

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:14:22 +0200

released on restingbell by The Cherry Blues Project

The Cherry Blus Project, a two-people-project from argentina, was one of the first artists on Resting Bell. They are mainly known for more experimental music, field recordings, noise and improvisation. For their "new" release on Resting Bell they did something you wouldn't expect.They recorded a folk record. "The Psychiatric Years EP" is rescued material from TCBP, about 4-5 years old, compiled into two EPs. All the material is folk music. Songs with melodies and structures, mostly done with guitar and voice. The production sounds really noisy in some places. Hisses, background-noises, rough sketches of songs and ideas. A great meeting between traditional song-structures and a growning experimental background.Keep your eyes open and watch out for part 2 of this recording.

Tags:EXPERIMENTAL,

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I Nvr

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:19:48 +0200

released on Petite Jolie by Valzi

Following Julian Winter's release which received a warm welcome from you, our cute followers, here is a release from Valzi who takes influences from deep in the chip music scene, as Valzi actually comes from the tracking scene, inspiring it with melancholic chords and growing melodies and finally shaping an ambiguous feeling between sorrowness and "joie de vivre," as we often say in France. Behind all these clicky beats, taping the time passing by, and these mellow but cute harmonies, there is a real letter of apology, written in notes and surely delivered the cutest way ever, delicately slipped into a pink envelope or even better, inside of its companion cover designed by no one other than Postics, a great illustrator we met at Rouen in October for a very nice exhibition of his work. ps: We also strongly recommend you check the work of Postics!

Tags:ELECTRONIC, CUTE, MELODIC, POST-CHIP,

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La pink note

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:18:52 +0200

released on Petite Jolie by kaneel

F i n a l l y, after nearly two months of silence, we are back with a new release and as usual, it's with a certain excitement. Not only because it's been said months ago kaneel would come up with a release for petite&jolie, nor because this release is mixing two years old tracks from his grenier with fresh new materials but for the reason an album of kaneel has been released by Apegenine Recordings and at petite&jolie, we love it when our boys (and girls :p) are just collaborating with various people, on various projects, for the sake of making this world a cuter place! So here we are, presenting to you this release of Guillaume Richard, dealing with nostalgy driven melodies and playfull clickbeats, soften by naivety and harden by the usual angst which define quite well Guillaume's usual style. Going from blues to ambient, new folk to glitchtronica, mixing all of this with a twist and a tint of pop, kaneel tries his best to prove music is only a matter of sounds and not of genres, even a matter of emotions and damn, it's all about a final result than a particular recipe to apply. Once playing with knobs, then playing live his melodica, he's been cooking this romantic and nostalgic release for your only pleasure, bringing new definitions to the sound of petite&jolie and we can't do anything else than simply enjoy this.

Tags:ELECTRONICA, GLITCH, BLUES, MELODIC, GLITCH-HOP, FOLKTRONICA,

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The Jungle

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:18:43 +0200

released on Petite Jolie by El zoológico

We, at Petite&Jolie, are excited to present you the second release of petite&jolie and not only because it's a wonderful travel through poptronics, melodies of "joie de vivre" and, let's dare saying so, zoomotions, but also because it's not everyday we'll be releasing a double EP. Indeed, El Zoológico is back at Petite&Jolie with his concept of catching the "essence" of animals through small'n'catchy tunes, classifying them by ecosystems. Await emotions driven through pitzacattos and fuzzy synths, get ready for cuteness, fasten your belt, and don't believe what they are saying around you, it's really cute and fancy animals you see jumping all over your head when you're listenning to this sweet release from El Zoológico.

Tags:ELECTRONICA, SYNTH, JOYFUL,

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The Aquarium

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:18:41 +0200

released on Petite Jolie by El zoológico

Tags:ELECTRONICA, SYNTH, JOYFUL,

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Pantoufle Tagada

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:18:34 +0200

released on Petite Jolie by vim

We've been taking our time to contact artists we appreciated to be sure to deliver some lovely tunes that would definitly give the artistic line of this netlabel. So here we are with our first release named "Pantoufle Tagada", a nice launching compilation for the sake of cuteness The cuteness will transport you on a pony ride from Purusha's (Ogredung) progtoytronica to papercutz's (Apegenine) childtronica, from Doroasako's progressive folktronica to El zoológico's pizzicato , passing by Original Recipe's (Vinyl Republik) fresh pianopop to kaneel's (Camomille, Ogredung) "joie de vivre" glitchtronics, vim's (Monotonik) spring melodies to fah's (Ronin) analog cute-acid without forgetting surasshu's (Apegenine, Camomille) electro music with video game gimmicks while balùn people (Aerotone) are coming up with their cutey electropop and dot tape dot (spar.RK, NatureBliss) rejoins with his toy harp and trumpet experiments. In the meantime, makunouchi bento (Camomille, Ogredung, One) will delight your ears during a sweet and tender music box interlude for your christmas parties while Nej will come up with some sweet electropop and treacle (BEE Records) will bring back the groove to some cutetronica. this compilation will act like the exact time-travel machine you needed to bring you back some childhood reminiscences, so we hope you'll enjoy this 55 minutes long launching compilation as much as we enjoyed setting this all up.

Tags:GLITCH, FOLK, CUTE, MELODIC, FOLKTRONICA, JOYFUL,

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Und morgen, der Asphalt EP

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:42:30 +0200

released on 12rec by Und Morgen, Der Asphalt

kesselring's german vocals are the most important element in the und morgen, der asphalt-songs. the music is build around them, harmonically and structural. you can hear influences from 80's avantgarde-pop and independent-music; kesselring is not trying to sing most beautiful but lets the expression follow the content of his lyrics; you have to acclimatise because it sounds different from the music you use to know! maybe it's more easy if you can understand his surrealistic, dark and bloomy lyrics.enough talk about the vocals! i told sim that und morgen, der asphalt always reminds me on a modell railway landscape, nice to look at in a whole and picked with dozen of details most people simply overlook. synth-sounds, field-recordings and electronic rhythm-patterns are entwined by guitar, bass, drums, piano (of course!), banjo. i don't know how these guys achieve a music this close and self-contained.thanks to cryptic scenery for the remix, tanja elentári nepomucky for the artwork and matija schellander for playing the contrabass at ich versuche dich zu lieben.

Tags:FIELD RECORDS, AVANTGARDE-POP,

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Some Protest Music For Todays Youth

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:41:55 +0200

released on 12rec by The Love Songs

The Love Songs is one man arkestra Sven Swift. The Love Songs is about drone music. Genuinely made of analogue synthesizers and effect pedals, Sven Swift is looking for the physicality of sound in his huge, harmonious compositions and improvisations. Asked for inspiration, Krautrock, Minimal Music and Vogelgezwitscher were the obvious answers.

Tags:DRONE,

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Catfish Took My Girl

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:41:30 +0200

released on 12rec by Majestik12

Artisticly grown and with clear concepts majestik12 wanted to face their second release. Recorded on eight tracks, carefully microphoned and with best intentions, it took until 2001 to release the catfish took my girl ep. At this point the band wasn´t really existing anymore, and there were no shows, where they could have presented their CD. So this might be a pretty unknown release to many people.
Moving beyond the naive crossover of the file not found: error lp to a colorful, heavy rocksound, that animated some people to comparisons to the QOTSA or Tortoise. The ep is freshed up with electronic add-ons and short skits and features a first remix by the sweet fuellsand boys.

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Tracks

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:18:34 +0200

released on enoughrecords by Ostin

Laidback dark beats from Russia. Music by Ostin, artwork by Oleg Bu33a.

Tags:HIP HOP, ABSTRACT, CLICKTRACK HIP-HOP,

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Objet Abandonne en Mer

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:00:05 +0200

released on 12rec by Nicolas Bernier & Simon Trottier

I got in contact with Canadian Nicolas Bernier when I wrote a review for his recent solo-release "Ailet l'eau faille by" at No Type-Netlabel. He ordered a bunch of CDrs and after some email chatting, he told me about a special project he's been working on. Nicolas teamed up with Montreal Folk- and improvisational guitarist Simon Trottier for some kind of a concept EP dealing 'bout a stranded objet abandonne. They jammed with acoustic and electric guitar, laptop and toy piano, diverse stringed instruments, percussion and microphones. Being familiar with Nicolas' work under his own name and as part of the Milliseconde Topographie -series, I was very curious what this promissing duo would sound like. After weeks of careful yet extensive post-production, the outcome blow both our minds.
The Objet abandonne en Mer-EP consists of four tracks with the title track being sub-divided in parts one to three. Opener Harmattan starts with a loop of rhythmically ordered glitches. Two entangled layers of acoustic guitar burst in, the slide-guitar rises and invokes an intense feeling of being lost. Bow and synthesizer replace the slide until an acoustic guitar introduces a simple Folk-melody. Objet abandonne en Mer is dominated by diverse field-recordings and crackling glitches. The feeling of being lost created in the first song is altered to a vague idea of rolling with the waves. The electro-acoustic cacophony of the introduction gives rise to a calm guitar melody. For the end, a thousand small Herzog-style guitars arise and consume the spectrum 'till single tones and chords begin to establish on top.
The third track opens with a nice Blues-motive on electric guitar and Nicolas' trademark noises. The initial melody disappears in reverb while a diffuse second layer gains contour beneath the surface. Just before the 1.000 Hours of Staring-similarity become too evident, a firm and catchy guitar emerges to make you hum along. Something like the album's dramaturgic peak. Bourrasque afterwards is the final tune. Mainly made of Simon's wonderful guitars, the songs starts with a lot of them piled up efficiently. After all, one singular Folk-melody survives just to drown in the sound of seagulls, oceanic hissing, noise and the distance echoes of Nicolas' and Simon's voices. More than just intriguing.

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Underwater Luminescence

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:56:14 +0200

released on Bypass by Megatone

This album is inspired by Marcel Gherman alias Megatone’s father’s book “Language In The World Of The Unspoken” about animal language. An excerpt from the book is added. Admiring nature’s beauty and perfection we become closer to a deeper understanding, to an inner truth that defies all conflicts and suffering of our harsh human world. The mysterious language of living light “…In the captivating book by famous soviet naturalist V.V. Lunkevich “Biology for fun” we find the following text, which seems to be, by its colourfulness and diversity, even more majestic than any fairytale scene: “He saw an extraordinary image. In front of him are passing by, sometimes in compact groups, sometimes one by one, some strange beings: at first they seem like umbrellas or bells – they are small size medusas, spreading a light sometimes blue, or green, or yellow, or purple. Among these moving lights floats peacefully, without signs of hurry, a giant medusa with an umbrella measuring 60-70 centimeters in diameter. A little farther there are fishes spreading light. As a lightning passes the moonfish, which indeed seems like a moon on the background of the other luminescent fishes. One of the fishes has “burning” eyes, another has on its head some kind of appendix, whose edge is like a lighting bulb, another one has a long wire hanging from its inferior jaw, like a little “lamp”, and other fishes “burn” completely, this because of some organs situated along their bodies like lighting bulbs spread on a string… On the bottom of the sea, among rocks and algae there are lurking mollusks and luminescent worms. On their bodies they have bright lines, spots or points shining like diamonds in light; on the openings of the underwater rocks throne starfishes also flooded in light, here also we find a lobster that lightens its way with its gigantic eyes, seeming like spread out telescopes, examining its hunting terrain.” The phenomenon is not less interesting when it is witnessed by a sensitive observer situated out of the water. This is how K. Paustovski saw it: “The sea was burning! I started to watch carefully. Even now I can’t believe that what I’ve seen was real. In such cases people tend to say that reality seems like a dream, but it’s not true. The sight in front of me seemed more wonderful than the most beautiful dream. The sea was simply burning. It seemed that its bottom was made out of marble lightened from below by a moonlike fire. The light was spreading to the horizon and there, where the darkness became like a violet ink, the sky was shining as if it were covered by a silver fog. The large line of light faded slowly. But after a short period of darkness, the sea transformed itself again into a sky full of stars, unknown, dropped to our feet. Billions of stars, hundreds of Milky Ways were floating under the sea. Fading out, they dived to the very bottom, or relightened, rising to the surface. The eye discriminated two types of light: one still, balancing slowly on the water, and another – all in continuous motion, slashing the water in rapid and violent flashes. It was the awakened fishes agitating underwater. The white fire was spreading out towards the beach and you could see clearly the bottom of the sea. Stones and tin objects were covered by a thin burning layer… I was witnessing one of the greatest phenomena in the world”.” Contact: myspace.com/httpwwwmegatonecom

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So Much Achieved. So Much Left To Do.

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:56:59 +0200

released on 12rec by Heezen

For our 50th release, we decided to go for a compilation. All exclusive. All free. All for you.
We drummed up the whole bunch and asked them to deliver the best they have. They did. Seventeen chosen songs from recent and future 12rec. artists.
You can download the compilation for free. You should do so! But if you really really want to support 12rec. and our artists, make sure to take a look at the fine digipak CD we got done.

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Anthémes pour les Regrets

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:42:07 +0200

released on 12rec by muhr

Not only a musician for approximately ten years now, Vincent Fugère a.k.a. “Muhr” was around when the whole Netaudio thing initially kicked off. As he reports in a recent interview for Phlow Magazine, microscopic social networks, chipmusic and a Babylonian mishmash of different file types where the primordial soup for the Netaudio scene to emerge from. Actually, Vince is the face behind the respectable Camomille Netlabel and Apegenine recordlabel. He released a whole bunch of EPs at hipster places like Zymogen, Serein, Miasmah and many more. We’re happy to have Muhr joining the 12rec.-family for his most recent album “Anthèmes our les Regrets”.Equally influenced by various forms of electronica, film music, Folk and Postrock, Muhr is about organic Ambient music. Vince’ compositions and improvisations fathom the space between synthesizer oscillation and guitar delay, they focus on background noise and the spatial hiss of his lo-fi recordings. “Our Tired Souls” and “Le Cycle est sans Retard” start the album with a good amount of melancholy drones, blending delicate feedback with field-recordings and substantial sketches of piano. For “Le Cycle est sans Remords”, Muhr gets a bit closer to something you might call a song. As he’s from Montreal, people will probably declare a Constellation-influence.“Improvisation II” is a soothing 15-minutes meditation on unwound guitar and certain effect-treatments, reaching hands to the Stars of the Lid. After this break, “Mes Ruines, tes Ruines” and “Sonnete pour les Perdus” are booming and enthralling Ambient Noise before Muhr gently kicks our asses goodbye with the tiny Folk jewellery “Eschatology”.The stunning artwork for “Anthèmes our les Regrets” is based on three paintings by Portland-peintre Eric Adrian Lee. His textural works beautifully resemble the Muhr music and bring forth a new level of interpretation to both aural and visual components. Like Vince, Eric accepts (and facilates!) elements like dirt, noise and error in his producing. Like him, texture and detail are more important than sheer tangibility.

Tags:AMBIENT, POST ROCK,

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Moreover Mödling

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:41:45 +0200

released on 12rec by David Schweighart

(...) An adventurous mindset is about the only thing the bands on this record have in common. They draw their influences and ideas from a diverse array of areas that range from the serious to the absurd and from the pragmatic to the highly complex. From an outside point of view the various parts of this compilation may seem like a concise and tightly woven section of a tiny fraction of all the music on this planet, but diving into the contents offered herein, you'll find whole worlds opening to you.For instance The Clonious brewing memories to Pharao Sanders' late phase with Coltrane while spinning those echoy drums in a truly mental fashion. Alexandr Vatagin gives a little- glitch-goes-drone excursion, nothing big, but with lots of soothing effect on the mind. Peter Holy is taking his songwriting to a completely new level of emotism, mocking classical piano and then rocking it as if his heart depended on it. David Schweighart uses field recordings of birdsong and voices in the park to brighten his guitar-chords. Applicator 120 forage into some short but equally effective nullsonic-noise of electric interference on their Flug Der Todessonde Omega. Ippolit introducing a clarinet into a majority of the Tupolev fracas resulting in the loosest Masada you'll ever hear. Yes, the whole town riding the range and everyone having a good time while exploring the fringes of what they know. Mödling, the frontier town?Moreover Mödling ends with the enormous Tupolev and their Opus, which fits because Tupolev might be the best known band from the ones introduced here, the starting point for many music lovers to explore further (just like this compilation) and also seems to be a central point for the various players in the Mödling-scene. Peter Holy, Alexandr Vatagin, David Schweighart and Lukas Scholler all appear solo as well on the record, mostly with one or more of the others playing along. This kind of incest is a great thing as long as the closeness and intimacy is held up. If their regional closeness is but a coincidence, that is for you, the listener, to decide. But beware, as soon as you start to question your own judgements, you'll step up into air. Maybe you'll find, that the nothing underneath you will give you better hold than the ground far below.August 2006, Georg Cracked(head honcho of the non-existing info radiance Cracked Foundation for the Fine Arts)

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Its Cold In Space

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:41:35 +0200

released on 12rec by neuf meuf

Well, it's been just over two months since the last release, but we hope you'll forgive us when you hear the new addition to the catalog and the Serein family. This is an exciting one for us as it marks several 'firsts' in our history. The first full length release, the first co-release, and the first time you'll be able to get your hands on a hard copy of the music as well as the usual mp3 format - you lucky blighters! So, not only do we welcome 'Neuf Meuf', the recording artist, to the ranks, but also the wonderful 12rec.net who will be handling the manufacture, sale and distribution of the limited CD. Phew!So, what of the music? 'It's cold in space' says the title, but I'm hard pushed to find anything cold about this album. Listening to it seems the perfect accompaniment to the hot weather that's finally found it's way to British shores; gently plucked guitars lilting in and out of the sun drenched picture Neuf Meuf paints. Snatches of vocals and the rattle and whirr of percussion and field recordings will have you melting whether the sun is shining or not. There are darker moments here too, though. 'Unrest unsave', featuring vocals from 'Sepia Hours' plunges you into darkness and will leave you feeling quite unsettled, before raising the mood once again with the epic and enchanting 'goldberry dreamstream'.Eleven tracks and fifty minutes of music here that will leave you thirsty for more from this young Slovenian. Rest easy for now though, safe in the knowledge that there is enough here to keep you satisfied for a long time to come. Should you need more convincing to part with your pennies and grab a copy of the CD, the music is accompanied by wonderful artwork from Inmo Design. Hurry, while stocks last!

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Kölner Sommer

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:41:16 +0200

released on 12rec by Zeugwart Hallbauer

zeugwart hallbauer like to use reverb. many sounds seem to circulate in a far distance, diving in and out of the listeners ear. and they create a lot of room for these sounds, still there are always walls somewhere to stop the sounds from floating into total oblivion. did somebody say these guys were playing electronica?
their music is sort of loop based, two or three main rhythmic motives and a line to carry the melody. dont get me wrong: the 'koelner sommer EP' isn't really minimal. zeugwart hallbauer superimpose many loops on top of each other, create swinging, even polyrhytmic patterns of synthetic melodies and grooves. you can dance to it, but you don't have to. you can also chill and nod your head while trying to figure out the many influences zeugwart hallbauer melt together: house and techno-music (obvious), pop and jazz, hip hop, maybe 70s electronic music (sometimes klaus schulze comes to my mind).it took a while to release the EP because we've been waiting for the videos to be finished. hugs and kisses to matthias groebel and rick silva for their great video-works! and to amaia martin and rui oliveira who designed the CDR-package. please check rotesonne.com with whom we're releasing this great EP for some detailed information and further linkage.

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Orange Album

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:41:09 +0200

released on 12rec by Moritz Grund

In the past two years, Moritz has been busy studying arts at the famous KHM in Cologne; nevertheless, he didn't loose his aim to release his album somewhere someday. Several fine-tuning, collaborations and mastering-sessions later, he was finally able to draw a line under the production, and here it is!Being part of the Heidelberg downbeat-scene, Moritz started pretty smooth. He soon developed his style for the great glitch-wave swapped over from the UK and tracks became more abstract. The 'Orange Album' manages to keep the fragile balance between IDM-experiments and an idea of round-the-corner pop. Due to that, Moritz proves himself as a master of styles. Beneath the unique atmosphere, he turns from noisy ambient to minimal house, switches to some smooth techno-tunes und fades elegant from hiphop to electronica. The LP features a guest production of David Moufang alias Move D, some guitar playing by Matthias Conrad and additional glitches from 12rec.'s own Jens Grünhagen (aka Lunte of Sichtbeton).

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On Marx/ Mosp

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:41:00 +0200

released on 12rec by Yokoelast

After the release of his live-performance (12rec.009) glitch-pop jack-of-all-trades Mateusz Parzonka publishes another pearl from the binary archives of his Powerbook. In search of alternatives in generating sounds and structures, Yokoelast discovered the programming user interface Max/MSP which potentiates the user to create his own 'instruments'. Hardware-synthesizer and mixer are sold soon, and in the course of one year Mateusz fills an entire CD with noisy and glittering track-sketches which, arranged and replenished by 12rec, represent Yokoelasts new EP.In comparison to his Live-EP the new songs appear more compact. Anyway, norznorznorz with nearly four minutes run-time is the longest track on the EP. Yokoelast cuts his usual path between repetitive rhythm, ambient textures and the contrast of noise and melody. His songs always unfold a hypnotic pull which is resolved by him in concrete harmonies.The iambored-artwork documents the destruction of the original sound storage medium.

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Live at ZKM

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:40:50 +0200

released on 12rec by Yokoelast

Mateusz crafted the songs of his ZKM ep live within the context of the architectual JoxMox-exhibition in the "Zentrum fuer Kunst und Medien" in Karlsruhe, Germany. He interactively divided the installation of F. Winkler and J. Sturm into four suites, which Mateusz put together from prepared and spontaneously modulated audio-material. Thereby the music controlled the artist's visuals. This liveperfomance presents a conclusive destillat of his work back in the days. Four long arrays, you wouldn't guess they're improvised; pop and electronica, which do not level out to electronical popmusic.

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Grünanlagen EP

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:40:44 +0200

released on 12rec by The Love Songs

This first work of the artist is based on the consideration that life in the city needs a new socialisation of botanic nature. Human cultural property and living nature exchanged positions in the modern urban jungle.
"glitzern" starts this CD with the glitter of the needle, which goes through the lead-out groove. Intense synthesizer motives rise in addition from the depths of the vinyl to go down again. After this rather ambient exercise, "die schönheit der abnutzung" states the floorfiller of the record. Groove by brutal beat-boxing sounds. With "blumen in den fenstern", the love songs floats through the track in one single increase. The song is the key work of this ep. "ein sommer aus beton" closes the grünanlagen ep as crackling as it has begun.

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Puzzled EP

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:34:55 +0200

released on 12rec by Fuellsand

Track five and six of the fuellsand ep-trilogy. The new compositions appear more intense and compact. With "i didnt even notice" there is a synthie-groover and "the approaching siren" catches up to "sun and paper industry" of the eels ep as a dark jazz-hybrid with heavy stage piano chords. Plus: An euphorical tribute to the g-funk and hot chicks in the artwork. what more can you ask for?

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Eels EP

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:34:45 +0200

released on 12rec by Fuellsand

"this afternoon we went for eels" opens with a dominant rave-motive, cricketchirping and a neckbreaking rythmshift. The grumpy drums accentuate the synthline unobtrusively."sun and paperindustry" is mainly build on a strongly repetitive glockenspiel pattern. Fieldrecording, heavy synthesizer chords and the jazzy voice of Lena create a song out of this tricky loop. The eels ep started the fuellsand ep-trilogy, in wich three eps with two songs each are to be released.

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Sichtbeton LP

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:31:49 +0200

released on 12rec by Sichtbeton

Luntes raps talk about human mindstates, sometimes introverted-abstract, then again in direct connection to the city and their residents. Urbanity as inevitableness, not as a farce. On the instrumental level the sichtbeton LP doesn´t move on the safe paths. Noisy pads of expanded field-recordings float through the songs, cuts peel out of the mostly laidback rhythms, dusty drums clatter as there is no connection, but the vocals hold it all together. The tendency to the large gesture, that gives the sichtbeton LP its outrageous diversity und credibility, can be recognized in the choice of the samples. There´s no problem with orchestral strings close to kitsch or passionate synthesizer-flutes.

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The Days are just packed

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:31:44 +0200

released on 12rec by Fuellsand

Strings, Harps, Child Choirs.
Fuellsand rallied a bunch of friends from the extended 12rec. network round themselves and created an atmospheric and intense collection of dark song hybrids. The path of minimal music, indierock and electronica, prescribed by the 3 EPs is getting expanded by different elements: Jazz-Trumpet player G. v. Abendroth and DJ Freeze focus and shape material that turned out rather ambient in the past, the love songs (now living in Berlin) adds explicit beats and Nils, Michael and Simon (of Majestik12-fame) improvise over heavy Rhodes-chords. Apart from that Marvin Gaye can start leaving the throne: Just listen to popsicle at the sewers!

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Bars Closing Down

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:31:40 +0200

released on 12rec by Milhaven

This release comes up with heavy guitar-drones.Comparable to mogwai or do make say think, these guys combine the groove and harsh power of noiserock with unearthly beautiful melodies. No need for a vocalist when you're able to let your guitars sing!When Simon and me entered this hole for the first time, it was outside nearly as cold as inside. Remarkably less damp it wasn´t eighter down there, so that the sloppy roughcasted walls made a perfect ground for this magnificent mold. Simon plucked up all his courage and sat down on the scary looking couch (in a movie this would have made a smushy sound). Meanwhile I set up the old four track machine and the guys started playing to warm up.
Our first plan, to record every instrument seperately, turned out as impracticable. This band doesn´t work as a combination of different musicians. Milhaven are so grown together with themselves, their instruments and the delay in rehersals (as on stage, if it runs well), that every try of overdubbing would equal an amputation. So we took the risk of a hearing defect and recorded it all live...Our production is surely only able to sketch a draft of the intensity of this band. But the love and the complete devotion of this young men to their rough, epic and unreal beautiful songs are indeed noticable in every note. Please listen to this LP as loud as possible.

Tags:POST ROCK,

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Tupolev EP

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:31:35 +0200

released on 12rec by Tupolev

it takes tupolev three songs and exactly 12 minutes and 17 seconds to raise their voices. and when they do so, nothing really happens- their singing isn't meant for grapping one's attention, to carry emotion or even content. it's just a further instrument to accomplish their certain vision of contemporary avant-garde folk music. throughout that EP there is a feeling of vagueness and stumbling.
tupolev play very slow, add a lot of time-changes and keep rolling around all common harmonies. it's a kind of jazz music, for tupolev know exactly what they're doing: song number four, called as for misery, sounding like a sad drunken sailorman walking home at five o'clock in the morning, deep minor chords, singing, fieldrec, a little drums. but boy, after seven minutes the sun seems to rise; sounds increase like the city awakens and a melody as-beautiful-as-it-can-get emerges from the depths, lasting only for a few seconds before the song ends. on the other end of the spectrum there is rnd, the song afterwards, a mathematical piece of chamber-folk, precise and perfect.due to all mentioned musical qualities, also the tupolev-sound is awesome. the piano is dry and dusty, the drums sound everything else but fat and vocals aren't put upfront. simply perfect, no doubt!

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3bit Pankow EP

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:31:29 +0200

released on 12rec by Sichtbeton

compared with the sichtbeton LP, you might find the former 3bit pankow EP more low-keyed or even less catchy; rap music as a guide for producing does not play an important role after all. lunte, who has contributed most of the beats and sounds, uses his background as a source of inspiration to expand the borders of hip hop into ambient and electronica. for instance, he does no straight rapping on this record, although he is working with voices extensively.the songs billow up and down, layer-by-layer jens adds synthesizers, vocal-fragments and field-recordings, always approaching climax from the back, still being able to find the right moment to let the songs end. foggy jazz-chords give rise to simple but effective melodies. there is a certain connection to the works of anticon's sole and especially cLOUDDEAD, with whom sichtbeton share the 'flow' on this record: pieces quite ambient (harmonizer) are next to downright house tracks (der antistatische mann) and moody instrumental hip hop, like it's nothing special.you can find the sichtbeton LP's disenchanting realism being outlined though the 3bit pankow EP (produced within the same year) by sort of artificial darkness, that does not emerge from berlin-pankow backyards. for real, it comes deep from the listener's hearts. 3bit: heart, soul, mind.

Tags:HIP HOP, INSTRUMENTAL,

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Ask No Lies

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:31:08 +0200

released on 12rec by Rob Steady

when you go through the reviews stèphane received for his obadia-release with ADIM, you'll find critics being confused about how to judge his music. is it danceable, does it move my butt? might stèph even be innit for popmusic as you can always find a moment of melody to stick to? or are there more academical reasons, something about recycling, glitch-asthetics and stuff? thing is, as we here at 12rec believe, stéphane prefers fooling around with genres. if you listen to the hot new rob steady EP, you'll find him getting more abstract and experimental.stèphane asked us not to write too much about the music, so we're just trying to give you an idea. what do you expect?hurry to order the CDR, as first edition copies come up with a limited nice little poster to decorate your living room.

Tags:CUT-UP, MICRO FUNK,

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Hope Street

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:30:44 +0200

released on 12rec by Engine7

Engine7 is a project by Alan McNeill from Glasgow. We're releasing his Hope Street EP in a renewed cooperation with 12rec., after the netlabel he previously dealt with, µHz, had to cease operations. Alan got in contact with Legoego's Dataman (who also did the mastering) to find a new home for his tracks, so here we are. His music is not easy to describe. To me, it sounds a little 90's, but without being retro. Consider artists like tricky, portishead or dj shadow you might get an impression of the mood and the sound Engine7, at least partly, represents. The glitch of postmodern UK electronica seems to play no further role in his productions. Nevertheless, it's the influence of independent rock, or even pop music that makes his EP this remarkable. Alan doesn't try to make innercity coffee bars sound better. He digs himself into sound and melody, bringing odd musical ideas like uncut diamonds to the surface; it feels like listening to a my bloody valentine-record for the first time: you can't believe where these harmonies come from!Postrock and triphop, to name the genres you mustn't name, share - next to melodic deepness - a somehow repetetive flow, emerging from sample patterns as well as minimal instrumentals. Alan manages to link these genres without writing 'avantgarde' on his forehead. He gives them an ambient reprise, not afraid of adding expanded voice-sampling (stella, we're sorry), slight singing or neo-classical film music (you'll hear sounds like a reference to joe hisaishi). Great release, thank you Alan, thank you 12rec.!If you want more then 192kbp/s mp3 then visit www.12rec.net to oder the handmade CD-R release!

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Skism EP

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:30:17 +0200

released on 12rec by Skism

have you seen this short mobile-phone commercials a few month ago? you can watch a cool beauty folding her apartment and interior together, putting it all in her cute hand-bag. do you remember the soundtrack? i was confused finding more or less-known american bleep hop-kid dabrye set the music to an attvertisment-clip, and i was curious if skism couldnt have done as good as him.in fact hes good at melodies, his beats are as tight as playful, and david brings it all together in pretty firm songs. consider cylinder, melt or especially guido de montifeltros spring top hat (you might know this one from the sbh!-sampler, remember?). electronic hip-hop with a strong harmonic basement, and nobody misses the rapper! ghostbuster skism adds two upright jazzy interludes (GBS & the elevator muzak stodj) and gets in contact with early autreche at flere or surfaise.with the replacement of his main computer, david lost all his tracks and only a couple of mixdowns were left. thanks to dataman, we could give the remaining data a proper mastering, althought you might recognize some minor crackling that shouldnt be there. at least this must have been motorolas base motive for not getting in contact with david...

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EP02

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:25:20 +0200

released on 12rec by jasmin

does complex music necessarily have to sound complicated? jasmin are back with four more songs to find out about.
like on cecil taylor's 'unit structures' it is not about naming every note or every odd meter. it is more about the beauty that lies beyond. taylor mixes modern classical music, bebop and free jazz. jasmin add portions of rock and pop. the three chaps from munich present their second EP on 12rec in another exclusive collaboration with rotesonne records.
lernen von maedchen starts with some programmed beats and a filtered vibraphone. clean guitar- and bass-tones are added and sketch the typical harmony-patterns your know jasmin for. everything remains fragile until the drums come in. a repetitive guitar formulates the songs main motive, volume increases, and distortion and feedback gather like storm clouds at the horizon until the song erupts in a monsoon-like shower. heute im stadion is jasmin's version of contemporary hardrock. the title refers to 'stadium' and can be read as an ironical statement concerning huge rockband-riffing. read this one within the (soccer-) context of holger fach from the first EP! rote sonne spins forth the thread of high-energy riffing. but jasmin take it very slow this time, the song has a nearly sluggish feel. as if they had recorded it in scorching heat. does koeln (cologne) ultimately really last for eight minutes? the EP closes with a bewitching popsong that makes time fly by. jasmin throw out their net of entwined jazzy harmonies and pull it back with rich prey. 12rec loves you, guys.

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Treehugger EP

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:25:13 +0200

released on 12rec by Daniel Maze

there are different approaches to noise in electronic music. technically, noise is described as an equal amount of output in all present frequencies ('white noise') and sounds pretty boring. people tend to mix their original signals with fragments of noise to get a more individual, maybe more haptical sound; on the other hand, a lot of strictly experimental music uses noise as the main source of audio, shifted in frequency and amplitude, fed back to the machines or distorted and delayed.why do you have to know about noise when you want know about daniel maze? his treehugger EP is full of noise! like a graphic designer adding certain samples of pixelated dirt to his 'clean' graphics, daniel uses different forms of unspecific audio to break the unreflected beauty of his compositions. april and pantomime for example are tricky four-to-the-floor house-tracks, with a beat that's playful and danceable, good melodies and a lot of warmth. still they might sound a bit 'easy listening' if the noises were missing. but they don't! jan jelinek's farben-alter ego might be a good reference. for manhattan and playground minaturette, daniel adds some more pop and gives his music a more indietronic-appeal without loosing relevance. the title track and ambulance chase at position five and six get into pop-music even deeper- pearling piano motives, smooth guitar pickings and vocal-samples make daniel sound like akufen, 70s electronic music and, ähem, art rock. you've got to listen to believe.after all, daniel maze is familiar with drone, harsh noise and experimentalism, too. if you listen to his former and future releases at italian netlabel sinewaves, you'll find deleting nearly all residues of pop in his music. both sides are important and require themselves, as he says.

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As Seen From Above

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:25:05 +0200

released on 12rec by El Senor Ciuf Ciuf

i got an email from our dear friend stephane obadia. he told me about this guy from italy that calls himself after the sound of a steam train, ciuf ciuf, got it? steph was very excited bout his music and so are we.
just check the first song i feel like a clean blackboard: along with his mates matteo mohorovicich at sax & clarinet and daniele dalla pellegrina at trumpet, oliviero farneti creates a surprisingly catchy and slightly surrealistic pop-song that knows about dance-music, lo-fi indierock and jazz (!). bet you'll whistle this one when you leave the house. we the ants sucks you in with his beautiful warm guitar-riffing. this song didn't leave my head for weeks! it ends with a little free-jazz woodwind-intermezzo. stunning. i think i saw a dead person walking yesterday expands olivieros sound-cosmos back to the sixties- these sweet vocal-harmonies in the middle make you think of the beach boys immediately. along with cheap synth-melodies, noisy wall-of-sound guitars and the trademark-woodwinds of matteo and daniele, by the way. demons, song seven, introduces the housy bassdrum and could have fit on the last gorillaz-album without a problem. the unspeakable chant of a collapsing universe afterwards exactly sounds like this: about nine minutes of psychedelic kraut-pop build on a small repetitive synth-motive. el senor ciuf ciuf waves hello to the early flaming lips.
indeed, this description might sound a little weird. the album doesn't! although there are a lot of moods and styles to be heard, oliviero's melodies, his voice and his sound of lo-fi homerecording hold it all together.the beautiful artwork is an adaption of a comic short story by joey weiser from the US. the CDR-edition (limited to 50 hand-numbered copies) comes with four coloured cardboard-cards printed with the story "flight". check his homepage and order all the other mini comics, they're worth it!

Tags:LO-FI, INDIE POP,

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Junique Fois Pi / Hermelin Split

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:24:56 +0200

released on 12rec by Hermelin

did you ever wonder what these kids are doing in their free time? you watch them talking to each other in the tube, realize their worn out shoes and shirts with names you never heard of, hair too long and dirty to suit any future mother-in-law.
the one small group, four young lads from hanover in germany, call themselves after an elegant little beast of prey former kings made their coats from- hermelin (ermine). risen from the ashes of their old name, they are striking for the grail of avant-garde rockmusic without vocals but melody and fine dynamics. hermelin emancipated from grunge and alternative rock just now and still you may recognize some hardrockish elements in their music. no stupid jokes about hanover, please! the band manages to integrate these influences harmonically and develops its own sound between acts like juno or the early shudder to think.
the three chaps from the other group seem to be a bit older. junique fois pi (don't wonder 'bout the name) settle their rough music right between noise- and postrock. the bass guitar is distorted and mixed upfront, the songs are pushing forward, their jazzy melodies are dosed with care. in a straight line from chicago to new york and washington junique fois pi bring forth their dischord-sound from the city of electronic music, cologne, and succeed in avoiding any heavy metal-shallows. comparison? think of unsane, lungfish or a gentle version of shellac.
the kids are into music, you realize. not the one you can hear on the radio, music you have to know about, music you have to look up. if 12rec's been a help to find what you are looking for, we're done.

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Sky Diaries EP

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:24:48 +0200

released on 12rec by Crepusculum

The young lad behind the Crepusculum-moniker is Fred Baty from London. 'Crepusculum' is latin for sundown and suits the music of our December-release perfectly: the day is done, you're creeping home to take a rest, to chat with the ones you love, to do what life REALLY is about. This ambience of being-at-home is a also a fairly good Christmas-motive, so maybe the best time to enjoy Fred's Sky Diaries EP is now...What does it sound like? If you're down with the 12rec.-backcatalogue, you'll probably remember the Dusty Window EP by Californian Giraffe. Like him, Fred uses his acoustic guitar for most of his compositions. Folk is an important influence, and the boy Baty surely enjoys the last 40 years' classical Pop-bands. But in distinction to Giraffe, Fred doesn't intend to write 'songs' like them- his instrumental Pop-music avoids vocals, is built from clever structures, unusual harmonic layering and a talent to let songs end. No psychedelic Freak Folk-jams in here! The late Talk Talk might be a good comparison, you can mention Brian Wilson, Sufjan Stevens or German Postfolk-duo Taunus. In all, you will enjoy his music even if it is of no importance to you that Fred's influences are more like jazz, contemporary composing or folklore - beauty is something everyone understands.Big shout-outs to Bill 'Herzog' Bawden from the Serein-collective who contributed the remix!

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Into Vernadsky EP

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:24:34 +0200

released on 12rec by Astrowind

Kriipis Tulo and Mahi Bukimi form the duo Astrowind. Travelling the rusty railroad between Riga and the white shores of the Baltic Sea, they met in 2003 to perform a few live improvisations on old Soviet synthesizers. Things did seem to work out and Astrowind decided to go ahead with their cinematic music. I got in contact with Tulo and Bukimi for my review of their debut EP "The Night the Stars Flew" which has been released at the Russian ElectroSound-Netlabel. Immediately I fell in love with their beautiful and anachronistic Paleopsychedelic Ambient (as Astrowind term their music) and was happy to hear that there is a couple of new tracks waiting for a release. That's how "Into Vernadsky" came to be.
While the debut was more like watching the stars on a windy night, "Into Vernadsky" has a rather oceanic feel. “Welcome to the Past” starts off with fat sonar-like bleeps while the harmonic synth- and organ-chords in the back seem to pass tons of salty water before they reach your ear. The second song, mysteriously entitled “Rusty Trumpet of Youth”, has a similar feel. Squeaking synthesizers and a millions bubbles beneath. The “Connections of Everything”-trilogy afterwards marks the slow ascension from the bottom of the ocean to the bright and lovely shores atop. If you are a fan of the Herzog EP we released in May 2007, maybe you dig these tunes, too. Despite all the differences.
The second half of "Into Vernadsky" EP begins with “Vernadsky Choice”. Astrowind combine sweet organ-chords with a crackling and hissing synthesizer pulse. Check the Jean-Michel Jarre filter sweeps! At position seven, “Starry Night Horseriding” takes on a slightly more resolute temper. Very dense, you can imagine the starlight landscape taking a flight before your eyes. “I’d Like to Return” is the last song before the EP fades out with the final tune “Blake”. There is a strong atmosphere of menace in it, a certain kind of tension… haunting. Reminds me of German Krautrock pioneers Cluster- and that is the best I can give!

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Blackwater Mysteries- Quiet but Twisted

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:49:13 +0200

released on BFWrecordings by Alexander

A collection of four or more dark and moody songs that come somewhere between rock and experimental music.
Marvellous stuff from a very talented new artist.

Tags:EXPERIMENTAL, DARK, ROCK, ANGST,

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LHC

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:32:33 +0200

released on phonocake by mr. incognito

Tags:IDM, DARK, ELEKTRO, LIVESET, ANALOGUE, DARK SPHERICAL IDM BREAKS, ENERGETIC, MYSTERIOUS SPHERES, CYBERNETIC, MIDTEMPO, BRAINDANCE, DREAMWORKING, ELECTRO/IDM/EXPERIMENTAL/BREAKS, 2009, DRESDEN, MP3, TORRENT, DARK MELODIC ELECTRONICA, FAT, ROCKING, RHYTHMIC NOISE,

m3u: http://sonicsquirrel.net/get/release/m3u/5554
zip: http://sonicsquirrel.net/get/release/zip/5554

Release page: http://sonicsquirrel.net/detail/release/LHC/5554
Label page: http://sonicsquirrel.net/detail/label/phonocake/624

Fugly Habits [www001]

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:52:33 +0200

released on Internet-Recordings by Mefjus

Mefjus is a Drum & Bass DJ and producer living in Austria. His discography as yet includes one tune on a vinyl record (“No Choice” on URBANGHETTO001 via the Austrian label Dramfank) and two digital releases (“Radix” as T-FILE019 and “Wholetrain”, a collabo with M-Force, as T-FILE022 via the German label Tilt-Recordings). At the time of this release here, he is working on collabos with Asphexia, Kaiza, Isotop and Bowser, with a digital EP forthcoming on Mindtech Recordings (amongst other planned releases). In addition to these Drum & Bass activities, he experiments with 128 BPM Electro and Breakz as “Mephisto” and produces Gabba as “schnitzel mit pommes”.
Mefjus links: Myspace, Discogs

Tags:DNB, CLICKTRACK, NEUROJUNGLE, NEUROFUNK,

m3u: http://sonicsquirrel.net/get/release/m3u/5553
zip: http://sonicsquirrel.net/get/release/zip/5553

Release page: http://sonicsquirrel.net/detail/release/Fugly+Habits+[www001]/5553
Label page: http://sonicsquirrel.net/detail/label/Internet-Recordings/1208

The Possibility Of Joy

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:58:24 +0200

released on restingbell by Ennio Mazzon

Ennio Mazzon is an Italian sound artist. I first heard of him as a remixer of Off Land's "Input Shape". But he did netaudio-releases on Audiotalaia and Timetheory and a CDr-release on his own imprint "Ripples Recordings", as well as various sampler-contributions."The Possibility Of Joy" contains 4 tracks with a complete duration of about 22 minutes. Most of the material seems to be generated with synthesizers and electronical equipment with a little addition of field recordings in some parts. The sound is based between athmospherical, clean sounds and noisy, distorted parts, opening up a wide range of listening-impressions. Creating noise on one hand but also beatiful emerging melodies within these loud and massive soundwalls.To speak with Ennio's words: "I want to transform the natural silence." So close your eyes and drift through all the different layers of granulations, distortions and glitches.

Tags:AMBIENT,

m3u: http://sonicsquirrel.net/get/release/m3u/5552
zip: http://sonicsquirrel.net/get/release/zip/5552

Release page: http://sonicsquirrel.net/detail/release/The+Possibility+Of+Joy/5552
Label page: http://sonicsquirrel.net/detail/label/restingbell/712

Subversive Vespers

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:49:11 +0200

released on XSrecords pt netlabel by BpOlar

BpOlar music is strongly focused on creating textures, with a close relation with ambient music. This textures are nonetheless rough and arid, and lead us to alien environments where beats, noises and voices all create suspense moments, where you feel alert all the way through. This release is composed of four tracks and a bonus movie, that complements this particular vision.If you pay attention to BpOlar work you'll find, in his drawings/paintings, movies and music, traces of this imaginary world, where the central element is the feeling of unsettlement.

Tags:AMBIENT,

m3u: http://sonicsquirrel.net/get/release/m3u/5541
zip: http://sonicsquirrel.net/get/release/zip/5541

Release page: http://sonicsquirrel.net/detail/release/Subversive+Vespers/5541
Label page: http://sonicsquirrel.net/detail/label/XSrecords_pt_netlabel/1204

Notoryczni Wyznawcy Ewidentnych Uproszczeń

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:45:53 +0200

released on apogsasis by rekombinacja

Tags:EXPERIMENTAL, GLITCH, BREAKCORE, HIGHLY PROCESSED ELECTRONIC MUSIC, PLUNDERPHONICS,

License: Creative Commons | by-nc

m3u: http://sonicsquirrel.net/get/release/m3u/5537
zip: http://sonicsquirrel.net/get/release/zip/5537

Release page: http://sonicsquirrel.net/detail/release/Notoryczni+Wyznawcy+Ewidentnych+Uproszczen/5537
Label page: http://sonicsquirrel.net/detail/label/apogsasis/1206

Drone Dance EP

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:14:17 +0200

released on BFWrecordings by Ghouls N Eggs

Electronic brain noise from Brazil. Intense and glitchy,Ghouls 'N Eggs produce sounds similar in places to Himuro Yoshiteru and Aphex Twin. This is great stuff - turn it up LOUD!

Tags:IDM, GLITCH, BREAKS, BRAIN NOISE,

m3u: http://sonicsquirrel.net/get/release/m3u/5535
zip: http://sonicsquirrel.net/get/release/zip/5535

Release page: http://sonicsquirrel.net/detail/release/Drone+Dance+EP/5535
Label page: http://sonicsquirrel.net/detail/label/BFWrecordings/1188

Epilepsy

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:06:28 +0200

released on apogsasis by ENAY

Tags:IDM, GLITCH, BREAKCORE, REWIND,

m3u: http://sonicsquirrel.net/get/release/m3u/5522
zip: http://sonicsquirrel.net/get/release/zip/5522

Release page: http://sonicsquirrel.net/detail/release/Epilepsy/5522
Label page: http://sonicsquirrel.net/detail/label/apogsasis/1206

Derealization

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 22:22:45 +0200

released on apogsasis by Grammar

Tags:ART MATERIALS, GLITCH, CLICKTRACK,

m3u: http://sonicsquirrel.net/get/release/m3u/5521
zip: http://sonicsquirrel.net/get/release/zip/5521

Release page: http://sonicsquirrel.net/detail/release/Derealization/5521
Label page: http://sonicsquirrel.net/detail/label/apogsasis/1206

norbury 2

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 22:07:31 +0200

released on apogsasis by ENAY

May the custom of giving away old, unreleased music live long ! Thirty two minutes of glitchy and/or chillout electronic sounds. I can't say this is innovative in any way (and if you listen close enough, you'll find a number of preset/samplepack cliches - sorry!) but it sure makes my retrospective, laidback smoking sessions wonderfully enjoyable. Enjoy.

Tags:IDM, TO CHILL, ELECTRONIC, 8-BIT, MIXTAPE,

License: Creative Commons | by-nc

m3u: http://sonicsquirrel.net/get/release/m3u/5520
zip: http://sonicsquirrel.net/get/release/zip/5520

Release page: http://sonicsquirrel.net/detail/release/norbury+2/5520
Label page: http://sonicsquirrel.net/detail/label/apogsasis/1206

Selfprogrammoid

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:56:52 +0200

released on apogsasis by ENAY

Tags:JUNGLE, REWIND,