2015. december 8., kedd

Tsone - Pattern Recognition

Pattern Recognition is a tour-de-force in which Tsone delivers a perfectly crafted ambient music album, a piece that passes by slowly and evolves on a continuous succession of still images framed in sound. Truly a very gentle listening experience suitable for many ears and tastes.

Tsone ‎– Pattern Recognition
Label: Audiotalaia ‎– at056
Format: 8 × File, Album, MP3, 320 kbps
Country: Spain
Released: 24 Sep 2012
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient
Mastered By – Ian Hawgood
Photography By – Daria Clarkson

tsone (Phoenix, Arizona);  Tsone (aka Tony Obr) is a multimedia artist whose design aesthetic focuses mainly on the innovative uses of sound in a non-musical context. In the past few years his work has centered on the development of interactive systems for dance performances and art installations. His work has been heard in the Phoenix Art Museum, the Scottsdale Center for Performing Arts and on various record labels around the world.
http://tonyobr.net/
bandcamp: https://tsone.bandcamp.com/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tsone/279546825411405

Audiotalaia is an online platform, a netlabel and a joint venture devoted to release, promote and produce works based on sound in Spain and abroad. We are a very open minded platform seeking to present to the world a wide range of ways to work within what’s being known for the last few years as sound art.
Audiotalaia might be considered a netlabel (just because we operate online), it can be also considered a traditional label, a booking agency and even an event production company. Audiotalaia goes around the whole cultural process, from promoting an emergent artist and releasing his work as a free download until programming concerts or producing or own festival. Finally, through all this activity, Audiotalaia aims to present this kind of music to the world. It has been always important to do a certain pedagogy towards the audience and towards artists so Audiotalaia will always be focused on a very basic idea: we want you to listen to new things, different things, strange things and familiar, but ultimately: to listen.
Welcome:
http://www.audiotalaia.net/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Audiotalaia
bandcamp: http://shop.audiotalaia.net/
archive org: https://archive.org/details/at056PatternRecognition
Released under Creative Commons License; Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)

2015. október 30., péntek

Mursego (Eibar, Spain)

Mursego.....exploring the edges. Skimming the surfaces. Existing in the space between the planes. Chaotic in close-up, beautifully ordered in the wider picture. A vision like nothing we've ever seen before, yet one that seems strangely familiar - perhaps from deep within our own subconscious minds......
More info:
https://www.facebook.com/Mursego
http://mursego.bandcamp.com/

Verde from Mursegokeriak ( rarezas ), released June 1, 2013 - the most striking piece of music I've heard in some time; stunningly beautiful. More to be said here, but...... wow, just breathtakingly beautiful, so poignant.  Is this "saudade"?  If so, what an astonishing emotion; more like a bouquet of emotions.
https://mursego.bandcamp.com/track/verde-2

2015. október 8., csütörtök

Various ‎– Kaoson kaj kontrolo

The chaos and control, humans and machines, nature and civilization, immigrant and borderlines, freedom and domestication, privacy and geolocalization, music and sonic weapons.

Various ‎– Kaoson kaj kontrolo
Label: Breathe Compilations ‎– brh12
Format: 12 × File, Compilation
Country: Mexico
Released: 2015
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, Atmosphere, Downtempo, Freestyle, Soul
Cover, photos and inspiration by David Ordaz Bulos and his research.

MUSIC IS FREEDOM.

Since June of 2008, Breathe Compilations is a netlabel for eclectic tunes and graphics based in Mexico.
We release our work with different types of Creative Commons Licenses.
http://breathecompilations.org/
archive org: https://archive.org/details/brh12_V.A._-_Kaoson_kaj_kontrolo
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/breathe.compilations
Released under Creative Commons License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)

2015. szeptember 13., vasárnap

Multi-Mission ‎– Elevon

*20.005MHz is the frequency at which the Sputnik signal was transmitted, a recording of which is present in the song.

Multi-Mission ‎– Elevon
Label: Energostatic Records ‎– stasis032
Format: 3 × File, EP
Country: Ukraine
Released: 26 Jul 2015
Genre: Electronic
Style: Dub Techno, Electro
Photography By [Cover] – Superfamous

Sam Simpson (Multi-mission) has been producing music since 2009. He graduated from Ohio University in the United States, majoring in audio-production, and operates under a few different aliases geared towards dance music. Multi-mission is a refined voyage into space and dub music with the dance floor in mind.
https://soundcloud.com/multi-mission-music

Energostatic records is a music netlabel founded by people who demand creativity and aesthetic health.
“We show you the boundaries of this world and expose something beyond the orbit of imagination.
We are not anchored to them, we are the flow.
We still continue to explore the multi-dimensional manifold through musical impacts and share this music with you, as it might be useful to retrieve the hidden knowledge.
Reach, resist, research…”
http://energostatic.com/
More info:
soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/energostatic-records
bandcamp: https://energostatic.bandcamp.com/album/multi-mission-elevon
archive org: https://archive.org/details/stasis032
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Energostatic-Records-159842617392247/timeline/
Released under Creative Commons License;  Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)

2015. július 24., péntek

Dave Dorgan ‎– Such Is Our Condition

Fishermen
by a rocky shore,
winds blowing wildly,
in a boat unmoored--
such is our condition.

- Saigyo, 1118 - 1190
Saigyo: Poems of a Mountain Home, p. 137
Translated by Burton Watson

Dave Dorgan ‎– Such Is Our Condition
Label: Subterranean Tide ‎– ST18
Format: 6 × File, Album
Country: US
Released: 13 Jul 2015
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, Experimental
Photography By – Peter Nejedly

 Dave Dorgan (Orlando, United States), Musician, sound designer, composer, and programmer working in ambient, soundscape, experimental, jazz and other genres.
https://soundcloud.com/davedorgan

"Through art - we can almost touch divinity. And we are merely tiny individuals hanging out in this universe creating beyond what was thought possible. Musicians are constantly evolving and they are continually giving us the gift of music. This netlabel serves as a platform to bring together different sound artists and to briefly experience the poetry of sound within ourselves. Releases are licensed under Creative Commons, non-commercial, non-derivatives or derivatives based on the artist and release." -  Subterranean Tide
More info here: http://subterraneantide.com/
or here: https://subterraneantide.bandcamp.com/album/such-is-our-condition
Released under Creative Commons License;  Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)

2015. július 14., kedd

Happy Netlabel Day!


On July 14, every single netlabel around the world is invited to join us in the first Netlabel Day ever, and you can be part of this! Netlabels are designed for sharing music, the musician sharing, the label sharing, and the listener sharing with friends. Everyone must have the ability to legally share the music.
http://netlabelday.blogspot.com/p/about-us.html


A new and improved Netlabel list is out which includes almost 40 countries. There are 250 active netlabels listed as well as some 750 inactive netlabels. Links for Internet Archive, SoundCloud, RSS, Free Music Archive, Facebook, and Bandcamp are included: http://www.actsofsilence.com/netlabels/
Happy Netlabel Day!

Various ‎– Silas & Friends Volume 4

On the 14th July, 2015; we will celebrate with friends and fans across the world the first Netlabel Day.
Please do all you can now and on the 14th July to support netlabels, your ongoing support is vital to ensure this movement can flourish.

Various ‎– Silas & Friends Volume 4
Label: We Are All Ghosts ‎– waag_rel073
Series: Silas & Friends – 4
Format: 45 × File, Compilation
Country: UK
Released: 29 June 2015
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient
This album is the brainchild of Cousin Silas.
Photograph by Dagmar Salomon
Design & Logistics by Thomas Mathie for weareallghosts.co.uk

We Are All Ghosts;
Founded by music fan Thomas Mathie aka Headphonaught as a means of giving back to the independent music community. We Are All Ghosts is a small non-commercial netlabel based in Motherwell, Scotland; that specialises in ambient electronic soundscapes but is open to other styles of music.
More info: http://www.weareallghosts.co.uk/
bandcamp: http://weareallghosts.bandcamp.com/

Cousin Silas aka Dave Hughes is a Ambient artist from Huddersfield, UK.
More info: http://cousinsilas.blogspot.co.uk/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thecousinsilas

More info: http://weareallghosts.bandcamp.com/album/cousin-silas-and-friends-vol-4-waag-rel073
or here: https://archive.org/details/we-are-all-ghosts
Released under Creative Commons License:
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)

2015. május 14., csütörtök

Gimu & Eeem [eim] - Analogue by the Lake

Gimu & Eeem [eim] - Analogue by the Lake
Format: 3 X File
Released: 22 February 2015
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient

Gimu & Eeem [eim] joined forces to create that 3-tracks story "Analogue by the Lake".
The collaboration starts from a few days at a Finnish cottage by a lake, goes around via Brazil /Gimu's home and comes around via China where Eeem lives for this year.
"Analogue" is for "Oberheim SEM" and "Minimoog" which are producing most of the sound textures those tracks lay on. But also for the French "analogue" i.e. "qui présente de l'analogie, des rapports de similitude avec une autre chose": as if music was a universal form of sharing and elaboration across great distances.

Those tracks extend from the contemplation of the nature to an expression of our fragile life's expectations, but we hope, as well looking forward to the future.

 Eeem [eim] Helsinki, Finland; Sound designer and ambient storyteller. Field recordist. Cubase specialist. WCDMA expert. Wine and food lover. No Facebook account, yes.
More info: http://eeem.net/
bandcamp: http://eeem.bandcamp.com/

Gimu is a Brazilian based sound artist. Gimu is no stranger to music.
With over 20 years of expansive musical exposure, Gimu's experimental sound has been influenced by many genres as well as being composed of completely original textures.
He has graced us with dark ambient, haunting and beautiful drones, atmospheric subtlety and other experimental sounds.
soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/gimu
bandcamp: http://gimu.bandcamp.com/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gimuofficialpage
Released under Creative Commons License:  Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) (according to Eeem bancdamp info).

2015. április 28., kedd

Cello + Laptop (Sara Galán & Edu Comelles) - Segments

"So after almost one year here we have a small grasp of what was hidden in the closet a thorough selection of four little gems we have kept for a long time. Those are the outcome of various recordings done in Valencia. All pieces are segments of longer live improvisations between cello and live electronics. The process of work, as usual, is a two-ways stream of cello lines and the re-appropriation of those same string lines, and the dance and dialogue that happens in real time."

Cello + Laptop (Sara Galán & Edu Comelles) - Segments
Label: Audiotalaia ‎– at078
Format: 4 × File, Album
Country: Spain
Released: April 27, 2015
Genre: Electronic
Style: Modern Classical, Experimental

Cello+Laptop is an experimental ensemble exploring the sound dialogues between classical instrumentation with electronic sound. The project was born in Valencia (Spain) and consists in a series of experimental compositions mixing the ambient sonorities of Edu Comelles projects and the textures and acoustic of the cello by Sara Galán.
More info: http://cellopluslaptop.bandcamp.com/
or here: http://www.educomelles.com/2015/04/cello-laptop-segments.html

Audiotalaia is an online platform, a netlabel and a joint venture devoted to release, promote and produce works based on sound in Spain and abroad. We are a very open minded platform seeking to present to the world a wide range of ways to work within what’s being known for the last few years as sound art. Through all this activity, Audiotalaia aims to present this kind of music to the world. It has been always important to do a certain pedagogy towards the audience and towards artists so Audiotalaia will always be focused on a very basic idea: we want you to listen to new things, different things, strange things and familiar, but ultimately: to listen.
All works presented on this label are under Creative Commons Licenses 3.0 Share-Alike.
More info: http://www.audiotalaia.net/catalogue/at078-cello--laptop/
or here: https://archive.org/details/at078Segments
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Audiotalaia
soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/audiotalaia
Segments is released under Creative Commons License; Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0

2015. március 27., péntek

Xenoton - Traveller

Xenoton ‎– Traveller
Label: TonAtom ‎– tonAtom.137
Format: 7 × File, FLAC, Album
Country: Germany
Released: 15 Mar 2015
Genre: Electronic
Style: Electro
Artwork – Laura Marie Reinwarth
Photography By – Laura Marie Reinwarth

The tracks on "Traveller" do without striking effects and fashionable frills. instead the listener can expect clean elaborate electro sounds that focus on an aspect that has been put aside in many other places: composition and melodics. the songs deploy these features to tell us about moods that oscillate between wanderlust, homesickness, well-being and mere existence."Traveller" is deliberately less percussive and emphasizes the narrative facetes of the melodies.
This album, although almost classical at its core, develops its very own modernity.  The combination of highly pleasing feel-good components  and tension-building bass and lead lines develops the typical Xenoton charm.

The two
remixes complement this release excellently. Both reinterpret the
original track in their very own ways by adding something new to the
already described characteristics. Abjective adds some ruptured unrest
to "camden lock" revealing a somewhat different aspect of the track. Weldroid quite properly underlines the rocking (or at least
head-nodding) character of "friedrichshain" with massive beats. Both
remixes are not added just for being there but they add fascinating
aspects to Xenoton's music and enhance the whole release.
 


Listening to "Traveller" is fun, while repeated listenings reward through
the discovery of new details. It is highly recommended to go on the next
part of the journey with this travel guide.

(carsten buettemeier)
.

tonAtom is a germany-based netlabel.
"tonAtom was founded in march 2002 and is working as a strict non-profit alternative to the established label and publishing system.
tonAtom stands for netvideo and netaudio productions ranging from ambient to experimental, far off from airplay, dancefloor, club or other limitations.
Our artists and our releases are selected to be strange and intelligent, challenging and inspiring, timeless and cutting-edge, innovative and essential."

More info here: http://tonatom.net/releases/137/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tonAtomNetlabel
Xenoton - Traveller is released under Creative Commons License;
Namensnennung - Nicht-kommerziell - Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 3.0 Deutschland (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 DE)

2015. március 21., szombat

moto-hi - The Lost Way

“But happiness is being able to hope, however faintly, for happiness. So, at least, we must believe if we are to live in the world of today.”
Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

The Lost Way
by Motohiko Hirami
all songs written by moto-hi
artwork by Igor Bartolec
released 28 December 2014
More info here: https://kazenoyouna.bandcamp.com/album/the-lost-way

2015. január 2., péntek

DomainMeta - Metaphysics EP

DomainMeta - Metaphysics EP
Format: 7 × File, EP
Country: Russia
Released: 19 November 2012
Genre: Electronic
Style: ambient, IDM, Glitch

DomainMeta (aka Abjective); a musical project two brothers.
Electronic mantra created by human consciousness
Ambient/IDM/Glitch
Melodic Experimental
in search of new sounds.

bandcamp: http://abjective.bandcamp.com/album/metaphysics-ep
soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/abjective
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/abjective
Released under Creative Commons License: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)

2014. december 27., szombat

2Kutup - Desolate

2Kutup is a dreamy drone/ambient project that is based in Istanbul, Turkey.
2Kutup means “Two Poles” in Turkish. It was derived from the word “bipolar”. 2Kutup describes two opposite sides, black&white, good&evil, sadness&happiness, peace&war, in other words an inexhaustible thrive with bipolar disorder or a borderline personality.
Life itself is bipolar according to 2Kutup and it is accompanied by music which is composed of contrast emotions expressed, whirled up into one.

2Kutup - Desolate
Label: Ethereal Echo [EEN-001]
Format: 4 × File, EP
Country: Turkey
Released: 01 December 2014
Genre: Electronic
Style: Dark Ambient, Melancholic, Drone

Ethereal Echo is a boutique netlabel, a digital label community founded in late autumn and early winter of 2014 and it is based in Istanbul, Turkey. As the name of the netlabel suggests, it mainly focuses on ethereal, and mostly dreamy, atmospheric, dark, warm, cold, melodic and melancholic music. The main goal of the netlabel is to release quality music that is unheard and help you discover the ethereal echo of your soul.
http://www.etherealecho.com/
soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/2kutup
bandcamp: https://etherealecho.bandcamp.com/album/2kutup-desolate
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/etherealecho
Released under Creative Commons License; Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)

2014. december 23., kedd

aAirial - Unworldly piano works

Soothing and dreamy minimal soundscape that
swirl like a starry cloud dispersing into the void, and the mesmerizing ambient tones all meet in a vast open space designed for contemplation.
I'm sandwiched between these drifting moments of blissful surrender...this is home.

aAirial - Unworldly piano works
Label: Not On Label (aAirial Self-released) ‎– none
Format:  16 × File, Album
Country: France
Released: 22 December 2014
Genre: Electronic
Style: IDM, Ambient, Minimalist Piano

"aAirial (Paris - Nancy, France) is influenced by classical romanticism and emotional electronica, a mix that defines very well his style.
..The minimalist approach, retaining only the essentials for better reach the listener.."

bandcamp: http://aairial.bandcamp.com/
soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/aairial
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aAirial.music
Released under Creative Commons License;
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)

2014. december 21., vasárnap

M-PeX - ODÝSSEIA

Smile, Breathe, Unwind & Flow......
A lovingly crafted, delicately assembled album; a gate to another dimension.

Latest album by M-PeX, his 5th on Enough Records is a double album. It draws it's inspirations from two odysseys: Homero's and Kubrik's. The first cd, sub-titled "Prologus" is entirely acoustic, with M-PeX on the Portuguese guitar and André Coelho on double bass. The second cd is titled "Epilogus", adding electronic elements to the sounds and featuring additional guest artist DJ X-Acto providing some additional electronics and scratch sounds. Artwork by Marco Madruga.


M-PeX - ODÝSSEIA
Label: Enough Records ‎– enrmp364
Format: 12 × File, Double-album
Country: Portugal
Released: December 20th, 2014
Genre: Electronic
Style: Laidback, Acoustic, Fusion

M-Pex (aka Marco Miranda); Tradition embraces modernity in a relationship as promiscuous as it is fruitful and truly interesting. M-PeX is a project that allies the Portuguese Guitar to electronic music, and dares to explore musical landscapes never visited before.
A bold experiment that sets a test for our ears, that dares to break down clichés and which proves that traditional music can also be modern, or vice-versa. Imagine the crystalline sound of a Portuguese Guitar. Imagine a laptop knocking out electronic rhythms. M-PeX is just that, electronic music with Portuguese Guitar. Or maybe it's Portuguese Guitar with electronics.
More info:
soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/mpex
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/M-PeX/126605314037429

"Free Music for Free People" - Enough Records
Enough Records, active since 2001, is a Portuguese netlabel with a strong demo scene background that promotes, distributes and hosts music from artists who agreed to release through them - for free. It is run by Filipe Cruz.

More info:
http://enoughrecords.scene.org/#/release/enrmp364
https://archive.org/details/enrmp364_m-pex_-_odysseia
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/M-PeX/ODYSSEIA/#
http://enoughrec.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/enoughrec
and facebook: https://www.facebook.com/enoughrec
Released under Creative Commons License; Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)