July 27th, 2006
“The name ‘The Digital River’ comes from Richard Dawkins’ book River Out of Eden. In the book he describes DNA as being the ‘digital river’ of all living beings’ information. No matter how many ancestors you have or whatever changes, physical or mental, the genetics are still the same building blocks, just reconstructed different. I believe the same can be said of music as well. There often are people who say that music made with computers or made in nontraditional sense (I focus this at the classical and instrument-only focused crowd) isn’t music. How is that so? This recording uses guitars, ukelele, flutes, and didgeridoos, all of which are instruments that have existed at least 100 years. There are also amplifiers, microphones, mixers, and wires, used in most music for the last 75 years. These are not new or unheard of inventions. I create the music in the pre-mix with actual instruments. However, the bottleneck in which this music passes and changes is the combination of what’s going on in my head with this music and the mixing process. The mixing process is just as important as the performance, any engineer will tell you this. It is also as asethetically pleasing and complicated. Music isn’t just the performance of one or many instruments, nor just the sound engineers… It’s both of these things.”
- emperical stewing
- a small burst of anger
- if aboriginies were beatboxers
- nested sorrow
- limestone reverberation
- jingle bells is finished
- heart bowed down (transmission captured on late night fm from an alternate new orleans)
- silver side up
urbansprawlrecords.com
July 27th, 2006
“These pieces are continuation of a project started on an EP for (1.8)sec-records. They are all never-ending loops, created to be played live, with different timing, in different configurations.
Each of them might be listened either as a never ending loop or a finished piece itself.
The whole idea of using long, apparently simple loops, is to make a listener perceive each sound’s repeatability and principle, which is different at every performance, depending - in some way - on accident.”
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- stapes vi
- stapes vii
audiotong.net
July 27th, 2006
“Glockenspiel. Made of few sounds that change in different phases or doesn’t change at all. This is for disturbed listening. 2006 June/July. Warsaw.
One year later (2007/07) this electroacoustic version of Glockenspiel will be replaced by the version of Glockenspiel for symphonic orchestra.
Arturas Bumsteinas is composer and interdisciplinary artist. Since 2003 released electroacoustic music in these labels- Virpesys (lt), Nexsound (ukr), Zeromoon (us), Con-v (s), Organic Pipeline (dk), Nishi (ca), Cohort (us), Earlabs (nl). Participates in exhibitions with his audiovisual installations and video works. Bumsteinas is interested in the use of ‘instrumentation’ as the substitute for ‘composition’. Also he is interested in instruments itself.”
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- glockenspiel
alg-label.com
July 26th, 2006
“For his debut outing on digilog, echonomist presents an ep of swinging rhythms, dry percussion and heavy bass drum action. The crunchy beats are complimented by clicky machine sounds, hiccup vocals and dark synthlines, these tracks are designed to make you give in to their flow…
Special thanks by the echonomist go to mr lookman for help and additional production on all tracks.”
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- black window
- i was right
- minimal strike
digilog.gr
July 25th, 2006
“huhuhu. a long hot summer with a long hot EP from kazooo. more techno than ever. fierce guys raping their synths.. and lovely bitches fucking their beats. all in only one package. order now and you´ll get a second download for free. just dial 0190-……”
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- stoopid buttons
- trippy already
- midibrain
- jalapeno
- quasar
- transworld
zimmer-records.org
July 25th, 2006
“A unique look into the development of one of the more interesting independent musicians of recent memory.
Box Set is a collection of Dogme 95’s early musical experiments and demos, recorded from 2003 to 2006. Most of this collection was recorded in Dallas TX, some was recorded in Chicago IL. Contains four different covers (and back cover) by Stephen Gose; http://www.gosedesign.net“
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- bi-popular (soundtrack)
- another roadside attraction
- hands up/black night
- piss tales
- oisae
- float sting butterfly
- minow
- devils all around (demo)
- ramble gamble (demo)
- calling colours (demo)
- mt. alone (demo)
- calm & tame (original)
- can i write a hit (demo)
- white vinyl
- on my broken horse
- xsamplesx
luchalibrerecordings.com
July 24th, 2006
“Ben Businovski makes his debut appearance on netlabel Thinner with a smooth, sensual techno release showcasing his own unique fusion of Detroit Techno and dub-inspired sounds. Influenced by the music of the Transmat (Detroit) and Basic Channel (Germany) labels, Ben modestly and succinctly characterizes the album as ‘just music to make people feel calm and relaxed’.
An important counterpart to the musical focus of the album is the theme of an ‘Asian megalopolis’ as alluded to in the title and images. According to Ben, the album tells a story - ’something of a futuristic, cyber-punk, film-noir anime film.’ The tracks were written prior to his move to South Korea (where he presently resides) while at student at the University in Australia. Time spent watching Hong Kong action movies and Japanese animation inspired the quixotic idea of an Asian megalopolis. These tracks were composed while lost in a ‘Simulacraic Wonderland’, and there’s a bit of naive romanticism evident here induced by watching these movies and animations as their images created a vague, idealized semblance of living the Asian experience.
The first five tracks establish the musical theme for the album as the strong techno and dub influences make their presence known via an abundance of steady kick drum beats, synthesized sounds, minor-scale chords, punctuated stabs, mellow pads, accentuated with just the right touch of echo and delay. Especially notable is the poignant ‘Ceiling Fan’ whose evocatively melancholic tone is carried over into ‘Communication Bridge’, ‘Deception’, and ‘Dissolving’.
‘Lurking’ continues the techno/dub theme complemented by a memorable, rolling bass line. The mostly dub-flavored ‘Negating’ drops the steady kick drum in favor of some catchy rhythms and beats followed by ‘Once’ and ‘Purge All Levels’ which bring back the solid techno beats. The dubby and highly rhythmic ‘Song for a Cybernetic Amazon’ continues the album’s theme complemented by some deep bass, soft synths , and soothing piano lines.
‘Simulacraic Wonderland’ brings the album to a bucolic ending by diverging from the tech/dub theme in favor of some relaxing sounds featuring an orchestral-like atmosphere with haunting synthesized strings and a beautiful piano melody.
In retrospect, after having moved to Korea and visiting Japan several times, it became clear that the simulacra of the images on the television screen bore little resemblance to reality and to quote Ben: ‘Familiarization demystifies everything, it sobers you up and in a sad way destroys the deluded romantic concepts one can develop. Listening to it brings me back a few years to when things were not so familiar, not quite so old.’”
- ceiling fan
- communication bridge
- deception
- dissolving
- lurking
- negating (original dub version)
- once
- purge all levels
- song for a cybernetic amazon
- simulacraic wonderland
autoplate.org
July 24th, 2006
“Tan sólo unos meses después de entregarnos su primer trabajo, January Have Others, Hubre nos sorprende con ocho nuevos temas grabados nuevamente en su propio estudio en Salzburgo (Austria). Y nosotros encantados de que repita con trastienda, por supuesto. Jet.Set.Flow se mantiene en el sonido del rock alternativo de raÃz americana, pero puliendo la producción respecto a su anterior álbum, sin que la espontaneidad se vea resentida.”
- paperhead
- alves
- message for lennard
- and his friends
- pencil brake
- like it or not
- velvet inside
- ocean between
trastienda.org
July 24th, 2006
“Another release for this summer, from U.K. FarCry. First few tracks are based around a more chilled out side to FarCrys music, further you will hear more uplifting material ranging from the deep sounds of trance to the heart thumping beats of hard house.”
- castaway
- baby funk
- feel me feat. compass and guns
- love in shandong
- only you
- elysium (live edit)
bumpfoot.net
“The name ‘The Digital River’ comes from Richard Dawkins’ book River Out of Eden. In the book he describes DNA as being the ‘digital river’ of all living beings’ information. No matter how many ancestors you have or whatever changes, physical or mental, the genetics are still the same building blocks, just reconstructed different. I believe the same can be said of music as well. There often are people who say that music made with computers or made in nontraditional sense (I focus this at the classical and instrument-only focused crowd) isn’t music. How is that so? This recording uses guitars, ukelele, flutes, and didgeridoos, all of which are instruments that have existed at least 100 years. There are also amplifiers, microphones, mixers, and wires, used in most music for the last 75 years. These are not new or unheard of inventions. I create the music in the pre-mix with actual instruments. However, the bottleneck in which this music passes and changes is the combination of what’s going on in my head with this music and the mixing process. The mixing process is just as important as the performance, any engineer will tell you this. It is also as asethetically pleasing and complicated. Music isn’t just the performance of one or many instruments, nor just the sound engineers… It’s both of these things.”
