September 20th, 2006
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Free music. It’s a wonderful thing. Quite nice compared to shelling out a buck for a single DRM “protected” (protection from who? From you!) track on iTunes. Sadly, netlabel artists will likely never earn nearly as much money as the big name musicians backed by the big name record labels selling out for the big bucks.
The netlabel scene doesn’t have the structure. Sure, there are great facilities for the individual netlabels such as archive.org and scene.org, but there is no netlabel committee. There is no large entity that gives the scene structure. Netlabels are scattered across the web. Some are larger and more popular while others are only found in the nooks of the internet. The netlabel scene is in a constant state of disarray.
What am I getting at? I’m actually asking myself that question, and you may be wondering the same aswell.
“Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends. And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.” Those are ofcourse the words of the great Martin Luther King Jr., delivered on August 28th, 1963, and I couldn’t have put it any better on this day, the 20th of September, 2006. That magnificent speech was on topic of racism, equality, and the dream that men and women of all different color could one day consider each other as equals. While my dream is a far cry from his, it is nonetheless a dream. My dream is that one day netlabels will be united, whilst still retaining individuality. It may not seem like such a big deal to have each and every netlabel hand in hand with one another, but just think about it for a minute. If we could harness all of its chaos and turn it into one unified entity, what more great things would we be able to accomplish?
For now, it’s just a dream. The netlabel musician will remain poor in comparison to the likes of corporate empowered entities. But, I will always believe in a brighter future. And, again, for now, do what you can to give a helping hand to the musicians of this scene. Drop a few bucks in their digital tin can “Donate” buttons. Send them an email telling them how much you enjoy their music. Or just spread the word.
“Free at last. Free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last.”
September 20th, 2006
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“New and fresh Newcomer from the near of Regensburg, Germany. With a very beautiful, deep and dubby Remix from Tom Teel.”
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labil-recordings.de
September 20th, 2006
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bleepwatcher
“Horus is a housemusic project a guy named flann started some years ago. This album sums up all the best pieces out of this years.”
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labil-recordings.de
September 20th, 2006
“Beauty is all around you. The worst you can happen is not realizing it. The same is for terribleness. If you wonder in the mountains you can see a beautiful tree with green and red leaves. It has long and thin branches of a bright wood. The tree grows rapid and vigorous and its leaves become the house of charming silkworms. But the trees roots destroy the houses foundations, and if you try to cut it, it sprouts again, stronger than before, infestating everywere. It’s the Tree of Heaven and it has two conflicting souls. Its home are the difficult environments, the arid terrains, and it has the fascination of everything is wonderful and dangerous. Resistant to everything but fragile in front of a simple passion wind. Ironic and sensitive. Female and male. And all of this parasite-free music is about this terrible beauty. “
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dharmasound.com
September 19th, 2006
“Definitely one of the classiest Monotonik releases in a while, we’re happy to slip sideways from our normal Scandinavian/European-influenced idm sound into a more ambient, sonorous, consciousness-expanded universe, thanks to Santa Cruz, California duo Wavespan, aka Phil Garrison and Alex Lumb, and their great self-titled debut LP.
Garrison started producing electronic music in 1998, and he founded Complex Logic Recordings, a small record label, in 2001. His production credits include Organic Resonance Projects Lucid EP and several remixes as ind01e; in 2005, he designed patches for H.G. Fortunes (VSTi) STS-21 Transition Synthesizer. Alex Lumb has been drumming for over 20 years, in addition to producing electronic music under various names. Most interestingly as a touchpoint, perhaps, this LP has been mastered by noted ambient musician Robert Rich, helping add to the carefully positioned ethereal drift.
Over the entire 49-minute LP, there are a plethora of high points, but many may be initially fascinated by a rare Monotonik-released dub track up front, in the form of the sparse Concentration Dub, before the epic 11-minute long On The Nature Of Consciousness takes us away with almost Orb-like spoken word samples and some beautifully placed ambience. Other highlights include the mild paranoia of the JFK assassination-sampling Single Bullet Theory, the straight-ahead groove of Origin Of Species, and the marvellously placed groove of Momentary Bliss.
Overall, this is a startlingly professional album which, honestly, almost feels too good for Monotonik, but we’re delighted to release it nonetheless. If you like it, you can visit Wavespans page on the Complex Logic site and order a copy of the CD, or simply donate funds of your choice via PayPal to compensate for the more than pleasant listening experience. Hurrah.”
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- lift off
- concentration dub
- nature of consciousness
- single bullet theory
- threshold
- origin of species
- anaphora
- intercept
- substation
- momentary bliss
- re-entry
mono211.com/content/releases/mtkmp161.html
September 19th, 2006
“Static Field is the noise project of Phil Garrison, aka WAVESPAN. Static Field creates ultra-harmonic ambient noise from feedback loops, broken FX, circuit bent sounds, and other varieties of sonic manipulation/destruction.
Into the Sun is a concept in noise. It tells the story of a doomed crew of space travelers hurtling toward the sun. As hope was fading, they began transmitting distress signals in a final plea for help…unfortunately, their broadcast was corrupted by the suns magnetic field. This final transmission is all that remains of their fateful voyage Into the Sun.”
- ionic disturbance
- trouble in sector 3
- solar wind
- into the sun
- helios
roilnoise.com/webreleases30.htm
September 19th, 2006
“Nambavans first album without his vocal and electronic melodies, written down after two weeks of experiments with analog noise, clicks, delays, highpass house filters and broken groove rhythms. You will feel, how music collapses in your head.”
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- last night the dj shaved my ass
- shooting on the gay-party
- sad song
- tunnel
- you should be dancing dub
wmrecordings.com
September 19th, 2006
“Nebular codebreakers Heart & Soul break down the hundreds of cosmic signals sent to Earth on a daily basis.”
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- space blimp of ny heart
- cargo bass
- planet nebula
panospria.com
September 19th, 2006
“After many super-duper reactions to the aires buenos compilation, unfoundsound continues the “location series” featuring another blossoming surge of techno producers based in a different pocket of the world: marseille, france. after living in the usa for many years, mr. fusiphorm moved back to his homeland, and he settled in marseille. he currently runs foundsound’s european office there while quickly becoming close with a small group of witty, sarcastic and creative people such as sarah goldfarb, d-click, and those behind labels roman,photo, indigo*magenta and bip-hop. the underground sound flowing out of marseille is deep, quirky, emotive and melodic. massallian private jokes showcases a tight-knit family of creative minds hailing from the south of france. the end result is nine tracks courtesy of redwan, lu&nl, doesnotcompute, sam & dave & lowran, greg le roy, larry flint, cedric eteocle, sarah goldfarb, and fusiphorm himself on remix duty.”
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- sam & dave & lowran - tourne moi
- doesnotcompute - bonita mirada
- greg le roy - intersection parallele
- lu&nl - cause toujours
- sarah goldfarb - forty years ago i sold my body
- redwan - macky & donald
- larry flint - circus
- cedric eteocle - the city
- redwan - macky & donald (fusiphorm remix)
UNFOUNDSOUND
September 18th, 2006
“We hope your evening will be pleasantly dilute this delicious dessert from ambient and downtempo sounds…”
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- caress
- everythings (no) o.k.
- whatever
- man on fridays
- sms
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