“Our final, down to the wire release of 2006 is the much anticipated Mr Spastic. His EP, 8 to 16 bit, showcases everything that makes the netaudio movement great. He PWNS on his all hardware setup consisting of a Casio CZ, Microkorg, Dr. Sample, Dr. Groove and, of course, a healthy dose of MidiNES. Mr. Spastic is closing 2006 by raising the bar for 2007. You simply cannot live with out it.”
“As promised, here is the long awaited EP on Serein from Portugese artist, OCP. Those of you with a good memory will remember the contribution he made to the Tracks in the Snow compilation at the beginning of the year, we’ve been eager to release more of his work and are now pleased to present you with Atmos. This five track EP represents perfectly what OCP is all about, combining elements of ambient and glitch through to the modest sounds of dub techno and stripping it right back to the core, we’re left with an understated and refrained collection of minimal yet utterly involving music.
Perhaps what is most striking about OCPs compositions is their unashamedly electronic nature, you are never in doubt as to the source of the sounds, the analogue circuitry practically drips through the speaker cones, which to my mind is very satisfying indeed. Artwork by Huw Roberts.”
“Toshimaru Nakamura, eRikm, dieb13 and Billy Roisz performed as AVVA and LÄUSE
projects at Stimul Festival in Prague on October 6th, 2006. This release is an audio documentation of their performance.
Two sets, more than 60 minutes of brilliant, precise and in a way delicately structured music, are waiting to be listened or downloaded for free.”
“The most clear in language happens not a word, and tone, an accent, rate with which a number of words is said, — to tell more shortly, the music disappearing under words, the passion disappearing behind music, the person disappearing behind passion, that is all that cannot be written.” (F.N.)
“This album is the story of a friendship between musicians, and between netlabel activists. So after few meetings, collaborations, concerts together it was logic to make this split release, with the piano/sax duo tlön5, and the the diatribes trio extended to 5tet. Recorded in underground places in Paris and Geneva, the music, more than ever, enjoys its freedom and conquers the spaces till implosion.”
Hey bleepwatchers,
I want to wish you all a merry Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or if you’re atheist\agnostic\other– have a great day. As for me, I’ll be in bed most of the time, sick, coughing up lungs. Fear not, I will be checking for Bleepwatch submissions all the while! Cheers!
Patrick
“Live at Cod Estek is a monthly issued 3 part series of releases that contain the recordings of the very first mini-festival dedicated to Complementary Distribution netlabel that took place at Szovetseg 39 Gallery, in Budapest on the 6th and 7th of October 2006. Our second artist is Cooler, a new electronic artist who becomes more and more well known each and every day in the international scene as well. After his very first live set at Cod Estek, he also had succesful live shows at NEWNEW! Festival 2006 in Brno - Czech Republic, and at the Chi Recprdings organised event called Faculty, A38 Ship in Budapest, Hungary along with Vector Lovers (Soma - UK). This day is the release date of his Puking Sparrow EP at Chi Recordings, and he appears on Bitlab Records’ new EP as well with a remixing his mate called Noise64 whose live set is going to be third and last episode of the series. Cooler’s live set represents what he is into in all his works: that is reaching a shocking but healthy complexity of sounds via maximum usage of technical possibilites. The set starts with powerful melodic downtempo tracks — many of them are still unreleased — and ends up with heavy, dark electro body movers. Enjoy this 59 minutes from October, loop the past, it’s live. See you in the end of January.”
“Live at Cod Estek is a monthly issued 3 part series of releases that contain the recordings of the very first mini-festival dedicated to Complementary Distribution netlabel that took place at Szovetseg 39 Gallery, in Budapest on the 6th and 7th of October 2006. Our first artist is Ferenc Vaspoeri, the young and talented Hungarian minimal techno producer who is a newcommer at Complementary Distribution (his debut release was Esplanade which featured remixes by other talents, like Cooler, Bitlab, Chi Recordings, U-Cover, it’s still fresh! grab it!) — but definitely not in other highly reputable netlabels such as Standard Klik Musik or ChiWare. His live set contains brand new and upcoming tracks, even representing sometimes the serious and more dark side of Mr. Vaspoeri’s sounds. While, his pieces of tracks are modest body movers as well. Enjoy these 55 minutes from October, loop the past, it’s live. See you in the end of December.”
“Electronica unplugged, Aerotone’s fifth release, is the start of a series for the acoustic approach of electronic (influenced) music. This compilation consists of 10 tracks, made by 10 wonderful artists. By using guitars, pianos, double basses, violines or even accordion the artists create an electroacoustic work full of soft melancholy.”
