“Trytry marks Thisket’s long awaited return to Custom. On this release he takes the emotional atmospherics first established on his ‘The Golden Afternoon’ LP and further develops them to the point of aural suffocation. This, combined with the inclusion of abrasive percussion makes for another Thisket must-have.”
“The scenish musiclabel Liquid Skies released his 92th single musicpack. It includes the elelctronic-style track Extra Sound from the russian musician Alex West and a cover. We hope you like it!”
“Shazoo is a fresh Newcomer from the near of Nuremberg. DJ and Co-Founder of the ‘Microfonque’ Party’s.”
“I’m very proud to announce another Benekkea discovers: Land of Ice. A French band… which could remember first works of Penitent, Profane Grace or something of Mortiis. Soft sad melodies of piano on keys stratification create a melancholic journey on a fantasy story around the glaciers of the Alps. A great electro-ice-ambient yes sometimes a little immature but on my opinion another sure success of Benekkea.
Land Of Ice was born at the very beginning of 2006. Its music can best be qualified as fantasy electro ambient, as I am very influenced by all the heroic fantasy stories (mainly Tolkien). The name of the band has been chosen as I am from the Alps, and I love the mountains. That’s why the songs of Land Of Ice are taking place in high snowy mountains, this is music meant to make the listener travel…
The first demo of Land Of Ice was officialy released in January 2006, but some songs were composed in 2005. It is actually an example of what Land Of Ice sounded at its beginning (The Shining Kingdom and He Who Touched The Sky are the very first songs of Land Of Ice). Before being released on Benekkea, Prelude was available for free at Land Of Ice website, and also as 15-limited printed handnumbered CD-Rs on demand.”
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“After seven years together mister Ã…berg and miss Ankarborg finally decided to get serious and enter the studio. A poem was recorded and given three different personalities. The first track is for the electro disco queen, the second is for the neurotic scary movie lover, and the third and last is for the reggae boy next door who yet hasn’t discovered his love for electro. So reason with your psychiatrist and pick your match or feel free to embrace them all.”
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“JVOX is back at tonatom and strikes again with his very own distinctive style. just like on his first release his music is on the one hand dominated by very straight electronic arrangements with crystal clear outlines and not only a little twist towards rhythmic structures but actually a rather danceable foundation. but on the other hand there are vast areas of soundeffects and melodies which can be found e.g. in the opener grey alert. and this track is exactly *not* the usual ambient mishmash this combination often leads to.
and so we are moving together with JVOX between stylized computer sounds, crispy beats and soundpaintings without mere repetition or standing still but reinventing himself and his style over and over again. and just en-passant JVOX delivers an ultra-feathery click ‘n’ bzzrt ambient hymn called alba which you will find crawling into your ear.”
“Sascha Müller, also known as Pharmacom, hails from Uelsen, Germany. He participates actively in the netlabel movement, both as a musician and as a label-owner. Sascha Müller does not live merely by the code of the software synthesizer, but also uses a rich array of analog instruments and techniques in his recordings. His work crosses genre boundaries, from techno to ambient to electro and back again.
In Violet Dreams, Sascha travels in the hazy, violet electro-horizons, where the colors shimmer as the sun rises and sets. As with all equatorial border territories, the result is a rich melange of different styles and ways of doing things. The intersection of different netlabel cultures is a point of melding and melting, which takes place in the penumbra of song.
We live in a time of harsh divisions, when we all dream of violet fields in a land without borders.
Come join Sascha Müller for an exploration of the dream-power of sound to bridge the spaces between us.”
“5 tracks from leipzig with minimal tool tech, minimal techhouse and deep warm electro sounds. thats the first compilation from good old friends.” [editor to poster: please be sure to put the correct links to the mp3's and compressed archive next time. The album cover was also very tiny. Thanks!]
“Noise64’s recently recorded liveact. It is as energetic as his Live At Cod Estek, so this archive is a must have for all those who liked his previous live act, and it is a must have also to those who like quality mixtures of electro-8bit-techno with a tremendously healthy sense of humour.”
“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 third and last artist is Noise64, a new Hungarian electronic musician with only few releases yet at Complementary Distribution and Bitlab Records. Noise64’s music is powerful electro-techno and 8bit related dance music. The simple plus healthy mixture of these stylistic elements gives the listener fresh and intelligent movers, as it can be seen in this live set as well. The concert ends with the world’s most fantastic Loituma bootleg. “