“Due to overwhelming demand, Gas 0095 has been remastered and re-released into the wild. This first release on the new microscopics label has been a much sought after item for collectors everywhere, fetching up to $460 on eBay. Painstakingly remastered at 32bit/96khz from the original studio tapes, with a luxurious 32db dynamic range, which in these days of hyper-compressed music is pure oxygen.”
“Moving On is the fourth release from Phasen. This album includes seven original tracks and remixes of songs by Mkd and A Soil Horizon. As for the content of this album, Phasen says it represents the roller coaster of stress and emotions he experienced transitioning from his childhood home to a life of his own in college. Anticipation evolved into despair, which finally gave way to the happiest times in his life.”
“Heres Laineet’s debut - Odotusta On EP! Instrumental hip-hop and mellow electronica mixed with wonderful Finnish vocal samples. It’s a delight!”
“C’est juste les murs qui changent (’its just the walls which change’) is an allusion to Jim Jarmuch film Permanent Vacation, with this feeling of drift, this detached glance which graze abstract.
Behind the series of tracks which make the album, there is a will to create an introverted and detailed music, carved in the almost nothing, (micro) daily mirror, a music for the inner ear where equilibrium is to be reinvented.
Between evocations of melodies and rhytmic prances, an holded electronica scrapes with the nail end dirt and memory and slack acoustic sources and numerical languages .”
“A gentle flute motive introduces us to the world of Quest.Room.Project from Russia, and one might at first expect a relaxed listening experience. But by the time more voices chime in, it becomes obvious that these spotlights are going to be swallowed by shadows of tragic compassion. ‘Room Number: Fiducial Banality’ is organised in 4 parts (one could as well define them as movements, because there are some key themes occuring throughout the entire release) and each of them features a room with distinct acoustic characteristics:
‘The reason for surfacing’ appears like a shadow of a doubt that gradually turns into overwhelming certainty. Almost inaudible at the beginning, ‘Assemblage’ soon escalates to several emotional outbursts, before exhaustion will take its tribute in ‘Possesion’ and create a haunted, threatening atmosphere. As reminiscence of the beginning, ‘Combined Exercises’ begins with a flute solo and continues to pick up previous motives to escalate them to a wall of sound. Finally the dissonances wither away and make room for the last remnants of the ever occuring flute theme. A cycle has been completed and we are at the beginning again…
Bogdan Dullsky, the creative head behind the Quest.Room.Project, describes his intentions on the project’s website as ‘a search of space for the life leaving for borders of habitual linearity.’ But ‘Room Number: Fiducial Banality’ doesn’t attempt to descibe a solution to break free: It’s left up to the listeners themselves to recognise their personal ever returning patterns of life and change them by their own strategy. Or - as Bogdan concludes - as an attempt to live by some own rules on which borders it is possible to breathe freely”
“Everything started when Sky Diaries, the original EP by young fellow Fred Baty a.k.a. Crepusculum, was released at 12rec. in December 2006. It was a five song EP comprised solely of incredible acoustic music, composed with a guitar and some decent electronic enhancements.
His music left me completely stunned and I immediately thought that the pureness of Freds guitar-play would be a fantastic inspiration in the hands of electronic musicians. Many artists took part in the project, adding their personal touch to every single Crepusculum track. These include Tupolev bassist and sound-artist Alexandr Vatagin, Darren McClure, Engine7, Emil Klotzsch & Raimund Sudermann, Bluermutt, Letna, Alexandre Navarro, Ibakusha, The Love Songs, Heezen, Koutaro Fukui, GoGooo and the Netaudio legend Marsen Jules who contributed different remixes for both the album and the EP.
Buy the whole album at the 12rec store ”
“A second chance for acoustic influenced electronica (or the other way round?). Electronica unplugged 2 is a collection of 10 tracks, by 10 artists which shows a slightly different side of netaudio these days. It is probably just a part of the start to different genres in free audio. We hope so.”
“Hush-hush and gather all your dearest vertebrates, obtain and dust off those good old sombreros, snag a few glow sticks and flock around the fancy disposable charcoal grill and hearken to some scary old tales about extinct Amiga computers, peevish rave-nerds, gasping damsels, despaired goth-emos and delighted religious devotees! But remember, NO FISHING today, cause you kids know what happened last time, don’t you… Oh well, at least the pug dog knows.”
“Vladislav Buben runs a television show dealing with alternative electronic music, ‘Called For The Electricians,’ on Belarus MTV. For 7 years Vlad had operated the radio show, ‘The Lost World’ (the longest running radio show in Belarus dealing with extreme and alternative music).
He is the head coordinator of Radio ‘Mir’ 107.1 FM, ‘Lost World’ e-zine, and record label. Buben organizes various musical groups and projects aswell, including (but not limited to): Buben, Prus, Zeroism, Donald Dark, Ego, Zhraja, Manstappz, Kein, Shamaniac, Over Voltage, Bolshevik, Ex Ambassador21, Perpetual Deathic, Skvarka, Criminal chromosome, I Me Mine, Bachus, Panie Kahanku.”
“4 pieces of cinematic chiming drones recorded on a beautiful winter weekend at the wave room in Montreal, Canada. A side step from Martin Dumais’ AUN project, these compositions were inspired by the theme of clinacy. [Live direct to hard drive recordings, no edits. The cover is from a MAX MSP still by Julie Leblanc.]”