tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119380672011-11-28T00:14:28.604+01:00.netlabel music reviewsargushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05804169394772528476noreply@blogger.comBlogger411100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11938067.post-1137637356015835292006-01-19T02:54:00.000+01:002006-01-19T03:22:36.030+01:00

Its those funky cats from the Disciples of Ageema clan! The self proclaimed Textile God of Sweden brings you a selection of raw funky soulful experimental disco hiphop cuts. Confused yet? No worries, we'll guide you through this hybridizes yet stylish mishmash (in its most positive sense).From the raw dirty organ funk-house meets ambient on Mary's Poem (bootleg) on to Alice, a hazy collage of

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The amazing Drift records released a full album of crunchy analogue IDMtronica by the one called Maus featuring 13 tracks of retro analogueness.Strongly reminiscent of ye olde amiga demos with some crunchy contemporary beatwork amalgamating into a luscious blend of now and then. Excellent stuff indeed! Now where did i put that WinUAE?3 - 0No Value TokenTriaxialRoswellResetPlease Come BackMaybe

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'twas a while! We're still here altho a bit hampered with the loss of broadband internet and the warm sunshine. A very lethal combination and we lagged behind on the reviews. So lets get started! Leibniz is a russian netlabel which introduces itself to the netlabel grind with a warm compilation of minimal everything tracks. Featuring scene alumni Selffish as the icebreaker of the compilation in

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After an amazing debut release comes an equally enchanting album by DoF who produced some sincerely moving acoustic melodies for Sinestetici. He keeps the same style on his album, classical music merged with crunchy idm beats. The pianos and flutes mix with the digital snap-crackle-pop like peas in a pod. Album has an additional twist to it by naming each track as one month in the year and

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Japanese label Bumpfoot is new on the blocks and you're all probably thinking its more weirdness from the land of the rising sun. So wrong! Third one by Zucchini harkens back to the heyday of hardcore techno circa mid 90ies and evokes the opposite side of it, heralded as detroit trance then, nowadays more known as deep-something. Dreamy simple melodies with the oldskool handclaps and cowbells

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Micromusic is the chip lovin' community that's been around for years. As part of their existence they feature a monthly stack of fresh chips (chips, hehe, get it? pun! not funny? oh well!) by unknows and well knowns (Goto80, Bitshifter, Role Model) of the scene all for free, barring the short registration process. And some of those tracks are really great and we thought they are too well hidden

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X-Dump 8bit collective storms the scene with the second release after the critically acclaimed (that sounds cool), but not .phonq featured, Skruvmejsel's "L8 Mas-Q" (Psilodumps remix on that one is something). Psilodump is welding 8bit crunch with sample jacking, rock guitars and a kitchen sink. Four tracks of Psilodumps madness (or is it - brilliance) and remixes by Pippilina (folktronica way),

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Maybe its just a coincidence or a start of a welcome new trend but the netaudio scene gets another world music release, this time from WM Recordings. Its finest african folk pop by a senegalese band Salam taken from their live performances. Miraculous percussion with guitar and violin influenced by the sound of the Casamance (a river in Senegal apparently).Quite enchanting music really, genuine

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Thinner remains at its usual high level with this fine release by Timm Kawohl and heaps of remixes by the usual suspects (Taho, Mateo Murphy, Brian Kage, etc.). Six lovely track of nighttime techhouse music, swinging and grooving, and equally as much remixes, one for each track, by the Thinner alumni. Some more clicky, some more detroit, some more tech, but all summery and beautiful. Again an

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Now this is something special. A professional bellydancer accompanist plays arabic melodies with improvisationalism typical for jazz performances. Real world music experience, its autochton and ethnic. Doesn't matter if you listen to individual tracks or the album in its entirety it has the force to just whisk you away from your regular life onto the arabic sands and markets. Its uncommon to find

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some extra nice beat goodness coming your way via Hungrymen Records, fresh netlabel from Berlin.Cushman serves you 4 chilled hip/triphop instrumentals, oldskooled and laidback. First two tracks being dominantly hiphop in its core and the other two going the trippy Bristol way. We're very partial to Stories in Stories and its unobtrusive vocals that are hidden under layers of lo-fi goodness.tracks

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You might remember Elysis from his works on NOISE (now defunct netlabel but with their cataogue still available for download). Now he's back on Corporate Identity with a retrospective LP+ of almost and hour and a half of his works from 1999 till today.Elysis' tracks have always carried an atypical warmth for electronic pieces and that is no exception on this LP, mostly drawing influences from

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That lovable collective that brings you the podcast and britney - the netaudio mother braves the music side of netlabel "business" and makes a release on the swiss Realaudio label.Starfrosch is the name and Da Schau Her is the release title. Funk being the primary definition of the music found on the release with tender vocals, filtered here and there, funk guitars and a steady rhythm section

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GILO, a portuguese born Londoner, brings you his downtempo ep via Enough Records and their quite minimal website (hint: scroll all the way down for the release list). As we are suckers for laidback trip-hop beats we got hooked on the annoucement and promises of the aforementioned. Lucky, lucky, cause some fine downtempo we got indeed. First track, Ai Visto... filled with scratches, floating vocal

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Pentagonik is a new german netlabel, apparently specialized in tech/micro/click house variants and they started their life with a big compilation filled with mostly unknown names (at least in the netlabel world).The first two tracks are a tad boring sparse click affairs and aren't replayable, maybe they work only on the dancefloor. Things really start to move with Ludwig Coenen's acidy L5 and a

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Suh-weet! After a lengthy pause Tokyo Dawn Records bursts at the seams with a full album release filled with lovely souljazzhiphop goodness!Comfort Fit graced us with a chock full album of thoroughly souled hiphop beats. 20, yup, 20 tracks of what you're used to from TDR, a whole lotta soul, a bit jazz, retro hiphop beats and a slice of techno even. All that produced and mastered to perfection

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Following the well trodden path of rephlex and warp signed artists, Lily Lavandula comes in full force in an incredible mishmash of downbeat, drum'n'bass, idm, drone, electro, ambient, etc. that is called Neccopuck EP. The short temp8080 romps in a Squarepusher style, ambient strings and windpipes over complex processed breaks. ximer2 goes the way of glitch'n'noise confronting slow tripped out

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When you roam the net as a music geek you download your music to the hard drive first in order to hear it later. You can get quite frustrated when you realize the netlabel didn't do its job with naming and tagging the sounds. Phlow (& phonq!) recommend you mp3tag for that purpose.Quality filled out ID tags, be it Ogg Vorbis or MP3 files, should be a virtue of netlabel owners. True, it costs some

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straight from the heart of berlin comes this (mini)album of dub flavored downtempo by the amazing Authist & Dub One!. conveying the true jamaican spirit, the first half of the album are all genuine dub jams, not so heavy on delays like their rolemodels but nevertheless excellent. the duo also explores the world music edge of the spectrum with Around the World and Insomnia in Dub featuring a

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The Adjuster - Over His Heart [s13]bevlar music is an excellent outlet for dancefloor music in multitude of styles. this is a shameless abba influenced, daft vocoded, happy happy dancefloor stomper which grooves steadily and shakes ya' bootay (gotta stop talk writing like that). on the a side is the short edit identical to the b side track so you can just skip it and go for the gusto!Kplecraft -

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kahvi is one of scene's longest running netlabels and this is their 143st release, yep, a triple digit number and that has to account for something, right? in this case it is quality. continuing the long tradition, kahvi finds new talents and brings them to the fore, just like with Kolibries and his Tales of the Circle EP. Kolibries introduces himself with a five track ep of ambient electronica

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unlike the usual netlabel fare (not meaning that in a bad way) this first release from a brand new netlabel offer a new concept to the scene. Sinestetici didn't produce anything on this album, she is only a singer that employs the talents of three different netaudio artists to produce the background for her songs. The Definition of Imperfection is a misnomer, this is an awesome album that zigzags

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a tiny message on archive.org saying: Lo_Kiwi is a new netlabel. indicative isn't it... and thats all there is. except. a link. a link to their first release, an album by mark & sam ie Moosefrog. lo_kiwi - now thats a weird name for a label!Come shows organic jazz blending with electronic samplework and beat programming that converges into seven impeccable nujazz downtempo jams. but this ain't

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one bit wonder does its magic again. it is only their fourth release so far but they set the bar real high by now and are striving to become the best lounge/groove outlet in the vast netlabel scene.kiorda däkin gave us five tracks of groove delights aptly named insterstellar paradise as the latest one bit wonder. it is a potpourri of disco(ish) summer house topped of with jazzilistic rhodes,

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yay! a drum'n'bass netlabel! well, finally... since scientific and language labs withered away, your reviewer was looking for a nice drum'n'bass/breaks oriented netlabel and here it is - exegene, releasing true broken beats in hq 256kbps mp3 form. its thinking man's drum'n'bass, not the standard dancefloor techstep fare we're being bombarded with.Macc's two tracker is the latest release on

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just got the info in the mail and thought i'd share it with the rest of you. Igloo magazine, which had a nice netlabel feature a while ago, started up Bitflashing, a netlabel review column headed by Mark Teppo which focuses, it seems, on dronish ambient glitch type of music. thats nice cause it covers the opposite spectrum of netmusic and will complement (if i may be so bold to say so) .phonq's

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18th release from a spanish based, minimal oriented netlabel called sinergy networks.absolut funk ep is a debut of the french Jean-Vince going under the moniker of Sarah Goldfarb, and, man, he's got the funk. the ep is made of two original pieces and 4 remixes of the title track by the likes of lod, abstract groove, funzion and marko fuerstenberg.the french artist features a deep trance-like funk

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here we go with another unknown netlabel - instabil!4th release on this fairly new netlabel and its a beaut (as the aussies would say). full 45:00+ minutes of ambient music with just enough kickdrums to classify it as dubtechno.silent whisper ep is a tight package of 5 tracks plus a contribution from thinner's marko fürstenberg and his remix of the third track in a minimal trance way.the album

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bad loop is back after three years and he's better than ever on Luo, released on one, yet another netlabel (tm)!luo is a carefully thought out, well prepared and rounded album. what did you expect from bad loop? the sound of the album nurtures the melodic side of laidback electronica. be it shuffled lush analogue pads in nio and eri valerie or rubber bass with houselike beats in kauniit ihmiset,

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without any fear of being repetative, i present to you another compilation, another 5th release by another new(ish) netlabel. are you bored yet? you won't be when you hear the music featured on no response's compilation.fresh from the no response collective comes communication ep - a huge iceblock of chilled minimal techno grooves. all the tracks are excellent pieces of dubtechno but i have to

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elevation is a lovely crafted idm electronica compilation released on yet another new(ish) netlabel - dewtone. serving triple duty as a netradio and news site for netmusic they also have a line of their own releases. this is the 5th release and it is their first ep.we're starting with phortran's melancholic Switch On and Switch Off filled with mesmeric beat programming. next comes quone and

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new release after ages for racewillbegin. a virtual 7", complete with b-sides and all, of indietronica's finest offering in the netlabel world.on the a side we find the hazy vocals of Hello Snow, laidback in its beat, playful yet somehow sad. on the flip side are two tracks: Come Glockenspiel, a simple melody played on a casio synth that misses the beat here and there just to accent the childish

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heh, the irony. the rain has stopped and in my inbox pops up the announcement of interdisco's 10th release.Christian Walt is blending house beats, pop vocalism and electronica melodies into true lovemusic of tomorrow, on his latest ep. Promise puts it into gear with daft vocals and love lyrics. second track, Light at the End of the Tunel, keeps it easy until the punky Sooner or Later (Once Again)

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time for some sweet short reviewsJulien Love: I'll Be Your Waterfallsexy tune full of soul and true funk sound. not funky but the real deal, THE funk.another different release by the everlasting "some kind of label" ageema!Drei Farben House: Stadtarchiv EP [corpidex003]Corporate Identity's 2 track ep of deep techy house extravaganza. perfectly mellow. a.m.-ish type of muzak. vocals included.Ella

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Sofasound is an excellent label with major presentation issues. their english page lists only 5 releases while the german one hasn't been updated for a month. fortunately, their archive.org space is in good care cause that's the only place you'll find this release.lounge beats with a distinct Vienna sound is what you'll find on this one. overall quite an acoustic album with french accordions,

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1bit wonder is yet another new netlabel in the scene which caught me by surprise with its first two releases and truly amazed me with the third outing by Nicorola.the 5 tracker Bitstick is a playful melodic downtempo package that has a distinct springtime feeling about it.Popstar's melancholy is superseded by Hijseenpipo and Schmukkel; two songs that shine a bright light upon your spirits with

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who would've thought! chipmusic and reggae dub... welcome to the sid rastafari empire of Jahtari, home of "digital laptop reggae".4 raw and dirty tracks of delay madness on this release. jah, it sounds just like your c64 got stoned and damn it sounds good.disrupt can describe it better that i can:The EP starts off with 'ROOTS MATRIX', a constantly tranforming dub of the classic 'Drum Song' riddim

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The Radically Free Remixes features three, more dancefloor oriented, remixes of tracks released on the cd album 'Free Radical' by Cravo e Canela (actually Miguel Graça & Trevor Walker in disguise), published by Trigger Recording, newcomer to the netlabel scene which is already firmly rooted in the vinyl/cd world.i haven't heard the cd from which they pulled the source material but these 3 tracks

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there aren't many people that can hop through genres like Alliance Division does on his debut LP released on egoboobits. mainly downtempo album dips into various styles to create a collage of electronica genres.lounged up vocoded opener La Belle et la Bete deceives you and leaves you wide open for the onslaught of styles that awaits you. funk guitar licks of Funk Frame Rate, Departure's samba

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this release looks like a conceptual album (unlike their acclaimed tTRI album) on which zvukbroda take a string quartet as the central point and gradually develop a story composed of 6 tracks around them in a subtle, deep, yet dancey way.album starts with a clicky, minimal, beatless and incredibly atmospheric btc-01, which introduces us to the string samples we're going to listen to throughout

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time to get infected with the blogger bugi was pondering the idea for quite some time since it is really difficult to find some quality netlabel release reviews in english (kudos to mari posa and phlow.net, but babelfish and google sometimes spit out only incomprehensible junk)so prepare for reviews of some of my fav picks out of the vast netlabel scene. from minimal to chip tunes, its all gonna

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