Sardinia Bass Legalize - "What Can I Do For Africa" (MP3)
Sardinia Bass Legalize - "Timeless Version" (MP3)

Although I am not that much into reggae, I like dub a lot. And this release here got a certain quality, especially with the vocals. The charismatic MC sings about Africa, peace, god, faith and love. The sound of the music is clean and charming, a little bit rusty, warm and also a bit of French niceness shines through here and there. All that makes a classical dub-record. Play it in lounges and you will make friends. I promise!

This release contains also a remix, much more blurred and stateless than the dub orientated tracks. What I would love to have is a pure instrumental version of the track "What can I do for Africa". It plays in the same league like "The Modernist", "Rockers Hi-Fi" and deep soundsystem stuff. Who knows, next time the Sardinia Bass Legalize will try something like "DJ Krush" meets "Donna Regina". Won't they??

MP3 Reggae Music Download

Download: www.aquietbump.com/aqbmp024.html (ZIP-Archive) (NO DEEPLINKING POLICY)
Artist-Website: Sardinia Bass Legalize
Release: A Quiet Bump Release Site
Netlabel: A Quite Bump

Soothing Chill

Maps and Diagrams - "Last Train Home" (MP3)
Maps and Diagrams - "Navel" (MP3)
Maps and Diagrams - "Savannakhet" (MP3)

Usually it is hard to put the finger on why an Ambient album is "good". For me, richness, atmosphere and innovative sound design is important. While "The Giant Woods" could have been transmitted in the early 70's (soundwise), the dense and slightly haunting feel of the record got me eventually. The artwork caught that impression very well - a walk through the forest at night, getting lost in a foreign town as the sun is about to settle... The chill comes on soft feet!

Besides, the intense layering and enwinding of different textures creates a sound that allows for aural discoveries on every new listen. Something you can find with Ian Hawgood, Slow or Astrowind as well. Dig yourselves into these nine tracks and escape for 48 gracious minutes.

MP3 Ambient Music Download

Download: The Giant Woods (ZIP)
Artist-Website: Maps and Diagrams (@Discogs)
Release: The Giant Woods
Netlabel: yukiyaki.org

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Entertainment For The Braindead- "Dry Wood" (MP3)
Entertainment For The Braindead - "Pirates" (MP3)
Entertainment For The Braindead - "Roadkill" (MP3)

Julia Kotowski aka Entertainment For The Braindead got bonded by the strings of her banjo. She discovered sweet moments, beautiful melodies and that slight sad mood what shines through all her songs. We are happy to get the chance to listen to them. Just dive into her world and get carried away. I won't say no more, just listen, enjoy and get your own hand-crafted record at her website. Like always there will be only a few unique copies.

MP3 Pop Music Download

Download: Entertainment For The Braindead – "Roadkill" (ZIP-Archive)
Artist-Website: www.entertainmentforthebraindead.com
Release: Entertainment For The Braindead – “Roadkill”
Netlabel: www.aaahh-records.net

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Grillo - "Brown Box (Fulgeance Remix)" (MP3)

The sound of Grillo is pure, very digital and funky. On "Fireworks" we listen to crispy beats, clicks, snares and solid kicks. Most of the tracks are build on some melodic grooves. This made me rewind the album to listen again to slow movers like "Clicks" or the fantastic hit "Be aware".

Now we get the remixes and what can I say? I like the reworks even a little bit more. Each producer kept the digital sound of Grillo but managed to throw some of his delicate herbs and skills into the bowl. Just listen to the remix of "Be Aware" of Costa. Filled with some humour we nod to a straight-into-your-face pop hook. My favorite right now is the jazzy and funky retouch of Fulgeance on "Brown Box". If this one won't make you smile and move, I don't know...

Thumbs up, once again for the skills, beats and taste of Homework Records! Italys finest!

MP3 HipHop Music Download

Download: Grillo - "Fireworks Remixes" (ZIP-Archive)
Netlabel: Homework Records

Mattias Fridell - "Die Kamera Läuft" (MP3)
David Ramaszeder - "Pattern1" (MP3)
Tobias Hoermann - "Acid 3-4" (MP3)

Already in 2009 Tribe Toolz released a first Acid Compilation full of tributes to the sound of the Roland TB-303. One year later they return with another 18 tracks celebrating Acid with all kind of flavors from chicago house over newskool acidlike bombs to classical acid house.

I agree. Acid will never die!

MP3 Music Download

Download: Various - "A New Chapter Of Acid House!" (ZIP-Archive)
Release: Various - "A New Chapter Of Acid House!"
Netlabel: Tribe Toolz

Metapop with a wink

Gillicuddy - "de mannetjesolifant gaat op reis naar de oostzee" (MP3)
Gillicuddy - "sh-dah" (MP3)
Gillicuddy - "instrumental #2" (MP3)

What might come aleatory on first listen complies just right as soon as the concept unfolds. German songwriter Gillicuddy combines the most different genres on a short-lived EP, typically in one song. This has been true for "Shmalhans is Kuechenmeister" and "The Repeating Thoughts" but is brought to perfection only now.

Take "de mannetjesolifant gaat op reis naar de oostzee" as an example. First part is technical Noiserock, Jesus Lizard-style. Then Gillicuddy slows down the Jazz and pushes the song in a direction reminiscent of Sonic Youth: slightly detuned guitars, decent but uneal somehow. These fade into multilayer field-recordings you are never allowed to trust. Eventually, the secret is revealed, and the elephants of the Baltic Sea make their appearance...

This song is the wildest. However, despite the versatility, a typical atmosphere of humorous darkness comes with all songs on "The Yaouhl! Mashups". This brings forth consistency, proofs the musical craftsmanship of Gillicudy and guarantees for great listening pleasure. His best up to now, without the slightest doubt.

MP3 Avantgarde Pop Music Download

Download: "The Yaouhl! Mashups" (ZIP-Archive)
Artist-Website: www.gillicuddy.net
Release: Gillicuddy - "The Yaouhl! Mashups"
Netlabel: Clinical Archives

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Sagesse & Crookram - "Escape" (MP3)
Sagesse & Crookram - "Make Way" (MP3)
Sagesse & Crookram - "Warrior" (MP3)
Sagesse & Crookram - "Patterns of Thought" (MP3)
Sagesse & Crookram - "Epilogue" (MP3)

I adore crackling samples, the collage technique of old school hiphop productions. That's why I adore so much the releases of Budabeats. Crookram was the second artist who refined the catalogue. Now he starts his own netlabel Bankrupt Recordings.

While "19/76" was epic, "The Escape EP" is pure and a great production featuring different MCs - I guess from the Netherlands. Tracks like "Patterns of Thought (ft. Wreckitnize)" were produced to walk through the city in the sunshine and get a little melancholic. What amuses me, is that I like the instrumental called "Epilogue" the best. Maybe this is the track which glues his old album on Budabeats together with his next step. Even if the whole production is skillful, I wish sometimes more edges, some little gimmicks. To me Crookram is best, when he gets melancholic and hopefully he will write for us another epilogue soon.

PS: The onyl sad thing about this EP is... I would love to hear some real Dutch rap ;)

MP3 Music Download

Download: Sagesse & Crookram - "The Escape EP" (ZIP-Archive)
Artist-Website: Sagesse and Crookram
Release: Sagesse & Crookram - "The Escape EP"
Netlabel: Bankrupt Recordings

What is truly remarkable on “Canções da Lua Nova” (in portuguese “Songs of the New Moon”) is that these eleven songs (and an outro) were in kept in a drawer for over thirty years.

Alexandre Bateiras - Porto Largo (MP3)
Alexandre Bateiras - Variações sobre um Tema Melancólico (MP3)
Alexandre Bateiras - Valsa em Fá# Menor (MP3)

Though Alexandre Bateiras has always been a portuguese-guitar player – he plays since he was 15 -, he was never concerned about releasing new songs. Well, it was only due to his son's persistence that the tracks saw daylight.

Please make notice to the fact that you're not listening to music only, you're listening to the stories that were left behind on Alentejo's plain (South of Portugal). Most of the songs names are real places names. And those that are not still have something important to remind us. For instance, “Tributo” is as tribute to a soldier who died during the portuguese colonial war back in the 60's. Alexandre Bateiras was there, whitnessed the moment and was able to show us what happened with a few chords.

This is instumental portuguese folk: real stories told and played with a portuguese guitar. Stories of a man and somehow of an old generation of people who lived in a quiet rural Portugal and stopped their adolescense to be part of a war.

Regardless the history lesson, these melodies are something that anyone hardly forgets. So take your own time to listen, discover and imagine all the tiny bits of existence that this record brings to life.

MP3 Instrumental Music Download

Download: Alexandre Bateiras - "Canções da Lua Nova" (ZIP- Archive)
Artist Website: http://www.myspace.com/bateiras
Release: Alexandre Bateiras - "Canções da Lua Nova"
Netlabel: Merzbau

Electronic Folk Music

Bluermutt - "The Broken City" (MP3)
Bluermutt - "Androids' Breath" (MP3)
Bluermutt - "Indoor Failure" (MP3)
Bluermutt - "Single Touch" (MP3)

Bluermutt's "Dislocation (and Consequences)" EP oscillates between highly processed Folk, Krautrock and melodic Electronica. Strength to his compositions is always the strong melodies, governed by a warm and rich production. Maybe this is why I consider Bluermutt Pop music rather than anything else- albeit, Pop music with respectable edges.

The first four tracks are breathtaking: "The Broken City" sounds like a dedusted Harmonia jam, ca. 1974, so full of melancholy sweetness and glittering textures. "Android's Breath" features Leafcutter John, soul alike when it comes to "Fractal Folk". His mature yet gentle voice fits the Bluermutt sound neatlessly. Wow. "Indoor Failure" eventually is pure candy. Over a Four Tet-style instrumental, vocals and guitar perform a wonderful Pop melody. Ohrwurm, you were warned! On four, "Single Touch" introduces the ambient part of "The Dislocation (and Consequences)". Warm and cracking Dub, bathed in sunlit harmonies, and a lot of depth: just wonderful.

Support Bluermutt by sending over some bucks for the download! "The Dislocation (and Consequences)" EP is available for pay-as-you-like via bandcamp.

MP3 Electronic Pop Music Download

Artist-Website: skyapnea.com
Release: Bluermutt - The Disloaction (and Consequences) EP

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Stockfinster - "Push Push" (MP3)
Stockfinster - "Knuckle" (MP3)
Stockfinster- "Gold Canyon" (MP3)
Stockfinster- "Mitglieder" (MP3)

Stockfinster (German for "pitch black") is the one man band of Malmö-based Sebastian Borg. In the liner notes to "Dead Line", Borg (who commonly appears as "batti") excuses himself for being unproductive and slow. However, for a 76 minutes opus magnus, perfectly arranged and composed like this, many musicians need a whole lifetime for. If any.

The music of Stockfinster is a mixture of Postrock and progressive Pop, essentially enhanced by many electronic elements. There is an element of nostalgia to Borg's music that stems from his melancholic melodies and the late 90's breakbeat patterns. Several time I had to think of early Lamb or other forward-thinking "Trip Hop" acts. From the world of Netaudio, Orange Crush, Endless or Nic Bommaritio might suit for comparison.

Albeit not actually at the edge of contemporary music, Stockfinster has something more valuable to offer: timelessness. Strong, atmospheric melodies, impellent beats, and a supreme production. Should be OK for the next four years, no?

MP3 Pop Music Download

Download: "Dead Line" (ZIP-Archive)
Artist-Website: stockfinster.nu
Release: Stockfinster - "Dead Line"
Netlabel: sutemos.net

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Lo-Fi Scientists - Jazz Baby (MP3)
Lo-Fi Scientists - Ego Trippin' (MP3)
Lo-Fi Scientists - The Trunk (with Cheese, 34 Pro, T-Pick & LR-60) (MP3)

It is nice to see how a transatlantic musical collaboration can work so well. Mr. Moods is a canadian beat veteran, who has released several albums freely on the internet. One day he stumbled upon Le Rêveur, a french jazz sample master, and Lo-Fi Scientists were born.

The practical result of that? Four tracks of scratch and sample wizardry, that should be enjoyed with the “repeat” button on. Sweet jazz with a hip-hop layered structure,“vinyl cuts and crispy phat beats”, not so lo-fi as their name suggests.

Ok, so it may not be a perfect record, but it's definitely worth the time you take to listen to it all. Over and over again. And if you need to take a break, don't dismiss a soundtrack like this!

MP3 Downbeat Music Download

Download: Lo-Fi Scientists - "Lo-Fi Scientists" (ZIP-Archive)
Artist Website: http://www.myspace.com/lofiscientists
Release: Lo-Fi Scientists - "Lo-Fi Scientists"
Netlabel: Dusted Wax Kingdom

Pixelord - "Cartoon Friend" (MP3)
Pixelord - "Quartz Boy" (MP3)
Pixelord - "Cybernator" (MP3)
Pixelord - "Bosworm" (MP3)

The Pixelord is Moscow-based musician Alexey Devyanin. To some he is known as Gultskra Artikler. Under this moniker he produced some freaky experimental music. Now, he tickles the knobs of his synthesizers and mixer to squeeze out some extraordinary and truly funky hip hop I've never listen to before in that kind of combination.

"Lucid Freaks pt. 1" is a perfect cocktail of chip music funk flickering over solid beats, staggering like a drunken monk. It's the G-Funk the Giana Sisters enjoy dancing to and making Dre wetting his panties. Dope!

MP3 HipHop Music Download

Download: Pixelord - "Lucid Freaks pt. 1" (ZIP-Archive)
Artist-Website: www.twitter.com/pixelord
Release: Pixelord - "Lucid Freaks pt. 1"
Netlabel: www.error-broadcast.com

Rich And Timeless (MP3)
Pinpointing The Problem (MP3)
The Little Things (MP3)
Magnet In My Mouth (MP3)
We Own This Thing (MP3)

Henrik José is also known for his moniker Bliss. And we music geeks know: Henrik José is no stranger to the world of free music. But while he explored IDM and Electronica under the cover of Bliss, he opens up under his real name. And during this process everything seems to fall into place.

All the wonderful melodies he composed already years ago now meet the world of pop. If you listen closely to his five songs you also discover the tricks and twists in his games with beats. Here's someone who grew up, but who doesn't neglets his past. Here's someone who won't forget his love for Electronica and IDM. The only thing that changed, is that everything in the name of pop got a little bit more forward. Instead of shreddering beats up, we listen to the true voice, a voice that wants to tell us some stories.

This is pure electrifying electronic pop without citation of the 80ies. No, it's pop plus electronic music on an individual level. Welcome to the melancholic and melodic soundscapes of Henrik José.

MP3 Pop Music Download

Download: Henrik José - "The Little Things EP" (ZIP-Archive)
Artist-Website: www.henrikjose.com
Release: Henrik José - "The Little Things EP"
Netlabel: 23 Seconds Netlabel

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With average music listeners in mind, who don't get lost with excitement in dusty box at their record dealer of choice we crafted this compilation. We made our girlfriend listen to the music, asked her for advice and offer you now a true pop music compilation for people who enjoy some happy melodies.

Smile with us listening to melancholic songs from The Black Atlantic or Jsvenes y Sexys from South America. Please push your chair aside and dance to some disco music from Comfort Fit and Opolopo and clap your hands with that four to the floor beat. Laugh about the mad rhymes by Tracky Birthday and get mad with Professor Kliq. Get down with some some downtempo hip hop from fLako and B-Ju and rise your hands again into the air with Henrik Jose.

Playlist of  "Music From All Around The World"

1. Soto - "Orange"
   (www.creation-centre.com)
2. The Black Atlantic - "Dandelion"
   (www.beepbeep.nl)
3. Jsvenes y Sexys - "El Reloj"
   (www.ponirepublic.com)
4. Did The Red Sea Part? - "Ghost Bees"
   (www.peppermillrecords.com)
5. Comfort Fit - "Freeze The Cut (Opolopo's Emotional Draft Remix)"
   (www.tokyodawn.net)
6. Tracky Birthday - "Balla!"
   (www.upitup.com)
7. Professor Kliq - "Plastic & Flashing Lights"
   (www.rec72.net)
8. Suhov - "Exx Fuck"
   (www.budabeats.com)
9. Menuda Coincidencia - "verso ?sin esfuerzo?"
   (www.delhotel.com)
10. Juanitoss - "Hola Hola Bossa Nova"
    (www.juanitos.net)
11. fLako - "Humming"
    (www.myspace.com/flakomusic)
12. fLako - "Lullaby"
    (www.myspace.com/flakomusic)
13. B-Ju - "Philly Run"
    (www.error-broadcast.com)
14. Bo Marley - "Bauhelm"
    (www.jahtari.org)
15. Henrik Jose - "Possibilities"
    (www.genshimedia.com)
16. Bobby Baby - "Bye Bye Snow (Hello Snow Version by DoF)"
    (www.corpid-label.de)
17. Iambic - "December's Shadows"
    (www.laridae.at)

Licence: You are allowed to copy and...

This compilation was curated by Jeannette Corneille and Moritz "mo." Sauer. The Cover Artwork was designed by Jeannette Corneille (www.jcorneille.de). All tracks are released under a creative commons licence.

You are allowed to copy, distribute and transmit the work :)

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Download: Music From All Around The World - A Pop Compilation (ZIP)

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Mentz - "Los" (MP3)
Mentz - "Introduction II" (MP3)
Mentz - "Vast" (MP3)
Mentz - "Squares" (MP3)

Since his first release called "Re-Locate", I wait for more music by Mentz. He is the classic producer who diggs deep into his vinyl selection to combine whisphering samples of jazz with some carefull beats in slow motion. Mentz spent last summer performing live with musicians and did extensive collaborations with a violinist called Roosje Raab, a Clarinet player called Wouter Suren and Krisztián Ákos Muhari on the trumpet. The result is this wonderful little EP.

I hope it won't take years again till the next Mentz release :)

Video Trailer

MP3 Jazz Music Download

Download: Mentz - "Piani EP" (ZIP-Archive)
Artist-Website: www.mentz.nl
Release: Mentz - "Piani EP"
Netlabel: www.humanworkshop.com

AXMusique - "STS" (MP3)
AXMusique - "Tore nade" (MP3)

I discovered the excellent Brennnessel Netlabel during our creative commons music carnival in december and stumbled upon AXMusique while surfing their website. AXMusique are an example about how sophisticated electronic pop music can sound. With their release you get four songs filled with hypnotic electro-minimal sound. Fontastique!

MP3 Electronic Pop Music Download

Download: AXMusique - "AXMusique" (ZIP-Archive)
Artist-Website: www.myspace.com/axmusique
Netlabel: Brennnessel Netlabel

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Risch - "A raindow in the brain" (MP3)
Risch - "Nap time at the robot factory" (MP3)
Risch - "Driving in circles" (MP3)
Risch - "Welcome home" (MP3)
Risch - "And then morning came" (MP3)
Risch - "Stickx" (MP3)
Risch - "Freesychzfeyev" (MP3)

What I like about the Petite & Jolie Netlabel is their mission: cute tunes. Not that I like that everything should be cute, please, no way! But I think it is an interesting approach on music and a clever way to focus on a certain style of music without closing the door to different music styles. Like they say on their website

Because this is not about doing one style or an other style...
This is not about this instrument or that one...
Neither about sounding the most experimental, hell no.

This is definitly about cute tunes.

And Risch is definitely one thing: Cute!

MP3 Electronica Music Download

Download: Risch - "Missing monsters" (ZIP-Archive)
Artist-Website: www.myspace.com/rischbraindance
Netlabel: www.petitejolie.com
Netlabel @ Archive.org: www.archive.org/details/petitejolie

Willbe - "Cruise the World" (MP3)

Yeah, Willbe remastered his ten-years-old netaudio-masterpiece. And yeah, it still sounds more LoFi than HiFi. But nevertheless I love the vibe and "Cruise the World" is next to "Zephyr" still my favorite Willbe track.

So give this classic a listen. Enjoy how Willbe mixed all the tracks slightly together for an unique listening experience. Expect straight forward running breabeats, exotic samples and melodic grooves. Let's cruise the world!

PS: If you like the album, spend Willbe a dime or two on bandcamp.com :)

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Artist-Website: www.willbe-music.com
Release: Willbe - "Waxxelerated (10th anniversary remaster)"

Foto: www.flickr.com/photos/tjt195/

We wave the Creative Commons Music Year 2009 a lovely 'Goodbye' with our Phlow Monster Mixtape. Listen to 9 hours, 38 minutes and 35 seconds of music compiled by 24 netaudio heads from all around the world during december 2009. Of course you can download the 1.3 GIG-heavy gift in a ZIP to get the free mp3 music plus all individual playlists from our archive.org website or just stream it by clicking on the tape.

List of all the charts and participants

• Netwaves best-of-2009
• psycoded best-of-2009
• Mogwai best-of-2009
• Michael Gregoire best-of-2009
• Christian Grasse best-of-2009
• Greg Healey best-of-2009
• mo. best-of-2009
• Masayukis best-of-2009
• Netaudio Spain best-of-2009
• Catching  The Waves best-of-2009
• Machtdose best-of-2009
• Netaudio London best-of-2009
• Sven Swift best-of-2009
• 020200 best-of-2009
• Rute Correia best-of-2009
• Free Music Archives best-of-2009
• Netaudio Berlin best-of-2009
• rowolo best-of-2009
• Netlabel Revue best-of-2009
• Sonicsquirrel best-of-2009
• nettare best-of-2009
• Green Tone Bits best-of-2009
• Applejux best-of-2009
• Brigitte Bijoux best-of-2009

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Jambassa - "like silence" (MP3)
Jambassa - "combo combo thing" (MP3)

Next to Jahtari the Italian A Quiet Bump Netlabel is a constant source of delicate dub anthems. What I like about the Jambassa sound is the curiosity and intelligence with which Carmine Minichiello and Raffaele Gargiulo build their rhythm-driven riddims.

On top seven different artists chant and sing over the grooves from Italy. That makes this album unique and entertaining. Just listen to "like silence" featuring Ltd. Candy and compare it to "combo combo thing" featuring Reddog and Boom Buzz. While Ltd. Candy seduces you with a sexy voice Reddog and Boom Buzz take the train to Zion.

Jambassa sound unique, deep and rhythmic. Big up to Italy!

MP3 Dub Music Download

Download: ZIP-Archive on Release Page
Artist-Website: Jambassa
Release: Jambassa - "macchine parlanti"
Netlabel: A Quiet Bump Netlabel

IJO - "Ecter Cliffs" (MP3)
IJO - "Lektroin" (MP3)
IJO - " A Soundtrack To 3" (MP3)
IJO - "Hh Pin" (MP3)
IJO - "Satta Theme" (MP3)
IJO - "Face" (MP3)

Tracks from Selektida were created during the period of 2003-2009. These tracks are sonic captures of moods, colours and sounds, changes, moments of sadness and joy in the life of the artist. IJO want his album to be a reflection of himself.

A very special part of this release is its third disc with the title "Sealody Songs". Sounding like a soundtrack you listen to piano songs like "Face". The whole album contains 35 tracks/songs and takes you on a journey lasting two hours and five minutes. Like a good movie.

And as always Sutemos supplies some extraordinary and poetic photos along with the release. Please enjoy!

Poetic IJO Videos

To make this wonderful release complete "Selektida" comes along with three videos. Especially the piano song called "Face" with its video left an impression on me. The moody piano chords match excellent together with the captured happy moments with friends.

While watching this video I thought: "Where is this place?!? I want to go there, too!" Also in this video music and images fit perfectly together and give us small glimpse into a happening where people met, shared creative moments together and had an exceptional time. Respect to the musician and video producer.

It was inspired by a person whose name I gave to this spound book. It is some kind of tale, story made out of small chapters.

MP3 IDM & Electronica Music Download

Download: IJO - "Selektida" (ZIP-Archive)
Artist-Website: IJO
Release: IJO - "Selektida"
Netlabel: Sutemos Netlabel

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Marko Fürstenberg - "In Der Pappelei" (MP3)
Marko Fürstenberg - "Mimerlaven" (MP3)
Marko Fürstenberg - "Flüssige Reihe" (MP3)

I hyped this DubTechno release many times, I am sorry for that. But this classy DubTechno album by Marko Fürstenberg has to be promoted also here on Phlow-Magazine.com because it is still one the best DubTechno albums ever and one of the first netaudio longplayer which grabbed my attention from beginning to end.

"Gesamtlaufzeit" is so amazing because you travel together with the artist from music gig to music gig. For his album Marko Fürstenberg composed smooth rockin DubTechno-tracks along with calm ambientish songs. Some of the songs where produced while travelling through Germany. If you imagine how the musician sits in the train, looks out the window and sees all the trees, houses, landscapes flying by, the sound fits perfect. Also it's a perfect statement how you get sucked into techno...

A netaudio classic!

MP3 DubTechno Music Download

Download: Marko Fürstenberg - "Gesamtlaufzeit LP" (ZIP-Archive)
Artist-Website: Marko Fürstenberg
Netlabel: Thinner

Game Soundtrack

Julian Winter - "Sewer or Later" (MP3)
Julian Winter - "Godsend" (MP3)
Julian Winter - "Den" (MP3)

Alchemia is a point and click adventure in the tradition of the beautfil Samorost and Samorost 2 games. And it's the visual counter part of Julian Winter's "Rock Art EP" or the other way round. Like the game, you listen to lots of samples, which generate a dense atmosphere along with the melodies. Like the game everything is handmade, no synthies doodling around.

And where could this EP better fit than on the outstanding Pause Netlabel. Even while Pause is a netlabel for 8-Bit Culture its connection to games and the indie games scene is obvious. Often I ask myself why netlabels don't try in general more often to cooperate with indie game programmers.

MP3 Soundtrack Music Download

Download: Julian Winter - "Rock Art EP"  (ZIP-Archive)
Artist-Website: www.julianwinter.de
Release: Julian Winter - "Rock Art EP"
Netlabel: Pause Netlabel

Jahtari Tribute | While publishing our Jahtari-Portrait some days ago, I thought: "Why not making a mixtape with my favorite Jahtari-anthems?" After some digging through the whole back catalogue I finished my studies of the mighty echo chambers of Jahtari. I rolled you a wonderful spliff of smokey Dub Reggae anthems. Take care, Jahtari might blast you away into bits and pieces of colourful 8-Bit-powered reggae music with dubby sounds and a massive bass. Push up ya lighta, for disrupt and his posse!

Phlow Jahtari Mixtape

01. disrupt - "Tubby ROM Module (7")" (MP3)
02. Mikey Murka - "Sensi Addict" (MP3)
03. Jahtari Riddim Force - "Depth Charge" (MP3)
04. Ras Amerlock - "Farther East" (MP3)
05. Wheeler - "Breeze Blow" (MP3)
06. disrupt - "Jah Red Gold And Green" (MP3)
07. disrupt - "Bomb 20" (MP3)
08. Tapes - "Ticker Tape" (MP3)
09. disrupt - "Samurai Showdown" (MP3)
10. Jahtari Riddim Force - "Enchantier" (MP3)
11. Illyah & Ltd. Candy - "Fight The Formation" (MP3)
12. Normaa - "Give Thanks To Be Part" (MP3)
13. disrupt - "Blast You To Bits" (MP3)
14. Volfoniq vs Kik The Hypez - "Speak'n'Sex Maaagik Dub" (MP3)
15. Fleur Earth w/ Gringo Starr - "Brennen Euch Ab" (MP3)
16. Blue Vitriol - "Re-Entry Dub" (MP3)
17. Blaze Dem - "Martial World" (MP3)
18. disrupt - "Central Dubbing Unit" (MP3)
19. Bo Marley - "Bauhelm" (MP3)
20. Jahtari Riddim Force - "Loose In Space" (MP3)
21. Dubmood - "Kick De Bucket" (MP3)
22. disrupt - "The Stars My Destination" (MP3)
23. Blue Vitriol - "Breeder" (MP3)
24. disrupt - "International Karate Championship" (MP3)

M3u- and XSPF-Playlist

• M3U-Playlist: Phlow Jahtari Mixtape - "A Fistful Of Dub"
• XSPF-Playlist: Phlow Jahtari Mixtape - "A Fistful Of Dub"

Feldmaus - "Lively Inner Shore" (MP3)
Feldmaus - "The Sky Turned (feat. Imachi Akira)" (MP3)
Feldmaus - "Put On A Magical Hood" (MP3)

Passage Netlabel is an ambient sub-division of Fragment Music netlabel established in 2009. While the russians deliver HiFi-Minimal Techno and similiar tracks on Fragment Music the main course of Passage is to explore the deepest and most charming forms of abstract musical expression. Passage is handling flexible style borders with several main settings - flowing ambience, organic structure and depth.

Feldmaus is a collaboration between Evgeny Shchukin and Alexander Tochilkin both known as Modul. The title of their album describes best what the music is about: spaces where you find musical ambience in each corner.

Starting off slowly and subtle with "Sunbeams In High Grass" and "Lively Inner Shore" you will listen to ambient music with a subtle 4-to-the-floor kickdrum like a pulsating heart. In one of those tracks Japanese guitarist Imachi Akira joined with Feldmaus to build a fantastic trip through space and time in track called "The Sky Turned (feat. Imachi Akira)".

A beautiful, relaxed and cinematic adventure.

MP3 Ambient Music Download

Download: Feldmaus - "Spaces" (ZIP-Archive)
Artist-Website: Feldmaus
Release: Feldmaus - "Spaces"
Netlabel: www.passagemusic.net

Deep House

Superloader - "Let if off!" (MP3)
Superloader - "Fusion" (MP3)
Superloader - "Wig Wam Bam" (MP3)

Superloader makes that sort of house music which seems to never stop. If you're not down in the club with the crew, you feel the lax mood. The night is long and Supafeed sucks us into that endless groove we get hypnotized by the whole night. Just take "Let it off". You start the track and the groove is there. It will still be the same, when the track stops. Nevertheless you get some damn nice sounds while seesawing under the disco ball with Superloader.

Grab the love handles of you girlfriend and drag her onto the dancefloor!

MP3 Music Download

Download: Superloader - "Let it off!" (ZIP-Archive)
Release: Superloader - "Fusion"
Netlabel: www.supafeed.net

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Raleigh Moncrief- "Goldrush (Chandeliers Remix)" (MP3)
Raleigh Moncrief- "Similies" (MP3)
Raleigh Moncrief- "Combed Over Chrome" (MP3)

Ah c'mon! I can't find out ANYTHING about neither "Raleigh Moncrief" nor the remixers (?) "Chandeliers" and "Dash!". Obstructive Vibrations, please! Moncrief is from Cali, is he? Everything I got is the private Myspace of designer Brandon Kalarney and these five tunes...

Well. "Combed Over Chrome" is massive. Spliffed-out and dirty. Fresh and experimental, yet catchy and compatible with any Hip Hop and Dubstep dancefloor. Astro Nautico, well-informed source for Bay Area Rap as usual, says "Hudson Mohawke and Matthew David had a baby and named him Raleigh Moncrief", and that's a good comparison indeed.

All five tracks are dope. While "Combed Over Chrome" features heavy beats and glittering synth arpreggios, "Goldrush (Chandeliers Remix)" focuses on IDM-ish melodies and baaad ass bass. With "Similies", Raleigh Moncrief fuses wobble-wobble Dubstep with an Old School Hip Hop beat and Mohawkesque synth leads. Timeless. Eventually, "Quiet Please" closes the chromo dance with a deep 'n' dirty piece of solanaceous Dubstep that equally sounds L.A. and London. OMG what a BOMB!

MP3 Hip Hop Music Download

Download: "Combed Over Chrome EP" (ZIP-Archive)
Netlabel: obstructivevibe.com

Roland from Machtdose - "Aqual(o)unge 4" (MP3)

Without no doubt: Roland from Machtdose has a wonderful taste when it comes to music. More fascinating are his skills to find those wonderful nuggets in the huge pond of creative commons music. Even though he says about himself not being a dj, this blend of dubby techno, lush electronica and bright ambient speaks different.

Simply a wonderful selection while swimming through the reefes of netaudio.

MP3 Dubby Ambient Music Download

Download: "Aqual(o)unge 4" (ZIP-Archive)
Release: DJ Mix - "Aqual(o)unge 4"

"Aqual(o)unge 4" Playlist

1. Beyond Absence - Heavy Breath [Webbed Hand 117]
2. Vertical67 - Blue [Acroplane 027]
3. Grids/Units/Planes - Flickering Fluros (This Brittle Night) [IDM Forums 002]
4. Umbrellas in the Rain - Unbroken Surface [test tube 142]
5. Ingredient - Striations [Zenapolae 051]
6. Foam - Trouble [Archipel 056]
7. Fatiq - Race to Love [MonoKraK 24]
8. Pesina Siller - Miss Kittin [Konfort 023]
9. Yagya - Coconut Rice [Sutemos 023]
10. freund der familie - 000 [broque 046]
11. hoax - Regis [insectorama 031]
12. Matthias Springer - Realm of Minds [Rumpfunk 018]
13. Echonoise - Telonius Trak [This Side Music 007]
14. Phillip Wilkerson - Sun Up [Bypass 038]
15. Zzzzra - Mutation [bio-mechanics 004]
16. Dev - Mirror Error [parastate 001]
17. Mr. Zu - In the Distance [deepindub 030]
18. Optic - Untitled [schall 025]
19. deep source project - drifting under [white in music 08]
20. Ryko - Swimming Places [auflegware 028]
21. Marsmellows - oh my dear [insectorama 030]
22. glander - untiten [Yuki Yaki 010]
23. Waveform - Dub Inside Of Us (re-edit) [deeplimit 10]
24. Roman Slavka - Paste [Pincet 004]
25. EugeneKha - Moonshine [bypass 019]
26. Pirata - Fotones en la oscuridad [Pueblo Nuevo 043]
27. Braun - Finalizer [dreiton 016]
28. Dino Dumandan - Refraction Rarefaction [Deep Lever]
29. Winterstrand - Seawater Mountain [laridae 040]
30. Lokua - Water Rock [Soft Phase 03]
31. Audiodump - May [Electronica 03]
32. Background Noise - Neptune [Ruidemos 012]

Isma Serrano - "She Is Electric" (MP3)
Isma Serrano- "Everything Is Alright" (MP3)
Isma Serrano- "Mi Eleccion" (MP3)

I like this album because it remains somehow calm, friendly and chilly. Nothing really spectacular hides between the patterns, no freaky sound experiments scrape your your. All but solid grooves and reflections of the past when techno still had this trancy flavor. When techno was more than minimal, when techno was still pure sound, when techno was friendly.

Just listen to a track like "She Is Electric". Have a seat on the rolling 808-elektro-rhythm and smile happy about those synthesizer sweeps. Than proceed and taste some of the sweet acid bleeps in "Processing". Yeah, right, that's classic DubTechno.

"Automatic Behaviour" is a true and solid album.

MP3 Techno Elektro Trance Music Download

Download: Isma Serrano "Automatic Behaviour" (ZIP-Archive)
Artist-Website: Isma Serrano
Release: Isma Serrano "Automatic Behaviour"
Netlabel: Antiritmo Netlabel

August Ambient Bliss

Wonderful we get such music for free! Even more as it's Fall in Middle Europe and it does not take much imagination to syncronize to contemplative songs of Slow to the sound of rain on the other side of the window.

Behind the telling moniker is young Sergey Suokas, hailing from Karelia, Russia, close to Finland. Sergey released a lot of music under different names, including a set of 12"s for his Techno outfit Suokas. The US-American record label Self Storage published the first full-length Slow album just recently ("Sealand"), and "Dual Box" is Sergey's second EP for Resting Bell already. His engagement with experimental Ambient duo Feldmaus is worth a note as well. Boy... he's a maniac!

It always feels a bit stupid to connect geographical ancestry and sound identity.  However, with all Slow release so far I had the strong impression that Sergey Soukas combines something somehow Scandinavian with something somehow Russian. Quixotic, naive melodies on the one hand, clear and focussed song writing on the other. His sound design is lush and playful.

I only have a very few timeless favourites in Ambient music, among these probably Nest and Direwires & Freder, but "Dual Box" by Slow has a realistic chance become classic as well.

MP3 Ambient Music Download

Download: "Dual Box" (ZIP-Archive)
Artist-Website: sergeysuokas.ru
Release: Slow - "Dual Box"
Netlabel: restingbell.net

The Unique Matter - "dejaview watchers" (MP3)
The Unique Matter - "metasphera" (MP3)
The Unique Matter - "new suite" (MP3)
The Unique Matter - "structured abstractions" (MP3)

The Unique Matter delivers you with four tracks an insight of the russian soul of techno. My favorite track is "Dejaview Watchers", I just enjoy dubby techno from time to time. It's just a perfect sound to surf through the web. But the excellent fact of this EP remains: All tracks come with a different approach and give you an excellent release to use as a dj as well as enjoying it at home or your mp3 player.

"Douze points, russie!"

MP3 Techno Music Download

Download: The Unique Matter - "Metasphere EP" (ZIP-Archive)
Release: The Unique Matter - "Metasphere EP"
Netlabel: Sologroove Netlabel

Emilie Lund - "Childhood Friend" (MP3)
Emilie Lund - "Rewind" (MP3)

Five tiny songs, acoustic guitar, vocals, some little gimmicks every now and then. Emilie Lund's voice is slightly girlish but brings forth a certain mature timbre I enjoy a lot. I tend to say she sounds very Swedish although I can not explain what this means - maybe it's the very rolemodel Nina Persson burned into my mind. Hard to resist however.

Despite her voice and the fact Emilie writes beautiful and mesmerizing melodies, her songs are always more than just folky lullabies. There is a strong 60s feel about her selftitled EP. I can hear she is up for the likes of Vashti Bunyan, Nick Drake, Brian Wilson, Van Dyke Parks and everything in-between. Still the record does not sound dated by any chance.

Emilie Lund opens a jewel case filled with delicate Art-Pop, dreamful abstractions of US-American Folklore and these little bit of edges I called black spots in the introduction. In "Rewind", she sings "He went searching for her love as if  / his love weren't imporant / Even tried to heal her scars as if / his scars weren't important". Boy she's gorgeous.

MP3 Folk Pop Music Download

Download: "Emilie Lund EP" (ZIP-Archive)
Artist-Website: myspace.com/emilielund
Release: Emilie Lund - "Emilie Lund EP"
Netlabel: aaahh-records.net

Iky Que - "10msec" (MP3)
Frunk29 - "Alenkin Home" (MP3)
Feldmaus - "Put On A Magical Hood (Passage Version)" (MP3)
Vadim Lankov - "Impudence" (MP3)

On both "NetAudio Russia Compilations" you find in general three music genres: breakbeat-driven tracks, melodic techno and ambient tunes.

At first I thought, the compilators would have separated four to the floor-tracks from IDM from Ambient, but that's not the case.

The main idea of both compilations is to let the listeners explore the variety of electronic music done by musicians performing on the festival. And I have to say, both trips are just wonderful and fit well together.

You dive into dreamish IDM like "Rosolam (Novomix)" from moroza_knozova or breakbeats with vocals like "10msec" from Iky Que or more straight elektro like "Liquid Fur" from Stud.

On the more upfront side I adore especially two tracks which would best be described as poetic minimal techhouse. Give "Put On A Magical Hood (Passage Version)" by Feldmaus and "Alenkin Home" by Frunk29 a listen. Wonderful tunes, to dance in the morning hours to with your eyes shut of course. Truly extraordinay how Frunk29 weaves some jazzy flavor into his track.

But also DJs with a heart for more pushy grooves get something for their sets. Vadim Lankov knows how to give the bassdrum that adequate kick. He hands us two excellent tracks over. With "Lankov - secondsun" he explores minimal techno with some tricky shuffling and experimental sounds and "Impudence" is that rave tune, you need to heat up the dancefloor.

A really fantastic double-feature from Russia. Don't miss it!

MP3 Electronic Music Download

Release: Various - "NetAudio Russia Compilation Volume 1 & 2"
Download: Various - "NetAudio Russia Compilation Volume 1 & 2" (ZIP)

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Alec Troniq - "The Hills Ashore" (MP3)
Alec Troniq - "I'm the foolaloof (Tim Susa vs Jan Yang remix)" (MP3)

The soundquality of this production is very high, but we wouldn't have expected anything else from the Broque-labs. Alec Troniq is living in Dresden/Germany and this is his first release on Broque.

On his "AAA Efficiency" EP are remixes as well, that surely speak a different language, but they are funtional and fictional as well. Techno-lovers from all ages will love to heat the dancefloor with this sound. Poetic, playful, strong. Sometimes a little more like minimal house, sometimes a little more like lean techno. Sometimes a little more like listening to indie-rock. Does this make sense? Well, of course it does.

MP3 Techno House Music Download

Download: Alec Troniq - "AAA Efficiency EP" (ZIP-Archive)
Release: Aleq Troniq - "AAA Efficiency"
Netlabel: Broque

2nd mouse - "Times are hard for dreamers" (MP3)
2nd mouse - "Fistful of beats" (MP3)
2nd mouse - "Ai Moo" (MP3)
2nd mouse- "So, tell me Oscillato" (MP3)

2nd Mouse describes his music as being like Plaid, Depeche Mode, Aphex Twin and Square Pusher having a jam session - imagine what a party that would be. So, with this illustrious company in mind, standards are set very high.

Mister Da Mouse chooses his sounds well with an ear to individual combinations of both classic and new sounds that cause you to re-assess your assumptions. "Levite" is an album whose feel is, in one respect, cinematic; tracks such as "Times are hard for dreamers" and a "Fistful of beats" create a sense of place, atmosphere and narrative in the listener that is evocative and entrancing. On the other hand Levite is also an album stuffed full with good old synth pop tunes. Throughout there is a sense of playfulness.

The already well honed sense of melody, displayed with such aplomb in his previous album "An Armful Of Opposite Lock" has now been refined. This, allied to an undoubted sense of creative confidence that comes with hitting one’s stride, produces some delightful and surprising moments of wry musical wit and humor. Where "An Armful" had more moments of darkness "Levite" is an exercise in balance. A track like "Drone Revolt", which has something of the nasty about it, contains an excitable super fast keyboard lick to offset the sinister elements. What we have here is a mature collection of compositions that deploy pop sensibilities and mix them intelligently with more cutting edge elements to produce exquisite tracks such as "So, tell me Oscillator" and "Ai Moo". Here there are parallels with the music of the excellent King Bastard from Herb Recordings.

The wistful and atmospheric "Times are hard for dreamers" transports you to a caberet club, complete with crooning vocals from Mister Da Mouse, brushed drums, string and echoed guitar strikes and meandering keyboards. This is down at heal dreaming; a nostalgia for a past yet to happen; a place for gin soaked regrets from the future. On "So, tell me Oscillator" inspiration is drawn from the little known electronic artist Plone and continues in a retro 50s kitch vibe often favoured by 2nd Mouse. This kitch element is further explored in the whimsical "Fistful of beats" a Spaghetti-western themed track complete with clomping woodblock sound and honkey-tonk-esque piano.

I enjoyed the previous offering, "An Armful of Opposite Lock", because of 2nd Mouse’s ability to imaginatively combine classic synth sounds with unusual and unexpected elements, without making it seem forced. Levite takes this a step further in what is an album of both considerable maturity and childish pleasure. Can’t wait for the second twin, "Minerva", to be born on www.sampleoakrecords.com. Play it loud with the lights out.

MP3 IDM Electronica Music Download

Download: 2nd mouse - "levite" (ZIP-Archive)
Artist-Website: 2nd mouse @ soundcloud myspace
Release: 2nd mouse - "levite"
Netlabel: Fwonk Netlabel

N-Noiz - "Red Spider Nebula" (MP3)
N-Noiz - "Hasaki" (MP3)
N-Noiz - "Engines of Abundance" (MP3)
N-Noiz - "Vibin The Crook" (MP3)

This is one fantastic peace of drum'n'bass art. It's dark, yes. There are no melodic hooks, yes. But if you are a beat addict as I am, you just have to admire the craftful work. You will be sucked into the deep atmosphere.

With enthusiastic love N-Noiz formed outstanding drum'n'bass-tracks. And also if Photek is the sword-swinging leader, N-Noiz has his own fighting style. Just listen how the bass diggs a grave for every opponent, how the beats travel through the stereo field. My only critisism concerns to the last track "Vibin The Crook". There N-Noiz repeated the vocals to much or the MC had no more rhymes in his pocket. Nevertheless the voice by Semtex M fits perfect to the music vibe.

Dark, powerful and fresh!

MP3 Drum and Bass Music Download

Download: N-Noiz - "Unbounding The Future EP" (ZIP-Archive)
Artist-Website: N-Noiz
Release: N-Noiz - "Unbounding The Future EP"
Netlabel: www.plainaudio.com

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Psychon - "Blinddayton" (MP3)
Psychon - "Nanamissouri" (MP3)
Psychon - "Cancelwashington" (MP3)

It is good to notice how the words “new” and “discover” can easily merge into what we usually call “evolution”. So basically this means Lars Meijer, Coen Polack and Jantijn Prins bring us this new release as the result of the progressive change on their musical tastes. The complexity and density of their tracks remain intact, but the several layers of sound are now refined.

“Field recordings, electronic minimalism and acoustic maximalism” were blent with such various styles, redefining the band's bounderies in a studio. They reconstructed their own patterns of what music production might be, allowing the existence of new sonorities, where there is no space for inconsistency. Everything plays a specific role in the track as a whole, letting harmony breath there. The long tracks counteract the short ones and give the record a certain dynamic.

Ultimately, fluidity is the key-word.

MP3 Downbeat Music Download

Download: Psychon – "Slow Country for Old Men" (ZIP-Archive)
Artist-Website: Psychon
Release: Psychon – "Slow Country for Old Men"
Netlabel: www.narrominded.com

Astrowind - "Lost And Found On The Moon" (MP3)
Astrowind - "Mute Pilot" (MP3)

Astrowind are Kriipis Tulo and Mahi Bukimi. I follow them since their first releases at long-gone ElektroSound Netlabel and their retro-style synthesizer Ambient always made a little bell ring in my head. After two record that did not get me too much, this one is just right again. "Fresh Wind in the Valley of Dreams" is released on the young Moldavian Netlabel Silent Flow.

Astrowind play old Russian synthesizer, record their jams live on tape (!) to carefully rework them at home (I love the idea they do it with a cutting knife and Scotch tape but I guess on this account they do NOT do analogue). Outcome is multicoloured streams of dense synthesizer Ambient, enhanced by extensive pedal processing and vocal samples from Soviet cosmonautics (In particular, "Fresh Wind in the Valley of Dreams" is dedicated to A. A. Leonov).

Astrowind music flows like water. And like water can vary from runlet to tsunami, Tulo and Bukimi play with dynamics as well. Modus operandi changes from lovely to destructive, from contemplative to rude health - but the overall mood is august mellifluence. The cosmonautics reference works beautifully as well and given this, the link to 70's German Kosmische Musik ain't too far-fetched. Lovin' it.

MP3 Ambient Music Download

Download: "Fresh Wind In The Valley Of Dreams" (ZIP-Archive)
Artist-Website: astrowind.net
Release: Astrowind - "Fresh Wind In The Valley Of Dreams"
Netlabel: Silent Flow

Brian Grainger - "Summer's Parting Ways" (MP3)

Recently, my focus shifted a bit from the Ambient and post structuralist music I have been reviewing for Phlow since the beginning. This is quite a natural process. But every once a while, a record hits me like a slingshot and throws me back in time. This happened for Tiago Sousa's debut LP (available via Humming Conch soon). And it happend for "Sawdust Aromatics" by the likes of David Tagg and Brian Grainger.

Allow for a brief historical abstract. David Tagg was behind the wheel at Expanding Electronic Diversity. In 2006, David and Brian Grainger of Milieu Music met to first found a band and subsequently launch the experimental music imprints Install Sound and Second Sun Recordings, the later of which is an exclusive market place for their own collaborative music. "The Future of  Modern Guitar", as we can learn at the SSR info site.

For "Sawdust Aromatics", Rope Swing Cities (another key player in US experimental music) compiles two songs of each Tagg and Grainger, giving a total running time of +50 minutes. Brian Graingers pieces are intensively harmonic mediations on simple guitar motives. The epic "Summer Parting Ways" exactly feels like late Summer paralysis, with a wonderful synth texture beneath delayed guitar. The howling and otherworldly processings in the later half of the song are mesmerizing.

David Tagg, in contrast, focuses less on harmonics but the Gordian entanglements of field-recordings and processed guitar. Rather sound design than song, Grainger's composition are more easily to get into. Still, beyond the crackling textures of David Tagg's music, a lot of goodness can be found.

MP3 Ambient Music Download

Download: "Sawdust Aromatics" (ZIP)
Artist-Website: David Tagg | Brian Grainger
Release: "Sawdust Aromatics"
Netlabel: ropeswingcities.com

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Evgeny Grinko – "Woody Allen" (MP3)
Evgeny Grinko – "Poirot and Tarutz walk in Paris" (MP3)
Evgeny Grinko – "28359840921=42" (MP3)

Well, the big mistery question here is "Why was this debut EP released so late?". I am sorry, but I'm a lame detective and have no answers for you. However, I can assure you that once you start to listen to it, you probably will not stop the music before you get to the very last second, because it is just like a movie.

You get the opportunity to smile, to laugh, to think about life, and maybe shed one or two tears while you do it. Actually, you can find a bit of every emotion in the record, from smooth jazz to melancholic piano solos. The best thing about it? Probably the fact that you can choose your own screenplay, in order not to get disappointed. But with a soundtrack like this, I severely doubt that you can dream about a bad plot.

Review written by Rute Correia

MP3 Music Download

Download: Evgeny Grinko – "Cinematic Melodies EP" (ZIP-Archive)
Artist-Website: Evgeny Grinko
Release: Evgeny Grinko – "Cinematic Melodies EP"
Netlabel: www.raig.ru