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.

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

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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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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.

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

Bitbasic - "Realization" (MP3)
Bitbasic - "Damaged Beyond Repair" (MP3)
Bitbasic - "Ain't No Sunshine" (MP3)

At over fifty minutes, this wonderfully cohesive album treats the listener to a variety of gear shifts and mood changes that make the whole experience engaging and enervating from beginning to end. Whether it is the rapid, funky breaks and signature changes of "Realization", the acoustic guitar sound, descending Resident style analogue synth sighs and stuttering, reverby drums of "Damaged Beyond Repair", or the surprising but beautifully executed cover of "Ain't No Sunshine", this is an album that will make you grin at the pleasure of it all.

At some point during Roxy and Elsewhere, Frank Zappa declares that "Jazz isn’t dead, it just smells funny": a statement that adroitly encapsulated the moribund state of much of what jazz had become by the mid 1970’s. For Zappa, a playful and creative engagement with jazz, and his combinations thereof with other musical styles, served as a platform for countless reinventions. While George Duke, Ruth Underwood, Don Preston, Napolean Murphy Brock et al may have been superseded by samples, perhaps, in some tenuous way, Bitbasic’s Sprinkling Rainbows is another step along a path of enlightened, intelligent and wry experimentation.

Review written by Greg Healey.

MP3 Electronica Music Download

Download: Bitbasic - "Sprinkling Rainbows" (ZIP-Archive)
Artist-Website: Bitbasic
Release: Bitbasic - "Sprinkling Rainbows"
Netlabel: Monotonik

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Subbass and Breakbeats

Winnie The Shit - "I love You" (MP3)
Winnie The Shit - "Dark Pattern" (MP3)
Winnie The Shit - "Awkward Silence" (MP3)

In general if some friends of mine talk about Dubstep, I don't think about melodies. Most of the time Dubstep is about digging the bass still a little bit deeper into the ground. Instead of supplying us with some melodic grooves to remember, the forget about the soul of music.

On the contrary Winnie explores both sides. He enjoys to built some heavy and relaxed beats with melodies. OK, "Awkward Silence" is still more awkward than melodic, but with "Dark Pattern" and "Robot Master" he follows the path to IDM and combines Electronica with a solid fundament of beats. Fine release!

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Download: Winnie The Shit - "Sons Grave" (ZIP-Archive)
Artist-Website: Winnie The Shit on last.fm
Release: Winnie The Shit - "Sons Grave"

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essell "daydream" (MP3)

Originally "Cen Art" was compiled for a lounge in Barcelona. On the compilation you find warm, melodic and most of the time relaxed tunes. The style of music ranges somewhere inbetween IDM, Downbeats and Ambient. This makes the compilation quite homogenic and all the tracks fit well together.

Who had thought of, that a project like a file sharing platform would give birth to a music compilation where musicians would join free of will to give their music to the world for free... Yes, not someone in the music industry.

The web is made for sharing, so enjoy this little contemporary piece of net art.

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Download: Various - "Cen Art" (FTP)
Release: Various - "Cen Art"
Netlabel: soulseekrecords.org

"84' 85'" by Koen Park was released in two limited 3"-CDR editions over at October Man Recordings (first green than gold, this version is burgundy I guess). I was happy to get hold of the first edition and been listening to the six tracks a lot since then.

In a way, it's nothing special. Fans of IDM will  recognize the heavy Boards of Canada- and early Autechre-influences straightaway. Throw in crunchy Hip Hop beats, fumes of field-recordings plus melancholy melodies and you've got it. But the one thing you can't imitate is musical craftsmanship. And as much as "84' 85'" isn't pushing genre borders, it is a wonderful, inspiring piece of music. The EP runs only 18 minutes. But maybe this briefness has a hand in brilliance. Warm, catchy, dense. Awesome when a re-release makes sense.

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Download: Koen Park - "84' 85'" (ZIP)
Artist-Website: koenmusic.com
Release: Koen Park - "84' 85'"
Netlabel: acroplane.org

The Sutemos Netlabel is a mixture of Lithunian artists which are joined by musicians from outside their country. Together they stem now for the fifth time an incredible and rich compilation with IDM, Ambient and Electronica-orientated music. It's hard to figure out some favorites, so just dive into the compilation and enjoy some futuristic music.

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Download: Various - "Intelligent Toys 5" (ZIP-Archive)
Release: Various - "Intelligent Toys 5"
Netlabel: Sutemos Netlabel

Welcome to the neon-coloured world of Alexandru M. Seidiu aka Candlestickmaker! Enjoy a ride full of squashed and mashed up beats. The correctly tickled rhythms swoosh over you in a hustle and bustle, take you direclty on a rollercoaster through a happy-acid-megalomania, into a world where SpongeBob enjoys playing with the nipples of Hello Kitty...

Fantastic, mad, ill, sweet, trippy... So don't take neither the blue or red pill! Take the coloured one!

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Download: Candlestickmaker - "Seeds" (ZIP-Archive)
Artist-Website: Candlestickmaker | www.myspace.com/csmfalls
Release: Candlestickmaker - "Seeds"
Netlabel: www.upitup.com

Where is all the IDM-music gone? Maybe it went out-of-space, but maybe it found a  new home on the web on netlabel Rec72. Good, what does IDM mean after all? Is it close listening? Is it scaping spheres and fast rhythms, that do not take the borders of music-genres too closely? I hope for the last. Because the EP "Press any Key" does provide both.

The first tracks on the EP are somehow like very classic trance-tracks, so music that went its way, before rave-trance was born. A little bit like very classic (British?) tunes of trance music. Please let me crawl into the speaker. The other half of this EP features fast-paced tracks of IDM-music, maybe in the same tradition. Harsh, not precise, also not upfront. Meant to listening. But this is also my critique, at least my personal. Although there is a sure value of the music on this EP I am missing some sort of flow - at least if you take a look in the other half of this EP.

I like to drift to the scapes, and also like the disturbing rhythms of Human Teriminal. But what I don't like is to tell "This track is more like floating and this like weird beats". The IDMish thing after all (IDM = intelligence dance music?) is about fucking over all genres, in order to make make the people dance or have them a whole experience and after all, isn't it? Maybe I just didn't met this dancefloors already yet. Maybe things just have to progress, so please keep up with giving us such tunes!

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Download: Human Terminal - "Press any Key" (ZIP-Archive)
Artist-Website: human-terminal.blogspot.com
Release: Human Terminal - "Press any Key"
Netlabel: www.rec72.net

I enjoy the idea of remixing. Especially my curiosity gets triggered if musicians remix musicians. Like Kruder & Dorfmeister with their sessions or the remixes done for Björk in the early years between her debut and the homogenic-album... Remixing is art which has to reinvent the original by keeping its true soul alive. Not an easy task if you ask me, and I did remixes myself...

Just digg deep into this song called "Complete" and check out the tricky shuffled Bad Comfort Remix or the warm melancholic and slowly drifting remix by Madstyle. Also interesting the Sm Remix using a piano for the melody instead of using bleeps. While the SM Remix transforms "Complete" into a enigmatic anthem only the Illuminated Faces Remix straightens the beats and produced a sensitive 4 to the floor track...

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Download: Modul - "Complete Remixed" (ZIP-Archive)
Release: Modul - "Complete Remixed"
Netlabel: Phonocake Netlabel

Nothing matters anymore. Happy tunes unite with floating beats, the IDMish sounds have not show teeth, but a breath of magic is closely in on their side. Airy windows of wonder and opportunity. And then sometimes little fragments of game-like soundeffects just make you wonder, while the trip goes on. Also some excellent precise breaks are on this release.

This is the 20th, and maybe the most grown-up, release on the brilliant II-Music netlabel. The Label normally features music, that go from chiptune to miniature compositions made with chip. All releases combine clever music with extreme high quality. Something like Iqtu. Definitely my dig of the month.

This release reminds me far on the Milky Beats LP from Original Recipe, that was released some years ago on the web, and still remains one of the most precious releases that you can download. Similar music structures and vibes are also on this album. Other reference coordinate would be music from Ulrich Schnauss.

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Download: Iqtu - Embarrassing Triangle (ZIP Archive)
Release: Iqtu - Embarrassing Triangle
Netlabel: II Music
Artist: iqtu.com/

OK, "Astronomia de Balcon" is a five-tracker-ep. But if you look and listen close, you discover three tracks with nearly similiar names: "Autsaidub", "Autsaidbeat" and "Autsaidnait". Tanox remixed himself and changed the attitude from mix to mix. While "Autsaidub" rolls on dirty breakbeats along, "Autsaidnait" is a calm trip through on icy sounds. My favorite is still "Flecha". The music begins with strange sounds, which sound somehow oriental. Than Tanox begins to slowly develop the dubby beat and when the beat glides, he lifts us up with a magnetic moment and gives his production an individual touch with this clear guitar-accords.

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Download: Tanox - "Astronomia de Balcon" (ZIP-Archive)
Release: Tanox - "Astronomia de Balcon"
Netlabel: www.pueblonuevo.cl

Krowley is 17-years young producer Felix Trawöger. His EP "Four Pieces" is a fresh mixture of melodic, analog instrumentation and urban beats and synths that reminds me a lot of "Eve Future"-releases by Kraftwerk-heirs Kreidler from Düsseldorf. With "I Saw My Lady Weep" Trawöger's EP starts bare naked with piano, spinet and viola. The whole song is a beautiful little piece of chamber music, it's contemporary origin only proven by minor hints. Second bassedanza "Ayre" combines Aphex Twin-style beat patterns with field-recordings and an enjoyable offbeat guitar motive.

For "Cyre", Trawöger descends even further into Pop. The dense guitar instrumentation is left as slave to the mighty LFO-groove of a synth bass-line. You can hear simple drums, somewhere in the middle a flute is introduced. It's stunning to hear how seamless Krowley's neo-Renaissance ideas accord to nowadays genres like IDM or Hip Hop. While last song "Pavane" (!) is a bit boring, "Cyre" is an awesome piece of left-field Electronica. Well done, kid.

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Release Site: Krowley - "Four Pieces"

Direct Download: Krowley - "Four Pieces" (ZIP)

Netlabel: www.autark-net.org

Artist Website: www.myspace.com/polyc1

Bartosz is a new face to Netaudio but hit the scene with two albums and one glorious EP just recently. While his LPs at 77industry and Crazy Language have a strong leaning towards IDM, Electronica and dark Ambient, the three track EP "Songs of Sens and Nonsens" at German Envizagae caught my attention with veritable Hip Hop-influences.

Combining the dark and post-industrial atmosphere of 90's IDM with a decent amount of melancholy and advanced skills in beats, Pleq bridges from SND to Burial to Tim Hecker. The awesome thing about Pleq is that he manages to keep sound design, song writing and and downright production skills in perfect balance. All tracks on "Songs of Sens and Nonsens" are tight to the bone, feature catchy melodies and will instantly get you by the necks. Herein, "I Hear Her at the Door Now" is among the best IDM/ instrumental Hip Hop-songs I know. Not matter if considered free or commercial. Word.

He's cute, isn't he?

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Release Site: Pleq - "Songs of Sens and Nonsens"
Direct Download: Pleq - "Songs of Sens and Nonsens" ZIP
Netlabel: www.envizagae.de
Artist Website: www.myspace.com/pleq

Pirata is coming from Chile and releases his full electronic productions on the Pubelo Nuevo netlabel. His sound has its own trademark and takes you on a trip through electronic music and Piratas own definition of Elektro. An album that works alltogether. Respect!

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Netlabel: www.pueblonuevo.cl
Release-Download @ Archive.org: Minimental [pn024] (ZIP)
Artist-Website: www.myspace.com/piratoide

Italian Postrockers Giardini di Míro put online a tiny remix-collection that incorporates an edit by Mickey Eats Plastic. I checked his website to see what's new and saw this beautiful EP popping up: remixes Mickey had constructed for a bunch of cool people in the last months plus two MEP-reworks. Every single one is subtle electric, with a chosen amount of Pop-appeal and je ne sais quoi .

The Ellul-remix focuses on the Country-style vocals and adds a heart-rendering synthesizer melody, Vienna Chip Hop-mastermind Dorian Concept (watch this guy!) becomes even more electric and hip-moving. I'm also pretty found of NAW's remix of "Every April": Toronto-based Neil Wiernik shift the tune into something bizarrely grooving and mesmerizing. Very worth the download, not least because of the great artwork by Matias Conduri.

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Release-Site: Mickey Eats Plastic - "To Kill The White Glamour"
Direct Download: Mickey Eats Plastic - "To Kill The White Glamour" ZIP
Artist Website: www.mickeyeatsplastic.com

Maguett released at Noise-Joy and Clinical Archives to join the ElectroSound Netlabel with his most accessible album up to date. Under the influence of the compilation of three mixtapes he released at Share my Wings (another sprout of the Excentrica empire) recently, "Ceramicboy" sounds a bit like a 'best of electronic music'-sampler with tracks differing in style and quality. The tracks I like best have a decent HipHop-feel: "Take That" is somewhere between early Autechre and Prefuse 73, "Out Door Experiment" has cool fat synthesizers and a relaxed Boards of Canada-groove. The song you have to check on all account is "Bubbles": crystal clear electronic HipHop, reduced to the max, with a head nodding beat and microscopic melody. So damn fresh. Make sure to check the other tracks!

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Release-Site: Maguett - "Ceramicboy"
Direct Download: Maguett - "Ceramicboy" ZIP
Netlabel: www.electrosound.ru
Artist Website: www.myspace.com/maguettone

Wow! This is one of the best electronic compilations i listened to for a long time. Sutemos compiled no more than 28 high quality tracks which slide smoothly from one into the other while listening. "Intelligent Toys 4" awaits you with atmospheric electronic music filled with sweet melodies and sweeping synthesizers.

Slowly taking off with an ambient and atmospheric track called "Dried Flowers, Mirrored World" produced by Sabi, our steward Walkman serves us continuously one embrassing tune after the other. Walkmans phenomenal choice of music convince us and we let loose while floating with the flow of his compilation. Take "Terra Det" from IJO for example. This track takes you on a flight on spheric synthesizer strings. Slightly shreddered and clickering beats combined with caring melodies build a wonderful scenery full of fluffy clouds.

Along with the incredible quality of each track, I am truely surprised how the whole music sampler fits together. This is futuristic and yet optimistic music at its best. A great journey into sounds from ambient to ambient to clicks and cuts. Don't miss this one!

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Release: VA - Intelligent Toys 4 (Sutemos019)
MP3-Download: Intelligent Toys 4 in a zip file (208 Mb)

First of all: they sound damn good! Their tracks fuse different elements: Pop- and House music, HipHop and IDM. The opener “Litter” is made from a simple House beat, pitched down to make your head nod. Alongside the oldschool claps and David’s funny proto-Rap, Kaia sings a simple melody with her beautiful and unpolished voice. “It’s Still Working” has a stronger leaning to Deep House and early 80’s No Wave, somewhere between Gomma and DFA Records. With “Rent and Taxes”, the Siblings come back to with a campy Hip Hop tune whose cut-up beats and string-arrangements make me think of the late Matthew Herbert. Very cool. The short EP ends with “Think in Spanish”, an intimate Pop-miniature for voice and synthesizer.

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Release: Siblings - Litter EP (No Type)
Direct Download: Siblings - Litter EP ZIP

Not all the tracks on the "Crowd of Zero"-Album have melodic grooves, sometimes David Williams gets lost in playing with his effects and plugins. But he rocks when he combines beats, weird sounds and melodies like in "Plankton Dub", "Ramshackle" or the fat electro-track "Comuter Belt Booty Bass". Than, when David Williams lets the groove phlow, we get sucked into the frisky world of '82nd ave.

One of my favorite tracks is "It started Off Acoustic". While introducing the listener to a smooth acoustic guitar in the beginning, we witness how David Williams chops up the samples and let them interact. Altogether "Crowd Of Zero" is filled with humour, tricky beats and a love for stereo-effects. Definitive worth a try.

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Netlabel: yuki yaki
Release-Download: '82nd ave - Crowd Of Zero

Emil Klotzsch uses all kinds of instruments and sounds. From harsh glitches and clicks to kitschy synthesizer-melodies to tricky IDM-beats. Even when most of the tunes seem live in disharmony, Emil Klotzsch is a true musician and a excellent producer. His collaboration with Dirk Becker in "geteiltes sein" is one of the best idm-meets-vocal-songs I've ever heard. And don't miss the amusing and well-photographed Gallery by his father, Manfred Klotzsch.

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MySpace-Website: www.myspace.com/emilklotzsch
Release-Website: [one028] - emil klotzsch - feinquisit
Release-Download-archive.org: Emil Klotzsch - feinquisit (Zip)