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 :)

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

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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!

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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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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

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

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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.

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

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aleksi virta - "o tema de viagem especial" (MP3)
aleksi virta - "whirlwind pistols dub" (MP3)

I don't know why, but I like voice samples in music tracks, babbling some weird sentences like "Are you rrready to accept my domination?!?". And aleksi virta does so, too. He found some sources talking about the universe, space men, whatever... Just listen to "outer edge intro", you'll hear what I mean.

Together with the melodic grooves, the offbeat rhythmics in tracks like "whirlwind pistols dub" or the bossa nova-inspired happy-grooves in "o tema de viagem especial" you get a wonderful release. This will be my favorite in the downbeat genre for a while!

A damn cool space trip into the world of melodic downbeats...

PS: Thanks to our writer Martin aka 020200 for the hint...

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Download: aleksi virta - "..meets torsti" (ZIP-Archive)
Release: aleksi virta - "..meets torsti"
Netlabel: Monotonik

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M.W.D. - "Trouble Scene" (MP3)
M.W.D. - "Elephant" (MP3)

No, I am not related with Budabeats, I just respect and love their releases. All productions are well-produced, stuffed with delightful samples and this love for Hip Hop and often also Jazz. Just listen to "Trouble Scene". M.W.D. knows how to melt funky guitar licks, short brass sounds and organ chords together. It sounds so live, so delicious.

Gimme some more of that groovy jazz juice!

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Download: M.W.D. - "Singing Forest" (ZIP-Archive)
Artist: www.myspace.com/mwd
Release: M.W.D. - "Singing Forest"
Netlabel: Budabeats

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Diatribes + Demierre + Bourquenez - "Tornade" (MP3)

Jacques Demierre uses the piano as a source of sound rather than a classical instrument. Part Cecil Taylor part John Cage, his play is full of little noises and surprising tonal cascades, percussive and herein the perfect complement for Cyril Bondis' poetic and introspect drums. Between the clusters, there is a lot of space- or none. A refreshing and rich concept that requires concentrated listening admittedly.

On two tracks, Plaistow head Johann Bourquenez joins the gang. His approach to piano is much different from Demierre's delicate boned experimentalism. "Tornade" rushes the listener with the energy of  a, well, tornado and leaves the wastelands, Jacques Demierre and Diatribes can perform their subtle improvisations on afterwards.

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Download: "Piano(s)" ZIP
Release: Diatribes, Demierre & Bourquenez - "Piano(s)"
Netlabel: insubordinations.net

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Start the track "Exx Fuck" by Suhov and this smart EP sucks you immediately into the music. Suhov opens his music-library and like in the old days of Hip Hop, he samples what sounds great and fits best. Take a flute from this record, combine it with that lively piano-hook and fatten the big beats...listen...yeah... definitely groovy!

But the best thing of all: Next to the delicious toppings I am happy, that I never haven't listened to all those samples before - fascinating. This is killer material, searched with care and composed to present an amazing music release.

If you like music by Mr. Scruff, Jazzanova, De-Phazz, Yonderboi or Propellerheads, this damn fine netlabel release by the young and promising netlabel Budabeats is a must! To me, release of the month!

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Download: Suhov - "SSympathy Modul EP" (ZIP-Archive)
Release: Suhov - "Sympathy Modul EP"
Netlabel: www.budabeats.com

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While some of his former releases were either a bit too poppy or a bit too noisy for me, his full-length debut is just right. Not only well-balanced and "quality music" in terms of craftsmanship, slippy Maze can't be hold to any style conventions. "Delightfully strange", as Huw Roberts puts it on the liner notes.

Warm in tone and texture, Maze mixes processed instruments like flutes and strings with a lot of crackling noise and programed beats. His melodies are splendid and lush and create an artificial 70's Progrock-feel that goes along with the analog sound very well. The idea seems to resemble Jan Jelinek's approach to Krautrock on Kosmischer Pitch.

It is hard to pick certain songs as the whole album works best at full listen... my personal favorites are the first three tunes: "Steampunk" for it's wishful slide guitar, the flutes and the wafting beats, "Nested Companion Template" with it's cut-up vocal samples huge tonal synth-pads and finally "Subtropical Blasting Officier" which is just an incredibly weird piece of, well, Maze muzak. Yummy.

Don't forget to check the delicious artwork!

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Release Site: Daniel Maze - "Red After Image"
Direct Download: Daniel Maze - "Red After Image" (ZIP)
Netlabel: www.serein.co.uk
Artist Website: www.maze.walltapper.com

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The opener is the insanely brilliant easy-listening pop-hit "handful of dust" from the band Musetta. Catchy vibes that take you from float to float, while real instruments play over a nice bubbly bassline. What surprises me most is, that Dharmasound also releases music that is played on a piano only. Also music, that would fit into the category of "classical composed" music. "Silence" or "Going to the city of Emeralds" from Francesco Lettera are such tracks. But my favorites are jazzy pieces.

Some tracks are deeply rooted in trippy experimentalism, only suited for "special" ears, with not perfect polished sound. Pictures of small undergrounds couch-parties emerge. If you slice the more unusual tracks, like the classical or experimental ones, than a groovy, smooth and jazzy compilation stays. That compilation was thought as a DVD to buy or to made yourself, but I am somehow fond of the idea of customizing this one, in order to have it always on your side and to surprise people who say to you: "Ahh, netlabels. They only feature electronic music."

I really have my problems selecting according categories, because the cover every singe genre that is listed here, maybe except drum and bass or techno. Broad spectrum, almost all extremely listenable. Really worth a download. Also check out this interview with Dharmasound on Phlow-Magazine.

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Download: Various Artists - "Absolute balance" (ZIP Archive)
Release: Various Artists - "Absolute balance"
Netlabel: www.dharmasound.com

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You rarely discover jazz in the free music world. And often if you download a release which proclaims "Hey, I am Jazz!" the glamour fades away quickly. But with the jazz-trioTrianguliZona it's totally different. The three musicians know how to play their instruments. Ivan Kapec (electric guitar and electronics), Andrej Jakuš (trumpet, flugelhorn and electronics) and Janko Novoselić (drums).

Their music is vivid, sometimes hard to catch in the first moment but always on point. Along with effects from dub to sampled loops TrianguliZona produce music in the tradition of modern jazzers like Bugge Wesseltoft or Nils Petter Molvaer. Enjoy this complex and live improvisations with progressive electric guitar, trumpet with pedal and electronic effects. Catch that groove!

And, some last words... TrianguliZona is a four-headed project because they have also a visualist called Vladimir Končar. He combines the music with his own videos. Just have a look on the artist-website and check out these videos: vlak, oblaci and radnici.

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Artist-Website: www.triangulizona.co
Release: TrianguliZona - "Flossy" (Testtube Netlabel)
Download: ZIP-Archive
Netlabel: test tube

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Videoclip: Rippling (Dress)

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If you enjoy some crunchy and luscious songs, the "kurz und klein e.p." delivered you by Broque Netlabel will excite you. With "Sweet like me" and "Goodbye glamour" we dive into a world full of cut&paste-swing. The producer combines accurate collaged samples and loops plus a good portion of electronic sounds. On top he sprinkled nice vocal-hooklines. DJs will prefer the more upfront production "Why dont you disco" with a deep bassline and a techno-orientated attitude.

In the end we listen to amazing songs somewhere between swing-house and jazzy downbeats. An amazing pop-driven release with delicious hooks and melodies. Yeeeee!

For german listeners: Auch wenn der Song "Popmusik" vollkommen aus dem Rahmen der EP fällt, so amüsiert man sich herzlich über den Refrain samt Reime. Der Song hätte auch von Andreas Dorau stammen können.

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Release: Nils Hoffmann - "kurz und klein e.p."
Artist-Website: Nils Hoffmann
Myspace: Nils Hoffmann
Netlabel: Broque

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“Yap-Yap” opens the EP with a breathless mix of straight forward drums, a drilling Bebob-bassline and Bourquenez’s free and harmonic piano-patterns. The Bondi battery has a quite heavy Rock-sound, which captures the live-energy of the trio very well.

Talking about Johann Bourquenez’s awesome play, I like to drop another name you should be familiar with: McCoy Tyner and 1962’s Cecil Taylor. Concerning the power of the trio in a whole, one can’t avoid naming Art Blakey for reference. Second tune “Mairie des Lilas” is nothing else but a damn revelation. Bouquenez forges cautiously on a small number of keys, repeatedly, Ortis is at place with subtle textures in the back and Bondi supports the piano with decent toms and cymbal. Humble beauty, give me an alleluia!

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Release-Site: Plaistow Trio - Los Criminales Reciclados (...)
Direct Download: Los Criminales Reciclados (...) ZIP
Netlabel: www.dincise.net/insubordinations
Artist Website: www.edogm.net/plaistow

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