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Some excitement | Sometimes small things make my day: Today it was the discovery that Phlow-Magazine.com is featured with our music in the Easylistener-Music-Player published by Yahoo! when you come to the original Easylistener website. Just click on the tiny little button as you see it in our screenshot and you’ll see - we’re there :)

“Easylistener is a Flash music player which can literally play any page on the web. Simply point it at your favorite music blog, RSS feed or playlist document and it will crawl that URL and start playing back any mp3s it finds.” I guess Lucas Gonze has something to do with it, because he mentioned several times our little magazine. Thank you Lucas for some publicity!

Peaceful Dubby Trance-Techno | Bernard Geiger aka Chillheimer is a sound engineer from Berlin. Publishing his music for free through internet data-highways is a political decision which he explains in detail on his artist-website. As a producer he looks on the bright side of life and his “Morning Moon” EP is a smiling blend of Trance-influenced DubTechno.

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More Music from the Phlow-Crew | Sometimes I ask myself how our man Sven Swift manages all his activities. While reading his stunning reviews, you sometimes forget, that he had to discover the music first. And than, hoppla!, he also produces music. On the one side he released already several different mixes on Mixotic, 12rec.net or his own blog called rubored.wordpress.com. On the other side he even produces his own homebrew music under the moniker The Love Songs. So why this news? Guess, what! There are two new releases out. A mix called “Underwater Is A Place To Be Alone” and his EP “Live in Dresden” on Resting Bell. Enjoy! Listen & Read more »

Bad News | Yesterday night I stumbled upon the Kikapu Netlabel-Website while correcting some links. I was simply horrified, discovering that Kikapu claimed its dead. These are always the moments, when I grab my head and think: “Shit! We lost some beautiful digital culture and there is no way back to get another glimpse at it.” In the next moment I discovered that you still find lots of music on archive.org but that’s only a drop in the ocean of sadness. We lost one of the oldest netlabels and it’s fantastic website. Have a look yourself!

Collecting Music for a Timeless Compilation | Next to listening and writing about creative commons music, we thought it might be a wonderful idea to make free downloadable collections of all-time-favorites. I am thinking right know about collecting free netlabel music released under a creative commons music to re-release the best songs as a compilation. What are your favorites? Listen & Read more »