Category: Techno
C3PO and R2-D2 on MDMA| For lovers of Minimal-House & Techno Netlabel Textone is still a great ressource. Textone which died an unspectacular death some time ago has still one alter-ego left. 30 releases survived the crematorium in its hideaway at archive.org. One of my favorite releases is the funky “ripop ep” by Samim & [...]
Category: Electronica-Indietronic
Imaginative Electronica | Slowly like someone is lifting the curtain to a sensitive movie, Pix begins his enigmatic album called “Life Living” with a great opener. Carefully he escorts us into his little sound-universe published by french netlabel Fresh Poulp. What we discover and explore during 41:46 minutes is an electronica-album full of pop, smart [...]
Downbeats in Cinemascope | In “A Day in the Life (feat. INC)” young Dutch producer Crookram rolls out sweet and melancholic strings to catch us. In “Biggles” we swing ecstatic on happy piano-loops while the Bigbeat makes us sweat. And breath the dark and heavy mooded “Hostile” with me. Crookram digged deep into sounds from [...]
Category: Ambient | Electronica-Indietronic | Experimental
Electric Krautrock | I’m into Tomorrowland since I first started listening to free music. Their 2001 EP “Variable” is online at archive.org and still a good listen. Just recently, I found the follow-up album “Anemone” being released by their label Red Antenna for free, too. Take some time and learn to love their brusk melodies [...]
Dark and Urban Sketches of IDM | Pleq a.k.a. Bartosz Dziadosz is a young producer from Katowice in Poland. “His motives in sound resemble an abandoned ironworks garage during the industrial revolution, where melancholy is paired with harmonies of magnetizing structure”, as we get to know via his Myspace-account. But how does an abandoned ironworks [...]
