Dark Beats | DJ Side goes down with the bass while his beats creep heavy-burdened over the floor. His “Bittersweet Love EP” is a gloomy trip where dubstep meets ambient meets clicks, crackles and slowly breathing sounds. With mesmerizing and minimal changes in his sound aesthetics he develops a hypnotic maelstrom.
A phat Hip Hop Package | With “Because Best Things Are Free” Ideology Netlabel delivers a heavy and delicate compilation. Next to amusing german rhymes, laid-back Hip Hop-instrumentals twinkle in the afternoon sun. Next to well-known netaudio-artists like Comfort Fit, Gringo Starr and the freaks from the Colonius Monk Collective you listen to new heroes [...]
Category: Folk-Acoustic | Pop
Intimite Homerecordings | U_mä is an indie folk duo and at the same time couple from Barcelona, that put its love to one another on an album, which perfectly makes sense if you take some time to think about it: u_mä is Pau Vallvé and Maria Coma and if you look at their first names [...]
Category: Electronica-Indietronic | Hip Hop
Hardboiled Electronic Hip Hop | Niteffect is back with an 30-minutes length EP for the German Kreislauf Netlabel. While his former “Fragments” EP was more like a glimpse of Miklos Labady’s talent for hypnotic beats, “Lost Identity” is the prove of his qualities in songwriting, too. Ten songs that oscillate from Downbeat to instrumental Hip [...]
Category: Interview Portrait
The CC Mixter Remix-Project by Calendar Girl | Tamara Barnett-Herrin – better known as calendar girl – started a fantastic project back in October 2006. The idea was simple: Write each month a song and release the original material under a creative commons licence. Than ask other producers and musicians to remix the songs. Now [...]
Category: Experimental | Rock
Adjusted Post-Rock | The great talent of the post rock five-piece from Rotterdam is to carry easy accessible melodies and themes into a genre that is known for its difficult access. Solaire pull you into their spherical world of music and just before you seem to drown in this fairly deep ocean of instrumental guitar [...]