Postpunk Teenage Surf Twang | There we go with a record very likely to enter my 2008 top ten! Rock-orientated Netaudio has become rather usual these days, but this precious lo-fi gem is something special. Brian Wilson-style vocal melodies, jazzy chords on guitars that sound like metal-rimmed glasses and a lot of (North) American Indiepop [...]
Category: News
Click to enlarge! 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 [...]
Category: Pop
Electronic Pop | With their first Hi-Fi release the Birdsong Netlabel from Israel distributes six wonderful pop-orientated remixes by Beatmapper. Every track comes around with another flavour ranging from the fabulous orchester-remix “tattoo” for Her Highness to the enthusiastic “When i go to the barn” for Lonesome Executive. Especially “When i go to the barn” [...]
Category: Dub and Reggae
Melodic Dub | With his “Dub Culture”-Single Echo_TM provides Offbeat-Lovers with a real groovy and dubby anthem. While the bassline rolls warm on the floor, melodic vocoder-vocals grab your attention. In germany, we call those intense and pop-orientated tunes an “Ohrwurm”, which means hard-translated: worm in the ear. It’s difficult to get rid off an [...]
Category: Techno
Deep Hypnotic Techno | The track “Cable Pollution Results” starts off with a techy chord, slowly filtered and creeping nearer and nearer till the bouncing techno bassdrum starts bounce and to pull us into the track. Truly minimal but melodic New Delhi FM creates one of these huge and hypnotic waves we like to surf [...]
Category: Ambient | Folk-Acoustic
The Maestro of Accidental Folk is Back | Daisuke Miyatani lives on a small Japanese island, works in a bookshop and releases beautiful, erratic guitar-music all over the world. His records at MiMi, Rain Music, Magic Book and Ahornfelder dog me ever since I started listening to free music. What joy to see his most [...]
