Category: Ambient | Electronica-Indietronic
Warm and Minimal Ambient | From Galuszka’s survey we can learn that most Netlabels are run by Germans. China, in contrast, is listed with one entry. I guess this is Bypass, the only Chinese label I know at least. Their catalogue number 16 comes from US American Phillip Wilkerson, whose minimal Ambient makes me think [...]
Category: Techno
Hard-Pumpin’ Techno| Zimmer-Records slowly grew into one of the solid sources for techno music on the internet. Their latest release “Code EP” from Kenni Sosa is an brilliant journey into hard punching techno – you eventually remember the hard techno guys from Skandinavia at the late 90ies? Now you got a picture. Very dense, very [...]
Category: Feature
We proudly present you the Netlabel Research Study done by Max Planck Researcher Patryk Galuszka. We already talked with him about his studies and finally here they are. Just to drop some of the numbers of this huge research: Patryk got in contact with 650 netlabels, send out 569 questionnaires and received 339 complete questionnaires during his research. While the majority of his correspondents are from Europe and North America, he got in touch with netlabels from nearly 50 different countries!
Category: Ambient | Experimental
Consuming Guitar Drones | Netlabels, promote your releases! UK outfit Phantom Channel got a good start with two compilations. But once these were released, I didn’t read about new stuff anywhere. Once back on the website five new releases are listed, all of them interesting on the whole. Highly recommend among these: Belgrade Rock experimentalist [...]
Category: Electronica-Indietronic | IDM
Melodica Electronica | This release came as a surprise for me, a sweet one though. Koen Park is the IDM moniker of Ian Hawgood, a guy featured a lot at Phlow Mag and whose name you probably heard already. While I like his solo works better, Koen Park’s tiny “84′ 85′” EP is an instant [...]
Category: Electronica-Indietronic | Pop
Electropop Grandezza | Besides all the CDs the Viennese Beat is Murder label publishes, one mustn’t forget about their free music section. Texas-based crooner Infant Color is a perfect excuse to remember it. His self-titled EP brings forth a mesmerizing mix of home-grown Electronica, traces of 80′s EBM and a lot of Pop-sensibility. The US [...]
