These are all reviews and articles tagged with "netlabel".
Category: Downbeat | Experimental
SciFi Downbeats | Oskar Rudzki aka Phonout has a faible for futuristic electronic productions driven by broken beats. These beats are built with care and love for sweet details. While his music communicates in a slight dark and moody temper, his album “Da ni” on the German Netlabel Zimmerlautstärke still reveals some fine melodies and [...]
Category: Electronica-Indietronic | IDM
A magic Joyride | Although this sounds like Intelligence Dance Music at the first sight, it is not. “Embarrassing Triangle” from Iqtu is a magic trip. The album is one of those releases that I got so much addicted to, that it is almost hard to resist to listen to: days, nights, at work, everywhere. [...]
Category: Interview Portrait
Interview with Broque Netlabel | The German label Broque follows a mixed strategy. Under the clever management of Christian Kausch and Heiko Schwanz Broque distributes music in several formats and ways. While DJs can buy vinyl-records worldwide at their record dealer of choice, the netizens get free mp3 music released under a creative commons licence [...]
Category: House
Classic House Music | Ohhh, listen to this! These tracks from Breitbandkater are dressed as classic House-Tunes. No fenzy music-engineer-acrobatics patching some weird sounds togehter! No(!), old structures still keep the dancefloor alive. You only need some groovy loops and a sweet but hyptnotic bassline. For Breitbandkater no problem. Breitbandkater – “Kaffeehaus” (MP3)
Category: IDM
Cool Ambientish IDM | “Astronomia de Balcon” on Pueblo Nuevo is a small 5-tracker-ep with cool digital ambient music with some breakbeat-trickery. The sound is crystal clear and delivers us known ingredients like clickering percussive sounds and a precise music-programming. But when in “Flecha” suddenly a guitar reaches the surface your not only surprised but [...]
Category: House
Dirty 80ies Disco-House-Styles | Rubinskee’s productions sound like a dirty ol’ bastard which mother was a disco-frenetic and who’s father loved harsh-technoid electronics. On “Telurico” his mexican tracks pump with a straight pounding bassdrum, a smashing clap on the 2 and 4 and let the bassline fuzz around while you glide along on some shiny [...]
