Music Genre // Experimental

• Twin Peaks Ambient // Brian Grainger & David Tagg – »Sawdust Aromatics« (Rope Swing Cities) Boy this one has been sleeping on my HD for a long time! Brian Grainger hooks up with long-time partner...
• Ambient // Reintroducing Serein Netlabel Welsh Netlabel Serein is one of my top five sources for high quality Ambient, not only in the context of...
• Oskar Hallbert – »1123581321345589« (Zymogen) Lo-fi Folk Scribbles // Zymogen has been a little quiet for the last six months. After the Summer down, however,...
• Anton Mobin – »Micro-Climat« (konkretourist) Intensive Musique Concrète // French experimental music composer Anton Mobin released a 15-minutes piece of highly processed field recordings at...
• V.O.M. – »Камень« (Clinical Archives) RU-ral Psychedelic Rock // If you are a keen follower of Phlow Magazine, you know that I regularly write about...
• Tellaro – »Jars, Jams & You« (2nd rec) Leftfield Pop that has seen it all // This record has been sleeping on my HD for quite a while-...
• Various – »M100« (MiMi) 100 Times MiMi Music // The Japanese/ Portugese MiMi Netlabel is not mentioned too often over here at Phlow Magazine....
• Various – »Format« (Fällt) Concept Music // From the mid-90’s, Fällt Publishing operated in the field of experimental electronic music and media art. Record...
• Diatribes, Demierre & Bourquenez – »Piano(s)« (Insubordinations) Subtle Free Jazz // Insubordination(s) Netlabel is a good address when it comes to quality Jazz and Jazz-related music in...
• New Earth Objects – »Live at Schmiede« (Headphonica) Mesmerizing Experimental Pop // New Earth Objects is a musical collective from Germany, “Live at Schmiede” a live recording conducted...
• Patterns – »People I Adore« (Ursa Minor/ Altin Village) High Voltage Mathematics // Patterns are Germany’s finest Postpunk outfit. There’s not too much competition, I admit, but the three...
• XYDZO – »Y« (Pulsations For You) Electronic Folklore Music // This record has been around for long. I was planning to write about Russian Folklore in...
• No Snow – »Untitled EP« (Merzbau) No Wave Tribal Noise</a> // I’m curious how Phlow Mag subscribers will like this release. While most of the music...
• Imachi Akira – »Lycoris Radiata EP« (Electronica) Skillful Electronic Music // To my embarrassment **I never heard of Imachi Akira or Russian Electronica Netlabel. And although the...
• Wo0 – »With the Flowered Minds« (Phantom Channel) Consuming Guitar Drones // Netlabels, promote your releases! UK outfit Phantom Channel got a good start with two compilations. But...
• Virot & Friends – »Release Party CD-R« (Clapping Music) Three Times Weird Folk From France</a> // François Virot released a wonderful LP at the French Clapping Music recordlabel. For...
• Sleepmakeswaves – »In Today Already Walks Tomorrow« (Lost Children Netlabel) Epic Postrock // This is epic! Sleepmakeswaves from Australia create an astonishing soundscape that can not be praised enough. Everyone...
• Kalte – »The Lanthanide Series« (Stasisfield) Glisteing Sculptures of Sound // Kalte is Toronto-based Deane Hughes and Rik MacLean. Both guys are quite active in the...
• offthesky – »Subtle Trees« (Rope Swing Cities) Versatile and Virtuoso Ambient // US American Jason Corder aka offthesky is someone to rely on. I wrote a review...
• Thiaz Itch – »Binjoum« (Bedroom Research Netlabel) Weirdo Melodic Electronica // The music by Thiaz Itch is full of contradictions. In one ear “Binjoum” sounds naive, playful...
• Dublin Duck Dispensary – »Luanqibazao« (Rack & Ruin) Psychedlic Lo-fi Indiepop // Bobby Aherne aka Dublin Duck Dispensary is a young Ireland lad, “Luanqibazao” his sixth EP of...
• Djet – »Free Translation« (Vaatican Records) Breakbeat merging into hill billy guitar, opera mixed with experimental ambient guitar, theme park music transitioning into glitch? Djet is...
• d’incise – »Stase / Contre Stase« (Resting Bell Netlabel) [Geneva Deconstructions // d’incise is the Switzerland-based sound engineer Laurent Peter. He’s the coordinator of Audioactiviste and Insubordinations Netlabels and...
• Andrey Kiritchenko – »Sinemagiq« Angular and Elegant Techno // Andrey Kiritchenko is the man behind the wheels of Ukrainian Nexsound record label. As a...
• Experimental Music Ringtones Pimp your Mobile // Nexsound is one of the most reliable Net- and record labels around. Their latest coup sounds...
• To4ka.Dna – »ZVUK« (Constanta) Clever Ambient Out Of Nowhere // As the commenter “Density Of Sound” depicted in his comment on mo.’s Why I...
• Way Wild: Something Like Hip Hop // Owl Dudes – »For The Feelers« (La Familia Netlabel) The Netaudio scene is a laboratory for musicians, a place to publish sounds the mainstream isn’t ready for yet. Exactly...
• Preslav Literary School – »Autumn Bricolage« (Clinical Archives) Soundscapist Compositions // Clinical Archives is the biggest “Dark Ambient” Netlabel - and honestly, I never got into their catalog...
• The Green Kingdom – »Miniature Forest Remix« (IOD Netlabel) A Candle For IOD Netlabel! // To celebrate its first birthday, Paris top-notch Ambient Netlabel IOD releases an exclusive compilation....
• Tiago Sousa – »The Western Lands« (Resting Bell) Free MP3 Folk Music // OK, strange heading I admit… but a precise one. Tiago Sousa of Portuguese Merzbau Netlabel...
• A Quilt Of Experimental Hip Hop // DJ Internet & Kid Kool – »God Likes The Picture Of You« (Hungry Men Records) If Max Ernst would have been a b-boy, his beats would have sounded like this. Right from their junk flats...
• Brometer – »Three Feet Of« (IOD Netlabel) Experimental Lo-Fi Folk // Brometer is Mark Sargison from Nottingham, UK. His wonderful five-track EP “Three Feet Of” was secretly...
• Phonout – »Da ni« (Zimmerlautstärke Netlabel) SciFi Downbeats // Oskar Rudzki aka Phonout has a faible for futuristic electronic productions driven by broken beats. These beats...
• V.A. – »Phantom Channel Presents- Part I« (Phantom Channel) Ambient Takeover // Phantom Chanel is a brandnew UK Netlabel and they hit the scene with an exclusive mixtape that...
• Solaire – »…and then I strapped explosives to my body« (Dying Giraffe Recordings) Adjusted Post-Rock // The great talent of the post rock five-piece from Rotterdam is to carry easy accessible melodies and...
• Daniel Maze – »Red After Image« (Serein) Refreshing Electropop Psychedelica // Daniel Maze is a name you stumble about every now and then. Despite his new record...
• V.A. – »Sweets For The Wild 3« (Another Record) Indie Rock/Pop from France // Another Record is a small French record label that uses CC-licences as a promotion tool....
• Various Artists – »Absolute balance« (Dharmasound) Rich Diversity of Netaudio-Sound // Dharmasound released a compilation of their best tracks from 2007, that underline the diversity of...
• con_cetta – »Sclerosis« (Zymogen) Warm and Sparkling, Rich and Crackling // The latest addition at Zymogen Netlabel is Italian sound sculptor Giuseppe Cordaro aka...
• Tomorrowland – »Anemone« (Red Antenna) Electric Krautrock // I’m into Tomorrowland since I first started listening to free music. Their 2001 EP “Variable” is online...
• Deep House, Unwashed // Marow – »+« (Klitorik) Sometime you stumble upon these releases which attract your attention only because you like the website, the artwork, the name...
• Biathalon – »Biathalon 2« (Expanding Electronic Diversity) Calm and Soothing Textures // Under the name of Biathalon, NYC-based Eric Adrian Lee composes smooth organic Ambient music that...
• Gillicuddy – »Shmalhans is Kuechenmeister« Weather-beaten** **Indie Folk // Discovering music via Myspace is a bit of a game of chance. Most of the Friends...
• Soto – »Soto EP« (Creation Centre) Experimental J-Pop Two of the four members of experimental Pop-outlet Soto made a first impact on me with their debut...
• Scott Smallwood – »Three Soundscapes« (Sijis) Electro-Acoustic Chamber Music // US-American composer Scott Smallwood released his music at various experimental Net- and CDR-labels. For his collection...
• Kaboom Karavan – »Short Walk With Olaf« (Umor Rex) Ambient Music Marching Band ** I found out about Kaboom Karavan when listening to d’incise’s free music-charts we had published...
• Entia Non – »Distal« (Test Tube) Honey-coloured Field-recordings // Entia Non is James McDougall from Australia. For his first album at the lively Test Tube-Netlabel, he’s...
• Muji Ghostape – »We Need Music« Good-Humoured Lo-Fi Pop // The mysterious young fellow behind the Ghostape-moniker likes to stay anonymous. That’s OK and suits his...
• Werner Kitzmüller – »Proximity EP« (Beat is Murder) *Angstpop & Post-Teenage Drama** ** Werner Kitzmüller is the newest addition to the chosen artists-rooster at Beat is Murder-Netlabel. His...
• Ian D. Hawgood – »The Fires Will Die at Night« (Resting Bell) Vespertine Ambient Drones // Ian D. Hawgood is a traveler. He switches from Occident to Orient, living in the UK...
• Marihiko Hara – »Cesura« (Zymogen) Textures of Beauty // With Marihiko Hara’s “Cesura”, the inerrable Zymogen Netlabel dropped another outstanding Ambient-album. While Takeshi Nakamura, the...
• Panda Bear Live DVD – for free! Dedicative Live DVD // Panda Bear is Noah Lennox of the NYC Free Folk-outriders Animal Collective. Due to the eight...
• Pompey – »Fifty Gallon Drum« (Pocketclock Music) Bewildering Pop Music // The Internet exhales the strangest musical ideas. Some are awesome, some dull, most of them are...
• Processing… – »s/t EP« (Resting Bell) FM Ambient For his self-titled debut EP at the Resting Bell Netlabel, Michael Dzjaparidze a.k.a. Processing… choose Frequency Modulation as...
• Ryonkt – »Slow Time EP« (Dog Eared Records) Experimental Folk Armed with guitar and powerbook, young Ryo Nakata a.k.a. Ryonkt creates sparse and minimal Folk music. Alongside expanded...
• The Mandelbrot Set – »All Our Actions are Constantly Repeated« (High Point Low Life) Epic & Experimental Rockmusic // The Mandelbrot Set is one of the new young Postrock-bands hailing from the UK these...