The “Men of Station” 12-inch is the world’s first introduction to the musical monument that is the 13+God LP—the auspicious meeting of minds and bodies that emerged from a German September shared by anticon’s themselves and their friends in the Notwist. 13+God’s debut single bleeds warmth and love out onto riding melancholia. The plain words of Markus Acher steal the spotlight, curling themselves around the band’s music, while B-side “Soft Atlas” showcases some of doseone’s finer neuroses. His poetry calls the earth’s axis into question over a track that pulses with punched-out drums, only to be leveled by subtle guitar pluck and vocal harmony. Read more and stream all tracks
Migala: anarchy, but of a coolly mellifluous, achingly melancholy, lushly instrumental variety. Also of a rather sophisticated, Spanish variety. If that doesn't sound anarchic, wait till you hear the way they combine sweet pop, coffeehouse confessionals, traditional Spanish folk music, bursts of electronics, and snippets of found sound. Perhaps anarchy isn't quite the right word, but you get the idea. Liberated postmodern bricollage that comes across as unified. Unified, perhaps more than anything else, by singer Abel Hernandez's warm, shuffling basso mutterings, which recall no one so much as Arab Strap's Aidan Moffat, though his vocals are a bit less caustic, a bit less vindictive, and often in Spanish.
Born 1976 in Pulau Pinang, Malaysia, Goh Lee Kwang pursued his art studies at the Malaysian Institute of Art (MIA) in Kuala Lumpur, capital city of Malaysia, and graduated in 1997 with a diploma majoring in oil painting.
Over the past ten years he has been involved in both the sound arts and visual arts in his artistic career. He has produced more than six music albums (www.geocities.com) and has been featured in several music compilations.
kunstbande SLA is a group of artists well known from such projects as: gameboyzz orchestra project, DOXAPINE, mikrokilla, JURA and GRAN'S.
They are also organizers of STREFA Audiovisual Art Reviews.
Group has been active since 2000. As first Polish group they used GameBoy consoles to produce the sound in music arrangements. kunstbande SLA started from improvised concerts - psychodelic jam sessions. Currently they working regular on rehearsals and on new tracks.
Eclectic style of kunstbande SLA man can describe as
ELEKTRO-PSYCHO-ROCK. It's a result of different music experiences and many-years' work on their own sounds, that is comparing to Godspeed or Chicago Underground Orchestra.
QUIO started MCing in 1997 as MC LOONEY TUNES
she performed with drumnbass and hiphop DJs in berlin
germany and throughout europe.
in 1998 she met DJ G-SERVE from AUDIOTAXI in WTF
together with DJ CHRISTINE LANG they organized parties named .ON BASS TRACKS and a radio show on berlins pirate radio station TWEN FM in 1999 quio met AGF when they both performed in a club various collaborations followed. in 2003 they started QUIO.
Found via the Phonography Mailinglist: Berlin.Soundscape-FM is a collaborative soundwork in the city of Berlin, produced at the Transmediale Festival, 4-8 February 2005.
During these four days, sound artists, amateur sound hunters, phonographers and other interested participants collaborated on gathering sounds from different locations within the city of Berlin. The collected sounds ranged from the ever-present crosswalk signals, children's voices and U-Bahn wires to the acoustics of former CIA spy stations, empty theatres and the "Memory Void" of the Jewish Museum.
All of the sounds have been plotted out on a scalable map of Berlin which remains open to further contribution, making it a vital ongoing collaboration and online community.
From Jahtari.org:
"We are a small record label based in Leipzig / Germany and we produce a kind ofmusic here which we call - for the lack of a better term - DIGITAL LAPTOP REGGAE (DLR).This means nothing else but that we produce first and above all REGGAE music (or DUB) in it's classical sense, which in itself is nothing new, but since we're having a background of mostly electronic music we're doing this with the only tool that is obvious to use for that purpose - a COMPUTER, and a computer only.
Most of our music will be out on vinyl quite soon but since we're living in the 21st century full of multimedia gimmicks we will release a monthly series of so called 'NET-7inches' here on our site that will be available for free download. "
Born in England in 1958, David Sylvian first hit the British music scene in the late 1970s with Japan, one of several bands that defined the so-called New Romantic cultural period. He later scored a UK Top 5 hit with ‘Ghosts’, before turning solo in 1982. The last twenty years has seen him collaborate with music’s great and good – Ryuichi Sakamoto (Yellow Magic Orchestra), Holger Czukay (Can), and Robert Fripp (King Crimson) – but, to many, his own work represents his best efforts, and repays the closest attention. In the words of Martin Power, his unofficial biographer, Sylvian has crafted “some of the most touching ballads of the pop era, ballads that bring something out in the listener; at worst, sorrow, at best joy”.Read More
I first heard KONONO N°1 in a downloaded show of THE WIRE radio show at resonnance fm. The song they played sounded very interesting, something between noise and "world music". I realised, that KONONO N°1 was allready mentioned in The Suburbs Are Killing Us, but didn't download the songs when Christopher posted them.
From crammed.be :KONONO N°1 was founded over 25 years ago by Mingiedi, a virtuoso of the likembé (a traditional instrument sometimes called "sanza" or "thumb piano", consisting of metal rods attached to a resonator). The band's line-up includes three electric likembés (bass, medium and treble), equipped with hand-made microphones built from magnets salvaged from old car parts, and plugged into amplifiers. There's also a rhythm section which uses traditional as well as makeshift percussion (pans, pots and car parts), three singers, three dancers and a sound system featuring these famous megaphones.More info + mp3 excerpt
The Finnish duo Pink Twins, the brothers Vesa and Juha Vehviläinen, started to work together in 1997. Since then they have been exploring visual and sonic noise combined in a most physical experience. Sampling the everyday images and tearing them apart to pixels then putting them together again to a chaotic and blasting unity.
In their video works, in such as Purple Drain (2002) and Goth (2003), they have transferred the reality to a abstract flow of flickering colourful images and scratchy and noisy sounds. Using their own developed program Framestein, programmed by Juha, the images is real-time transferred to an own aesthetic of digital everchanging visions reminding of powerful paintings and where the original input is hardly recognisable. The fact that they use common images as a input seems not very important since the output seems to have very little to do with normal perception.Read more
From krillminima.de :
This mix is a five year old collage of classic and mostly not so popular ambient tracks from 60ties and 70ties kraut-rock artists. It features tracks by Klaus Schulze, Edgar Fröse, Deuter and Jean Michelle Jarre. The Mix was made with 3CD Players and 1 Vinylplayer running simultaneously. The mix was one of my first dj works. I made it cause I found this great and timeless ambient tracks which really inspired my music in a special way. The problem with the tracks was that the rest of the albums was mostly new age and ethno which i didn´t like. So I took this great tracks and mixed them up in way I liked. Download here
Don't be irritated by words like "darkwave" or "gothic" in this posting. Dark Muse is actually very beautifull music. Well...most of it.
From The Dark Muse homepage:
Dark Muse is a one woman dream project offering sound 'splorations in Haunting lush ethereal alchemy, minimal, experimental gothic, darkwave & dark ambient noise flow into a dream near you...
Mostly I refer to it as somber tidings & the soundtrack to my haunted life...
I have been creating sounds with voice, all my life & approach vocals in sound with pure emotion & raw power of experimentation ... While using my voice as an instrument, I am able to manifest textures & layers of patterns with depth.
My true passion is music {along w/jewelry creation}... I am here as a vessel for sound to flow.
From themilkfactory.co.uk :
"Chris Leary is undoubtedly one of the most promising young talent of the British electronic scene of today. After propagating his music via the Internet for some years, he has, in the last couple of years, started to get more noticed. In recent months, his work has appeared on countless compilations, and after months of wait, his first album, A Midsummer Nice Dream, is finally about to be released." Read more
German review from the mag De:Bug:
"Toytronic ist die erste Adresse, wenn um raven unter der Bettdecke geht. Ochre macht da auf seinem Debutalbum voll mit, schreibt einen Filmscore nach dem nächsten, shuffelt die Melodien im Beatgewitter, schreibt der Hauptdarstellerin einen Sonnenuntergang in die Rolle, immer gut, und ist in seinen Tracks einfach so umwerfend schwärmerisch, dass man ... ach ihr wisst schon, ich schreibe bei Toytronic eh immer dasselbe. Geniales Statement des Digitalbarock.
Tanakh is a layering of sound and structure that combines songwriting sensibilty and improvisational abstractions that are as thick and rich as they are minimalist. These two seemingly opposed forms fluidly combine to forge dark sweet lulling gypsy melodies dug from middle-eastern sands that have been knuckled across Appalachian washboards that shadow the city in which they live. More Info
In 1997, the BBC hosted a series of concerts to commemorate the 50th anniversary of India's independence from Britain. These concerts were hosted by Mark Tully, at the time the New Delhi station chief for the BBC.
Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty is one of the rising stars in the world of North Indian classical vocal music. He is joined in this performance by Samar Saha on tablas and Sanjoy Chakraborty on harmonium.Ustad Amjad Ali Khan has been in the forefront of sarod players for many years. Unlike his father, he has embraced the recording media and modern technology. He is joined by Shafaat Ahmed Khan on tablas.
Annapurna: Memories in Sound by Aaron and Bronwyn Ximm
From the Annapurna webpage:
One of the more memorable parts of my honeymoon was trekking the Annapurna Circuit in central Nepal with my wife Bronwyn.
For three weeks, we walked: up one valley, over a 17,500' pass, and down another, through dozens of towns and climate zones.
Annapurna: Memories in Sound is a thirty-eight minute audio program. It's a duet between Bronwyn's narration and my soundscape, composed of vignettes which evoke particular experiences from our trek with words and field recordings. The vignettes are presented in roughly chronological order: as you listen, you are walking with us around the Annapurna Circuit, as it was in the spring of 2001.Read more + download
black street fighter (intro)
banana walk – dub specialist (coxsone)
granny scratch – sound dimension
woman of the ghetto – phyillis dillion
cool out son – jr. marvin
Jordan river – burning spear
Dreader mafia – snuffy and wally
Running dub – coxsone
Chapter one – joe gibs
Spawning – coxsone
Doctor seaton in the echo chamber – ruple edwards’ all stars
Buck Rodgers in the black hole – roots relics
Africa dub – lee perry
Since I dub – aggroustors
Cuss cuss – llyod robinson
“baby” – heptones
real gangsta – lennie Hilbert
tunnel one – tommy mccook
green mangos – tommy mccook
I trim the barber – king tubby
Based out of the sheriff-friendly town of Nottingham, England, the duo of Simon Mills and Neil "Nail" Tolliday met as housemates and formed the flippantly picturesque Bent -- a group earmarking a page somewhere between an early morning Air and a less cacophonic Bentley Rhythm Ace. Sonically, the band's primary influence boils down to becoming disillusioned with house music and hoarding mounds of bad records. Lo-culture samples accessorize jazz, rock, and hip-hop pulses with a heady sense of ironic piss-taking while adolescent titles like the perverted "Welly Top Mary" give the indication of a band trying to resurrect majesty in even the most risible of sources. By 2000, Bent released their sleeper -- and warmly received -- debut album, Programmed to Love, which helped pave the way for the band earning a nomination for Best Newcomer at the same year's Muzik Awards. From Allmusic.com
This is a remix of Johnny Cah's version of "I see a darkness", which is a song by Bonnie Prince Billy. Acid Pauli, aka Console is (according to me) one of the best german "electronic musicians". He is part of the Wielheim scene. Weilheim is a small town close to Munich in the south of Germany. Many great musicians, Like The Notwist or Lali Puna are based in Weilheim.
Found at boomselection.info if you haven't heard of shitmat, get to know him. he produces insane jungle/glitch/noise with a cheeky pop humour. sampled in this big mix are: snow (informer), whigfield, buggles, ub40 and the theme tunes to the fresh prince of bel air, thomas the tank engine, happy days and neighbours. fuck. this guy is fucking brilliant. imagine kid606 on a d'n'b pop tip. i went to see him live the other week and he is equally as impressive doing his live laptop thing. the guy is brilliant. this mix is brilliant. get his album 'full english breakfast' too.
Form rephlex.com :
Grime. Sublow. Dubstep. It's Music. Different people call it different things, depending on when they discovered it. In the 80's, maybe it was House, Techno and Electro. In the 90's it was UK-G, Drum and Bass, Breaks or whatever. Now there are so many terms for it that the journalists can’t pidgeon-hole it any more. This is a good thing - it's music. Moody music. Multifunctional, multifaceted music created by Humans with Brains, Hearts, Machines & Electricity. Music that’s great for dancing to in clubs, or submerging yourself within your headphones, your car, your home, wherever. Download here ca. 140MB
