[EdP016] DNP X-Citer - X-N[T]M

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Bulimic Orgy (feat. Mile) - Dairy Plant LP

A Dusted Wax Kingdom é netlabel búlgara, que descobri à um par de semanas e que se dedica à divulgação de "downtempo beats, abstract hip-hop, trip-hop, lo-fi and all kinds of intelligent chilled grooves". Possui um catálogo bem interessante que ainda ando a explorar mas do qual destaco, desde já, a última edição, da responsabilidade do projecto letão Bulimic Orgy "Dairy Plant LP". A propósito desta edição a nota oficial da DWK diz apenas, o essencial: "Bulimic Orgy teamed up with Mile for this wonderful LP right before their joint trip to England. Their underground lo-fi chilled beats never sounded so addictive, so emotional, so affecting, so pure... A 'must have' album for all old school ninja tune fans!"

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Documentales sobre netlabels, musica scener, chiptunes

Encontrei no blog de um amigo meu um post recente juntando uma série de videos (a maioria em Espanhol) sobre o netaudio. Todos eles se recomendam fortemente, portanto, a quem de interesse: fica o link

Diatribes + Curado + Viegas @ Fab. Braço Prata 27.08.2009

[xs-65] DNP X-Citer - algorrithmic chaos

artist: DNP X-Citer
album: algorrithmic chaos

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release date: 25/08/2009
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When Tiago Morgado idealized Algorrithmic Chaos for his DNP X-Citer alter ego he thought of a way to break, in a certain way, with the IDM tradition, following some of the guidelines defined by Scanner the german musician (in the sense of not confining IDM to reductionist formulas). The background for this DNP X-Citer ep is Tiago's influences and reverence to artists such as Aphex Twin, Autechre (warp records), Alva Noto, Ryochi Ikeda and Byetone (raster noton) but also Nine Inch Nails and his approach to industrial rock that Einsturzende Neubauten, Throbbing Gristle and etc... brought to music. All this influences can be identified in the electronic part of the DNP X-Citer ep which serves as the basis for an improvised "free/structured" with alto viola. Again in this improvisation several references can be found, such as, Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, Pharaoh Sunders, Frank Zappa, John Zorn, Otomo Yoshihide, Fred Frith, Evan Parker, among others.

The electronic part of the ep was worked with the use of algorithmic composition techniques, where instruments in the DAW (digital audio workstation/sequenciador) were triggered by MIDI, according to simple theoretical and systematized assumptions from the AC Toolbox (designed by Paul Berg from the Sound Institute of Haia). tiago morgado as been working with these tool because he believes that it can be helpful in his work with algorithmic composition.

Algorrithmic Chaos is a technical work, without an a priori conceptual background, but when Tiago Morgado analyzed it a posteriori an organized chaos appeared. And based on that, using contemplation maybe you the listener can identify a theme for this ep.

Music Forest

Music Forest é um blog Japonês dedicado à musica, muita dela netaudio mas não só. Iniciado em 2009 mas com um grande andamento e boas recomendações.

Talk Less, Say More - I Don’t Know Where I Am, I Don’t Know What I’m Doing

Mais uma netlabel descoberta, desta feita chama-se Records on Ribs e uma das suas edições mais recentes é este album Talk Less, Say More - I Don’t Know Where I Am, I Don’t Know What I’m Doing.

"The companion piece to last year’s critically acclaimed Go Lucky, IDKWIAIDKWID is an excellent record its own right. Take the opener ‘You Were Right About Me’. Jell’s hasn’t written a better pop song: a propulsive, catchy electro number, nintendo beeps and surprisingly, Earth inspired slow guitar. See also Baby Animal’s dark but fond ballad or Still As A Rivers reflective ascending guitar figure. Will You Be Me Widow?, a story of trenches and doomed love, is backed by gracious 80s atmospherics. This would have been a tragedy left on the cutting room floor.

The remixes here are excellent, shading songs anew. Pebbles In A Flood highlights Sensations Spring’s ‘innocent like pebbles in a flood’ to evocative effect, the Topaz mix of The Battle Of Borodino brings clattering military drums warming the original’s deep melancholy.

For fans of The Knife, M83’s Saturdays=Youth, Junior Boys, The Chap, the decade begining in 1980."

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Preguizza + Alrucini + Engenho: "Tontura rural"

"Je me promene pour Montmatre et Chatelet,
camping au Bois de Bologne..."

A natureza das palavras faladas conduz a nossa atenção ao existencialismo subterrâneo e visionário, declamações selvagens, leituras doces e poesia improvisada de uma geração nova, viajando abertamente a nossa mente, com arte fantástica, em muitas formas de expressão, até à vertigem do mundo real, aos mistérios da fantasia e ao sonho, concedidos pelas pessoas envolvidas nesta cooperação, que usaram livremente instrumentos acústicos/elétricos e a eletrónica, sem compromissos.

Gravado principalmente em três jam-sessions diferentes e misturado mais tarde com vários elementos audio.

A primeira jam-session ocorreu na Residência da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Porto, foi o primeiro encontro para Xarhope e Minson com Alrucini e improvisaram toda a noite, gravando o melodica, a eletrónica e a guitarra até o amanhecer, quando a segunda jam-session foi prevista para esse mesmo dia, ao final da tarde nos estúdios da Fábrica-do-Som, onde Xarhope, Nemraca e Minson gravaram as vozes, as baterias e o tema "Adoçante" com Alrucini (guitarra). Poucos dias mais tarde a terceira jam-session aconteceu num pavilhão abandonado em Coimbra onde Xarhope e Minson gravaram as baterias, as flautas, o didgeridoo, a darbuka e outros instrumentos de percussão.

Estas gravações foram uma doce provocação para incluir os elementos que faltavam e Out Level respondeu à chamada enviando as palavras faladas e as guitarras gravadas em sua casa, em Oliveira do Hospital, para serem misturadas por Alrucini e Xarhope nas sucessivas misturas que incluem, além das gravações das jam-sessions: a guitarra, drum pad (Alrucini); pássaros, piano (Xarhope); eletrónica (Xarhope, Minson, Alrucini); gravações de campo (Luís Antero) e mais palavras faladas (Xarhope, Minson, Alrucini, Arlete Ferreira).

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BPF Porto - 28 Agosto 2009

Para celebrar o retorno à actividade após as férias de verão, temos no Porto, sexta feira dia 28 de Agosto, a partir das 23:00, um liveset do suiço michaelmusic, associado à anorg e à poolloop, dois colectivos suiços bastante reconhecidos pelos seus esforços de promover a musica livre naquele pequeno pais sem costa. Fica aqui um mp3 liveset semelhante ao que podem esperar para dia 28.

Para além do liveact ainda haverá vários djs a passar todo o tipo de musica adequado a quem comparecer à chamada, entre os quais o nosso ps da enough records. Podendo é comparecer.

Linda Bjalla - She Sings Sea Songs

Há quem afirme a pés juntos que as sereias não existem. Pura mentira. Izumi Suzuki (a.k.a Linda Bjalla) é uma delas e convida-nos para uma viagem onirica e de puro encantamento pelos mares frios da Suécia,

Izumi usa a voz como se fosse uma sereia ingénua que tenta atrair os ouvintes. E consegue. O resto do cenário é dado pela mestria de um piano acompanhado por paisagens sonoras que nos fazem lembrar o fundo do mar.

O encantamento é breve por isso recomenda-se ouvir em loop.

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[xs-64] ziur - granular world

In the year that we celebrate 40 years upon the arrival of men at the moon, and so many scientific discoveries, and so many lab discoverers and adventurers I present you a composer – Ziur. His passion for the discovery and study of the unknown leads us to the essence of sound, of its granular essence, presenting us another meaning, invisible to the naked ear. And like a stone is a stone on earth or on the moon, sound will always be sound whether savage or trained by Ziur.
Leonardo Rosado (xs records curator)

André Ruiz is a composer and professor at the Braga’s Conservatório Calouste Gulbenkian and he is also known in the electronic music as Ziur. He released is work concrétement at xs records [pt netlabel] in which he explored the digital media and the paradigm of composition initiated by Pièrre Schaeffer or Pièrre Henry. Ziur as been working in a series of initiatives and collaborative projects using the icompositions platform. Granular World he presents us with a series of experiments that take us to the granular synthesis domain, using the ixiquarks software developed by Italian softwarehouse ixisoftware developed with supercollider (this software is freeware and opensource). This music is as a performance component based upon the mentioned software which was refined a posteriori.
Tiago Morgado (xs records curator)

“Granular World” is an album conceived from inumerous experiences made by André Ruiz aka Ziur (the composer) using granular synthesis processes. All compositions were made in real time, i.e., all transformation processes and progressive developments were done and recorded in real time, which excludes it’s exact remake. Starting from simple recorded sounds (crystal glasses, tam tam’s, piano chords, etc.) it was possible to create diversified and individual compositions, which can suggest the listener several environments.
André Ruiz (composer)


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release date: 16/08/2009

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Vu Nhat Tan - Sunday Afternoon

É uma proposta para este domingo solarengo e de muito calor, e que por sinal é uma feliz coincidência.
A netlabel brasileira Subspine viajou para longe para encontrar o seu mais recente artista. Vu Nhat Tan é um músico vietenamita e que traz-nos esta "Sunday Afternoon", um interessante registo que deambula entre o experimental e o ambiental.


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Regolith - Sap Rising [MZYKN014]

Andava eu a calcarroar essa intraweb aquando do nada me deparei com mais uma netlabel de seu nome Myuzyk, com boa imagem gráfica por sinal.



Fui investigar mais melhor bem as suas edições e uma das primeiras que ouvi, recomenda-se bem. Fica a recomendação e a sinopse oficial do site.
"This album presents a few different sides of London based duo Regolith. Dave Graham and Graeme Ross have been experimenting for years and on this album take the us from solo piano, through treated instruments, power electronics, to geological guitar work and glacial drones. The album is an attempt to find the perfect mix between composition and sonic sculpture, where orchestral arrangements merge with subtle electronic textures. It has been described as tumbling in slow motion through different weathers."



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[eb002] AEED - Synesthesia

Aí está a segunda edição da netlabel Error Broadcast - cujos mentores são nada mais nada menos que Filippo Aldovini da Zymogen e Sven Swift da 12rec, duas das mais destacadas editoras do panorama da música livre.

Depois da excelente compilação de apresentação "Bag Of Nothingness", editam agora o EP de estreia do produtor suiço Aid Copelj aka AEED intitulado "Synesthesia". São 9 magníficos temas onde o hip hop electrónico predomina com algumas referência à IDM e até a alguma pop açucarada.

É boa música... livre e gratuita!

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Proswell - Cyclothymia [INPUJ96]

Uma das mais influentes netlabels dedicadas ao idm experimental influenciado pelos sons de videojogos será certamente a Eerik Inpuj Sound, mais tipicamente referida como Inpuj.

Fundada em 99, com 100 edições editadas, desacelarou fortemente o passo de edição mas continua a editar coisas interessantes. Como por exemplo este mega album de Agosto de 2008 pelas mãos de Proswell, o patrão da editora.



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Oskar Hallbert - 1123581321345589 [zym023]

Oskar Hallbert is a musician who lives in a house in the woods in the north Sweden.
The EP "Sids apartment" on Rainmusic has been one of Zymogen's favourite album of 2008 and we luckily got in touch with him to plan the re-release of "1123581321345589". Previously released in 50 copies on a small american CD-r label.

"1123581321345589" is a concept album on the Fibonacci numbers. Oskar writes:

"I'm interested in numbers, and I'm interested in failuers. Fibonacci tried to make a number sequence that would show how a population of rabbits grew.
Turns out his number sequence is worhless if you try to show how a rabbit population grows - BUT he unwillingly discovered something far more interesting. Turns out that the Fibonacci numbers appear everywhere in nature, in the proportion of our bodies, in the way that sunflowers organize there seeds, in the way branches grow on a tree and the way leafs grow on the branches, in the way eagles fly towards their preys - everywhere. The Fibonacci numbers are the closest we've got to mathematicly understand the laws by wich our world is created.

It's a quite personal album. I like my music to be somewhat documentary.
Almost all songs are based on an improvisation, and then digital editing and overdubbing, arranging and more overdubbing and more editing.

Most of the snippets origin from my mp3-player, with wich I've recorded stuff that happend and places I've visit. They make a mosaique, that sums up my life during the time I made the songs.
And there is a few sampels, a little from the tv show "This is our music", one from the movie "Harrold and Maude" ,..., and of course Sture Dahlstrom, one my favorite authors (who played jazz before he started writing). He goes: "I haven't tuch my guitar for 40 years now, guess I wanna know if there's still some music in me."

I was really into Fibonaccis numbers at the time, it's a beautiful sequence. And I just liked the idea of a record with 89 tracks. And I needed something to arrange my music around. The number sequence did it."

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[EdP015] Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt - Im Shatten des Mondes

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Angela Aux - Common Space Incidents

"Common Space Incidents“ é a mais recente edição da netlabel Laridae e o album "debut" do canto-autor e instrumentalista alemão Angela Aux.

O album contém bastantes influências da folk dos anos 60 até às colagens neopsych, mas também não deixa de lado o hiphop experimental e a electrónica.

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[xs-63] subterminal - filled with light

With eyes wide open.
Like in a reawakening. A strange awake that repeats itself every night; every passing day, or so it seems. Like a virtual experience; or maybe not. Maybe it is just a normal but scary awakening. ... "Filled With Light".

"Filled With Light" awakens us in two different ways. The first, because it is only an EP which is part of an album yet to be released; the second, because in that album, poetry, a core element always present in Subterminal's work, makes an eulogy to digital life. "Filled With Light" is like a trailer of a full movie that we anticipate; a summary with a beginning middle and end. For now, the awakening is what matters most and "Filled With Light" awakes; awakes us.

In that slow awake, "With You" introduces us to the theme, to the electronic principle that conducts the EP. However, "Filled With Light" is the track that captures our attention; because of the movement; the layers of sound; the excellent alto viola played by Tiago Morgado. There is a slight techno-industrial mood coloring Leonardo Rosado's words, the man behind Subterminal. At last, "For the First Time" definitely introduces us to what's coming. A confrontation with a different reality; or, an almost-reality. "For the First Time" introduces us to a confrontation between poetry and technology, created by dense sound ambiences, images, differing in rhythm and form. They are different lines of the same life; parallel or perpendicular. The exhaustion of conflict.

"Filled With Light" was composed and played almost entirely with an iPhone, with some extra sounds from other objects. After "Alumina" and "Insight", released in 2009, the reawakening of Subterminal is of happiness. "Filled With Light" is a great step forward when comparing with prior releases, which leads to the expectation of a very interesting conceptual album. Coupled with the refinement of his personal electronic universe, the author added a better voice treatment. The production of the EP was made by Tiago Morgado.

... to keep the eyes wide open.

Press Review by Rui Dinis, A Trompa


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release date: 03/08/2009

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VVAA - Tako no ji

Ogata Tetsuo (o testa de ferro da MiMi Records) e Norihito Kodama (aka N.R.Y.Y) decidem fazer esta pequena homenagem a Koji Tano, mais conhecido por MSBR, um dos grandes músicos da cena "noise" japonesa e que faleceu em 31 de Julho de 2005.

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Ikimashoo Aoi - Sun Bridge [enrmp220]

New single EP by Portuguese project Ikimashoo Aoi, ambient IDM.

Novo single EP pelas mãos do projecto Português Ikimashoo Aoi, IDM ambiental.

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