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[xs-57] Various Artists XS compilation coming next week

[xs-56] egotron - egotron
Katarina Magalhães is egotron and vice versa. Both share kellogs froot loops fashion design and listening and making music. Has sound artist, she learned by her self to use Ableton Live software for her musical creativity process. In term of influences one can find reminiscences of electro/punk/pop totally electronic, in an almost low fi tronica sense. It can be recognized different sorts of influences from mylo, uclic, stereoboy, metronomy, the faint, cabaret voltaire, goldie or tricky. The symbiosis between music and fashion design is a key element to egotron, and although the world will lose someone with a potential for music maybe someday we can see her in the catwalk.
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[xs-55] lotus mecanica - the live sessions and jack d
In the last years in Portugal there has been recurring manifestations of the rockabilly movement, most of them centered on Coimbra. Bands, such as The Legendary Tiger Man, Wraygunn, and later, Nicotine Caffe Orchestra have come to the forefront of the underground Portuguese scene and extrapolating (at least the first two bands mentioned) to the mainstream. Choosing to publish a rockabilly band with a creative commons license is part of the xs premises of breaking all barriers in avoiding the choice to publish specific types of music, such as, electronic projects. Having said this, we present you Lotus Mecanica, a band that we believe has what it takes to be a rockabilly band. This is a live recording act, in which we can listen to Lotus Mecanica style, a kind of rockabilly blues dirty punk. Also to note, is the fact that we are discussing the idea of distributing a limited edition in digipack or cdr of this ep, so if you’re interested, just let us know.

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[xs 42] Ziur - Concretement - ultima release do ano da xs records [pt netlabel]?

André Ruiz apresenta-se nesta 42ª release da XS Records [pt netlabel] sobre o pseudónimo de Ziur. Natural da Maia, trabalha como compositor a nível de sonoplastia para cinema, animação, vídeo jogos e arranjos orquestrais, tendo nos últimos tempos vindo a colaborar com toda uma série de artistas e performers. Vive em Braga onde dá aulas de composição e ATC (análise e técnicas de composição) no conservatório calouste gulbenkian. Durante bastante tempo trabalhou como professor e compositor no domínio da música erudita. O projecto Ziur (criado em 2005) é uma tentativa de estender a sua visão musical a domínios da música mais generalistas no sentido de tomar contacto com tudo o que o rodeia e influênciou, no seu percurso de vida, musical, académico e extra-académico.

Andre Ruiz presents himself in this 42nd release of XS Records [pt netlabel] under the name of Ziur. Born in Maia, Portugal, he works as a composer at the level of sound design for cinema, animatin, video games and orchestral arrangements for a whole range of artists and perfromers. He lives in Braga where he teaches composition, in the calouste gulbenkian conservatory. During a long time e worked as a professor and composer in the domain of classical music. His project Ziur (created in 2005) is an attemp to extend his musical vision to more generalist domains of music in the sense of getting in contact with everything wich surrounds him, in his path of life, musically, academically and extra-academically.

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