July 2004 news

July 21, 2004

NUMBER TWO!


• tube'|002 - Pitch Boys - Random Teleports I

«Pitch Boys is my good friend and self-taught musician Nuno Meneses, a Portuguese citizen. It was kind of difficult to make a selection for his first release on test tube, because Nuno has many, many hours of really good unreleased material, ranging from dub to hip hop, from cerebral techno to psy-trance, from dark moods to chillout tracks. That's why it will be the first of a series of releases called 'Random Teleports'. It's pretty random stuff.
This first volume explores seven downbeat instrumental tracks, evolving dark hip-hop moods and one or two of more folkish electronics. This is a great mini-LP. You could almost dance a bit while listening. Fresh and groovy.» - Pedro Leitão

July 20, 2004

test tube was news today, at Blitz, portugal's only music weekly newspaper.

Yesterday, Quantum Ducks, a portuguese music blog, posted a very nice review (props César!) of our first release, 'Peri Sable EP', by Phoebus. Go ahead if you understand our local language.

July 15, 2004

THE LANGUAGE ISSUE

I read the other day, on a portuguese music blog, people complaining about this website being written in english. I couldn't agree more, my friends.
I love my language more than most people I know, it just happens that we have more foreign hits and pageviews than local ones. And I want, above all, that these pages are readable by as many people as possible. And building a bilingual website is like building two websites entirely. And since I suck at PHP programming, I'll just stick with the english-only website. Sorry guys.

DOWNLOADING THE WAY TO BIG BUCKS

There's an interesting article about Music Downloads here on Virgin.net.
iTunes, Napster and Bleep are the talk of the day everywhere, but of course, Netlabels are also reffered to.
Check this:

«Whilst the phenomenon of online music downloads may seem completely novel, a teeming network of non-profit record labels have been offering their releases over the Net for years - without charging a penny. Although most represent electronic musicians, many styles of music can be found if you look hard enough. You'll find large catalogues of freely distributable music at Enough Records, Kahvi Collective, Thinner/Autoplate, and Monotonik. Search Soundclick, Vitaminic and IUMA for a wealth of music from unsigned artists the world over.»

Nice :)

July 11, 2004

The nice people at archive.org has given test tube its own archive space.
this is our page there.

July 09, 2004

FIRST RELEASE AVAILABLE


• tube'|001 - Phoebus - Peri Sable EP

«Phoebus brings us a minimal work of guitar chords repeated in a digital mantra, like small grains of sand falling down the dune portrayed on the cover. He also added some noise and glitch layers to give the music that extra emotional texture.
'Peri Sable' is a very beautiful exercise on repeated patterns. An ambient work along the lines of those of Akira Rabelais, Rafael Toral and other minimalistic guitar players. Highly recommended.» - Pedro Leitão

Go on and grab it.

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July 07, 2004

ABOUT TEST TUBE

test tube (or '| - apostrophe+pipe - for short) is a Portuguese netlabel, focused on presenting new artists exploring new sounds. Be they electronic or acoustic.

Let's think of test tube as a test tube - literally - for emerging sound languages.

test tube is going to release EPs and LPs on mp3/ogg format, with matching artwork created by our designers. We see information as a whole.
The music released on test tube, remains intellectual property of the artists. It is solely for free distribution, with no intent on financial gain. All works must be credited to the artist: Keep the tags intact.

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