January 2005 news

January 30, 2005

GREATER CHOICE

Just a quick update to let you know we've added some more Netlabels to our links page. Check them out:

CHELONIA MYDAS [link]

Belgian Netlabel distributing high quality post-rockish, jazzy, ambient and experimental electronica. Well worth the visit and the downloads. Latest release by Teuk Henri is of great beauty. They also have excellent artwork.

ACRYLIK [link]

Another excellent Netlabel coming from France. They range from techno oriented dance music to experimental electro-acoustic ambient drones. Latest release comes from Spanish artist Chiu Longina, a well known experimentalist who has done a very good release for Portuguese Crónica Electrónica. Another label we're sure to follow.

Stadtgruen [link]

German based ambient/techno Netlabel, with an excellent database of releases, including personal fave krill.minima, one of Martin Juhls's aliases. Marsen Jules - another one - has been recently added to City Centre Offices roster, with a new release coming out next month: Marsen Jules - Herbstlaub. Stadtgruen wants your attention.

Enjoy.

January 27, 2005

IT'S A RESONATING UNIVERSE

Ubeboet's release, again.
This week, two of his tracks were featured on one of Resonance FM's shows:

Framework - phonography/field recording; contextual and decontextualized sound activity, presented by Patrick McGinley.

«We took detailed looks at a few releases in this edition, namely the latest instalment of the Phonography Organisation's series of raw field recording compilations. We also listened to several tracks from Crouton's reissue of an early irr. app. (ext.) work, 'dust pincher appliances', Keith Berry's latest release 'Buddha's Mile', and a recent release from the copyleft netlabel test tube by spanish artist Ubeboet. coming up this friday, we'll be listening, among other things, to the and/oar release by Sawako, 'Yours Gray', and some internet-released work (on the netlabel Stasisfield) by and/oar's (and phonography.org's) own Dale Lloyd.»

SOMEONE WHO LIKES TUBES

Someone (LAJ) posted a list of favorite unbannered netlabels over at Archive's netlabel forum, and we're on it. Still not happy with this, he posted M3U links to some of the selections. Ubeboet and Kenneth Kirchner are part of the menu.

He didn't stop there. LAJ's selections covered another theme, Seasonal Mp3: A Tribute to the Four Seasons. Ubeboet, again...

But there's even more... LAJ is having a great time digging releases, it seems.

Do yourself a favor and check out LAJ's choices. The man deserves some attention. He has great taste, and covers almost every genre available.

Great, LAJ. Very cool. You're there, man.

January 26, 2005

IT'S VITAL FOR YOUR EARS

Ubeboet's release was reviewed at Vital Weekly's latest newsletter. It reads:

«Every day sees the arrival of new artists and today it's (a.o.) Ubeboet, aka Miguel A. Tolosa from Spain. He has five interesting pieces of soundscaping. Hard to tell what kind of field recordings went into producing this EP, because the treatments are numerous. The resultant five pieces are quite drone related, with lots of time stretching and plug ins. The darker undercurrents in this release are alike say the works of Jonathan Coleclough, although not enirely there yet. Isolationist music at it's best. Maybe not entirely new thoughts going on here, but I thought it was quite enjoyable, appealling to me as a fan of Mirror, Coleclough, Ora or any of those drone meisters.» - FdW

January 22, 2005

NAGASAKI'S TAKE ON LAPTOP FOLK


• tube'|008 - irish - Understandings

«Japanese artist Irie Yoshihisa - irish’s real name - was born in Nagasaki, and makes music using a computer since 2001. He has previously released an EP for MiMi, which is an also Portuguese based Netlabel, called ‘Killaz Sleep Peacefully’. Before that, he has done a CD-R: ‘Manufactures’, in 2003.
irish’s Understandings is a beautiful EP that sets the melancholic tone right from the beginning. ‘Coma and Pray’, a down-to-earth IDM track, opens the set, delivering round punchy beats a-plenty, completed with angel-like, almost childish voice sampling and a deep ambient layer on top. Resembles much of WARP’s early material, back from the distant nineties. Short but effective, and very enjoyable.
’Square and Triangle’, being less emotional and more scientific, features some skewed beats and clicks, nice music-box keyboards and reverse/forward structure movements. What comes to mind after listening to this track for a while, is our summer vacations in the countryside, watching the birds, the trees and the sky, joyfully away from the city’s concrete buildings, dirty pavements and dark roads, which is not what it sounds at first approach: a cold and distant laboratory theme.
irish closes this release with an improv jam, between his quirkiest laptop electronics and Kazuya Iwamoto’s acoustic guitar, entitled ‘We played for about one hour but only 20 minutes had been recorded.’. This long take extends under our feet gentle guitar and click’n’cut electronic effects and sine waves. I call this ‘psychedelic folktronica’, but you can call it whatever you wish. IDM and Improv Electronics fans will love this one.» - Pedro Leitão

January 14, 2005

UPDATE YOUR AGENDA



It's today, folks. And tomorrow too. Take note:

Phoebus + The Dead Texan (LIVE)

• January 14, 23h00
• Galeria Zé Dos Bois, Bairro Alto - Lisbon
• A ZDBMÜSIQUE Event.
• 7,5 Euro (at the door)

• January 15, 23h45
• Passos Manuel, Coliseu do Porto building - Porto
• A SOOPA Event
• 7,5 Euro (at the door)

Do not miss this, for anyone's sake!

January 10, 2005

SITE UPDATES

New site updates. In short:

- New artist: UK based Minus Pilots are part of our world, now.;
- Added quoted reviews to some of the releases.;
- 2004 news moved to archive. Check below;
- Minor GIF swappings, and general HTML optimization.