March 2005 news

March 28, 2005

IT'S A LIVING THING

Website changes worth mentioning:

- Releases page update: less horizontal scrolling. lets save on mouse mileage;
- Reviews added to tube011 and tube012, both by french artist LaFresto;
- We're updating archive.org's links and adding some Zip archives while at it;
- Finally, soon we'll have another mirror (pt) serving our music to local fans with bandwidth limits, courtesy of our good friend Miguel Azevedo.

And now, a self-indulgence moment: test tube is featured in an article by Spanish webzine '>>Forward' - you can read it here and here, if you understand castellano. It's a mini-dossier on the portuguese digital & sound art scene, by Spanish artist and musician Longina. This is great for motivation.

Thank you, for supporting and sharing our sounds.

March 24, 2005

FOR THE ALL THE LATE SPRINGS OF OUR LIVES


• tube'|012 - Aitänna77 - Spring is Coming Soon EP

«From Spain comes Mikel Martínez a.k.a. Aitänna77 with an EP short on time but big at heart. 'Spring is Coming Soon' is the perfect company for those last winter days, when the sky is beginning to open up to let the sun smile on us. The pace is very slow, full of simplistic and down to earth elements, like acoustic and electric guitar, melodica and xylophone, processed afterwards with laptop electronics and glitch-pop beats. Very close to post-rock and post-folk, whatever that is... with a hint of downbeat clicks. Anyway, it all sounds good and very much in place.

"I sit myself over the frozen lake and think about the things i've never done. I close my eyes thinking and wishing for the warm days and the warm arms around when we paint the night with colours.
Time never goes silent and the sounds are like a campfire when the moon is full and a bear comes knocking at your door for a hot drink.
It goes on, dreaming with the sun that gently leaves your body over the trees to see everything: the mountains, the lake, the houses, the city, the old man, the working woman, the places that you were always hungry to feel."

'Spring is Coming Soon' is a delicate collection of click-folkpop melodies, very harmonical and dramatic. Four stripped down and lo-fi avant-folk songs, to make us smile for almost fifteen minutes of spring.
You won't even miss the lyrics.» - The Caped Crusader and tortura

March 23, 2005

PORTUGUESE NETLABELS UNITE!

Very nice piece/interview on the growing portuguese Netlabel scene by Mariana Teixeira Santos. If you're a portuguese reader, go read. We've also made a PDF for downloading purposes. Grab it here.

March 21, 2005

OCCASIONAL MAINTENANCE

Some website updates were done. Lets see...

- A new review was added to our latest release page. check it out;
- The artists page was re-organized. It's less confusing now;
- New artists added (Alva Noto, Francisco López and Rafael Toral). Watch out.

And stay tuned for March's last release, Aitänna77's 'Spring is Coming Soon EP', out this week.

March 11, 2005

SOUNDTRACK TO A MURDER STORY


• tube'|011 - Pitch Boys - O.S.T.

«Nuno Meneses, under his Pitch Boys moniker, brings us a new work, thought and worked out as a soundtrack to a non-existant film. The task of writing the script is left to us to complete. Or we can sit back and choose to let Nuno help with that.
Movie starts. Soundtrack comes up. Voiceovers, and sampled dialogues from films, kick in at some places throughout the narrative, linking possible scenes of the picture between each other, guiding the listener seamlessly until the end of the first take, a hefty hour long one. The opening credits and the story are in this one. There aren't subtitles, but we can understand what kind of story is being told. There are action scenes, love moments, sad stories. All wrapped up in intelligently made breakbeats, dub flavored basslines, detroit techno moves, tension harmonics and danceable rhythms. Plus some ambient and soothing parts, which aren't usual in Pitch Boys's style.
Track 2 could be director's cut material of any kind. Something that was censored, an explicit sex scene, or a violent murder. The listener is free to make its own and very personal reading, and that is the most enjoyable thing while listening to conceptual music: you can be in control, if you wish. You are the projector guy.» - Pedro Leitão

March 03, 2005

WANNA GET PAPERCUTZED?

:Papercutz, which was our tube005 release last year, has got a brand new website here. Coolish!