| June 2005 news
June 25, 2005
YIN & YANG
• tube'|018 - Plumb & Plumber - Organic Feedback
«Yet another Spanish talent. And talent is the keyword here.
Plumb & Plumber, also known as Jesús Valle Pazos, comes from Vigo, Galicia, the northwestern spanish province. Cold and wet in the Winter, Sunny and warm in the Summer.
'Organic Feedback' revolves around ambient and cinematic electronica, where tape and field recordings are a warm layer of analog tapestries and dissonant electric guitars explode in a fuzzy and mechanical chaos. These ambient textures share the space with fingerpicked acoustic guitar chords and spaced-out sluggish drones, inviting us to an irresistible journey Through Plumb & Plumber's delicate universe.
You'll hear broken banjos, untuned guitars, steam engine noises, a pope doing some sort of a speech, ground recordings, an old woman singing a lament, 8 bit sounds, shoegazing drones, ambient space music, birds chirping, radio traffic and hiss, tons and tons of hiss. This is almost pure Library Music.
What Plumb & Plumber builds on 'Organic Feedback', with great knowledge of sound editing techniques and a rare and subtle - and genuine - aesthetic appeal, is a magnificent experimental EP, both fragile and strong, clear and dense, light and dark. Yin & Yang. Both parts of the same. Plumb & Plumber.
I can't find the perfect words to describe this. Pure, almost brute melancholic beauty. Get this now.» - Pedro Leitão
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June 22, 2005
RECENT DISCOVERIES
It's the Netlabel Times!
FILTRO [link]
Mexican label with some great minimal techno, minimal house and dub-inspired IDM releases. Check out the Zofa release.
YELLOW BOP RECORDS [link]
Yellow Bop Records is another Essay Collective affiliated project.
Mission: To release high quality tunes from some of the Collective's prolific members. Oh, and it's from Portugal, of course. Welcome aboard, guys.
NDORPHIN [link]
If Experimental Electronics are your cup of tea, then point your browser to the German netlabel's website. Worth a look!
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June 15, 2005
FAST BROKEN RACING ENGINES
• tube'|017 - Con 7 - Japanstoryboardformulaoneracing
«French musician La Fresto is no stranger to test tube. He's been following and reviewing our releases almost since the beginning, and now he's at the other side, submitting his most recent work under a new alias: Con 7.
Japanstoryboardformulaoneracing, in short of a better title, is a collection of lo-fi electronic dance tracks. By using only a small spectrum of samples and sounds, La Fresto creates almost skeletal but effective beats. There is no fat here. This is raw clicks'n'cuts for the new millennium.
Each track features completely new samples, all precisely layered on top of the first one. Sometimes we get the impression that this is another random work, the disturbed mind of a sample head put to use on one more derivative collage, but that is a wrong impression. This grows, slowly, making space under your cerebelum, launching sinewaves from time to time, helping you to organize your mind. Noise also has some moments here. Good moments, I mean. Typewriters typing broken typos on 'Formula'. Broken engines mixed with geek techno. Audio tape being maimed without mercy. Screaming fields of sonic mess, for sure. And it finishes up with rather intensely drones. Weird shit.
Conceptual? Maybe, maybe not. Interesting? You can bet your old PC on that.»
- Pedro Leitão
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June 08, 2005
TEST TUBE MEMORIES - CHAPTER I
• tube'|cdr001 - v/a - tube'|001 ~ tube'|016
Hello people. We have some good news:
As a special treat for those of you without time to do your downloads, we have put together a CDR compilation with our first 16 releases. That's roughly 8 hours of great test tube music!
We will offer one handpackaged copy with every order from m¨c's shop. Alternatively, if you don't wish to buy any record from our sister label, but still want to have a copy of this compilation, we'll charge three euro (€3,00) to cover our p+p expenses.
Hey, want a round one?
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