| June 2006 news
June 26, 2006
CHEW ME UP
• tube'|044 - Maina - Love them, Hate them
«Isaac Cordal, multidisciplinary plastic artist, member of the Alg-a community, has always featured a metamorphic affinity with the human body through his works, be it with photography (Ola Calma, 2004) or be it with sound installations (Re-poso, 2004).
In this work, titled ‘Love them, Hate them’, Cordal accompanies himself by Maureen Kinnear, the voice that serves as a pendulum for the sampled sound oscillations which Isaac works on and filters out. In this EP, which takes us into the fantastic world of Antye Greie’s (AGF) e-poetry, and also to several cities, Maina sampled the most intimate and inhabited urbanity, the pain, the innocence, the screams and the revolt, which are here transformed and (re)created in a complete exercise of emotional self-closure.
The voice and the silence hand-to-hand, with the machine acting as language.» - Bruno Barros
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June 17, 2006
FREE AS IN NETLABEL
Marc Weidenbaum of Disquiet fame was kind and interested enough to do an interview piece with me, András from Complementary Distribution and Nathan from Dark Winter. In no more than a couple of weeks, with Marc's guidance, we discussed and covered several themes around the Netlabel subject.
Read the full article here.
Thanks, Marc, for helping us spread the good word :)
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June 16, 2006
DARK IDM
• tube'|043 - Kubik - Infinite Territory
«Victor Afonso is a portuguese musician living in Guarda, a city lying near Serra da Estrela (Star Mountain) at some 1000 meters above the sea level. He has been releasing music under the name Kubik (2 albums) as well as in many other projects. “Oblique Musique” and “Metamorphosia” albums recorded as Kubik showed up a musician deeply inspired by cinema and also by a great variety of music, from eastern europe folk to contemporary drum’n’bass. This alloy allowed Kubik to develop a very personalized and surrealistic sound, which defies the listener imagination with a wave of references sequenced in a way that take shape in the form of musical pieces. “Infinite Territory” is his new release. It is a departure from earlier works, because here Victor Afonso decided to explore electronic music more close to the IDM genre. It is obvious from “Infinite Territory” that musicians like Amon Tobin or Aphex Twin play an important role as sources of inspiration. This EP is very well balanced between ambient soundscapes and bursts of drill’n’bass, showing Kubik at the maximum of his skills and inspiration. From phantasmagorical pieces like “Bona Fide”, to kinetically unstable tracks like “Infernis”, “Plus Ultra” and the surrealistic “Non Hilum” (perhaps the track more related with his previous works), Kubik shows up his personal view of what electronic music (or IDM) can be, with a great capability to create images in the mind of the listener, rather than being purely another kind of dance music. “Infinite Territory” is therefore a kind of a soundtrack of a lost science-fiction movie, lost in the outskirts of the galaxy (or, more precisely, of the mind), exploring lost territories and lost spirals that lie within the more pristine forces of nature.» - César A. Laia
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June 14, 2006
BUSTED
Still here, people.
Almost a month later and a couple of releases behind schedule but we're here again. Explanation: Test Tube's computer, with all the files, releases, graphics and stuff, went bust by the end of May. Machines... always acting up...
But after the ordering of some replacement parts - CPU, Board, PSU and GFX - it's up and running again!
Since we got a little behind schedule on the release
department, we'll do a two-in-one release somewhere in the middle of the summer. Summer is chillout around these parts, anyway...
Just sit tight.
Cheers,
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