| August 2006 news
August 31, 2006
UNDER THE AFTERNOON SKY
• tube'|048 - Dave Zeal - Trinidad
«Back to IDM again, by the hand of Canadian boy Dave Zeal. Zeal has previously released works on italian Sinewaves and on Top-40 netlabels.
'Trinidad' offers us eight tracks in twenty minutes, which seems somewhat short, but Dave crafts some pretty interesting IDM textures into those short bursts. This work sounds like it's clearly influenced by early nineties Warp artists, but also by some north-american IDM, namely from defunct M3rck label.
Angled beats carried around freely with backdrop dreamy keyboards on 'Cube Dweller'; Caribbean percussion under the influence of BoC-like textured ambience on 'Panmen'; Fuzzy Hip-Hop, heavy filtered through 8-bit-beat machines on 'Dive'; Future Jazz piano paired with broken but steady beats on 'Shorts' or Ambient cinematic soundscapes on 'Trinity Haze', the longest piece, and a personal favorite, which really stands out here. Find it all in Trinidad. We could easily take another twenty minutes, Dave. C'mon...» - Pedro Leitão
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August 26, 2006
PLASTIC CIRCLE III
• tube'|cdr003 - v/a - tube'|029 ~ tube'|043
One more volume - the third - of our release compilations. This one comprises all tubes from Thanos Chrysakis to Kubik (inclusive), all burned into a high quality printable CD-R with provided artwork, should you want to print it later. And it's free! You only pay for the stamps.
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August 25, 2006
TEST TUBE ON FM RADIO
True... starting September 7 (thursday), Test Tube will host a radio show, broadcasted on Química FM (105.4Mhz) from Alcoitão (Cascais), covering a huge radius with thousands of homes around the area (Sintra, Cascais, Oeiras and even some parts of Lisboa).
This weekly show will run for two hours, starting at 23h00, and will feature many specials, not only Test Tube material repertoire, of course. We plan to do interviews, Label and Netlabel specials, Specific artists specials, maybe some live stuff in the studio, and son on...
Sometime next week we will do a test broadcast to see how it goes.
Oh, and it will be a live show... no safety net.
Looking forward for it... :)
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August 19, 2006
UKRAINIAN MUSIC BOX
• tube'|047 - Ceckj - Lone Night Thracks Vol. 1
«Maxim Shubski - the person behind Ceckj - comes from Ukraine, formerly a Soviet state and now an independent country in its own right. Amazingly or not, some of the best eastern bloc contemporary electronica comes from Ukraine. Names like Gultskra Artikler, Andrey Kiritchenko and Katia Zavoloka, among others, are getting some well deserved attention from international mediums like UK's Wire Magazine and a bunch of music news websites. Not surprising, because Ukrainian Electronica is really something unique.
Ceckj may well become another name to keep. Maxim blends edgy and rough samples with chamber-like organ music, delivering some weird but emotional soundscapes. Take 'Blood Thrack', for instance. It could easily be part of some horror movie, illustrating a scene where some victim is being observed, before getting brutally massacred. Or it could be something else completely different. Ceckj's music is so full of layers and tonalities that it's hard to catalogue into a single style or mood. But it's a downward spiral, nevertheless. 'Tubby Thrack', with all its different reworks mashed together, is a perfect example of Shubski's multiple mood swinging. Highly recommended.
'Lone Night Thracks Vol. 1' is better with headphones on.» - Pedro Leitão
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August 10, 2006
GHOST WORLD
• tube'|046 - Peacee F Moya - Mouth for Sore Sight
«First of all, Frango were born: a free-rock trio from Barreiro - south bank of the Tagus river -, keen on unaligned electric improvisations, that got some credit among the new generation of underground Portuguese music of the 21st century. Then, the attention first gathered around the trio, passed on to Rui Pedro Dâmaso, one of Frango guitar players who revealed himself in his solo outfit “PCF Moya”. On the first recording “Surgeon Surgeon” (2005, Searching Records), circles of improvised guitar sounds are sketched and notes are lost inside maze-like paths or simple spirals. On the second release “Untitled / God Slot EP” (2006, Merzbau), the atmosphere is denser and shapes are fuzzier, one suspects a more rigorous creation process, the guitar is sparser, the approach is not so direct. Now, on this new “Mouth for Sore Sight”, Dâmaso shows us a different path. The guitar isn’t there anymore, now there’s only effect pedals and tweaked mikes. To emphasize this difference, the artist name is slightly mutated: “Peacee F Moya”.
Moved away from the untied notes which were characteristic of his previews works, “Mouth for Sore Sight” divides itself into two long tracks [“Four” and “Three (Exodic)”], two creation places that grow as they absorb small elements along the way. Here the work is all about the progressive adding of elements which sustain some immense spiral stairs made of sound. In the end, all that remains is an almost ghost-like ambience feel: almost, almost whispered slow-motion post-rock, Peacee F Moya is uncompromised freedom in permanent construction. “Lo-Fi isn’t an aesthetic statement, it’s the logical result of a somewhat disorganized working method”, Dâmaso once said. If disorder is in some way responsible for the creation of these unsuspected droopy textures, then let the world abandon once and for all that yuppie thing about organization.» - Nuno Catarino
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