| May 2008 news
May 26, 2008
MAN'S PARADOXES
• tube'|125 - Uncle Bart comes to have breakfast - Some paradoxes (...)
«From fragments of some (other) space free jazz in ‘Interlude…’ to the perversion of a spoken word in ‘Metamorphosis…’, going through the post-minimalism of ‘Cyber Chaotic Zen Paradox’, it’s a whole universe almost cinematographic – which goes beyond transcending labels and classifications – the one that we are given to discover in this excellent work from ‘Uncle Bart comes to have breakfast’.
Deep spaces of deceiving sound weirdness, where the ripping of pseudo-narrative perspectives intertwines with timbric instrumental explorations, in the quest for a new and rigorous sound.
Music in which distant and disperse ‘ethnics’, permeate a never-ending journey of disturbing beauty, in an apparent noise amalgam.»
- Carlos Zíngaro
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May 23, 2008
4XT RECAP
I decided to go back to January and do a recap of our 4XT top. At last we will see which releases were the most downloaded from January to April.
Let's start with January then:
JANUARY 4XT
#01 - tube106 - Norman Fairbanks - American Case Study [9952 downloads]
#02 - tube103 - Motown Junkie - Plagiarism Perversions [977 downloads]
#03 - tube102 - Krypton - Silent Drama [769 downloads]
#04 - tube046 - Peacee F Moya - Mouth for Sore Sight [708 downloads]
#05 - tube107 - Cristian Gualpa - Flotante EP [506 downloads]
#06 - tube002 - Pitch Boys - Random Teleports I [476 downloads]
#07 - tube007 - Ubeboet - Bleak EP [474 downloads]
#08 - tube006 - Lanolin - Untitled EP [436 downloads]
#09 - tube105 - Eye - Plays [393 downloads]
#10 - tube078 - Quest.Room.Project - Fiducial Banality [381 downloads]
FEBRUARY 4XT
#01 - tube102 - Krypton - Silent Drama [1180 downloads]
#02 - tube106 - Norman Fairbanks - American Case Study [885 downloads]
#03 - tube105 - Eye - Plays [845 downloads]
#04 - tube103 - Motown Junkie - Plagiarism Perversions [817 downloads]
#05 - tube110 - Shelter - Sleepyhead falls off the edge of (...) [788 downloads]
#06 - tube108 - Multi-Panel - The Door [662 downloads]
#07 - tube112 - Lee Rosevere - Light Years [638 downloads]
#08 - tube111 - Petr Drkula - Two Trips down Market Street [570 downloads]
#09 - tube109 - Bård Farbu - Zink EP [557 downloads]
#10 - tube107 - Cristian Gualpa - Flotante EP [540 downloads]
MARCH 4XT
#01 - tube080 - Post Human Era - Where I'm Going (...) [3375 downloads]
#02 - tube070 - Jan von Grafenstein - 13 [3351 downloads]
#03 - tube113 - TrianguliZona - Flossy [2012 downloads]
#04 - tube087 - Juan José Calarco - Plano Vertical [1594 downloads]
#05 - tube101 - G.A.F. - Atractores Extraños II [771 downloads]
#06 - tube100 - Pitch Boys - Son of a Pitch [758 downloads]
#07 - tube097 - Organic Anagram - London By Night [715 downloads]
#08 - tube115 - Adrián Juárez - Planicie Corrediza [651 downloads]
#09 - tube098 - The Turtle - Hyper Riot [623 downloads]
#10 - tube116 - Pocka - Wanderweg [425 downloads]
APRIL 4XT
#01 - tube104 - Cory Allen - Satori in Atlantis [4736 downloads]
#02 - tube116 - Pocka - Wanderweg [1447 downloads]
#03 - tube119 - SEB - Pulsos Temporales Memorias Estables [860 downloads]
#04 - tube117 - A Sankip Hummad - Le Sac De Sonido [680 downloads]
#05 - tube103 - Motown Junkie - Plagiarism Perversions [536 downloads]
#06 - tube118 - Platform - Templatesaté [439 downloads]
#07 - tube102 - Krypton - Silent Drama [403 downloads]
#08 - tube120 - Gordon Tebo - Patina Turner [277 downloads]
#09 - tube113 - TrianguliZona - Flossy [274 downloads]
#10 - tube115 - Adrián Juárez - Planicie Corrediza [238 downloads]
And that's it. In a couple of weeks or so we'll reveal the May 4XT.
Also, we have some exciting news to tell you about other projects. Meanwhile, the second volume of our DVD is almost ready for shipping. Official release news coming up next.
Peace,
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May 20, 2008
SPACE SHIFTING/SHAPE SHIFTING
• tube'|124 - OCP - Stepping Stone
«Three/four releases a year is the average production coming out of João Ricardo's lab, making him a very busy artist and producer. Even with such a rate of releases, quality is not an issue, as João - aka Operador de Cabine Polivalente (OCP for short) always makes really interesting works.
'Stepping Stone' is one more of those works. Again, João takes the 'single piece' approach for added immersive experience. The piece shapeshifts through its thirty-two minutes and a half course, filled with highly textured sound palletes. A focused listener will find at least three distinct 'movements' in this piece, or better yet, three core ones with an additional smaller interlude-ish one. The second main movement is an organic symphony made from string notes colliding and overlapping themselves into repetitive loops. The final and last movement - and my favorite - starts with a dub ambient approach to a sci-fi drama; dense and heavy and glitchy, and rapidly turns into a full glitch/field recording/improv. long finale, with warm, rubbed-out edges of awesomely (is that a word?) well made ambient.
Someone once wrote in a review that there's never a dull or boring moment in João Ricardo's works, and that never was so absolutely and undeniably true as it is now.» - Pedro Leitão
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May 13, 2008
A CEUX QUI VIVENT EN MARGE
• tube'|123 - d'incise - Les Restes du Festin
«Rhythms that bleed. Rhythms that rust and fall apart. Rhythms that fracture your perception of time. D'incise's decompositional approach is charged with an electricity that turns actual objects into distorted images. At times, you will find your neck's vertebrae moving back and forth to keep a time only existant in your mind. In the collaborative nature of "Les Restes du Festin", we can hear micro-cuts from various improvised music recordings of Johann Bourquenez (piano), Christian Graf (guitare), Christophe Berthet (saxophones), Gaël Riondel (saxophones), Cyril Bondi (drums) and d'incise (piano and percusions). In addition, we can hear the talented intervention of Lena, Bluermutt, Hopen, Ibakusha, and Monsieur Connard.
Here, electronic thoughts are translated into numerous acoustic dances to the point of loosing distinction. Dancing thoughts of electronic motion. A grand piano that stands up as anthropomorphic figure to interact and dialogue with the player. Frequencies that tickle the tympanic membrane in order to descend through the eustachian tube reverberating eternally. Binary codes that materialize into percussive instruments; number ones as drumsticks, and zeros as bass drums.
Dusty pieces of metal falling through a waterfall of sound waves until they reach the depths of an ocean of noise. Water ripples become multicolored threads that float around a beam of light. Mercury plugs that melt when plugged into amplifiers. Unidentified Flying Objects that become cymbals and give a message about phenomenal spaces. Static hairs follicles that abandon the skin to encounter the vibrations coming from the speakers. These are some of the visions I receive when listening to this sonic constructions. Micro-cuts from a macro-musician.» - Sebastian Alvarez
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May 09, 2008
DVD VOL. II
• tube'|dvd002 - v/a - test tube collected works 076 ~ 124
A little more than a year after the first volume, here is the second one: test tube collected, from release 076 to 124. With a slightly redesigned cover and with a completely new set of 10 different artworks to choose from.
The first volume's artwork was dedicated to the flora of central europe, and this one is dedicated to some of the invertebrate underwater species of the world, beautifully illustrated by the hands of late Professor Ernst Haeckel. Check out all the covers at the release page.
Available for delivery only by the end of the month, but you can and should pre-order it now because as before, this will be handmade and packaged in limited quantities. And if you don't already own a copy of the first volume and want to have both delivered to your door, we will set up a proper PayPal item for the bundle at a special price. Soon.
EXTRA: The first 25 people to order our new DVD release will receive as a thank you present a deluxe edition of the next release - d'incise's 'Les Restes du Festin' with their package. Be quick if you want one. This offer was only possible thanks to the generosity of the artist himself. Thanks Laurent!
Peace,
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May 06, 2008
LILTING IN AUSSIELAND
• tube'|122 - Entia Non - Lilt
«As promised, we're back with another excellent work from Entia Non - aka James McDougall from Australia - called 'Lilt'. Like the previous one, expect to listen to lots of juicy field recordings from australian whereabouts artfully mixed with soothing ambient tones and drones of rare beauty, and also organic backgrounds to complete. For this release, James went to capture new sounds to some well known 'sand islands' located on the eastern coast of his enormous country, namely 'Stradbroke Island'.
'Oxide Pearl' and 'Littoral Glades' are my favorites and the ones that best capture Entia Non's essence of 'australian ambient/field recordings' work. Warm and dense backgrounds, moist and organic f.r. full with birds singing and water flowing and daily familiar voices and sounds. There's not many more to be said to fairly describe what you'll hear (or are listening to right now through our flash player), so if you please, head straight to the download link.
This is another keeper, folks. We hope you enjoy it to the fullest!» - Pedro Leitão
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