February 2012
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Alison Doyle :: The Drowning at Cape... →
Gloomy piano melodies from Seattle based Alison Doyle. Perfect soundtrack to a rainy day.
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<a href=”http://alisondoyle.bandcamp.com/album/the-drowning-at-cape-disappointment” _mce_href=”http://alisondoyle.bandcamp.com/album/the-drowning-at-cape-disappointment”>The Drowning at Cape Disappointment by Alison Doyle</a>
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WatchPaul Mutant’s ‘This Painting is Not Available in Your Country’ is a pretty snappy and trenchant commentary on the incoherent absurdity of territorial rights enforcement in the age of the Internet.
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“چه گرميم چه گرميم از اين عشق چو خورشيد
How warm are we from this love, like the...”
– Rumi (via heartbeetz)
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Stylusboy :: Whole Picture →
Stylusboy is the acoustic creation of Steve Jones, a Coventry bred guitarist and vocalist. He cut his teeth playing guitar and bass for a number of bands, and gigging extensively before finally stripping down his sound, and venturing into the wilderness to produce his own personal blend of lo-fi alternative folk.
2011 marked the release of Stylusboy’s 6 track EP, ‘Whole...
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Bryce Miller :: Solo Piano →
With his latest album, Bryce Miller gives his music a beautiful new direction. Entitled ‘Solo Piano’, he makes a huge step into the world of neo-classical uniqueness.
Following an in-depth study of the classical works of Chopin, Miller wrote some of the songs on this release back in 2009, while others were composed just days before they were recorded. So this isn’t only a peek...
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WatchA smooth mix for your most wonderful Sunday morning compiled by Dave Michuda. Featuring artists like Bon Iver, Nick Drake, Keith Jarrett, Dizzie Gillespie, and many more.
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Do Nothing for Lent and Be Grateful →
“Cultural customs dictate ’giving something up’ for Lent. Without any meaningful or theological reflection, it becomes ‘giving up for the sake of giving up,’ as though the mere act is enough. […]
Give up Facebook, and all that may happen is that other chores fill in that time the way the ocean fills our sandcastle moats; the castle eventually falls, and there’s no...
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Ohrwert :: Tral
Ohrwert, one of several monikers used by Arjen Schat, brings Recycled Plastics #netlabel some of the finest electronic music from the heart of the Netherlands. Containing both the minimalist Dub-techno that Ohrwert releases are perhaps best known for with Arjen’s atmospheric Ambient drones under his own name, ‘Tral’ is a hypnotic and immersive listen that seduces you with its...
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Marsen Jules :: isolatedmix 18
“This mix was recorded live at the Toskana Therme Bad Schandau. It is a special place with a liquid sound soundsystem, which can play music under water. When mixing ambient music I try very much to create something new and and floating out of the material. Usually it´s four decks in traktor playing at the same time also using loops and some effects. For this mix I tried to assemble the material...
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Julia Kent :: Green and Grey →
In her new solo record, ‘Green and Grey’, Julia Kent uses looped and layered cello, electronics, and field recordings to explore the intersections between the human world and the natural world, the melding of the technological and the organic, the patterns and repetitions that exist in nature and are mirrored in human creations, and the complexity and fragility of our relationships...
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WatchDave Michuda aka Low Light creates mixes that are usually ambient in nature. Each mix usually has a theme, ‘sleep music’, ‘autumn’, ‘piano’, ‘stargazing’, ‘the sea’, ‘sci-fi’, etc. The sounds include modern classical, field recordings, electro-acoustic, drone, glitch, idm, electronic, instrumental, space, experimental and of...
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Rasmus Storgaard :: Never Ending Rain →
“I left home (got a dorm) and began studying at the University of Copenhagen. Even though my life was great, I still had this tiny feeling of something were missing in my life. Even though it might seems very obvious what the ‘cure’ was, it wasn’t really that obvious to me. But when it did, I realized, that there were other options than purchase a real expensive piano. A...
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WatchFashion photographer and filmmaker Jacob Sutton swaps the studio for the slopes of Tignes in the Rhône-Alpes region of south-eastern France, with a luminous after hours short starring Artec pro snowboarder William Hughes. The electrifying film sees Hughes light up the snow-covered French hills in a bespoke L.E.D.-enveloped suit courtesy of designer and electronics whizz John Spatcher.
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YARA :: Lucid Dreams
I’ve been following the music of YARA since his very first release on the wonderful Elpa #netlabel back in 2010. His style of electronic music is highly technoid and analytic, just like he’s searching for the very soul of machines to drag them into a dull sun and give them a voice.
His latest EP called ‘Lucid Dream’ presents a warmer side of his work. Combining field...
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“Of course the era of the podcast is still quite young. So perhaps great artistry...”
– Alec Soth.
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Peter Broderick :: www.itstartshear.com →
Peter Broderick’s www.itstartshear.com is a website and an album and a video portal and a blog and … I think you got the idea. Broderick shares ten tracks of Folk, Indie-Pop and -Rock along with their stories and pictures. Assembled around him you find some of the most interesting musicians on and off the scene, including the ever-present Nils Frahm on piano.
Don’t miss the...
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Smyth :: Senescence
Smyth’s second go-around with Sunshine Ltd. label. His ‘jack-of-many-trades’ approach to music is filtered down to a few select instruments, exploring the life cycle of texture and tone in an almost seamless presentation.
Here’s the closing track from the cassette tape release (which is sold out already).
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Logic Moon :: Polygon Garden EP →
Finding new names for his several sonic endeavours seems to be one of Tobias Lorsbach’s favourite hobbies. He produces music under the monikers of Keinzweiter, Lavajaz, Super Launcher, Antiga Prime, Supralist, Jabba44, Elco Park (with Max Wendling) or Horst (together with Tilman). He also runs the fantastic netlabel spontanMusik which exists since 2002 and curates a fine German music...
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Alex Tiuniaev :: Blurred →
Alex Tiuniaev has been working on his album ‘Blurred’ on and off for the last couple of years and finally it is complete, ready for all to hear. It blends his piano compositions with field recordings, strings, drones and other sounds into an altogether majestic and arresting short album. Alex started composing some early pieces to what would eventually become ‘Blurred’...
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