Hope you all enjoyed your Easter holidays in case you celebrate them. At Enough we been busy during this last month preparing some new releases, two of them have recently hatched: The first release is a mixtape of our latest catalogue, prepared especially for the NoiseTrade website. You can check it at their website: http://noisetrade.com/enoughrecords/noisetrade-special-130401 [...]
Jerome has been a friend of mine for over 10 years now. We shared a passion for the demoscene and the experimental ambient side of the music world. Both of us experienced an isolated growth as early music artists fiddling with experimental sounds in our own corners of Portugal, where the experimental music scene is [...]
I seldom pick up a piece of music, listen to it, and feel moved enough by it to write an editorial on it. However, this particular release was much too damning for me not to comment on; and so here I am once again, exploring myself indirectly through the sounds of another artist, fumbling as [...]
Free netlabel music may not have penetrated the orchestral hall, or been streamed in luxury hotels. But one purpose it has achieved– it has supplied a lot of fun music for people with open minds. For me, chiptune is a bit of an anomaly– why go back to primitive electronics, when it comes time to [...]
One outstanding feature about Adamned Age is that her brand of IDM/jazz/ambience has inspired both people I agree with and people I don’t. What I mean to say is, there is something transcendent about Hanne Adam’s musical project. And of all the many acts I have heard online, she is perhaps the most worthy of [...]
Sometimes when music is just annoying enough, it no longer annoys me but entertains, and this is the case with Yair Lopez’ “epop popo”, from the Amplified Music Pollution netlabel. In lieu of a beat, there is a kind of repetition, but it is manual– presumably it is Mr. Lopez tweaking a setting on a [...]
Arie – Cold Up Norf (Planet Terror Records) One of the many tricks to decent Dub is, in my eternally humble opinion, the ability to craft out an abyss of bass which bubbles along just deeply enough to offer up the duvet of sounds which marks the genre out but not quite so wandering and [...]
SYNAESTHESIA - TEXTURE (Black Lantern Music) A while back I reviewed ‘Aphasia‘, an EP from Texture which, like ‘Synethesia’, came out on the Black Lantern Music label, one of my favourites since back in the days of The Creative UnCommons and a reliable source for intelligent (and seldom pretentious) Hip Hop and Trip Hop. I largely [...]
I am somewhat active at the forum for a major ambient label, and a big discussion there is about how the ambient scene is being destroyed by certain types of music. The old timers at the board are especially upset by all of the free releases of a drone-ey nature coming out. I guess the [...]
This release by dUASsEMIcOLCHEIASiNVERTIDAS is pretty tight. It’s jazz. That’s unusual for Enough Netlabel, but I assure you, it is not a bad thing. One thing I like about free netlabel music is its ability to infiltrate my musical world. More and more I am listening to free netreleases, in the evening after work, in [...]