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 [...]
‘To push into other audiences.’ Know your enemy In the final part of the Enough Records Manifesto series I’m pushing into what, to some, is the most contentious point of them all – ‘to push into other audiences’. As a general rule this one should garner fairly obvious approval – no one, no matter how [...]
‘To push into other models.’ There are half a dozen different ways to look at today’s point from the Enough Records Manifesto, whether you head in the direction of expanding netaudio into other structures and models of distribution, sharing and community; to create new sound structures under the aegis of absolute freedom offered by the [...]
Silent Flow is a relatively new netlabel (2009) from Moldova. And if you don’t know where the heck Moldova is located, well, don’t feel too bad about yourself, i didn’t either until i got an ambient sounds demo submission from an artist called Megatone back in 2006. A project from Marcel Gherman: musician, radio DJ [...]
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 [...]
First of all, hello everyone, as it’s my first post here, and hopefully ps won’t regret letting me touch the WordPress after reading it I’m maintaining Enough releases on Bandcamp, and as it’s coming slowly and painfully (converting mp3s to WAV, then uploading those huge uncompressed files takes about five hours per album – quite [...]
The next step in my often disrupted series on my interpretation of the Enough Records manifesto. At this rate I’m almost in danger of reaching the end within the year. — Pondering the present and the future are always, for obvious reasons, obvious facets of analysing and following the free music movement. With the chaotic [...]
It’s rare, these days, for me to pay real attention to Jamendo. Way back when I first tripped over free music I treated the place as a hub, the first check-in point whenever I felt like finding something new and for the most part it worked. An hour wading through the dross and I’d usually [...]
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 [...]