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The Outcry of a Bleeding Soul
Be sure to be close to the volume control of your stereo while listening to the music of Sébastien Biset aka Sepia Hours. While some of his rather minimal collages of field recordings, whispers, and...
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A New Day For Indietronica
Parting is never easy. It ain't easy to leave behind a long-time lover. It ain't easy to say goodbye to a good and fruitful decade. And it surely ain't easy to bury a band, especially if it has been...
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Come to Switzerland, Bring Your Creativity!
The netaudio world is full of surprises, and you'll usually always find something new if you're free minded enough to look into different directions. To Switzerland for example, where the small,...
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audiovoltaics.cc is up!
After three months of dedicated work, audiovoltaics.cc is online. It's about digital music. Arts. And culture. Please stop by. http://www.audiovoltaics.cc/ Permalink | Leave a comment »
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Cold Walls of Sound
Not only Netlabels discovered the power of free releases to promote their artists, there are also more and more established 'conventional' independent labels that put out free music on a more or less...
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Epic Soundscape Rock
It's always great to discover new music on the net - and it's sometimes sad as well, when you learn that the band or musical project you just happened to love no longer exists. But nothing's lost the...
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Songs From the Little Rascal
"There he goes again", I hear you say, "enthusing about that bloody Peppermill Records again!" Well, it's true - I've been reviewing two releases from this fine netlabel here already - but as long as...
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Cohesion and Adhesion of Sounds and Structure
The background catalogue of Helge Tømmervåg is not less than impressive. The Kristiansund, Noway, based musician is producing his own music under the moniker of 'Mind over MIDI' since 1995, when he...
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The Art of Listening
Communication is not only the art of talking. It also defines the art of listening. When it comes to music, a good arrangement is always like a perfect communication. Between the artist and his music....
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The Staging of Counter-Worlds
Dominik Paß knows electronic music. He grew up with the emerging scene of the German media capital of Cologne in the early 90s and sporadically publishes both electronic music and phonetic poetry...
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A Rough Diamond
NOECHO Records is a London based netlabel, which was established in 2008. Since then the British sonic farm has been releasing a couple of the most interesting productions in the field of experimental...
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A Fine Piece of Musical Architecture
Dimitar Dodovski is quite a new name to the international netaudio scene. I became aware of him when he released his "Internal Affairs EP" on aeronautique last year. Unfortunately, the Berlin based...
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audiovoltaics.cc - The Clytem Effect
Being a part of a successful rock band isn’t always easy. For Marianne, lead-singer of the French Electro-Punk sensation Shane Cough, it meant being trapped in a routine of performing the same songs...
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Get Me Some More of Those Mushrooms!
Ever heard of Mathias Stubø? No? Then you're probably not from Norway. Mathias Stubø aka Proviant Audio is been recognized as a kind of musical wunderkind in his home country for some time now. The...
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What's Up, Chief? - a Netlabel Portrait
Netlabel-ism is finally reaching Africa. Arising from the South African digital bush, Bushmen Records is to be a platform for underground South African artists to showcase and release their music to...
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The Flagship Strikes Back
Black Era has been one of those bands that dragged me into the uprising netlabel scene a few years ago, and they are one of the reasons why I call myself a Creative Commons evangelist ever since. The...
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All it Takes is Just a ...
... tweet. I don't know about you, but I'm surrounded by good music each and every day, because I dedicated my life to listen to music, write about music, and even produce music. But when you've...
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More Than Feelings
circlesandlines recordings is another shining example of the emerging Russian netlabel scene, which established itself in the past few years as one of the main sources for fine free and legal music....
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Twitter is the New Radio
When he closed down one of the most respected netlabels back in 2009, Vincent Fugère was done with the netlabel scene. Putting out new releases in a restless manner, he started to get frustrated over...
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Jules Verne's Late Soundtrack
In its early days in the late 60s and early 70s, electronic music served as the soundtrack of a generation that was ready to conquer space. Neil Armstrong has just set his foot on the moon, and...
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