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Digital Phlow is a radio-show about music and netculture. We play music which is available free for download through the internet. Mainly we feature netlabel-music and support the netlabel-scene with interviews, portraits and playlists. It's a lovers than Primary Format : electronica Language : German Also Listed as: City : Cologne State/Province : Unknown Country : Germany Region : EU User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of digital Phlow Podcasts Methings.com listings of digital Phlow Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

Video: Candlestickmaker – “Take Me Elsewhere” Video | "Seeds" by Candlestickmaker is one of my favorite IDM-albums of the past. His new follow-up called "A Life in a Day" isn't that much melodic, lollypop and colourful and I don't know yet, if I like it. Please taste it yourself on Upitup. But... The video for the song "Take Me Elsewhere" is just [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Phlow Jahtari Mixtape – “A Fistful Of Dub” Jahtari Tribute | While publishing our Jahtari-Portrait some days ago, I thought: "Why not making a mixtape with my favorite Jahtari-anthems?" After some digging through the whole back catalogue I finished my studies of the mighty echo chambers of Jahtari. I rolled you a wonderful spliff of smokey Dub Reggae anthems. Take care, Jahtari might [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: “Mesmophone” by Bakers at Dawn (Peppermill Records) Video | More and more netlabels experiment with video clips and make their own productions more visible. A new netlabel joining the video club is Peppermill Records. For the album "You Must Hide Your Love Forever" by Bakers at Dawn they offer now "a simple but nice" clip for the song called: Bakers at Dawn - [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Jah of 8-Bit-Chip-Dub-Digital-Laptop-Reggae-Music Punching Pac-Man through a Space EchoNiches can be cool. Especially when you’re the star of one. Even better when you dug it out from nothing all by yourself. Jan Gleichmar, aka Disrupt, label head of Jahtari.org, is the star of his own genre. He refines a bulky sub-bass sound with an oldschool 8-bit charm. He calls it simply: Digital Laptop Reggae. Crawl with us into the echo chambers of Jahtari! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Feldmaus – “Spaces” (Passage Netlabel) Charming Melodic Ambient | In general it's Sven Swift's part to introduce you to the world of creative commons ambient music. But where Sven gets crazy about experimental tunes, I still love the classic ambient tunes. And this is what "Spaces" by Feldmaus is about. Colourful and melodic ambient floating like water. It's like [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Happy Birthday, Machtdose Podcast! Machtdose navigates you through the world of creative commons music | Photo by shwe Podcast Birthday Party | We call him "A Passionate Podcaster with no Boundaries" and since four years already, Roland from Machtdose produces his wonderful netaudio podcast. Every new episode is a bucket full of musical adventures with a calm and sophisticated [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Superloader – “Fusion” (Supafeed Netlabel) Deep House | If you like Deep House Music with a juicy kickdrum and a relaxed mood, Supafeed is the netlabel of choice. Nearly every release sweets up the dancefloor. Superloader makes no exception and the power of his tunes - like his fellow mates on Supafeed - come from the stoic grooves, some little [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Raleigh Moncrief – “Combed Over Chrome EP” (Obstructive Vibrations) Far-Out Beats | E.T. getting weededed? Starship Enterprise floating above a field of ripely Marihuana shrubs? All this hand drawn and arranged in flashy colour in front of a space backdrop? The art on Raleigh Moncrief's enigmatic "Combed Over Chrome EP" did not made me hit the download button immediately but from the first noises [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DJ Mix – “Aqual(o)unge 4″ (Machtdose) Underwater Ambient Mix | Listening to Aqual(o)unge 4 is like swimming through a coral reef. The sunrays falls into the water and enlighten the colourful submarine world. Everything seems to float here a little slowlier. The colours of the plants overwhelm you when sunlight touches the leaves or make the dandruffs of fishes glimmer. That's [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Isma Serrano “Automatic Behaviour” (Antiritmo Netlabel) Melodic Movers | "Automatic Behaviour" is one of these cosy and melodic electronic music albums. It operates inbetween the genres techno, trance and elektro and melts everything in a classic way together. On the one side you feel warm synthesizer grooves and trip on those fine appregiators and on the other side you listen to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Slow – “Dual Box” (Resting Bell) August Ambient Bliss | Slow surfaced when Autoplate went down - maybe you remember their exquisite "Love" EP which was released as apl050 on Christmas Day 2008. I'm quite positive unbreakable Resting Bell will not cease with Slow's latest EP "Dual Box". Actually, there are already two new releases online as I'm writing... Well. "Dual [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Unique Matter – “Metasphere EP” (Sologroove Netlabel) Atmospheric Progressive Techno | "Dejaview Watchers" is one of those groovy Techno Dub tracks where you sit on an ice rock drifting through a cold, wide and abstract world. With "Metasphera" you glide on a spaceship through a progressive house world meeting natives from the Psytrance Movement. "New Suite" introduces you to your new minimal [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Emilie Lund – “Emilie Lund EP” (Aaahh Records) Bitter-Sweet Folk Pop | Oh wow. This one totally got me... Aaahh Records made themselves an excellent name in the scene. More important, they did so for many people not explicitly following the CC move. Me personally, my heart was barely involved in an AR release up to know. With Ms Emilie Lund however, they [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Phlow Mixtapes Mixtape Love | Phlow-Magazine.com and Phlow.es present you the best of the best of our music reviews with a charming musicplayer. We feed our mixtape with the best songs and tracks of each review and presents it to you in that good'ol mixtape look. The flash player comes out of the ashes of mixwit.com. After the RIAA teared down Mixwit, the programmers were so nice to give the beautiful player to everybody. Why hadn't they used creative commons music?!? Nevertheless, grab the code on ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Various – “NetAudio Russia Compilation Volume 1 & 2″ Festival Compilation | When I think of electronic music from russia, I always think of minimal music and melodic IDM. And when I listen now to the two beautiful "NetAudio Russia Compilations" I am once more convinced that Russia especially Moscow has a strong eletronic scene I would like to explore by night. Both compilations [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Various – “NetAudio Russia Compilation Volume 1 & 2″ Festival Compilation | When I think of electronic music from russia, I always think of minimal music and melodic IDM. And when I listen now to the two beautiful "NetAudio Russia Compilations" I am once more convinced that Russia especially Moscow has a strong eletronic scene I would like to explore by night. Both compilations [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alec Tronic – “AAA Efficiency EP” (Broque) Minimal Techno Magic | Techno-lovers should download this EP right away. Charged and pumping techno-grooves meet the unexpected. This is what you can say. Most of the tracks start like "ordinary" techno-tracks, but then they mutate into forms, you never would have expected. The unhuman machine gets to life. Organic structures unfold and play with [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2nd mouse – “levite” (Fwonk Netlabel) IDM Jam Session | The first of the twins is the endearing and imaginative way that Chris Da Mouse, aka 2nd Mouse (could that be his real name?), introduced his new album "Levite" in an email that pinged into my inbox less than a week ago. This album is indeed the first of two works [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website N-Noiz – “Unbounding The Future EP” (Plainaudio Netlabel) Complex Samurai Drum'n'Bass | As a Beat Samurai N-Noiz follows the path of Photek and his comrades-in-arms. His "Unbounding The Future EP" is an epic trip with haunting sounds, elaborate chopped-up beats and a unique style which makes every former master proud. You rarely find so deep, complex and intelligent Drum'n'Bass beats. N-Noiz - "Red Spider [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Psychon – Slow Country for Old Men (Narrominded) Ambient Electronic Mixture | Regardless what anyone may think, Psychon has not been asleep for the past five years. After releasing “apocalypse has been dubbed the weekend pill", the band submerged into a sea of sounds redescovering new textures, shapes and forms of music. Eventually that led them to a path where different musical tastes [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Psychon – Slow Country for Old Men (Narrominded) Ambient Electronic Mixture | Regardless what anyone may think, Psychon has not been asleep for the past give years. After releasing “apocalypse has been dubbed the weekend pill", the band submerged into a sea of sounds redescovering new textures, shapes and forms of music. Eventually that led them to a path where different musical tastes [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Astrowind – “Fresh Wind in the Valley of Dreams” (Silent Flow) Where The Wild Synths At | Blame me to be an anachronistic fool. Call me old-fashioned. Still I got to let you know: an analogue synthesizer sounds better than a digital one. It may act like a diva (detunes randomly, hisses like hell) but eventually you get a sound that has soul and a physical [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brian Grainger & David Tagg – “Sawdust Aromatics” (Rope Swing Cities) Twin Peaks Ambient | Boy this one has been sleeping on my HD for a long time! Brian Grainger hooks up with long-time partner David Tagg to delivers an epic four track EP for the US-American Ambient imprint Rope Swing Cities. It is about a year the "Sawdust Aromatics" EP has been released but the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Evgeny Grinko – “Cinematic Melodies EP” (RAIG’s Accessory Takes) Smooth, Melancholic, Jazzy | Jazzy drums, a regular bass line, a sound somewhere between an oboe and a clarinet - but is in fact an accordion: “Woody Allen” has arrived to the set. And there it was, a tiny impression that something mysterious is about to happen. Some suspense, please. Evgeny Grinko – "Woody Allen" [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bitbasic – “Sprinkling Rainbows” (Monotonik Netlabel) Jazz meets Drum'n'Bass | Bitbasic's new album Sprinkling Rainbows, released on Monotonik, delves deep into the world of smooth and funky Jazz stylings, in a follow up the 2007 "Grating Rainbows EP". This is an album of deft and clever combinations that soothe and then surprise the listener, as exquisite jazz chords and chromatics give [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Demoscene: The BitFellas Podcast features Phlow Demoscene meets Phlow | Right between July and August the demoscene party Evoke 2009 took place in the beautiful city of Cologne. That's where I met Juergen Beck, demoscene enthusiast and music lover. He asked me for a cooperation and all I had to do, was to dig into our music archive to find some [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mo’Town Junkie – “Cuts and Raw Tapes” (Phonotactics) Cracklin Beats & Samples | Mo'Town Junkie is not a newbie in the Scene: he has published several works on different netlabels, ending up on founding his own, Phonotactics. By the way, let me suggest you a visit to the new website. Ok, so it is not new to have a netaudio album just made [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sub – “ID” (Plainaudio Netlabel) Break-Dominant Drum'n'Bass | Breaks, Breaks, Breaks... Plainaudio is all about breaking up patterns and resetting them. Their artists love the art of aesthetic surgery. With love they cut drumloops under the microscope into delicious parts and than reassemble them with precision. Also Sub does this job very well and surrounds his drum work with a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Black Atlantic – “Reverence for Fallen Trees” (Beep! Beep! Netlabel) Dreamy Indie/Folk-Pop | After touring internationally for two years, the Groningen (Holland) based indie/folk-group The Black Atlantic have recently put out their debut album. "Reverence for Fallen Trees" is a lovely affair of melancholy moods. The album is packed with mostly folk influenced acoustic pop attached to sweet and soft vocal harmonies, soft strummed [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Luck & Ripps – “The Catastrophic Connection” (Blocsonic) A collection of Boom-Bap Hip Hop | "Turn of that hippe-di-hip-hop-hop-music, son!" Yeah this is some of that raw NYC shit. A style where Hip Hop rhythms roll straight forward without trickery. An MC bragging and rolling out his rhymes. "The Catastrophic Connection" sounds like Hip Hop in the old days. The old days, where [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website aleksi virta – “..meets torsti” (Monotonik Netlabel) Universal Downbeat Trip | Oh my god! Grab this amazing space funk release from the shelfes of Monotonik. And you get smooth a funky bag of running downbeats. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website aleksi virta – “..meets torsti” (Monotonik Netlabel) Universal Downbeat Trip | Oh my god! Grab this amazing space funk release from the shelfes of Monotonik. And you get smooth a funky bag of running downbeats. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reintroducing Serein Netlabel Back Like Boom | Welsh Netlabel Serein is one of my top five sources for high quality Ambient, not only in the context of Netaudio. It has been silent at Serein for a quite a while, but after a period of hibernation, Serein is back with a new design. Check the "Reintroduction" mix by [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reintroducing Serein Netlabel Back Like Boom | Welsh Netlabel Serein is one of my top five sources for high quality Ambient, not only in the context of Netaudio. It has been silent at Serein for a quite a while, but after a period of hibernation, Serein is back with a new design. Check the "Reintroduction" mix by [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2% – “Nowcast” (Archaic Horizon) Lush Ambient, Crunchy Beats | Hot off the heels of mo.'s Para-review last week, I got to let you know about the latest Archaic Horizon releases: "Nowcast" by Trenton McElhinney, more commonly known as 2%. I've been listening to both records in a row and found them doing fairly well in these days of late [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2% – “Nowcast” (Archaic Horizon) Lush Ambient, Crunchy Beats | Hot off the heels of mo.'s Para-review last week, I got to let you know about the latest Archaic Horizon releases: "Nowcast" by Trenton McElhinney, more commonly known as 2%. I've been listening to both records in a row and found them doing fairly well in these days of late [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Para – “Motion dub” (A Quiet Bump Netlabel) Peaceful Dub | It's always fascinating how you can create so much with just some ingredients. For his vision of  Dub Italian musician Para used just organs, delay echoes a warm subbass and some percussion. Together he offers us a beautiful 5-track EP filled up with melodic slow-motion-groovers. A joint venture into the dubby realms [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Various – “hypocondriac” (Apegenine) One-Song-Feature | OK, Today I have to share only one song with you: "Possibilities". I found the track on the average compilation "apegenine volume two" released by the apegenine Label. "Possibilities" from Henrik Jose totally blows me away with its pop-appeal, idm-ish sounds and a beautiful voice. Since I discoverd Henrik Jose on the "Cycles" [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Oskar Hallbert – “1123581321345589″ (Zymogen) Lo-fi Folk Scribbles | Zymogen has been a little quiet for the last six months. After the Summer down, however, the label is back with a beautiful record. The artist's name is Oskar Hallbert and he brings forth a new shade to the monochrome Zymogen label sound.  Lo-fi Folk scribbles, you kidding? No.Oskar Hallbert is [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Oskar Hallbert – “1123581321345589″ (Zymogen) Lo-fi Folk Scribbles | Zymogen has been a little quiet for the last six months. After the Summer down, however, the label is back with a beautiful record. The artist's name is Oskar Hallbert and he brings forth a new shade to the monochrome Zymogen label sound. Lo-fi Folk scribbles, you kidding? No. Oskar Hallbert [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AEED – “Synesthesia” (Error Broadcast Netlabel) Fine Instrumental Hip Hop | Instrumental Hip Hop kicks me currently the most. I waited a long time for more releases like "Synesthesia" that stand in the tradition of music by Comfort Fit or my beloved Flying Lotus. AEED pushes Hip Hop music into the right direction. Playful rhythmic arrangements, definetely electronic and with a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sudio – “Strange Attractors” (iD.EOLOGY Netlabel) HiFi Techno | Sudio is one of my favorite Netaudio producers around. He likes to produce complex electronic music. With his release "Strange Attractors" he delivers four colourful techno tracks where he jams around with his filters, effects and software in general. For purists who like straightforward techno, this is sometimes surely to much. I [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sudio – “Strange Attractors” (iD.EOLOGY Netlabel) HiFi Techno | Sudio is one of my favorite Netaudio producers around. He likes to produce complex electronic music. With his release "Strange Attractors" he delivers four colourful techno tracks where he jams around with his filters, effects and software in general. For purists who like straightforward techno, this is sometimes surely to much. I [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bluermutt – “Decivilice After Consumption” (Nexsound Pop) with Phlow CD Raffle Electronic Pop Music from Italy's Finest | For nearly one year, I have been waiting for this album. I asked Andrey of Nexsound for "Decivilice After Consumption" when I informed him about the review I wrote for his latest record- and he told me that the album is done already and waiting to be released. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bluermutt – “Decivilice After Consumption” (Nexsound Pop) with Phlow CD Raffle Electronic Pop Music from Italy's Finest | For nearly one year, I have been waiting for this album. I asked Andrey of Nexsound for "Decivilice After Consumption" when I informed him about the review I wrote for his latest record- and he told me that the album is done already and waiting to be released. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bluermutt – “Decivilice After Consumption” (Nexsound Pop) with Phlow CD Raffle Electronic Pop Music from Italy's Finest | For nearly one year, I have been waiting for this album. I asked Andrey of Nexsound for "Decivilice After Consumption" when I informed him about the review I wrote for his latest record- and he told me that the album is done already and waiting to be released. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wixel – “An Empty Canvas” Epic Ambient | Wixel is the experimental Folk moniker of Wim Maesschalck. In 2009, after his epochal "Somewhere Between the Sun and the Moon" CD album, Wim started a project called "12 Records in 12 Month". On a monthly basis, Wim releases a new EP, each 20 -25 minutes in length. June is especially [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Red Box Recorder – “Colour Codes” (Acroplane) Breakbeats for the morning after | For quite a long time, Arcoplane went below my radar. The label is around since 2003, but only due to the advice of my dear friend Ian Hawgood I follow them now. Londons' Red Box Recorder represent the label sound perfectly and deliver a mature album with superb artwork.You [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Red Box Recorder – “Colour Codes” (Acroplane) Breakbeats for the morning after | For quite a long time, Arcoplane went below my radar. The label is around since 2003, but only due to the advice of my dear friend Ian Hawgood I follow them now. Londons' Red Box Recorder represent the label sound perfectly and deliver a mature album with superb artwork. Red [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Weezer- The 8-bit Album (Pterodactyl) Perfect! | 14 chip tune celebrities interpret songs of college rock legends Weezer ("Buddy Holly"). That makes so much sense I wonder why it took the careful hands of Pterodactyl Squad Netlabel only now to make this album come to life. Great fun if you're a Weezer fan, catchy listen if you're an 8bit addict.The [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Phlow Mag Exclusive: Boring Music Vol. 6 Boring Music | With some delay, I finally managed to publish my new Netaudio mixtape, the sixth installation of the BORING MUSIC series I started four years back. Please enjoy this 70 minutes trip via 15 tracks from 15 releases I exclusively reviewed for PHLOW MAGAZINE!As always, the mix comes off quite versatile. Starting with [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Phlow Mag Exclusive: Boring Music Vol. 6 Boring Music | With some delay, I finally managed to publish my new Netaudio mixtape, the sixth installation of the BORING MUSIC series I started four years back. Please enjoy this 70 minutes trip via 15 tracks from 15 releases I exclusively reviewed for PHLOW MAGAZINE!As always, the mix comes off quite versatile. Starting with [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MoR – “I’ve cheated” (Beat is Murder) Summer Bleeps | Some odd and new and unexpected music hits my ears from Itlay-born Antonio Rosselli. Unexpected because his six-track EP was published via my favourite Weird Pop imprint Beat is Murder - and I was not aware that Dino, the gentleman behind the wheel of BiM, fancies releasing playful Indietronics like this. MoR -" [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Back with a beat Three Fresh Instrumental Beat Tapes | Boom! I'm back from vacations eventually and got a lot free stuff to let you heads know about... In case you finished auraly digesting my post from two weeks ago, here is three fresh beat tapes of promising underground producers from Canda, the US and Germany. Have you ever [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Listener’s Digest Summer's got Bettina in its claws | I'm leaving for a two weeks vacation this Saturday. Suitcases have to be stuffed and friends have to be convinced to take care of mail, plants and cat. And as most people, I got myself some new books to browse in the scorching heat of sun-burned beaches (in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cornbeast – “Chip Hero” (8bitpeoples) Gameboy Arena Rock | We haven't had much chip music lately, and I used to check the usual sources of 8bit music less frequent than I did back in the days. "Chip Hero" by Stockholm Gameboy programmer Fredrik Stolpe, however,  is one of the more recent releases at 8bitpeoples, and it hit me hard.In a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Coehn&Foehrb – “Die Tugend Von Heute” (b.solid) German Rap Excellence | mo. pointed out Coehn & Foehrb to me as these guys are going to perform at the Cologne Commons festival this Friday, 12th of June 2009. Their debut album "Die Tugend Von Heute" is online for free via b.solid record label. Coehn & Foehrb bring forth fresh Rap and block-bustin' beats [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anton Mobin – “Micro-Climat” (konkretourist) Intensive Musique Concrète | French experimental music composer Anton Mobin released a 15-minutes piece of highly processed field recordings at Cologne konkretourist Netlabel.  "Micro-Climat" consists of recording from North and South France condenses versatile soundscapes and textures to an intensive piece of Music Concrète.What struck me about "Micro-Climat" on first touch was the bass-heavy physicalness [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Great, we have our first Netaudio Statement! Photo : www.flickr.com/photos/lafruu/Applejux Netaudio Statements | Tomorrow Sven Swift and me will play some creative commons music in Cologne on the radio. And next we on the Cologne Commons Festival. Remember, we asked you for an statement  in our article "Make Your Statement About Free Music Culture!" Now, Applejux from beautiful Spain grabbed his microphone [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Great, we have our first Netaudio Statement! Photo : www.flickr.com/photos/lafruu/Applejux Netaudio Statements | Tomorrow Sven Swift and me will play some creative commons music in Cologne on the radio. And next we on the Cologne Commons Festival. Remember, we asked you for an statement  in our article "Make Your Statement About Free Music Culture!" Now, Applejux from beautiful Spain grabbed his microphone [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Great, we have our first Netaudio Statement! Photo : www.flickr.com/photos/lafruu/Applejux Netaudio Statements | Tomorrow Sven Swift and me will play some creative commons music in Cologne on the radio. And next we on the Cologne Commons Festival. Remember, we asked you for an statement  in our article "Make Your Statement About Free Music Culture!" Now, Applejux from beautiful Spain grabbed his microphone [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sky Barstow – “It’s Circular” (Peppermill) Queer and quirky Synthpop | The Canadian Peppermill Netlabel resembles beatismurder.com in many aspects. Their latest addition could have been out at the Austrian label without a problem. Sky Barstow, Norwegian bon vivant and sound engineer, plays synth-driven Indiepop. Low fidelity, high quality!Robin Barstow a.k.a. Sky Barstow enjoys synthesizers and organs, "those big enormous ugly [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gillicuddy – “The Repeating Thoughts Of Old Zinng Zanng” (Resting Bell) Less grumpy, rather blissful | Gillicuddy returns with a tiny little EP on Resting Bell Netlabel. His debut "Shmalhans is Kuechenmeister" was quite a good listen with a lot of potential hiding behind the awkward compositions. On "The Repeating Thoughts", Gillicuddy takes the quiet moments, expands and brings them to perfection.Let's start with the downer [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Black Era -“Third eye guerrilla EP” (aquietbump netlabel) Dark Italian Trip Hop | Maybe Black Era is a dark reflection of the Berlusconi-ruled italian empire. Or maybe it is a reflection of the bad side of the italian soul called Mafia. Maybe none of these conclusions are right. What I can hear for sure are some dusky sounds, creeping slowly on the floor [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website M.W.D. -“Singing Forest” (Budabeats) Smooth Downbeats | Like his other label mates on Budabeats Netlabel M.W.D. loves Hip Hop, samples, Jazz and crackling vinyl. In comparison with the excellent release by Suhov who delivers rolling rhythms to dance, the drums of M.W.D.  sound lighter, smoother. His approach on instrumental Downbeats is more cinematic and relaxed. The DJ from Hungary [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Insider -“All’s Fair in Love of Wax” Crackling Vinyl and Some Breaks | Do you like Vinyl? Do you enjoy those smokin' breakbeats? Do you like some scratches and cuts? What about "All's Fair in Love of Wax"? Jonah Dempcy enjoys all these things to and produces electronic music with live improvisation, resulting in a style of music described sometimes as nu-jazz, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Oeler -“Aufbruchstimmung” (Modularfield) Take-a-journey Techno | The second release on the redesigned (and formerly known as DCC records) netlabel modularfield is a moving train. Straight pumping grooves with mesmerizing patterns, that unveil slowly in tracks with over 9 minutes of playing time. The four tracks on this records were meant to be played at the club - or [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Winnie The Shit -“Sons Grave” Subbass and Breakbeats | In "I love you" an 808-like bassdrum kicks relaxed in slow-motion. Some drive give the shuffled Dubstep-inspired beats around it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website V.O.M. -“Камень” (Clinical Archives) RU-ral Psychedelic Rock | If you are a keen follower of Phlow Magazine, you know that I regularly write about Russian and East European musicians. Up next we have got V.O.M., rather an idea than a band, acting simultaneously from (at least) three different cities, all in the name of hypnotic Krautrock. V.O.M. again. The name [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Clipper -“Alles Erscheint In Einem Anderen Licht” German High Gloss Pop | One might argue how much sense it makes to talk about a record that features German vocals and explicitly relies on reviewing the entanglements of music and lyrics in a magazine that is written for a mainly English-speaking readership. I am aware of this problem. Still, Cologne Pop outfit Clipper [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Autoplate Waves Goodbye Exclusive Compilation and Interview with Sebastian Redenz | From 2001 to 2008, Autoplate was the experimental subdivision of Thinner Netlabel. 50 high quality releases in eight years, the label was officially shut down three months ago with a beautiful EP by Russian Ambient outlet Slow. Time for us to get Sebastian Redenz in for a talk to shine a light on the Autoplate history and find out why the label had to cancel operation while Thinner is alive and kicking. Find out why Autoplate ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Various -“The Principle of Mentalism” (Zimmer Records) Eclectic Techno Compilation | 200 Megabytes of brilliant music from various artists found its way to the 40th release of the German netlabel "Zimmer Records". To get an idea of the decent quality, just imagine, that only the first two tracks almost fill up half an hour of distant electronic meditating sound. Other tracks are [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monokle -“Tesaurus” (Ideology) All-round Indiepop | Monokle finally released their third album. While "Ideas Aloud" from 2007 vanished with ElektroSound, "Teasurus" found a safe home at well-established Ideology Netlabel. Moving from melodic Electronica to inspired electronic Pop- and Rock music, the Russian duo took a big step towards getting seriously awesome. Monokle is Vlad Kudryavtsev and Alexander Kumach, two [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Orange Crush -“Autumn Reflections” (Archaic Horizon) Stonewashed Electronica | It's time to write about Orange Crush. His debut album "The Field"  back in 2006 got me already, but somehow I never managed to review it. Recently, Orange Crush published his second full-length and there is no excuse not to let you know about it eventually. Fancy lush Downbeat Electronica, ca. 1998? [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anois -“Tree House Whispers” (Aerotone Netlabel) Lovely Aero-Pop | It's been more than half a year ago that german melancholy netlabel aerotone put out a full length album. But your precious time was absolutely worth waiting for their new release. If you like folky pop music with a little electronica here and there, you should not miss "Tree House Whispers" by [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anois -“Tree House Whispers” (Aerotone Netlabel) Lovely Aero-Pop | It's been more than half a year ago that german melancholy netlabel aerotone put out a full length album. But your precious time was absolutely worth waiting for their new release. If you like folky pop music with a little electronica here and there, you should not miss "Tree House Whispers" by [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cie -“bonbon e.p.” (Broque Netlabel) Melodic Techno | I discovered Cie the first time when I listened to his Shuffle-Beat-orientated techno track "frühlingsblume" on Broque. I loved the melodies he put into his track. It took Cie some time to make us listen to his melodic and solid four-to-the-floor again. On his new EP you get four bonbons, four melodic [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cie - “bonbon e.p.” (Broque Netlabel) Melodic Techno | I discovered Cie the first time when I listened to his Shuffle-Beat-orientated techno track "frühlingsblume" on Broque. I loved the melodies he put into his track. It took Cie some time to make us listen to his melodic and solid four-to-the-floor again. On his new EP you get four bonbons, four melodic [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Wave Syria -“Hello, Yes” (Cheap Tunes) Slovenian Synthpop | To know how music was created brings forth a certain surplus- or disappointment, respectively. This is especially true for electronic music. Circuit bending punks, bearded men over analogue synthesizers and console-tuning kids always appeard more interesting to me than fancy Macbook nerds. Thus, Sloveanian Electropop duo New Wave Syria got my attention right [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Wave Syria - “Hello, Yes” (Cheap Tunes) Slovenian Synthpop | To know how music was created brings forth a certain surplus- or disappointment, respectively. This is especially true for electronic music. Circuit bending punks, bearded men over analogue synthesizers and console-tuning kids always appeard more interesting to me than fancy Macbook nerds. Thus, Sloveanian Electropop duo New Wave Syria got my attention right [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Various -“M100″ (MiMi) 100 Times MiMi Music | The Japanese/ Portugese MiMi Netlabel is not mentioned too often over here at Phlow Magazine. Dunno why this is the case- a deficiency in quality is not the reason. Let's correct this lapse and talk about the compilation "M100", MiMi put online as their 100th release! To my ears, the influence [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Various - “M100″ (MiMi) 100 Times MiMi Music | The Japanese/ Portugese MiMi Netlabel is not mentioned too often over here at Phlow Magazine. Dunno why this is the case- a deficiency in quality is not the reason. Let's correct this lapse and talk about the compilation "M100", MiMi put online as their 100th release! To my ears, the influence [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Various - “Format” (Fällt) Concept Music | From the mid-90's, Fällt Publishing operated in the field of experimental electronic music and media art. Record releases were always objects of artistic interest. Just recently, Fällt Publishing canceled operations, not without getting online with a free-for-download compilation: "Format". Fällt rounded up an impressive collection of musicians. "Format" opens with a beautiful and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Various -“Format” (Fällt) Concept Music | From the mid-90's, Fällt Publishing operated in the field of experimental electronic music and media art. Record releases were always objects of artistic interest. Just recently, Fällt Publishing canceled operations, not without getting online with a free-for-download compilation: "Format". Fällt rounded up an impressive collection of musicians. "Format" opens with a beautiful and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Various - “Cologne Commons Compilation” Electronic Music Compilation | Lately it's been a little bit quiet here... The reason is simple: Together with some enthusiastic folks in Cologne/Germany we are planing a conference and music festival about free culture, creative commons and of course music! One of the heads behind our music festival kicked off our event with an extraordinary [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Various -“Cologne Commons Compilation” Electronic Music Compilation | Lately it's been a little bit quiet here... The reason is simple: Together with some enthusiastic folks in Cologne/Germany we are planing a conference and music festival about free culture, creative commons and of course music! One of the heads behind our music festival kicked off our event with an extraordinary [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Diatribes, Demierre&Bourquenez -“Piano(s)” (Insubordinations) Subtle Free Jazz | Insubordination(s) Netlabel is a good address when it comes to quality Jazz and Jazz-related music in Netaudio. The label is run by Geneve sound activist Laurent Peter aka d'incise, who's responsible for the glitches in Diatribes as well. For "Piano(s)", Diatribes is accompanied by Jacques Demierre and Johann Bourquenez of Plaistow. Jacques [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Diatribes, Demierre&Bourquenez -“Piano(s)” (Insubordinations) Subtle Free Jazz | Insubordination(s) Netlabel is a good address when it comes to quality Jazz and Jazz-related music in Netaudio. The label is run by Geneve sound activist Laurent Peter aka d'incise, who's responsible for the glitches in Diatribes as well. For "Piano(s)", Diatribes is accompanied by Jacques Demierre and Johann Bourquenez of Plaistow. Jacques [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Earth Objects -“Live at Schmiede” (Headphonica) Mesmerizing Experimental Pop | New Earth Objects is a musical collective from Germany, "Live at Schmiede" a live recording conducted in Jena back in 2007. The bands' improvised free-form Pop is perfectly suitable for a live performance, and although within the 73 minutes set not too much is happening, the music will leave you beautifully [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Earth Objects -“Live at Schmiede” (Headphonica) Mesmerizing Experimental Pop | New Earth Objects is a musical collective from Germany, "Live at Schmiede" a live recording conducted in Jena back in 2007. The bands' improvised free-form Pop is perfectly suitable for a live performance, and although within the 73 minutes set not too much is happening, the music will leave you beautifully [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website V.A. - “A Whale in a Manger” (4-4-2 Music) Xmas Muzak | Australian record- and Netlabel 4-4-2 Music released a wonderful compilation in December 2008 I only stumbled about now. As the weather in Northern Germany is exactly like it normally is on Christmas Eve 'round here, maybe a review makes sense. "A Whale in the Manger" brings together six artists and their interpretation [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website V.A. -“A Whale in a Manger” (4-4-2 Music) Xmas Muzak | Australian record- and Netlabel 4-4-2 Music released a wonderful compilation in December 2008 I only stumbled about now. As the weather in Northern Germany is exactly like it normally is on Christmas Eve 'round here, maybe a review makes sense. "A Whale in the Manger" brings together six artists and their interpretation [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Patterns - “People I Adore” (Ursa Minor/ Altin Village) High Voltage Mathematics | Patterns are Germany's finest Postpunk outfit. There's not too much competition, I admit, but the three guys from Cologne can easily keep up with their idols in North America. With maximum amazement I found out that their label put the bands' early EPs online for free download. Don't own the "People [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Patterns -“People I Adore” (Ursa Minor/ Altin Village) High Voltage Mathematics | Patterns are Germany's finest Postpunk outfit. There's not too much competition, I admit, but the three guys from Cologne can easily keep up with their idols in North America. With maximum amazement I found out that their label put the bands' early EPs online for free download. Don't own the "People [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website XYDZO - “Y” (Pulsations For You) Electronic Folklore Music | This record has been around for long. I was planning to write about Russian Folklore in Electronic music and Netaudio but then netaudio.ru vanished and with them many of my examples. The article lay dead, still "Y" by Ljekio Ulmar aka XYDZO is so wondrous and beautiful and unique it must [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website XYDZO -“Y” (Pulsations For You) Electronic Folklore Music | This record has been around for long. I was planning to write about Russian Folklore in Electronic music and Netaudio but then netaudio.ru vanished and with them many of my examples. The article lay dead, still "Y" by Ljekio Ulmar aka XYDZO is so wondrous and beautiful and unique it must [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 8bit Visual Sugarcandy for the Weekend: Anamanaguchi Do you remember Anamanaguchi? | The 8-bit punk band from New York City had an EP on 8bitpeoples.com a while ago, and Phlow featured their "Okami"-inspired music video for the hitsingle "Sting Operation". Just recently, the NES ladylovers released their first full-length album "Dawn Metropolis" on 12" vinyl. It's not free but you should take [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 8bit Visual Sugarcandy for the Weekend: Anamanaguchi Do you remember Anamanaguchi? | The 8-bit punk band from New York City had an EP on 8bitpeoples.com a while ago, and Phlow featured their "Okami"-inspired music video for the hitsingle "Sting Operation". Just recently, the NES ladylovers released their first full-length album "Dawn Metropolis" on 12" vinyl. It's not free but you should take [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tapes -“Compuriddims EP” (Jahtari Netlabel) Analogue Basslines on Asteroids | Jahtari - one of our favorite providers of bass-driven music - peeps through the holes of old cassettes delivered by Tapes and smiles. They just released one of their rarely released free EPs. This time it's an artist called Tapes who loves the sound of old analogue tape recorders and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tapes -“Compuriddims EP” (Jahtari Netlabel) Analogue Basslines on Asteroids | Jahtari - one of our favorite providers of bass-driven music - peeps through the holes of old cassettes delivered by Tapes and smiles. They just released one of their rarely released free EPs. This time it's an artist called Tapes who loves the sound of old analogue tape recorders and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Various -“Cen Art” (Soulseek Records) Chill Out Compilation | Once upon a time Soulseek was the filesharing platform for real music lovers. Maybe it is still today... I lost track but what I kept in mind is this wonderful project called Soulseek Records. A project coordinated by musicians who connected through the platform, shared their taste and last not least [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Various -“Cen Art” (Soulseek Records) Chill Out Compilation | Once upon a time Soulseek was the filesharing platform for real music lovers. Maybe it is still today... I lost track but what I kept in mind is this wonderful project called Soulseek Records. A project coordinated by musicians who connected through the platform, shared their taste and last not least [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PHVSR - “Bassment” (modularfield Netlabel) Minimal TechHouse | modularfield is the rebirth of DCC Records from Cologne/Germany. "Bassment" is the first release to kick off the renamend netlabel. And PHVSR sets immediately the course of this techno spaceship: Groovy Minimal Techno. And PHVSR is definetely a good choice because you got some tricky sounds and rhythmic experiments with with this [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PHVSR -“Bassment” (modularfield Netlabel) Minimal TechHouse | modularfield is the rebirth of DCC Records from Cologne/Germany. "Bassment" is the first release to kick off the renamend netlabel. And PHVSR sets immediately the course of this techno spaceship: Groovy Minimal Techno. And PHVSR is definetely a good choice because you got some tricky sounds and rhythmic experiments with with this [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website No Snow - “Untitled EP” (Merzbau) No Wave Tribal Noise | I'm curious how Phlow Mag subscribers will like this release. While most of the music we're usually reviewing is nice and decent, French duo No Snow has to be described as rather grubby and primordial, nasty and overall difficult. Betty, infamous for being queer fellow tip to toe, can't [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website No Snow -“Untitled EP” (Merzbau) No Wave Tribal Noise | I'm curious how Phlow Mag subscribers will like this release. While most of the music we're usually reviewing is nice and decent, French duo No Snow has to be described as rather grubby and primordial, nasty and overall difficult. Betty, infamous for being queer fellow tip to toe, can't [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Imachi Akira - “Lycoris Radiata EP” (Electronica) Skillful Electronic Music | To my embarrassment I never heard of Imachi Akira or Russian Electronica Netlabel. And although the label puts information online only in Cyrillic script, this record grabbed my attention immediately. Japanese Akira hails from Tokyo and delivers wonderfully calm Electronica and Guitar-based Ambient on his "Lycoris Radiata" album. "Lycoris Radiata" is wonderfully [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Imachi Akira -“Lycoris Radiata EP” (Electronica) Skillful Electronic Music | To my embarrassment I never heard of Imachi Akira or Russian Electronica Netlabel. And although the label puts information online only in Cyrillic script, this record grabbed my attention immediately. Japanese Akira hails from Tokyo and delivers wonderfully calm Electronica and Guitar-based Ambient on his "Lycoris Radiata" album. "Lycoris Radiata" is wonderfully [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Various - “Practice Avoiding Mistakes” (Tokyo Dawn Records) Soul Music | Tokyo Dawn is back from the dead. And while they prepare the funk we sent you back in time, when they released their eased out album called "Practice Avoiding Mistakes". This compilation combines relaxed and smokey downbeats together with soulful songs. On top you listen to some cinematic tunes, crackling vinyl and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Various -“Practice Avoiding Mistakes” (Tokyo Dawn Records) Soul Music | Tokyo Dawn is back from the dead. And while they prepare the funk we sent you back in time, when they released their eased out album called "Practice Avoiding Mistakes". This compilation combines relaxed and smokey downbeats together with soulful songs. On top you listen to some cinematic tunes, crackling vinyl and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website [in]anace - “Repetitive Luxury” Techno Netaudio DJ-Mix | We like to call him Godfather of Netaudio-Mixing because Dirk Murschall aka [in]anace was the first DJ who consequently mixed free music he discovered on the web. Now [in]anace is back with another of his fantastic mixes delivering you a package of neat techno, technodub and house tracks. Always groovy, melodic [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website [in]anace -“Repetitive Luxury” Techno Netaudio DJ-Mix | We like to call him Godfather of Netaudio-Mixing because Dirk Murschall aka [in]anace was the first DJ who consequently mixed free music he discovered on the web. Now [in]anace is back with another of his fantastic mixes delivering you a package of neat techno, technodub and house tracks. Always groovy, melodic [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website [in]anace -“Repetitive Luxury” Techno Netaudio DJ-Mix | We like to call him Godfather of Netaudio-Mixing because Dirk Murschall aka [in]anace was the first DJ who consequently mixed free music he discovered on the web. Now [in]anace is back with another of his fantastic mixes delivering you a package of neat techno, technodub and house tracks. Always groovy, melodic [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Phillip Wilkerson - “Incidents in Spring” (Bypass) Warm and Minimal Ambient | From Galuszka's survey we can learn that most Netlabels are run by Germans. China, in contrast, is listed with one entry. I guess this is Bypass, the only Chinese label I know at least. Their catalogue number 16 comes from US American Phillip Wilkerson, whose minimal Ambient makes me think [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Phillip Wilkerson -“Incidents in Spring” (Bypass) Warm and Minimal Ambient | From Galuszka's survey we can learn that most Netlabels are run by Germans. China, in contrast, is listed with one entry. I guess this is Bypass, the only Chinese label I know at least. Their catalogue number 16 comes from US American Phillip Wilkerson, whose minimal Ambient makes me think [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kennie Sosa - “Code EP” (Zimmer Records) Hard-Pumpin' Techno| Zimmer-Records slowly grew into one of the solid sources for techno music on the internet. Their latest release "Code EP" from Kenni Sosa is an brilliant journey into hard punching techno - you eventually remember the hard techno guys from Skandinavia at the late 90ies? Now you got a picture. Very dense, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kennie Sosa -“Code EP” (Zimmer Records) Hard-Pumpin' Techno| Zimmer-Records slowly grew into one of the solid sources for techno music on the internet. Their latest release "Code EP" from Kenni Sosa is an brilliant journey into hard punching techno - you eventually remember the hard techno guys from Skandinavia at the late 90ies? Now you got a picture. Very dense, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tracky Birthday - “Animal Audition” (upitup Netlabel) Tracky Birthday is one of those artists, who push out his majestry of artistry through every pore of his body. While reflecting society and its desire to show off in his Video-Series "Bootyclipse", his website makes fun of all that Web 2.0-Dingeling. And till then, you haven't heard his mind-twisting raps full of satirical rhymes. "Animal Audition" haunts you with its Funk, Samples and absorbing grooves. Leech some delicious music right now! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tracky Birthday -“Animal Audition” (upitup Netlabel) Tracky Birthday is one of those artists, who push out his majestry of artistry through every pore of his body. While reflecting society and its desire to show off in his Video-Series "Bootyclipse", his website makes fun of all that Web 2.0-Dingeling. And till then, you haven't heard his mind-twisting raps full of satirical rhymes. "Animal Audition" haunts you with its Funk, Samples and absorbing grooves. Leech some delicious music right now! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Koen Park -“84′ 85′” (Acroplane Netlabel) Melodica Electronica | This release came as a surprise for me, a sweet one though. Koen Park is the IDM moniker of Ian Hawgood, a guy featured a lot at Phlow Mag and whose name you probably heard already. While I like his solo works better, Koen Park’s tiny “84′ 85′” EP is an instant [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Koen Park -“84′ 85′” (Acroplane Netlabel) Melodica Electronica | This release came as a surprise for me, a sweet one though. Koen Park is the IDM moniker of Ian Hawgood, a guy featured a lot at Phlow Mag and whose name you probably heard already. While I like his solo works better, Koen Park's tiny "84' 85'" EP is an instant [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Infant Color -“Infant Color” (Beat is Murder) Electropop Grandezza | Besides all the CDs the Viennese Beat is Murder label publishes, one mustn’t forget about their free music section. Texas-based crooner Infant Color is a perfect excuse to remember it. His self-titled EP brings forth a mesmerizing mix of home-grown Electronica, traces of 80’s EBM and a lot of Pop-sensibility. The US [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Infant Color -“Infant Color” (Beat is Murder) Electropop Grandezza | Besides all the CDs the Viennese Beat is Murder label publishes, one mustn't forget about their free music section. Texas-based crooner Infant Color is a perfect excuse to remember it. His self-titled EP brings forth a mesmerizing mix of home-grown Electronica, traces of 80's EBM and a lot of Pop-sensibility. The US [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paulina Mum -“Morning Rain” (Camomille Netlabel) Naive and beautiful Electronica | Paulina Mum proves that you don’t need any sophisticated, techy music gear to compose  colourful adventures. All it needs is a cheap casio keyboard and a talent to compose sweet little songs. “Morning Rain” on Camomille is a trip into a naive world of plinkerplonker-sounds where Glockenspiel and candy sounds [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paulina Mum -“Morning Rain” (Camomille Netlabel) Naive and beautiful Electronica | Paulina Mum proves that you don't need any sophisticated, techy music gear to compose  colourful adventures. All it needs is a cheap casio keyboard and a talent to compose sweet little songs. "Morning Rain" on Camomille is a trip into a naive world of plinkerplonker-sounds where Glockenspiel and candy sounds [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Professor Kliq -“The Scientific Method” (rec72 Netlabel) Bigbeat Boutique | Wooo! Yeee-hah! You gotta dig this! Professor Kliq rescues your next party with some damn solid and heavy beats. I waited a long time to discover some shiny dancefloor diamonds like this. Do you remember the days when The Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim or Propellerheads twisted our heads around? Professor Kliq gives [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Virot&Friends -“Release Party CD-R” (Clapping Music) Three Times Weird Folk From France | François Virot released a wonderful LP at the French Clapping Music recordlabel. For the release party in Paris, François gave away 100 copies of a CD-R featuring two friendly artists and two unpublished tunes by Virot himself. Soon after, Clapping Music decided to go online with exactly these [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sleepmakeswaves -“In Today Already Walks Tomorrow” (Lost Children Netlabel) Epic Postrock | This is epic! Sleepmakeswaves from Australia create an astonishing soundscape that can not be praised enough. Everyone who likes bands such as Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky, Isis and Mono, will love Sleepmakeswaves and their re-released EP “In Today already Walks Tomorrow”, where Ambient meets Progressive Rock with a well adjusted dose [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sleepmakeswaves -“In Today Already Walks Tomorrow” (Lost Children Netlabel) Epic Postrock | This is epic! Sleepmakeswaves from Australia create an astonishing soundscape that can not be praised enough. Everyone who likes bands such as Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky, Isis and Mono, will love Sleepmakeswaves and their re-released EP "In Today already Walks Tomorrow", where Ambient meets Progressive Rock with a well adjusted dose [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kalte -“The Lanthanide Series” (Stasisfield) Glisteing Sculptures of Sound | Kalte is Toronto-based Deane Hughes and Rik MacLean. Both guys are quite active in the field of abstract Ambient music but “Lanthanide Series” is their debut EP as a duo. Carefully, Kalte pile up layers of crystal-clear synths and scraping noises to something dense and mesmerizing. Twinkling and fathomless like [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kalte -“The Lanthanide Series” (Stasisfield) Glisteing Sculptures of Sound | Kalte is Toronto-based Deane Hughes and Rik MacLean. Both guys are quite active in the field of abstract Ambient music but “Lanthanide Series” is their debut EP as a duo. Carefully, Kalte pile up layers of crystal-clear synths and scraping noises to something dense and mesmerizing. Twinkling and fathomless like [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kalte -“The Lanthanide Series” (Stasisfield) Glisteing Sculptures of Sound | Kalte is Toronto-based Deane Hughes and Rik MacLean. Both guys are quite active in the field of abstract Ambient music but "Lanthanide Series" is their debut EP as a duo. Carefully, Kalte pile up layers of crystal-clear synths and scraping noises to something dense and mesmerizing. Twinkling and fathomless like [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March Rosetta -“Late in Time” (Clinical Archives) The Good 80’s: Fly Melancholia | I discoverd this clever album via the Machtdose podcast. Thank you Roland! March Rosetta is the alter ego of UK-born Berlin-living Tom Carter. “Late in Time” is his third album under this moniker, and it is online via the Russian Clinical Archives Netlabel. March Rosetta is all about Tom’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March Rosetta -“Late in Time” (Clinical Archives) The Good 80’s: Fly Melancholia | I discoverd this clever album via the Machtdose podcast. Thank you Roland! March Rosetta is the alter ego of UK-born Berlin-living Tom Carter. “Late in Time” is his third album under this moniker, and it is online via the Russian Clinical Archives Netlabel. March Rosetta is all about Tom’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March Rosetta -“Late in Time” (Clinical Archives) The Good 80's: Fly Melancholia | I discoverd this clever album via the Machtdose podcast. Thank you Roland! March Rosetta is the alter ego of UK-born Berlin-living Tom Carter. "Late in Time" is his third album under this moniker, and it is online via the Russian Clinical Archives Netlabel. March Rosetta is all about Tom's [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mishoo The Drumkit -“Born in the Land of a Thousand Hills” Smooth Hip Hop and R’n'B Grooves | Michael Rugamba Negele is a cosmopolit. Together with his buddy producers Comfort Fit, Elaquent and DJ Madsen he presents a soulful, jazzy and intelligent Hip Hop/R’n'B style. Born in Rwanda, Mishoo was already in his youth a refugee of the war in the African state. Together with his [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mishoo The Drumkit -“Born in the Land of a Thousand Hills” Smooth Hip Hop and R’n'B Grooves | Michael Rugamba Negele is a cosmopolit. Together with his buddy producers Comfort Fit, Elaquent and DJ Madsen he presents a soulful, jazzy and intelligent Hip Hop/R’n'B style. Born in Rwanda, Mishoo was already in his youth a refugee of the war in the African state. Together with his [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mishoo The Drumkit - “Born in the Land of a Thousand Hills” Smooth Hip Hop and R’n'B Grooves | Michael Rugamba Negele is a cosmopolit. Together with his buddy producers Comfort Fit, Elaquent and DJ Madsen he presents a soulful, jazzy and intelligent Hip Hop/R’n'B style. Born in Rwanda, Mishoo was already in his youth a refugee of the war in the African state. Together with his [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mishoo The Drumkit -“Born in the Land of a Thousand Hills” Smooth Hip Hop and R'n'B Grooves | Michael Rugamba Negele is a cosmopolit. Together with his buddy producers Comfort Fit, Elaquent and DJ Madsen he presents a soulful, jazzy and intelligent Hip Hop/R'n'B style. Born in Rwanda, Mishoo was already in his youth a refugee of the war in the African state. Together with his [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Playground for Electronic Music With their fifth release of the "Intelligent-Toys"-Series Sutemos and Walkman the guys behind Sutemos.net present once again a beautiful and huge compilation of music around IDM, Ambient and sweet Electronica. The Lithunian musiclovers managed once again to represent their collective and extraordinary artists from abroad.Find out how they convinced artists like Vladislav Delay to join their mission » Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Playground for Electronic Music With their fifth release of the "Intelligent-Toys"-Series Sutemos and Walkman the guys behind Sutemos.net present once again a beautiful and huge compilation of music around IDM, Ambient and sweet Electronica. The Lithunian musiclovers managed once again to represent their collective and extraordinary artists from abroad.Find out how they convinced artists like Vladislav Delay to join their mission » Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Playground for Electronic Music With their fifth release of the "Intelligent-Toys"-Series Sutemos and Walkman the guys behind Sutemos.net present once again a beautiful and huge compilation of music around IDM, Ambient and sweet Electronica. The Lithunian musiclovers managed once again to represent their collective and extraordinary artists from abroad.Find out how they convinced artists like Vladislav Delay to join their mission » Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Various - “Intelligent Toys 5″ (Sutemos Netlabel) A Giant and Hell of a Compilation | The Intelligent Toys Series is one of the most extraordinary Netlabel Series to date featuring finest electronic music from IDM to Ambient to Electronica. With their fifth release the Estonian Collective fills your private mp3-player with music from artist like AGF, Vladislav Delay, IJO, Ruxpin, Octext, Ulrich [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Various -“Intelligent Toys 5″ (Sutemos Netlabel) A Giant and Hell of a Compilation | The Intelligent Toys Series is one of the most extraordinary Netlabel Series to date featuring finest electronic music from IDM to Ambient to Electronica. With their fifth release the Estonian Collective fills your private mp3-player with music from artist like AGF, Vladislav Delay, IJO, Ruxpin, Octext, Ulrich [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Various -“Intelligent Toys 5″ (Sutemos Netlabel) A Giant and Hell of a Compilation | The Intelligent Toys Series is one of the most extraordinary Netlabel Series to date featuring finest electronic music from IDM to Ambient to Electronica. With their fifth release the Estonian Collective fills your private mp3-player with music from artist like AGF, Vladislav Delay, IJO, Ruxpin, Octext, Ulrich [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Various - “Intelligent Toys 5″ (Sutemos Netlabel) A Giant and Hell of a Compilation | The Intelligent Toys Series is one of the most extraordinary Netlabel Series to date featuring finest electronic music from IDM to Ambient to Electronica. With their fifth release the Estonian Collective fills your private mp3-player with music from artist like AGF, Vladislav Delay, IJO, Ruxpin, Octext, Ulrich [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Various -“Intelligent Toys 5″ (Sutemos Netlabel) A Giant and Hell of a Compilation | The Intelligent Toys Series is one of the most extraordinary Netlabel Series to date featuring finest electronic music from IDM to Ambient to Electronica. With their fifth release the Estonian Collective fills your private mp3-player with music from artist like AGF, Vladislav Delay, IJO, Ruxpin, Octext, Ulrich [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Various - “Petite musique pour arbre nu” (Nohmad Netlabel) Dark Ambient and DubStep | When you visit and listen to the sound forest of Nohmad you get slowly horrified. Dubstep-Beats and Dark Ambient full of grim, gloomy creeping sounds and graveyard deep basslines welcome you to the underworld. Music for people who enjoy visiting scary places to get to sucked into the bitter darkness. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Various -“Petite musique pour arbre nu” (Nohmad Netlabel) Dark Ambient and DubStep | When you visit and listen to the sound forest of Nohmad you get slowly horrified. Dubstep-Beats and Dark Ambient full of grim, gloomy creeping sounds and graveyard deep basslines welcome you to the underworld. Music for people who enjoy visiting scary places to get to sucked into the bitter darkness. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Various -“Petite musique pour arbre nu” (Nohmad Netlabel) Dark Ambient and DubStep | When you visit and listen to the sound forest of Nohmad you get slowly horrified. Dubstep-Beats and Dark Ambient full of grim, gloomy creeping sounds and graveyard deep basslines welcome you to the underworld. Music for people who enjoy visiting scary places to get to sucked into the bitter darkness. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Various -“Petite musique pour arbre nu” (Nohmad Netlabel) Dark Ambient and DubStep | When you visit and listen to the sound forest of Nohmad you get slowly horrified. Dubstep-Beats and Dark Ambient full of grim, gloomy creeping sounds and graveyard deep basslines welcome you to the underworld. Music for people who enjoy visiting scary places to get to sucked into the bitter darkness. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Various - “Octopus Two” (Fresh Poulp Records) Versatile Label-Compilation | In 2004, the French eclectic electronic music netlabel Fresh Poulp Records released its first compilation “Octopus One”. Four years and 28 releases later “Octopus Two” offers a musical summary of what Fresh Poulp is about. Guests and members of the Fresh Poulp family present various genres and styles like Dub, Electronica, Chiptune, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Various -“Octopus Two” (Fresh Poulp Records) Versatile Label-Compilation | In 2004, the French eclectic electronic music netlabel Fresh Poulp Records released its first compilation “Octopus One”. Four years and 28 releases later “Octopus Two” offers a musical summary of what Fresh Poulp is about. Guests and members of the Fresh Poulp family present various genres and styles like Dub, Electronica, Chiptune, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Various -“Octopus Two” (Fresh Poulp Records) Versatile Label-Compilation | In 2004, the French eclectic electronic music netlabel Fresh Poulp Records released its first compilation “Octopus One”. Four years and 28 releases later “Octopus Two” offers a musical summary of what Fresh Poulp is about. Guests and members of the Fresh Poulp family present various genres and styles like Dub, Electronica, Chiptune, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rolancho - “Quizás quiso decir Rolando” (modismo netlabel) An Electronic Music Adventure from Chile | “Quizás quiso decir Rolando” is what I would call a true full-length album. It has all the ingredients to master a musical trip over 52:47 minutes. While the different songs and tracks float into each other, Rolancho takes us from IDM to Ambient to Techno to Instrumental Hip [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rolancho -“Quizás quiso decir Rolando” (modismo netlabel) An Electronic Music Adventure from Chile | “Quizás quiso decir Rolando” is what I would call a true full-length album. It has all the ingredients to master a musical trip over 52:47 minutes. While the different songs and tracks float into each other, Rolancho takes us from IDM to Ambient to Techno to Instrumental Hip [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rolancho -“Quizás quiso decir Rolando” (modismo netlabel) An Electronic Music Adventure from Chile | “Quizás quiso decir Rolando” is what I would call a true full-length album. It has all the ingredients to master a musical trip over 52:47 minutes. While the different songs and tracks float into each other, Rolancho takes us from IDM to Ambient to Techno to Instrumental Hip [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website offthesky - “Subtle Trees” (Rope Swing Cities) Versatile and Virtuoso Ambient | US American Jason Corder aka offthesky is someone to rely on. I wrote a review for his 2007’s Autoplate release short before the label vanished, but there are recent releases at IOD, Zymogen and Resting Bell Netlabel who would have been worth a feature as well. Alone in 2008, Jason [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website offthesky -“Subtle Trees” (Rope Swing Cities) Versatile and Virtuoso Ambient | US American Jason Corder aka offthesky is someone to rely on. I wrote a review for his 2007’s Autoplate release short before the label vanished, but there are recent releases at IOD, Zymogen and Resting Bell Netlabel who would have been worth a feature as well. Alone in 2008, Jason [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website offthesky -“Subtle Trees” (Rope Swing Cities) Versatile and Virtuoso Ambient | US American Jason Corder aka offthesky is someone to rely on. I wrote a review for his 2007’s Autoplate release short before the label vanished, but there are recent releases at IOD, Zymogen and Resting Bell Netlabel who would have been worth a feature as well. Alone in 2008, Jason [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Double Review: “Colores: Fluidos” and “Libertad EP” (Monofónicos Netlabel) Two Melodic House EPs from Colombia | Like yesterday we visit once again South America and its rich music culture. This time we visit Colombia and the Monofónicos Netlabel. With actually two releases called “Colores: Fluidos” and  they set signs into the Techno-House direction. Clean synthesizer sounds await us thrown into the echo chamber of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Double Review:“Colores: Fluidos” and “Libertad EP” (Monofónicos Netlabel) Two Melodic House EPs from Colombia | Like yesterday we visit once again South America and its rich music culture. This time we visit Colombia and the Monofónicos Netlabel. With actually two releases called “Colores: Fluidos” and  they set signs into the Techno-House direction. Clean synthesizer sounds await us thrown into the echo chamber of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Double Review:“Colores: Fluidos” and “Libertad EP” (Monofónicos Netlabel) Two Melodic House EPs from Colombia | Like yesterday we visit once again South America and its rich music culture. This time we visit Colombia and the Monofónicos Netlabel. With actually two releases called “Colores: Fluidos” and  they set signs into the Techno-House direction. Clean synthesizer sounds await us thrown into the echo chamber of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Menuda Coincidencia - “Ai con Permisito” (Delhotel Records) Mexican Hip Hop Adventures | Oh, this one is fresh! Straight from Mexico Hip Hop-Group Menuda Coincidencia delivers us a delicious package full of jazzy loops, a bucket full of trumpets and eight groovy tunes. It’s like watching an entertaining cartoon. Or like going down to your favorite jazz club just being knocked down by [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Menuda Coincidencia -“Ai con Permisito” (Delhotel Records) Mexican Hip Hop Adventures | Oh, this one is fresh! Straight from Mexico Hip Hop-Group Menuda Coincidencia delivers us a delicious package full of jazzy loops, a bucket full of trumpets and eight groovy tunes. It’s like watching an entertaining cartoon. Or like going down to your favorite jazz club just being knocked down by [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Menuda Coincidencia -“Ai con Permisito” (Delhotel Records) Mexican Hip Hop Adventures | Oh, this one is fresh! Straight from Mexico Hip Hop-Group Menuda Coincidencia delivers us a delicious package full of jazzy loops, a bucket full of trumpets and eight groovy tunes. It’s like watching an entertaining cartoon. Or like going down to your favorite jazz club just being knocked down by [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Son Of A Bricklayer -“Shades Of Grey” (Ground Floor) Solanaceous Instrumental Hip Hop | I couldn’t find out much about the Copenhagen-based beatjuggler Son Of A Bricklayer. His label Ground Floor is rather tight-liped about their artist, so we’re thrown back to the music itself. Not too bad after all. Son Of A Bricklayer produces dark and experimental Hip Hop tunes, instrumental, with a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Son Of A Bricklayer -“Shades Of Grey” (Ground Floor) Solanaceous Instrumental Hip Hop | I couldn’t find out much about the Copenhagen-based beatjuggler Son Of A Bricklayer. His label Ground Floor is rather tight-liped about their artist, so we’re thrown back to the music itself. Not too bad after all. Son Of A Bricklayer produces dark and experimental Hip Hop tunes, instrumental, with a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Son Of A Bricklayer - “Shades Of Grey” (Ground Floor) Solanaceous Instrumental Hip Hop | I couldn’t find out much about the Copenhagen-based beatjuggler Son Of A Bricklayer. His label Ground Floor is rather tight-liped about their artist, so we’re thrown back to the music itself. Not too bad after all. Son Of A Bricklayer produces dark and experimental Hip Hop tunes, instrumental, with a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jaume Muntsant’s Favorite Netaudio Moments in 2008 Advent Calendar Door 19 | Jaume Muntsant was the first catalan guy I met related to netaudio (a catalan is someone who lives in Catalunya, a small country in  Spain). That was some years back in time, when he started publishing his minimal techno as Hermético in a homelabel named Doblec. Later he founded inoQuo.com [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jaume Muntsant’s Favorite Netaudio Moments in 2008 Advent Calendar Door 19 | Jaume Muntsant was the first catalan guy I met related to netaudio (a catalan is someone who lives in Catalunya, a small country in  Spain). That was some years back in time, when he started publishing his minimal techno as Hermético on a homelabel named Doblec. Later he founded inoQuo.com [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jaume Muntsant’s Favorite Netaudio Moments in 2008 Advent Calendar Door 19 | Jaume Muntsant was the first catalan guy I met related to netaudio (a catalan is someone who lives in Catalunya, a small country in  Spain). That was some years back in time, when he started publishing his minimal techno as Hermético on a homelabel named Doblec. Later he founded inoQuo.com [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ian Hawgood’s Favorite Netaudio Moments in 2008 Advent Calendar Door 22 | There are certain names in Netaudio you stumble upon quite regularly. Think of Daniel Maze, d’incise, .at/on, or Jason Corder aka offthesky. In 2008, Ian (D.) Hawgood was unavoidable. The UK-born musician lives in Tokyo but travells the US and Europe as well. A busy man. Still, his musical outlet [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ian Hawgood’s Favorite Netaudio Moments in 2008 Advent Calendar Door 22 | There are certain names in Netaudio you stumble upon quite regularly. Think of Daniel Maze, d’incise, .at/on, or Jason Corder aka offthesky. In 2008, Ian (D.) Hawgood was unavoidable. The UK-born musician lives in Tokyo but travells the US and Europe as well. A busy man. Still, his musical outlet [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ian Hawgood’s Favorite Netaudio Moments in 2008 Advent Calendar Door 22 | There are certain names in Netaudio you stumble upon quite regularly. Think of Daniel Maze, d’incise, .at/on, or Jason Corder aka offthesky. In 2008, Ian (D.) Hawgood was unavoidable. The UK-born musician lives in Tokyo but travells the US and Europe as well. A busy man. Still, his musical outlet [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website segue Best’s Favorite Netaudio Moments in 2008 Advent Calendar Door 17 | segue is Jordan Sauer from Vancouver, Canada, currently residing in Washington DC. His music is a patchwork of textures and tones with a focus on the interplay of timbre. These sounds are created through the blending of various instruments, found sounds and field recordings. Jordan has numerous releases on netlabels [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website segue Best’s Favorite Netaudio Moments in 2008 Advent Calendar Door 17 | segue is Jordan Sauer from Vancouver, Canada, currently residing in Washington DC. His music is a patchwork of textures and tones with a focus on the interplay of timbre. These sounds are created through the blending of various instruments, found sounds and field recordings. Jordan has numerous releases on netlabels [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website segue Best’s Favorite Netaudio Moments in 2008 Advent Calendar Door 17 | segue is Jordan Sauer from Vancouver, Canada, currently residing in Washington DC. His music is a patchwork of textures and tones with a focus on the interplay of timbre. These sounds are created through the blending of various instruments, found sounds and field recordings. Jordan has numerous releases on netlabels [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Yuki Yaki’s Favorite Netaudio Moments in 2008 Advent Calendar Door 16 | Yuki Yaki has been founded in 2005 a logical consequence of a radio show. The show as well as the label tries to provide a platform for artists and their work. It appeals to musicians, photographers and designers. As we do not believe in cataloguing music, it is very hard [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Yuki Yaki’s Favorite Netaudio Moments in 2008 Advent Calendar Door 16 | Yuki Yaki has been founded in 2005 a logical consequence of a radio show. The show as well as the label tries to provide a platform for artists and their work. It appeals to musicians, photographers and designers. As we do not believe in cataloguing music, it is very hard [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Yuki Yaki’s Favorite Netaudio Moments in 2008 Advent Calendar Door 16 | Yuki Yaki has been founded in 2005 a logical consequence of a radio show. The show as well as the label tries to provide a platform for artists and their work. It appeals to musicians, photographers and designers. As we do not believe in cataloguing music, it is very hard [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Barry Rogers Favorite Netaudio Moments in 2008 Advent Calendar Door 15 | An accomplished multi-instrumentalist, Barry Rogers started the Lost Children Netlabel in 2003 to distribute his own recordings as Loss of a Child. Five years on, Lost Children has had 50 releases and reaches out to the Postrock/ instrumental/ progressive community, aiming to distribute great bands and artists to enable them [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Barry Rogers Favorite Netaudio Moments in 2008 Advent Calendar Door 15 | An accomplished multi-instrumentalist, Barry Rogers started the Lost Children Netlabel in 2003 to distribute his own recordings as Loss of a Child. Five years on, Lost Children has had 50 releases and reaches out to the Postrock/ instrumental/ progressive community, aiming to distribute great bands and artists to enable them [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Barry Rogers Favorite Netaudio Moments in 2008 Advent Calendar Door 15 | An accomplished multi-instrumentalist, Barry Rogers started the Lost Children Netlabel in 2003 to distribute his own recordings as Loss of a Child. Five years on, Lost Children has had 50 releases and reaches out to the Postrock/ instrumental/ progressive community, aiming to distribute great bands and artists to enable them [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Catching The Waves Favorite Netaudio Moments 2008 Photo:  Malene Thyssen Advent Calendar Door 14 | CTW is responsible for the greasy, erratic and dubious blog entitled Catching The Waves, which, rather appropriately, is based in that greasy, erratic and dubious island known as the UK. He keeps resuscitating it, despite public opprobrium, in gratitude for all the great free music produced by [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Catching The Waves Favorite Netaudio Moments 2008 Photo:  Malene Thyssen Advent Calendar Door 14 | CTW is responsible for the greasy, erratic and dubious blog entitled Catching The Waves, which, rather appropriately, is based in that greasy, erratic and dubious island known as the UK. He keeps resuscitating it, despite public opprobrium, in gratitude for all the great free music produced by [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Catching The Waves Favorite Netaudio Moments 2008 Photo:  Malene Thyssen Advent Calendar Door 14 | CTW is responsible for the greasy, erratic and dubious blog entitled Catching The Waves, which, rather appropriately, is based in that greasy, erratic and dubious island known as the UK. He keeps resuscitating it, despite public opprobrium, in gratitude for all the great free music produced by [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 020200’s Favorite Netaudio Moments in 2008 Advent Calendar Door 12 | 020200 is passionate about music, art and the web. No wonder, that he shares a strong interest for netaudio. His first love was his own netlabel 2063music back in 1999 and meanwhile he submits parts of his work into the organisation of netmusic and creative commons events in Cologne. He [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 020200’s Favorite Netaudio Moments in 2008 Advent Calendar Door 12 | 020200 is passionate about music, art and the web. No wonder, that he shares a strong interest for netaudio. His first love was his own netlabel 2063music back in 1999 and meanwhile he submits parts of his work into the organisation of netmusic and creative commons events in Cologne. He [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sr. AYE’s Favorite Netaudio Moments in 2008 Advent Calendar Door 11 | Salvador España is Sr.Aye, who defines himself as some kind of strange lemur living in south Spain. He’s a musician working since the end of 90s. Since 2004 he has been collaborating both as producing and managing Miga, one of most relevant spanish netlabels. Within this period he’s released on netlabels [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sr. AYE’s Favorite Netaudio Moments in 2008 Advent Calendar Door 11 | Salvador España is Sr.Aye, who defines himself as some kind of strange lemur living in south Spain. He’s a musician working since the end of 90s. Since 2004 he has been collaborating both as producing and managing Miga, one of most relevant spanish netlabels. Within this period he’s released on netlabels [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sr. AYE’s Favorite Netaudio Moments in 2008 Advent Calendar Door 11 | Salvador España is Sr.Aye, who defines himself as some kind of strange lemur living in south Spain. He’s a musician working since the end of 90s. Since 2004 he has been collaborating both as producing and managing Miga, one of most relevant spanish netlabels. Within this period he’s released on netlabels [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bettina’s Favorite Netaudio Moments in 2008 Advent Calendar Door 10 | What to say about Bettina? Following mo. and Brigitte, Betty is an integral part of the Phlow Magazine collective. Rhymes is not what she pretends to be. But she is an expert in Netaudio. Experimental Ambient and IDM, Hip Hop and Pop, this is Bettina’s playground. You probably read one [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bettina’s Favorite Netaudio Moments in 2008 Advent Calendar Door 10 | What to say about Bettina? Following mo. and Brigitte, Betty is an integral part of the Phlow Magazine collective. Rhymes is not what she pretends to be. But she is an expert in Netaudio. Experimental Ambient and IDM, Hip Hop and Pop, this is Bettina’s playground. You probably read one [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bettina’s Favorite Netaudio Moments in 2008 Advent Calendar Door 10 | What to say about Bettina? Following mo. and Brigitte, Betty is an integral part of the Phlow Magazine collective. Rhymes is not what she pretends to be. But she is an expert in Netaudio. Experimental Ambient and IDM, Hip Hop and Pop, this is Bettina’s playground. You probably read one [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Filippo ‘Flip’ Aldovini Favorite Netaudio Moments in 2008 Advent Calendar Door 9 | Filippo Aldovini runs one of the most beloved Netlabels: zymogen.net. He features experimental electronic and electro-acoustic music with a stunning feel for atmosphere and innovative sound-design. In 2008 Flip organized two festivals in Italy (NODE and sinthe) and founded a record- and Netlabel for Hip Hop music (Error Broadcast). The [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Filippo‘Flip’ Aldovini Favorite Netaudio Moments in 2008 Advent Calendar Door 9 | Filippo Aldovini runs one of the most beloved Netlabels: zymogen.net. He features experimental electronic and electro-acoustic music with a stunning feel for atmosphere and innovative sound-design. In 2008 Flip organized two festivals in Italy (NODE and sinthe) and founded a record- and Netlabel for Hip Hop music (Error Broadcast). The [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Filippo‘Flip’ Aldovini Favorite Netaudio Moments in 2008 Advent Calendar Door 9 | Filippo Aldovini runs one of the most beloved Netlabels: zymogen.net. He features experimental electronic and electro-acoustic music with a stunning feel for atmosphere and innovative sound-design. In 2008 Flip organized two festivals in Italy (NODE and sinthe) and founded a record- and Netlabel for Hip Hop music (Error Broadcast). The [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Masayuki’s Favorite Netaudio Moments 2008 Advent Calendar Door 8 | We like surprises, especially during Christmas Time. And while struggling, with our time issues, Masayuki, the brain behind the Japanese music weblog Music Forest, just sent us his Netaudio Charts by chance. Like his charts from last year, we are pleased and recommend you: Have a listen to what Tokyo [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Masayuki’s Favorite Netaudio Moments 2008 Advent Calendar Door 8 | We like surprises, especially during Christmas Time. And while struggling, with our time issues, Masayuki, the brain behind the Japanese music weblog Music Forest, just sent us his Netaudio Charts by chance. Like his charts from last year, we are pleased and recommend you: Have a listen to what Tokyo [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Masayuki’s Favorite Netaudio Moments 2008 Advent Calendar Door 8 | We like surprises, especially during Christmas Time. And while struggling, with our time issues, Masayuki, the brain behind the Japanese music weblog Music Forest, just sent us his Netaudio Charts by chance. Like his charts from last year, we are pleased and recommend you: Have a listen to what Tokyo [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website d’incise’s Favorite Netaudio Moments 2008 Advent Calendar Door 7 | d’incise, born in 1983, is member of the Audioactivity, a music & visual collective founded in 2000 in Geneva (CH). In 2002 he starded to produce different kinds of electronic music, from dub to electronica, dangerously sliding to the more experimental ways of electroacoustic. His world is made with sound [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website d’incise’s Favorite Netaudio Moments 2008 Advent Calendar Door 7 | d’incise, born in 1983, is member of the Audioactivity, a music & visual collective founded in 2000 in Geneva (CH). In 2002 he starded to produce different kinds of electronic music, from dub to electronica, dangerously sliding to the more experimental ways of electroacoustic. His world is made with sound [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website d’incise’s Favorite Netaudio Moments 2008 Advent Calendar Door 7 | d’incise, born in 1983, is member of the Audioactivity, a music & visual collective founded in 2000 in Geneva (CH). In 2002 he starded to produce different kinds of electronic music, from dub to electronica, dangerously sliding to the more experimental ways of electroacoustic. His world is made with sound [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David “sml” Domingo’s Favorite Netaudio Moments 2008 Advent Calendar Door 6 | While trying to set the netaudio.es workteam we spread the word amongst friends mailing lists and social networks. David replied in just a few hours with an extensive mail, just after crossing some mountains nearby Russia. After reading the third line of we knew he was the guy. 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Having a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An interview with Patryk Galuszka about his research on netlabels Foto by Psycoded: Patryk (left) meeting the netlabel scene in Cologne (to the right Flo and  Stoffel) Digital Phlow Podcast | Two weeks ago I met Patryk Galuszka for an interview about netaudio and netlabelism. Patryk Galuszka is a researcher who works for the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies and the Academy of Humanities [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An interview with Patryk Galuszka about his research on netlabels Foto by Psycoded: Patryk (left) meeting the netlabel scene in Cologne (to the right Flo and  Stoffel) Digital Phlow Podcast | Two weeks ago I met Patryk Galuszka for an interview about netaudio and netlabelism. Patryk Galuszka is a researcher who works for the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies and the Academy of Humanities [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An interview with Patryk Galuszka about his research on netlabels Foto by Psycoded: Patryk (left) meeting the netlabel scene in Cologne (to the right Flo and  Stoffel) Digital Phlow Podcast | Two weeks ago I met Patryk Galuszka for an interview about netaudio and netlabelism. Patryk Galuszka is a researcher who works for the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies and the Academy of Humanities [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brigitte Bijoux’s Favorite Netaudio Moments 2008 Advent Calendar Door 5 | Woooh! Gee!, 2008 was a hell of a year to make awesome discoveries from Japan to Chile, from Mexico to Italy. 2008 was the year for netlabelism and netaudio to break its shell to see some light. In Spain, Germany, Russia, Italy and of course England small and huge events [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marc Robert Zendrini’s Favorite Netaudio Moments 2008 Advent Calendar Door 4 | Born 1978. Studies communication sociology and social anthropology. Was trainee at the Club Transmediale 2004 festival. Organizes concerts and events in Switzerland. Co-founded adozen.org in 2004 with Luc Doebereiner. adozen.org distributes experimental electronic music. The main objective is to release music from artists coming from different fields, but with a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marc Robert Zendrini’s Favorite Netaudio Moments 2008 Advent Calendar Door 4 | Born 1978. Studies communication sociology and social anthropology. Was trainee at the Club Transmediale 2004 festival. Organizes concerts and events in Switzerland. Co-founded adozen.org in 2004 with Luc Doebereiner. adozen.org distributes experimental electronic music. The main objective is to release music from artists coming from different fields, but with a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joshua Twentythree�s Favorite Netaudio Moments 2008 Advent Calendar Door 3 | Joshua Twentythree is usually pretty busy; this is what he tells his friends so that he can bow gracefully out of social engagements. Not only is he the founder of netlabel Rope Swing Cities, he acts as a director, curator and performer for www.communikey.us in Colorado and is now one [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joshua Twentythree’s Favorite Netaudio Moments 2008 Advent Calendar Door 3 | Joshua Twentythree is usually pretty busy; this is what he tells his friends so that he can bow gracefully out of social engagements. 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One highlight in spring was the licence-clearing of six netlabel-tracks for a design conference [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website mo.’s Favorite Netaudio Moments 2008 Advent Calendar Door 2 | “2008 was an incredible year for me to digg deeper into the world of netlabelism. Our magazine opened its leaves like a flower and each month I discovered more incredible music from different places on earth. One highlight in spring was the licence-clearing of six netlabel-tracks for a design conference [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website mo.’s Favorite Netaudio Moments 2008 Advent Calendar Door 2 | “2008 was an incredible year for me to digg deeper into the world of netlabelism. Our magazine opened its leaves like a flower and each month I discovered more incredible music from different places on earth. One highlight in spring was the licence-clearing of six netlabel-tracks for a design conference [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Phlow-Magazine.com Advent Calendar 2008 Yeeeee! At least Santa Clause made it and we can kick off a month of daily diamonds! We start our fabulous Phlow-Magazine.com-Advent calendar with a damn fine compilation by Sven Swift aka Bettina Rhymes. Raise the curtain for “Fall is for Lovers - A Collection Of Catchy Pop Tunes“ “Fall Is For Lovers” - A Phlow [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fall is for Lovers - A Collection Of Catchy Pop Tunes “Fall Is For Lovers” - A Phlow Mag Mixtape A Collection Of Catchy Pop Tunes | Despite the fact that it is grey, rainy and coldish, Autumn is a season of maximum bliss. Right between Summer holidays and Christmas vacation, Autumn gives time to breathe deeply, sort things out, to come down. The odor [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fall is for Lovers - A Collection Of Catchy Pop Tunes “Fall Is For Lovers” - A Phlow Mag Mixtape A Collection Of Catchy Pop Tunes | Despite the fact that it is grey, rainy and coldish, Autumn is a season of maximum bliss. Right between Summer holidays and Christmas vacation, Autumn gives time to breathe deeply, sort things out, to come down. The odor [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: �DeefUltra� on rec72 Netlabel Creative Commons Video | Video-Clips are still rare on netlabels. That’s why Marco Medkour from rec72 tries to get in touch with VJs to connect for a wonderful audio-visual performance. Marco realized to use videos not only as a promotional tool, no, better, he loves them - like we all do - as a beautiful [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video:“DeefUltra” on rec72 Netlabel Creative Commons Video | Video-Clips are still rare on netlabels. That’s why Marco Medkour from rec72 tries to get in touch with VJs to connect for a wonderful audio-visual performance. Marco realized to use videos not only as a promotional tool, no, better, he loves them - like we all do - as a beautiful [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video:“DeefUltra” on rec72 Netlabel Creative Commons Video | Video-Clips are still rare on netlabels. That’s why Marco Medkour from rec72 tries to get in touch with VJs to connect for a wonderful audio-visual performance. Marco realized to use videos not only as a promotional tool, no, better, he loves them - like we all do - as a beautiful [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video:“DeefUltra” on rec72 Netlabel Creative Commons Video | Video-Clips are still rare on netlabels. That’s why Marco Medkour from rec72 tries to get in touch with VJs to connect for a wonderful audio-visual performance. Marco realized to use videos not only as a promotional tool, no, better, he loves them - like we all do - as a beautiful [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thiaz Itch -“Binjoum” (Bedroom Research Netlabel) Weirdo Melodic Electronica | The music by Thiaz Itch is full of contradictions. In one ear “Binjoum” sounds naive, playful and childish coloured. In the other hand this “delightful bittersweet cocktail” surprises you with a ton of different instruments. Instruments from trumpets to organs to Glockenspiel to Synthesizers thrown all together to make you smile [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thiaz Itch - �Binjoum� (Bedroom Research Netlabel) Weirdo Melodic Electronica | The music by Thiaz Itch is full of contradictions. In one ear “Binjoum” sounds naive, playful and childish coloured. In the other hand this “delightful bittersweet cocktail” surprises you with a ton of different instruments. Instruments from trumpets to organs to Glockenspiel to Synthesizers thrown all together to make you smile [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thiaz Itch -“Binjoum” (Bedroom Research Netlabel) Weirdo Melodic Electronica | The music by Thiaz Itch is full of contradictions. In one ear “Binjoum” sounds naive, playful and childish coloured. In the other hand this “delightful bittersweet cocktail” surprises you with a ton of different instruments. Instruments from trumpets to organs to Glockenspiel to Synthesizers thrown all together to make you smile [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Morgenklang - �Deep Dive� (Supafeed Netlabel) Smooth House Music | The Morgenklang-Duo know how to grab the knobs of their controllers to squeeze some cosy and smooth House Tunes out of the synthesizers and drummachines. Their sound on the House Netlabel Supafeed is relaxed and fits perfectly into cool lounges or into a laid-back dj-set. With every of the three tracks [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Morgenklang -“Deep Dive” (Supafeed Netlabel) Smooth House Music | The Morgenklang-Duo know how to grab the knobs of their controllers to squeeze some cosy and smooth House Tunes out of the synthesizers and drummachines. Their sound on the House Netlabel Supafeed is relaxed and fits perfectly into cool lounges or into a laid-back dj-set. With every of the three tracks [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cantaloup - �On A Hill Not Far Away� (Aerotone) Lovely Guitar Pop Impressions | Cantaloup is the one man shoegaze Pop outfit of German guitarist Thomas Peters. He released his first EP “Tonight It Shows” via Aerotone and it soon became one of the Netlabel’s most successful records. Naturally, hopes for the successor were high. While the ingredients are roughly the same, “On A [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cantaloup -“On A Hill Not Far Away” (Aerotone) Lovely Guitar Pop Impressions | Cantaloup is the one man shoegaze Pop outfit of German guitarist Thomas Peters. He released his first EP “Tonight It Shows” via Aerotone and it soon became one of the Netlabel’s most successful records. Naturally, hopes for the successor were high. While the ingredients are roughly the same, “On A [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Liger - �Crash Symbols� (Beatismurder) with Phlow CD Raffle Vienna’s Most Wonderful Popband | Dino Spiluttini, the blond beau behind the Liger moniker, asked me to review his “The Infra-Ordinary EP” back in 2005. The EP was a cute little gem of a Netaudio release, filled with fragile, eccentric and electrified Folk songs. Three years later not much has changed- despite the fact that [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Liger -“Crash Symbols” (Beatismurder) with Phlow CD Raffle Vienna’s Most Wonderful Popband | Dino Spiluttini, the blond beau behind the Liger moniker, asked me to review his “The Infra-Ordinary EP” back in 2005. The EP was a cute little gem of a Netaudio release, filled with fragile, eccentric and electrified Folk songs. Three years later not much has changed- despite the fact that [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Did - �Ask U2? (Kirstens Postcard Netlabel) Funky Electronic Rock | Put this record on and you will start dancing. This is what’s going to happen. Dids awesome catchy and funky electronic rock is full of surprises and probably makes you wonder when you think about their hometown of Turin, Italy. Because this kind of music suits New York and maybe London. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Did -“Ask U2″ (Kirstens Postcard Netlabel) Funky Electronic Rock | Put this record on and you will start dancing. This is what’s going to happen. Dids awesome catchy and funky electronic rock is full of surprises and probably makes you wonder when you think about their hometown of Turin, Italy. Because this kind of music suits New York and maybe London. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Yes No Wave Music: Free Music from Indonesia Visiting Hidden Corners of the Global Netlabel Phenomena | While internet data highways connect more and more countries and cultures all over the world, the distribution of music speeds up and we get access to places we’ve never been. Places like Indonesia where cassettes are still a commonly used medium to listen to music [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Yes No Wave Music: Free Music from Indonesia Visiting Hidden Corners of the Global Netlabel Phenomena | While internet data highways connect more and more countries and cultures all over the world, the distribution of music speeds up and we get access to places we’ve never been. Places like Indonesia where cassettes are still a commonly used medium to listen to music [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Candlestickmaker - �Seeds� (Upitup Netlabel) Cute Melodic Drill’n'Bass | If Hello Kitty enjoys some LSD and Speed and begins to dance, than our hyperactive cute cat listens to Candlestickmaker. Because the musicfreak from Romania, spanks her hairy butt with some serious drill’n'bass plus sweet melodies. Like Hello Kitty he enjoys serious artists like Autechre, Aphex Twin and Squarepusher. Welcome to the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Candlestickmaker -“Seeds” (Upitup Netlabel) Cute Melodic Drill’n'Bass | If Hello Kitty enjoys some LSD and Speed and begins to dance, than our hyperactive cute cat listens to Candlestickmaker. Because the musicfreak from Romania, spanks her hairy butt with some serious drill’n'bass plus sweet melodies. Like Hello Kitty he enjoys serious artists like Autechre, Aphex Twin and Squarepusher. Welcome to the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Information Ghetto - �Information Ghetto� (Broque Netlabel) Minimal Sci-Fi Techno | With the Relaunch in late summer Broque came back with a techno release with a sophisticated production reminding me of sounds by Robag Wruhme/Whignomy Brothers. This release called “Information Ghetto” still finds its tracks into my ears, because I like the Minimal approach combined with some Science-Fiction atmosphere. “Information Ghetto” is one [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Information Ghetto -“Information Ghetto” (Broque Netlabel) Minimal Sci-Fi Techno | With the Relaunch in late summer Broque came back with a techno release with a sophisticated production reminding me of sounds by Robag Wruhme/Whignomy Brothers. This release called “Information Ghetto” still finds its tracks into my ears, because I like the Minimal approach combined with some Science-Fiction atmosphere. “Information Ghetto” is one [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dublin Duck Dispensary - �Luanqibazao� (Rack & Ruin) Psychedlic Lo-fi Indiepop | Bobby Aherne aka Dublin Duck Dispensary is a young Ireland lad, “Luanqibazao” his sixth EP of snotty Indiepop psychedelia, the third for Rack & Ruin Netlabel. “Luanqibazao” is Chinese and means “a complete mess”. A good descriptions for the music, indeed! Between Dada lyrics, lo-fi Pop and Plunderpunk, one man outfit [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dublin Duck Dispensary -“Luanqibazao” (Rack&Ruin) Psychedlic Lo-fi Indiepop | Bobby Aherne aka Dublin Duck Dispensary is a young Ireland lad, “Luanqibazao” his sixth EP of snotty Indiepop psychedelia, the third for Rack & Ruin Netlabel. “Luanqibazao” is Chinese and means “a complete mess”. A good descriptions for the music, indeed! Between Dada lyrics, lo-fi Pop and Plunderpunk, one man outfit [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Djet - �Free Translation� (Vaatican Records) Dark Trip | Breakbeat merging into hill billy guitar, opera mixed with experimental ambient guitar, theme park music transitioning into glitch? Djet is back. Russia�s grand master of audio collage, Alex Lisovsky a.k.a. Djet is back with his latest album of luscious deep ambience wonderfully mashed together with anything from classical music to 80�s electro [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Djet -“Free Translation” (Vaatican Records) Dark Trip | Breakbeat merging into hill billy guitar, opera mixed with experimental ambient guitar, theme park music transitioning into glitch? Djet is back. Russia’s grand master of audio collage, Alex Lisovsky a.k.a. Djet is back with his latest album of luscious deep ambience wonderfully mashed together with anything from classical music to 80’s electro [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Djet -“Free Translation” (Vaatican Records) Dark Trip | Breakbeat merging into hill billy guitar, opera mixed with experimental ambient guitar, theme park music transitioning into glitch? Djet is back. Russia’s grand master of audio collage, Alex Lisovsky a.k.a. Djet is back with his latest album of luscious deep ambience wonderfully mashed together with anything from classical music to 80’s electro [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Djet -“Free Translation” (Vaatican Records) Dark Trip | Breakbeat merging into hill billy guitar, opera mixed with experimental ambient guitar, theme park music transitioning into glitch? Djet is back. Russia’s grand master of audio collage, Alex Lisovsky a.k.a. Djet is back with his latest album of luscious deep ambience wonderfully mashed together with anything from classical music to 80’s electro [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Talkin�bout Beats with Error Broadcast Sven Swift, mo. and Filippo Aldovini cruisin’ through London (Foto: Sim Sullen) Interview at Netaudio London 2008 | Really good Hip Hop Music is still hard to find in the creative commons world of music. If you search for netlabels promoting deep Hip Hop Music you have to stick to a baby-handful of netlabels. But there’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Talkin’bout Beats with Error Broadcast Sven Swift, mo. and Filippo Aldovini cruisin’ through London (Foto: Sim Sullen) Interview at Netaudio London 2008 | Really good Hip Hop Music is still hard to find in the creative commons world of music. If you search for netlabels promoting deep Hip Hop Music you have to stick to a baby-handful of netlabels. But there’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Talkin’bout Beats with Error Broadcast Sven Swift, mo. and Filippo Aldovini cruisin’ through London (Foto: Sim Sullen) Interview at Netaudio London 2008 | Really good Hip Hop Music is still hard to find in the creative commons world of music. If you search for netlabels promoting deep Hip Hop Music you have to stick to a baby-handful of netlabels. But there’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pictures and Impressions from Netaudio London 2008 Netaudio London 2008 Photos | Some people write texts, others compose music, Simon Bierwald aka Sim Sullen shoots beautiful photos and gives you a slight glimpse how amazing and fun it was to take part in Netaudio London 2008. Fortunately he already uploaded some of the hundred shots he made while walking through the underground [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pictures and Impressions from Netaudio London 2008 Netaudio London 2008 Photos | Some people write texts, others compose music, Simon Bierwald aka Sim Sullen shoots beautiful photos and gives you a slight glimpse how amazing and fun it was to take part in Netaudio London 2008. Fortunately he already uploaded some of the hundred shots he made while walking through the underground [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Netaudio London 2008: First Night revisited! Netaudio London 2008 Report | Yesterday we arrived without any problems in London and went straight to the venue under the London Bridge. The location where the Netaudio London 2008 takes place called “Shunt” is a huge place with a small door which we oversaw at the first moment. But then we entered through the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Netaudio London 2008 we�re coming! Phlow Report | In the next days you’ve got the chance to meet the Phlow Staff at Netaudio London 2008. Sven and mo. will not only play some free music in the evening, we’ll try to catch some of the most interesting people to interview. If everything works well, we got an internet connection over [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Netaudio London 2008 we’re coming! Phlow Report | In the next days you’ve got the chance to meet the Phlow Staff at Netaudio London 2008. Sven and mo. will not only play some free music in the evening, we’ll try to catch some of the most interesting people to interview. If everything works well, we got an internet connection over [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Human Terminal -“Press any Key” (Rec72 Netlabel) IDM and Drum’n'Bass from Russia | Human Terminal is a very promising artist from Russia. The silent ways and floating numbers sometimes give me the idea from “Future Sound of London”, but is a somehow different way. The album “Press any Key”, released on Rec72, combines silent moments with some fast-paced IDM’ish Drum’n'Bass on other [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Human Terminal - �Press any Key� (Rec72 Netlabel) IDM and Drum’n'Bass from Russia | Human Terminal is a very promising artist from Russia. The silent ways and floating numbers sometimes give me the idea from “Future Sound of London”, but is a somehow different way. The album “Press any Key”, released on Rec72, combines silent moments with some fast-paced IDM’ish Drum’n'Bass on other [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Music from the Digital Phlow Podcast Show Podcast Playlist | Travis asked for links to Applejux free music collection selected for our podcast show. Here we go… For the introduction we played a song from konsumprodukt and his album “radio souvenir” on tonatom called “Casio Y Cabra (Boutade)”. After the first questions you listen than to Crisopa with his beautiful ambient track [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Music from the Digital Phlow Podcast Show Podcast Playlist | Travis asked for links to Applejux free music collection selected for our podcast show. Here we go… For the introduction we played a song from konsumprodukt and his album “radio souvenir” on tonatom called “Casio Y Cabra (Boutade)”. After the first questions you listen than to Crisopa with his beautiful ambient track [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Digital Phlow Radio Show: Connected with Applejux The Spain-Germany Podcast Connection | Monday evening: mo. has turned on two laptops, started Traktor, Skype, his mixer and midi-mixers and than… Click!, you hear how a microphone gets turned on, the trailer rolls in and with some more mouse clicks Cologne/Germany is connected with Calella/Spain via datacable. Welcome to the netaudio radioshow with spains [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Digital Phlow Radio Show: Connected with Applejux The Spain-Germany Podcast Connection | Monday evening: mo. has turned on two laptops, started Traktor, Skype, his mixer and midi-mixers and than… Click!, you hear how a microphone gets turned on, the trailer rolls in and with some more mouse clicks Cologne/Germany is connected with Calella/Spain via datacable. Welcome to the netaudio radioshow with spains [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Angel Galán - “Fun Computer” (Escala Netlabel) Hyptnotic Electro | Sometimes it takes only one hypnotic loop to catch you. “Funny Computer” has this deep sound which makes you addicted for the rest of the track lasting seven minutes and thirty seconds. The producer from Madrid composed a loop which sounds melodic but is difficult to whistle. He sent it through a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Angel Gal�n - �Fun Computer� (Escala Netlabel) Hyptnotic Electro | Sometimes it takes only one hypnotic loop to catch you. “Funny Computer” has this deep sound which makes you addicted for the rest of the track lasting seven minutes and thirty seconds. The producer from Madrid composed a loop which sounds melodic but is difficult to whistle. He sent it through a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website d�incise - �Stase / Contre Stase� (Resting Bell Netlabel) Geneva Deconstructions | d’incise is the Switzerland-based sound engineer Laurent Peter. He’s the coordinator of Audioactiviste and Insubordinations Netlabels and is involved in 1.000 musical projects. His impressive discography involves releases at Zymogen, Test Tube, eDogm and many more. His most recent EP is delivered by the welcome hands of Resting Bell Netlabel. While some of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Andrey Kiritchenko -“Sinemagiq” Angular and Elegant Techno | Andrey Kiritchenko is the man behind the wheels of Ukrainian Nexsound record label. As a musician, Kiritchenko moved from 1990s electronica to musique concrete and drone music. His recent oeuvre knows about tender Folk tunes and subtle improvisations as well as harsh noise. On “Sinemagiq”, Kiritchenko dedusts our old friend [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Andrey Kiritchenko - �Sinemagiq� Angular and Elegant Techno | Andrey Kiritchenko is the man behind the wheels of Ukrainian Nexsound record label. As a musician, Kiritchenko moved from 1990s electronica to musique concrete and drone music. His recent oeuvre knows about tender Folk tunes and subtle improvisations as well as harsh noise. On “Sinemagiq”, Kiritchenko dedusts our old friend [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Various -“Netwaves Bytes: Electro 1″ (Netlabelism.net) Electro Vibes | Netlabelism.net - the belgium outpost for creative commons music - works courageously on dragging more attention for netlabels and their artists. Next to their radio show “Netwaves” they complete their portofolio now with a compilation called “Netwaves Bytes: Electro 1″. Prepare yourself to listen to some music from unknown artists who sound [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Various - �Netwaves Bytes: Electro 1? (Netlabelism.net) Electro Vibes | Netlabelism.net - the belgium outpost for creative commons music - works courageously on dragging more attention for netlabels and their artists. Next to their radio show “Netwaves” they complete their portofolio now with a compilation called “Netwaves Bytes: Electro 1″. Prepare yourself to listen to some music from unknown artists who sound [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Experimental Music Ringtones Pimp your Mobile | Nexsound is one of the most reliable Net- and record labels around. Their latest coup sounds like a joke, but makes sense at closer examination: The Nexsound Free Ringtones! Nearly 60 short MP3 files from 14 artists you can upload on your mobile phone to impress your friends at art exhibitions, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tom Caruana - �Welcome Aboard EP� (Budabeats Netlabel) A Fistful of Hip Hop Styles | While staring out of the airport window at Barcelona Airport returning home from netaudio.es Tom Caruana grabs me by the ears. And once again I am truly excited that I have discovered Budabeats by mistake. Since its appearance every release from Suhov to Crookram convinced me: High Standards [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Tidy Kid: Three Eps, Selected Works Toot Toot! | Tidy Kid is Marly Uyma L�ske, born Australian but living in places all over Europe and the US. The travelling type, this is for sure. His oeuvre is confusing, there are remix albums, free stuff, pay-for-download music, collaborations, compilations… well. Bettina got in contact and took the tour de force, listening to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nivel Del Mar - Sounds for Soulsurfers A Free Chill out Compilation | “Busy times we live in, dude!”, says the weed-smoker while getting laid back to manage all the information, all the news, all the technological developments running like a rush through his data-pipeline. “It’s just sick. How do I stay in touch with all that?!? I need more drugs to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website To4ka.Dna - �ZVUK� - (Constanta) Clever Ambient Out Of Nowhere | As the commenter “Density Of Sound” depicted in his comment on mo.’s Why I Like Netlabels So Much-thread, Netaudio is a perfect place to discover exciting new music without any economic- or journalistic filters (though the later ain’t true if you’re a Phlow-subscriber!). Russian Ambient project To4ka.Dna came to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Waveform - �Soul Flight� (Deep In Dub Netlabel) Techno meets House | Sweet minimal dub-techno and deep house brought to you by the people at Deep in dub. Sit down, and soak it up as gentle waves of dubness envelop you. Every now and again understated funky rhythms emerge from the warm layers of synth to get your head bobbing and your feet [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brad Sucks - �Out Of It� “A One Man Band With No Fans” | This is what Brad Sucks (Brad Turcotte) says about his music. Well, he is a one man band but he is definitely not with no fans. Since 2001 he releases his music freely on the web and ever since he is using blogs and P2P-technology to spread [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Emily in Love - �You Break My Heart, You Remixed It� (Corpid Netlabel) Sweet Elektropop | Ladies and Gentlemen let me introduce you to some german-austrialian electropop in english. On “You Break My Heart, You Remixed It” the austrialian project Emily In Love meets her remixers. Especially Rupert Falsch from Berlin took the rendez-vous quite serious and starts a duet with Emily to express his gratitude to remix [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Various - �Heartcode� (Pause Music Netlabel) Chiptunes| Not long time ago we told you that the release from Iqtu on Pause-Music (II-music) was the best release so far on II. The label really makes it not easy for me, because now I want to say the same thing about “Heartcode”. It is a small, but a very powerful compilation with music [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Various - �netBloc Volume 17? (Blocsonic) Extraordinary Netlabel Compilation | With the 17th free music compilation Michael Gregoire released again a fantastic collection of music on blocsonic. Instead of only focussing on netlabels the compilation unites musicians from all over the globe publishing their music under a creative commons licence. What makes this compilation so special is not only the spectrum [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Modul - �Complete Remixed� (Phonocake Netlabel) IDM-Remix Project | The original song by Modul for this complex remix-project was released on Electrosound.ru. The melodic song “Complete” is a deep, sweet and slow-motion song with a catchy bleeping title-melody. It’s IDM-Music in its best classic way. So it’s no surprise, that nine musicians were lucky to lay their hands on the release [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website America Del Sur - �America Del Sur� (Rack & Ruin Records) Postpunk Teenage Surf Twang | There we go with a record very likely to enter my 2008 top ten! Rock-orientated Netaudio has become rather usual these days, but this precious lo-fi gem is something special. Brian Wilson-style vocal melodies, jazzy chords on guitars that sound like metal-rimmed glasses and a lot of (North) American Indiepop [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Beatmapper - �birdsong remixes� (Birdsong Netlabel) Electronic Pop | With their first Hi-Fi release the Birdsong Netlabel from Israel distributes six wonderful pop-orientated remixes by Beatmapper. Every track comes around with another flavour ranging from the fabulous orchester-remix “tattoo” for Her Highness to the enthusiastic “When i go to the barn” for Lonesome Executive. Especially “When i go to the barn” [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Echo_TM - �Dub Culture� (Afterbeat Netlabel) Melodic Dub | With his “Dub Culture”-Single Echo_TM provides Offbeat-Lovers with a real groovy and dubby anthem. While the bassline rolls warm on the floor, melodic vocoder-vocals grab your attention. In germany, we call those intense and pop-orientated tunes an “Ohrwurm”, which means hard-translated: worm in the ear. It’s difficult to get rid off an [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Delhi FM - �Row By� (Der kleine gr�ne W�rfel) Deep Hypnotic Techno | The track “Cable Pollution Results” starts off with a techy chord, slowly filtered and creeping nearer and nearer till the bouncing techno bassdrum starts bounce and to pull us into the track. Truly minimal but melodic New Delhi FM creates one of these huge and hypnotic waves we like to surf [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Daisuke Miyatani - �Fragments� EP (Creation Centre) The Maestro of Accidental Folk is Back | Daisuke Miyatani lives on a small Japanese island, works in a bookshop and releases beautiful, erratic guitar-music all over the world. His records at MiMi, Rain Music, Magic Book and Ahornfelder dog me ever since I started listening to free music. What joy to see his most [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jo�o Triangular - �Jo�o Triangular EP� (Merzbau) Handmade Ambient, Ghostly And Ethereal | In actual fact, Jo�o Triangular is Jo�o Machado. Machado hails from the city of Lisbon and is part of the intimate artist-rooster at Merzbau, the Portuguese Netlabel run by Tiago Sousa. The music Machado releases under the Triangular-moniker is a ghostly mix of field-recordings, analog instruments and a lot [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Crisopa - �Filamentosa EP� (Persona Isla Netlabel) Airy Electronica | The artist Crisopa is one of my favorite discoveries this year. His music is subtle, smooth and melodic. Like his wonderful “Medicamentosa” on addSensor netlabel also his “Filamentosa EP” lets you drift away. His music is like a colourful and inspirational journey into a coral riff, where shafts of sunlight enlighten the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website V.A. - �Behold My Puny Bears, Vol. I� (Beep! Beep! Netlabel) Indie at it’s best! | There is a new baby in town: Beep! Beep! Back up the truck from Utrecht, Netherlands. The dutch independent and free music scene seems to hook up. Postrock- and Indiefans will be pleased. Seven known and talented Bands have already joined the young label and there is surely more to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Owl Dudes - �For The Feelers� (La Familia Netlabel) Way Wild: Something Like Hip Hop | The Netaudio scene is a laboratory for musicians, a place to publish sounds the mainstream isn’t ready for yet. Exactly the right knothole for Portland-based Owl Dudes. Their approach to experimental lo-fi Hip Hop incorporates shoegazing textures, hardcore rap and a good amount of knob tweaking. Fresh and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Destination Cologne - Netlabel-Sounds from Cologne Netlabel Compilation | Phlow-Magazine.com proudly presents “Destination Cologne”, a compilation with music from netlabels coming from and living in Colgne/Germay. Curated by mo.� for the c/o pop conference in august 2008 this collection presents you a vibrant profile of the free electronic music scene in one of Germanys most active cities. After Stockhausen and Kompakt [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Mocks - �M is Correct� (Delhotel Records Netlabel) Prepare for The Mocks | Looking for some interesting electronic pop featuring catchy melodies and a good portion of sarcasm? Well, then you should check out The Mocks. The Mexican duo likes to see it’s music being a blend of the Pet Shop Boys, Cindy Lauper, Michael Jackson and a big lemon twist! Vitamins for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 12rec Netlabel: So much achieved. So much left to do! Rockin’ with their netlabel since 2004! Sven Swift and Sim Sullen Interview with DIY-Netlabel 12rec | With their fabulous 50th release it’s time to visit the Do-It-Yourself Netlabel 12rec from Germany. Phlow met Sim Sullen and Sven Swift on the digital highway to have a chat about the strategies, attitude and why they enjoy exploiting themselves [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Preslav Literary School - �Autumn Bricolage� (Clinical Archives) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why I like Netlabels so much! Netlabels are Fortune Cookies | Here and than, I ask myself: What is so fascinating about netlabels, that I stayed in touch all over the years? Why am I so excited and keep digging into the wild woods of netlabelism? Isn’t it exhausting digging through 5 Gigabytes of music to find only one row diamond? [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tiago Sousa - �The Western Lands� (Resting Bell) Desert Music For Airports | OK, strange heading I admit… but a precise one. Tiago Sousa of Portuguese Merzbau Netlabel releases his fourth album “The Western Lands” at Resting Bell and manages to establish himself as the Brian Eno of desert Rock. Textures that flicker like hot air, wishful guitar melodies and desolate folk pickings [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aphilas - �Instrumentally Ill EP� (Miasmah Netlabel) Netaudio Downbeat Classic | When Norwegian Netlabel Miasmah published Aphilas EP called “Instrumentally Ill EP” the whole - than still small - netlabel-scene was excited. Relaxed Downbeats, crackling music samples and a truely peaceful vibe are the backbone of this melodic and sweet release. If you like jazzy Hip Hop from MC Solaar or fine [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DJ Internet & Kid Kool - �God Likes The Picture Of You� (Hungry Men Records) A Quilt Of Experimental Hip Hop | If Max Ernst would have been a b-boy, his beats would have sounded like this. Right from their junk flats in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg, glue-sniffers DJ Internet and Kid Kool combine a myriad of jumble sale samples to atmospheric collages of experimental Hip Hop, digital Turntableism and, every [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Suhov - �Sympathy Modul EP� (Budabeats Netlabel) Funky and Smoky Downbeats| Yeah, Dope Beats ahoi! If you like groovy breakbeats, we have some candy for your ears. With Suhohvs melodic “Symphaty Modul EP” you get lots of strings, cut-up vocals and excellent sampled loops. Every song is carefully put together to kidnap you for a marvellous organised robbery. I guess Suhov is [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Channel 3000 - �Siesta� (Glam Slam Netlabel) Funky House for the Summer | With “Siesta” by Channel 3000 you live on the sunny side of the street. Four funky house-tracks await you on this EP to make you smile. With lots of mexican trumpets, you’re ready to dance through the night of the fiesta. Netlabel-Music for the beach, happy cocktail-parties and a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bufi - �Homeless Hero EP� (Poni Republic Netlabel) Indie Dance | Poni Republic striked again. The mexican Leftfield-Pop Netlabel has just released another flashing EP. “Homeless Hero” is a fresh and well produced indie-dance collage, that makes you think of the big ones in the electronic pop business. The big surprise is that Bufi, the man in charge, is only a 21 year [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Run For Cover #6: Buben�s �Primogeniture� Run for Cover No. 6 | Phlow Magazine launched a series dedicated to the art of Netaudio: “Run for Cover”. In bulk sequence, wonderful artworks are presented and discussed. For the sixth edition, I decided to go for Netaudio-hardliner Buben and the haunting comic-artwork for his “Primogeniture” EP at Myuzyk Netlabel. Central part of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Various - �Edensonic compilation� (Edensonic Netlabel) Good ol’ muscled Techno | Are you ready for some serious workout? Than download the double-CD-sized Techno-House-Techno-Sampler put together by french netlabel Edensonic. To train your hardbody with some fast and driving techno-beats pick up this netlabel-release, throw it into your mp3-player and start the training. This compilation isn’t constructed for mellow-minded people. Edensonic awaits you [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Various - �Rare Grooves Vol. 1? (Zardonic Recordings) Phat Rollin’ Beats | Yeeeee! I searched a long time to discover new drum’n'bass-sounds in the worldwide netlabel-cosmos. But instead of discovering Zardonic Recordings myself, they contacted Phlow and now we are pleased to present you a real diamond: a wonderful mixed up Drum’n'Bass Compilation called “Rare Grooves Vol. 1″. If you enjoy deep breakbeat-science, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Phonout - �Da ni� (Zimmerlautst�rke Netlabel) SciFi Downbeats | Oskar Rudzki aka Phonout has a faible for futuristic electronic productions driven by broken beats. These beats are built with care and love for sweet details. While his music communicates in a slight dark and moody temper, his album “Da ni” on the German Netlabel Zimmerlautst�rke still reveals some fine melodies and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gareth Dickson - �Sampler� (Polymorphic Music) Ambient Folk Miniatures | Last.fm is a good source to start your investigations on certain artists. In case of UK Gareth Dickson, Last.fm tells us “Solo acoustic guitar with effects and vocals“. That’s true on a technical level, still so much information is missing. Add adjectives like introspective, tender, experimental and blissful to get [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Man of Taste: Ian D. Hawgood / Koen Park Ambient Music With A Touch Of Pop | Maybe you know London-born Tokyo resident Ian D. Hawgood by his releases at Resting Bell or Dog Eared Records. Eventually you read about him at Phlow Magazine. Herein, initiates don�t need Bettina Rhymes to bring the news. In case you�re new to this man of taste and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dubosmium - Green Element (Fresh Poulp Records) Overdubbing Dub | Dub is usually connected to reggae music und therefore associated with a typical sound and sunny moods. The moroccan musician MLY, who is releasing his work under the name Dubosmium, has recently put out an EP that draws quite a different picture. From atmospheric ambient soundscapes to hard electronic drum ‘n’ bass [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Etienne Michelet - �Bleu Vesp�ral� (La Nouvelle D�gel�e) Calm Ambient | Young Etienne Michelet is an experimental songwriter and delivery boy of rich, textural Ambient. Just recently, Michelet released two EPs at the notorious Resting Bell Netlabel and over at Digital Biotope. But I’d like to talk about his former minialbum “Bleu Vesp�ral - A Music For Harmonium” published via [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Iqtu - �Embarrassing Triangle� (II-Music) A magic Joyride | Although this sounds like Intelligence Dance Music at the first sight, it is not. “Embarrassing Triangle” from Iqtu is a magic trip. The album is one of those releases that I got so much addicted to, that it is almost hard to resist to listen to: days, nights, at work, everywhere. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of Music Distribution Interview with Broque Netlabel | The German label Broque follows a mixed strategy. Under the clever management of Christian Kausch and Heiko Schwanz Broque distributes music in several formats and ways. While DJs can buy vinyl-records worldwide at their record dealer of choice, the netizens get free mp3 music released under a creative commons licence [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website V.A. - �Phantom Channel Presents- Part I� (Phantom Channel) Ambient Takeover | Phantom Chanel is a brandnew UK Netlabel and they hit the scene with an exclusive mixtape that makes you remember the innovative power of ambient Electronic music. Seamlessly glued to one big jam, PC-member Alan McNeill aka Engine7 proves his talent not only as a musician but as a filejockey and sensible [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website J�venes y Sexys � �Bruno EP� (Poni Republic Netlabel) Sweet lofi-pop | J�venes y Sexys is a young and sexy lofi-folk-pop-duo from Mexico/Venezuela and their sweet melodies keep buzzing around my head for quite some time now. Somewhere between the simple sound of an acoustic guitar and some gentle handclapping, J�venes y Sexys placed lovely melodies, that will get stuck in your ears. To [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Breitbandkater - �More EP� (DCC Records) Classic House Music | Ohhh, listen to this! These tracks from Breitbandkater are dressed as classic House-Tunes. No fenzy music-engineer-acrobatics patching some weird sounds togehter! No(!), old structures still keep the dancefloor alive. You only need some groovy loops and a sweet but hyptnotic bassline. For Breitbandkater no problem. OK, I don’t like “Koerperkontakt”. There is [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tanox - �Astronomia de Balcon� (Pueblo Nuevo) Cool Ambientish IDM | “Astronomia de Balcon” on Pueblo Nuevo is a small 5-tracker-ep with cool digital ambient music with some breakbeat-trickery. The sound is crystal clear and delivers us known ingredients like clickering percussive sounds and a precise music-programming. But when in “Flecha” suddenly a guitar reaches the surface your not only surprised but [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tanox -�Astronomia de Balcon� (Pueblo Nuevo) Cool Ambientish IDM | “Astronomia de Balcon” on Pueblo Nuevo is a small 5-tracker-ep with cool digital ambient music with some breakbeat-trickery. The sound is crystal clear and delivers us known ingredients like clickering percussive sounds and a precise music-programming. But when in “Flecha” suddenly a guitar reaches the surface your not only surprised but [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rubinskee - �Telurico� (Konfort Netlabel) Dirty 80ies Disco-House-Styles | Rubinskee’s productions sound like a dirty ol’ bastard which mother was a disco-frenetic and who’s father loved harsh-technoid electronics. On “Telurico” his mexican tracks pump with a straight pounding bassdrum, a smashing clap on the 2 and 4 and let the bassline fuzz around while you glide along on some shiny [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rubinskee -�Telurico� (Konfort Netlabel) Dirty 80ies Disco-House-Styles | Rubinskee’s productions sound like a dirty ol’ bastard which mother was a disco-frenetic and who’s father loved harsh-technoid electronics. On “Telurico” his mexican tracks pump with a straight pounding bassdrum, a smashing clap on the 2 and 4 and let the bassline fuzz around while you glide along on some shiny [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pourquoi me Reveiller - �They took my bed outside� (Dying Giraffe Recordings) Eclectic Indie Rock | Pourquoi me Reveiller is an interesting Dutch indie-rock band from Rotterdam and they are apparently trying to confuse us - a Dutch band with a French name and English lyrics. Their music can be labelled as eclectic rock because it features an array of different instruments and styles. This definitely adds [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pourquoi me Reveiller -�They took my bed outside� (Dying Giraffe Recordings) Eclectic Indie Rock | Pourquoi me Reveiller is an interesting Dutch indie-rock band from Rotterdam and they are apparently trying to confuse us - a Dutch band with a French name and English lyrics. Their music can be labelled as eclectic rock because it features an array of different instruments and styles. This definitely adds [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chillheimer - �Morning Moon� (Rumpfunk Netlabel) Peaceful Dubby Trance-Techno | Bernard Geiger aka Chillheimer is a sound engineer from Berlin. Publishing his music for free through internet data-highways is a political decision which he explains in detail on his artist-website. As a producer he looks on the bright side of life and his “Morning Moon” EP is a smiling blend of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chillheimer -�Morning Moon� (Rumpfunk Netlabel) Peaceful Dubby Trance-Techno | Bernard Geiger aka Chillheimer is a sound engineer from Berlin. Publishing his music for free through internet data-highways is a political decision which he explains in detail on his artist-website. As a producer he looks on the bright side of life and his “Morning Moon” EP is a smiling blend of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Heavens - �The Heavens EP� Good old Britrock | Guitars, anyone? Yes, please! The Heavens from Leeds, England are a very enjoyable blend of Brit-Rock from the 90s and a play typical early Rock & Roll style. The official list of musical influences ranges from The Beatles to Neu!, from The Velvet Underground to Stereolab and if you listen carefully, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Heavens -�The Heavens EP� Good old Britrock | Guitars, anyone? Yes, please! The Heavens from Leeds, England are a very enjoyable blend of Brit-Rock from the 90s and a play typical early Rock & Roll style. The official list of musical influences ranges from The Beatles to Neu!, from The Velvet Underground to Stereolab and if you listen carefully, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DJ Side - �Bittersweet Love EP� (Surreal Madrid Netlabel) Dark Beats | DJ Side goes down with the bass while his beats creep heavy-burdened over the floor. His “Bittersweet Love EP” is a gloomy trip where dubstep meets ambient meets clicks, crackles and slowly breathing sounds. With mesmerizing and minimal changes in his sound aesthetics he develops a hypnotic maelstrom. “Bittersweet Love EP” is condensed [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DJ Side -�Bittersweet Love EP� (Surreal Madrid Netlabel) Dark Beats | DJ Side goes down with the bass while his beats creep heavy-burdened over the floor. His “Bittersweet Love EP” is a gloomy trip where dubstep meets ambient meets clicks, crackles and slowly breathing sounds. With mesmerizing and minimal changes in his sound aesthetics he develops a hypnotic maelstrom. “Bittersweet Love EP” is condensed [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Various - �Because Best Things Are Free� (Ideology Netlabel) A phat Hip Hop Package | With “Because Best Things Are Free” Ideology Netlabel delivers a heavy and delicate compilation. Next to amusing german rhymes, laid-back Hip Hop-instrumentals twinkle in the afternoon sun. Next to well-known netaudio-artists like Comfort Fit, Gringo Starr and the freaks from the Colonius Monk Collective you listen to new heroes [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Various -�Because Best Things Are Free� (Ideology Netlabel) A phat Hip Hop Package | With “Because Best Things Are Free” Ideology Netlabel delivers a heavy and delicate compilation. Next to amusing german rhymes, laid-back Hip Hop-instrumentals twinkle in the afternoon sun. Next to well-known netaudio-artists like Comfort Fit, Gringo Starr and the freaks from the Colonius Monk Collective you listen to new heroes [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website U_m� - s/t (Error-Lofi Netlabel) Intimite Homerecordings | U_m� is an indie folk duo and at the same time couple from Barcelona, that put its love to one another on an album, which perfectly makes sense if you take some time to think about it: u_m� is Pau Vallv� and Maria Coma and if you look at their first [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website U_m� - s/t (Error-Lofi Netlabel) Intimite Homerecordings | U_m� is an indie folk duo and at the same time couple from Barcelona, that put its love to one another on an album, which perfectly makes sense if you take some time to think about it: u_m� is Pau Vallv� and Maria Coma and if you look at their first [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Niteffect - �Lost Identity� (Kreislauf) Hardboiled Electronic Hip Hop | Niteffect is back with an 30-minutes length EP for the German Kreislauf Netlabel. While his former “Fragments” EP was more like a glimpse of Miklos Labady’s talent for hypnotic beats, “Lost Identity” is the prove of his qualities in songwriting, too. Ten songs that oscillate from Downbeat to instrumental [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Niteffect -�Lost Identity� (Kreislauf) Hardboiled Electronic Hip Hop | Niteffect is back with an 30-minutes length EP for the German Kreislauf Netlabel. While his former “Fragments” EP was more like a glimpse of Miklos Labady’s talent for hypnotic beats, “Lost Identity” is the prove of his qualities in songwriting, too. Ten songs that oscillate from Downbeat to instrumental [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Calendar Songs: A delicate Creative Commons-Project The CC Mixter Remix-Project by Calendar Girl | Tamara Barnett-Herrin - better known as calendar girl - started a fantastic project back in October 2006. The idea was simple: Write each month a song and release the original material under a creative commons licence. Than ask other producers and musicians to remix the songs. Now [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Calendar Songs: A delicate Creative Commons-Project The CC Mixter Remix-Project by Calendar Girl | Tamara Barnett-Herrin - better known as calendar girl - started a fantastic project back in October 2006. The idea was simple: Write each month a song and release the original material under a creative commons licence. Than ask other producers and musicians to remix the songs. Now [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Solaire -��and then I strapped explosives to my body� (Dying Giraffe Recordings) Adjusted Post-Rock | The great talent of the post rock five-piece from Rotterdam is to carry easy accessible melodies and themes into a genre that is known for its difficult access. Solaire pull you into their spherical world of music and just before you seem to drown in this fairly deep ocean of instrumental guitar [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Solaire - ��and then I strapped explosives to my body� (Dying Giraffe Recordings) Adjusted Post-Rock | The great talent of the post rock five-piece from Rotterdam is to carry easy accessible melodies and themes into a genre that is known for its difficult access. Solaire pull you into their spherical world of music and just before you seem to drown in this fairly deep ocean of instrumental guitar [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Passionate Podcaster with no Boundaries Free Music Digger | With his Podcast called “Machtdose” Podcaster Roland presents a treasure box full of the most terrific netlabel-music around. While fascinated hopping from country to country he presents music from all kind of genres. His Machtdose Show gives a damn about music-boundaries and leads you each time into new corners of the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Passionate Podcaster with no Boundaries Free Music Digger | With his Podcast called “Machtdose” Podcaster Roland presents a treasure box full of the most terrific netlabel-music around. While fascinated hopping from country to country he presents music from all kind of genres. His Machtdose Show gives a damn about music-boundaries and leads you each time into new corners of the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Passionate Podcaster with no Boundaries Free Music Digger | With his Podcast called “Machtdose” Podcaster Roland presents a treasure box full of the most terrific netlabel-music around. While fascinated hopping from country to country he presents music from all kind of genres. His Machtdose Show gives a damn about music-boundaries and leads you each time into new corners of the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Passionate Podcaster with no Boundaries Free Music Digger | With his Podcast called “Machtdose” Podcaster Roland presents a treasure box full of the most terrific netlabel-music around. While fascinated hopping from country to country he presents music from all kind of genres. His Machtdose Show gives a damn about music-boundaries and leads you each time into new corners of the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Passionate Podcaster with no Boundaries Free Music Digger | With his Podcast called “Machtdose” Podcaster Roland presents a treasure box full of the most terrific netlabel-music around. While fascinated hopping from country to country he presents music from all kind of genres. His Machtdose Show gives a damn about music-boundaries and leads you each time into new corners of the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Passionate Podcaster with no Boundaries Free Music Digger | With his Podcast called “Machtdose” Podcaster Roland presents a treasure box full of the most terrific netlabel-music around. While fascinated hopping from country to country he presents music from all kind of genres. His Machtdose Show gives a damn about music-boundaries and leads you each time into new corners of the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Passionate Podcaster with no Boundaries Free Music Digger | With his Podcast called “Machtdose” Podcaster Roland presents a treasure box full of the most terrific netlabel-music around. While fascinated hopping from country to country he presents music from all kind of genres. His Machtdose Show gives a damn about music-boundaries and leads you each time into new corners of the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gorje Hewek -�Sur-Dramatic Nature� (Fragment Music) Emotional Melancholic Techno | Fragment Music from Russia is an extraordinary netlabel if you like minimal electronic dance music. Also Gorje Hewek contributes an outstandig release to the roster of the netlabel. His production sounds like a poetic techno scratchbook. If you open “Sur-Dramatic Nature” you see sonic hand-drawn illustrations full of moody painted memories. “Sur-Dramatic [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gorje Hewek - �Sur-Dramatic Nature� (Fragment Music) Emotional Melancholic Techno | Fragment Music from Russia is an extraordinary netlabel if you like minimal electronic dance music. Also Gorje Hewek contributes an outstandig release to the roster of the netlabel. His production sounds like a poetic techno scratchbook. If you open “Sur-Dramatic Nature” you see sonic hand-drawn illustrations full of moody painted memories. “Sur-Dramatic [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hidden Techno-House-Treasures Recovered Embed our player or listen in PopUp! Five Excellent Free Techno-House Tracks | From time to time I stumble upon netlabel-releases which don’t convince me with the whole release. Unfortunately you discover sometimes on these albums true hidden treasures. What to do? Being picky? Right! Otherwise you would miss some really great tunes for your ears. Tosol [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hidden Techno-House-Treasures Recovered Embed our player or listen in PopUp! Five Excellent Free Techno-House Tracks | From time to time I stumble upon netlabel-releases which don’t convince me with the whole release. Unfortunately you discover sometimes on these albums true hidden treasures. What to do? Being picky? Right! Otherwise you would miss some really great tunes for your ears. Tosol [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Daniel Maze -�Red After Image� (Serein) Refreshing Electropop Psychedelica | Daniel Maze is a name you stumble about every now and then. Despite his new record for the Welsh Serein Netlabel, Vancouver-boy Maze has an opulent discography in the back including releases for Test Tube, EKO, 12rec. and many more. His electronic music incorporates diverse genres from glitch to Pop. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bj�rn Kleinhenz & Winter Took His Life - �Blood bone / Home alone 2� (it�s a trap / froggi records) Extraordinary Pop | Now and then it happens that I discover music by pure accident. And now and then it happens that I fall in love with the music I find. Both incidents occurred when I discovered the Swedes Bj�rn Kleinhenz and Susanna Brandin (Winter took his life). I can�t remember how I stumbled [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bj�rn Kleinhenz&Winter Took His Life -�Blood bone / Home alone 2� (it�s a trap / froggi records) Extraordinary Pop | Now and then it happens that I discover music by pure accident. And now and then it happens that I fall in love with the music I find. Both incidents occurred when I discovered the Swedes Bj�rn Kleinhenz and Susanna Brandin (Winter took his life). I can�t remember how I stumbled [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Djet - Nightline (Picomedia) Driving Downbeats | Sometimes music hits you like a rock. “Nightline” is an album with exactly that special ability. Produced by Alexander Lisovsky under the moniker Djet, released on the conceptual Label Picomedia. The “Nightline” features all the things, that are missing in this days: driving beats, interesting soundscapes and wandering grooves to explore. All [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Djet -�Nightline� (Picomedia) Driving Downbeats | Sometimes music hits you like a rock. “Nightline” is an album with exactly that special ability. Produced by Alexander Lisovsky under the moniker Djet, released on the conceptual Label Picomedia. The “Nightline” features all the things, that are missing in this days: driving beats, interesting soundscapes and wandering grooves to explore. All [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Emilsson - Another (Heavy Industries Netlabel) Trance-Master | Released a long time ago in 2004 “Another” remains still a classic. Producer Emilson from Heavy Industries Netlabel lifts you up with four tracks build on hypnotic and melodic grooves. No surprises await you on this EP, just pure drifting on a powerful four-to-the-floor bassdrum. Music to enjoy on a sunny sunday afterhour. Emilson [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Emilsson -�Another� (Heavy Industries Netlabel) Trance-Master | Released a long time ago in 2004 “Another” remains still a classic. Producer Emilson from Heavy Industries Netlabel lifts you up with four tracks build on hypnotic and melodic grooves. No surprises await you on this EP, just pure drifting on a powerful four-to-the-floor bassdrum. Music to enjoy on a sunny sunday afterhour. Emilson [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website V.A. - �Sweets For The Wild 3? (Another Record) Indie Rock/Pop from France | Another Record is a small French record label that uses CC-licences as a promotion tool. Because their music can be shared freely, the attention to their artists and their physical releases is growing. In the end of February they have released a nice compilation called �Sweets For The Wild [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website V.A. -�Sweets For The Wild 3? (Another Record) Indie Rock/Pop from France | Another Record is a small French record label that uses CC-licences as a promotion tool. Because their music can be shared freely, the attention to their artists and their physical releases is growing. In the end of February they have released a nice compilation called �Sweets For The Wild [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Run For Cover #5: Metal�s �Birthday Drones 3? Run for Cover No. 5 | Phlow Magazine launched a series dedicated to the art of Netaudio: “Run for Cover”. In bulk sequence, wonderful artworks are presented and discussed. This time, I decided to write about the simple photo artwork for Metal’s “Birthday Drones 3″. Metal is the band of Eric Adrian Lee known [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Run For Cover #5: Metal�s �Birthday Drones 3? Run for Cover No. 5 | Phlow Magazine launched a series dedicated to the art of Netaudio: “Run for Cover”. In bulk sequence, wonderful artworks are presented and discussed. This time, I decided to write about the simple photo artwork for Metal’s “Birthday Drones 3″. Metal is the band of Eric Adrian Lee known [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Entertainment For The Braindead - Hypersomnia EP Dreamy Acoustic Pop | I always appreciate a good level of self-irony. A musician who describes her music with �acoustic dilettante post-something� must be likeable, I assumed. As soon as I listened to the first seconds of Entertainment For The Braindead�s Hypersomnia EP, I immediatly underlined my first impression. And suddenly there was this image [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Entertainment For The Braindead - Hypersomnia EP Dreamy Acoustic Pop | I always appreciate a good level of self-irony. A musician who describes her music with �acoustic dilettante post-something� must be likeable, I assumed. As soon as I listened to the first seconds of Entertainment For The Braindead�s Hypersomnia EP, I immediatly underlined my first impression. And suddenly there was this image [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Various Artists - �Absolute balance� (Dharmasound) Rich Diversity of Netaudio-Sound | Dharmasound released a compilation of their best tracks from 2007, that underline the diversity of this Italian netlabel. “Absolute Balance” features pop, jazz, downbeat as well as classical composed piano and experimental tunes. This netlabel is about urban moods and love for music in general. Each single track leaves me [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Various Artists -�Absolute balance� (Dharmasound) Rich Diversity of Netaudio-Sound | Dharmasound released a compilation of their best tracks from 2007, that underline the diversity of this Italian netlabel. “Absolute Balance” features pop, jazz, downbeat as well as classical composed piano and experimental tunes. This netlabel is about urban moods and love for music in general. Each single track leaves me [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ryonkt - �The World That Was Surrounded (�)� (Resting Bell) Japanese Ambient Benefaction | To readers of Phlow Magazine, Ryonkt ain’t a new name. I wrote a review about his debut EP “Slow Time” in November 2007. Back then, Ryo Nakata aka Ryonkt promised to releases some more music in the near future. After appearances at Audiotalaia, Mandorla and Noise-Joy, Nakata delivers his most [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ryonkt -�The World That Was Surrounded (�)� (Resting Bell) Japanese Ambient Benefaction | To readers of Phlow Magazine, Ryonkt ain’t a new name. I wrote a review about his debut EP “Slow Time” in November 2007. Back then, Ryo Nakata aka Ryonkt promised to releases some more music in the near future. After appearances at Audiotalaia, Mandorla and Noise-Joy, Nakata delivers his most [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pheek - �Assignment 3: The Sound of Archipel� Deep and Minimal Techno-Mix | Archipel Netlabel concentrates on minimal music since its first emergence. With a fresh relaunch labelhead Pheek demonstrates how exclusive a netlabel showcase can be. With stylish pictures and an extraordinary look, Archipel Netlabel presents high quality minimal music for lovers. With their collaborative sampler called “Assignment 3″ they give DJs [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pheek -�Assignment 3: The Sound of Archipel� Deep and Minimal Techno-Mix | Archipel Netlabel concentrates on minimal music since its first emergence. With a fresh relaunch labelhead Pheek demonstrates how exclusive a netlabel showcase can be. With stylish pictures and an extraordinary look, Archipel Netlabel presents high quality minimal music for lovers. With their collaborative sampler called “Assignment 3″ they give DJs [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pheek -�Assignment 3: The Sound of Archipel� Deep and Minimal Techno-Mix | Archipel Netlabel concentrates on minimal music since its first emergence. With a fresh relaunch labelhead Pheek demonstrates how exclusive a netlabel showcase can be. With stylish pictures and an extraordinary look, Archipel Netlabel presents high quality minimal music for lovers. With their collaborative sampler called “Assignment 3″ they give DJs [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fiktion - �Morfint� (Frukt Records) Experimental and Catchy Guitar Music | Fiktion is the moniker of Gustaf Erik Lundh from Gotheburg, the album “Morfint” his second LP for the Swedish Frukt Netlabel. On his website, you can find his debut “Gryning & Skymning” and three EPs, all of them recorded since late 2006. Definitive a man of quantity, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fiktion -�Morfint� (Frukt Records) Experimental and Catchy Guitar Music | Fiktion is the moniker of Gustaf Erik Lundh from Gotheburg, the album “Morfint” his second LP for the Swedish Frukt Netlabel. On his website, you can find his debut “Gryning & Skymning” and three EPs, all of them recorded since late 2006. Definitive a man of quantity, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lokua - �Trails� (Moment Sound) Smoking Chicago Downbeats | Joshua Keckner aka Lokua produces downbeats with crackling beats sprinkled with jazzy melodies and a laid-back mood. The Chicago native enjoys creating moody atmospheres from smiling tracks like “A Thousand Pages” to darker vibes like in “Crystal Ball” where haunting voices make you shiver a little bit. Joshuas productions are best when [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lokua -�Trails� (Moment Sound) Smoking Chicago Downbeats | Joshua Keckner aka Lokua produces downbeats with crackling beats sprinkled with jazzy melodies and a laid-back mood. The Chicago native enjoys creating moody atmospheres from smiling tracks like “A Thousand Pages” to darker vibes like in “Crystal Ball” where haunting voices make you shiver a little bit. Joshuas productions are best when [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Krowley - �Four Pieces� (Autark) Postmodern Renaissance Music | Autark is a new Austrian Netlabel, “Four Pieces” is their second release. While I was preparing to write something about their first release (a two-track EP of decent piano experimentalism featuring Hans Platzgumer), Innsbruck based analog fanatic Krowley hit the scene. “Four Pieces” is postmodern Renaissance music for the IDM afterglow. Krowley [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Krowley -�Four Pieces� (Autark) Postmodern Renaissance Music | Autark is a new Austrian Netlabel, “Four Pieces” is their second release. While I was preparing to write something about their first release (a two-track EP of decent piano experimentalism featuring Hans Platzgumer), Innsbruck based analog fanatic Krowley hit the scene. “Four Pieces” is postmodern Renaissance music for the IDM afterglow. Krowley [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Run For Cover #4: The Art of one!man Run for Cover No. 4 | Phlow Magazine launched a series dedicated to the art of Netaudio: “Run for Cover”. In bulk sequence, wonderful artworks are presented and discussed. This time, we sneak into the fantastic world of one!man. one!man is the graphic-designer behind some of the most astonishing artworks from ideology. With artworks for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Run For Cover #4: The Art of one!man Run for Cover No. 4 | Phlow Magazine launched a series dedicated to the art of Netaudio: “Run for Cover”. In bulk sequence, wonderful artworks are presented and discussed. This time, we sneak into the fantastic world of one!man. one!man is the graphic-designer behind some of the most astonishing artworks from ideology. With artworks for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website con_cetta -�Sclerosis� (Zymogen) Warm and Sparkling, Rich and Crackling | The latest addition at Zymogen Netlabel is Italian sound sculptor Giuseppe Cordaro aka con_cetta. His album is entitled “Sclerosis” and although sclerosis botanically describes the decay of leaves to the bare meshwork of nerves (see the artwork), Cordaro’s Ambient compositions are rather rich in tone and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website con_cetta - �Sclerosis� (Zymogen) Warm and Sparkling, Rich and Crackling | The latest addition at Zymogen Netlabel is Italian sound sculptor Giuseppe Cordaro aka con_cetta. His album is entitled “Sclerosis” and although sclerosis botanically describes the decay of leaves to the bare meshwork of nerves (see the artwork), Cordaro’s Ambient compositions are rather rich in tone and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kiorda D�kin - �3? (1bit Wonder) Spaced out 70’s Electronic Music | The news that 1bit Wonder Netlabel closes down came as a decent surprise to me. Just recently, some of their records made me listen up and enforced the impression that the label had taken a good step forward. Well… last but one release number 31 comes [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kiorda D�kin - �3? (1bit Wonder) Spaced out 70’s Electronic Music | The news that 1bit Wonder Netlabel closes down came as a decent surprise to me. Just recently, some of their records made me listen up and enforced the impression that the label had taken a good step forward. Well… last but one release number 31 comes [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Samim&Michal -�ripop ep� (Textone) C3PO and R2-D2 on MDMA| For lovers of Minimal-House & Techno Netlabel Textone is still a great ressource. Textone which died an unspectacular death some time ago has still one alter-ego left. 30 releases survived the crematorium in its hideaway at archive.org. One of my favorite releases is the funky “ripop ep” by Samim & [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Samim & Michal - �ripop ep� (Textone) C3PO and R2-D2 on MDMA| For lovers of Minimal-House & Techno Netlabel Textone is still a great ressource. Textone which died an unspectacular death some time ago has still one alter-ego left. 30 releases survived the crematorium in its hideaway at archive.org. One of my favorite releases is the funky “ripop ep” by Samim & [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pix -�Life Living� (Fresh Poulp) Imaginative Electronica | Slowly like someone is lifting the curtain to a sensitive movie, Pix begins his enigmatic album called “Life Living” with a great opener. Carefully he escorts us into his little sound-universe published by french netlabel Fresh Poulp. What we discover and explore during 41:46 minutes is an electronica-album full of pop, smart [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pix - �Life Living� (Fresh Poulp) Imaginative Electronica | Slowly like someone is lifting the curtain to a sensitive movie, Pix begins his enigmatic album called “Life Living” with a great opener. Carefully he escorts us into his little sound-universe published by french netlabel Fresh Poulp. What we discover and explore during 41:46 minutes is an electronica-album full of pop, smart [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Crookram -�19/76? (Budabeats) Downbeats in Cinemascope | In “A Day in the Life (feat. INC)” young Dutch producer Crookram rolls out sweet and melancholic strings to catch us. In “Biggles” we swing ecstatic on happy piano-loops while the Bigbeat makes us sweat. And breath the dark and heavy mooded “Hostile” with me. Crookram digged deep into sounds from [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Crookram - �19/76? (Budabeats) Downbeats in Cinemascope | In “A Day in the Life (feat. INC)” young Dutch producer Crookram rolls out sweet and melancholic strings to catch us. In “Biggles” we swing ecstatic on happy piano-loops while the Bigbeat makes us sweat. And breath the dark and heavy mooded “Hostile” with me. Crookram digged deep into sounds from [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tomorrowland -�Anemone� (Red Antenna) Electric Krautrock | I’m into Tomorrowland since I first started listening to free music. Their 2001 EP “Variable” is online at archive.org and still a good listen. Just recently, I found the follow-up album “Anemone” being released by their label Red Antenna for free, too. Take some time and learn to love [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tomorrowland - �Anemone� (Red Antenna) Electric Krautrock | I’m into Tomorrowland since I first started listening to free music. Their 2001 EP “Variable” is online at archive.org and still a good listen. Just recently, I found the follow-up album “Anemone” being released by their label Red Antenna for free, too. Take some time and learn to love [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pleq -�Songs of Sens and Nonsens� (Envizagae Records ) Dark and Urban Sketches of IDM | Pleq a.k.a. Bartosz Dziadosz is a young producer from Katowice in Poland. “His motives in sound resemble an abandoned ironworks garage during the industrial revolution, where melancholy is paired with harmonies of magnetizing structure”, as we get to know via his Myspace-account. But how does an abandoned [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pleq - �Songs of Sens and Nonsens� (Envizagae Records ) Dark and Urban Sketches of IDM | Pleq a.k.a. Bartosz Dziadosz is a young producer from Katowice in Poland. “His motives in sound resemble an abandoned ironworks garage during the industrial revolution, where melancholy is paired with harmonies of magnetizing structure”, as we get to know via his Myspace-account. But how does an abandoned [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Best Of Netlabels:�Their Finest Hour Vol. 3? Photo: Taro Taylor Music for the open-minded | We don’t care about genres! Of course, we cultivate our preferences like everyone. But we try to stay open-minded as possible as we can. Convinced that the only way to discover new worlds is to share, to communicate and to listen to each other, we proudly present you [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Best Of Netlabels: �Their Finest Hour Vol. 3? Photo: Taro Taylor Music for the open-minded | We don’t care about genres! Of course, we cultivate our preferences like everyone. But we try to stay open-minded as possible as we can. Convinced that the only way to discover new worlds is to share, to communicate and to listen to each other, we proudly present you [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marow -�+� (Klitorik) Deep House, Unwashed | Sometime you stumble upon these releases which attract your attention only because you like the website, the artwork, the name of artist or the text which describes the music. In the case of Berlin backyard wrench Marow, the worn-out and atmospheric photos on his label’s website hooked me up initially. A straight [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marow - �+� (Klitorik) Deep House, Unwashed | Sometime you stumble upon these releases which attract your attention only because you like the website, the artwork, the name of artist or the text which describes the music. In the case of Berlin backyard wrench Marow, the worn-out and atmospheric photos on his label’s website hooked me up initially. A straight [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website VA -�Kapitel 1? (Konsum Productions) Bassline-driven Drum’n'Bass | With his pounding basslines on his self-titled EP sabsidian aka sabian made already an impression on me. Back with one more track out of his lab, sabian is the one who rocks on the “Kapitel 1″ EP-compilation on Konsum Productions. Next to his melodic drum’n'bass-groover Aguateca gets his weapons ready. His bad-stomper [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website VA - �Kapitel 1? (Konsum Productions) Bassline-driven Drum’n'Bass | With his pounding basslines on his self-titled EP sabsidian aka sabian made already an impression on me. Back with one more track out of his lab, sabian is the one who rocks on the “Kapitel 1″ EP-compilation on Konsum Productions. Next to his melodic drum’n'bass-groover Aguateca gets his weapons ready. His bad-stomper [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Various - �52 Weeks - Winter� (Peppermill Records) Cut’n'Paste-Funk | “52 Weeks” is an extraordinary project coordinated by Peppermill Records. The compilation includes 52 tracks representing each week of the year. The whole compilation is separated into four sub-compilations with the names of the four seasons of a year. I picked out the winter-collection because I enjoy sometimes music-collages with lots of samples [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website My Awesome Mixtape - �Songs of Sadness, Songs of Happiness� (Kirstens Postcard) Indietronic Vocal Pop | Do you like drum computers, intensive refrains, electronic instruments and vocals? Yeah?!? Than My Awesome Mixtape is the right band for you. They please us with pop-flavoured electronic music. Somehow every song sounds personal and invites us to sit down in their rehearsal room and have a listen. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Don�t Take Drugs, Take Camomille! Design & Artwork by 143 The Love For Music | Camomille is one of the oldest and most exceptional netlabels to date. With Vince Fug�re as its head Camomille set some high fidelity milesstones in the netaudio world. The sound could be best described as a mixture of Ambient, Indietronica and IDM. With extraordinary strong illustrations [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website It�s House Music! A Tribute to Epsilonlab Netlabel Timeless Eloquent House | The sound of Epsilonlab is lush, deep, melodic, dubby and techy. You find the spirit of house-music in every release. With great musicians like Paul Keeley, Pheek, Eloi Brunelle or Sensual Physics Epsilonlab published some of the finest house-music released under a cc-licence. Even if Epsilonlab is a little quiet right [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website G-Love - Teddy Bear (Top 40 Netlabel) Trashy Techno-Pop Hysteria | Prepare yourself for some good old rave signals! The mysterious G-Love takes you back to the old days where the crowds shook their bodies frenetic at the Berlin Love Parade. When everything was about hedonism, XTC and some awfully bad vocal shortcuts like “Superstar”, “Mayday” or “Ce-e-e-lebration Ge-e-enartion!”. Ah, and did [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Run for Cover #2: The Flash-Cover Art From -N Netlabel Run for Cover No. 2 | Multimedia-Cover-Artworks are the appropriate format for virtual music-releases. Especially the file-format Flash has the potential to reanimate the now dying cover-artwork of physical releases. It’s hard to understand that nearly no label nor musician distributes multimedia-artworks along with their music-releases. With the possibilities of programming the “cover-artwork”, the offering [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Evolent - �Rise And Fall� (Plex Netlabel) Frenetic Techno Signals | The Swiss producer-duo Evolent come around the corner with three astonishing techno-tracks. With the title-track “Rise And Fall” they produced an outstanding rave-track with wicked twists, excellent sounds and a powerful bassdrum. Where Mnml-Music focus on some sounds, Evolent storm the dancefloor with a whole bunch of sound-experiments. Their ideas nearly [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Run for Cover #1: GoGooo�s �La For�t aux Petites Filles� Run for Cover No. 1 | Phlow Magazine launches a new series dedicated to the art of Netaudio: “Run for Cover”. In bulk sequence, wonderful artworks will be presented and discussed. Number one is the disturbing and beautiful cover for GoGooo’s “La For�t aux Petites Filles” EP from 2006. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gillicuddy - �Shmalhans is Kuechenmeister� Weather-beaten Indie Folk | Discovering music via Myspace is a bit of a game of chance. Most of the Friends Requests� I use to get are pure rubbish, but every now and then talented musicians dare to be heard. I the case of Gillicuddy, artist-name and album- title didn’t made me expect too much. Still, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website �Live-Events Are The Core Of A Netlabel� Interview with the italian Dharmasound Netlabel | Over the past couple of years, the Rome-based net-label dharmasound has put out nearly forty first-rate releases covering a wide range of music. Last Fall, Gianluigi Cocco - dharmasounds� general manager and artistic director - was kind enough to take some time to talk a bit about the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Velure - �Songbox� (Ideology) Australian Trip Hop Vibes | Velure is a quintet in the footsteps of Massive Attack, Goldfrapp, or Portishead. With muscled beats ranging from Hip Hop to Drum’n'Bass Velure make a stand and and crawl slowly under our skin. If I listen to this netaudio classic I always get caught by the haunting voice of Lynnelle [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Soto - �Soto EP� (Creation Centre) Experimental J-Pop | Two of the four members of experimental Pop-outlet Soto made a first impact on me with their debut release for the Creation Centre Netlabel under the name of Oto. Situated between LA and Kyoto, equipped with a certain focus on Folk and Pop, Soto took a good step towards traditional song-structures, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Apes on Tapes - �You Open� (Homework Records) Crispy Hip Hop | The Apes on Tapes are a producer-duo from the City of Bologna in the North of Italy. Lag�r and Antani, as they call themselves, met in 2005 and immediately found their talents for atmosphere and melody (Antani) and straightforward beats (Lag�r) mixing up to something special. Did I mention we’re [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TrianguliZona - �Flossy� (Testtube Netlabel) Electrified Jazz | The songs of TrianguliZona drift somewhere inbetween electro-jazz, distant references to 70�s electric Miles Davis to ambient-flavored experimentalism. The Croatian collective is hard to catch, hard to define. Sometimes you here beautiful melodies, than you listen to the carefully played drums, than you refind yourself in some sort of experimental jazz-ambient-soundscapes. Definitely [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TrianguliZona - �Flossy� (Testtube Netlabel) Electrified Jazz | The songs of TrianguliZona drift somewhere inbetween electro-jazz, distant references to 70�s electric Miles Davis to ambient-flavored experimentalism. The Croatian collective is hard to catch, hard to define. Sometimes you here beautiful melodies, than you listen to the carefully played drums, than you refind yourself in some sort of experimental jazz-ambient-soundscapes. Definitely [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Best Of Netlabels: �Their Finest Hour Vol. 2? Phlow-Netlabel-Compilation February 2008 | Let’s share some music! Welcome back to the wonderful land of free netlabel sounds! After the international success of our first Best-Of-Netlabels-Edition at the end of January 2008 we proudly present you the follow-up: �Their Finest Hour Volume 2�. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Best Of Netlabels: �Their Finest Hour Vol. 2? Phlow-Netlabel-Compilation February 2008 | Let’s share some music! Welcome back to the wonderful land of free netlabel sounds! After the international success of our first Best-Of-Netlabels-Edition at the end of January 2008 we proudly present you the follow-up: �Their Finest Hour Volume 2�. In February we discovered another time fabulous music from all over the globe. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kikapu Netlabel died quietly� Bad News | Yesterday night I stumbled upon the Kikapu Netlabel-Website while correcting some links. I was simply horrified, discovering that Kikapu claimed its dead. These are always the moments, when I grab my head and think: “Shit! We lost some beautiful digital culture and there is no way back to get another glimpse at [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Umisetsu & Martin Dot - Flowers EP (Rain Netlabel) Cassical Spherical Ambient | If you start the wonderful ambient-track “Greenwater” you drift on synthesizer-strings into a world full of etereal, lush chords and subtle piano drops. Best described with the word “peaceful”, you recover yourself in a fortunate condition. Umisetsu and Martin Dot let you rest while listening and diving into the music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website mou - �###ntain vibes/memory recall� (aquietbump netlabel) Atmospheric Italian Trip Hop | The Italian band mou published already two exciting TripHop EPs on the aquietbump netlabel. Both albums are filled with dense and atmospheric songs. Heavily influenced by Massive Attack the italian musicians emacipate themselves with their second album “memory recall”. While “###ntain vibes Ep” rocks on dark vibes, “memory recall” convinces [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Frank Biedermann - �Nanowar� (Stadtgr�n) Smooth Dubby Techno | We waited quite a long time for a follow-up of Frank Biedermanns excellent “Wookiee Woods EP” on Stadtgr�n. Now the german DubTechno-producer is back with a relaxed and smooth EP like a latte machiato. And like every good latte machiato we get some delicious milk froth on top in the form [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Frank Biedermann - �Nanowar� (Stadtgr�n) Smooth Dubby Techno | We waited quite a long time for a follow-up of Frank Biedermanns excellent “Wookiee Woods EP” on Stadtgr�n. Now the german DubTechno-producer is back with a relaxed and smooth EP like a latte machiato. And like every good latte machiato we get some delicious milk froth on top in the form [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ronny Ragtroll - Greatest Clubhits From Beyond (Entity) Mad Disco & Downbeat Styles | If you enter the crazy universe of Ronny Ragtroll you better prepare yourself to listen to some feaked out music. Like a slightly ditzy Miraculix our musical druid throws some funky herbs into the bowl. Next to tracks with groovy loops like “And There She Was” David Deschuyteneer aka [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ambidextrous / Morkva - A&M (Electrosound) Instrumental Electronic Pop from Russia | On “A&M” you listen to the beautiful cooperation of eletronic musician Nick Zavriev aka Ambidextrous and Sergey Moskovkin aka Morkva. Together they composed relaxed eletronic music somewhere above the clouds. With kind-hearted tunes and a little bit of kitsch you feel like resting in a nice lounge. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pirata - Minimental (Pueblo Nuevo) Spherical Electronic Spacetrip | You can describe music by pirata best if you compare him with the well-known label Elektrolux. Like many artists and releases on Elektrolux Pirata produces a spherical and spacy kind of music somewhere inbetween IDM, Elektro and Ambient. His electronic productions sound precise and clear. “Minimental” has a clear and very [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Call for Help! What are your favorite free IDM-Tracks? Collecting Music for a Timeless Compilation | Next to listening and writing about creative commons music, we thought it might be a wonderful idea to make free downloadable collections of all-time-favorites. I am thinking right know about collecting free netlabel music released under a creative commons music to re-release the best songs as a compilation. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Smallwood - �Three Soundscapes� (Sijis) Electro-Acoustic Chamber Music | US-American composer Scott Smallwood released his music at various experimental Net- and CDR-labels. For his collection “Three Soundscapes”, Smallwood and the Now Ensemble gathered to perform three of his most accessible compositions up to date. Neo-classical Ambient at the edge of Noise and Musique Concr�te that might mark a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DJ-Set: Applezup - �efimera (acciones pasajeras)� Versatile Mix-Trip | With his netaudio-mix “efimera” applejux presents us a versatile combination of different music styles fused together to an ongoing journey. The netlabel-head of op3n - a mixtape netlabel - surprises the listener with twists and a well-done blends of catchy tracks. The trip takes us slowly from ambient music to reggae and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website J Bostron - Crossing The Kingston Bridge (Net-Lab) Ruff In The Jungle | Booyaka-Booyaka! Get ready for some Jungle-Music. The guns are loaded and the bass-canon is prepared to blast some serious basslines through the sub-woofer! Jamie Bolstrom aka J Bostron resident DJ in Scotland rolls us a big spliff out of dub-inspired, heavy bass-weight jungle sounds with ragga-vocals and enough power to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Iambic� - As The Snow Fell (laridae) Poetic and cineastic Soundtrack | Iambic�’s album “under these stars, we�ll sleep again” popped last december throughout our charts-carnival up and up. Quick we realized: “under these stars, we�ll sleep again” was and is one of the most favorite free albums in 2007 for musiclovers all over the globe. Now Guy Andrews reveals his second [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kaboom Karavan - �Short Walk With Olaf� (Umor Rex) Ambient Music Marching Band | I found out about Kaboom Karavan when listening to d’incise’s free music-charts we had published in December 2007 as part of the Netaudio Adventcalender. His choice of Folk-influenced electronic music is stunning, and the Belgian Kaboom Karavan-collective was totally new to me. Fortunately, the full-length record keeps the promise a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Portabot - �There Must Be a Sunrise in Every Ending� Molten Electronica, Pixelated Pop | The guy behind Portabot is Cesar Pesquera, a professional director and graphic designer from Barcelona. I got to know about him thanks to Heezen’s recent mixtape at Audiotalaia, which incorporates one of his tunes (and is a wonderful listen in a whole, btw). For his album, Portabot created a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Phlow presents: �Their Finest Hour - Vol. 1? Best of Netlabels January 2008 | With “Their Finest Hour Vol. 1″ we start our very first free music compilation with netlabel music from all over the globe. We scanned our January-2008-reviews again and combined for you just the very best. Brigitte, Sven and mo. discovered these tunes throughout January 2008. We hope you enjoy [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Best Of Netlabels: �Their Finest Hour Vol. 1? Best of Netlabels January 2008 | With “Their Finest Hour Vol. 1″ we start our very first free music compilation with netlabel music from all over the globe. We scanned our January-2008-reviews again and combined for you just the very best. Brigitte, Sven and mo. discovered these tunes throughout January 2008. We hope you enjoy [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Comfort Fit - �Yellow Snow Mix� Juicy HipHop-Mix | Comfort Fit is a true phenomena. He fuels his techy HipHop-productions with powerful jazzz-inspired melodies and combines them with complex beats. Underneath and in each corner of the stereofield you feel his love for eclectic sounds. His “Yellow Snow Mix” is an actual blue print of his latest own productions and cooperations [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Niteffect - �Fragments� (Kreislauf) Instrumental TripHop | On “Fragments” each track is exactly 2:08 minutes long. Each song takes you on a little trip through a slightly surrealistic world. Even though I miss any kind of ear-catching melodies, Niteffect convinces me with intense atmospheres, interesting sounds and extraordinary beats. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fresh Redesign: The Future of Phlow-Magazine.com “Form follows function!” | No question, we are proud to present you the redesign of Phlow-Magazine.com. In last september our first goal was to digg deep into the netaudio-scene and present you everyday free music for your mp3-player. In the last week, we spend some time to optimize the xhtml, design and to give our [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website VA - �Viva La Fuerza EP� (Audioexit) Hungarian Minimal Techno | Behind Audioexit operate two producers called P.c.m.n. and Maurel. They organise their netlabel from Hungary and distribute Techno, Minimal, Trance, House and Electronica under three sub-channels called Ae-Tech, Ae-Min, and Ae-Deep. While listening to several of their releases I digged deeper into the mini-techno-compilation called “Viva La Fuerza”, a compilation of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website V.A. - �One Year & A Day- The 5inch Files� (Equinox) Super-fat instrumental Hip Hop | Rap music is rare in Netaudio, and most of the stuff that runs ashore on my hard disc is bullshit. As exciting HipHop-releases are always a special joy for me, I was happy to discover Equinox Records releasing their “One Year & A Day”-compilation for free. Oil your necks for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Crisopa - �Medicamentosa� (addSensor) Chillout Music for Spacenights | Years ago we always watched the stars and planet earth from above on TV when we came back from parties. Each weekend the tv-station HR3 transmitted finest chill out and ambient music two sweeten our early morning hours. While our feet felt heavy from dancing, our soul rested on calm [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mickey Eats Plastic - �To Kill the White Glamour - Reworks EP 1? Eclectic Remix-Collection | I posted a demand-note for the upcoming Bluermutt-album a few days ago. Well, I hope you don’t think myself to be too much of a bore, but I have to mention that Mickey Eats Plastic (which is 50% Bluermutt) have another not-to-miss record online. This time it’s free. Come on, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cri-Kong - �Hash Oil� (Konfort Netlabel) Releaxed Mexican Downbeats | Slowly crawls the gaucho out of his hammock, grabs his guitar and plays some melodic riffs for us. The hashoil circulates through his venes and a relaxed and easygoing mood lets him find some delicate melodies. Meanwhile his friends nod smiling to the smooth downbeats. Live can be so sweet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Entia Non - �Distal� (Test Tube) Honey-coloured Field-recordings | Entia Non is James McDougall from Australia. For his first album at the lively Test Tube-Netlabel, he’s stacking several layers of field-recordings, tape loops and vinyl crackling to build dense pieces of Ambient that breath the lukewarm air of a late summer afternoon. Just right for a cold Winter’s day! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brigitte Biojux�s Top-5 Free MP3 Mixes Various Free DJ-Mixes | Since years still just a few DJs with an ear for free mp3 music enjoy mixing netlabel releases. While Dirk Murschall aka [in]anace, the founder of the experimental netlabel subsource was the first to publish netmusic-only-mixes more DJs embraced the idea. I hand-picked 5 netaudio-mixes, I heard over and over again. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Werner Kitzm�ller - �Proximity EP� (Beat is Murder) Angstpop & Post-Teenage Drama | Werner Kitzm�ller is the newest addition to the chosen artists-rooster at Beat is Murder-Netlabel. His five-track “Proximity EP” is a collection of grumbling Folk-tunes, precious little lo-fi scribbles and a lot of withdrawn navel-gazing. But due to this, Kitzm�ller is a performer and adds the right amount [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website V.A. - Cycles (Camomille Netlabel) Over six years Camomille distributes electronic music for free. Created in 2002 by Vincent Fug�re in Montreal, Canada, out of love of camomille tea and ambient music there has been 99 releases to date. Now we celebrate Camomille’s 100th release by listening to 44(!) free tracks somewhere inbetween ambient, idm and electro-acoustic music. A great [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website VA - Pantoufle Tagada (Petite & Jolie Netlabel) Fluffy Electronica | The first compilation from Petite & Jolie Netlabel tastes like sweet candy. Kittenish melodies roll all around, you hear lots of chimes, light beats and a taste for cute sounds. Listening to “Pantoufle Tagada” is like playing with Hello Kitty, Diddl and Spongebobb together. But be careful, some of the tunes still [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sudio - �Sheets of Sound� (Ideology) Colourful Experimental Techno | Techno-Tracks by Sudio twist all the time. The scientist in Sudio, cuts, filters, combines and experiments continously with sounds, loops and beats. His productions float in a permanent mutation and while you get a grip on a new groove, be sure it will change in the next seconds to evolve into [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone |