Medo's Little Trap - Medicine Sound
Label: La Bel
Release date: 2012
Total running time: 00:17:35
A medicine sound against humanity that screams and shouts.
A small work which is like a whisper, re-discovering the basic things to say.
A delicate work, between electro-pop, acoustic ballads and symphonic bewilderment.
MeDo’s Little Trap is a container, an imaginary collective, whose only composer and permanent member, tries to hide in order to come across only as a pure musical act. The idea of the collective dates back to 2010. The musical production took shape in 2008. Actually the record project involves the publication of a full album, but since self-production requires a very long time, the collective/non-collective decided to release in the meantime a 4 tracks EP: Medicine Sound.
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - Medicine_Sound 02 - ComeBack Home 03 - The Mad and the Saint 04 - Lake |
VAD – Zarya
Label: Mix Galaxy
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:46:39
VAD is Mixgalaxy old-timer, he contributed to numerous compilations of our label and now we proudly present you his solo album. It’s a mix of Russian folk singing with New Age music. Charming scent of traditions combined with rich electronic timbres gives birth to some nostalgic melancholy and rememberance of music one might have heard long long time ago, yet it manages to stay topical and fresh. It doesn’t matter if you were not born in Russia and haven’t absorbed that calm old-fashioned unity with nature that is streaming in the veins of Russian outlying districts – this music is going to share all this with you as a well written book. VAD’s huge composer experience enables him to communicate with the listener on this vivid language freely like he was telling you about his motherland with heart-warming expression, contagious interest and dozens of lively details. You might not want to miss such an involving tale so make sure you give it a listen and share it with your friends.
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| 01 - Zarya 02 - Kumushki 03 - Vo Sadu Sadochke 04 - Nu-Ka 05 - Golub 06 - Ti Ne Stoy 07 - U Vorot 08 - Na Gorke 09 - Maslyanaya 10 - Ti Vospoy |
Monk Turner + Fascinoma - Emergency Songs
Label: ____________
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:35:08
"LA is due for a massive earthquake but no one is ready. Also, the city, ergo, the state is broke, so if The Big One hits—the earthquake scientists are predicting will strike in the uncomfortable window of between now and 30 years—the citizenry will suffer.
Everyone knows it is an imminent possibility, but daily life is difficult to live while anticipating total destruction. Sounds like a sci-fi movie, but in this case, it’s just geography.
In Los Angeles, emergency management organizations and relief agencies are anticipating a crisis on par with Katrina for the City of Angels. The going rule is that individuals and families will need to have supplies for 3 days to 2 weeks, as crisis management teams focus on larger, infrastructural issues.
Enter music. A concept album conceived to awaken the imagination of the locals through song and story…charting the various phases of crisis, from pre-quake boredom, to post-quake freeway BBQ’s. The album starts with an acapella public safety address sung with the help of a backing chorus, The Emergency Choir, that returns throughout the recording to chart the journey." - Monk Turner’s official concept
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| 01 - Letter to the Los Angeleans [BEFORE] 02 - Where's My Horse? 03 - Trust (Is Just a Word) 04 - Everything Already 05 - Did You Feel That? 06 - HOLD ON! 07 - fLover Won't You Hold Meree download 08 - Prisoner 09 - Whatcha' Doin' [AFTER] 10 - After Disaster 11 - O Say Can You See (the Future) 12 - Start Again |
Guy Honeymoon - Summercramp
Label: No Source
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:25:15
Guy Honeymoon of Sheffield UK brings us nine songs of life, love, and getting through the day. Guy sticks to the basics with stripped down guy-and-guitar pop songs. The bells and whistles would just get in the way. The lyrics and vocal melody is the meat of Guy's work and the element that will immediately draw you into his music. This is the voice of a traveler, and a sincere one at that. Amelia, Hollow Hearts and Pocketknife were recorded with Andy Miller (Mogwai, Arab Strap, Scout Niblet) at Chem 19 in Hamilton, Scotland and the rest were recorded with Brian Waller in Cellardoor recording in Rotherham, England.
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| 01 - Amelia 02 - Double Diamond 03 - Adult Attention 04 - Western Wave 05 - Schadenfreude 06 - La Honda 07 - Redlands 08 - Hollow Hearts 09 - Pocketknife |
Tinavie – Augenblick
GENRE: Electronic, Trip-Hop, Lounge, Downtempo, Pop
Label: Electronica
Release date: 2010
Total running time: 00:36:00
Tinavie is a Russian band from Moscow, appeared at the end of 2008. Too much nerve for lounge and too fast for downtempo, too sweet for underground and too shiny for triphop. Not being faithful followers of any listed musical genre, Tina and the band are exploring some new sound landscapes, according to the band’s own vision of what modern independent pop music must be. Tinavie's debut album Augenblick was released in April 2010 and isavailable for free download.
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Moji Moji – N
GENRE: Rock, Post-Rock, Shoegaze, Ambient, Pop
Label: Resting Bell
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:31:24
Lucas Page (a.k.a. moji moji) is a musician/sound designer born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His first EP album is entitled “Detroit de le Maire” and was released by Hipidukimuzik net label. Detroit de le Maire comprises 4 tracks inspired by the Lemaire strait, (which runs between Tierra del Fuego and Isla de los Estados). For his second album, “N”, moji moji travels to the argentinean northwest and draws inspiration from the immensity of its breathtaking landscapes. The result are 5 beautiful pieces between postrock, shoegaze, pop and ambient. Sliding guitar tones, a fine and subtle composition with guitar, keyboards and percussion are ending up in a big, organic soundscape. Walls of sound are built up and falling apart within this work and you can always close your eyes and let the music carry you away.
Creative Commons license: Attribution - Non Commercial - No Derivs 3.0
Pinkle – House Plants
GENRE: Rock, Pop, Indie, Folk
Label: Aaahh Records
Release date: 2010
Total running time: 0:44:45
Hailing from America, Bryn Martin aka Pinkle is now living in Switzerland, where he does not only benefit from a pleasant tax system but beyond spent the last couple of years doing his Phd in engineering. His affection for experiments and puzzling is not only useful for his profession but also a blessing for fans of independent music at the same time. Eager to work out his own individualistic tone, Bryn’s songs are mostly guitar-based but mingle with all sorts of other instruments and sounds. Calling it „quirky brew of moog and acoustic melodies overlaid by hush vocals, conjuring comparisons to the initimate voicing of Andrew Bird and the pop hook of Regina Spektor“, Bryn leaves us not much left to explain. Releasing and presenting you his album “House Plants”, which can be seen as a collection or so far best of album of his previously released 200+ songs, we hope to broaden your musical horizon and collect endless numbers of new Pinkle-Fans. We are chuffed and proud!
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| 01 - What I Hope 02 - Quiet 03 - It's Not Working 04 - So Well 05 - Fractals 06 - For Me 07 - Alibi 08 - Paper Thin 09 - Rounder Than An Orange Peel 10 - Into The Ark 11 - Bee Hee 12 - Galapagos Island 13 - Giraffe |
Creative Commons license: Attribution - Non Commercial 3.0
Moon & Sun – The Wild Things
GENRE: Pop, Rock, Indie, Vocal
Label: Beep! Beep! Back up the truck
Release date: 2010
Total running time: 0:18:03
Moon & Sun is the work of Swedish songwriter and visual artist Monica Tormell. Influenced by lonesome, gloomy atmospheres and Caribbean tunes her music sets out to explore sonic constellations from the primitive to the electronic and manipulated. ‘The Wild Things’ was written and recorded in Curacao, in the woods of Sweden and in Amsterdam. Every location has had it’s own impact and demanded a distinct presence on the record. It’s a journey through landscapes, changing from beautiful picture views into ghostly midnight lands, a place where reality, imagination and time blur together. Moon & Sun is the observer traveling from palm trees to pine trees trying to translate it both musically and lyrically, using instruments like the tambu drum, steeldrums, clavé sticks and the Swedish zither.
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| 01 - Bo 02 - Hunt 03 - 000000 04 - Where The Wild Things Are 05 - Hollow 06 - Salt & Indigo |
Creative Commons license: Attribution - Non Commercial - Share Alike 3.0 Ne
Liam Stewart - Sixteen Words
GENRE: Pop, Rock, Electronic, Synth-Pop, Indie
Label: BlocSonic
Release date: 2010
Total running time: 0:43:48
Liam Stewart is another in an amazing roster of artists that are showing listeners that the world of netaudio is not something to ignore. With his incredible “Sixteen Words”, you’re presented another album that will make some wonder how on Earth is it that it wasn’t released by a traditional label. That’s the state of the music industry… labels are only releasing "marketable" products that they can shove into a pre-packaged formulaic box. If artists want to create ART and speak THEIR voice, then there’s no room for them. So artists are forced (I feel, for the better of music and artistry in general) to forge their own paths. Liam’s path has led him to blocSonic and I am grateful for the opportunity. Liam’s sound is one that is pop of a British flavor… you may call it Britpop or leftfield pop or some other quick and neat genre label, but the reality of it is more complex than that. “Sixteen Words” contains many characteristics… pop, rock, electronic & synth-pop. At times it may remind you of Pink Floyd or Roger Waters, Tears For Fears or some current indie-artist that you may dig. Whatever it sounds like to you, what I’m quite sure you’ll find is that this is memorable music that’s going to stick with you for years to come. It isn’t plastic music made for the masses, it’s contemplative music crafted for music lovers who crave albums that aren’t trying to fit in.
Available in FLAC!
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| 01 - Bird Of Prey 02 - Sixteen Words 03 - Long Grass 04 - Mother Dear 05 - Sooner 06 - Albatross Day 07 - Plastic Starfish 08 - Sunday School 09 - Hot Summer Days 10 - What Do You See In Me 11 - Gleis 17 |
Creative Commons license: Attribution - Non Commercial - No Derivs 3.0
Jupitter Goes Quattrocento - Belo Abismo
GENRE: Rock, Indie, Electronic, Pop
Label: Perkunowa
Release date: 2010
Total running time: 0:29:00
From in and outside the abyss, these are mainly pop songs, acoustic, electric, electronically twisted… Playing in dark waters or sunlight, through the night, through the woods, through cables and through the floors… After his stuff on Sundays In Spring and Beatismurder, this is Jupitter Goes Quattrocento’s 4th official album. Enjoy !
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| 01 - Forms 02 - Belo Abismo 03 - 1000 Movements 04 - Carry Ghosts 05 - Known Paths 06 - Abyss Out |
Creative Commons license: Attribution - Non Commercial - No Derivs 3.0
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