Another standard bearing netlabel is 12 Records. Specializing in ambient and folktronica they’re close to achieving the milestone 50th release. On No. 46 they have the Austrian David Schweighart and on No. 47 they have Muhr whose Miasmah release is still doing chores on my playlists. Here’s what the label has to say about both [...]

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I’ve been listening on/off to the UK release of Norwegian singer-songwriter Silje Nes‘ Ames Room released on Fat-Cat, and it’s about time to talk a little bit about her music now that the European release of her debut is due. The opener “Over All” is the anathema of “Ames Room”, gentle vocal pop over dissonant [...]

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Goodbye the Band - The Goo of Childhood

Goodbye the Band is an electronics-infused epic pop-rock band in the vein of Fiery Furnaces, Stereolab, Magnetic Fields and Of Montreal. The band is the brainchild of John Acquadro, you can download the free EP from Archive.org. Highly recommended.

Those goofballs at Afuche

Afuche - Gaspar Noe

Brooklyn’s Afuche [...]

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Misha, the New York duo consisting of Ashley Yao and John Chao which has previously released a limited 12″ on the German Tomlab has released their debut “Teardrop Sweetheart” and it’s a sweet home listening electronic pop album. Nothing groundbreaking or new here but there’s a 11 short & catchy pop songs which mix together [...]

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What kind of feelings does “The Hopelessly Sad Story of the Hideous end of the World“, title of the new Gangpol und Mit album create? If you’re a sharp observer you’ll notice something wrong at the title, suffice to say it’s simply not serious enough to tell of the sad story of the end of [...]

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Kingfisherg from Carte Postale’s flickr
Do you remember those dark periods of your life when you didn’t have last.fm? I sure don’t! A comparatively new and overlooked service by last.fm is the labels pages, where participating labels put their wares online for the global market. It’s of such a huge benefit to small labels I [...]

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Ever wondered how the surge of music software in the last few years have created an influx of immature and unsophisticated music, people with not even a basic grasp of how music works or how you can create emotions can easily make music and find a scene of followers now. A dissensus thread I read [...]

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After a long time of non working mailbox, here’s some of the better submissions sent to undomondo reviewed. Thanks to all the submitters for their patience! :)

victor bermon - farewell lunch for laura

* Victor Bermon’s debut long player, Arriving At Night is out on Chicago’s Hefty Records. The promo track ”Farewell Lunch for Laura” [...]

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A fantastic new album on Rykodisc is upon us, and the creator is no other than the Ex-Cibo Matto lead singer Miha Hatori.Cibo Matto was described as “They are like bluebirds collecting random bits of twigs, string and gummy worms to build a magnificent nest from which to sing their beautiful songs.” on an interview [...]

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I’ve known about the Australian post-jazz trio Triosk before from a collaboration with one of my favourite electronic artists Jan Jelinek. That was a good effort of collaboration that shows how you can collaborate in todays world even if you’re thousands of miles away. However I remember that I thought it wasn’t as spectacular as [...]

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