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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Rock music is converging more and more into jazz & electronic music, with unconventional compositions & song structures and thank God MTV has not delved into this territory yet. Manufactur is a Swiss 4 piece that wrestles formulaic music with their own homebrew jazzy math-rock. Trumpeter Werner Hasler, Electronician Oli Kuster, Bassist Urban Lienert and [...]

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* Electronica artist Ulrich Schnauss on Obscure Sound
* This week’s selection from Little White Earbuds is Henrik Schwarz’ remix of Detroit’s Alton Miller’s “Clouds Are Gone” it was the first track I heard Henrik Schwarz’ name, such a good one, btw Alton Miller has a new one out on R2 Records.
* A selection of videos [...]

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Bruno Spoerri still rockin’ on!
The weather is so humid & pressuring today it feels like my heads gonna explode, that’s why I don’t want to write much today. So I leave you with a selection of electronica tracks I’ve been meaning to feature for a few months in a cleaning operation. The title of the [...]

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* 4 Arab Strap tracks ripped from vinyl by The Vinyl Villain
* Total of 4 tracks from Feist’s 2004 and 2007 albums on A Plague of Angels
* DMX Krew, Porn Sword Tobacco on my recent fave Little White Earbuds
* 2 tracks from Pole’s new release Steingarten on Sonorama.
* A song from Balkan Beat Box’ [...]

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Here are some livesets I’ve found around recently on the net. Mostly electronic/minimal house/dj stuff. Enjoy!
* Kraftwerk - Live at the Hammersmith Odeon 1981 / Part 2 - Wow, history in the making!
* Murcof feat. Eric Truffaz & Talvin Singh @ Montreux Jazz Festival 2006 (via alldj) *password : zeak* : wow what a lineup! [...]

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Image scanned from a French fashion magazine from 1977 by Martijn Konijn.
The first 4 months have gone by and indeed 2007 has been lucrative for music. As the collective memory is so low these days and there’s so much production and hype, I want to emphasize the better stuff once more. Here’s a short [...]

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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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in all times and places is creation
in all times and places is death
when we strive after the good or the beautiful
we forget our own nature
no one man shall be superior to the others
every man may come to himself and avoid slavery
each must go to its own place
in this world
is man
abraxas
the creator and the destroyer of [...]

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Here’s part 2 of the netlabel selection for april. A little bit more dance oriented this time.

Tzii - ça fait marcher le monde (antisocial)
7am & family groove - collective (insectorama)
Dubby minimal floorfiller.
markus masuhr - hamptington liips (insectorama)
Groovy & loose minimal driver by Masuhr.
Phour Trakk - Sleeping City (Ideology)
Downtempo/triphop with grainy [...]

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