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at/on
Prostir
mn011
minusn

http://minusn.com

japanese minus n label surprises us with an interesting compilation, as well as a release by one of the bands on that compilation. i have no idea who .at/on is, but perhaps he is from the ukraine, since ‘prostir’ means dimension in that language. four tracks appear on the cdr, three further ones are only available at the website. the music was all made with samples, vst instruments, synthedit, fruityloops and acid: all window programs alien to this apple eater. there are some political dimensions to this release, regarding the third world and dimensions to that. the four tracks i heard are great actually. loopy and noisy stuff, with sounds dropping in and out, voices, shortwave like sounds making small rhythms and such. clicks & cuts moving out of the ordinary. “movin’ on” is the title of the compilation and as far as i’m concerned this is both the program for the label minus n, as well as a current state of mind in the field of clicks and cuts music. it has moved away from the pure techno related pieces from yesteryear, into music that has grown a lot since then. some of these pieces are still techno influenced, such as those by pero, shalma and salman or the very housy, luomo like piece by motor, but there is also the pan sonic like piece by g_n44f, jos smolders off beat rhythms, the rock drumkit by goem|fdw or the sample mishmash of claudia bonarelli and the dubby lod. besides some known names (and for instance in smolders’ case, unexpected ones) many new names are to be discovered here, plus both releases are also available for free to download.

Popularity: 11% [?]

Danta
Erwtensoep ep
Igloo-net010
Igloo

http://www.igloo-rec.com.ar/

Igloo Net Label presents its 10th release by Danta. This minimal techno producer from the Netherlands shows us his experimental, quirky, funky and bleepy sound in his debut release, Erwtensoep (EP).
Featuring guests & remixers: Seph, Dilo, Shadi Megallaa, Jason Emsley and Kasper.

Popularity: 10% [?]

Various
Background Records
mnlv 07
minlove

http://www.minlove.net

release date . July 19, 2006

“Almost one year after minlove’s first showcase we are proud to announce the 7th netrelease that aims to give an insight into the patient work of one of the most eclectic and prolific labels out there. Andy Vaz – head behind Background Records followed our invitation to present the labels vision and it’s highly unique sound aesthetic that is deeply rooted in the early Motor City sound and perfectly placed into a modern and state-of-the-art electronic music context.”

Como siempre la serie Minlove nos trae “minicompilados” de interesantes sellos. En su ultima entrega nos dan a disfrutar 6 cortes del sello creado por Portable, quien reside actualmente en Lisboa, desde donde dirije, maquina y conspira para su diverso hijo “Background”. Los cortes son las piezas de baile que a mi personalmente me interesan, diversas, experimentales, profundas y en una busqueda por un sonido, si bien no unico,muy interesante. El caso mas particular es del mismo propietario, quien nos muestra lo que para mi es realmente el sonido tribal, alejado de la repetición de 2 o 3 compases de un mismo loop de una conga o un llamador. Incluso este tipo de Tribal también es bailable.

Popularity: 9% [?]

Marko Fuerstenberg
Instabil ep
instabil 07
Instabil

http://www.instabil.org

welcome marko fürstenberg: we are proud to present the wellknown artist of thinner. he was born in december 1976 in germany and he began producing music inspired by basic channel / chain reaction in the middle of the 90′s.at the beginning of 2002 he discovered the netlabel thinner, so it took a short time until his first EP “Dub Expo” under the moniker “Dolby” came out. later he changed his moniker to “surphase” and released also on otherlabels like stadtgruen, realaudio or rotary cocktail.

Popularity: 10% [?]

Ryan Crosson
The plane ride ep
ARCH008
Archipel

http://www.archipel.cc

The future is indeed bright for Ryan Crosson who, for his first Archipel netrelease ‘The Plane Ride’, brings gooey thick minimal funk to all who step aboard this flight. ‘Bow String’ is a hypnotic and spastic ride through torrents of tiny sounds with a hint of reverb and enough bass to down a plane! Crosson then brings us ‘Ryepickle and Cheese’ which is another reverb speckled bass heavy bout of turbulance on a very funky flight. ‘Blue to Green’ is deep and throbbing with melted plastic percussion and light chords and gets you up and dancing, feet firmly in the air. Ryan then ends his Archipel debut with the title track ‘The Plane Ride’ which is a gentle and elastic journey through tiny rubber clouds in a sky made of blue jelly air.

Popularity: 10% [?]

Plumb & Plumber
Organic Feedback
tube018
test tube

test tube netlabel

«Yet another Spanish talent. And talent is the keyword here.
Plumb & Plumber, also known as Jesús Valle Pazos, comes from Vigo, Galicia, the northwestern spanish province. Cold and wet in the Winter, Sunny and warm in the Summer.
‘Organic Feedback’ revolves around ambient and cinematic electronica, where tape and field recordings are a warm layer of analog tapestries and dissonant electric guitars explode in a fuzzy and mechanical chaos. These ambient textures share the space with fingerpicked acoustic guitar chords and spaced-out sluggish drones, inviting us to an irresistible journey Through Plumb & Plumber’s delicate universe.
You’ll hear broken banjos, untuned guitars, steam engine noises, a pope doing some sort of a speech, ground recordings, an old woman singing a lament, 8 bit sounds, shoegazing drones, ambient space music, birds chirping, radio traffic and hiss, tons and tons of hiss. This is almost pure Library Music.
What Plumb & Plumber builds on ‘Organic Feedback’, with great knowledge of sound editing techniques and a rare and subtle – and genuine – aesthetic appeal, is a magnificent experimental EP, both fragile and strong, clear and dense, light and dark. Yin & Yang. Both parts of the same. Plumb & Plumber.
I can’t find the perfect words to describe this. Pure, almost brute melancholic beauty. Get this now.» – Pedro Leitão

Popularity: 9% [?]

Rob Steady
Ask no lies
12rec.019
12rec

http://www.12rec.net/

Rob Steady robbin’ steady. It’s Stéphane Obadia, solo cutup-virtuoso, keeper of countless aliases and Stockholm’s hottest underground export.
Born in France, he studies art but soon realizes exposing and presenting himself the regular way can’t be the right thing for him to elevate. So he starts throwing his ideas in everyday life without documenting- an attempt to release poetry from the museums of art of boredom, as Stèphane says.
A few years later, after photo, film and discreet events, he begins collecting small prosaic phrases soon to become the funny and clever songtitles you know him for: music has become the next thing for Stéph to devour and digest. And like everything he spits out again, it turns to be magnificent! He creates fragments that makes you think of Hip-Hop, mainstream R&B, Funk or ‘Folktronica’. Popculture broken into smithereens, postmodern sketches for your bedroom and discotheque: between breaking ya neck and feeling alienated from the whole world (Georg Cracked).

When you go through the reviews Stèphane received for his Obadia-release with Autres Directions, you’ll find critics being confused about how to judge his music. Is it danceable, does it move my butt? Might Stèph even be innit for Pop-Music as you can always find a moment of melody to stick to? Or are there more academical reasons, something about recycling, glitch-asthetics and stuff? Thing is, as we here at 12rèc believe, Stèphane prefers fooling around with genres. If you listen to the hot new Rob Steady EP, you’ll find him getting more abstract and experimental.

Popularity: 14% [?]

Takeshi Nakamura
Easy Listening
zym008
zymogen

http://www.zymogen.net

Takeshi Nakamura is back on zymogen for another brilliant work taking his sound to another level of complexity. This 6 tracks ep has been produced after Ordinary Days following similar processes of composition, always keeping a quality level near to the maximum and creating sonorities similar to his previous record without any loss of intensity.
Takeshi accustoms us to pure geometric structures stained with digital rough sketches, sweet discords and harmonious glitches, but with these compositions he overcomes his strandards.
Wonderful…can you find a better word to start this promenade through artificial landscapes?
“I Sink” moves from frenetic beats with hissing basses in constant evolution and slow pads expanding under robotic voices, a lesson of composition. The following “Cloud” is an hypnotic sequence with cuts of a melody lost in reverbs wich becomes concrete into “Defeat”, a groovy declaration of digital pessimism, totally amazing! During “Particle” an incredible flow of silicic acid will reach you neurons, floating high frequencies over a rough snares wich keep up the fragile structure of the beat. The conclusion of the ep is “Sundial”, a long evolution of a simple idea based on soft loops slowly submerged by an enormous flux of ultra-low frequencies and drones for an intense growth wich finishes in the same way it started like an infinite mantra; personally one of the best song created by Nakamura so far.
With this work Takeshi shows once again his abilities to creating deep experimental music and we feel really lucky to have the possibility to release a work of this kind of quality…an “Easy Listening” near perfection.

Popularity: 10% [?]