Roland from Machtdose - "Aqual(o)unge 4" (MP3)

Without no doubt: Roland from Machtdose has a wonderful taste when it comes to music. More fascinating are his skills to find those wonderful nuggets in the huge pond of creative commons music. Even though he says about himself not being a dj, this blend of dubby techno, lush electronica and bright ambient speaks different.

Simply a wonderful selection while swimming through the reefes of netaudio.

MP3 Dubby Ambient Music Download

Download: "Aqual(o)unge 4" (ZIP-Archive)
Release: DJ Mix - "Aqual(o)unge 4"

"Aqual(o)unge 4" Playlist

1. Beyond Absence - Heavy Breath [Webbed Hand 117]
2. Vertical67 - Blue [Acroplane 027]
3. Grids/Units/Planes - Flickering Fluros (This Brittle Night) [IDM Forums 002]
4. Umbrellas in the Rain - Unbroken Surface [test tube 142]
5. Ingredient - Striations [Zenapolae 051]
6. Foam - Trouble [Archipel 056]
7. Fatiq - Race to Love [MonoKraK 24]
8. Pesina Siller - Miss Kittin [Konfort 023]
9. Yagya - Coconut Rice [Sutemos 023]
10. freund der familie - 000 [broque 046]
11. hoax - Regis [insectorama 031]
12. Matthias Springer - Realm of Minds [Rumpfunk 018]
13. Echonoise - Telonius Trak [This Side Music 007]
14. Phillip Wilkerson - Sun Up [Bypass 038]
15. Zzzzra - Mutation [bio-mechanics 004]
16. Dev - Mirror Error [parastate 001]
17. Mr. Zu - In the Distance [deepindub 030]
18. Optic - Untitled [schall 025]
19. deep source project - drifting under [white in music 08]
20. Ryko - Swimming Places [auflegware 028]
21. Marsmellows - oh my dear [insectorama 030]
22. glander - untiten [Yuki Yaki 010]
23. Waveform - Dub Inside Of Us (re-edit) [deeplimit 10]
24. Roman Slavka - Paste [Pincet 004]
25. EugeneKha - Moonshine [bypass 019]
26. Pirata - Fotones en la oscuridad [Pueblo Nuevo 043]
27. Braun - Finalizer [dreiton 016]
28. Dino Dumandan - Refraction Rarefaction [Deep Lever]
29. Winterstrand - Seawater Mountain [laridae 040]
30. Lokua - Water Rock [Soft Phase 03]
31. Audiodump - May [Electronica 03]
32. Background Noise - Neptune [Ruidemos 012]

Kalte - "Spagyric" (MP3)
Kalte - "Mariana Arc" (MP3)

For their releases, Stasisfield create highly processed images playing with the effects of extrem enlargement, blur and digital halftoning. The art for Kalte's "Lanthanide Series" is especially beautiful. Pallid coloured pixel strings fall like northern lights over a dark background, giving both an idea of alienation and pulchritude. Same is for the music.

Fully synthetic, enhanced with a little bit of scraping noises, Kalte music is quite kalt (which is "cold" in German). But in between the multiple layers of sound, harmonies dwell like fungi in the dark. "Buzzes and drones intertwined in a mesmerizingly thick blanket of static", as the label puts it in fine precision. Their minimal Drones remind me of Direwires & Freder, offthesky or entia non.

Got some time for a ride through the night? Start now, start right here.

MP3 Ambient Music Download

Release: Kalte - "The Lanthanide Series"
Download: "The Lanthanide Series" ZIP
Artist-Website: kaltemusic.com
Netlabel: stasisfield.com

Top-5 Netaudio Tracks in 2008

Top-5 Netlabels

• Test Tube
• 12rec.
  
• Zymogen
• Rope Swing Cities
• Resting Bell

Top-5 Releases in 2008

• to4ka.dna – ZVUK (Constanta)
• Pocka – Wanderweg (Test Tube)
• offthesky - Subtle Trees (Rope Swing Cities)
• Jimmy Behan- In the Sudden Distance (Zymogen)
• Lexithimie - The Poems of Longfellow (Rope Swing Cities)

Advent Calendar Door 12

"2008 was not the best year for netmusic in my opinion, but there were some very solid releases and I somehow have the feeling, that 2009 and 2010 the flower of netmusic will bloom again in a new beauty."

Top-5 Netaudio Tracks in 2008

1. Disasterpeace - "Ensis"
2. Goto80 and Skuggan Live on Swedish TV
3. Alex Mauer - "Ikea Shopper Credits"
4. Crookram - "A Day in the Life"
5. Andrey Kiritchenko - "Sinemagiq 04"

Top Five Netlabels

• ii-music
• 12rec
• Broque
• TestTube
• Der Kleine Grüne Würfel

Top-5 Releases in 2008

1. Iqtu - "Embarassing Triangle "
2. Pix - "Life Living"
3. Yado - Gated Doors and Windows
4. New Delhi Fm - Row By (Wuerfel 07)
5. Various - Eclectic Youth Vol 17 (Foem)

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 fractures, nevralgic crepitations, melancolic atmospheres and a non-dissimulated fascination for rust and faded rhythms.

After one self-produced cd in 2004, he started to release his music on various netlabels as Zymogen or Test Tube. Beside he pratice free improvisation, using laptop, live treatments and various objects & contacts mic, collaborating with few electronic or acoustic musicians..

Diatribes, open ensemble, close to freejazz, with Cyril Bondi and guests, is his main improvised project.

d'incise play also a solo live act, closer of electronica, where he operate fluctuations suites of rythmic pulsions, simple melodies and noise waves for a destroyed dancefloor.

He coordinate the Insubordinations netlabel, dedicate to improvised music, and collectively coordinate the Audioactivity netlabel.

Top-5 Netaudio Tracks in 2008

Top Five Netlabels

1. test tube
2. con-v
3. resting bell
4. 12rec.
5. adozen

Top-5 Releases in 2008

1. va Europa 2008 (plx018)
2. OCP - stepping stone (tube124)
3. Jérôme Pergolesi - Aphasie (earS024)
4. v4w.enk0 - Airopen (db048)
5. The Rick Jensen Quartet - The Mosaicist (ca182)

Netaudio Surprise 2008

Well it's not really a surprise (at least I'd like to believe it) but the netaudio activists - as musicians, as netlabels manager, seems to extend more and more their actions out of the web, with festival, etc, I'm very glad of that.

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. Having a look at his website will give you an idea of what i call intense activity... Heavily involved in organizing and producing lan parties and demoscene events around spain he talks about himself...

David quoting _sml! david:

"David 'sml' Domingo has been musician, dj, producer, visual jockey, designer and event organizer in the last years.
He's the co-director of netaudio.es and one of the main organizers of "netAudio Barcelona", the annual netaudio festival based in Barcelona (Spain).
His long background in the demoscene took him to the netaudio scene as a logical evolution and now tries to promote the local scene with activities and collaborations."

Website: www.daviddomingo.org

Top-5 Netaudio Tracks in 2008

1. Latex Distorsion - Isotope from 1bit wonder # 018)
2. Rec_Overflow featuring Crisopa - Negative Thing from Plataforma LTW # 020: Popular is wrong compilation
3. Eedl - Tone Clutter from Plataforma LTW # 020: Popular is wrong compilation
4. adhesive - Looming Peaks from pendrive # 001
5. eedl - freezed (extended version) from pendrive # 001

Top Five Netlabels

1. heavy industries
2. pendrive
3. kahvi collective
4. test tube
5. 1bit wonder

Surprise and Netlabel-Phenomena 2008

Netlabel-Phenomena 2008: pendrive

Top Five Netlabels

• Insubordinations
• Crónica
• Conv
• Rain music
• Tecnonucleo

Top-5 Netaudio Tracks in 2008

Top-5 Releases in 2008

1. Various Artists - Format - F.0041.0001
2. Strøm - Shunt - Domizil - dom29
3. d'incise - Les restes du festin - tube123
4. Asher - Study for autumn EP - cnv46
5. Esau Mwamwaya & Radioclit - THE VERY BEST Mixtape

Surprise 2008

Starting Teeth (Creaked records)

While some of Laurent Peter's older recordings have a strong foundation in 1990's electronica acts like Autechre, Squarepusher and SND, his style slightly shifted in recent years.

With "Stase / Contre Stase", Resting Bell releases a two track EP of post-industrial field music, a one-hour mediation on noise, textures and Collage Ambient, to make use of the term I introduced for Preslav Literary School a few months ago. Two tracks that stand like monoliths, two tracks that sum-up the glitch aesthetics, d'incise stands ultimately for.

The awesome thing about "Stase" and "Contre Stase" is that both tracks work equally well as pure sound design and pieces of recycling art as well as virtuoso Ambient music. Beneath tons of field recordings, humming, hissing, scratching and environmental noise, Peter introduces tonal textures and layers of glittering synth drones that makes his deconstructions a hell of a good listen. Music that demands your attention, that forces you to reflect. Take some time and relearn to listen. d'incise is the perfect teacher.

You can purchase a wonderful CDR edition of "Stase / Contre Stase" by getting in contact with d'incise. There's a limited edition of 7o copies. Hurry!

MP3 Ambient Music Download

Download: "Stase / Contre Stase" ZIP
Release: d’incise - "Stase / Contre Stase"
Artist-Website: www.dincise.net
Netlabel: www.restingbell.net

Yeah, somehow he's right. Everything is growing so fast, so many distractions, funky toys and things out there - all want to be checked. But instead of giving up, smoking your head away Phlow-Magazine.com offers you an interesting opportunity: We invite you to take some time off and try our delicious drug called free music.

Download our first anniversary chill out compilation, rip the internet-cable out of the box and chill one hour, 22 minutes and 55 seconds with us somewhere at an imaginary coast, under the water or like my grandpa on his little boat with grandma - Look at the cover how the old freestyler enjoyed his days!

So, please give yourself a healthy rest, you've really earned it!

"Nivel del Mar" Playlist

1. "Welcome Wilderness" from Proviant Audio (Aquavelvas)
2. "Exx Fuck" from Suhov (Budabeats)
3. "When she looked at me (i saw her wondering)" from Niwa (iD.EOLOGY)
4. "The Dubbed Coil Of Smoke" from Aphilas (Miasmah)
5. "Hostile" from Crookram (Budabeats)
6. "Sweet man like me" from Nils Hoffmann (Broque)
7. "Barefoot Girl" from Twizzle (Comfort Stand)
8. "Tai Chi" from Lokua (Moment Sound)
9. "Grand 5" from Apes on Tapes (Homework Records)
10. "Hash Oil" from Cri-Kong (Konfort)
11. "Bracken Bed" from Malty Media (Monotonik)
12. "Zephyr" from Willbe (William Lamy) (Language Lab)
13. "It's on you" from Motown Junkie (Test Tube)
14. "Morning Espresso" from enLounge (Aquavelvas)
15. "Miles Of Smiles" from Comfort Fit (Tokyo Dawn)
16. "Petra 1:00 am" from The Incognito Traveller (Konfort)
17. "Rising" from TrianguliZona (Test Tube)

Download Chill Out Compilation

• Download: Nivel Del Mar - "Sounds for Soulsurfers" (ZIP)
  
• Audio-Streaming: Start Music via m3u-playlist! (iTunes, Windows Mediaplayer...)
• Artwork: Cover-Download

About "Nivel del Mar" Compilation

This compilation was arranged by mo. with care. Respect for the wonderful tunes go to all the bands, musicians and producers who made this collection of relaxed sounds possible. With a big hug we embrace all the netlabels who made these sounds available for us! Thank you!

All tracks were released under a creative commons licence, which says you are free to share,  to copy, distribute and transmit the work!

If you like the compilation find out more...

To find out more about every artist and every song, click the link and we will guide you to the whole album-review/download!

• "Welcome Wilderness" from Proviant Audio (Aquavelvas)
• "Exx Fuck" from Suhov (Budabeats)
• "When she looked at me (i saw her wondering)" from Niwa (iD.EOLOGY)
• "The Dubbed Coil Of Smoke" from Aphilas (Miasmah)
• "Hostile" from Crookram (Budabeats)
• "Sweet man like me" from Nils Hoffmann (Broque)
• "Barefoot Girl" from Twizzle (Comfort Stand)
• "Tai Chi" from Lokua (Moment Sound)
• "Grand 5" from Apes on Tapes (Homework Records)
• "Hash Oil" from Cri-Kong (Konfort)
• "Bracken Bed" from Malty Media (Monotonik)
• "Zephyr" from Willbe (William Lamy) (Language Lab)
• "It's on you" from Motown Junkie (Test Tube)
• "Morning Espresso" from enLounge (Aquavelvas)
• "Miles Of Smiles" from Comfort Fit (Tokyo Dawn)
• "Petra 1:00 am" from The Incognito Traveller (Konfort)
• "Rising" from TrianguliZona (Test Tube)

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 netlabel world. An interview with a Netaudio-Podcaster.

When did you make your first contact with the free music scene, especially netlabels? Do you remember the first release you downloaded?

What drives you to dig especially into the world of netlabels?

A lot of people claim that the netlabels are a bunch of amateurs. "They give their music away for free", they say, "because otherwise noone would buy their records." What would be your answer to such a statement?

While some of his former releases were either a bit too poppy or a bit too noisy for me, his full-length debut is just right. Not only well-balanced and "quality music" in terms of craftsmanship, slippy Maze can't be hold to any style conventions. "Delightfully strange", as Huw Roberts puts it on the liner notes.

Warm in tone and texture, Maze mixes processed instruments like flutes and strings with a lot of crackling noise and programed beats. His melodies are splendid and lush and create an artificial 70's Progrock-feel that goes along with the analog sound very well. The idea seems to resemble Jan Jelinek's approach to Krautrock on Kosmischer Pitch.

It is hard to pick certain songs as the whole album works best at full listen... my personal favorites are the first three tunes: "Steampunk" for it's wishful slide guitar, the flutes and the wafting beats, "Nested Companion Template" with it's cut-up vocal samples huge tonal synth-pads and finally "Subtropical Blasting Officier" which is just an incredibly weird piece of, well, Maze muzak. Yummy.

Don't forget to check the delicious artwork!

MP3 Electronic Music Download

Release Site: Daniel Maze - "Red After Image"
Direct Download: Daniel Maze - "Red After Image" (ZIP)
Netlabel: www.serein.co.uk
Artist Website: www.maze.walltapper.com

Other netlabels Daniel Maze released his music on:

Netlabel: Test Tube
Netlabel: EKO
Netlabel: 12rec.

Videoclip: "Making New Directions (Sea)"

Videoclip: Rippling (Dress)

You rarely discover jazz in the free music world. And often if you download a release which proclaims "Hey, I am Jazz!" the glamour fades away quickly. But with the jazz-trioTrianguliZona it's totally different. The three musicians know how to play their instruments. Ivan Kapec (electric guitar and electronics), Andrej Jakuš (trumpet, flugelhorn and electronics) and Janko Novoselić (drums).

Their music is vivid, sometimes hard to catch in the first moment but always on point. Along with effects from dub to sampled loops TrianguliZona produce music in the tradition of modern jazzers like Bugge Wesseltoft or Nils Petter Molvaer. Enjoy this complex and live improvisations with progressive electric guitar, trumpet with pedal and electronic effects. Catch that groove!

And, some last words... TrianguliZona is a four-headed project because they have also a visualist called Vladimir Končar. He combines the music with his own videos. Just have a look on the artist-website and check out these videos: vlak, oblaci and radnici.

MP3 Jazz Music Download

Artist-Website: www.triangulizona.co
Release: TrianguliZona - "Flossy" (Testtube Netlabel)
Download: ZIP-Archive
Netlabel: test tube

Videoclip: "Making New Directions (Sea)"

Videoclip: Rippling (Dress)

Often I wonder why so less musicians care about their artworks. In case of "Distal", the latest Entia Non-record after two CDRs at U Cover Records (Lackluster, Milieu, Ten & Tracer), Test Tube prove intuition by choosing a photo of a sunlit cornfield. That's exactly what "Distal" sounds like. James' multilayer music incorporates many elements and moods, ranging from pulsating calmness ("Burning Back in Vacant Fields") to medium menace ("Cultural Plagiarism") and evident beauty ("A Winter Plateau"). Especially in the first half of the album, musicality and experimentalism are in good ratio. As an EP, "Distal" would have been quite perfect; sad enough I can't avoid to notice that some of the later tunes have a certain tendency to drown in reverb. A good Ambient-release nevertheless.

MP3 Ambient Music Download

Release-Site: Entia Non - "Distal"
Direct Download: Entia Non - "Distal" ZIP
Netlabel: www.testtube.monocromatica.com
Artist Website: www.myspace.com/entianon

Benoit's Top-5 Songs 2007

You find the songs above on the following releases Nest, Chapi Chapo & les petites musiques de pluie, snug trio (rar-download), Aitänna77 and Herzog.

Benoit's Top-5 Releases 2007

1. Nest - nest
2. Chapi Chapo & les petites musiques de pluie - Armizioù du
3. Iambic² : Under These Stars, We'll Sleep Again
4. Aitänna77 - Health Needs
5. herzog - ocean! be our blanket

Benoit's Top-5 Netlabels in 2007

1. error lo-fi
2. rain music
3. 12rec.
4. Test Tube
5. Serein

d'incise's Top-5 Netaudio Songs

d'incise's Top-5 Releases

• Plaistow - "Los Criminales Reciclados (...)" [insub02b]
• Bluermutt - "When I'm Not" [ns055]
• Rainer Lericolais - "Adagio ma non Tanto" [trip004]
• Dopo - "For the Entrance of the Sun" [tube063]
• .cut feat. Gibet - "A Public Autopsy" [y.019]

d'incise's Top-5 Netlabels

• Nexsound
• Zymogen
• Test Tube
• 12rec.
• AudioTong

Larry "LAJ" Johnson is a dedicated listener of electronic and experimental music in general and Netlabel music in particular. Residing in the United States, Larry is one of the most active authors at archive.org. There he releases continously fine lists of his favorites and posts them into the netlabel board. Every once a while he collects the top-favorites and produces his own Netlabel-mixes. Besides his activities on archive.org, he's member of the EARLabs editorial team and editor on the Thinner/Autoplate curator staff.

LARRY'S TOP-5 NETAUDIO SONGS

TOP-5 RELEASES

1. Off the Sky - "Rare Decay" [rb017]
2. Various Artists - "100" [thn100]
3. Polina Voronova - "Luxurious" [exc005]
4. Michael Trommer - "Sleeping Satellites" [tube072]
5. Repetition|Distract - "Peripheral Geometries" [nt109]

TOP-5 NETLABELS

1. Homophoni
2. Thinner/ Autoplate
3. Resting Bell
4. Test Tube
5. Musica Excentrica

Mogwai Top-5 Songs

Mogwai Top-5 Releases

1. Ambitronic - Runde Ecken kann sich keiner Leisten (Idealtechno)
2. Various - 10 Jahre Kreislauf (Kreislauf)
3. Norman Fairbanks - West Hollywood EP (Pentagonik)
4. Peacespeakers - Massage from planet earth (Loop Jazz)
5. Max Marlow - Skyland (Moov Moozi)

Mogwai Top-5 Netlabels

1. Kreislauf
2. Idealtechno
3. Intoxik
4. Test Tube
5. Broque