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Daniel Maze –“Red After Image” (Serein)
Refreshing Electropop Psychedelica | Daniel Maze is a name you stumble about every now and then. Despite his new record for the Welsh Serein Netlabel, Vancouver-boy Maze has an opulent discography in...
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Niteffect –“Lost Identity” (Kreislauf)
Hardboiled Electronic Hip Hop | Niteffect is back with an 30-minutes length EP for the German Kreislauf Netlabel. While his former "Fragments" EP was more like a glimpse of Miklos Labady's talent for...
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Iqtu –“Embarrassing Triangle” (II-Music)
A magic Joyride | Although this sounds like Intelligence Dance Music at the first sight, it is not. "Embarrassing Triangle" from Iqtu is a magic trip. The album is one of those releases that I got so...
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Man of Taste: Ian D. Hawgood / Koen Park
Ambient Music With A Touch Of Pop | Maybe you know London-born Tokyo resident Ian D. Hawgood by his releases at Resting Bell or Dog Eared Records. Eventually you read about him at Phlow Magazine....
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Bufi –“Homeless Hero EP” (Poni Republic Netlabel)
Indie Dance | Poni Republic striked again. The mexican Leftfield-Pop Netlabel has just released another flashing EP. "Homeless Hero" is a fresh and well produced indie-dance collage, that makes you...
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The Mocks –“M is Correct” (Delhotel Records Netlabel)
Prepare for The Mocks | Looking for some interesting electronic pop featuring catchy melodies and a good portion of sarcasm? Well, then you should check out The Mocks. The Mexican duo likes to see it's...
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Crisopa –“Filamentosa EP” (Persona Isla Netlabel)
Airy Electronica | The artist Crisopa is one of my favorite discoveries this year. His music is subtle, smooth and melodic. Like his wonderful "Medicamentosa" on addSensor netlabel also his...
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Modul –“Complete Remixed” (Phonocake Netlabel)
IDM-Remix Project | The original song by Modul for this complex remix-project was released on Electrosound.ru. The melodic song "Complete" is a deep, sweet and slow-motion song with a catchy bleeping...
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Emily in Love –“You Break My Heart, You Remixed It” (Corpid Netlabel)
Sweet Elektropop | Ladies and Gentlemen let me introduce you to some german-austrialian electropop in english. On "You Break My Heart, You Remixed It" the austrialian project Emily In Love meets her...
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The Tidy Kid: Three Eps, Selected Works
Toot Toot! | Tidy Kid is Marly Uyma Lüske, born Australian but living in places all over Europe and the US. The travelling type, this is for sure. His oeuvre is confusing, there are remix albums, free...
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Did –“Ask U2” (Kirstens Postcard Netlabel)
Funky Electronic Rock | Put this record on and you will start dancing. This is what's going to happen. Dids awesome catchy and funky electronic rock is full of surprises and probably makes you wonder...
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Thiaz Itch –“Binjoum” (Bedroom Research Netlabel)
Weirdo Melodic Electronica | The music by Thiaz Itch is full of contradictions. In one ear "Binjoum" sounds naive, playful and childish coloured. In the other hand this "delightful bittersweet...
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Rolancho –“Quizás quiso decir Rolando” (modismo netlabel)
An Electronic Music Adventure from Chile | "Quizás quiso decir Rolando" is what I would call a true full-length album. It has all the ingredients to master a musical trip over 52:47 minutes. While the...
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Various –“Intelligent Toys 5” (Sutemos Netlabel)
A Giant and Hell of a Compilation | The Intelligent Toys Series is one of the most extraordinary Netlabel Series to date featuring finest electronic music from IDM to Ambient to Electronica. With their...
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March Rosetta –“Late in Time” (Clinical Archives)
The Good 80's: Fly Melancholia | I discoverd this clever album via the Machtdose podcast. Thank you Roland! March Rosetta is the alter ego of UK-born Berlin-living Tom Carter. "Late in Time" is his...
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He Can Jog –“Middlemarch” (Audiobulb) with Phlow CD Raffle
Fractal Folk from the US | After the great success of our Liger give-away, this time it’s UK record label Audiobulb entering the raffle ring with the wonderful “Middlemarch” CD by Brooklyn boy Eric...
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Paulina Mum –“Morning Rain” (Camomille Netlabel)
Naive and beautiful Electronica | Paulina Mum proves that you don't need any sophisticated, techy music gear to compose colourful adventures. All it needs is a cheap casio keyboard and a talent to...
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Infant Color –“Infant Color” (Beat is Murder)
Electropop Grandezza | Besides all the CDs the Viennese Beat is Murder label publishes, one mustn't forget about their free music section. Texas-based crooner Infant Color is a perfect excuse to...
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Koen Park –“84′ 85′” (Acroplane Netlabel)
Melodica Electronica | This release came as a surprise for me, a sweet one though. Koen Park is the IDM moniker of Ian Hawgood, a guy featured a lot at Phlow Mag and whose name you probably heard...
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Phillip Wilkerson –“Incidents in Spring” (Bypass)
Warm and Minimal Ambient | From Galuszka's survey we can learn that most Netlabels are run by Germans. China, in contrast, is listed with one entry. I guess this is Bypass, the only Chinese label I...
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Imachi Akira –“Lycoris Radiata EP” (Electronica)
Skillful Electronic Music | To my embarrassment I never heard of Imachi Akira or Russian Electronica Netlabel. And although the label puts information online only in Cyrillic script, this record...
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Various –“Cen Art” (Soulseek Records)
Chill Out Compilation | Once upon a time Soulseek was the filesharing platform for real music lovers. Maybe it is still today... I lost track but what I kept in mind is this wonderful project called...
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XYDZO –“Y” (Pulsations For You)
Electronic Folklore Music | This record has been around for long. I was planning to write about Russian Folklore in Electronic music and Netaudio but then netaudio.ru vanished and with them many of my...
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V.A. –“A Whale in a Manger” (4-4-2 Music)
Xmas Muzak | Australian record- and Netlabel 4-4-2 Music released a wonderful compilation in December 2008 I only stumbled about now. As the weather in Northern Germany is exactly like it normally is...
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New Wave Syria –“Hello, Yes” (Cheap Tunes)
Slovenian Synthpop | To know how music was created brings forth a certain surplus- or disappointment, respectively. This is especially true for electronic music. Circuit bending punks, bearded men over...
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Anois –“Tree House Whispers” (Aerotone Netlabel)
Lovely Aero-Pop | It's been more than half a year ago that german melancholy netlabel aerotone put out a full length album. But your precious time was absolutely worth waiting for their new release. If...
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Orange Crush –“Autumn Reflections” (Archaic Horizon)
Stonewashed Electronica | It's time to write about Orange Crush. His debut album "The Field" back in 2006 got me already, but somehow I never managed to review it. Recently, Orange Crush published his...
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Monokle –“Tesaurus” (Ideology)
All-round Indiepop | Monokle finally released their third album. While "Ideas Aloud" from 2007 vanished with ElektroSound, "Teasurus" found a safe home at well-established Ideology Netlabel. Moving...
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Sky Barstow –“It’s Circular” (Peppermill)
Queer and quirky Synthpop | The Canadian Peppermill Netlabel resembles beatismurder.com in many aspects. Their latest addition could have been out at the Austrian label without a problem. Sky Barstow,...
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MoR –“I’ve cheated” (Beat is Murder)
Summer Bleeps | Some odd and new and unexpected music hits my ears from Itlay-born Antonio Rosselli. Unexpected because his six-track EP was published via my favourite Weird Pop imprint Beat is Murder...
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Bluermutt –“Decivilice After Consumption” (Nexsound Pop) with Phlow CD Raffle
Electronic Pop Music from Italy's Finest | For nearly one year, I have been waiting for this album. I asked Andrey of Nexsound for "Decivilice After Consumption" when I informed him about the review I...
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Psychon – “Slow Country for Old Men” (Narrominded)
Ambient Electronic Mixture | Regardless what anyone may think, Psychon has not been asleep for the past five years. After releasing “apocalypse has been dubbed the weekend pill", the band submerged...
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2nd mouse –“levite” (Fwonk Netlabel)
IDM Jam Session | The first of the twins is the endearing and imaginative way that Chris Da Mouse, aka 2nd Mouse (could that be his real name?), introduced his new album "Levite" in an email that...
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IJO –“Selektida” (Sutemos Netlabel)
Electronic Music Diary | "Selektida" is one big album. Containing three CDs - better called parts. It is an representation of the last five years of IJO's music experiences and his passion for music in...
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Risch –“Missing monsters” (Petite & Jolie Netlabel)
Joyful Electronica | The Petite & Jolie Netlabel focusses on cute, melodic and sometimes naive and playful melodies. Risch makes no exception and composed some twinkling and sweet moments for us....
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Stockfinster –“Dead Line” (Sutemos)
Epic Electronic Prog Pop | The Lithuanian Netlabel Sutemos is nothing new to you most likely. We have been covering their outcome ever since. Stockfinster, all the same, is a name commonly known to...
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Bluermutt –“The Dislocation (and Consequences) EP” (Misread Records)
Electronic Folk Music | News from my man Bluermutt, and it is good news! I have been a big fan of his former albums and various side projects, and the more delighted to hear that this EP will be on for...
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Montag –“Des Cassettes et un Walkman Jaune” (Peppermill)
How to make a foreign song your own | Friends, Bettina Rhymes is back to the review biz! Let us celebrate this return to form with a WONDERFUL little gem of a Pop record: Montag aka Antoine Bédard is a...
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Henrik José –“The Little Things EP” (23 Seconds Netlabel)
Spherical Pop | Last year one musician appeared on the chart lists of a lot of netaudio musiclovers: Henrik José from Malmö, Sweden. We loved his pop anthem "Possibilities" so much, we had to include...
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Bitbasic –“Sprinkling Rainbows” (Monotonik Netlabel)
Jazz meets Drum'n'Bass | Bitbasic's new album Sprinkling Rainbows, released on Monotonik, delves deep into the world of smooth and funky Jazz stylings, in a follow up the 2007 "Grating Rainbows EP"....
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