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...
View ArticleVarious –“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...
View ArticleXYDZO –“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...
View ArticleV.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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleAnois –“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...
View ArticleOrange 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...
View ArticleMonokle –“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...
View ArticleSky 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,...
View ArticleMoR –“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...
View ArticleBluermutt –“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...
View ArticlePsychon – “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...
View Article2nd 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...
View ArticleIJO –“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...
View ArticleRisch –“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....
View ArticleStockfinster –“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...
View ArticleBluermutt –“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...
View ArticleMontag –“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...
View ArticleHenrik 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...
View ArticleBitbasic –“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"....
View Article