...And I see that at the moment there is one sound. Not sounds. One single sound, everywhere. It's a sound that has been standardised. It's a sound that is produced digitally, and it all comes down to the same sound, which is a painful thing at this end of the century....

-Pierre Henry

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Interview: Carsten Nicolai



It’s as hard to summarize the achievements of Raster-Noton as it is to overestimate their importance in the development of electronic music and art. The label, which celebrates its 12th anniversary with a live showcase at London’s ICA this Friday, was founded in 1996 by Carsten Nicolai, Olaf Bender and Frank Bretschneider. Ever since its inception, Raster-Noton has operated at the vanguard of electronic music, defining the “glitch” movement of the 1990s and casting a long shadow over contemporary pop and dance music with its minimalist, rigorously avant-garde but always playful attitude to sound sourcing and manipulation. Equally influential has been the creativity and consideration Raster-Noton has afforded the tactile and visual aspect of its output - not just the exquisite packaging of its vinyl, books and CDs, but beyond into site-specific installations and A/V performances which inhabit “the overlapping border areas of pop, art and science”.

http://www.factmagazine.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=597&Itemid=27

[TN007] V/A - Intensities ((re)re)visitada



all the tracks on the compilation are based on the same material recorded during the Intensitie Records vs. tecnoNucleo exhibition in the city of Mataró in spain.

track list
01. PANGEA - Citizen
02. Coeval - Ara la lluna sense sentit
03. xedh - tatuaje en forma de cà rculo
04. daax! - h2o.flac
05. scmute - soi.rand()
06. clemens hausch - Dead Ends
07. noish - 4eso.deconstruccion
08. Zanoisect - Idensities
09. nanako - 150.408
10. electrofuzza - Remaked Intensities

http://www.tecnonucleo.org/index.php?page=release&release=7

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http://www.selvaelettrica.com

aj já!

MAHISH: jj, ja taky...

UNCLEAN: dík, jsem moc zvědavej.

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STEINBRÜCHEL LIVE IN LISBON



Portugese label Cronica has released a live recording of Steinbrüchel’s excellent live performance at last month’s OFFF Festival in Lisbon. it is a treat for the ears (was amazing to hear it in the big room) and is now available as a free download.

steinbrüchel
variations of «basis»

http://www.cronicaelectronica.org/?p=cronicaster

performed live on may 10, 2008 @ offf festival, lisboa

many thanks to oriol rossell costa, miguel arsénio,miguel carvalhais + pedro tudela

P_NE: dobry!

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Projekce & koncert v rámci Festivalu detektivek a hororů v HaDivadle / 14. 6. – 18. 6. 2008 / Brno
La Chute de la maison Usher / Pád domu Usherů
Režie: Jean Epstein / Francie 1928
Živý hudební doprovod:
MuzakCinemaCollective (ve složení: Sonority, P.O.P. Corp. & Indie Scum)

LINKS: chernobyl / hadivadlo / last.fm

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Chris Herbert -- live set for download



A terrific night by all accounts, thanks to everyone who could make it. SOTL, as you might expect, bestrode the earth. A couple of swell fellows too.

Should anyone be interested, I managed to record some indistinct buzzing noises from my laptop and for as long as the link below works you can download the set from Sendspace.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/siif1y

MusCutFest (Ukraine, Dnipropetrovs'k) - live reports



Zelenshum -- Live at Mus.Cut.Fest
Micktu -- Live at Mus.Cut.Fest
Roman Slavka -- Live at Mus.Cut.Fest
.at/on -- Live at Mus.Cut.Fest
peeloffthebass -- Live at Mus.Cut.Fest
OK_01 -- Live at Mus.Cut.Fest
Nikolaienko -- Live at Mus.Cut.Fest
Stas Popov -- Live at Mus.Cut.Fest
Electrostatic Death -- Live at Mus.Cut.Fest

http://www.archive.org/details/muscut1L

http://www.phonotactics.org
http://www.myspace.com/phonotactics
Alternativa / Experimental / Jungle / Drum'n'Bass / Otros




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Publicphono - FREE album from Scanner



A free album for anyone who wants to take a listen. Recorded on
18 September 2000 live in Rimini, Italy, at the 'After Radio' conference during the Prix Italia competition. It was originally released in a strictly limited edition of just 200 copies on CD

http://www.scannerdot.com/mp3/scanners_mp3/publicphono.mp3

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HEAVY MENTAL #8 / 05.06.2008 / BRNO FLÉDA

LINKS: chernobyl / myspace / last.fm

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OWL-023 Ben Woods A Collection of Thoughts
Moving piano-based ambience and melodies. Absolutely incredible debut album from Ben Woods.

http://www.divshare.com/direct/4174273-637.rar


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http://www.wiseowlrecords.com/home

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Cold-Boy-Klan: stupid white man

info... http://www.muteme.cz/cbk
mp3... http://muteme.cz/index.php?id=422&lang=0

Z neznáma českého hudebního podsvětí, vynořivší se uskupení Cold-Boy-Klan, koncepčně vychází z odkazů alternativní elektroniky a indie hip-hopu, které stmeluje na platformě odkazů, dnes už značně vyčpělé country music, se záměrem tuto platformu dekonstruovat, přetavit a obrodit do sofistikovanější či futurističtější formy hudebního sdělení. Je to však i výzva pohrát si s staro-novým hudebním vzorcem a vypořádat se s podvědomou minulostí, před kterou bychom raději prchli, přestože je pro vývoj hudby naprosto nepostradatelná. Country, stejně tak folk či blues...

www.muteme.cz/cbk
www.myspace.com/coldboyklan

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Not for the mainstreamboyz EP

Právě vyšlo digitální EP Not for the mainstreamboyz na labelu Return-Records.com

Originální track Abuis od holandského producenta Hooga se dočkal několika remixů od producentů Charlton, Smear, Casual Violence, Tyler Smith a Dialect.

Celý první release nového holandského labelu tak obsahuje celkem 5 tracků. Download releasu najdete v sekci „Releases“ na stránkách www.return-records.com.

link: http://return-records.com/music/Return001F/Return001F-Not_For_The_Mainstreamboyz.rar

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Aut | Home (MP3 + Limited Edition, Two Colour Offset Print | F.0021.0001)



“Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh.”

Jean Genet

Greg Godwin's work under the guises Aut and Dsic explores damaged audio and harnesses fragments of melody wrenched from the grooves of worn vinyl. The resulting pieces have a haunting and mesmerising quality, like forgotten music glimpsed only momentarily.

Godwin states: "All material has been recovered from the detritus of vinyl LPs and 7” singles collected over the years. Digital processing has rendered much of the original material unidentifiable, but the nature of recall is elusive and these fragments of discarded much-loved music could seem familiar.

"The blast of guitar rock, echoes of the human voice, pop-hits, avant-attack. All music is the same, and in the end what remains are artefacts, lock-grooves and repetition, repetition, repetition…"

Reviewed in 2000, Gordon McEwen (%Array) states: "Vestigial melodies resolve somewhere in the middle distance, unfurl slowly, linger for a little and then dissolve from view. 'Sero' and 'Home', the title track (which is particularly impressive), bear something of a majestic, processional, quality; both pitch a pedestrian shuffle against sustained mid- and low-range drones. At times it's soporific (or hypontic, if you like) but every track remains substantial and engaging."

Only three tracks were ever released from 'Home', on the first 'Directions' compilation. Now retrieved in its entirety from the Fällt archive, 'Home' will be released on 1 January, 2008 as a 320 KBPs high bitrate digital audio release available for free download.

The digital release will be accompanied by physical artwork in the form of a limited edition print currently in production.

ZIP
http://www.fallt.com/home