Showing posts with label electronic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label electronic. Show all posts

[xs-66] BpOlar - subversive vespers

artist: BpOlar
album: subversive vespers

release date: 05/09/2009
contact: myspace
cover art: back and front
videoclip: krow

BpOlar is son of a jazz musician and as such he was raised from a very young age listening to the jazz masters, and although is approach diverted from this it is part of his background and as such is part of his aproach to the berlin electronic music scene. BpOlar is also a multidisciplinary artist, creating digital drawings and paintings and 3D video clips to document his music and for live usage, or the opposite (makes music to illustrate video). One of these works is presented together with this release.

BpOlar music is strongly focused on creating textures, with a close relation with ambient music. This textures are nonetheless rough and arid, and lead us to alien environments where beats, noises and voices all create suspense moments, where you feel alert all the way through. This release is composed of four tracks and a bonus movie, that complements this particular vision.

If you pay attention to BpOlar work you'll find, in his drawings/paintings, movies and music, traces of this imaginary world, where the central element is the feeling of unsettlement.

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[xs-60] poros - labass

artist: poros
album: labass

release date: 20/06/2009
contact: myspace
cover art: back & front

Poros is a solo project of Paulo Vicente born in Lisbon (Portugal). Playing bass since 1987. He is also the author of the current xs records [pt netlabel] release, in which ((he presents himself as a one man band show) || (solo)) some sort of symbiosis occur between rock and electronic music, ambient, trip hop and downtempo.

Having such a passion for bass Poros bass leads the way to his admirable world of senses. Every note is played respectfully every chord has a smell, every beat a taste. You can sense different worlds in harmony. And all the other sounds increase this sense of perfume, of exotic nights, of longing for something. Carefully noises and sounds are placed in such a way that brings us closer and closer to desire.

This is we think what Paulo wants to show the world. If the word romantic wouldn't have such a bad implication nowadays we would say that Paulo is one of the ultimate romantics of this world. And this is also what we enjoy in the music we present you, passion and reverence for this language of feelings. Hope you guys enjoy this fine release as much as we enjoyed.

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[xs-56] egotron - egotron

artist: egotron
album: egotron

release date: 29.03.2009
contact: myspace

Katarina Magalhães is egotron and vice versa. Both share kellogs froot loops fashion design and listening and making music. Has sound artist, she learned by her self to use Ableton Live software for her musical creativity process. In term of influences one can find reminiscences of electro/punk/pop totally electronic, in an almost low fi tronica sense. It can be recognized different sorts of influences from mylo, uclic, stereoboy, metronomy, the faint, cabaret voltaire, goldie or tricky. The symbiosis between music and fashion design is a key element to egotron, and although the world will lose someone with a potential for music maybe someday we can see her in the catwalk.


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[xs-49] rainbows - universal compassion

artist: rainbows
album: universal compassion

release date:
contact: myspace

Universal compassion is one more registry of the solo project of tiago morgado, this time with two small experiments in the style of christian fennesz (some sort of shoegazze noise, where piano drones, are processed over the time).
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[xs-45] jorge nunes - comprimido

artist: jorge nunes
album: comprimido

release date:
contact: myspace & blog

Jorge Nunes abre o ano de 2009 com uma bomba em estilo "Comprimido"; qual complexo químico ou arma de arremesso a lembrar o Dr. Robert Moog - esteja ele onde estiver desejando que esteja em paz - que continua a valer a pena ter criado nos idos 60 aquele extraordinário aparelho de som sintetizado. O Moog. É ele que serve de primeiro veículo transmissor ao universo em turbilhone que aqui vem comprimido. Ele e mais alguns pedaços arrecadados ao espaço e ao tempo por um moderno iPod de toque. Mas adiante que a loucura não espera; Desespera.
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[xs-42] ziur - concretement

artist: ziur
album: concretement

release date:
contact: myspace

Ziur is the artistic name of Andre Ruiz. Originally from Maia, Portugal, is a composer who has made creations for movie pictures, animation films, video games and musical orchestral arrangements and collaborated with several artist performers. He lives in Braga where he teachs composition at the local Music school. For many years is working in classical music as teacher and composer. Ziur's project (created in 2005) is an escape for his believes and is an atempt to expand his music ideas and share with all his musical visions.
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[xs-37] outlevel - estrela

artist: outlevel
album: estrela

release date:
contact: myspace

To discover out Level is undoubtely an experience. More enjoyable for ones, less for otherones, all this sound universe touch us in the way as it interwines all a variety of aesthetic languages, that walk from a sight more close to indie and shoegazze, to all a universe of field recordings and idm, with a close contact to the new tendries of all the electronic music of germain alternative circuits (besides that the author assumes by lots of times influences in Kubik as a major influence, which in a certain way reflects on the way as it goes into contact with the author's work without forgetting his last album). A sensorial experience which transforms itself at the course of four long tracks, with a deeply minimal character getting together all those four themes which have in common the contact with a sound reality.
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[xs-34] tiago morgado & adamned.age - EHF: collaboration works

artist: tiago morgado & adamned.age 
album: EHF: collaboration works

release date:

Much has change in my life since I created this netlabel. I knew people, I expanded my horizons in terms of music knowledge and I created an interesting circuit for promotion of my music and others work. But in the middle of all that, there is nothing more important than the experiences echanged with other people, and the friendships that a guy establishes over the internet. For an instance in my album "Some paradoxes about the human existence (...)" released in test tube (Uncle bart (...) tube 125) I've had collaborartions requested by me ranging from portuguese musicians friends of mine (and people which work I admire a lot) to kenji siratory but I've never imagined that some months later I would being asked by german musicians to collaborate with them. And this experience, of giving few material of mine to other to work over the internet that has been a happening but will turn more periodical (at least I wish so), I desire to have more opurnities to seeing these sort of mutations of my own musical and sound identity by others and going along with making music with other people, and creating circuits for other people to make it which was also a big purpose of all this thing.
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[xs-29] light's on - words of nature

artist: lights on
album: word of nature

release date:
contact: myspace

This is the second release of lights on in xs records. in fact, where we can listen and enjoy to the sound gallery of images of the author's where we can listen to the authors life philosophy.
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[xs-28] die minimalistin - isolator

artist: die minimalistin
album: isolator

release date:
contact:

Tanja D., born on Sep5,1975 and living in Berlin, received a classical piano-training at the music-academy in Hamburg plus education in composition and audition. At the age of 13 she already developed her own compositions in classical minimal-music that still plays an important role in her musical activities owadays. In December 2006 the first computer-compositions involving music-software, VST-plug-ins and VST-instruments were developed. Tanja D. likes to integrate noise-recordings of everyday life (ventilation-systems, tubes, etc.) as well as lyrics and her own voice. After having tested various styles of electronic music (e.g. minimal techno) she soon discovered the experimental electronic style and dark-ambient-genre. Currently she mainly concentrates on experimental dark-ambient-soundscapes and production of surreal sounds accompanying visual artworks. Inspired by the established project Exurban founded by the artist ADAMNED.AGE, she began to deal with the photographic/visual realisation of experimental contents and ex-urban rooms as basis for musical soundscapes. The most important aspect is the audiovisuality reference in her works; associative journeys through abstract, irreal and fantastic worlds or experienced events. 


First release of tanja from exurban in xs records.. a very tripy dark ambient one.. to listen with care.
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[xs-24] algo - there will never be another you

artist: algo
album: there will never be another you

release date:
contact: myspace

AL has found GO in a universe far away from here, l. where sun would come. AL was listening to Rihm and Shnittke and GO was listening to Alvo Noto and Murcof. It was love and hate at first sight. From this first and unique encounter there have gotten to the history this 11 digits, in shape of sound. For some people incompreensible, for other ones weird. For them, just ALGO.
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[xs-23] the oniric - the oniric

artist: the oniric
album: the oniric

release date:
contact: myspace

Today I present you a project of a long date friend, Luis Guilherme , who I met while I was still a child. and who brought us, among with his friend Luis Silva this fine ep which is actually their very first recording registry and where we can listen to some kind of singular sound that trancends music cathegories, where dark ambient is conflued with electronica, goth music and at a more conceptual basis, trip hop, neo-folk fado, XIXth century classical music power and intelligent pop in a fusion registry. To listen and re-listend with the dued attention.
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[xs-21] forgotten ruins - forgotten ruins

artist: forgotten ruins
album: forgotten ruins

release date:
contact: myspace

Today we present you with this fine release of forgotten ruins, a very recent uk dark ambient and experimental project that gives us this fully lp in which we can find a crossover between field recordings and electronic sound manipulations. A very cold experience to be heard with ears and mind.
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[xs-20] tiago morgado - zen garden

artist: tiago morgado
album: zen garden

release date:
contact: myspace

Zen Garden is the result of a music reflection made by Tiago Morgado, somewhere before he was 20 years old in a deep loneliness afternoon. A work where the subject is travelling through his mind to clarify the reason of his will and existence. The result is a abrasive viola drone of 20 minutes processed by his hybrid analogue/digital toys setup.
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[xs-16] EXurban - leerstand untergrund

artist: EXurban
album: leerstand untergrund

release date:
contact: myspace

about EXurban (by José Luis aka Gift of Vision):

"this both artist bring more than an empty space composition cliche, actually they discover a forgotten world, a world that is there but nobody notices it anymore... or anybody wants to notice. and it is because watching the slideshow, it inmediately takes you to a walk tru the corridors, the rooms and halls. And the questions come to surface in a second? what happened here? what kind of people was attended in this room? it was a injuried soldier? a happy pregnant mother giving birth? 
an old man waiting for the last breath of his life?

While the walk continues on every picture, a feeling of sadness, solitude, forgotten, depressive and nostalgic when the sun tries in vain to warm these rooms, and a mistery around it is overpassing the eyes, mind and hearth of the expectator, but... stop walking is not a choice. at the same time thousands of questions will remain with no answer: why this place is not used anymore? why they dont just tear it down and build a new thing? does anybody cares about this place? all that dust, rusty, broken windows and wide empty spaces just remain quiet with memories of echoes, voices and situations that happened there and no one will tell.

Even worse for my hearth: die minimalistic background sounds makes me going down, keeping my hearth cold, hopeless for an answer and fitting to my heartbeat and unexpected noises turns my skin with goosebumps not of scary, but yes: for emptyness.

I loved it, yes, this travel took me to the basement of my own personal ghosts and took me back to reality, I would recommend to everyone to have this travel and find their own basements without the classical gothic way for personal suffering: just real places, real pictures and the real noises in your head. I will be waiting for the next walk." 

In this new release of the german colective EXurban, crossover by two influent projects of the electronic german music scene, we find some sort of aproaching between languages as, for an instance, dark ambient, electronica, musique concrete, field recordings, electroacustic music, idm, downtempo, and so on. An ecletic experience, to see, taste, smell and listen. Recommended.
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[xs-13] Light's On - Save The World EP

artist: light's on
album: save the world

release date:
contact: myspace

This project Light's On was a way that Pedro Marques has found to communicate and share his vision of life by music, on a effort help humanizing the nowadays society of consumism, repetition of routines, and individualism. In this context we can see someone appealing to a better world, where everyone can share iquality, inter-help and love by the people around us. 

This light's on save EP is an ambient electronica registry where we can find someone looking for a path, and trying to help the others, communicating it by a minimal electronica music tendry, full of visual images, and smells and tastes. Someone that tries to share his own equilibrium with the others.
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[xs-04] DNP X-Citer - finding love in cosmos

artist: DNP X-Citer
album: finding love in cosmos

release date: 2008-02-18

the second recording of DNP X-Citer, now bringing us something much closer to electronic, emo, chill out, and minimal music. something less conceptual and more easy to listen than the previous one.
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xs records editions

  • [xs-72] Agnes Heginger and Karlheinz Essl - Out of the Blue
  • [xs-71] cage cabarrett - covil radiophonic workshop
  • [xs-70] hui-chun lin-selected improvisation works
  • [xs-69] heitor alves - gimme some more sounds
  • [xs-68] essl.ostrovski - flechtwerk
  • [xs-67] zuramone - the spiders dance
  • [xs-66] BpOlar - subversive vespers
  • [xs-64] ziur - granular world
  • [xs-63] subterminal - filled with light
  • [xs-62] hola one and elka brown - visitors
  • [xs-61] carlos d. perales - acousmotion
  • [xs-60] poros - labass
  • [xs-59] essl.burger - live!
  • [xs-58] v.a. - past present and future
  • [xs-57] hola one - hygh
  • [xs-56] egotron - egotron
  • [xs-55] lotus mecanica - the live sessions and jack d
  • [xs-54] emanuel casimiro - a revolta das plaquetas
  • [xs-53] emanuel casimiro - o rei do power pimba
  • [xs-52] AAM! - ojodoro
  • [xs-50] grupo porco de grindcore interpretativo - the rala o pinto massacre
  • [xs-47] nata - stormy weather
  • [xs-46] pangea - vital error [feat kenji siratori]
  • [xs-45] jorge nunes - comprimido
  • [xs-44] moreu - gong music
  • [xs-43] 10konekt - telekom
  • [xs-42] ziur - concretement
  • [xs-41] engenho - amazónia
  • [xs-40] mezcup - 2008
  • [xs-39] exportion - stream of conciousness
  • [xs-38] beautiful venom - prologue
  • [xs-37] outlevel - estrela
  • [xs-36] salad - ubiquo
  • [xs-35] jackpooote - jackpooote
  • [xs-34] tiago morgado & adamned.age - EHF: collaboration works
  • [xs-33] gabran - anthem
  • [xs-32] ruins winter - natural
  • [xs-31] aaldo - selected works
  • [xs-30] palindromic resonance - voidfuck sessions
  • [xs-29] lights on - words of nature
  • [xs-28] die minimalistin - isolator
  • [xs-27] renato folgado - late
  • [xs-26] cláudio moreira - showcase @ fnac bragaparque 02-06-08
  • [xs-25] la stanza bianca - cristina bardo thodol
  • [xs-24] algo - there will never be another you
  • [xs-23] the oniric - the oniric
  • [xs-21] forgotten ruins - forgotten ruins
  • [xs-18] youth and student travel - copy me copy you
  • [xs-17] landerim - shallow draw
  • [xs-16] EXurban - leerstand untergrund
  • [xs-15] emanuel salvador - selected performances
  • [xs-13] lights on - save the world
  • [xs-12] adamned.age - photosphaere
  • [xs-10] tet open ensamble - zen trip
  • [xs-09] minson - hidden monsters
  • [xs-07] C R Moreira - sauroposeidon

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    Is this music really free? Just download?.. Do i need to pay to play it in clubs?


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