[xs-41] engenho - amazónia

artist: engenho

album: amazónia

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Se o ritmo, efectivamente, é o elo de ligação de todos os temas, Engenho aventura-se por vários territórios musicais de diferente estética, desde o ambiente mais negro até qualquer coisa como paranóia sonora free noise boa, porque Engenho é malta ligada à  música exploratória, desligada de preconceitos, rica em fusões e infusões.

[xs-39] exportion - stream of conciousness

artist: exportion

album: stream of consciousness

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Exportion is sound and visual project. We are alive in the interstice of the fantasy and the reality. This story is a fantasy but a reality. We travel from the reality to non-reality again. It considers, time and space become one flow that forms the world at time. The two worlds exist in the same time and the verges exist close to us. The world not seen if consideration is not turned. Door that opens by feeling that it is strong. The door is open and we travel to the world that has not seen yet. We express it by the sound and the image.

[xs-34] tiago morgado & adamned.age - EHF: collaboration works

artist: tiago morgado & adamned.age 

album: EHF: collaboration works

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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.

[xs-33] gabran - anthem

artist: gabran

album: anthem

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Gabriele Ranica teaches literary subjects in the superior school. Beginning from the seventies, he has played in groups of music jazz and contemporary improvisation. The meeting with the Teacher Angelo Paccagnini has brought him to the reflection on the sound addressing him/it toward the aesthetics of the musical search. You/he/she has published for Picked Editions: "Angel Paccagnini: The displease cosmic."

Anthem is a prayer to the possible sonorous worlds that are inside and out of us. We are sound and it are the discovery of the sense of the sound that we are to bring I spill me the search and the experimentation.
These sounds are only some of the sounds that I have met in this world, many others I have still discovered of it and many I will discover of it when my world will be only Sound.

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[xs-32] ruins winter - natural

artist: ruins winter

album: natural

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Going into the japanese hardcore power noise of people as masami akita, this argetine project ruins wintar - natural ep gives us a set of 3 moments of pure noise, in an active nuclear charge, To listen with care.

[xs-30] palindromic resonance - voidfuck sessions

artist: palindromic resonance

album: voidfuck sessions

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"Ever since I discovered ambient and drone music, I've been interested in trying to experiment and play around with sound and mixing and matching it with all sorts of things to try and come up with something that satisfies me. I also love sound that has a "decaying" or "dirty" quality to it to convey a certain atmosphere, which is why I love black metal also (one of the reasons why). I also love minimalism (in any form of art) as well as using any instrument as a means of creating a "sound" so to speak rather than using it in a conventional manner."

[xs-28] die minimalistin - isolator

artist: die minimalistin

album: isolator

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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.

[xs-26] cláudio moreira - showcase @ fnac bragaparque 02-06-08

artist: cláudio moreira

album: showcase @ fnac bragaparque 02-06-08

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Steping aside presentations to those ones that have someway been inside the work of the netlabel, claudio moreira presents himsfelf in this new recording registry this time, in a small showcase in the braga's fnac, a small city in the north of Portugal
With an aesthetic aproach completely avant gard and influences which come from Boulez to Stockhausen to John Cage and so on, Claudio Moreira (horn compostion and radios) presents himself in this registry together with virigilio oliveira (basson and radios), with who performs his own works, and tiago morgado which joins them to make an intercourse between works of tiago morgado as a composer and improviser adn to the aesthetic of the instrumental writting of claudio moreira.
Even minding that it's a small work, it allows us to have a more clear wider and more concret and precise vision of the work of claudio moreira while composer and performer and eventually to reveal a future and promiser member of the next generation of portuguese musicians and composers.

[xs-24] algo - there will never be another you

artist: algo

album: there will never be another you

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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.

[xs-22] necrostilet, minson, uncle bart comes to have breakfast - split

artist: necrostilet, minson and uncle bart comes to have breakfast

album: split

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Tiago Morgado met Marco Ramos accidentally met in college (FCSH). They shared their avant-garde music passion and sometime after they where working on something Tiago had in mind, which was the experimental project necrostilet. They made music together during one year, and after it they were forced by their own destiny to pursuit their lives separately on far locations in Portugal. But they did not stoped working on necrostilet, and they continued to essay some sound experiences with something that their friendship gave them and helped them to grow. Marco has continued working on Minson but with an aesthetic much closer to necrostilet (two releases came then - the first one in enough records and the other one in this same netlabel), and Tiago created a new project called Uncle Bart comes to Have Breakfast, which has lead him to make experimental music among with some friends and people who he admires a lot (will be soonly released in test tube) and alone. Some of the work of the late home studio sessions of necrostilet among some material unreleased by minson and uncle bart is here represented which allows to communicate more then a end of a chapter in a friendship a page turning to a new one.

[xs-21] forgotten ruins - forgotten ruins

artist: forgotten ruins

album: forgotten ruins

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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.

[xs-16] EXurban - leerstand untergrund

artist: EXurban

album: leerstand untergrund

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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.

[xs-12] adamned.age - photosphaere

artist: adamned.age

album: photosphaere

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Adamned.age (Hanne Adam), born and grown up in Hamburg in 1977, is an artist residing in Berlin who already began very early practising music on piano, guitar and drums. She mainly played drums in punk- and crossover-bands and started her first solo-recordings on an 8-track-taperecorder.In 1996 she integrated computer-technology and virtual instruments to create her first electronic-music-works in trip-hop-/downtempo-style. She never stopped singing because vocals are considered as a particular experiment. Intense experiments on hard- and software involved transformations of sounds and samples to click and cut-elements that have become a relevant basis for the rhythmic and percussive tracks of her minimal techno-style.
Recently she re-concentrated mainly on sound-design (an integral part of her former studies) and experimental structures leading to electronica and IDM-style. Beside these styles she still works on her well-known downtempo-structures, combined with ambient sounds.In addition, many collaborations such as remixes and multimedial projects are part of Hanne's complex musical carrier.Due to her immense artistic output, Hanne Adam is often characterized as a very busy person. In fact, working on musical media, paintings, graphics, photographies and films is the most essential part in her life to create means of communication with the inner- and outside-world. Music as a constant work in progress that serves as a liberation of mind.

This ep is a good way of seing the way as she actually sees, listens and makes music, what music represents to her, and how much she needs music to live.

[xs-11] tiago morgado - 363

artist: tiago morgado

album: 363

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Another release of the netlabel founder a set of three performances where he uses mighty moogerfoogers to generate both psycadelic noise textures on drum machines, and smooth drones to his viola. A vintage analogue hardcore registry.

[xs-09] minson - hidden monsters

artist: minson

album: hidden monsters

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We are glad to anounce that the minson Hidden Monsters EP, released in March, is finally available for listening. here we have a text present on the cover which induces us in the mithologycal theme of the album

Beneath us was nothing now to be seen but a black tempest, till looking east between the clouds & the waves, we saw a cataract of blood mixed with fire and not many stones thrown from us appeared and sunk again the scaly fold of a monstruous serpent: at last to the east, distant about three degrees appeard a fiery crest above the waves slowly it reared like a ridge of golden rocks till we discoverd two globes of crimson fire, from which the sea fled away in clouds of smoke, and now we saw, it was the head of Leviathan, his forehead was divided into streaks of green & purple like those on a tygers forehead: soon we saw his mouth & red gills hang just above the raging foam tinging the black deep with beams of blood, advancing toward us with all the fury of a spiritual existence.

BLAKE, William, The Marriage Of Heaven and Hell

[xs-07] C R Moreira - sauroposeidon

artist: CR Moreira

album: sauroposeidon

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release date: 2008-03-07

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C R Moreira was born in 1989, in Oporto. In 2003, he starts to study music in Musical Academy Of Lousada, where he studied horn with Filipe Fonseca and Ricardo Matosinhos. In 2005, he enter in ARTAVE - Escola Profissional Artistica do Vale do Ave, in the horn class of professor Helder Vales. In 2006, he starts to compose by himself learning composition by himself. In 2007, his works have been performed by 10 times. Right now, he is working in seminary with Emmanuel Nunes. He is finishing the winds programme in ARTAVE 

Sauroposeidon is a work of the young composer, that makes part of a cycle of pieces which leads us into the origins of the existence in this planet. Although this release is intended to promote this young talented and devoted portuguese composer, we do not Intend to make it represent a serious performance of it - the prove of that is that what you will hear is some sort of sampled orchestra which audio has been remastered, and then if although this is extremely impressive, imagine what would be a performance of professional instrumentists working during 1 intense work-week on it.