Showing posts with label minimal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label minimal. Show all posts

[xs-62] hola one & elka brown - visitors

artist: hola one & elka brown
album: visitors

release date: 18/07/2009
cover art: back & front

In this new release by XS Records, Marek is back, this time together with elka brown, who has colaborated in this album with a remix of a song and some more colaborations. Personally, the main difference I see between this and the last album, is basically the production (in terms of mixing and mastering) which is signifcantly better in relation to last one.. also there has started to appear some drum machine components, which give a more rithmic character to visitors that hygh. Marek is a resident at Vombat Radio, where his tracks are featured in the electric city radio show, and which has allowed us to be partners of that radio. Hope you guys enjoy this release as much as we've done.

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[xs-57] hola one - hygh

artist: hola one
album: hygh

release date: 5/4/2009
contact: myspace and radio

Hola one is Marek Ogorzalek, the same person behind lost reality, khhh, and morten - pa gyngende grund. Marek has started his music activity in the hip hop underground scene in the late 90's and has been working in electronic music since 2000, although only in 2007 he sucedeed implementing something that he thought had interest for himself, in an aesthetic way. This was a basis for going throughout some existencial states, that condicioned his way of seeing life in limit situations. Lost Reality has been the result of it, and hola one works as an extension for this kind of sound. Here we have an interwine between experimental, ambient, minimal, micropoliphonic stuff, somewhere in the line of people such as brian eno, alva noto (in terms of textures), beatriz ferreyra, pauline oliveros and so on. Marek is a resident at Vombat Radio, where his tracks are featured in the electric city radio show.

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[xs-48] rainbows - songs for someone

artist: rainbows
album: songs for someone

release date:
contact: myspace

Songs for someone é como que um tardio iniciar de uma nova etapa e como que um preparar de uma novo ciclo de releases (e quem sabe, até projectos) por parte de Tiago Morgado, mentor da netlabel XS Records [portuguese netlabel]. Songs for someone faz-se então adivinhar como que um abrir de novos caminhos no sentido de uma espiritualidade vivida essencialmente através da música, e que encerra tudo aquilo que faz com que o autor do mesmo sinta a existência de uma razão para continuar a fazer música. Uma espécie de mística onde a angústia, a paixão, o sofrimento, o amor, o equilibrio se encerram numa vivencia espirtual conduzida através da musica. Trata-se portanto de uma maneira de transmitir através do seu instrumento com recurso a processamento (pedais e racks direccionados essencialmente para o processamento de guitarra electrica), aquilo que sente em relação a alguém ou algo, em relação ao tudo ou nada, caminhando num sentido de abraçar uma linguagem que cruza em alguns momentos o minimalismo presente na musica de compositores como steve reich ou philippe glasse, a uma quase sugestão de tratamento micropolifónico, típico da música de brian eno.
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[xs-31] aaldo - selected works

artist: aaldo
album: selected works

release date:
contact: myspace & email

"AAldo 'and' a sound project by Aldo Ammirata, bassist and contrabbassista from Palermo (Italy) after several musical experiences ranging from punk / new-wave classic studies in collaboration with various artists of various trends, has undertaken a few years of research in the field of music concrete and minimalist theatrical feature, starting from the collaboration with the actor vanguard: Claudio Ambrosetti with which it has cooperated for a long time. 
The "fragment" and "Les dieux frozen '" are compositions for theatrical monologues, "fragment", part of a single tatrale opera, "Les dieux frozen '" less minimalist precedents (with the voice of reverse FTMarinetti) is part of a representation is not achieved. 
Currently "AAldo" is implementing and completing various compositions that will form an entire album that will ' probably finished by 2008. 

Aldo Ammirata 


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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-05] tiago morgado - welcome to spriengfield

artist: tiago morgado
album: welcome to springfield

release date: 2008-02-22
contact: myspace

The fifth release of this netlabel, is another set of performances in alto viola recorded by tiago morgado in the summer of 2007. In here, we can listen to some tripy soundscapes, easy to listen music, and some nostalgics reminds of the authors childhood (maybe when he was watch the simpsons series).
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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-02] tiago morgado - 2007 drone sessions

artist: tiago morgado
album: 2007 drone sessions

release date: 2008-02-10
contact: myspace

recording of improvised drone sessions in the summer 2007 by tiago morgado (alto viola)
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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

    • What's a netlabel?


    I won’t obviously explain you that in here but you can easily find that information in wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netlabel and information about creative commons in http://creativecommons.org

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


    Yes it's free. All tracks are released under a by-nc-nd creative commons license (unless otherwise specified), and are also all unsigned from any of those artist royalties ripoff associations. That means that it's free to download, distribute and broadcast without needing to pay anything to anyone, not even to the GEMA / RIAA / SPA / SGAE / TEOSTO / whatever. The only thing you can't do with it is claim ownership or release any derivatives commercially without the artists permission. All broadcasting and non profit distribution activity is perfectly legal and legislated.

    Can i share these releases using bittorrent or other p2p applications?


    Yes. We want our releases and artists to be known across the whole multiverse and beyond. So please _do_ abuse whatever independent distributing technology you see fit, including http, ftp, dcc, fserver, cdr, radiocast, webcast, bittorrent and whatever other p2p solution you can imagine. Just as long as you are not collecting money from our artists work, you're free to re-distribute it in any way you see fit.

    This is great, how can i support you guys?


    If you like a specific artist we encourage you to support them directly, check their myspace pages for special contributions and upcoming events. We will prepare ourselves to receive also paypals donatives to help promote de musicians (printing CDRs and DVDs to sell at a symbolic price, and so on).

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