[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-30] palindromic resonance - voidfuck sessions

artist: palindromic resonance
album: voidfuck sessions

release date:
contact: myspace

"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."
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[xs-29] light's on - words of nature

artist: lights on
album: word of nature

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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

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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-27] renato folgado - late

artist: renato folgado
album: late

release date:
contact: myspace

Renato folgado is a classicaly trained musician, from the deep lands of portugal. In this release late, he presents himself in a solo grunge project.
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[xs-26] cláudio moreira - showcase @ fnac bragaparque 02-06-08

artist: cláudio moreira
album: showcase @ fnac bragaparque 02-06-08

release date:
contact: myspace

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.
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[xs-25] la stanza bianca - cristina bardo thodol

artist: la stanza bianca
album: cristina bardo thodol

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contact: myspace

This fine band brings another great release to our netlabel where we can listen to some sort of intercourse between free improv and progressive/post-rock, resulting in an astonishing musical stuff.
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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

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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-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.
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[xs-21] forgotten ruins - forgotten ruins

artist: forgotten ruins
album: forgotten ruins

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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

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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-18] youth and student travel - copy me copy you

artist: youth and student travel
album: copy me copy you

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contact: myspace

In this release we want to present you an ep of a sweden indie band called youth and student travel. a very soundful work, which can trasport you to imaginable imaginary soundscapes and reminds (not as the way as john cage was used to refer to it). A band with a substract to be heard.
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[xs-17] landerim - shallow draw

artist: landerim
album: shallow draw

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contact: myspace

Today we present you with this fine release from Landerim, a Psychedelic/Ambient Folk Band from the USA (Brooklin, New York), with influencies which come from Robert Wyatt, to Soft Machine, Brian Eno, Harold Budd, Jon Hassell, Scott Walker, Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett. Like a girl that I met yesterday said, their music invites us to close the eyes, in order to listen to it with the due attention, and exploring each sound.. it's interesting!
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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-15] emanuel salvador - selected performances

artist: emanuel salvador
album: selected performances

release date:
contact: myspace

We are glad to announce this new release by Emanuel Salvador, one of Portugal's most promising young violinist.

Emanuel Salvador, one of the finest Portuguese violinists of his generation.
Strad Magazine, Agosto de 2007

Born in 1981, Emanuel Salvador has already performed as a soloist and chamber musician in many important venues including St. Martin-in-the-Fields and Southwark Cathedral (London), Philharmonic Hall (Uralsk - Kazakhstan), Gulbenkian Museum, Rivoli Theatre and Bank of Portugal Hall (Lisbon), Principe Filipe Hall (Oviedo, Spain), Centro de las Artes Escenicas y de la Musica (Salamanca, Spain), Sto. Antonio Church (Rome) and Manoel Theatre (Malta). He has been awarded several prizes such as: first prize at Isolde Menges (RCM) and Beckenham Festival competitions; Barbirolli Memorial and Wolfson Foundation Award; second prize at Jovens Musicos competition; Honours Mention at Julio Cardona International Competition - Portugal; Gulbenkian Foundation Scholarship (2000-2003), amongst others. In 1999 Emanuel graduated from Artave (a specialist music school) as the best student of the year. During this time he studied with Costa Santos, Sergei Aroutiounian and Yakow Marr. He then moved to London, where he got a Bachelor of Music Degree from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (studying with Professor John Glickman) and a Masters Degree in Advanced Performance at the Royal College of Music, where he studied with Dr. Felix Andrievsky. Other professors with whom Emanuel studied include Ulf Hoelscher, Alberto Lysy, Vadim Brodsky, David Takeno, Gerardo Ribeiro and Ilya Grubert. As a concerto soloist Emanuel has played with Artave, do Norte, Nonesuch, Morley College, Vitalis, Newbury Symphony and Nova Amadeus orchestras, under Antonio Soares, Ferreira Lobo, Vi tor Matos, Chris Dawe, David Drummond and Massimo Scapin. His festival appearances include Encontros da Primavera e O violino por (Portugal), Proms in St. Judes and Ampthill (U.K.) and at the International String Orchestra Festival (Malta). Some of his performances have been recorded for the Portuguese Radio and Khabar TV (Kazakhstan). The Violin Concerto by Joaquim dos Santos, was written for, and premiered by Emanuel in Rome in June 2005 and later in Portugal. The first performance was recorded for the Portuguese Institute in Rome. Karl Fiorini's Violin Concerto, also written for Emanuel, which was premiered in Rotterdam in March 2008. Emanuel is an active chamber musician and has studied in masterclasses with Bernard Greenhouse (Beaux Arts), Florestan and Peabody trios and the Borodin, Takacs and Vellinger Quartets. He was a founder member of the Vianna da Motta Piano Trio, with whom he performed extensively in the U.K. and Portugal and recorded a CD for Centro Atlantico label. In 2003, he formed a violin and harp Duo with Ieuan Jones, playing regularly in the U.K. Since September 2005 Emanuel is the leader of Orquestra do Norte in Portugal. In June 2006 he played second solo violin in Gulbenkian Foundation's project Uma Pequena Flauta Magica (Lisbon). He plays on a tonal copy of a Guarnerius del Gesu, by Martin Schleske (Munich, 2004), which he acquired with the help of a Loan Fund for Musical Instruments' grant.
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[xs-14] tiago morgado - playing to ghosts

artist: tiago morgado
album: playing to ghosts

release date:
contact: myspace

You are in the middle of nothing.you are surrounded by the darkness and the emptiness of your mind, surrounded by ghosts. your ghosts, not the ghosts of anyone else. you want to run, but you cannot hidde from yourself. and then, at the end of a tunel, you see yourself highlighted with a piano, in the middle of a theatre. you want to play, but you cannot because there is not anyone to listen to you. only your ghosts are sitted in the middle of the audience. then, when the concert ends up, you wake up. you see that you were not sleeping. and then you want to continue with your routine, but you are not able to because you feel empty and tired of living and bleeding the dreams of someday.
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[xs-13] Light's On - Save The World EP

artist: light's on
album: save the world

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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-12] adamned.age - photosphaere

artist: adamned.age
album: photosphaere

release date: 2008-04-10
contact: myspace

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.
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[xs-11] tiago morgado - 363

artist: tiago morgado
album: 363

release date: 2008-04-10
contact: myspace

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.
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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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