[xs-52] AAM! - ojodoro

artist: AAM!
album: ojodoro

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contact: myspace

AAM! is a research laboratory of sounds, noises, Futurism visions and DaDa references. 
A collaboration between "Aaldo" contrabassist/bass player, composer and researcher, "M!" noisemaker, composer, researcher and inventor of musical instruments 
"OJODORO" it's a 22 min.long track. The title is inspired by the reading of the biography of the director Alejandro Jodorowski.
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[xs-50] grupo porco de grindcore interpretativo - the rala o pinto massacre

artist: grupo porco de grindcore interpretativo
album: the rala o pinto massacre

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contact: myspace

Grupo Porco de Grindcore Interpretativo is a brazilian experimental lambada metal band that incorporates elements of grindcore in their sound and punk rock in their aesthetics. The band is currently signed to Azucrina Records of Brazil.

When asked about the origin of their name, Porquinho stated in an interview that he was a big fan of the arts, dance and some cultural raping stuff, so he think - Fuck it - This is my band i'll call it that way.

The band was infamous for seeming to hate the experimental-lambada-metal-band-that-incorporates-elements-of-grindcore-scene back in the early 1990s however the band now seems to disassociate with such hatred. It has been ascertained that the origin of such "hate" was the fact that singer Leo Pyrata had been subjected to telephonic pranks by members of fellow brazilian metallers Falamansa, which he interpreted as "attacks" from members of the experimental-lambada-metal-band-that-incorporates-elements-of-grindcore-scene. They also stopped wearing corpse paint in the mid 1990s due to it being "too trendy".

In 2003, guitarist Porquinho died falling - or jumping - off a bridge on the ice below. Although officially he's alive.
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[xs-49] rainbows - universal compassion

artist: rainbows
album: universal compassion

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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-48] rainbows - songs for someone

artist: rainbows
album: songs for someone

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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-47] nata - stormy weather

artist: nata
album: stormy weather

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Recorded on my balcony one summer afternoon while watching a particularly vicious storm lash the coastline, literally destroying everything in its wake, then slowly going out to sea. this is how it felt to be there, the air thick with electricity and a sinister atmosphere of profound unease...this record is playable at any speed
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[xs-46] pangea - vital error [feat kenji siratori]

artist: pangea
album: vital error

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contact: myspace & blog

Today we have a spoken word lp to present to all of you guys.. it's called vital error and it's the last aparition of pangea, a friend of ours callled juan nieto (he has previously released some stuff in test tube), and which features the colab of kenji siratori, a japanese cyber punk poet well known in the web and which has featured colaborations in my project uncle bart comes to have breakfast.
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[xs-45] jorge nunes - comprimido

artist: jorge nunes
album: comprimido

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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-44] moreu - gong music

artist: moreu
album: gong music

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Suyoshi kanda is a Japanese Composer / Eight Strings Instrument Player. in this 44th release in xs records [pt netlabel] - the very last one of 2008, he presents himself with a work for gong, a percursion instruments of huge dimension used early by percussionists and drummers, ranging from percursion ensembles, to classical sinphonyc orchestras, and which has been introduced in contemporary music by the visionary karlheinz stockhausen in his works Mikrophonie.
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[xs-43] 10konekt - telekom

artist: 10konekt
album: telekom

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contact: myspace

Today I present you with this fine industrial project from france, 10konekt, which works in the base of circuit bending stuff.. an ep to be listened with care and open mind.
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[xs-42] ziur - concretement

artist: ziur
album: concretement

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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-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.
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[xs-40] mezcup - 2008

artist: mezcup
album:2008

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Meczup enter chaos
"As a result of experimental compositon methods, this music is concrete. It’s concrete because there’s no abstract chart, partition or proclamation that the composer set, before creation. It’s concrete because the music is created with direct interaction with the sound and creation is started with hearing total involvement of every single sound." İlhan Mimaroglu
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[xs-39] exportion - stream of conciousness

artist: exportion
album: stream of consciousness

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contact: myspace

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.
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[xs-38] beautiful venom - prologue

artist: beautiful venom
album: prologue

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contact: myspace

Beautiful venom is one of those bands you can't fit in only one known musical genre. with clear influences of the rock and metal worlds, the concept of their music is based on creativity and originality. andres, manuel, willy, and mits mix their different musical preferences and influences in a big cauldron forged with teamwork, persistance and faith on their music and work, resulting on something different from everything you have heard before. their constantly working creative spirit makes every song different and unique. some people might not like that, but as long as ther is one fan on eart, they will keep on working to make it even better for that one person. for the band there are onlhy two types of people: those who like and those who don't like. It's a 50/50 thing. never giving up, not even when everything turns against them, their struggle, to keep on creating and improving led their way during the last 3 years. Evolving form a teenager punk rock band to somehting mature with the guts to turn you upside down, or simply leave you untouched - if you have already been brainwashed, that's it. don't get stung. this is lethal venom.
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[xs-37] outlevel - estrela

artist: outlevel
album: estrela

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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-36] salad - ubiquo

artist: salad
album: ubiquo

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If the holy graal of the free jazz, may goes through american musicians such as Frank zappa, Ornette Coleman, John Zorn, Anthony Braxton, Peter Brotzmann, Charles Mingus or Evan Parker, going to the oriental world where important names of improvisation don't stop echoing, and where we can find musicians such as Kawabata Makoto, Otomo Yoshihide, Kenji Haino, among other, I am sure that we cannot say that we have a bad improvisation scene here in Portugal, although many times musicians rejected by the portuguese society as Carlos Zíngaro, António Pinho Vargas (in a past now in recovery), Nuno Rebelo, Vítor Rua, or Jorge Lima Barreto appear many times in an indiscrimination motion of marginalization of some of the best music that has been made in here for the last 20 years. it is right that although recent, and practically hidden and limited to the anonymous identity of life in the deep of portugal this project salad, of the authory of João Clemente created in May 2007 (first recordings) that is now presented in this release, takes the notion of free improvisation with base in pre-defined structures where most of the times the line which separetes the rigid structure and the free improvisation is almost imperceptible, at an high state, so high that it may even take the risk of becoming a reference in the national scene at medium long date. It's the author's papper to create a fluxus, where the motivic gathering, in a support close to the standard, lead to all this magic, in the style of what we can see in different contexts, and with different aesthetic backgrounds, in masada recordings of john zorn in his own label tzadik just as some of Frank Zappa work if we want to go a bit more back in the past. To notice also the possibility of future releases with another formations, dued to the existance of more studio recordings, and to the high notion of social structure present in all the musical trama. The spontaneous portuguese creation is in good health and it is highly recommended - a release to be listened and re-listened and enjoyed times without count.


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[xs-35] jackpooote - jackpooote

artist: jackpooote
album: jackpooote

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In this release we are took into the deep lands of portugal, and we are self presented with a release of jackpooote (aka xarope), some sort of punk (I didn't want to use that word, once I just wanted to give the idea that we are facing something recorded in low fi terms), where we can listen to a project that makes us remind, in certain terms, all the universe of which reminds us of stuff ranging from FRICS to stealing orchestra music (another portuguese project with a similar language - although jacpooote is more closed to cut-up music - doesn't matter if the musicians are more technical or less skilled).. But if we get close to this music we can just understand that it is something completely naked of stereotypes - something where punk and low fi meets with tribal noise improvisation, and if you are open minded and don't have problems with music cliches (kinda it's low fi music - so I won't listen it as a principle), we can probably meet something which brings us some ethnographic ideas of music, allied with some sort of originality and will to make something different.
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[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.
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[xs-33] gabran - anthem

artist: gabran
album: anthem

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contact: myspace

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.

by the Author
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[xs-32] ruins winter - natural

artist: ruins winter
album: natural

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contact: myspace

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.
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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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