
artist: egotron
album: egotron
release date: 29.03.2009
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.
artist: lotus mecanicaalbum: the live sessions and jack d
release date: 29.03.2009
In the last years in Portugal there has been recurring manifestations of the rockabilly movement, most of them centered on Coimbra. Bands, such as The Legendary Tiger Man, Wraygunn, and later, Nicotine Caffe Orchestra have come to the forefront of the underground Portuguese scene and extrapolating (at least the first two bands mentioned) to the mainstream. Choosing to publish a rockabilly band with a creative commons license is part of the xs premises of breaking all barriers in avoiding the choice to publish specific types of music, such as, electronic projects. Having said this, we present you Lotus Mecanica, a band that we believe has what it takes to be a rockabilly band. This is a live recording act, in which we can listen to Lotus Mecanica style, a kind of rockabilly blues dirty punk. Also to note, is the fact that we are discussing the idea of distributing a limited edition in digipack or cdr of this ep, so if you’re interested, just let us know.
artist: emanuel casimiroalbum: a revolta das plaquetas
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Emanuel Casimiro, conhecido como Rei do Power Pimba, genero este que engloba correntes musicais ao mesmo tempo tao diversificadas mas com tanto em comum como o Power Metal, o Punk e o Pimba, acaba de atacar na XS Records (pt netlabel) - depois de um projecto brazileiro que une o grindcore com o punk e a lowfi tronica -, e com um único objectivo. Marcar a diferenca - e nesse sentido acho que consegue aquilo que e pretendido. E como os gostos musicais sao a meu ver, numa certa perspectiva relativista subjectivos, e nao ha, no fundo visoes mais validas do que outras, apenas visoes diferentes, acho que Emanuel Casimiro esta de parabens.
artist: emanuel casimiroalbum: o rei do power pimba
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Emanuel Casimiro, conhecido como Rei do Power Pimba, genero este que engloba correntes musicais ao mesmo tempo tao diversificadas mas com tanto em comum como o Power Metal, o Punk e o Pimba, acaba de atacar na XS Records (pt netlabel) - depois de um projecto brazileiro que une o grindcore com o punk e a lowfi tronica -, e com um único objectivo. Marcar a diferenca - e nesse sentido acho que consegue aquilo que e pretendido. E como os gostos musicais sao a meu ver, numa certa perspectiva relativista subjectivos, e nao ha, no fundo visoes mais validas do que outras, apenas visoes diferentes, acho que Emanuel Casimiro esta de parabens.
artist: grupo porco de grindcore interpretativoalbum: the rala o pinto massacre
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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.
artist: beautiful venomalbum: prologue
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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.
artist: jackpoootealbum: 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.
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?
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This is great, how can i support you guys?
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