Despedidos Ska – Despedidos Ska (Jamendo) Summer = Ska Season. It’s a well known fact that. Sure, at this precise moment in time I can’t think of a single other genre more suited to Summer than Ska, although admitedly I’m not thinking very hard at all, but the point stands. Sun […]
Monthly Archives: February 2012
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Mr Busalot – Test Screening of The Story Of Mr Busalot (Jamendo) It’s not often that Jamendo turns up something that really counts as odd. Despite the neverending attempts of a legion of bedroom producers to stand out from the crowd by virtue of creating ever more obscure and unlistenable beats […]
Damscray – Los Animales EP (Humanworkshop) Well, it’s been in the pipeline for a while and a few days ago it emerged into the light of day, a brand spanking new release from Damscray, that Russian purveyor of experimentally. dark/intriguing Trip Hop. Or soundscapes. Or something.
Flowerheads – Demo 2008 (Jamendo) Ah 2008, I remember it so well, you could leave your doors open and no one would burgle you, children knew their place and the labouring classes always doffed their hats when you passed them on the street. Halcyon days. And apparently a Surf Rock band released a demo album […]
‘To push into other audiences.’ Know your enemy In the final part of the Enough Records Manifesto series I’m pushing into what, to some, is the most contentious point of them all – ‘to push into other audiences’. As a general rule this one should garner fairly obvious approval – […]
‘To push into other models.’ There are half a dozen different ways to look at today’s point from the Enough Records Manifesto, whether you head in the direction of expanding netaudio into other structures and models of distribution, sharing and community; to create new sound structures under the aegis of […]
Pondering the present and the future are always, for obvious reasons, obvious facets of analysing and following the free music movement. With the chaotic freedom offered to those artists involved this corner of the musical world more than any gives way to experimentalism or even simply messing around with sound.
‘To promote free culture.’ – With this third installment we’re heading towards the trickier end of things. On a practical level this is a fairly easy point to deal with, we all have our immediate impressions of what free culture does and does not entail and with a bit of […]
‘To explain music genres’ – Probably the biggest lure of free music to both fans and artists is the near absolute creative freedom it grants. There are good reasons for the imbalance towards experimentalism and niche genres within our scene, most notably that the commercial world is usually unready or […]
As a new contributor to Enough Records I’ve been immediately made at home by the creation of the label’s new manifesto. With my own long history of churning out grand sounding but often faulted ideas it’s a refreshing change, if nothing else, to be confronted with someone elses grand concepts […]