Emerging from the more interesting outer edges of Indie, where cross-overs and ‘influences’ are obligatory to prove that you’re not just making Indie (which no one ever gets enthusiastic about) comes Cameron Steele with an album which struggles to find the right balance throughout, although not always to bad effect.
Monthly Archives: February 2012
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Marketing, managers, production, PR, information management, lackies who bring the coffee and secretly resent you so deeply that they routinely gob in your drink and of course the hangers on and followers who make the whole gig roll along – all the perks of a musical corporate adventure.
Ideals are Free Last time out I did a fairly limited job of advocating a skill sharing site which, as a lesser function, I believed could help someartists earn some money – a suggestion which led to extensive debate and proved, if it needed proving, that opinions on money in the free music […]
The lost Island of Hyper-Experimental Trance Techno Ambient Soundscapes Music, like almost nothing else, lends itself to obsession. For any sound, style or genre, no matter how hard to digest, no matter how obscure, no matter how bad even you’ll still find a hardcore of devotees lurking in a dark […]
Concrete re-enforced Clubhouse Like a lot of good things in life free music exists in it’s own little room, packed to capacity with enthusiastic, occasionally smart and usually quite obsessive people all looking towards the great pile of music in the center and mumbling amongst themselves about how great it […]
Hearing voices… I might be amongst the last to notice, or, in my permanently dazed (and often confused) state, I might be the only one who sees it at all, but of late there seems to be a growing sense of schizophrenia around the free music movement. More and more […]
Coming from the Indonesian Hujan Records netlabel The Safari offer up an eclectic mix of Punk, Garage (and Surf) Rock, Pop and general toe-tapping goodness on their short album ‘By Existence’ (or ‘Demi Eksistensi’, to give it it’s proper name), all with an easy sense of coolness which makes for […]
I like Dub. I like the archetypal deep beats, the wandering, ponderous path the music follows, the immersive rhythyms which drag you in – I like all of it and from the innovators of the genre onwards to the sea of bedroom producers we have today I can pretty much […]
A bit of a mongrel offering today with ‘Accountants By Day’ from Kescho, released on the Swedish net label 23 Seconds – from which on the first listen alone you can pick up hints of everyone from Donovan to The Libertines, via The Coral, The Fugs and any number of […]
It’s rare, these days, for me to pay real attention to Jamendo. Way back when I first tripped over free music I treated the place as a hub, the first check-in point whenever I felt like finding something new and for the most part it worked.