Blocsonic: netBloc Volume 5

Various Artists - netBloc Volume 5
blocsonic net label release
rock, post-rock, jazz, hip-hop, electronica, glitch-pop, dub, pop

This month's netbloc compilation held onto me for quite awhile. It's a great (to my taste) blend of music this month.

Misery (myspace) - Misery Sara

Lucrecia (myspace) - Like Being Home Counting Backwards

Phonocake compilation

Electro chilled and ambient sounds from Phonocake, a net label based in Dresden (Germany). There's something for everyone on this release:

Graf: Ein Muehlstein Wird Nicht Moosig

Bad Comfort: 060727 (steps)

Lost Children - net label

The Lost Children net label focuses on emerging post-rock bands. Together with The Silent Ballet, a wiki/ezine with a decided preference for noisy post-rock sounds, Lost Children has released two compilation disks so far. Some samples from Volume 1:

MT: Add Obvious Errors

Up-c Down-c: Simple Reminder (Anger Is Not A Motive)

Some cool surprises on Volume 2 -- but I won't spoil the plot here:

Capulet: Champ

The Ascent Of Everest: If I Could Move Mountains - Majesty And Awe

Archaic Horizon Records - net label

I like the Archaic Horizon Records logo. It reminds me of the ocean, sure to attract a closet surf music groupie like me. The music takes us on a trip to somewhere between here and there. The first release brings us back to ambient territory with Peter James:

Peter James: Still
Peter James: In The Face Of Loss

Orange Crush gets us there just a little faster...

Orange Crush: Spring Breaks
Orange Crush: Camber Rye

Far From Showbiz net label

Netlabels.org pointed me to this recent release on the Far From Showbiz net label: Dark ambient, drone, martial... and many more delights here.

Darkness and Silence:
Semper Fidelis
Occidit, Occidit Spes Omnis

soundZcapa:
The Night Of The Accident

Negative Sound Institute

Dava Sobel was featured recently on indieish CC track of the day. His music is released by Negative Sound Institute, a net label with a catalog that offers a variety of ambient treats:

Dava Sobel: Berzelii Park
Closet Ballerinas: Roaring Silence
Gurdonark: Galveston Island in December
Thomas Nunnally Trio: After Image (2)

French Dub Released

More heard on Britney.: French Dub Released is a netlabel, home of the Dub Echoes compilation... plus other releases:

Zaruts: 80's

R2jeux: Corde à sauter

All releases are in an RAR format. (There's a download link for extraction software on the release page).

Dharmasound net label

I saw Dharmasound, a netlabel, on Britney. Dharmasound represents several genres of music. Some samples from the catalog:

Paco Alvarez: a summer day
Mark Hamn: on cherche se rapprocher d'un ideal

Troorg netlabel

Came across the troorg netlabel at Britney. Dedicated to exploring biodiversity of sound, and experimenting with found sounds to make music that you can dance to -- electro-organic dance music. Some samples:

Bpill : 120 disco road
D-jet : eastmoon

And if you got this far... don't forget to check out the map of the troorg fan fairy ring!

a pschedelic activation portal

Bulgarian net label, Ouim.net, lots of gold to mine there, everything is on a Creative Commons license.

Sample from Samdelia: Endless.

There's also a sister site ouim.org -- the descriptions are in Bulgarian (I assume) -- but more to listen to there.

Screwed with Music

The internet tells me that "screw music" is music that "screws with pitch" -- a technique mastered by DJ Screw[W][?].

Now we have screwmusicforever, a music label that shows no trace of screw music's hiphop origins, but if today's stream of music by Home is any indication -- this is definitely worth coming back to listen to again sometime.