Relative Q – Small Craft Exercise Caution [one030]
A little over five years ago (on June 8th, 2007 to be precise), Paul Zyla published an album under his alias Relative Q. This release, titled ‘Small Craft Exercise Caution’, is one of my favourite...
View ArticleInterview with Sincro Netlabel from Argentina
I started on a quest to interview different netlabels from different countries. My objective is to bring some light on how they operate and relate to their local music scenes. Starting from the letter...
View ArticleSyndrôm – Nomades En No Man’s Land [BP060]
The existence of net labels is a wonderful example of globalisation being put to good use. Tens of thousands of people running their own labels for zero profit would have seemed like a ridiculous...
View Articlefu_mou – Green Night Parade [ALTM-020]
fu_mou is an upcoming beat-producer from Tokyo, Japan and hails from a label called Altema Records, which hosts a wide range of similar artists who are bridging the divide between mainstream J-Pop...
View ArticleSmoke Room – Caramelism
A musician trying to define him or herself can be an endless struggle that can span over myriads of genres and exhausting years of work. Not only is the effort put into it possibly fruitless, but...
View ArticleRykard – Rhythm Phoenix [ded034]
I guess the purpose of Netaudio is to step outside of a corporate, profit-centred model. UK Netlabel Dedpop has moved beyond this concept of free digital media and started to release it’s artists on...
View ArticleN-qia – Audio Illustrations
The intersection of genres can create weird and wonderful concoctions, and the Japanese are leading the pack with hybrid genres. N-qia have released tunes on several netlabels now including La Bel...
View ArticleKetsa – Al Kernet
“Invisible Agent” is Warren Daly’s marvellous contribution to the net audio scene. Over time, himself and Donard McCabe have created quite an astonishing collection of releases, podcasts, reviews, and...
View ArticleAndrew Lahiff – Quiet Correlations
While looking for a label on which to publish an upcoming release I have been working on, I stumbled upon Pocket Fields. It’s a label from St. Petersburg, Russia releasing digital and limited edition...
View ArticleTaquwami – Blurrywonder
The initial impressions I had of Blurrywonder, the first release off of the newly established collective, Void Youth, was one of uncertainty. Tokyo-based Taquwami’s sense of aestheticism is extremely...
View ArticleLeonardo Rosado – A Long White Sleep
For those who follow my personal music blog you will know that I have been all over ambient music lately. Basinski is constant on my playlist of late, and along with him a host of ambient and...
View ArticleBombé – Spells
Trippy, deep, intriguing, surreal, and above all, full of bass. FullFridge is still a fairly young label, their latest release being the seventh under their belt. This new offering from Bombé fits in...
View ArticleJacob Newman – Against a Quantized Sky
At netlabelism, I have yet to write about music by someone I know personally. Perhaps it’s because I feel I might be a bit biased in my approach to the music, or maybe it’s because in the realm of...
View ArticleLLLL- Mirror
Tokyo’s LLLL has many qualities to their music that can easily open them up to the American market. In what may seem like an odd amount of recognition for a group who is hardly known even in their own...
View ArticleVA – 22Beats (by 22Tracks)
If you are not familiar with 22Tracks, I strongly suggest you add it to your bookmarks bar. “22tracks.com is all about curating. It’s a jukebox consisting of 22 playlists of different genres. Each...
View ArticleCousin Silas – Endless Summer EP
Earlier this year Thomas Mathie, founder of Scottish electronica aficionados We Are All Ghosts emailed me asking if he could use a line from one of my songs as the name for his label. I was intrigued,...
View Articlerec72 – 5th Anniversary Compilation
Good news. Rec72 is five years old! Quirky, high quality, and eclectic are some good ways of describing the content presented on the newly refurbished website. And what better way of meeting each...
View Articleμ-metik – Paths
”…You walk through computer glitch city where everything is dark science fiction but you look to the sky and all you can see is the room where you sleep…” Chilling words, considering the common album...
View ArticleKosumo Notto – Mysterious Shiba Kei
Mysterious Shiba Kei is the debut album of Kosumo Notto, the alias of the equally cryptic moniker, Howl Jolson. Before this album, Jolson primarily worked with instrumental guitar music that resonated...
View ArticleAugen – Kawaii
Augen is the artist name of Portuguese DJ Gabi Van Dub. Active in the emerging Portuguese electronic scene since the late nineties, he has been spinning records here and there in partnership with event...
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