Marow –“+” (Klitorik)
Deep House, Unwashed | Sometime you stumble upon these releases which attract your attention only because you like the website, the artwork, the name of artist or the text which describes the music. In...
View ArticleTomorrowland –“Anemone” (Red Antenna)
Electric Krautrock | I'm into Tomorrowland since I first started listening to free music. Their 2001 EP "Variable" is online at archive.org and still a good listen. Just recently, I found the follow-up...
View ArticleKiorda Däkin –“3” (1bit Wonder)
Spaced out 70's Electronic Music | The news that 1bit Wonder Netlabel closes down came as a decent surprise to me. Just recently, some of their records made me listen up and enforced the impression...
View Articlecon_cetta –“Sclerosis” (Zymogen)
Warm and Sparkling, Rich and Crackling | The latest addition at Zymogen Netlabel is Italian sound sculptor Giuseppe Cordaro aka con_cetta. His album is entitled "Sclerosis" and although sclerosis...
View ArticleRyonkt –“The World That Was Surrounded (…)” (Resting Bell)
Japanese Ambient Benefaction | To readers of Phlow Magazine, Ryonkt ain't a new name. I wrote a review about his debut EP "Slow Time" in November 2007. Back then, Ryo Nakata aka Ryonkt promised to...
View ArticleDaniel Maze –“Red After Image” (Serein)
Refreshing Electropop Psychedelica | Daniel Maze is a name you stumble about every now and then. Despite his new record for the Welsh Serein Netlabel, Vancouver-boy Maze has an opulent discography in...
View ArticleDJ Side –“Bittersweet Love EP” (Surreal Madrid Netlabel)
Dark Beats | DJ Side goes down with the bass while his beats creep heavy-burdened over the floor. His "Bittersweet Love EP" is a gloomy trip where dubstep meets ambient meets clicks, crackles and...
View ArticleV.A. –“Phantom Channel Presents- Part I” (Phantom Channel)
Ambient Takeover | Phantom Chanel is a brandnew UK Netlabel and they hit the scene with an exclusive mixtape that makes you remember the innovative power of ambient Electronic music. Seamlessly glued...
View ArticleEtienne Michelet –“Bleu Vespéral” (La Nouvelle Dégelée)
Calm Ambient | Young Etienne Michelet is an experimental songwriter and delivery boy of rich, textural Ambient. Just recently, Michelet released two EPs at the notorious Resting Bell Netlabel and over...
View ArticleDubosmium – Green Element (Fresh Poulp Records)
Overdubbing Dub | Dub is usually connected to reggae music und therefore associated with a typical sound and sunny moods. The moroccan musician MLY, who is releasing his work under the name Dubosmium,...
View ArticleMan of Taste: Ian D. Hawgood / Koen Park
Ambient Music With A Touch Of Pop | Maybe you know London-born Tokyo resident Ian D. Hawgood by his releases at Resting Bell or Dog Eared Records. Eventually you read about him at Phlow Magazine....
View ArticleThe Green Kingdom –“Miniature Forest Remix” (IOD Netlabel)
A Candle For IOD Netlabel! | To celebrate its first birthday, Paris top-notch Ambient Netlabel IOD releases an exclusive compilation. "Miniature Forest Remix" is a chosen collection of seven, well,...
View ArticlePreslav Literary School –“Autumn Bricolage” (Clinical Archives)
Soundscapist Compositions | Clinical Archives is the biggest "Dark Ambient" Netlabel - and honestly, I never got into their catalog by heart. But their 150. release finally got me. Preslav Literary...
View ArticleJoão Triangular –“João Triangular EP” (Merzbau)
Joao Triangular EP Handmade Ambient, Ghostly And Ethereal | In actual fact, João Triangular is João Machado. Machado hails from the city of Lisbon and is part of the intimate artist-rooster at Merzbau,...
View ArticleDaisuke Miyatani –“Fragments” EP (Creation Centre)
The Maestro of Accidental Folk is Back | Daisuke Miyatani lives on a small Japanese island, works in a bookshop and releases beautiful, erratic guitar-music all over the world. His records at MiMi,...
View ArticleTo4ka.Dna –“ZVUK” (Constanta)
Clever Ambient Out Of Nowhere | As the commenter "Density Of Sound" depicted in his comment on mo.'s Why I Like Netlabels So Much-thread, Netaudio is a perfect place to discover exciting new music...
View Articled’incise –“Stase / Contre Stase” (Resting Bell Netlabel)
Geneva Deconstructions | d'incise is the Switzerland-based sound engineer Laurent Peter. He's the coordinator of Audioactiviste and Insubordinations Netlabels and is involved in 1.000 musical projects....
View Articleoffthesky –“Subtle Trees” (Rope Swing Cities)
Versatile and Virtuoso Ambient | US American Jason Corder aka offthesky is someone to rely on. I wrote a review for his 2007's Autoplate release short before the label vanished, but there are recent...
View ArticleVarious –“Petite musique pour arbre nu” (Nohmad Netlabel)
Dark Ambient and DubStep | When you visit and listen to the sound forest of Nohmad you get slowly horrified. Dubstep-Beats and Dark Ambient full of grim, gloomy creeping sounds and graveyard deep...
View ArticleVarious –“Intelligent Toys 5” (Sutemos Netlabel)
A Giant and Hell of a Compilation | The Intelligent Toys Series is one of the most extraordinary Netlabel Series to date featuring finest electronic music from IDM to Ambient to Electronica. With their...
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