Saturday, March 14, 2015

Mosaik « Apologies »

Mosaik is the ambient electronica project of Jakob Svanholm. Jakob was especially active in the first half of the first decade of this new century but has slowed his release schedule a bit.
Apologies was his second release for the Kahvi Collective.
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Apologies was originally released on 13th of February 2007 by the Kahvi Collective on their webpage where everything has been published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives license. On the 1st of September the Kahvi Collective re-released the EP via their netlabel collection on the Internet Archive under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives license. Both releases were in lossy MP3 and OggVorbis.

Jakob issued eventually (in September 2009) a lossless release via his Bandcamp page under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license.

Apologies are 35 minutes of ambient IDM.
  • Free streaming and download in WAV, FLAC, MP3 or OggVorbis from the Internet Archive CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Direct download of the FLAC version of the complete album from the Internet Archive:
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Apologies by Mosaik is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at http://mosaik.se/album/apologies.

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Obsidian Shell « Angelic Asylum »

I have presented you so far mostly with electronic music of ambient or psychedelic varieties, only once with a bit of swing metal. So here comes some gothic metal.

Obsidian Shell was created out of the ashes of Hungarian gothic metal band Restart which split after one five-track demo in 2006. Restart’s vocalist, bassist and guitarist formed Obsidian Shell (sans drummer and keyboarder) and released their first album 2009.
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Angelic Asylum was published on 3rd of October 2010 via Jamendo.

Gothic metal with female vocals seems to have been quite popular and probably still is - I just did not found most of it convincing. My interest rather lies with progressive and technical death metal or - as might be expected - crossover with various electronic styles. Gothic just doesn’t fit my bill and frankly sounds quite a lot like a caricature.

Now, Obsidian Shell is classified gothic but except for the fact that it is sung by a woman I just don’t see it much. It has some electro metal and otherwise a drum set and guitar playing that I would place with industrial extreme metal but is neither. Mostly engaging and appealing. The lyrics appear to be rather of a gothic nature though…
Direct download of the OggVorbis version of the complete album from the Internet Archive:
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Angelic Asylum by Obsidian Shell is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at http://www.jamendo.com/album/76571.

Monday, March 09, 2015

Sky Effect « Freedom Eye »

Sky Effect is still a relatively new project of psychedelic electronica created by Ukrainian musician Viktor Korchinsky.
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Freedom Eye was published on 14th of November 2013 via Jamendo and is ongoing proof that indeed new music to discover is out there. Downtempo music with ambient and psychotronic sound with lots of great ideas that I wish Viktor would have released in lossless FLAC. It would make a great release for Ektoplazm.
  • Free streaming and download in MP3 or OggVorbis from Jamendo CC BY-NC 3.0
  • Free streaming and download in WAV, FLAC, MP3 or OggVorbis from the Internet Archive CC BY-NC 4.0


    In this player each track is featured twice.
Direct download of the OggVorbis version of the complete album from the Internet Archive:
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Freedom Eye by Sky Effect is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at http://www.jamendo.com/list/a128626.

Sunday, March 08, 2015

EugeneKha « Tribute to Russian Space »

EugeneKha is the alias of Evgenij Haritonov (alternatively transliterated as Yevgeny Kharitonov or - in a yet another, almost ridiculous fashion - as EBrEHNÑ XapNTOHOB), a writer, poet, musician and multimedia artist from Moscow.
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Tribute to Russian Space was recorded live on 5th of October 2011 at the art club Shokoladnaya Fabrika and released six days later on the 11th by Evgenij’s own label Echoes Sounds.

The original release was composed of one single file. This is a reissue with four individual track files. His Tribute to Russian Space is space ambient (as it should have been) with some uplifting elements and a notch of Berlin school-style electronics.
Direct download of the FLAC version of the complete album from the Internet Archive:
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Tribute to Russian Space by EugeneKha is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at http://archive.org/details/Eugenekha-TributeToRussianSpaceliveAtShokoladnayaFabrika2011-10-05.

Saturday, March 07, 2015

Ender « Emergence »

Ender comes from the mind of Jesse Sugden from Australia. Downtempo with powerful beats and a nice psychedelic touch.
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Emergence was released on 12th of November 2014 via NJOI Muic’s Bandcamp page.

It is a thoroughly enjoyable EP of downtempo music with nicely done varied beats and a hint of psy influence. The biggest downside is the fact that it’s over after just half of an hour. While it was released by NJOI via Ektoplazm a mere nine days later under a Creative Commons license, you may want to support the artist by buying it on the label’s Bandcamp page.
  • Free streaming and download in WAV, FLAC or MP3 from Ektoplazm CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
  • Free streaming and download in WAV, FLAC, MP3 or OggVorbis from the Internet Archive CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Direct download of the FLAC version of the complete album from the Internet Archive:
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Creative Commons License
Emergence by Ender is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/ender-emergence.