Gliese 614 « Saturn »

Gliese 614 is an ambient/drone/industrial electronica project. Unfortunately I couldn’t find out that much about it except that s/he also uses the name Dronespace on occasion, seems to be based in the UK and (maybe) likes pidgeon breeding.

1. Dione 2:19
2. Iapetus 10:18
3. Rhea 9:47
4. Titan 9:30

Saturn was released on 30^th of August 2010 via the Internet Archive under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license though it was originally recorded in early 2005.

Saturn are 32 minutes of Berlin School-influenced sequencer music. Despite (or maybe because of) being somewhat repetitive in nature I find its sound flow engaging and utterly fascinating.

I’d like to say ‘Mr. Gliese, please more of the same’ (or Mrs., for all I know) but it seems Gliese 614 stopped transmitting in 2011. If anyone has any information on Gliese 614 or suggestions for alike-sounding music, please contact me!

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Saturn ℗ 2010 Gliese 614

Saturn by Gliese 614 is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 International License.
Based on a work at https://archive.org/details/Saturn_733.

Sky Effect « Freedom Eye »

Sky Effect is still a relatively new project of psychedelic electronica created by Ukrainian musician Viktor Korchinsky.

1. Processes 8:57
2. Back in Space 6:03
3. Wayting 7:12
4. Yes & No 5:51
5. Transpher 7:04
6. Channel 7:54
7. Connected 7:30

Freedom Eye was published on 14^th 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.

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Freedom Eye ℗ 2013 Sky Effect ℅ Віктор Корчинський

Freedom Eye by Sky Effect is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.
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mindthings « Life’s Path »

mindthings is the downtempo project of Clément Peres from Bordeaux in France.

Life’s Path was his second album by Jamendo.

1. Our Lifes, Our Destinies 2:12
2. Sounds From the Past 4:16
3. Emotion Vibes 4:52
4. Night Rains 3:24
5. Life’s Things 3:12
6. Artificial World 2:41
7. Cold Water 4:14
8. Exponential Tears 3:28
9. Reversal Situation 2:04
10. The Last Time on This Earth featuring Maya de Luna 1:56
11. AfterLife 2:50
12. Rebirth 2:29

Life’s Path was released on 5^th of February in 2007 under a Creative Commons license. It’s electronic downtempo music with a good deal of piano-playing and an occasional beat. The Last Time on This Earth features vocals by Maya de Luna, not exactly a favourite of mine; I've never been a fan of this kind of dream pop. But Emotion Vibes is worth a repeated listen…

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Life’s Path ℗ 2007 mindthings ℅ Clément Peres

Statement of Purpose // Xynthetic Netlabel

The Xynthetic Netlabel was a Vancouver-based netlabel of music in the techno, brum & bass and IDM vein. Early in its existence it published its Statement of Purpose, a compilation album presenting the basic layout of the music to be released on this label. The label ceased its activity in 2010.

1. Dryft - The Resurrect 4:49
2. Mochipet - Totoro Techno One 6:18
3. Userwave - The Titan 4:53
4. Daega - Break In 6:23
5. Displacer - Idling 4:09
6. Zainetica - Future 740 5:56
7. Exillon - Rockmoss 6:26
8. Portland - The Return of Richard Belmont 4:41
9. Incite and Degauss - Saturation (SoP Mix) 4:51
10. Psonikadia - Rigpa 5:01
11. JGarrett - Steamroller 5 5:12
12. Aphorism - Covert / Convert 4:33
13. Keef Baker - ar53 4:12
14. Phylum Sinter - Progress, Regress, Repeat 6:01
15. Yesterday's Favourite - Tide (Electro Mix) 4:44
16. Apoplexia - Zero-Wing Space Combat 5:06
17. Xyn - Depot Town Acid (Cut Mix) 5:21
18. Revelstoker - Twister 4:59
19. Amorph - Eating the Ground 4:29
20. Sascha Müller - Black Day 5:38
21. Joseph Auer - Morning Tones 4:46
22. Blaerg - Reverse Entropy Catalyst 3:32
23. Adaptive - Eschelon 5:52
24. Urusai - Phantom Limb 4:34
25. ChemicalX - Asylum 7:28
26. Emulsion - A Long String Unwinding 5:04

The label compilation Statement of Purpose was published on 7^th February 2007 and presents a selection of electronic music between IDM and techno, with occasional influences from drum & bass, ambient & downtempo, breakcore & rhythmic noise.

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Tyson Brinacombe « EP »

In my attempt to try to open up my offer I found an EP by Ontarian musician Tyson Brinacombe who plays here a surf and psychedelic rock inspired acoustic pop with some modern touches. Usually not my cup of tea, the surf elements and its unpretentious ease makes it fun and apropriate for inclusion.
I especially liked Forget the World and Quick Fix, The Golden Age of Ballooning uses effectively some synths, while Monsters is unmemorable and the weakest track in my ears.

1. Quick Fix 2:02
2. Forget the World 3:30
3. The Golden Age of Ballooning 3:18
4. Monsters 3:23
5. Stains 3:06

EP is the very umimaginative title of this… well, EP. It was released by Rack & Ruin Records, a netlabel active between April 2008 and February 2011.

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EP ℗ 2008 Tyson Brinacombe

Кисаньки Мокренькая Писяющие Лижуть « Пидрахуй: Пестни о звоне в ушах »

Political internet memes lend themselves very easily to musical interpretation, usually by artists of industrial or abstract music. A perfect example is the meme Путин, підрахуй which is actually Ukrainian yet widely known in Russia. In the political context it means "Putin, count the days of freedom" (more or less). Russian music band Кисаньки Мокренькая Писяющие Лижуть has released an EP of abstract and noise music.

1. Пидрахуй 1 1:57
2. Пидрахуй 2 2:28
3. Пидрахуй 3 1:28
4. Дед 3:42
5. Звон в ушах (Butthurt-VII) 3:20
6. Пидрахуй (Remix by P.P.Ananas-i) 2:02
7. Самый красивый пидрахуй (Remix by pani Vu) 1:54
8. На самом деле 8:14

Пидрахуй: Пестни о звоне в ушах - which means more or less "Count (the Days): Songs about Buzzing in the Ears - was released by the "Multimedia Dept." of the TrOLO-OLO-LOL-lo TeAm.

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Incidental ℗ 2013 Кисаньки Мокренькая Писяющие Лижуть

Caroline Jago « Spectral Adumbrations »

Caroline Jago is a prolific musician in the neofolk and related music scene.

1. Hope 4:20
2. Spectra 4:54
3. Agnus Dei 3:35
4. Submergence 7:28
5. Fragmentum I 2:41
6. Vitam 4:23
7. In Spatium 5:26

Spectral Adumbrations was released 12^th June 2013 by the Kahvi Collective. It is an excursion into dark ambient, space ambient and neoclassical music.

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Spectral Adumbrations ℗ 2013 Caroline Jago

Diablo Swing Orchestra « The Butcher's Ballroom »

Sometimes a professional band offers its music through a free license for promotional reasons. That's what the Diablo Swing Orchestra did with its first album.

1. Balrog Boogie 3:53
2. Heroines 5:23
3. Poetic Pitbull Revolutions 4:52
4. Rag Doll Physics 3:53
5. D'Angelo 1:54
6. Velvet Embracer 4:05
7. Gunpowder Chant 1:51
8. Infralove 4:54
9. Wedding March for a Bullet 3:14
10. Qualms of Conscience 1:16
11. Zodiac Virtues 4:48
12. Porcelain Judas 4:09
13. Pink Noise Waltz 6:07

The Butcher's Ballroom was originally released on 17^th August 2006 in hardcopy by Gillioutine Grooves, the label owned by the band itself. Almost three years later, on 24^th July 2009, the album - a mix of avant-garde metal, swing jazz, traditional European music and classical soprano singing - was made available under a Creative Commons license.

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The Butcher's Ballroom ℗ 2006 Daniel Håkansson / Gillioutine Grooves

Eat Rabbit « Kiss the Dolphin »

One of the big advantages of free music - and here I am talking about free as in gratuit - is the fact that you can find music you would never know about and maybe normally wouldn't pay a dime for. Sometimes to your own and the musician's loss…

1. Waves of Piss 3:37
2. Monsieur Dauphin 5:23
3. Aquatron 4:39
4. Seagulls 3:58
5. The Book of the Dead Seahorses 4:28
6. Squid 2:15
7. Caviar on a Booty 3:49
8. Black Sharks 3:09
9. Save Me Flipper 1:42
10. Japanese Plankton 2:02
11. Bouncing Tale 3:36
12. Deep Deep Deep 2:18
13. Whale Burger 2:25
14. Hard to Party 5:42

Kiss the Dolphin was released March 27^th 2009. It's style is… well, unpredictable is the world that comes to mind. Techno, big beat, chipcore, breakcore, glitch are half-useful to describe the cornerstones of his music. I especially liked the name, as I don't eat rabbits but would like the chance to try and kiss a dolphin…

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Kiss the Dolphin ℗ 2009 Eat Rabbit ℅ Yvan Babillon

Esther Garcia « Incidental »

Now, you might ask "Is it all just electronics here at HBB"?

No, let's take Esther Garcia Gonzales, Spanish composer and pianist. Having studied at the Conservatorio profesional de música Arturo Soria for eight years and at the Escuela Superior de Canto de Madrid for four years, Esther has written mostly orchestral music for various audiovisual projects and companies in Spain.




Incidental was released 22^rd March 2013 via Bandcamp for sale. Esther later (5^th April) released an MP3-only version under a Creative Commons license. If you like the album as much as I do you might consider buying her album on Bandcamp.

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Incidental ℗ 2013 Esther Garcia Gonzales

Epic Soul Factory « Volume One »

Nothing enhances a moving picture more than sound, especially if it is as emotional as a good film score. Good film music has become so popular that now there's even music movie-style without the million dollar movie to go with.
Some artists now have specialized to provide us with good music that plays to the ear without the limitations that film techniques require. Epic Soul Factory, made up of four film composers from Spain, is one of them.

1. Rising Legends 1:52
2. Titan 2:32
3. Iron 1:52
4. Poltergeist Attack 2:07
5. Amazona 1:44
6. El prendimiento 3:06
7. Dusty Universe 1:58
8. La búsqueda de Ianna 2:39
9. Creo en ti 4:06
10. The Fall of Gilead 3:32
11. Sugiriendo u crimen 1:04
12. The End 3:31

Epic Soul Factory - Volume One, their first album, was originally released 15 August 2010. Only on 17 February 2011 they released it in a downloadable format through Jamendo but with an altered tracklist.

Here you can listen to the originally released version in streaming only.

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Epic Soul Factory - Volume One ℗ 2010,2011 Epic Soul Factory ℅ Eduardo Jiménez, David de la Morena, Fran Soto, and Francesc Vilà

Halo Effect « Hammer the Gear »

Being a long-term Depeche Mode fan myself, bands highlighting the now classic period of DM as the world's foremost synth pop band in the second half of the 1980s have long held a special interest to me. But not everything can be considered a success. Here, Italian band Halo Effect finally reached a level that their music can be recommended.

1. Hammer the Gear (Celtic Tribes Remix) 5:27
   Remixed by Celtic Tribes
2. Hammer the Gear (Spektralized Remix) 3:50
   Remixed by Richard Bjørklund aka Spektralized
3. Hammer the Gear (Divider Remix) 5:46
   Remixed by Divider
4. Hammer the Gear (FabrikC Remix) 5:24
   Remixed by Thorsten Berger aka FabrikC
5. Hammer the Gear (Naukilot Remix) 4:51
   Remixed by Naukilot
6. Hammer the Gear (Deadtronic Remix) 3:49
   Remixed by Deadtronic
7. Hammer the Gear (This Took Long Enough Remix) 4:48
   Remixed by Controlled Collapse

Hammer the Gear was the first remix single, released 1 September 2009.

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Hammer the Gear ℗ 2009 Halo Effect ℅ Marco Cattani, John Andrew Peverieri, Alessandro Polinori, and Federico Rosi