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.
Based on a work at http://www.jamendo.com/list/a128626.

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

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

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

2Invention « In Aeternum »

Around 2002 two young musicians from Poland decided to make trance music together. Calling themselves Thomas Eccard and Neal Cerrone, their early releases, while as a whole being trance music, still owes some to French disco trance artists from the 1970s, Cerrone (of Supernature fame) being an obvious one.

1. Lonely Man (Intro) 0:48
2. In Aeternum (Hrd Remix) 7:52
3. Lifeout (Original Mix) 6:38
4. Lonely Star (Light Mix) 3:23
5. Symphonic Life (Based on Adicted) 5:06
6. We Can't Be Free (Original Mix) 4:07
7. Sweet Salsa 3:23
8. I Love Her 3:38
9. Minimal Perception (Original Mix) 4:12
10. Deeper Love feat. Gorski 4:11
11. Loneliness (Original Mix) 4:28
12. Help Me (Original Mix) 4:56
13. Bye (Outro) 2:04
bonus tracks
14. For Niczyja 1:28
15. Hope 1:03

In Aeternum was released 22 May 2007. The original download was released with a Attribution-NoDerivs license while today the download page displays a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. To be the safe side let's assume that you may share it under the conditions that you must attribute the work to its creator, that you may not use it for commercial purposes and that you may not transform it in any way.

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Incidental ℗ 2007 2Invention

Sonocore Records Presents « Nex Gen Volume 02 »

Once you've started with Volume One and getting to the second Volume, you realize that there is more variety to the Jumpcore Frenchstyle thingy than it initially appears.

1. DJ Toxik Waste - Intro 1:53
2. DJ Marvel - The Sound of Life 6:38
3. DJ Det's - Don't Stomp (Original Mix) 4:14
4. G-T3K - Play It Hard 6:43
5. Noize-R - Chicago (Original Mix 2007) 6:12
6. DJ Endy - Wind It Up (Vocal Mix) 5:32
7. DJ Baback vs Greg Kalas - Fuck the Poing (Mad Jumperz Remix) 5:40
8. V-Bass - Serum 4:19
9. DJ Toxik Waste - The Sins (Crazy Dancer) 5:18
10. DJ Guit - Follow the Fucking Voice 5:50
11. DJ Toxik Waste - Strike Back 4:40
12. NTX 13 - The Ninth Gate 6:41
13. Middle M - Last Home 4:47
14. V-Bass - Serum (DJ Guit Remix) 5:28

Nex Gen Volume 02 (stylized simply as Nex Gen 2 on the cover) was released 24 July 2007. Besides Toxik Waste and Noize-R themselves are returning V-Bass, DJ Guit and NTX 13, while DJ Marvel, DJ get's, G-T3K, DJ Endy, DJ Baback, Greg Kalas and Middle M are new additions. Jean Jacques Bartholoméï (of the Mad Jumperz) makes a special appearance by way of a remix. Similar in diversity both in style and quality one track stands out to me, if nothing else for utilizing a Star Wars theme composed by John Williams. If you look closely at the track title you'll find it easily enough.

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Intro, The Sins (Crazy Dancer), Strike Back ℗ 2007 Toxik Waste ℅ Karol Morsa
The Sound of Life ℗ 2007 DJ Marvel
Don't Stomp ℗ 2007 DJ Get's
Play It Hard ℗ 2007 G-T3K
Chicago ℗ 2007 Noize-R ℅ Guillaume Speurt
Wind It Up ℗ 2007 DJ Endy ℅ Andy Arnout
Fuck the Poing ℗ 2007 DJ Baback & Greg Kalas ℅ Frédéric de Backer and Grégory Bastin
Serum ℗ 2007 V-Bass
Follow the Fucking Voice ℗ 2007 DJ Guit
The Ninth Gate ℗ 2007 NTX 13 ℅ Chris Dee
Last Home ℗ 2007 Middle M ℅ Caroline Poncet

Sonocore Records Presents « Nex Gen Volume 01 »

Jumpstyle, Hardstyle, Hardcore, Frenchcore, or even Gabber… I'm not getting all these terms! I can tell that not everything sounds the same but whether this is due to some differences in the genre or just some individuality of the artist - I don't know… I like this/these genre(s) enough to listen to it occasionally but not enough to really get musicologically involved to sort it out.

/* Anzahl der Musikstücke */

1. NTX 13 - Etheral Presence 6:05
2. Noize-R & NTX 13 - Industrial Drummers 5:44
3. V-Bass - Controll 3:42
4. Noize-R - Bad Dreams 4:20
5. DJ Toxik Waste - Dawn 3:56
6. NTX 13 - Dr Maniac 4:55
7. DJ Guit - Fuck Everybody 5:18
8. DJ Toxik Waste - The Law of the Underworld 5:06
9. NTX 13 - From Hell 3:24
10. DJ Guit - Mind Travel 5:56
11. DJ Toxik Waste - The Hard Way 4:32
12. The Hardquake - Final Symphony 5:06
13. Noize-R - Love Anthem 6:00
14. The Hardquake - Genesis 4:45

Nex Gen Volume 01 (also stylized Nex Gen Volume One on the cover) is - not too surprisingly - the first volume in Karol and Guillaume's series on hard techno and its variations, released 27 April 2007. Respresenting the diverse styles are NTX13, V-Bass, DJ Guit, Thunderfear (through his collaboration with V-Bass called The Hardquake), and, of course, Toxik Waste and Noize-R themselves. While not every track is to my liking, there are a few tracks that stand out.

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Etheral Presence, Dr Maniac ℗ 2007 NTX 13 ℅ Chris Dee
Control ℗ 2007 V-Bass
Bad Dreams, Love Anthem ℗ 2007 Noize-R ℅ Guillaume Speurt
Dawn, The Law of the Underworld, The Hard Way ℗ 2007 Toxik Waste ℅ Karol Morsa
Fuck Everybody, Mind Travel ℗ 2007 DJ Guit
Final Symphony, Genesis ℗ 2007 The Hardquake ℅ Youri Debessel & V-Bass
Industrial Drummers ℗ 2007 Noize-R & NTX 13