The series of compilations titled Access Frame aim to present a wide spectrum of local alternative music (with emphasis on electronic and experimental music) that has found its safe haven on the internet. The never before encountered entwinement of technology, society, making music and ownership rights has been causing a serious conflict between free culture and the outdated and exploitative concepts of copyright. Adhering to the spirit of free access, online labels are the first in the struggle for equal access and a more fair copyright (facilitated by the introduction of the Creative Commons license).
In this spirit we are supporting the annual celebration of netlabel culture on the Netlabel Day every July 14th. netlabelday.org
=== ABOUT THE ARTISTS ===
G04T combines the rhythms of contemporary post-club music with glitch elements, fragmented structures, and experimental sound layers in their production. soundcloud.com/g04t69
Kikiriki (Nina Farič) is a noise artist playing experimental freestyle noise of all kinds. She uses different DIY gadgets such as synths and micro theremins. She has released numerous albums of studio and live recordings. kikiriki.bandcamp.com
Kovač FM is a producer, visual artist, and radio creator. Her production is mostly (but not always) the result of transforming and synthesizing poetry or various samples into new mutants and spells. This track is a morbid transformation of a verse from some lament or dirge into the next mutation. instagram.com/kovacfm
Notwithstanding the genre variety in her selection and production,
msn gf (Ustanova, Nimaš Izbire) stays committed to the bitersweet drama of forgotten pop ballads, spiced up by contemporary production. A regular at Ljubljana’s club circuit, she has also performed DJ and live sets at local festivals such as MENT, SONICA, Tresk, Grounded and Spider. You don’t know her, she goes to a different school. soundcloud.com/msn_gf
Oka (Eva Mulej) is a vocalist, producer, performer and sound artist. Her work moves between electro-acoustic, ambient and experimental music with a focus on poetics of the voice. She explores the tonal qualities of melodies, words and sounds, using a variety of acoustic instruments, field recordings and objects to create an intimate sound world. Together with Karmen Ponikvar, she also works in the duo Lip Rouge. instagram.com/oka
Periklea (Petra Hrovatin) is an artist who intertwines their work with activism through the media of video, film, sound, and poetry. With their sound poetry projects, they have performed at various literary events, such as Ignor at Channel Zero, World Poetry Day, LGBTIQ+ readings, and the Lesbian Quarter Festival at Gallery Škuc, the Great Lesbian Reading at Club Monokel, and Young Rhymes in Ljubljana, Koper, and Maribor. They are also a member of the music collective Croon.
periklea.eu & soundcloud.com/periklea
Prince Lucija is a gender-queer artist exploring computer sound and artistic expressions of technofeminism and corporeal desire through composition of time, language, software, community, and machines. prin.lu
Raketa (Veronika Černe) is a Slovenian DJ and producer of UK bass genres with a ghettotech twist. She delivers her eclectic sets in an energetic manner, infusing flavors of footwork, grime, ghettotech, jungle, and more. soundcloud.com/rak3ta
Ribeiroia, emerging from the new generation of the Ljubljana electronic underground, presents a wheighty track from the upcoming album, or rather, from an introspective musical intervention, which is coming out towards the end of the year. It rawly and thoughtfully scratches at the collective consciousness, into which she has been thrown against her will. soundcloud.com/niribeiroia
Umdhlebi is the sound embodiment of hatred towards civilization and our culture. He praises industrial collapse and the end of civilized man. Umdhlebi supports violence against all forms of government, because the terrorists of today are the heroes of the future. Noise is protest, not art! umdhlebi.bandcamp.com
