Después de una pausa tranquila, Monofónicos Netlabel entra de nuevo en actividad para el 2020. Para nosotros es un orgullo presentar nuevamente a Archaic Revival con un EP genial de Dub Techno donde prevalece una esencia Lo-Fi y RAW en cada una de sus producciones.
Mateo Henao es un artista que ha venido ascendiendo meteóricamente en la escena local desde el año 2009, y su estilo personal tiene una buena perspectiva clásica del arte atravesado por el techno, el house y sus derivados provenientes de Detroit. Todo un deleite.
Archaic Revival llega con un nuevo disco llamado ‘Trayectoria Sin Final EP‘, donde nos sumerge en sonidos de matices más Dub Techno, con cierto carácter épico y sideral, siempre envuelta en una atmósfera Lo-Fi que la hace más suculenta para escuchar y volar. Un disco que definitivamente nos llena de historias diferentes en cada canción en la línea del gran talento de Archaic Revival.
Cyff Gwawd is Stuart Estell, a piano, and a couple of barely-functional tape machines. The project draws on his love of Satie, Cage, Feldman and Basinski while also being a logical step from his compositions for drone/doom tuba outfit ORE, which he left in 2014. Cyff Gwawd is named in tribute to Mark Hollis. It means “Laughing Stock” in Welsh.
The pieces on this release started as miniatures, some of the material freely composed, and some of it restricted to sets of just four pitch classes. In performance, however, they took on a life of their own and didn’t seem to want to be constrained to what had been written down — resulting in what might be better described as planned improvisations.
The same side of the same C90 — an old and far-from-clean TDK SA90, naturally — was used to record all four pieces. The older cassette machine’s completely unreliable motor and faulty tape head resulted in some happy accidents (speed changes, incomplete erasure) that would be impossible to reproduce. Apart from EQ, some additional reverb and the occasional overlaying of additional tracks (from the same source material), the only editing here has been structural. Other than that, what you hear is how it… more
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released March 6, 2020
01. RHYTHMIC LIFE PATTERNS – Rhythmic Life Patterns 11:44
02. INFINITY OF 6 – Where The Whipping Post Used To Be 07:38
03. LAMPREDONTO – Workout Worship 05:19
04. NIMBOSTRATA feat. IMAGES WITHOUT RESEMBLANCE – S†RɅTA (Sun God Mix) 07:13
05. MINÓY – A Process Of Growth And Decay 06:27
cover art by Claus Poulsen
design by EMERGE
31 New Tracks + All 4 albums
A Free Download
Music For The Anthropocene
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released December 25, 2019
Eddie Palmer
Brett Zehner
Penultimate Anniversary Compilation that will end with the 10th volume in 2021? Who knows… difficult to say, difficult to plan. Nostress Netlabel, like many other netlabels, follows the difficult path of survival, remaining active mainly for releasing digital albums and for the “bootleg” recordings of the NN Performing catalog and maybe some special event to organize or to attend.
WE DON’T GIVE UP! WE DON’T CLOSE!
In full respect for all the artists who have chosen to take advantage of an additional channel of visibility, Nostress Netlabel, at the cost of appearing as an anomaly and / or an obsolescence, holds on. Maximum gratitude for those who follow us and who believe in small and independent reality like this.
t16c is a duo formed by underground Slovak musicians. Two friends, Peter Kudlička (16 colours, EGA) and Andrej Nechaj (Tatratank) have been making music for over 20 years. t16c is a natural result of their unceasing commitment to diverse sonics.
“re” is a debut collaborative album of t16c. Post-apocalyptic space exploration, transmitted over lo-fi radio signal back to the Earth. Grid-less, yet pulsating culmination of eerie field recordings, samples, and electronics. Alluring melancholic glimpses of an unclear future.
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released February 29, 2020
Cover by Andrej Nechaj
Photos by Andrej Nechaj and Peter Kudlička
Mastering by Angakok at Mydriasis
“This album is the first work I’ve done in 2019 and also part of a series of instrumental works that reflect upon absence in different ways, in a pentalogy. All of them expresses what I felt after the latest political misfortunes in my country (Brazil) and overall social-political state of mind in the world. In “Insomniac Dreams” – the absence of rest and sleep to convey life in its existence. In “Antimanicomial” – the absence of sanity in its helplessness in a political system that doesn’t give a care. In “Duets for Balogh” – the absence of a friend, despite his presence in sound conversations. In “Cinzas” – the absence of care on nature, a mourn for dead rivers. And this, “Longes” is about absence of faith. However, there is no particular order, nor any sound similarities for this pentalogy, despite being linked thematically. “Insomniac Dreams” was the first published one, but “Longes” was the one recorded first, with later-on finalizations.
”Longes” is my second work in which I play electric guitar (a Telecaster) as a main instrument (first one was “Electric Ramblings” (2014) in most of the tracks). It was conceived as a series of variations on the final motif from the coda of the song “Muito Mais Longe do que o Bastante”, which was originally recorded for the album “La Géographie sans Regret” (2012), made in collaboration with Mehata Sentimental Legend. In this album, I explore on electric guitar both timbral and electronic experimentations whereas the themes are extended without regard on time and space, despite having their own implicit structure. Apart from the last track (X), the pieces were all improvised in their performances. Somehow, it’s a spiritual manifesto on struggling for survival, in electric mantras; against all odds, a life-affirming statement.”
REVIEW / RESEÑA
Oceans between Sound is a selection of live improvisations by the internet based music ensemble, Ethernet Orchestra. The album was recorded during located venue performances and online sessions between 2014-2019, featuring musicians from a diverse range of cultures, performing across international time-zones and physical locations in Brazil, the USA, Canada, UK, Germany and Australia. The music was inspired by the ebb and flow of network data as a metaphor for the world’s oceans and waterways separating the members of the ensemble, and their geographically dispersed lives.
Oceans between Sound includes performances by internationally acclaimed improvisers such as guitarist Chris Vine, best known for his work with the British post punk band Blurt (Factory Records), and Elliott Sharp and Bob Boilen in the downtown music scenes of New York and Washington D.C. The ensemble founder, trumpeter Roger Mills, came to prominence during the 1990s with his work with the Bristol-based free jazz ensemble Space Ways and the trip-hop collective Statik Sound System (Cup of Tea Records). Performing on many of the tracks is the UK based free improviser Hervé Perez, acclaimed German pianist Holger Deuter, as well as world-renowned Moorin Khuur player and throat singer, Bukhchuluun Ganburged. The album also features a performance by the late Richard Lainhart, who worked and performed with John Cage, David Tudor, Steve Reich, Phill Niblock, David Berhman, and Rhys Chatham. His musical contributions to Seymareh ensure his presence continues to live on in our music.
A salient characteristic of the recordings on Oceans between Sound is how they reflect the materiality of the telematic performance medium. Musical sound travels through multiple networks, and is subject to a variety of operational conditions, latency, speeds, compression, and jitter. These phenomena imprint themselves on the sound as an aesthetic parameter within the music, rather like the crackle of an old vinyl album. These sonic qualities are also a testament to the incredible feat of musicians performing in real-time across distances of thousands of kilometres.
Roger Mills
(Sydney, Australia, marzo / March 2020)
Track Listing:
01. I
02. II
03. III
04. IV
05. V
06. VI
07. VII
08. VIII
09. Untitled 1
10. Untitled 2
11. Untitled 3
All tracks taken from EP II except for 9-11, which are from EP I and unfinished EP III.
Originally released around March-April 2019.
Track #10 added 2/25/2020.
released February 27, 2020
Art by
Matthew Smith // instagram.com/therealmueseum
Fabrizio Bozzi Fenu: guitar
recorded by Nicolò Terrasi
at Peintre de Lettres, Marseille
november 2019
mix and master by FBF
cover by Marta Anatra
