Moment Sound #2: Lokua - Trails

Comment from Moment Sound-Site:

Lokua (Joshua Keckner) is a master of melody, texture and mood. Many are yet to experience this musician’s full scope of ability. Lokua’s earlier works consist largely of down-tempo instrumental hip-hop. Recent works branch out to include a large scope of electronic genres with a significant amount of dance material. Lokua’s sound is characterized by the richness and sincerity of its emotional content with even the danciest of tracks retaining a deep, cerebral sophistication.
A Chicago native, Lokua has fully embraced and embodied his environment. His sound is deeply rooted in the city’s music and social history and his countless live performances are imbued with contemporary yet authentic and raw Chicago culture. With a back catalog of tracks hovering in the thousands (including a number of conceptually-complete albums) and new ones being produced daily, we can look forward to a great variety of music releases in the near (as well as distant) future.

Comment from Stratosphera:

This release's style is a lovely mix of hip-hop elements and downtempo. Just something to sit in the subway and nod your head.

01 A Thousand Pages / 02 Bub-Sag / 03 Crystel Ball / 04 Burning money / 05 Coupe Deville / 06 Ghostrider / 07 Grasshopper / 08 Taxi / 09 Interlude / 10 Tai Chi / 11 Trails / 12 Thanks Rainig / 13 Crystal Coupe / 14 Y.E.A. / 15 Coup Deville Reprise

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Mixotic #123: Jemset - Antiritmo Label Mix

Comment from Mixotic-Site:

The Antiritmo netlabel is rendering homage to the pure techno sound with distinctive Detroit references. Jemset created a label mix of his favourite Antiritmo tracks. The set kicks ass and smells like holy party sweat in a deep, dark steel basement.

Comment from Stratosphera:

Antiritmo is one of the best known Netlabels on the web - this may be rootable in the sound that is very special and you won't find anywere else. Jemset made a great mix that portraits the antiritmo style really lovely.

Playlist:

1 Peter Gual - Altres Llums Antiritmo 014 // 2 Vizar - Ghosts Antiritmo 018 // 3 Sascha Müller - Vorlauffunktion Antiritmo 002 // 4 Katsuyuki Taguchi - Azure Antiritmo 028 // 5 Sascha Müller - The Book Writer Antiritmo 002 // 6 Vizar - Allright Antiritmo 018 // 7 Hiroshi Oki - Vibrations Antiritmo 011 // 8 Pepe Arcade - X2 (Hiroshi Oki Remix) Antiritmo 017 // 9 Sascha Müller - In and Out Antiritmo 002 // 10 Roger M - Freakxpress Yourself Antiritmo 023 // 11 Banding! - Eula Antiritmo 024 // 12 Hermetico - Vision Nocturna Antiritmo 024

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Planète Sauvage #1 & #2

Planète Sauvage #1:

Comment from the First Planète Sauvage-Site:
First "Planète Sauvage" EP containing four songs composed between 2002 and 2003, three from Kassiel and one from Usull in collaboration with Kassiel.

1 Cécilia (Kassiel) / 2 La saison des pluies (Kassiel) / 3 Extension 3 (Usull - Kassiel) / 4 Résonance (Kassiel)

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Planète Sauvage #2:

Comment from the First Planète Sauvage-Site:
The second album and first LP of Planete Sauvage presents seven pieces of a quite melancholic caracter. Most of them are given as a tribute to their creators different passions, first of all cinema, but also litterature and philosophy.

1 Mélancholia (Kassiel) / 2 Nos années sauvages (Kassiel) / 3 La métamorphose des krolls (Kassiel) / 4 The dead rose's monologue (Usull) / 5 Cassiel (Kassiel) / 6 Le retour de Biculah dans sa patrie (chapitre 2) (Kassiel) / 7 L'éveil de Shemty (Kassiel – Usull)

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Comment from Stratosphera on both Releases:
What we have here are 11 soundpheres, which act dynamic. They feel tight but at the same time like wide open landscapes - this "mix", as a paradox one, shows how complex music can be and builds a bridge to philosophy.

23 Seconds #2: VA - Strange Days Have Found Us

Comment from 23Seconds-Site:

An electronic pop compilation by thirteen different composer from Sweden, Norway, Holland and France.

Comment from Stratosphera:

Ok guys (and girls), did you take your pills? I think those people didn't. "Strange Days Have Found Us" is a travel through the hole set of styles that have appeared on the netlabel scene. Not only that every track seems to be crazy, Ixtlan feeds in with something sounding like Ambient but not really being Ambient, what's coming next is totally mix-up of styles, from trancy bleep to bass-booming somethings this compilation got it.

Part 1: 1. Ixtlan - Connected to Universe / 2. Compute - Brand new start (Peter Hageus remix) / 3. Katharine & Tess - Currency of the world / 4. Electrolurk - My voice broke down the drummachine / 5. Midget Fantasy - The Warzone (Agitator mix) / 6. 0 Musicians - Feather Trance / 7. James Ausfahrt - Emelie pt. deaux
Part 2: 1. Plattform 13 - Mysterious child (feat. Kristin Ahlin) / 2. Ixtlan - His name is Raiko and he killed the clown / 3. James Ausfahrt - No reason to dance / 4. Molgam - Abteilung geregen / 5. Kontraband - Kemiskt ren / 6. Jimahl - Dear Lazlo / 7. Cocoa - Leleepop / 8. Salochin Quay - Invisible shadows

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Test Tube #110: Shelter - Sleepyhead falls off the edge of the world

Comment from Test Tube-Site:

«'Sleepyhead falls off the edge of the world' is a hip-hop mini-epic for all the broken hearts out there. Love stories gone wrong... not you're typical theme for an hip-hop release, I guess... but Shelter makes it work really really well. 'Sleepyhead...' is a small gem of an EP, in fact, it's a reissue of the original which came out on Shelter's old weblog more or less an year ago. I kind of bumped into it by accident and almost immediately 'Sleepyhead...' became a regular on my winamp playlist since then. Musically, think of BoC-style nostalgia keyboards and electronics and Marshall Mather's style vocals and flow, but Swedish pop way - Shelter is from Sweden, and you're there. Excellent production, very good lyrics and an awesome sense of narrative throughout. This is the most perfect 20 minutes of hip-hop I've listened in a long time.
This release is also a good excuse to show off our new standard design for the cover artwork. Hope you dig it! Furthermore, keep your eyes peeled for a new EP to be released very soon on Shelter's own website.» - Pedro Leitão

Comment from Stratosphera:

Ok, this is special for Stratosphera. Hip-Hop isn't usual for this blog, as all you watchers know. But what made Stratosphera review this album is it's poetic side, as Pedro wrote before, this is a album about love an d getting emotionally hurted by people. It's just beautiful so sit back, relax and open your mind.

Intro / We like falling (feat. Balance) / Into the fog / Rhythm of the night (feat. Balance) / Keys open doors? (interlude) / What's underneath / My knee's weak / Sunny eyes (interlude) / The Swamp /Outro

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Kikapu #108: William Fields - The Ruby-leif

Comment from Kikapu (Archive.org):

We have here an amazing new mp3 release from William Fields, titled 'The Ruby-Leif.' It's a 5-track EP of incredibly melodic, beautiful electronics. It harkens back to many of our older releases from past years, and is a welcome addition to our catalogue.

Comment from Stratosphera:
First listening to this album I was quite astound. Clearly melodic, clearly experimentel, clearly veautiful but also abstract - I never thought a mix-up like this would work, but William made it work. A first-class audio experience!

Sunwire / Hakea/ Umber / Cairn / The Ruby-Leif
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Mixotic #120: Frosty - Netlabel Mixtape Vol.4

Comment from Mixotic-Site:
Frosty adds another sequel to his popular "Netlabel Mixtape" series. His journey leads him from well known net-places to hidden, secret caves. Mysterious channels are interrupted by bright light spots, they are going up and then deep down again. What's down there? A shining gold mine or just a cold, deep sheer?

Frosty
Frosty was was born in 1978 and grew up in a town called Siegen. At the age of 13 he discovered the radio show "RPR-Maximal" and he was fascinated by that electronic sound. One year later he began DJing at private parties an made his own tapes. But with the beginning of his job education in 1994 Frosty lost many of his old contacts and got new influences. Electronic music became secondary.
In 2006 while he was surfing the internet and found a netlabel by chance. Wondering how it could be to get legal mp3 tracks for free he downloaded his first electronic music after years. One year and many gigabytes later Frosty started mixing his own tapes again.

01	Markus Masuhr - Mandola Claptiks Tisch 005
02	Tobsucht.FX - The Lightness Off Being Pinksilver 003
03	Pablo Akaros - Storpet Flumo 010
04	Jorge Savoretti - Trickylove Harry Klein Networks 001
05	Levelheads - Tubular Supafeed 005
06	Dr. Nojoke - Nofo Deep In Dub 001
07	D'Kawa - Sekku Kreatur Musik 002
08	DNCN - You Asked Kreatur Musik 001
09	Dot - New Process Unfoundsound 030
10	DSUM - Tocando Suelo Discoscocinados 002
11	Feniin - Locked Textone 029
12	Hervé AK - Total Contrast Indigomagenta 010
13	Kareem - Scholle Pentagonik 018
14	Kristian Holz - Langhaar Tribetoolz 006
15	Norman Creed - Treibgas Auflegware 011
16	Ernie - Piedratijera Flumo 009
17	Mech - Se Peg Un Partigazo Mascerolab 003
18	Alex Q - Stay No-Respone 013
19	Andrea Gentile & Diego Capri - Tomato RMX Metroline 005
20	Audio Dependent - The Deep End Alt 001
21	Dachshund - Bowowow Harry Klein Networks 001
22	Mathis Johnsen - Nachtschichtgeraet (Waehrend_Sie_Schlief_Mix) Auflegware 003
23	Bardo - Sale la ficha Essential Reload 004
24	Akille B. And Franky Ros - Ricordi Distorti Alquimia 002
25	Dorian Knox - Butterfly Audioexit-Min 001
26	Éloi Brunelle - Deepmush Thinner 100
27	Tone Def - I Dunno Alt 001
28	System of Survival - Headless Claque Net 008