His own reflections on Sparkling_G! album: „It is not a concept album”, there is no idea behind the music, there is no thinking involved! „I tried, as in most of my music, to put as much soul in it as I can. I always try to tell something coherent, realistic, even if I have no idea what it is.“ The major point of his music is to tell what can’t be told in words, to express what wants to come out, with very little control. „I would say that the only conscious input during my music making process is the attempt to make it musically universal; to give it a certain coherence. I make sure each track is meaningful to me, with the hope that it’ll be meaningful to someone else, too.“

Analyzing his own music and creation process, yan_G considers the lower frequencies as dark, and the higher as bright. „Which, I guess is universal because on many audio devices the boosting of high frequencies is called brightness.“ The sparkles he mentions in the title refer to that. yan_G tries to sculpt stars with the high frequencies, above a beautiful landscape made of bass and mids. Bright details that sparkle in your ear.

Besides the most obvious Plaid and  Squarepusher (Warp), yan_G’s major influences are Freeform (Skam) for the production and composition, Leila (Rephlex) for the soul, and LRAB (Audio Aubergine…) for the bright moments.

Download Sparkling_G! by yan_G
Album info: 7 tracks, front & back cover arts – album is licensed under Creative Commons 3.0 de (by-nc-sa)

Artist info: Yann Guillermou aka. yan_G (born 1979) is currently living near Paris, France. He started composing music when he was a teenager, on Atari ST using Protracker, then stumbled upon guitar music, and returned to Electronica. Nowadays he is taking jazz guitar lessons and listens to more and more jazz so: In future yan_G will most probably provide much more jazz-oriented music than we hear on sparkling_G.

Last but not least; yan_G takes lomographic pictures, which you can get at: http://www.lomography.com/homes/yawn

Websites:
http://yann-g.net
http://yang.bandcamp.com
http://www.myspace.com/sparklingg
http://virb.com/yan_g

Tracklist on Sparkling_G! album:

Download QUEENDOM COME by ZOE.LEELA for free

We call her sound on „Queendom Come“ New Plastic Soul as the album is saturated with the fragmented spirit of international cities. Porous jazz influences, urban hip-hop salutes, and sober, electronic sounds reflect the structured chaos found within an international, musical metropolis. rec72 is psyched up to deliver the new album by ZOE.LEELA to the masses! Her masterpiece of urban sound is ready to enter the many dance floors and mobile devices out there.

On „Queendom Come“ the two state-of-the-art producers Skywax from Berlin and Noah Felk from So High Studios in Hamburg poured down their most sophisticated and edgy music sources on six songs catering the unique talents by ZOE.LEELA. No other than Cem Oral – former „Air Liquide“ – put his final touches on mastering and pushing the limits of grand Creative Commons music on her album „Queendom Come“!

Celebrate and spread the new era of sound in CC music by downloading ZOE.LEELA’s debut album „Queendom come“ for free; including six tracks, cover arts, booklet and additional biographical infos of her in English, German and Spanish language.

Release concert and party
Don’t miss ZOE.LEELA’s record release concert and party on December 13th at Cafe Zapata in Berlin (im Kunsthaus Tacheles, Oranienburgerstraße 54-65)! This gig will be ZOE.LEELA’s fourth live show at Cafe Zapata also for 2009.

Music clip
This clip contains her 1st single “Destroy She Says” and it gives a reflection of ZOE.LEELA’s last year visting some sunny places, stages and radio studios.

Listen to the debut album Queendom Come by ZOE.LEELA

The material used in this album are hand crafted by Richard Sudney. Field recordings that were used, contained various samples of shortwave broadcasts of data transmissions , others are from vintage reel to reel tape recordings from the 1950’s of radio transmissions. A home made audio possessor was used along with a $30 key board synthesizer, and hundreds of pain stakingly put to gather micro samples. All of which made “Net control” a crafty album.

Download “Net control” album by Monopole for free

About Monopole (Richard Sudney)
Richard Sudney was born in Detroit in 1978. As naturally curious individual he was drawn towards electronics and shortwave radio at an early age. It wasn’t until his late 20s and early 30s during college when he amid his curiosity to netlableism. “In a media like the internet where free thinking is the material of it’s construction, it’s a no brainier that netlableism exists in it”(Richard Sudney 2009). In 2005 Richard Sudney (a.k.a. Monopole) started creating simple melodies on his computer by ways of using software based oscillators. As time went on, Monopole a self tough musician, got a hold of a children’s keyboard synthesizer at a flea market. At this time, being a student in college studying electronics, it was natural for Richard to make electronic devices, so he set out to make a audio processor which is to accompany that $30 key board. This processor can be heard in many of his compilations. At the present time Monopole is growing away from cheap synthesizers and leaning too sounds of short wave and field recordings made by him with a homemade field recording apparatus. “Micro samples of field recording that I made while roaming around abandon factory’s and houses in the Detroit area, are the next level of electronic music after the synthesizer and processor. It gives the impression of lofi but still maintains the electronic feel.”

(Richard Sudney 2009)

Im Rahmen der Langen Nacht der Kölner Museen 2009 schicken die beiden Netlabels Der kleine grüne Würfel und rec72 ihre Acts auf die Bühne im KunstWerk.

Das Künstler- und Atelierhaus mit all seinen Gästen erhält zur langen Museumsnacht die Creme-de-la-Creme der Kölner Creative Commons Musikszene serviert.

Anfahrt KunstWerk und Cologne Commons Lounge

Line up der Cologne Commons Lounge am 7.11.2009

19.00 – Grüner Würfel Drehkommando
(invited Players only!)

21.00 – DJs Sven Swift & Mo.
MP3: Mixtape Vol.3

23.00 – Zoe.LeelA (live)
MP3: Destroy She Says

24.00 – New Delhi Fm (live)
MP3: Lifecycle

01.00 – Marlene Magnoli (live)
MP3: Flatter davon kleiner Flattermann

02.00 – DJ psycoded
MP3: Moneypulation

VJ/ VISUALS Zur Cologne Commons Lounge wird bilderwilderer aus Düsseldorf die Musik der Acts visualisieren.

Zur Cologne Commons Lounge wird Zoe.LeelA ihr Album “Queendom Come” live performen – ab 23 Uhr. Queendom Come erscheint Ende November als kostenloser Download hier auf rec72 Netlabel.

Zoe.LeelA live on air – Dienstag, 27.10.09 //  22:00 – 23:00 Uhr
Livestream der Sendung “Soundcheck” auf SPUTNIK/MDR:
http://www.sputnik.de/m3u/soundcheck.hi.m3u

Und noch mehr Zoe.LeelA auf SPUTNIK/MDR (Mittwoch, 28.10.09)
Der MDR ist begeistert von Zoe.LeelAs Musik, und deshalb hören wir Zoe am darauf folgenden Mittwoch (28.10.2009) als Artist of the Day in weiteren SPUTNIK-Sendungen auf heavy rotation: In der Morningshow, Dein Tag, der Nachmittagsshow und am Abend im Popkult + IVTönen. Also brav einschalten und Zoe.LeelA hören!
Die Livestreams zu diesen Sendungen finden sich auf der Webseite von SPUTNIK.
Gratis-Download
“Destroy She Says”
Die erste Single “Destroy She says” könnt ihr euch heute schon anhören und kostenlos runterladen!

Kurobear – Powerful Indeed from rec72 on Vimeo.

Kurobear says: “The album title came to me when I was really sick in a dream, in about march I got really and was sleeping about 23 hours a day, only to wake up and see if I could move at all but whenever I did try to move or be active, it made it worse.”

When he was writing “Europa” afterwards he took a lot of ideas from groups like The Orb and psychedelic music from the 60’s as well as jam band stuff, taking all those different influences and putting them together; and trying to make them work while still being able to pick out the different sounds, so it doesn’t sound like a mash of different things.

Download “Europa” by Kurobear for free

We are pleased to announce that you can download ZOE.LEELA’s first single Destroy She Says for free straight away! Her album QUEENDOM COME will be dropped the 30th November 2009 here at rec72. Be patient for a while and listen to her current single.

Zoe.LeelA – Destroy She Says // QUEENDOM COME by rec72

Kostenloser Download des Songs „Destroy She Says“ vom Album “QUEENDOM COME”

Zum Konzertabend (07.11.09) wird ZOE.LEELA ein Liveset des Studioalbums QUEENDOM COME aufführen. Das Album entstand in den Studios der beiden Produzenten Skywax aus Berlin und Noah Felk („so high“) aus Hamburg. Die Fotostrecken, Konzertvideos und Promoclips, die ZOE.LEELA gemeinsam mit ihrem „Partner-in-Crime“ TOMPIGS.COM verwirklicht, sind im DIY Charakter, geprägt von großer Kreativität.

Vollständiges Pressekit zum freien Download (PM, Biographie, Fotos, Musik, Flyer):
ZOE.LEELA – Livekonzert zu “Lange Nacht der Kölner Museen” mit VÖ ihres neuen Albums.

But some really weird visions on those cities remained and he saw himself wandering through the places over and over again. So the easiest way to get rid off those nightmares, Phopha started making music about the “traumatic” spots (which have fictional names on the album that correspond some of the memories): “That’s why sometimes the songs may sound unfinished but that’s really it, that’s what I was then, fortunately  it is all over though.”

Download album Cities by Phopha for free

Richard Elis aka. Phopha from Czech Republic presents his debut album “Cities” on rec72 containing 9 songs covering the genres downtempo, shoe-gaze and trip-hop music.
The track “Vibe City” contains vocals by US hiphop act Forensic.

Zoe was invited at MotorFM studios to give Winson an interview on her music DIY attitude and to play two songs from her forthcoming album “Queendom come” on rec72. Sorry it’s only available in German language.

ZOE.LEELA and WINSON on MOTORFM by ZOE.LEELA

LIVE GIG / KAFFEE BURGER Berlin Mitte (29th of september 2009)
At the same day ZOE.LEELA performed live with her band the ZEO.LETTES at Kaffee Burger in Berlin Mitte. Watch the video takes from her live show at nights.

ZOE.LEELA & THE ZEO.LETTES live from Zoe.Leela on Vimeo.

If you do so, then kick your ass to Kaffee Burger (Berlin Mitte, Torstraße 58 – 60) where Zoe will enter the stage at 9 PM (29th.)  smashing your ears and eyes.

small radio/ by any means from bilderwilderer.

Find out more about deef’s current album Eine ganz normale Woche im Paralleluniversum and download the album for free / licensed under CC by-nc-nd.

This is what deef’s current album “Eine ganz normale Woche im Paralleluniversum” is heading for. His album is considered to be an acoustic “Gedankenexperiment”: You are the visitor and protagonist at the same time. The moment you start listening to “Eine ganz normale Woche im Paralleluniversum” your temporal and spatial journey begins; and you will wander through the various universes that co-exist in any single track from the album.
Each track stands for the many parallel and individual universes.

Sometimes it’s obvious in one track that you slide from universe to universe. Another time it’s not to so clear and at the end of your musical trip you might have recognized the shift in space and time. The environment you find yourself toggles within one track; so keep an ear on it and enjoy the hyper unknown.

Basically German crowds say Germany doesn’t bear any new experimental and contemporary modern electronic music artist sending outstanding tunes through the aether! Well, folks it seems you haven’t noticed that we already have such an artist amongst us for more than a year! With his current album “Eine ganz normale Woche im Paralleluniversum” rec72 celebrates the second full length album by deef and we are proud to present Germany’s all time Electronica artists number one.

There is no such thing! As deef enhances his extravaganza with selected field recordings taken from the various spots he visited during the past year – since he has released his first album “Lebensbegleitende Musik” in 2008 on our label. His new album “Eine ganz normale Woche im Paralleluniversum” includes 8 extraordinary ambient and downtempo tracks; delivering an atmosphere which we normally expect from experimental music composers or rather find in psychedelic movies produced by David Lynch.

Travel through deef’s hypermusical universe for free. No worries you will return safe and sound to the correct time and space you started from!

Download album “Eine ganz normale Woche im Paralleluniversum” by deef for free / licensed under CC by-nc-nd

The first track Wanderblasen on the album has been employed in the beautiful music clip produced by deef & Niklas Plessing. Both collected the video footage of nature on their trip to La Gomera island in early 2009.

18 artists from around the world expound their personal relationship between machines and themselves to produce emotions and sounds. Thus the netlabels Audiovisual Theorem and rec72 employ the same relationship to approach the infinite possibilities and collaborate in a compilation that travels through a variety of music styles. Expect IDM all over the place, dance to Dubstep, chill with Triphop, make yourself comfortable with minimal house and let experimental Electronica run through your headphones.

Audiovisual Theorem and rec72 Netlabel are really psyched about this release! To host those gifted and enthusiastic artists from all over the world. It is an overwhelming collection of innovative music including diverse genres. We are sure that this co-compilation will become a corner stone in Creative Commons music and collaboration, too as it is and was a great challenge to combine the output of so many artists and to melt it into one electronic and organic rock. The exceptionally weird cover arts have been designed by psycoded.

Download the Audiovisual Theorem & rec72 netlabel co-compilation “Of Men And Machines” for free

On „Ashtray“ electronic rooted dub gets delayed with intelligent drum patterns plus Jeff Murray’s sweeping guitar solos – thanks for this one Jeff! Convince yourself by entering the „2K Summer House“ which is dominated by tough forward / backward guitar riffs and loops by Colin combined with Scott’s heavy Big Beat machinery here! „By any means“ we are already talking about track number #3 of Le Migre: Buzzing bass lines – last heard in some 80’s video games – are fighting some snare wars with Mister Tambourine Man. Sorry, we are almost through Le Migre and „I Am Ricky Richardo“ will tell you a thrilling story about his career as vice detective Miami Magnum. Some people heard „horses’ hooves in there as well“.

Download Le Migre EP by Small Radio for free

Small Radio is a collaborative project by Scott Buchanan aka. Radio Scotvoid and Colin Sweeney aka. Small Colin, two Scotsmen being abroad from Scotland. One is living in the U.S.; the other one in Sweden. The songs on Le Migre EP have been produced over the last two years. Scott did two tracks, and so did Colin; then each of them enhanced it with his own style and precision. You can read about their musical odyssee and the ups and down while getting the show on the road in Colin’s annotations on the project Small Radio:

After a short period of general apathy we began in earnest what was to become ”Le Migre”. A few riffs and parts were sent back an forth, (just to test the water you know?). Then an literal eon went past before the lads in question decided, ”wait a damn minute………this shit ain’t too bad after all”.This is where the magic started to happen. Small Colin played some melody. Radio Scotvoid messed up some beats.

Hell, some random named Jeff ”12 string” Murray even added some guitar. This process was bounced across the Atlantic a few times (at least) in the next few months until both of these former Bravehearts were happy. To be honest we weren’t but like the legend that is Mr G. Lucas said, ”projects are only abandoned, never completed”.

At this point the lads decided enough is enough. The cry was heard over continents, or at least Facebook. So it brings us to today. Four tracks are presented and fifteen-thousand tracks were neglected. Although many an artist knows, that’s how it goes in this game. Radio Scotvoid & Small Colin proudly announce their first collaboration as Small Radio and their Le Migre EP.

small radio/ by any means from bilderwilderer.

Artists’ websites
Small Radio
Radio Scotvoid
Small Colin
Jeff Murray

Please read also the advanced review on Le Migre EP by Adrian Carter (From Under The Radar).

Download Domestic Landscapes by Paco Alvarez for free (Including 10 songs cover art and playlist)

With “Corrupted Loops for Damaged Bots” rec72 delivers a masterpiece of leftfield Electronica artist Marcin Mis aka. DJ Orbique; one of Poland’s finest music producers and DJs besides longtime crew member lukeing forward. Marcin’s eclectic work combines Illbient, Dub, Breaks and Intelligent Dance Music. Let your mind jump to those tracks and not your feet. The splendid cover art to Orbique’s album has been created by graphic designer Daniel Green from UK based design group Devious Creations.

Download “Corrupted Loops for Damaged Bots” by DJ Orbique (incl. full cover art  for CD print out and tracklist)

Don’t miss the first video clip available for Orbique’s track “everything goes wrong (VIP dirty remix)”. The clip was produced by UK based VJ Ultra; longtime visual’s producer at rec72.
Watch and download the clip.