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Opened on march 17th, 2006, and based on initial concept of reviewing netaudios as soon as they are upcoming.
That blog was also the place of ::theQuestionnaire project, 
an experience, based on the Marcel Proust model, submitted to a few representative people.

As a year "time capsule" experience, views & reviews have definitively closed on march 16th, 2007.

Thank you :: So Inagawa, Jonathan Canupp, Metafame, Marcos Romero, Krishve, Mattias "Arete" Andersson, Tatsu (bump foot), Alex Cortex, Denis Fomenko, Anna Szmuc, Anita Castiel, Aquarell, Christophe Demarthe, ±•., Luis García-Pumarino, Oliviero Farneti, Sim Sullen, Sven Swift, Carl Martin, Miguel A. Garcia, Pedro and Xavier Leitão, Irie Yoshihisa, Léa Lescure, Fred Forest, Tania Mouraud, Bernard Quesniaux, Luca "Fedemarti", ig., Magnetic Djihad, Keisuke Sudo, Daniel Maze, Sieve, Aplink, BRTLMN, Kenneth Kirschner, Alexandre Navarro, Norman Fairbanks, Darren McClure, Fgmcvp, Gurdonark, Stephen Walter, David Velez, Jive Biquette, Joël Hubaut, Depth Affect, Sander Van Orischot, Neven Braum, Matt Schieffer, Graham Petch, Riku Annala, Henk, Mark Flanagan, Martin Schulte, Sticking drops, Alexey Devayin, Dave Zeal, Coldicus, Takeshi Nakamura, Tim Martin, .Anton Holota, Jeffrey Acciaioli, Phil at Belladonna, Stanislav Vdovin, Bernhard Straub, the city of Nizhny Novgorod, Lars Kranholdt, Loïs Laplace, Philippe at digitalbiotope, Claude Pélieu, Anton Cherkasov, Cheju, Juergen "PolarProject" Rieger, Michael Cottone, Sascha Muller, Aaron McCammon, Bad Loop, Emil Klotzsch, iua, Paranerd, Partikel, Jack Haberfield, Rob Lynam, Nik at Khavi, Kevin M. Krebs, Neuf Meuf, Dustin Frelich, Jochen Dworeck, Ijo, D'Incise, Masaya Sasaki, Yagya, Andrey Kiritchenko, Stud, Galaktlan, Segue, Ahasverus, Peacee F Moya, Joonas Vähämäki, Eric Delay, Sasa Vojvodic, t3tsuo ~ Fernando Ferreira, Kenji Siratori, OCP, Petr Drkula, Sergi Saldaña, Baba Llaga, Alkor, Raül Fuentes, Vitalis Popoff, Fred DeBieF, Huw "IOI" Roberts, Isuzu Kochiwa, Laurent Batailley, Javier Rubio, Henrik Summanen, Filippo and Mario Aldovini, Bernard Szajner, Andreas Buttweiler, "Manu" Ibakusha, Marcel Proust, Duff, hOus3s, Antoinette Faure, Frank at no-response, Berio at alg-label, Jasper Boer, Miles Davies at filament, Sebastian Redenz, Simon Tibor, Suur at protoplazma, Tobi Tobsucht, Thomas Park, Fern, Tio, Max Richter, Robert Henke and Daniel at the office, Vladislav Petrov, Gate Zero, cHristian negre i walczak, RichVom.Dorf, Scott Morgan, Siegmar Fricke, Cut Fire Wood, SM, Funkzelle, GQBN, ZooGoo, Ceptual, Erik Skodvin, Red Hot Wok, Hippolyte and Anatole for the patience, Edgeist, Pizo Meyer, Nikòlaos Yanakis, Max Marlow, Olivier Umhauer, QB, Damian, Robin Rimbaud, MarceXL, Andy Warhol, Steve Reich, Peter Aidu, Sleepy Town Manufacture, Ohrchitekt, Red Unit, Brian Eno, Nenad Popovic, Valérie Bollot, Paul (dissolved), King Kietu, Sensitivedub, and thank you also to everyone at :: unfoundsoundrecords, zymogen, 12rec.net, noisy vagabond recordings, monocromatica, discogs, inquietudes, lucha libre recordings, panospria, minimalnet, top-40, kikapu, eko and standard klik music, thinner - autoplate, retropublik, mnml, inmo design, monotonik, one netlabel, green rat records, decisive sound, otium, minusn, belladonna records, aerotone, aquietbump, filament recordings, laverna, netlabel-board, tropic netlabel, sutemos, netlabelism, noerror, kyoto digital, serein, stadtgruen, smt.records, mimi records, phlow, telescope, protoplazma, mahorka, bleepwatch, sonicSQUIRREL, kahvi, audio 808, systrum sistum, umanuvem, systrum sistum, hw homework, alg-a, no-response, playcode, digitalbiotope, serein, birdsong, ++sensor, protoplazma, treetrunk records, kreislauf, op3n, inoquo, eed, bleepwatch, subsource, plastic4records, archive, negative sound institute, electrosound, feed, clear-cut-records, you are not stealing records, quiet lounge, abdicate cell, miasmah, picomedia, decisive sound records, combi records, plainaudio, watmm records, pharmacom records, camomille, flamingo generation, clinical archives, garganrecords, radio france culture, radio grenouille, last.fm, minimalmusic, minimalnet, themilkfactory, netlabelism, project 168, rowolo, ubu web, and all creative commons people.

respect

thierry massard / vendredi 16 mars 2007

Ten And Tracer :: baker's blood

I am pleased to close this blog with a release, which combined so much shared values and thoughts about what can possibly be an open-minded work, so far from stale genres and dogmas, full of creative curiosity for sounds and things around. Without complex, but with the faculty to influence notably the course on, Jonathan Canupp cultivates all these talents and some, less obvious, to discover right now.

Format :: digital
Location :: zymogen
Website :: Ten And Tracer

Metafame :: sooner ep

As a dissident of Anti Trance Corsortium 666, in 2002, and more recently (2004) author of a splendid track for a compilation of the netlabel plataforma-ltw, the very discreet Metafame makes us the honor and favours of a three tracks ep, a great piece of work. Opening on a so elegant and fine writing "confoundhalf-pint", the ep offers a vertiginous takeoff with "ec-nomy" which admittedly have, removed an "o", but certainly not sparing of sensations. Third and unfortunately last, "quaverrack" invits the listener to remain on a "parenthèse enchantée".
Yes, ::sooner is, and will remain a magic bracket.

Format :: digital
Location :: kreislauf label
related :: plataforma-ltw

Miteigi Nemoto :: Entheogen

4th lp contribution of Miteigi Nemoto for the label, and once again,
Otium did not contradict its high reputation, even if the title of the exercice can miss interest,
see being reducing, in particular for the agnostics.

Format :: digital
Location :: otium

Marcos Romero :: definition of micro tech house

The original title was trully splendid, "viaje por el deep tech micro house", this sort of combined expression between theory and passeport for an open space journey of sound investigation. Then, from now, you will probably think that the actual name will not produce the same good attention to this project, reassure yourself and let you go to enter in this particularly hypnotic experience. Practising an exceptional rhythmic intelligence, Marcos Romero is a wizard ; a wizard able to hold a fluid tonality in levitation for, example, and our greater satisfaction. Yes, enter in, this “definition” and you will leave there only while knowing that you had just made a “viaje” in a very exclusive ritual.

Format :: digital
Download :: here
Website :: Marcos Romero

Max Marlow :: skyland

First is this good surprise and nice gift … when you will have click on the link under these words,
these are the steps of an urban nomad and night bird walk of a solitary berliner, king for a day and undoubtedly one of the important live theoretician workers of the becoming netscene.
we are not yet at the end of enchantments.
Once passed, some perfectible manipulations, stays the echoes of the broken mirror ( "…sometimes he saw his real face, and sometimes a stranger at his place…" said the robots in the past) - But, already these reflections give up the place, or rather deviate with prudence in front of the road roller and the unrestrained race of the hustler, reduced to a furtive shadow.
"the pirate rebellion of skyland" does not slacken the pressure, quite the contrary, poking and ceaselessly on the wire of a circular groove, rolled-iron by an inalterable bass line.
And finally, what about "walaskjalf" ?
Well, are you talking of this gigantic track, which will make us remember for a very long time this :: skyland ?
i suppose, yes …

Format :: digital
Location :: m02v

Krishve :: cochlea

Krishve will not remain wedged in the inner ear for a long time...
"scala media", as a recording field temptation, shares a sound exploration all made of obvious pushed tubular electric density.
"scala tympani" could put at evil the membrane, but materialisation of the sparks is still quite remote - hardly if the very orchestral final one is distinguished.
"scala vestibuli" closes the ep in an entrance made of post-symphonic layers lost between two worlds. the accents are often dramatic, the tension is particularly perceptible - We will not wait for long before joining a distant sarabande, brass band in phase of total obliteration.
Krishve will not remain wedged in the inner ear for a long time...

Format :: digital
Location :: feed
Website :: Krishve

Various Artists :: pathmusick visits kreislauf

10 is the reference of this meeting of Kreislauf (our host) with Pathmusick, a very welcome visitor.
09 are the identity guests of the master of ceremony, Alex Cortex.
08 is surely a "night-time epitome" but it also could be a time passes, media noche.
07 as a laconic echo number of a distant voice, Stefan Eichinger (lopazz) have a melancholic thought for that whom we suppose Elisabetha being, and always this laconic voice haunting dehumanized corridors, loneliness?
06 as an inverted circular water movement for Seis Tormentas.
05 or was it 2 bad cop mostly disorientated.
04 is a short intermede, where the satyre is charming an innocent victim … a story to follow.
03 as a decentralized nerve movement.
02 ? please more than 2, of these so flexible harmonic tunes.
Number one is surely another track, but i'm not a number, i am a freeeee man …

Format :: digital
Location :: kreislauf label

The Stringed Theory :: supersymmetry

Call it "super" if you mean that the importance of using "super"lative is a determinating element to appreciate the "tiny oscillating strings forming the basis of everything" around the corner of the ... universe. We will probably agree on, as The Stringed Theory is giving us the demonstration of a quiet interlacing of drones and layers, reducing outlook in a working drawing distance -
:: supersymmetry is also the result of intelligent cross features with the visual artist, xNoleet, renforcing the "graphic" spirit of the release - a sketchy masterstroke

Format :: digital
Location :: bump foot
Artwork :: xNoleet
Website :: The Stringed Theory

Various Artists :: close emulsions of the 7th kind

tracklist

01. Dissolved :: polymer flood ignition illusion / source :: retropublik
02. Sardinia Bass Legalize :: nyahbinghi airlines / source :: aquietbump
03. Irish & Duff :: desire / source :: flamingo generation
04. Stephen Walter :: green shift / source :: zymogen
05. Doping Mozga :: mistake / source :: abdicate cell
06. Heezen :: secret speech / source :: 12rec
07. Ascalaphe :: camelonade / source :: kreislauf
08. Xedh :: the cube / + exclusive + source :: xedh
09. Mr. Modular :: as they descend / source :: moov
10. OCP :: atmos three / source :: serein
11. Edgeist :: magnesium / source :: abdicate cell
12. Ohrchitekt :: naschwerk / source :: pharmacom
13. El Senor Ciuf Ciuf :: two more rows / source :: 12rec

selection by thierry massard, mixed by Sven Swift - fevrier 2007

thanks to all artists, labels and thank you to thirteensongs

Format :: digital
Location :: thirteensongs

Multilink magazine :: volume 3 - issue 1

contents ::

studio browne + panda yoghurt + social fabric + ginormous + gregory euclide + fthr + simone sbarbati + tycho + systrum sistum

Format :: pdf magazine
Location :: Multilink

Various Artists :: fréquentes fréquences et autres pensées fugaces

tracklist

01. Alkor :: sniezny kaloryfer / source :: kahvi
02. Baba Llaga :: television fantasma / source :: mahorka
03. Ascalaphe :: bahia / source :: kreislauf
04. PolarProject :: curved / source :: polarproject
05. Ijo :: play / source :: sutemos
06. Coldicus :: caress / source :: hw homework
07. Recue :: himanka (Plosive remix) / source :: one
08. Javier Rubio :: demarde / source :: addsensor
09. Alexandre Navarro :: tou / source :: standardklikmusic
10. Ceptual :: boundearth / source :: miasmah
11. Takeshi Nakamura :: inferior article 1 / source :: digitalbiotope
12. Denis Mati "Tio" :: mental parts / source :: hw homework

all tracks selected by thierry massard / mixed by applezup - fevrier 2007

thanks to all artists, labels and thank you to op3n

Format :: digital
Location :: op3n mixtape netlabel

The Kirbi :: marathon

compiling some tracks from the last 3 years and around releases such as ::anonymous synonym (album for laverna netlabel in 2004), ::trembling of the turbid in 2005, last year's album ::love for grasshoppers or today's new track : "marathon", following also the recent (and brilliant) contribution to the first compilation of hw homeworks netlabel, Denis Aleksandrovich Fomenko (aka The Kirbi) is giving us a very talented pallet of neo-classic tracks and this ::marathon ep is a real fine opportunity to discover a quite seductive artist - a classy stride !

Format :: digital
Location :: garganrecords
Blog :: The Kirbi
Website :: The Kirbi

please check also

:: the island of the unrealized hopes
Format :: digital
Location :: vorbic

Various Artists :: homeworks vol. 1 - we have different sounds

Marked by a certain formal classicism, this first compilation of the brilliant label of Murmansk, includes some imposing tracks such as :: “gravitation” of Les Unlogique - “manota” of Aromantra - “game over” of The Kirbi - “dream for new year” of Uior, or the "dead water“of Cut Fire Wood, and these tracks should not be ignored, or is it definitively necessary to have a very good reason - Although ...

Format :: digital
Location :: hw homework

±•¬.¬ :: - - - - - / CYP3A4

Composed and recorded by ±•¬.¬ (electronic musician based in Nancy, France) during the last two years , :: -----/ CYP3A4 reports of the intense interest from the author for other "states of mind and unknown place in imagination, unknown colours" and the result is not far from a real new soundscapes exploration, revealing a deep sense of sound colorism (6ini05) and a real hability to materialize a half-hidden fog (brum).
±•¬.¬ is also the real expressionnist craftsman on restitution of an amazing "groundA" earth's crust - "noname", which closes this "cytochrome" (word for CYP3A4) release, already allows us to hope a coming new “psycho ethno archeo" activities report.

Format :: digital
Location :: clinical archives
Link :: ±•¬.¬

aquarell :: lateral position

which are the concrete "weapons" of a seduction?
charisma ?
intelligence ?
beauty ?
talent ?
discretion ?
pace ?
elegance ?
delicacy ?
attention given to things ?
interest not pretends ?
one in particular, all these at once ?
if we don't give a certain attention, we can easily pass through these two formidables eclipses of named well, MM Christian Quast and Markus Newton - Aquarell refuses to marked a feature, and practices the art of elegant luminous opacity - the matter is marvelously distant but clearly marked.
A watercoloured weapon !

Format :: digital
Location :: kreislauf

Petr Drkula :: surfaces

A confrontation, Petr Drkula welcomes you to an experience of one hour and twenty minutes, a confrontation on your own capacity to observate your mind and physical responses to a chamanic sound experience - dilatation, expansion, anamorphosis, and all the words you want, you are just in front of a hypnotic and evolutionary harmonic loop. Never the same never different, these ::surfaces are complex and multiples, but also absolutely enthralling.

Format :: digital
Location :: abdicate cell
Related :: shades of indian summer
Website :: Petr Drkula

Mr.Modular :: stepseq jams/revenge, at last

That's terrible my dear friends, but that's a fact "we only lend to rich persons" … The very young netlabel moov is … very very very fortunate. Inaugurated a few days ago, and based on an interesting concept of a coming release, each month (audio+video), the new project of our recent questionnaire guest, Max Marlow, have all good reasons to feel lucky, happy, beautiful (and in good health) with this first reference :: Mr.Modular - stepseq jams/revenge, at last
A very shaped sound, sharp and intelligent construction, 11 supra-seductive tracks dominated by titles with so promising names : "pattern group toogle", "happy raver", "scream your mighty filter" or the pure electronica gem "as they descent", :: stepseq jams/revenge, at last, announces some great references to come, and beautiful days … as rich people, we now will supervise our interests.

Format :: digital
Location :: moov

Sardinia Bass Legalize :: sardinia bass legalize

Mainly inspired by the Sardegna island landscapes, King Kietu and Sensitivedub (aka Sardinia Bass Legalize) are the authors of the splendid dub-soundtrack of a road movie, panoramic camera in overflight with a few centimetres above the ground.
Sometimes desertic with orientalism imprint, never arid, these 6 minimalist refinements of SBL are, mostly convincing than any tourism office booklet.

Format :: digital
Location :: aquietbump
Website :: Sardinia Bass Legalize

Website :: Sardegna tourism-office

ID (irish+DUFF) :: IDEP

Emulsion vs. Hybridization ? as in a course of chemistry, let's observe the fundamentals (with a "s")
It should be admitted that, finally, the explosion of this fabulous hybridization of abstract hiphop did not have happened… a great disappointment for all those which could see in there a true opportunity for a growing old electronica. Then, depressed, heartbreaking Lex-NinjaTune-Anticon amateurs have gone away to other unknown pleasures. Anyway, here are coming good news for these, they can come back to enjoy this perfect "emulsion" between the japanese mechanical and ultra-lyrical flow of Duff and the sophisticated arrangments of its compatriot, Irie Yoshihisa (aka IRISH).
Opening on a half success track "black sun swing" (a bit too hiphop over-produced) the ep is coming on very sensitive bleep conjunction ("cell") and "desire” will certainly see breaking down any resistance. "ツツマレテク" (tsutsumareteku) confirms a kind of quintessence of the incur emulsion. Funny how "love me" is giving us the choice between pure and sentimental feelings and mmh … other love ways. The ::ID ep is closing on a "bonus beats" which have some great difficulties in hide the melodic digression of which we know, that Irish is so fond of delicacies.
、紳士本当にありがとう

Format :: digital
Location :: flamingo generation
Blog :: Irish
Blog :: DUFF

Related :: Irish - the pretty album

Xedh :: Composition in red

- as a need to return to mental language
- d'abord il y a cette irrépressible envie de revenir au langage mental.
dédale de notes manuscrites diverses / pensées fugaces, vagues impressions initiales puis l'oubli instantané
- esta necesidad de volver de nuevo a mi lengua materna, a cada momento de confrontación a esta realización

the word is said - confrontation, or was it the other one, ambitious, from the (good) words of camomille presentation - ambitious … this terrible word, which sometimes exerts a repulsive fascination.
There is this amplitude, the density of a formal, un-narrative suggestion of reality filtered through the abstractive prism of Xedh composition, and these constant calls to break up, if you definitively refuse to look beyond.

Impassibility - la fuerza de la pasividad? as a "half" invitation to join in, Sara Paniagua introduces us, with an absolute skill, to 4 beautiful readings of the Miguel A. García vision. half invitation ? yes, as a refusal to any voyeurist intrusion, these videos seem to materialize a frontier between two concrete realities - one and main on the screen, as an initiatic advance, a reality highly transfigured through the combined presence of Anna Vila Serra costumes, reinforcing, at his best, this border (edge) between two worlds and another reality (duality) all populated by human ghost-tourists (whom strangely look like us) sauntering without apparent purpose.

::composition in red is undoubtedly a major work in the course of Xedh, as much as a premise mutation to new forms of exploration for a netculture and scene, removed from any format nostalgia.

* And finally, there is the glance of this woman who is posed intensely on you before she very slowly closes again the eyelids - ultimate introspective fold? Renouncement like an art...
* Et enfin, il y a le regard de cette femme qui se pose intensément sur vous avant qu'elle ne referme très lentement les paupières - ultime repli introspectif ? le renoncement comme un art …
* Y finalmente, hay la mirada de esta mujer que se plantea intensamente sobre ustedes antes de que vuelva a cerrar muy lentamente los párpados - último repliegue introspectivo? la renuncia como un arte …

*ref. video 1 / 03:40-03:55

Format :: digital / audio+video
Location :: camomille
Blog :: Xedh
Related :: rencloser ep
Related :: sort-zen
traducción española aproximada con los servicios de systran

Dissolved :: pyritized ray stories

Except the artwork, at the very least debatable, is it necessary to be ablaze to enjoy at their Just and valorous natural, this ray of the gold of insane and all these stories which they hawk ?
the answer is yes !
Yes, and if you are not used to give your unconditional feelings to generosity and luxuriance, you will probably have some reason to go away from this release, and why not also from these words … checked !

Format :: digital
Location :: retropublik
Website :: Dissolved

thanks to isc.cnrs for the "ablaze" translation

Stephen Walter :: monocline

Far from ::das interspects or ::recapulatory (both for Retropublik), far also from last year's collaboration with David Velez (::data transfer of Lezrod for zym.) is coming this album of Stephen Walter, a release inaugurating a "conceptual mutation" for the label of Modena. Yes, it should be said , through the "poeticlinical" camera objectives of Mario Aldovini, we were used to move in some botanical mental walks, looking sometimes to rare growing plants under the beneficent protection of glasshouses in form of jewel cases … Then now are coming the minerality times for zymogen (with a nice contribution of Laurent Batailley), and Stephen Walter is the first craftsman invited to this new approach on things.
Abstraction and cold fusion (by opposite to the traditional scheme) seem to be the main abjectives and qualities which come first on mind through ::monocline, and "new heart" which opens the release is a slow imersion in apparent traditional ambient soundscapes. Like a second layer with the general matter, “red shift”, which follows, reinforces this feeling of descriptive slow dematerialization. No time to come back (where?) , impresses with solemnity, "tone" invits us to go deeper. Then from now, one thing is certain, nobody will remain insensitive with the mostly impressive and enigmatic density of “green shift” opening a second phase, and introducing two "section ", where we cross some reminiscences of reality posed on a particularly emotional harmonic texture, delicately interweaving. "before you eyes" still plays with some emotional figures, as an overflight with telescopic glance. Then "rising" which is ending the netaudio, is a kind of revelation, the result of an introspective "emulsion" of senses and, from now, so far from any archaeological or sedimentary layers.

the first beautiful stone in a beautiful garden.

Format :: digital
Location :: zymogen

Doping Mozga :: echoes ep

It is through a becoming Third I, that re-appears this ::echoes ep of Doping Mozga and it is a pure winter delight. A delight all made of a coming "aurora borealis" sheeted in an evanescent worthy gleam, a delight which innocently takes you on board of a technoid temptation "minute space travel", a delight which unfortunately ends on a "mistake", vintage attitude. Once again, with a certain lightness of heart and pointed taste, Abdicate Cell confirms our interest and yours, we now hope

Format :: digital
Location :: abdicate cell
Blog :: Helly Cherry

Red Unit :: arrival

"arrival" which opens this new release of Red Unit, "resembles" a bit too much to the classic's Brian Eno, track "fractal zoom". Red Unit probably forgot to signal that it is about a "tribute" ...
Anyway, here are the reference of the original album ::

Artist :: Brian Eno
Title :: Nerve Net
Art and design :: Brian Eno & Wordsalad
Date of release :: 1992

Format :: cd
copyRights :: yes
Location :: all saints

Due to our relevant interest to rediscover the original, we finally have abandoned the idea and care to listen to the continuation of the Red Unit release.

Format :: digital
Location :: quiet lounge

Ohrchitekt :: klappe die zwote

it is impossible, nor moreover reasonable, to remain insensitive
more than a few seconds to the evolutive sound in building of Ohrchitekt,
you like or hate it immediately … we have chosen

Format :: digital
Location :: pharmacom records
Website :: Ohrchitekt

ascalaphe :: home trips

is "bleeding minarets" one of the most important track of these strange times ?

Awakening or societal report, :: home trips is an album which, by evidence, goes beyond the only musical medium and it is quite comforting to imagine the positive consequences of the reflexions caused by such release.

Format :: digital
Location :: kreislauf label
Website :: fdbf
the questionnaire :: Fred Debief