I Space // Janne Hanhisuanto

Finnish composer of ambient and modern classical music Janne Hanhisuanto has released at least eight albums over the past five years.



In 2011 Lithuanian label Cold Tear Records has released his album of space music and modern classical I Space.



You may download a Creative Commons version from the Internet Archive.

Roots // Tenonaki

Tech Trance

Tenonaki is not exactly a newcomer to the music industry. The album Roots joins eight tracks produced between 1998 and 2006 by Marco Köller. Köller has been active since 1996, making techno and trance music under various labels including New Age Hippies, Blanche and Smooth. This album is his way of paying tribute to the early techno music, dating back to 1988/89 when he started deejaying.

The music filed under tech trance on the release page at Ektoplazm. I am unable to confirm this special style tag - to me it is electronic, trance-y, technoid, hard yet pleasing to my ears. So why should I care what it is called.

It reminds me of the X-102 classic Discover the Rings of Saturn which is high praise indeed as this album is one of my favorite albums in modern electronic music and was created by the kings of the Detroit school, Jeff Mills, Mike Banks and Robert Hood.

But when I say it reminds me I don't you to think that they sound alike. There are major differences. X-102 is Detroit house with a spacy twist, Tenonaki is Cologne techno with cold trance thrown in for good measures. 

Download

It was released in three formats via Ektoplazm.

MP3 Download
FLAC Download
WAV Download

Links

Cyan Music
Ektoplazm
Creative Commons

If you like it, rate it here:
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Discogs

The Rise and Fall of Cosmic Empires // Professor Blood

Professor Blood

Andrea Gherardi is an Italian music producer from Bruxelles. That's at least what he writes on his Facebook page. Or from Piacenza.

The Rise and Fall of Cosmic Empires

He released his first EP on May 22, 2012 via Jamendo. It's a science-fiction themed concept album (if you will) on the First Solar Wars - whatever they might be.

Above all these five tracks a pretty straight forward electronic dance tracks, the last one - Removal From Office - being a bonus track without any connection to the First Solar Wars. Beat-driven techno with the occasional and very light dubstep influence. Very nice, very listenable, almost very good.

I look forward to his next release…

The Rise and Fall of Cosmic Empires on Jamendo

Royalty-free music for professional licensing

Professor Blood on…
Facebook
Jamendo

Halo Effect: the Early Years

As a fan of pretty much all music that is electronic and a bit beyond the main stream of the public world, and a fan of databasing, it was fun to look out for official downloads of the earliest releases from Italian synth-pop band Halo Effect.

Founded in 2001 by the Italians John Andrew Peverieri, Alessandro Polinori and Federico Rosi, joined in 2003 by Marco Cattani, they have made their way from self-released demos and eEPs, to their first two albums released through online download stores and renowned netlabels to the point where finally their next album will be released later this year (as it appears) to hardcopy (that's a CD for you).

But where to find the first releases from the earlier years? Two demos, a live release and an EP. On MySpace, they say. But finding those links is a bitch, as they are hidden within the blog, dating back to July 16^th, 2008. And their blog has seen much more activity than mine ever has.

So, here is the blog entry: OLD DEMO: free download!!!

And since MySpace blocks the links to the downloads, here are the four official and thus perfectly legal download links:

Past Continuous
Days of Silence
Rome Effect
Schwarz EP

Links
Halo Effect MySpace
Halo Effect Rate Your Music
Halo Effect Discogs
Halo Effect MusicBrainz

Dom i Nacija // Umilenie

Today's entry is a simply promotion for an Argentinian artist called Umilenie. A modern instrumental electropop project of Luciano Quiroga aka DJ Null who also operates the releasing netlabel NullRepublik Records, the first album collects tracks from several years before it was released May 2009.

The title is a continuing play of words that takes the Macedonian/Serbian homonymic play on доминациjа and дом и нациjа that translate as domination and home and nation (or dominacion and hogar y nacion in Castillian Spanish). It's a Romanized transliteration of Home and Nation...



You may download this album from the Internet Archive.

Links
Umilenie Official Website
NullRepublik Records Argentina (netlabel)

Dead Market // Haujobb

And while we're at it, within an hour a second post.

While I was surfing on Facebook I found a comment by VNV Nation on Haujobb.

Upon reading it and following the links I came about the great news that Haujobb has finally went back to the studio (well, under the moniker Haujobb anyways) and will release on June 17^th the ep Dead Market (via BandCamp).

Go get it, Tigers!

Links
Haujobb Official Website
bandcamp : Haujobb

Red Flag: Communism // Проект: Распатор

Well, it has been more than a year since my last entry and you wouldn't have been the only one to think it was dead (yes, I meant you, my non-existant reader) but here we are, back...

While it isn't exactly the main reason for this comeback, my discovery that I want to share with you is as good as many subjects to write about. Some may seem more important in the scheme of things but we need circuses as much as we need bread.

For quite some time now I have discovered the delights of... no, not the Mirror of Erised... no, of legal music downloads. What are the Creative Commons for, eh?

At the moment Jamendo and the Internet Archive are my primary addresses. And now I'v come upon a Jamendo release that I've finally uploaded to the Internet Archive.

Проект: Распатор (aka The Project: Raspatory, or simply Raspatory) is a Russian techno-industrial project created in late 2008 by Andrej Tereshhenko. After a months-long break Andrej started writing again and in January 2010 released his album Red Flag: Communism on Jamendo.

Unfortunately, for reasons unknown, this album has since been removed from Jamendo, so I've decided to upload the album to the Internet Archive as it was released under a Creative Commons license.



You can download all MP3 files from the Internet Archive for your listening pleasure.