D/B Recommended: ANTIVJ visual label
ANTIVJ is a visual label initiated by a group of European artists whose work is focused on the use of projected light and its influence on our perception. Clearly stepping away from standard setups & techniques, AntiVJ presents live performances and installations, providing to the audience a senses challenging experience. Awesome visual works.
D/B Artist feature: Ben Butler & Mousepad & DJ set @ SCOTTRONICS
Ben Butler & Mouse Pad is Joe Gay vs You/Germlin’s new project. Anyone exposed to the furious shake & pop of pixelated DIY dance fury from either act should expect excellence. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Joe Howe aka. Ben Butler & Mousepad (DJ) has confirmed his participation in SCOTTRONICS. Joe will kick [...]
D/B Artist Feature: Hubert Daviz & Free download | A Romanian Jazz Mix
Hubert Daviz was born in 1981 near Timisoara, Romania (not far from the place where the author was born). [Audio clip: view full post to listen] At the age of 5 he moved to Germany where he caught the hip-hop bug as a teenager. Today he lives in Cologne where he started making beats in [...]
D/B Artist Feature: KOM
KOM is a new post/rock Band from Germany and our secret tip. If you like bands like Then Notwist, Explosions in the Sky & Cougar you will like KOM too. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] They are similar but have found their own style to arrange indie-rock sounds. Minimalist post-rock, sometimes with vocals [...]
D/B artist feature: Solex
Elisabeth Esselink aka Solex was without a doubt a firm favourite of the great John Peel, with no less than 6 Peel sessions to her credit.‘ [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Her new record Amsterdam Throwdown King Street Showdown may be a collaboration with Jon Spencer (Blues Explosion) and Cristina Martinez (Boss Hog) [...]
D/B Artist Feature: Tunng | Live in Berlin @ Festsaal Kreuzberg / 23.04.2010
Tunng are an experimental folk band from the United Kingdom. The band is often associated with the Folktronica genre due to the electronic influences evident in some of their work. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Tunng are often noted for their use of strange instruments, including sea shells. They supported Doves on dates [...]
D/B Artist Feature: Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson
Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson are a young and excellent postrock Band from Oslo/Norway. D/B highly recommended, not only for postrock fans. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson came to be when a group of four classmates Morten (drums), Gjermund (guitar), Torbjørn (guitar) and Audun (bass) at the Bodø [...]
D/B Artist Feature: Lee Fields & The Expressions
Lee Fields is a bona-fide, unadulterated, pure, gut-bucket soul singer. While the crate-digging funk and soul community bestowed “legendary” status upon him due to his undeniably solid series of rare 7″ singles recorded and released on his own labels in the 70s, he’s never been one to sit in a dusty corner. [Audio clip: view [...]
D/B Artist Feature: eLan
eLan is an another superb producer from San Diego, United States. His cool synth sounds are a musical journey rooted in Funk, Boogie, Down- and Instrumental Beats. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] You can Download his latest Album famLay free on his MySpace site. Highly recommended. You heard it first here.
D/B Artist Feature: ASURA
The inaugural Non Projects release is the debut multi-genre album by Los Angeles resident Ryan York. An album of pure emotion and evocative powers, Asura plays out like a continuous movie for the mind. Brand new and D/B highly Recommended. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Complete with neck snapping beats and snaky synth [...]
D/B News: Joanna Newsom | New Album “Have One on Me” and first Song streaming on Drag City + US Tour Dates
Joanna Newsom’s new album “Have One On Me” will be released by Drag City on February 23. Drag City streaming already ‘81′ from Newsom’s new triple album, Have One on Me. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Joanna Newsom is an American harpist, pianist, and singer-songwriter from Nevada, California. Newsom was first taught to [...]
D/B Artist Feature: The Books
The Books are an American experimental music duo founded in New York City in 1999, consisting of guitarist and vocalist Nick Zammuto and cellist Paul de Jong. Their music is a mix of electronica, folk, and acoustic music, incorporating samples of sounds, speech and music. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] They have released [...]
D/B Artist Feature: BIBIO
Stephen Wilkinson aka. Bibio, is a British music producer. I know this guy for a long time now (since his first release actually), but I think after his two excellent releases last year on Warp he became very well known. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] A resident of the West Midlands, England, Stephen [...]
D/B Artist Feature: DYNOOO | Gum Dragon EP & Video EPK
Gent-based producer and Mac Fly owner Dynooo will release his debut Gum Dragon EP in collaboration with new Belgian label Digsville. Brand new & highly recommended! [Audio clip: view full post to listen] 12″ vinyl / cd & digital / out on Digsville/Mac Fly soon.
D/B Artist Feature: Nite Jewel | New Stones Throw Podcast 54
Nite Jewel is the performing moniker of Ramona Gonzalez. She is a composer, songwriter, and multimedia artist from Los Angeles, California, where she has exhibited a number of video and sound installation pieces. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] A recent sound installation entitled “The Question Concerning Technology” has been transcribed to traditional notation [...]
D/B Artist Feature: Jerome Faria + Hugo Olim @ the MADEIRADIG Festival 2009
Great performance at the MADEIRADIG of the two young local artist Jeroma Faria and the visual artist Hugo Olim. hugo olim was born in madeira island, portugal. he works in the field of visual arts, especially with the medium video and photography. the aim of his work is to explore the different nature of images [...]
D/B Artist Feature: Johann Johannsson
Jóhann Jóhannsson has been called by critics “Iceland’s foremost genre-crossing multi-instrumentalist” (Irish Times), “one of the bright lights in the already talent rich Icelandic underground music scene” (Aquarius Records), “the most compelling composer working today”, and “An important figure in Iceland’s new music scene at the turn of the millennium”. (All Music Guide). Amazing and [...]
D/B Artist Feature: new century classics
The postrock band new century classics was formed in may 2006 by a group of friends and refugees from various parts of the world, centered around a mutual love of good music and the desire to fill their time and their hands with as many instruments as possible. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] [...]
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The MADEIRADIG Festival 2010
3-6.12.2010 | Madeira Island
From Beats, Wonky, Glitch and Downbeat to advanced Hip Hop, we present you extraordinary producers from around the world.
Live laptop concerts featuring contemporary new atmospheric sound scapes and field-recordings.
