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[Toma]

I don't know if I'm allowed to say : (

Ooookay. I dont want to get you into trouble. But could you ask whoever is responsible for that blog about sharing links between the blogs if his blog is also about unknown music? My blog is linked multiple times here to check it out for him, just get back to me via pm or mail.

Needed to ask, sorry, need every attention I can get

Current link again for the new page:

Rigoletto - Prodigal again (EP)
http://wasfuersohr.blogspot.com/2011/08/rigoletto-2011-prodigal-again-for-free.html

 

[Toma]

Lucky Penny (Indie Folk Pop)

http://wasfuersohr.blogspot.com/2011/08/lucky-penny-2011-lucky-penny-for-free.html

I really, really like the way the singer of song 1,3 and 4 uses her voice. Her way of singing is mesmerizing, even though I wasn't actually in the mood for these kind of songs.

 

[Toma]

Oh and btw, I have currently about 42 hours of music on my mp3 player almost no one ever heard about. That thought is sorta crazy. No idea how to get all of this out to people. If you want to help by writing reviews (or Interviews), hook me up with a message here or the using the mail on my blog.

 

[Toma]

Finally found someone to help out with reviews for my blog Gabbo to the rescue, so to say.
He was especially fond of "Ektoise", featured in the Mailbag section a while ago, which is why this band finally got their (well-deserved) full review:

Ektoise - Kiyomizu (Alternative/ Ambient/ Electronica)

http://wasfuersohr.blogspot.com/2011/08/ektoise-2011-kiyomizu-for-free-ambient.html

Really well made music.

 

[Toma]

We also got mail that Ektoise are working on live video performances, will be posted as soon as we get them

 

[Toma]

New band!

Soccermom - EP

http://wasfuersohr.blogspot.com/2011/08/soccermom-2011-soccermom-ep-for-free.html

Pure, feel good Indie Pop.

 

[thcsquad]

I Come To Shanghai - nice indie rock album you can download for free or name your price.

Couple of recent experimental albums by Omar Rodriguez Lopez that you can download for free (or donate any amount if you wish);

Omar Rodriguez Quartet - Sepulcros de Miel - weird electronic jazz/funk/rock fusion

Omar Rodriguez Lopez & John Frusciante - electronic ambient music with soaring, layered guitar tracks

In case anybody doesn't know, Omar Rodriguez Lopez is one of the guys from the Mars Volta.

 

[Cosmic Bus]

A couple of fun little '80s-style synthpop albums from Model Worker:

Modern Luxury
Squares and Triangles

Not indie, but R&B performer and producer The-Dream released a free album yesterday:

1977

 

[Toma]

Another instrumental music album, but this time classic instrumental (piano, violin...). Really like it.

Ruben Lozano - Banda Sonora

http://wasfuersohr.blogspot.com/2011/09/ruben-lozano-2011-banda-sonora-for-free.html

 

[TCRS]

You can download all seventeen Jane Siberry albums from her website:

http://www.janesiberry.com/home/music.html

Her most famous song I suppose:

Calling All Angels

 

[Toma]

Cute little Indie Pop project from Sweden:

Sweet Water Pirates

http://wasfuersohr.blogspot.com/2011/09/sweet-water-pirates-2009-swedish-music.html

 

[Toma]

Jazz Funeral:

http://wasfuersohr.blogspot.com/2011/09/jazz-funeral-2011-jazz-funeral-for-free.html

Especially like the instrumentation in this one.

 

[Brobzoid]

great thread. posting in support.

 

[gabbo]

Jazz Funeral:

http://wasfuersohr.blogspot.com/2011/09/jazz-funeral-2011-jazz-funeral-for-free.html

Especially like the instrumentation in this one.

I couldn't have put it better myself

 

[Toma]

The TV People

http://wasfuersohr.blogspot.com/2011/09/tv-people-2011-tv-people-for-free.html

Something that wasnt present on the blog so far at all, time for some Industrial Noise today.

 

[gabbo]

The TV People

http://tvpeople.bandcamp.com/

Something that wasnt present on the blog so far at all, time for some Industrial Noise today.

I still can't find out what that sample was, and it drove me nuts for a good hour scouring.

And while this isn't up for review, yet, Suspense Machine's An Empty Sky Ep is quite excellent and i'd recommend it anyone with a passing interest in progressive rock or bands fronted by female singers. Absolutely beautiful voice.

 

[Nappuccino]

I did a ctrl+f for this and found nothing- its a bit older so my apologies

Decomposure: Primarily electronic / rap music but a little scatter shot and awesome.

Humanity Patent Guide

Most of the sound comes from cheap mp3 players, cassettes and dictaphones to keep things portable, so it's definitely pretty lo-fi. i've long been thinking of it as a kind of parenthetical album or tangential EP, even though it breaks the 50-minute mark and i've spent more time in it than some other albums. It still feels like an album made 'for fun', window-shopping through folk, abstract rap, noise, electronic, piano pop, ambient, spoken word, industrial, chants, field recordings, and whatever else you call the stuff between them, but it's also more than 'for fun'. i don't know - i don't have enough distance to properly frame it; i know the fabric and stitching intimately but don't know what it amounts to yet.

Verticle Lines A

Decomposure (spare time musician/art guy Caleb Mueller) followed his average day around to capture and preserve its unique sound signature that would otherwise have simply evaporated. Over the course of the year following that recorded day, he worked through a detailed process of digitally deconstructing each hour-long slur of sound into hundreds of individual clicks and thumps and pings. Then he built songs from them. Or song-ish things, anyway.

...bright harmonic pop refracts through bristling drill'n'bass, handcrafted electrofunk bumps up against epic abstract glitch-hop, cavernous acoustic meditation shares a table with field recordings and jittery dancehall. Of course, shifting across genre lines this restlessly could just as easily disintegrate into unfocused mush, and it does. Or wait, no, Decomposure manages to patch the elements together by anchoring them to crisp, unvarnished vocals and the precise punctuation of his careful beat orchestration.

example:
http://www.blanksquirrel.com/samples/vla_01.mp3
http://www.blanksquirrel.com/samples/vla_02.mp3

The others are on the same site and I'll let you track those down if you remain interested

 

[Toma]

Hey thanks for posting these! I'll listen to them as soon as I can Right now I dont exactly have time for it, but I will.

New musician from me as well, rather easy to listen to pop rock this time:

Ben Seaward - 2011 - A Matter Of Moments

http://wasfuersohr.blogspot.com/2011/09/ben-seaward-2011-matter-of-moments-for.html

 

[Nappuccino]

If you don't have too much free time to devote to them, I'd recommend not grabbing Humanity Patent Guide- its one 50 min track.

His other albums are more standard 3-7 min song fair.

 

[zeeaykay]

I just wanted to thank the OP for this thread. I haven't listened to a lot of the stuff yet, but I've listened to all of your 5 star rated albums and they're all great. Exit Island and Mystery Schools especially are incredible. If you like good music, you need to check these out!

 

[gabbo]

I just wanted to thank the OP for this thread. I haven't listened to a lot of the stuff yet, but I've listened to all of your 5 star rated albums and they're all great. Exit Island and Mystery Schools especially are incredible. If you like good music, you need to check these out!

Don't stick with just the 5-star albums. 3-4's are some damn good finds as well.

 

[Toma]

Don't stick with just the 5-star albums. 3-4's are some damn good finds as well.

Indeed. If you are through with 5*, take a look at 3 and 4. They are more a matter of personal taste I guess but many 4* albums are still some of my favorite stuff on the blog.

 

[gabbo]

Indeed. If you are through with 5*, take a look at 3 and 4. They are more a matter of personal taste I guess but many 4* albums are still some of my favorite stuff on the blog.

That and the rating system isn't based solely on reviewer opinion.

 

[Zizbuka]

Anyone familiar with King Swamp or The Badlees? I love both groups, any indies with similar sounds?

Not sure what genre they are, "it's all rock 'n roll to me"

I guess maybe they'd be a southern/folk rock maybe?

 

[Toma]

New review up! Another genre we havent covered so far: Trance.

Tropolis - Above the Struggle

http://wasfuersohr.blogspot.com/2011/09/tropolis-2011-above-struggle-for-free.html

 

[gabbo]

New review up! Another genre we havent covered so far: Trance.

Tropolis - Above the Struggle

http://wasfuersohr.blogspot.com/2011/09/tropolis-2011-above-struggle-for-free.html

And it was worth every mb of bandwidth to cover it. Great stuff.
can't say I've heard of either of those Zizbuka. Any chance you can find a couple favs on youtube, so I can give 'em a shot?

 

[Zizbuka]

Badlees: Fear of Falling video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NLIAVMDtu4

King Swamp: Is This Love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGGD-u3ks-0

 

[Toma]

Extremely catchy "haunted" Synthpop:

Synthcake - Musicophilia

http://wasfuersohr.blogspot.com/2011/09/synthcake-2011-musicophilia-for-free.html

Absolutely lovely. Definitely check them out.

 

[gabbo]

Extremely catchy "haunted" Synthpop:

Synthcake - Musicophilia

http://wasfuersohr.blogspot.com/2011/09/synthcake-2011-musicophilia-for-free.html

Absolutely lovely. Definitely check them out.

Finally got around to listening to this after wrapping my head around Emily Henry. I agree with the 'Repo!' comment. This certainly has that twisted, bouncy vibe that a lot of its songs did.

 

[Toma]

Gravy Indie Union:

http://wasfuersohr.blogspot.com/2011/09/gravy-indie-union-2011-out-for-lunch.html

Catchy, I wish I understood what they are singing though

 

[Franklinator]

The Milk Carton Kids, a really great acoustic duo, has both of their albums as a free download on their website:

http://www.themilkcartonkids.com/

 

[kid ness]

Hey guys, I run a music blog with a section specifically called Great Free Music that some of you might be interested in. It's all legal and offered by the artists themselves for free, mostly on sites like bandcamp. Most of the stuff I post falls within the genres of hip hop, soul, funk, electronic, chillout, etc. Here's one of my favorite free albums recently released by Cult Classic Records: http://tenmillionsounds.com/2011/09/cult-classic-records-friends-family/

It's mostly instrumental, jazzy hip hop that's perfect to relax with. The guy who started the label was originally just a YouTube uploader who got a huge following and eventually started the label with a producer who he promoted a lot on his channel.. crazy huh?

 

[NotTheGuyYouKill]

Has the ††† (Crosses) EP been posted? You can download it for free off of their site:

http://www.crossesmusic.com/

 

[gabbo]

Hey guys, I run a music blog with a section specifically called Great Free Music that some of you might be interested in. It's all legal and offered by the artists themselves for free, mostly on sites like bandcamp. Most of the stuff I post falls within the genres of hip hop, soul, funk, electronic, chillout, etc. Here's one of my favorite free albums recently released by Cult Classic Records: http://tenmillionsounds.com/2011/09/cult-classic-records-friends-family/

It's mostly instrumental, jazzy hip hop that's perfect to relax with. The guy who started the label was originally just a YouTube uploader who got a huge following and eventually started the label with a producer who he promoted a lot on his channel.. crazy huh?

Finding interesting/enjoyable hip-hop has been something I've tried to do recently, to little effect. Our crawling of bandcamp doesn't come up with much in this area worth listening to. I'll definitely give it a look.

Has the ††† (Crosses) EP been posted? You can download it for free off of their site:

http://www.crossesmusic.com/

Posted it in the... August W,YLT? thread. It's interesting, not what I expected.

 

[kid ness]

Finding interesting/enjoyable hip-hop has been something I've tried to do recently, to little effect. Our crawling of bandcamp doesn't come up with much in this area worth listening to. I'll definitely give it a look.

Thanks man, I appreciate it. If you're into Nujabes style of stuff or underground hip hop, I'd definitely check out the channel of the guy I mentioned, Bob42jh. He has hundreds of great hip hop videos, I found his channel a few months ago through GAF, and I've been checking it regularly since.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Bob42jh
Here's one I just found that's already one of my favorites.
CL - Catch A Vibe

 

[Toma]

"Noisier" music today, with an awesomely trippy album cover:

benzolnye mertvecy

http://wasfuersohr.blogspot.com/2011/09/benzolnye-mertvecy-2010-soot-for-free.html

 

[Toma]

Whitebrow - 2011 - All's Still Before the Storm

http://wasfuersohr.blogspot.com/2011/10/whitebrow-2011-alls-still-before-storm.html

Singer songwriter Folk Pop, something easy going after the last posts

 

[gabbo]

I went out of my way to listen to something very similar after so much noise and techno in a row.
Will be giving that a go while I find something standout to write up.

 

[Toma]

I went out of my way to listen to something very similar after so much noise and techno in a row.
Will be giving that a go while I find something standout to write up.

Same reason. Most people tend to like the easier on the ears stuff anyway. But its really nice to have some variety.

 

[Hop]

First post in this month's listening thread is a freebie.

 

[fart town usa]

Town Portal

Friends band from Denmark

Instrumental post rock, really good stuff. Free to download, just add 0.00 for a price.

 

[gabbo]

Town Portal

Friends band from Denmark

Instrumental post rock, really good stuff. Free to download, just add 0.00 for a price.

I've actually been listening to this for about a week or so as possible review material. It's good stuff.
Did not expect to see them come up from someone besides Toma or I.

 

[Toma]

Suspense Machine

http://wasfuersohr.blogspot.com/2011/10/suspense-machine-2011-empty-sky-ep-for.html

Progressive Rock with female lead.

 

[gabbo]

Suspense Machine

http://wasfuersohr.blogspot.com/2011/10/suspense-machine-2011-empty-sky-ep-for.html

Progressive Rock with female lead.

This one of my favourite finds so far to be honest. Was hard to write up, but worth the listening.

 

[Toma]

Holy Mount - 2011 - We Fell From The Sky

http://wasfuersohr.blogspot.com/2011/10/holy-mount-2011-we-fell-from-sky-for.html

New album! Havent actually listened to it yet because I have some serious Internet issues, but it has been recommended by Gabbo so I'll give it a go later

 

[gabbo]

I swear I was going to post a review later today .
I guess when we get the Wing Dam interview done with I'll do a double whammy and post both.

Also, Holy Mount - Not a Jodorowsky film soundtrack (kinda sadly I suppose), but really good space rock to let your mind roam free for a while.

 

[Toma]

I swear I was going to post a review later today .
I guess when we get the Wing Dam interview done with I'll do a double whammy and post both.

Also, Holy Mount - Not a Jodorowsky film soundtrack (kinda sadly I suppose), but really good space rock to let your mind roam free for a while.

I just posted it so you can prepare the interview to publish soon I think most people will check only the newest entry once in a while, so doing 2 at once would rather lead to one blog entry going unnoticed. Hope you didnt mind too much.

Anyway, here it goes:

Wing Dam - Wing Dam

http://wasfuersohr.blogspot.com/2011/10/wing-dam-2011-wing-dam-for-free-indie.html

 

[gabbo]

I just posted it so you can prepare the interview to publish soon I think most people will check only the newest entry once in a while, so doing 2 at once would rather lead to one blog entry going unnoticed. Hope you didnt mind too much.

Anyway, here it goes:

Wing Dam - Wing Dam
http://f.bandcamp.com/z/11/26/1126176265-1.jpg[IMG]
[URL="http://wasfuersohr.blogspot.com/2011/10/wing-dam-2011-wing-dam-for-free-indie.html"]http://wasfuersohr.blogspot.com/2011/10/wing-dam-2011-wing-dam-for-free-indie.html[/URL][/QUOTE]
It's all good, especially the music ;)

 

[Toma]

Sooo, new album, which I am especially fond of. With the most horrendous cover art I ever saw for an album I liked.

General B and the Wiz - General B and the Wiz

http://wasfuersohr.blogspot.com/2011/10/general-b-and-wiz-2011-general-b-and.html

Blues Rock, which just might have been a true classic if released a few years earlier.

 

[Toma]

The more I look at the cover art... the more I ask myself why they did that. I mean who actually thought that this would be a good "representation" of their music?

Is it also the same for you guys, that cover art somewhat shapes expectations? How does that influence your enjoyment of the music?

For example I had a guy earlier who just had himself on the cover and his muscles. I though okaaaaay, listened to it and couldnt imagine that guy singing that song. It was totally weird. It also didnt help that his second song had screechingly high shouted line "It feels so hot in my pants"

So, so awkward. At least use appropriate album covers people.