- mit 1,6 Millionen Besuchern.
- Bei teils strömendem Regen. Im Pott.

Und Paul van Dyk der einzige bezahlte DJ.
(*laut von Dj Hell)

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Artist: Ludovic
album: pop
tracks: 5
location: deeplimit
genre: IMHO, glitch, clicks, deep, dub, minimal, micro, techno, deeplimit, 2008
rating: 80/100

pick :

Ludovic - dot pop

note to myself: Someone is tricking you with the “Pop”ular genre here. Clicks, static dry drums and dubby basslines are maybe popular among a few hardliners in the techno genre, and i’d agree that a lot of musicians and electronic explorers have been playing around with these effects in the last months (and years), but there have been more exciting and popular ones.

You’ve got to have some patience to find the little beauty given in this release. Maybe i just did not succeed proper yet.

‘click pop’ may be a great track if it just didnt hit these cut up samples ALLOVER the track and if it had just half the current length. also if that ‘give me some pop’ track wouldn’t have kicked in the drum again at around 7:40 it would have lost itself. in fact everything after that timestamp is the only reason to give it 3 of 5 stars in my itunes. it is one ultimate example that dj tracks (if this is one) do not work at home, especially if they don’t do anything beautiful for you within almost 12 minutes. Perhaps it is a good wakeup track. I mean in bed, not in the club!

I am very disappointed to find, that ‘deeplimit’ is more about really depressing music than about deep techno.

Dass die Grenzen vom Creative Commons irgendwo zwischen Blogs mit und ohne Werbung bereits leicht zu verschwimmen beginnen hatten wir bereits 2007 auf dem Netaudiofestival in der Diskussionsrunde erhitzt diskutierend festgestellt. Schwieriger als ein einzelner Weblog mit Bezahlanzeigen dürfte werden, was ich gerade aus den Kommentaren bei http://www.idealtechno.de gefischt habe:

Im Kommentar #83 kündigt ‘Fano’ dort an:

Der Sommer ist endlich wieder da und nun stehen auch die ersten Termine in der neuen Netlabel-Bar fest. Am 14. Juni macht der breipott in der Skalitzerstr 81 das erste mal auf und am 20. Juni gibts dort den Netaudio-Freitag!

Nicht nur, dass der Streit via ‘GEMA-Klausel’ schon vorprogrammiert ist, da die Vertreter der GEMA mit einer vorbeugenden Annahmeregelung die Beweisführung von Aufführenden einfordern kann, dass diese explizit keine von der GEMA vertretenen Werke aufführen, nein… überdies hinaus stellt diese Benutzung eine Kraftprobe für die Umsetzung des Creative Commons dar.

Wenn in einem Restaurant/einer Bar Werke unabgesprochen aufgeführt werden sollten und diese nunmal eindeutig den Verkauf von anderen Produkten unterstützen ist dies eine nicht vom CC abgedeckte kommerzielle Nutzung. Wer jedoch meldet diese Rechtsverletzung und wie soll eine Instanz aufgebaut sein, die zwischen rechtmäßiger Absprache (gültige, über die allgemeine Lizensierung hinausgehende vertragliche Vereinbarung zwischen Betreiber und Label) und unrechtmäßiger Nutzung noch unterscheiden soll, zu schweigen von der reinen GEMA/CC Unterscheidung.

Abgesehen davon, dass hier lediglich Netlabel-Bar als Begriff verwendet wird und keineswegs Creative Commons, und als Aufführungstag vorläufig lediglich ein Freitag angekündigt ist (an dem völlig legal abgesprochen, neben der GEMA Pauschale vertraglich abgesichertes Material abgespielt werden könnte) - die Grenze zwischen Anspruch und Umsetzungsmöglichkeit über den Protest gegen die Handhabung der Musikwirtschaft hinaus könnte kaum deutlich schmaler werden.

Hoffen wir, dass niemand drüber fällt!

Quelle

PS: Ob ‘Breipott’ als Name einer Bar taugt wird sich wohl ebenfalls beweisen müssen. Die Grenzen in Sachen Geschmack werden jedenfalls auch dabei nicht unbedingt nach oben definiert.

This is great in like every sense.
Possibly Buenos Aires.

http://www.blublu.org

Artist: Majorcat
album: deep limit EP
tracks: 2
location: deeplimit
genre: ambient, clicks, deep, dub, glitch, techno
rating: 80/100

picks :

Majorcat - biosphere

note to myself: When i stumbled upon this Deeplimit netlabel and read their description i really had some great hope that their releases may fit to the given text. Admittedly the label seems more like just another microtechno (aka pseudo minimal) one.
However, this Majorcat release, their number one release from 2007, is quite deep in certain areas.

When yesterday i surfed to the myspace profile of Herbie Hancock i found that neat idea of internet startup “eventful”. Though i’m not yet sure if “demanding it” will lead to local entertainment, but i assume thats still useful in a few ways.

Last.fm runs a quite similar service where you enter an Artist and a location to see whats going on. However, eventful.com’s “demand it” does show you more about what people would like to have in your area - assumed that they are surfing the internet and not outside at a party. If you think that is quite a neat idea - don’t swallow it too fast… there’s still plenty of people out there that don’t want to register at a website to show some interest for a few things - and registration is a logical step for “demand it” to prevent the greater abusement.

Demand it! is suggesting where your IP comes from and such showing you what people in your area want.

And well… once again i see that i should move to France. Not only 50% of my beloved artists are from there, they’re also ‘demanded’ in France. Like Herbie Hancock. As an electronic music lover…. its very interesting to see Poland right behind France and UK, underscoring my feeling of a rising quality from there in the last few years. Somehow i’m sure that at a certain point i’ll visit a polish music festival.. in poland.

“15 People demand Herbie Hancock, Dresden Germany”
“10 People demand Herbie Hancock, Berlin Germany”

i’m not exactly sure if that should be taken any serious. It’s perhaps really a way for ‘lost locations’ who have a serious will to get a certain artist to their place. I’ll watch that website for a while.

creepy:

191 demands: Uh Huh Her - Berlin, Germany (started 311 days ago)
155 demands: Backstreet Boys - Berlin, Germany (started 227 days ago)
124 demands: The Cure - Berlin, Germany (started 464 days ago)
123 demands: Porcupine Tree - Berlin, Germany (started 273 days ago)
116 demands: Tech N9ne - Berlin, Germany (started 613 days ago)
112 demands: Incubus - Berlin, Germany (started 225 days ago)
87 demands: Mudvayne - Berlin, Germany (609 days ago)
87 demands: Barack Obama - Berlin, Germany (347 days ago)
77 demands: lacrimosa - Berlin, Germany (191 days ago)
72 demands: 50 Cent - Berlin, Germany (445 days ago)

….well… i’m NOT taking it too serious. there’s a huge difference between the people voting here and those on the party out there, yet …. you may DEMAND IT!

Until now the link section for labels has been kind of a personal catalogue for weblabels. Choices for too many and very different reasons. It has also not been updated for ages (Subsource was still in there) and i felt i should do so - in a more consequent way.
As a result the labels linked will have at least one 80+ ranked review on this website from now on or at least a currently featured track on the netbeat player.

Hopefully that will serve somebody a better internet experience.

soeben aus dem Newsletter gefischt:

[..] beschallt den Floor mit treibendem Minimal, sowohl technoider, als auch housiger Ausprägung. Hochenergetischer, sweißtreibender Peaktime Sound zeichnet seine Sets ebenso aus, wie detailverliebte Deepness [..]

Fällt jemandem was auf ? Das tribed einem ganz minimale Sweißperlen aus den Augen.

Artist: Iambic²
album: as the snow fell
tracks: 11
location: Laridae
genre: ambient, contempory classic, electronica, pop, post-rock
rating: 91/100

picks :

Iambic² - close of day
Iambic² - when father cries
Iambic² - december shadows
Iambic² - sleep cycle
Iambic² - dust below ground
Iambic² - it snowed the way we died

note to myself:

First off: I took my time with this album. I have listened lots of times to i and probably it’s some of the best stuff you’ll ever get for free. If Iambic² may give a concert in my town i’ll absolutely get there, no doubt. This album, IMHO not better but equal to the first, is probably everything you may wish for. The production is that clean … it almost makes me sick. Whoever recorded and mastered this… its a work of a genius, because its making better whats already good. Seriously. The Recording and Mastering is beyond whatever you thought or said about netaudio (AND dude, Laridae does not go round and tells everybody that they have a fucking good mastering, like Plex or alikes!) It works on bullshit stereo as well as on High Definition Surround - i mean a CINEASTIC surround - not your gamecube!
Also, this is very much nailing what popmusic is about these days. Somewhere beyond the rotten stories of alternative rock, introducing classic elements among a good portion electronic tools - in a good way! Dreamscapes through nice strings and reverb. Post-Rock where its at. This is no dead area. Even the voices will make you want to sink into your stereo! Really.

Now. Why does it have a rating lower than the maximum ? Because i’m a fucking audio-fascist, and there are things bugging me with the first 3 tracks as well as with 7 and 9, kind of minimal repetition (neither droning nor trancing, they’re just on repeat where i wish they would go away (i.e. the organ + drum in night-13) to make place for something else), which annoys me, even though the general sound approach is exactly what i want! i dont know, seriously… i’m almost sorry. However… there are plenty of folks out there who will love these as they are! the tracks i picked for you off this album will hardly be beaten by anything in relation with netaudio in the near future. stay tuned with Iambic² ! get some fucking support together, because this is the shit. Not the Radiohead-freebies.