Karmuazine - "Between the Lines"

Classy trip-hop offering (8/10) The new magic stories with a unique atmosphere of colorful Karmuazine's music. This a classy trip-hop offering. Great female vocals, fine English accent (at least from my non-native perspective), professional production, catchy melodies, dreamy atmosphere. Highly recommended for fans of trip-hop or simply good pop music. The album is available for free under CC licenses on Jamendo. You can also buy a lossless FLAC version on Bandcamp. This release is copyrighted. SUPPORT INDEPENDENT ARTISTS If you like this album and you can afford it, consider supporting the artist by buying the full album or single tracks directly from the artist on Bandcamp - for as low as $ 0.7 per track. [Facebook] | [SoundCloud] (2 tracks)

Pan:core - "Memories (2001 - 2005)"

Piano + electronica + beautiful melodies (9/10) auf diesem album habe ich eine auswahl an tracks zusammengestellt, die ich im laufe der letzten jahre gemacht habe. jeder einzelne von ihnen hat für mich eine persönliche bedeutung. die klangqualität ist eher mittelmäszig und das mixing ist wirklich nicht so gut - und dennoch; ich mag es sehr. vielleicht kann euch das eine oder andere stück berühren. More classical album than other Pan:core's recordings. It mostly comprises of simple but beautiful melodies played on piano / keyboard with electronic background. A very melancholic album. And it includes another stunning electronic cover of a classical tune - this time a piece from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons (17 - spaetsommer). Pan:core's covers are masterpieces. As to the rest of the album, it is very good, but I prefer his more electronic and experimental side, as on No Way To Win. He's a true master of this genre. It becomes clear after listening this album to the end, because the last track is completely different from the rest - it's not a simple piano tune, but hard electronic experimental madness. ;-) I instantly felt sorry that not all 18 tracks were in this style. And a final remark - I like both sides of Pan:core - simple piano pieces and experimental electronic madness, so I don't mind mixing them on one album. But I'm afraid that for some listeners, who like only straightforward music, the ending of this album would be unbearable and could ruin all the fun they had from listening to this record.

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Pan:core - "No Way To Win"

Brilliant diverse electronica (10/10) this is my first 'more than 8 tracks' album. the tracks are of different type. i think, i dont want to keep a style forever, if you know what i mean. the classical sample in 'cant stop' IS NOT ripped from try^d. track 4 is a little 'hello' to black era - an amazing triphop-combo from italy, which you can find also on jamendo. their track 'in front of the corner' inspired me somehow, as you can see at the name of my album :) enjoy. :) This is a very diverse recording. Each track is completely different from the others. Some are calm and hypnotic, some are noisy and aggressive, almost industrial. They have only two things in common. They all belong to the genre of electronica and they are all great. Each melody is very original and artful. The album is under half an hour but has more bright ideas than whole discographies of some other artists. ;-) You can also download this album for free directly from the artist at his website in .mp3 file format.

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Akusto, Ben - "Disturbance"

Great electronica (9/10) Rare "Golden Oldies" saved from c-casettes, dat-tapes and old harddrives. Just counterplay it very loud next time your neighbour downstairs is banging the roof with the broom. However, these are old and rusty songs made late 90's or in other words 10 years ago. About same time as the two previously published: TeddyBear Trilogee and Ambience Session. I just didn't dare to mix&master any track anyhow (except the Camel Boost just a little bit) - so don't expect too high quality and don't ruin your hi-fi stack. I still hope you like what you hear. It's not pure ambient. At least it's not so simple and quiet as typical ambient tunes are. Nevertheless it's a very very good album. It's not rusty at all, but colorful and brilliant. [mirror @ archive.org] | [Artist's Website] | [Myspace] SUPPORT INDEPENDENT ARTISTS If you like this album and you can afford it, consider supporting the artist by making a donation on this page - use the button "Donate" in the upper left corner.

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Sylmer - "Perdus dans le temps"

Bad bad bad (2/10) Ce troisième disque que je mets en partage est dédié à mon père disparu le 12 janvier dernier. N' hésitez pas à me critiquer où à me faire un don symbolique / Another miss. And no progress since "Ultime cri". Unfortunately... The album has been released on Jamendo and is available for downloading in mp3 encoding format.

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Sylmer - "Ultime cri"

Lousy vocals ruin everything (2/10) Ultime cri , ce sont 10 chansons plutôt tristes et qui sont malheureusement pour moi de circonstance....... Ce C.D n' est pas mixé plus que celà, mais ce que j' ai voulu exprimer est dedans : il parait que pour apprécier il faut le même symtôme m' a dit un psychanalyste...... La pochette c' est une sculpture sur pommier que j' ai réalisée dans mon jardin et qui s' appèlle "monsieur Bonhomme" Il me parait évident que les pros de l' enregistrement vont dire que mon son est merdique et ils auront raison.......Retenez uniquement la mélodie simple et les mots..... A bientôt pour le 3ème CD Sylvain

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What can I say... It's better than "Originaire", but still bad. The same weaknesses as before. Oh, I like the cover photo.

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Sylmer - "Originaire"

Beware (1/10) album DEMO enregistré "à la maison " sur Magix studio 6ème génération avec de trés petits moyens. un clavier casio (enfant), un magnéto 4 pistes(table), un micro chant, et une guitare electro-acoustique LAG modèle spring. Les moyens de production sont faibles mais l' essentiel est posé.Je ne suis pas un "chanteur". Je suis trés heureux de partager avec les auditrices et les auditeurs de JAMENDO. INFO: un deuxième CD est en préparation ( il faut dire que je stocke depuis logtemps maintenant..)

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I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. Lousy voice, terrible drums, uninteresting melodies. Guitar is quite good, but all is wasted because of badness of other elements. Poor production tops it off, but the biggest problem is lack of vocal and arranging talent. Maybe the lyrics are impressive? I don't know it, because I can't speak French.

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k.ROCKSHIRE - "Doggystyle, the" [EP]

Surreal sandwich (9/10) the doggyStyle EP est le premier album de k. ROCKSHIRE. Cet album s'adresse aux gens qui souffrent du mauvais temps, de la mondialisation, ou encore des petites déceptions qu'offre chaque jour la vie pour ses vertus médicinales et revigorantes ; mais aussi aux insatiables épicuriens qui cherchent à préserver leur bonheur dans un monde frétillant de délicatesse et de fleurs hawaïennes. Déjà culte depuis de nombreuses heures, the doggyStyle EP est un condensé de fraîcheur et d'amour. En bref, le sage dit : "k.ROCKSHIRE est à la vie ce que le citron est au Mojito." et ce n'est pas faux. k.ROCKSHIRE a grand soin de regrouper un maximum d'instruments différents, sans compter ceux qu'ils développent eux-mêmes, concrets ou vrituels. La double plaques chauffantes musicales et la banane musicale sont des exclusivités k. Rockshire. This bizarre piece of liquid heaven is filled with yummy landscapes with cream on top. Not to forgot bananas roasted on musical double hotplate. Waiter! I want a second helping! SUPPORT INDEPENDENT ARTISTS If you like this album and you can afford it, consider supporting the artist by making a donation on this page - use the button "Donate" in the upper left corner.

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TAT - "Quinta Essentia"

Good gothic album (7/10) D-SIDE n°32, Emmanuel Hennequin - Septembre 2006: "Les canevas acoustiques et hors classe du projet français TAT conduisent à une première oeuvre autoproduite d'envergure et de grande personnalité, au fil de laquelle s'expriment les voix et instruments de talents divers et variés (parmi lesquels AlBéRiCk de .cut aux mots, et la basse de Cypher d'Omnicore). Les thèmes musicaux investissent des décors acoustiques rituels et mortuaires, parsemés de cloches ("Quinta Essentia : Part 1") mais sans y voir une limite. Et la sévérité des sujets ("Thalidomide", du nom du médicament ravageur) se confronte en permanence à la douceur poétique des cordes classiques. Dès lors, l'acclimatation nécessaire à une entreprise poly-linguistique, créant un univers fait de subtils reliefs et mû par le paradoxe. Formellement, TAT crée une musique d'un nouveau genre : folk, progressive, post-classique et expérimentale. A la fois limpide et ténébreuse, elle ne veut pas tromper sur la marchandise. L'expérience auditive, captivante, est donc proposée en download libre, et ce préalablement à tout achat. La beauté et la culture de l'objet nous font dire ici que sa survie aux tentations de la musique libre de défraiement doit s'organiser. C'est un appel à l'achat, oui, car de disques comme ceux-ci sont durs, et rares. Ils sont beaux." Lacrimosa meets Dead Can Dance meets Einsturzende Neubauten - these are the first associations that came to my mind after listening to this album. But TAT is still quite original. For example, use of a classical guitar gives a very interesting effect. Dark ghotic tunes - very haunting. The only downside is the terrible French accent in English songs. SUPPORT INDEPENDENT ARTISTS If you like this album and you can afford it, consider supporting the artist by making a donation on this page - use the button "Donate" in the upper left corner.

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Bobywan - "Be My Boby"

Interesting electronic tunes (8/10) Interesting instrumental tunes, balancing on the border of electronica and rock. What a pity the album is only 5 minutes long. SUPPORT INDEPENDENT ARTISTS If you like this album and you can afford it, consider supporting the artist by making a donation on this page - use the button "Donate" in the upper left corner. [mirror @ archive.org]

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Placid - "Sound Lake City"

Very good techno (8/10) Schaut mal vorbei! mit placid versuche ich meine art von musikalischem experimentalismus auszuleben. es handelt sich vorwiegend um melodisch angehauchte elektronische musik, zu der aber auch getanzt werden darf. Mehr kann ich dazu erst mal nicht sagen! Hörs dir an und schreibe deine Meinung! Es handelt sich hier um frühe Werke, die ich mit einem Yamaha CS1X, Cubase, Rebirth und einer Roland TB303 gefertigt habe. Very good techno. Intelligent tunes, professional production. Keep up the good work. SUPPORT INDEPENDENT ARTISTS If you like this album and you can afford it, consider supporting the artist by making a donation on this page - use the button "Donate" in the upper left corner. [mirror @ archive.org] | [Artist's Website]

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Akusto, Ben - "Ambience Session"

Really great ambient (8/10) This album was kind of an experimental in 1997. It was never released until now. Some of you have maybe heard the Enharmon in some of my gigs. Once again, thanks to Al Cabaro being with me in these studio sessions as a mental help and co-drinker. And thanks to all my friends for just being there all the time. Please sit down in a peaceful corner, take a deep breath, relax and press play. This is a really great album. I recommend it to every fan of the darker side of ambient. I also recommend it to people who think this is a boring genre. It sometimes happen - with bad ambient albums. But Ambience Session definitely belongs to this genre and it is not boring even for one second. Boring ambient is just bad ambient. [mirror @ archive.org] | [Artist's Website] | [Myspace] SUPPORT INDEPENDENT ARTISTS If you like this album and you can afford it, consider supporting the artist by making a donation on this page - use the button "Donate" in the upper left corner.

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Subterrestrial - "Goddess of Atvatabar, the"

Interesting but too repetitive dark ambient (6/10) The debut album from this San Francisco Bay Area artist, The Goddess of Atvatabar is inspired by the 1891 hollow earth adventure novel by William R. Bradshaw and leans heavily on dark ambient, tribal ambient and middle eastern musical themes. The Goddess of Atvatabar is a self-released web album and is available as a free download. This is an interesting dark ambient recording, although too repetitive for my liking. I like experimenting with dark atmosphere and strange sounds. The drawbacks are the said repetitiveness and absurd sound volume differences, forcing a listener to adjust the level throughout the album. For me the best tracks are nos. 01, 02 and 07, because they are not overly repetitive. If you like highly repetitive type of ambient, you can safely add 2 or 3 points to my rating. I guess using a word "repetitive" in every sentence, when reviewing a repetitive album is somehow repetitive, I mean, is somehow OK, isn't it? Apart from Jamendo the album is available at archive.org on Subterrestrial's own "netlabel" channel - possibly in better quality, because Jamendo is notorious for very low quality of their mp3 files. Please note that this edition is governed by a different CC license: . I guess it means you can choose the one that better suits your needs. [Jamendo mirror @ archive.org] | [Artist's Website] | [Myspace]

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Akusto, Ben - "TeddyBear Trilogee"

Very good album (8/10) This single was originally published somewhere between 1996 ans 1997. Can't remember exactly when. Some of these songs were also made together with Al Cabaro alias Parametric. Thanks to AC and thanks to all my friends. Republished May 2007. Have fun! Very good album. Interesting electronic tunes plus one of the funniest parodies I've ever heard (07 - Sick Ted). It's completely crazy and I love it. [mirror @ archive.org] | [Artist's Website] | [Myspace] SUPPORT INDEPENDENT ARTISTS If you like this album and you can afford it, consider supporting the artist by making a donation on this page - use the button "Donate" in the upper left corner.

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DJ Blackwidow - "North Star"

Very good, creative electronica (9/10) This album was composed January 2006 - August 2006. I was on a creative high after finishing up the BlackJaq CD with my collaborator. I really went into this CD with an idea to create a more straightforward electronica sound. I kept some of the ethnic influences and added elements of space music and chanting (listen for Catholic and Ba'hai faith chants). If Leaving Town was a more personal album, then this one is more broad in it's mission. Some aspects are cold, while others seem personal, yet at a distant. The song, Jupiter, was originally composed in October 2005 and was originally written to be a new track on the original BlackJaq Cafe CD. The song, Again, features my BlackJaq collaborator, DJ Jax and this song is actually a special remix created exclusively for this release. The song 2012 was my highest and longest charting song on AcidPlanet. It was also the most reviewed and downloaded song I've ever released on the site. This is the first time this album has been released in its entirety. Thank you for your support of my music. This album is dedicated to my dad. He was the one who inspired the title song. Copyright 2007 BlackJaq Studios

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Straightforward electronica of superb quality. Calm downtempo tunes sit next door to nu jazz flavored tracks, followed by disturbing sounds of breakbeat. Despite the diversity of used styles and techniques, all these songs have one thing in common - the highest quality. Pure pleasure for ears - do not miss this one!

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Sans Bagage - "Tant pis pour la lune"

Mostly boring tunes... Easy to listen, easy to forget... (6/10) Voici le nouvel album de sans bagage "Tant pis pour la lune" Nous l'avons enregistré assez rapidement puisque nous avons débuté en Juillet 2006, pour aboutir au mix final débur Décembre. Le mix a été réalisé indépendemment par un professionnel (merci Mathieu) qui a apporté une oreille plus objective et pas mal d'idées pour la dernière touche... Nous en avons fait graver 500.... alors n'hésitez pas à nous le commander (sur www.sansbagage.com)... c'est important pour nous de pouvoir en vendre un minimum pour pouvoir assurer la production du prochain.... et afin de remercier ceux qui voudrons bien nous aider en l'achetant, il y a quelques morceaux en plus sur le CD.... Sinon, je crois que nous avons pas mal progressé par rapport à l'album précédent (dont nous étions et restons très fierts). en espérant que cela vous plaira ..... bonne écoute.... Definitely better than their previous album. Professionally played, sang and produced, but still lacks the main feature of good poprock albums - catchy melodies (although one can see a development here). Easy to listen, easy to forget. [mirror @ archive.org] | [Myspace] SUPPORT INDEPENDENT ARTISTS If you like this album and you can afford it, consider supporting the artist by making a donation on this page - use the button "Donate" in the upper left corner.

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Narcis - "Shining"

Quite good mixture of grunge, punk, metal & pure rock (6/10) Narcis, groupe alternatif de la scène alsacienne, a écumé bon nombre de concerts dans l'Est, se forgeant une solide expérience (première partie d'Eiffel à la Laiterie, festivals divers) avant de s'éteindre en 2002... Il était formé de Manu (Guitare-chant), Nico (Basse-chant) et Sam (Batterie)... Cette page Jamendo est donc pour vous, auditeurs, afin que ce groupe ne tombe pas dans l'oubli, et qu'il garde une trace sur la toile de son activité à travers les deux albums proposés ci après. Le premier, eponyme (surnommé le "poisson rouge"), date de 1999, le second, Shining, est beaucoup plus abouti et montre les reelles orientations du groupe, entre Smashing, Nirvana et autres groupes des 90's... Quite good tunes. One thing I didn't like much, were vocals, especially on track no. 2, which is almost unlistenable. But all the others are definitely worth listening. I would especially recommend tracks 01 (really great riff here) & 08 (instrumental, with a catchy semi-oriental melody). SUPPORT INDEPENDENT ARTISTS If you like this album and you can afford it, consider supporting the artist by making a donation on this page - use the button "Donate" in the upper left corner.

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Moving Sand - "Secret Garden"

Jazzy P.J. Harvey (9/10) Le genre est plutôt multitendances, un peu de jazz, de folk de blues, la toile de fond est intimiste .le groupe est composé de quatre musiciens venants d'univers musicaux très différents.La toile de fond du groupe est la création d'une ambience intimiste. I don't know where others hear folk on this album. It's ridiculous. I feel as if I listened to a different recording. It's a jazz rock album without even smallest traces of folk. Nevertheless, it's really great rock album. Instrumental parts are very fine. The singer reminds me of P.J. Harvey and I love such dirty way of singing. So much is happening throughout each track that you want to listen to it again immediately after the album ends. Well done! [mirror @ archive.org] | [Artist's Myspace]

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Nationale2 - "Painful Experiment"

Intelligent minimalistic electronica (8/10) Painful Experiment is a resolutely electronica album. It was entirely composed with a Roland MC-303, a vocoder MAM VF-11 and a speak and spell. Painful Experiment is probably, to date, the concept of the more intimate Nationale2. Folded back on itself after the loss of two years' compositions, because of the crash of a HDD, he began a return to the source with the machine's most controversial by the purists when it was released. Intelligent minimalistic electronica. When someone is creative, he does not need much equipment. Thank you for sharing your work. [mirror @ archive.org] SUPPORT INDEPENDENT ARTISTS If you like this album and you can afford it, consider supporting the artist by making a donation on this page - use the button "Donate" in the upper left corner.

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Nationale2 - "19901999"

Nice straightforward techno (8/10) The album entitled 19901999 is a compilation of songs composed between 1990 and 1999 that were never marketed. N2 has selected titles that took the most heart and not lost any of their power despite the passage of time. Nice straightforward techno - minimalistic, but not primitive. Just check it out. [mirror @ archive.org] SUPPORT INDEPENDENT ARTISTS If you like this album and you can afford it, consider supporting the artist by making a donation.

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