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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DJ Blackwidow - "Cosmic Spirit: The Best of DJ Blackwidow"

The Best Of... indeed (10/10) This CD is dedicated to Jacqui More. Without her...what's the point? Copyright 2007 BlackJaq Studios & Insomniac Machine All songs written by DJ Blackwidow except tracks 05,08,10,15,16 co-written by, DJ Jax. Mixed, mastered, and sequenced by DJ Blackwidow. [...] This CD represents an era (2002-2007). I appreciate all of you, and please let me know what you think of this music. Blackie aka Kirk McKenna, Jr. It's really the best of. The best mixture of various kinds of intelligent electronica, but mostly downtempo with strong ethnic/world influences. Check it out. [Artist's Myspace]

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FusionArt - "Details"

Very good trip hop (8/10) Another solid series of deep sounds from Absys Records stable. This time, however, drum & bass gives way to a different type of music, usually defined broadly and encompassing genres like idm, ambient, breakbeat or dubstep, but at the same time always well-acknowledged by similarly different listener environments. We’re talking about “Details” LP – the newest album by the Polish producer collective known as FusionArt. Recently there have been some changes in the group – the producer duo has been joined by MC Susiah whose role is to soften the otherwise rough and austere tracks with her soft but spirited vocals, thus supplementing the already coherent whole by additional intriguing details, as it is the case with the deep, slightly metallic “Believe” or the dreamy “Details”.

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Rather calm electronica with instrumental part based mainly on breakbeat with some traces of dubstep and downtempo. The half of the album includes female vocals, adding to the dreamy atmosphere and justifying placing this work under trip hop label. Highly recommended to fans of intelligent calm electronica.

The album has been released by the Absys Records netlabel and is available for downloading at the netlabel's website in mp3 format.

Various Artists – "Music For Danny DeVito"

What a brilliant idea! (9/10) This time Mixgalaxy Records made a special compilation for Mr. Danny DeVito. Why? Because nobody have never done this to him before. At least officially. We sorta didn’t know what kind of music he prefers so we’ve set up a tracklist of a wide variety of genres for him to pick from. We decided that making it a private release would be unfair to our listeners so you all are very much welcome to give this record a listen and share it with your friends of course. It’s an easy bet to say that for Mr. DeVito all the names here are new, however for our regular listeners this release is once again a mix of old timers (even including Jacobo – a raggae-dub side project of Sinestesia) and a couple of guest artists which we would like to present. Meet Abel Mariam from San Jose, California, USA who contributed an opening track and meet Russian-Norwegian duo Zunzagi which consists of sound producer Sergei from Tomsk and singer Julia from Oslo. And finally welcome Without Time band form Grodno, Bealrus. So, as you can expect from Mixgalaxy Records it’s a nice one hour set of high quality tracks fluctuating from deep ambient, easy listening and folk-pop to electro-house, breakbeat and even hip-hop. And if by any chance you are an acquaintance of Mr. DeVito – make sure to pass him the link, that will do us all a big favor.

This is a very good compilation of songs by independent artists. It is very diverse stylistically, ranging from various genres of techno and electronica, through hip hop and pop up to rock. So I guess everyone would find here something of interest. Mr. DeVito included.

I liked 10 tracks out of 16, which is not a perfect, but still very very decent, score. While some songs are first class records, there are a few, which are below average for me. However, I'm giving this compilation one additional point for the brilliant surreal concept of making this album as a gift for the great actor Danny DeVito. I love this kind of humor. And this hilarious cover - guys from Mixgalaxy Records totally rule.

I won't elaborate on bad tracks for a change. Let's focus on the good ones this time:

02 - Grosse - Mousy Cheese Song
A funny parody (I hope so ;-) ) of an acoustic rock ballad - vocal line is comprised of "la la la" sang out-of-tune over an acoustic accompaniment.

03 - Cubic - Unded
Another not fully serious recording. Looped kitschy sounding trumpet as a leading tune for some electronica. Funny and catchy.

04 - Zunzagi - Empathy
Classy trip hop / pop. Nothing too original (like the most of trip hop), but very atmospheric and catchy, with nice dreamy vocals and good accompaniment.

06 - Bear and Lampshade - Witch Hunt
Great breakcore. Don't miss this one!

07 - Gipa - Mad Electric Dog
Very good creative techno / electronica.

08 - PiXtar - Space Adventure
Electronica flirting with industrial and synthpop.

11 - YARA - Walk On Clouds
Creative and interesting ambient.

14 - Without Time - Trap
Great rock / post rock. Atmospheric, dreamy, catchy, powerful.

15 - Fedorov Mark - By The Sea
Calm acoustic instrumental rock. Not bad at all.

16 - Waterplea - Spring Reprise
Calm instrumental rock. Nice dreamy atmosphere.

The album has been released by the Mixgalaxy Records netlabel and is available for a direct download as well as at archive.org in mp3 or ogg format. Additionally, it is available on the sonicsquirrel.net website and in the BitTorrent network.

K-not - "Prodigity"

Classy electronica (8/10) Long awaited second album of young producer from south Silesia - K-not is at least available! We can write voluminous review here but there is no need to do it. Two words is enough: BIG PROGRESS! Classy electronica (mostly breakbeat and dubstep). Diverse and entertaining. Highly recommended. By the way, people who want to use this work commercially should be warned that the track no. 7 "Black Fog" contains a sampled vocal part from "Good Girl Gone Bad" by The Herbaliser. It is so distorted though, that's it's almost impossible to recognize. Apart from Jamendo, this album has been released by the 49manekinow.net netlabel and is available for downloading at archive.org in mp3 format. Strangely, this release is governed by a different CC license: . You can also download it directly from the artist at Bandcamp for free in a variety of formats, including lossless FLAC version. SUPPORT INDEPENDENT ARTISTS If you like this album and you can afford it, consider supporting the artist by making a donation or buying a lossless version.

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K-not - "Sinfinity"

Quite interesting electronica (6/10) K-not is an amateur artist from Silesia (Poland). When he was only 8 years old his brother buy a CD The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation and then K-not change his mind about music at all. The same effect K-not have when he saw on Viva Zwei Premiere video for Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy. At the beginning when K-not can only buy some CD's or Tape's, in his region there's no music like IDM or d'n'b so he listen to some bands like Deftones, Slipknot, Soulfly, Tool or Nine Inch Nails. First computer, first internet, first Fruity Tracks/Loops and K-not started to create some very acid tracks. In Years 04-07 he do about 60 tracks in simple selection...vol.1, vol.2, vol.3 and vol.4. The inspiration of his first three volumes in mostly range are acid d'n'b and idm artists like AFX, Autechre, Squarepusher, Photek, Future Sound Of London. Vol.4 became more oriented on Experimental Techno cause by artists like Orbital. Now when he create his first solo project Sinfinity, he started to think about professional aproach to music but he don't know any professional musicans or producers so he decided to place his music for free. Quite interesting electronica, although not every track is good. Some are influenced with primitive house, dance and hip-hop (3,4,6,9,11). Also the cover of "Missing" is dull. All tunes are also slightly too repetitive. By the way, "Missing" is of course copyrighted, so CC license does not apply here. The album has been released by the 49manekinow.net netlabel and is available for downloading at archive.org in mp3 format. You can also download it directly from the artist at Bandcamp for free in a variety of formats, including lossless FLAC version.

Ventolyn And Becotyde - "Audissect"

Great diverse electronica (10/10) Hailing from Galway, Ireland is one Ventolyn & Becotyde who brings us "[Audissect]", a 22 track opus that tickles your ears gently with its warm synths, kicks you in the face with basslines (see "Bass Tamers System Lick") whilst the fractured glitchy beats shine like glass shards. Suffice to say it’s got many sides to its form. [Audissect] comes on like an album of many moods, yet always retains its "wholeness". We have a feeling there are nothing but better things to come from this artist but for now we have this to wrap our heads around. An absolute sonic delight in the headphones, [Audissect] is now available for free download from Section 27, and Jamendo. Great electronica album mostly combining breakbeat with glitch. The tunes are well-crafted, diverse and never boring. See also the review at Drop-d music journal. Apart from Jamendo, the album has been released by several netlabels: Section 27 - download & webpage @ archive.org Pavillon36 Recordings - webpage @ archive.org 49 manekinow - download & webpage @ archive.org I won't provide a link to the fourth netlabel as they have only lower quality vbr version.

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Abnormal Bunx - "Teleportation"

Very good electronica (8/10) Hello! I Lukinykh Sergey Leonidovich, borned on May, 19, 1983 in Ukraine, in town Berislav, Kherson city. [...] For today I am a musician with higher education. Musical instruments: Guitar, Fortepiano, Synthesizer, Drums... Very good electronica album. Highly eclectic, though. Every track is in a different style, but each of the high quality. The first track contains at least one sample from a copyrighted work, so watch out if you planned on using it commercially. The album has been released by the 49manekinow.net netlabel and is available for downloading at archive.org in mp3 format.

Antybiotix - "Flying Inside Your Mind"

Nice calm electronica (8/10) Few years ago, few quiet people from few small cities in Poland meet together to give free rein to them creative minds. Some of them was connected with reggae scene, some of them are polish pioneers of experimental / noise formulas. They grasp some vibrant instruments some electronic machines and they started to play. Flying inside your mind is an effect of them seekings. Beautiful, deep, narcotic trip into your mind kept in experimental dub style. Slow diving waves of sounds intertwine with psychedelic reggae spaces, psychedelic reggae turn into experimental dub structures, dub forms changes into sounds which could be described as ancestors of dubstep. Highly recommended stuff for people who like to chill. Nice electronica mixing dubstep and downtempo. The album has been released by the 49manekinow.net netlabel and is available for downloading at archive.org in mp3 format.