“On the last day of each month this year, bell monks is releasing a new package, with music, photography and video content. This is the eighth package.
You can also download bell monks’ first album, lullabies, here. For more about bell monks, visit their official website: bellmonks.com.”
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Format: 2 x File, EP, MP3, 320 kbps; 2 x File, EP, Flac
Released: 31 Aug 2011
Style: Atmospheric, Sleepy Rock
“Having released his debut EP with Planet Terror in December 2009, Sephirot returns with Flash FWD, a four-track EP encompassing vibrant house, deep dub tones, soft jazz inflections and syncopated 2-step rhythms. Somehow this young Leeds-based musician has further broadened his sound, absorbing new influences and spitting them back out as a fresh, synthy melange across this half-hour offering.”
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Format: 4 x File, EP, MP3, 320 kbps
Released: 2 Sep 2011
Style: House, Jazz
“Visionaries of the intelligible
Are we belonging to a small circle of visionaries of the intelligible?
Are we those ones fated to live out of this way of living?
Questions to be engraved into the silent mechanisms that animate the sound defined as electronic.
These are the questions I always wonder about , since I started to listen non -conventional music and I tried, wrongly, to propose it to those who didn’t have the perceptiveness of the unseen.
By listening and listening, genre after genre until reaching the rarefied atmosphere that reigns over the 3000 metres, in those endless lands where that sound defined as ambient has built its kingdom.
Ambient is a very reductive term that contains universes of sounds rich in memories whose source fades away in the night as black as vinyl.
Nevertheless the “electronic” theme is always considered and dealt with as a sub product linked to the 4/4 beat that is too noisy and “grooved” by a teen aging audience.
In Laverna no one of us has that fabulous age anymore, we don’t produce electro, techno and similars, even if we certainly do not disdain that wild jump on riding the ‘BMPs’ (certainly score not a dive into the ‘BMPs’).
Expressly this writer goes well beyond that glorious threshold and yet ….yet he can still be carried away by the charm of the solemn dance of the ‘drone’, dreaming voraciously within recurring sound loops, emotionally longing for the late silent wave anticipated by a single note of the piano that reveals its substantial minimalism.
He dreams, eyes wide open, looking deeply into the future trying to engrave into a collection which, unusually, does not consider sounds already created and listened to, but includes sounds/dreams still to come, traces of visions common to all the nine artists that take part in this project and that still have to create their own personal path which will lead them into the Laverna Space.
A reverse operation dictated by the always present need of ‘searching’, a necessary element in the hands of those ones who continuously try to propose innovative artistic shapes.
Gigi Masin, Molven, Giorgio Ricci, Manuel Cecchinato Posadas, William Capizzi, Easychord, Fabio Anile, Leastuperbound e The Secret Life of the Black Suit: these are the artists that accepted our invitation, everyone with his own style and with his own path, but everyone belonging to the small circle of dreamers: visionary poets of the intelligible.”
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Format: 9 x File, Compilation, MP3, 320 kbps
Released: 1 Sep 2011
Style: Ambient
“Dubvillains are two producers from Russia. Their style covers Dubstep, Drum and Bass, Electronics. Young and very perspective artists.”
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Format: 10 x File, Album, MP3, 320 kbps
Released: 15 Mar 2011
Style: Dubstep
“With a greater focus on live sampling, Bartek Kawula arranges subtly complex minimal house numbers with infectious melodies ideal for both club consumption and headphone listening. The opening title track is a grooving house stomper combining organic percussion sounds, floating synths, electric melody and suspenseful vocal chops. ‘Changes’ is a deep Chicago inspired house track with gradually building percussion layers, light synth melodies and husky male vocal samples. ‘Open Out’ closes the release with some dark and raw banging techno that playfully evolves into a drifting house track incorporating sultry heavy breath sounds and hypnotic keyboard rhythms. Glass showcases Kawula’s unique take on classic minimal house structures.”
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Format: 3 x File, EP, MP3, 320 kbps; 3 x File, EP, WAV
Released: 31 Aug 2011
Style: Deep House, Minimal House
Numbed a.k.a. Da Enemy is Ralf Rögner from Selb, Germany. He’s a producer of electronic music since 1989. He has dedicated his creativity mainly to drum and bass. Chapter I is is a smooth three track EP.
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Format: 3 x File, EP, MP3, 320 kbps
Released: 28 Aug 2011
Style: Drum and Bass
“This is the second album release of Ras Amerlock on LCL and still the same pleasure to spread his wild and authentic vibe. Featuring some state of the art vocalists and musicians such as Brother Culture, Natty Nation, Dubmatix & Rudy Alba, this new collection of niceness will not let your hips sleepy for long!”
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Format: 11 x File, Album, MP3, 320 kbps
Released: Aug 2011
Style: Dub
“Darker places, clicks & cuts, lovely sweeps….complex rhythms and deep straight arangments : Estrella Run ….subculture and underground, minimal, experimental sound culture.
Estrella Run are Richard Rule (Dezibiel) and Alesio Phareira, both old friends who are already involved in the very early years of the penchant for the electronic music and technology. Dezibiel, in the first years as a house and electro dj in the local scene was underway, looking for change and new possibilities in musical expression. Alesio Phareira already had his own drum&bass projects currently in operation and very straight minimal tech products. Basically, the words ‘glitches’, ‘clicks & cuts’ describe the Estrella Run style very well.”
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Format: 5 x File, EP, MP3, 320 kbps
Released: 25 Aug 2011
Style: Tech House, Minimal
“Navy Blue is the man who creates slightly tribal sounds somewhere in the comfotable back of his home. This package contains the elements of that tribal, but funky progressive house. Great old-school rhythms of Polish production are doing here for what they were created. That dry groove smells not so distant to the ninetees and will certainly find audiences in every corner of the globe. Technically, these productions are suggested to enrich the cases of many DJs. Judge for yourself.”
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Format: 5 x File, EP, MP3, 320 kbps
Released: 01 May 2009
Style: Progressive House, Tech House
“This modest tribute to Detroit city sound, where the cultural movement today essential to understand electronic music was born, could not be missed. Worldwide artists come together to offer us their work fed with the dance music roots in order to be projected in the future.”
This is definitly one of the best netlabel releases ever!
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Format: 19 x File, Compilation, MP3, 320 kbps
Released: 15 Jan 2010
Style: Techno, Dub Techno, Tech House, Electro
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