ECHO GARDENS // Midnight Run [pin007]

This time Pincet presents pop music (you can add word “indie” for your own desire). Echo Gardens from Ternopil, Ukraine, produce lovely sounds with electronics, guitars, flutes and vocals. The basic idea for this release was to create a quality product with no restrictions on style. No doubt, with listening to this album you’ll have a relaxed good trip, with big pleasure to repeat it.

Release page here
Direct download (MP3) here

Format: 9 x File, MP3, Album, 320 kbps
Released: 24 Dec 2010
Style: Indie, Pop

F.L.O. // Food for Thought [CTR008]

An interesting, inovative dub techno album, with a touch of oldschool. Typically for Cold Tear Records, CDs are available for those who love physical format. Free and payed downloads are available as well.

Direct download (MP3) here
Bandcamp release page here (also for various formats like FLAC)
Buy CD here

Format: 10 x File, Album: MP3, 320 kbps; FLAC
Released: 19 Jan 2011
Style: Dub Techno

IMPULS OF CREATION // Kaleidoskop EP [SNXR008]

Impuls of Creation is a talented guy from Moscow, Russia. His liking is deep electronic music in an “intelligent” way.

Release page here
Direct download (MP3) here

Format: 4 x File, MP3, EP, 320 kbps
Released: 11 Dec 2010
Style: IDM, Deep House, Minimal

BRICKMAN // Mind Warp EP [lsd25004]

Really phat minimal EP for the rush our by Brickman. Cold and groovy at once.

Release page here
Direct download (MP3) here

Format: 3 x File, MP3, EP, 320 kbps
Released: 25 Dec 2010
Style: Minimal, Techno

TRACING ARCS // Eye See You [iD.063]

“On their iD.EOLOGY debut Tracing Arcs combine both aspects into a thrilling aesthetic overall experience. As soon as the first notes hit your ears, a film noir starts rolling in your head. Classy triphop beats, elaborate jazz-chords and deep upright basses skillfully sketch out a closed-off world in subtle shades of black. With the dark attraction of a femme fatale, the nuanced and seductive voice of Fran Kapelle enters the scene, inevitably putting the listener under her spell. With every word of the sometimes cryptic, sometimes promising lyrics he keeps falling for her further and without notice, he’s become a detective in his own case, delving deeper and deeper into a secret that lies hidden within.”

Release page here
Direct download (MP3) here

Format: 7 x File, MP3, Album, 320 kbps
Released: 2010
Style: Trip Hop, Downbeat, Pop

ZENGINEERS // The 5th Realm [iD.061]

“With their fifth album in total, Zengineers carefully and consciously take two steps back from everyday life and contemplate what becomes visible when the veil of reality drops. Following them in their tracks, your gaze might be opened for a realm of existence which is being populated by ever-hungry ghosts. Beings that are condemned to vegetate in eternal balefulness due to their insatiable desires. What might be mistaken solely for social critcism laced with buddhism also emblematizes accurately the tragic of interpersonal relationships as well as the artist’s obsession to perfect his own creations. Drawing energy from contemplation, Zengineers carefully and consciously now take one step forward and enrich their specific mixture of drum’n’bass, worldmusic, downbeat and pop with live elements of guitars and percussion which add a psychedelic facet to the eclectic interplay of intricate, aggressive beats and neat, blissful song-passages.”

Release page here
Direct download (MP3) here

Format: 12 x File, MP3, Album, 320 kbps
Released: 2010
Style: Drum and Bass

RUI GATO & HIRAKU SUZUKI // Beam Drop [tube222]

“The Beam Drop sculpture is a very powerful experience. This recording is the result of our very short and fast contact with the Beam Drop. Both of us were immediately attracted to the sonic dimension of this work, during the visit to the Inhotim Centre. We found the sculpture at different moments in the first day, and agreed to go back the next day and try to get some music out of it, and record it. We did it in one continuous take, due to time limitations of the visit (everybody was waiting for us to get back to the bus), and we are glad it was so.
It is presented to you unedited, only with 7 divisions that seem logic and natural to us when listening” (Rui Gato & Hiraku Suzuki).

Release page here
Direct download (MP3) here

Format: 7 x File, MP3, 320 kbps
Released: 08 Nov 2010
Style: IDM, Experimental, Ambient

SINUX // Aerorradioestaciones [808.29]

Some short, but exciting experimental tracks, released by the Argentinian netlabel Audio:808.

Release page here
Direct download (MP3) here

Format: 5 x File, MP3, EP, 320 kbps
Released: 26 Oct 2010
Style: Experimental

GIULIANO RODRIGUES // Medusa EP [gargan054]

Really glaring dark and trippy minimal. Played backward, the playlist of this ep could be a suitable dramaturgy in a set.

Release page here
Direct download (MP3) here

Format: 4 x File, MP3, EP, 320 kbps
Released: 04 Jan 2011
Style: Minimal, Progressive House