Great free music!
George Ellinas has done a totally amazing mix of Scomber’s Why? on the ccMixter site. Trippy beats, bouncing bass, ravy-gravy throughout. An excellent pick-me-up for those moments when things don’t seem to be going right and you just wonder why. No worries when this one plays!
Check out GE’s Facebook page to learn more about his work.
Some ABC-flavored synthezier tinkling combined with a Dirty Vegas-esque voice warp combine to create a great dance tune from the oddly named Dumb Dan on the Bevlar netlabel.
Wow! I can’t say enough about Ruby Jean and the Thoughtful Bees. Hailing from Halifax, Nova Scotia (in Canada, of course) the four-person band is fronted by Rebekah Higgs, who performs as the epinymous Ruby Jean with breathy vocals that repeat then fade. Shades of Voice of the Beehive and B52s, but with a harder edge to the guitars and drums make this a great band to dance to, too.
Song available for free download on the RJATTB page on the killbeat music netlabel.
Wow, this is heady stuff! Deep bass, bouncing beats, chirpy keyboards. Fredy Alvarez (aka Keyboard) has put together an amazing EP of dance-worthy goodness called (I kid you not) Beans with Bacon. No lyrics from this Columbian musician and producer, but maybe that is okay when the music is this good.
Clemens Eduard Haipl is an Austrian artist (and sometimes member of Heirstyle and Cell1110) who released an album of his own called 330rawson on the now-defunct netlabel Comfort Stand.
Featured here for Valentine’s Day is the somwhat cynical song Lieb Im Prinzip. It is a fun retro dance piece that makes me jump around the room when I listen.
Interesting, dark tune from on the rader on the German netlabel politicide.net. Murky and fascinating…perfect for a rain stormy night like tonight.
Angsty tune by from the Beep! Beep! netlabel here in the Netherlands. Plaintive vocals, lots of jangly guitars.
“In 2004, members from We vs. Death, Kismet, Stellenbosch and Dawn of Awakening, got together to form four-piece The Walt, based on a personal chemistry, geographical convenience and a shared passion for bands like At The Drive In, Medications, Q and not U, 31Knots, Me Without You and many others.”
Wow! With a bit of The Walkmen and a bit of Tim Booth (of James), this amazingly intense wall of sound is so much fun to listen to. I love the lyrics and the earnestness behind them from vocalist State Shirt on the ccMixer site. Well mixed, DoKashiteru.
Kim Ann hasn’t heard this one yet, but I’ll bet she will love Bruce Tor’s Jasmin et des Jonquilles! It is dark and moody, has a great, bouncy bass line, and is in French to boot!
Tor Bruce (sometimes known by his alias Utz Utz Utz Utz) produces great stuff…including a his own version of Dedacia’s Muscle Man. Worth a listen!
About Antonio Mazzitelli (from the out of obscure netlabel website): “1999 hatten Antonio Mazzitelli und Gianpietro Melotti die Idee zu dieser Seite. Im Jahre 2001 war out of obscure erstmals, mit Unterstützung der Firmen MGW und MCI, online. Antonio kümmert sich neben der Veröffentlichung seiner eigenen Musik um die Website von out of obscure und ist Ansprechperson für neue Artists und Interessierte. Seit 1997 ist Antonio als DJ und Produzent der elektronischen Musik tätig. Die Kombination dieser beiden Elemente führte im Jahre 2003 zum ersten Auftritt des “out of obscure liveact”, bei welchem Antonio und sein Partner Claudio Cipolla ihre Eigenproduktionen vorstellen.”
out of obscure records – free electronic MP3 music.
