Fans of minimal technohead Emmerichk rejoice! You can now download a brand new track and a new remix by the Mexican producer. The brand new tracks is called “Teseracto” and is part of the 4th Anniversary special compilation “Selfmade” from Japanese netlabel Yuki Yaki. It is available for free download both as an MP3 and an Ogg file.

Also, Chlienean netlabel Pueblo Nuevo has just delivered its 50th release, “El Poder Corrompe“, a 6 tracks EP by Chilenean producer Daniel Jeff, featuring also a few remixes, including Emmerichk’s remix of “Mas allá de” (7:16) avaialable for free download as a 320 kbps mp3, Ogg Vorbis and Flac file.

n0theen is a Hungarian non-profit / commercial free internet radio station (24/7 audio stream) which webcasts Copyleft, Public Domain and Creative Commons music only, and focuses on new, independent and unsigned artists. A few months ago, it invited musicians from all over the world to submit unpublished songs for a compilation titled “thanks for notheen”, to show their support and sympathy for the radio. The final two-volume compilation gathers new music from Germany, Finland, the Czech Republic, Brazil, among other countries. Included in the first volume, “Daystream“, there are new tracks from Zofa, MHV, Rubinskee with Mekha and Silent Beats, César Juárez Joyner aka Ready Made Sound System’s new project with Alán Santos aka woodmdesounds (la orquesta slenciosa, shy genious) and Itzam Cano (Zero Point, Anti Materia):

a. MHV – Ssunn (3:33)
b. Silent Beats - Ilution (6:14)
c. Rubinskee & Mekha – Thru my eyes (5:45)
d. Zofa – Z (5:40)

You can download the whole volume here.

To celebrate 10 years defending the Amazonian Rainforest, activist organization Greenpeace released a special video, directed by Mexican filmmaker David Zamorano, currently living in Prague. The video is set to Alba 1’s track “Tensión Superficial” from the So Simple Ep. You can download the track here and the whole EP here.

New Pesina Siller EP on No Copy Protection
The Discos Konfort family is proud to welcome Guadalajara’s electronic artist Pesina Siller, one of geekcore’s core founders, into its fold. His debut release on our label is the Okno Okno Okno EP on No Copy Protection. A dazzling affair, halfway between intelligent breaks and minimal electronic dance music. Download it now for free right here.

New Emmerichk Track on Inpar 10th Release
Chilenean sister netlabel Impar is celebrating its fifth anniversary
with a three-volume compilation (and tenth release) aptyl titled “10“. The second volume features Emmerichk’s track “Seven“, and you can download it right now for free right here.

Mogwai Hört features The Incognito Traveller
The Incognito Traveller is currently hard at work on his sophomore release after the enormous success of his self-titled debut EP. In the meanwhile, german netlabel Mogwai Hört has included two tracks from that EP on two of its four compilations with the best netreleases under a creative commons license. Volume 01 is dedicated to Trip Hop and features “Petra 1:00am“, while volume 04 is simply called “melodic” and features “Chaleur“.

Sr. Mandril in Vive Latino
Jazzy Funksters Sr. Mandril are taking their vibrant show on the road for the spring, visiting several parts of the country and including a spot at LatinAmerica’s foremost rock festival Vive Latino, where they will play this Sunday May 17th at 11:00 am, sharing the bill with artists like Gogol Bordello, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Zoé and the Nortec Collective.

PublicRec, an internet-based archive of the Ultra-red organization, asked the question “What’s the sound of war on the poor ” to several people, including worldwide audio artists, and published a two-volume compilation with their 1-minute replies. Volume two features Hector Zarate’s own answer. Listen now!

A few weeks ago, we – along with other 338 netlabels – took part in a Max Planck Institute research on netlabels. Well, finally the first results of the study have been published. If you want to learn more abou it, read the article in Phlow Magazie or visit Patryk Galuszka’s blog. Results of the research are published under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license, so feel free to redistribute it.

Konfort wraps up the year 2008 with an early christams gift for all music lovers out there: the 22nd release on our free netlabel No Copy Protection: Izkierda by Mexican beatmaker DRXL. Mixing and matching samples from his huge record collection, DRXL produces sound tapestries that veer between abstract instrumetnal hip-hop and experimental dubstep. On the openning track, “¿Qué hora es?” [What time is it?] DRXL is accompanied by master turntabilist DJ Spawn from Mexican hip hop band Magisterio.

Legendary Mexican DJ and music journalist G@bo tron has released an unique CD Mix of eclectic Mexican electronic music called Tech Mex: Movimientos, featuring among other tracks, “Empty” by Emmerichk (from the 2007 No Copy Protections release Asteroid), “Las Navecitas” by Rubinskee (from the 2006 Oh-Blu-Ashe), “Permanencia Voluntaria” by Rosco (from their 2005 Discos Konfort/Impala self-titled release) and other pieces by Mendoza, Panóptica, Murcof, Fax, Latinsizer, Shock Bukara, Plug, Transistor, Manrico Montero, Paravoice, Dosantos, Tonolot, DJ Galaxy, Biötek, Tobi Temple and Reitman. The record has been released on Groove Records/Fluor and is available in any major records store in the country.

In other news, David Jiménez aka Polifonía Visual has been collaborating on the video series Our World 2.0 to raise awareness for climate change, food safety and peak oil. Listen to his music in the following six minutes program on electric cars:

The electric sunflower from UNUChannel on Vimeo.

No Copy Protection’s twenty first release is a subtle and melodious affair, Hector Zarate’s sophomore release under the HZ moniker

At first, the title might make you think about high speed chases (by foot or motorized), intelligence agencies, guns and “fancy karate gimmicks” in a city full of compact cars and sinusoidal police sirens. That’s great! I love the idea. But underneath this thrilling approach, this release is also about a particular sensation when traveling, about how theatrical our daily lives can be.

I came to notice, particularly under “business and pleasure” trips, that life becomes short spans of new identities in which each new city invites you into new habits and routines, new people, new loves and a set of ephemeral things that will somehow vanish on the next train or plane.
Traveling or not, it seems we were all spies with ephemeral identities.

So, after my last beloved release one year ago, An Upcoming Summer, I’m glad share this shinny and brand-new EP entitled Living Undercover.Uop!” Héctor Zarate (HZ)

Hector also has collaborated with two interactive contemporary art pieces in exhibition at Centro Cultural de España, in downtown México City as part of the Medialab Prado program. Stop by and check them out.

http://medialab -prado.es/article/exposicion_interactivos_mexico08_

If you are looking for physical copies of our releases, they are no available through Mix-Up, Noize Kontrol and Discoteca. If you are not in Mexico, be sure tp check out their online catalogs

As a matter of fact, if you go now to the discoteca website, you can still download a track from Ghaia’s Wire Works album!

 

Japanese netlbael Yuki-Yaki’s latest release is the new record by mexican electronics artisan Emmerichk. Its simple title is 4th, and it is available for free download, under a creative commons license here.

Simply titled “4th” - Emmerichk is back on Yuki Yaki. The aesthetics of the single sound, its destinctiveness and presence are more present than on its predecessor.
But nonetheless, the sounds do not seem to be forlorn. Every track is its own microcosm of noise, click and motion.
Always one leg on the dancefloor, the other in the lab, Emmerichk shows us his own definition of rhythm, groove and melody.

Elsewhere in cyberspace, we wlecome a new mexican netlabel, Breathe Comp, from our friend Quetzal Contla, in alliance with Netlabels & News, who describes it as a non-lucrative netaudio resource devoted to promote independent artists, by releasing only compilations of “eclectic music”. Its first release brings together a binch of electronic musicians, including our very own HZ on “Bonne Nuit BN”, and old friends of Konfort like Vate and InVitro.

May this new track from HZ start your juices flowing in anticipation of his forthcoming sophomore release Living Undercover.

Mexican ambient musician Gélido is releasing a new track, unxistence, as part of EPA Sonidos‘ latest compilation, Toasted. EPA Sonidos is a chilenean net label, and the compilation also features tracks from fellows like Danieto, El Lazo Invisible and Djef, among others. Check it out now at www.epasonidos.cl.

Yes, we know house! Rubinskee is back on No Copy Protection with a taste of Disco, a dash of Hi NRG and heaps of funky House attitude. From the deep jazzy vibes of “Floripondia” (an excellent remix of an excelent track by Cri Kong) to the banging beats of “Ochentayseis”, Telúrico delivers thirty five minutes of mastercrafted house music. And it is free, for you all, now! Just download, press play and get up on the dancefloor!