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A netlabel for experimental music
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The
below problem is now solved. All releases are now available. We also
want to inform that our next release is not far away. It's a lovely ep
by Pam called Kissmeland. Stay tuned!
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Currently
some of our releases are inaccessible. Probably is this only a
temporary problem. I've made an error report to Internet archive so
they can help me fix this. Sorry for the inconvenience!
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Adrián
Juárez return to us, this time with a little help from some friends.
The idea or concept of "floreale" is very clear and without
compromises: an ep consisting only of voices! After the sessions been
recorded, Adrián Juárez studied the result and proceeded by carefully
select parts for recycling, multi layering, looping and in other ways
processing the audio suitable for his liking.
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The fourth and final part of the Tid project is now released. Altogether
have 18 artist given their individual view on time after
approximately a six-month period of planning and composing.
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Our new
release is a live session by Roman Slavka and Dem, performed 12/01 2008 in Dniprpopetrovs'k, Ukraine. With a personal approach they
create a confrontation of aesthetics. A mutual understanding and a
creative cooperation. A soundtrack to a sleep paralysis - deep, dense
and metaphoric.
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Next
release is now out in our collaboration project. This time with 23
seconds. Expect an experimental, electronic pop journey! Link.
We
would also like to inform that because of bad tagging from our part we
are slowly going through our archive to make each release look proper.
We will now name our individually files like this example:
tlhotra001_-_XU_-_05_-_Labyrinths_underground.mp3
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Today we
launch
a collaboration project with two other Swedish netlabels. We are
first out and release our part, a collection of four
tracks of textured and eerie ambient and EAM music.
Never before has a project like this been done in Sweden and we are
very proud to take part in this. For more information, please visit
this link.
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New
release is up with the high productive Claus Haxholm Jensen from
Denmark, under his moniker Kanada brothers. He have composed an
audio experience of processed sine waves for seeking ears and curious
minds. Listen and enjoy!
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We are proud to announce that SSH Visor is back with a new release, a detailed and layred work called Molekül. Once again Sinclair is a living proof that contemporary music on the net is alive and in development towards new territories.
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The track "Sondmatad med lögner" by Hjorten (tlhotra006) is going to take part on a promo cd by Klubb lakritz in Norrköping. If you show up on their next event you might get a copy!
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New release out today with Karlheinz Essl, a professor of composition for electro-acoustic and experimental music at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.
This is what Joel Chadabe wrote about Karlheinz live album "m@ze°2" from 1999. "Karlheinz
Essl performs on a laptop computer that he has transformed into a live
electronic musical instrument. The result is exciting and musical. You
just won't hear these sounds anywhere else. He performs solo and in
duets and trios, responding with sensitivity to fellow musicians,
producing fascinating sound transformations, creating spontaneous
surprises, and moving quickly from loops to cacophony to tiny clips of
vocal sounds to all kinds of textures and ideas. He does all this with
his m@ze°2 (Modular Algorithmic Zound Environment) performance
software".
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A new year and a new release. This time with Mozcorra, a duo from Mexico who unfolds
a child like naive universe. A panorama of self focused
thoughtfulness. Hard to define, easy to love. It's a six track EP of
minimal improvised key sounds. If you like what you hear you should
visit Omar Alejandro's netlabel Ala jazz records to hear more!
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We
end this year with a work by Leo Alves Vieira and Pangea, two prolific
composers known in different constellations and coherence. Post-sleep
paths demonstrate these two composers best sides. This is how
experimental music sounds like, and should sounds like, as we step into
2008.
Happy new year everyone! Take care and stay creative!
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Next
year will be exciting! Together with other Swedish netlabels we launch
a collaboration project where each netlabel will release a small
compilation. When all (smaller) compilations have been released the
whole project will be released as a big compilation on all netlabels.
More on that, as previously stated, to come next year.
Also worth
mentioning is that over the past couple of months Internet archive
(where we host our music) have come across some problems. We apologies
for the inconvenience this has caused our visitors. Still the download
counters is not working, but hopefully everything will be back to
normal as soon as possible!
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December
is here and our twentieth release is out with the Ukrainian act
Demolyne) who have composed, with his own words: "4 tracks of various
length, but with the common idea to show and reflect my views and
imaginations around concrete pictures of nature. "
It's an ambient
little pearl, sometimes silent, sometimes violent. At a closer
listening you can hear a lot of sound sources are used to make this,
his debut EP, a rich and layered work.
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DEAD #339 is for fans
of rhythmic noise and harsh industrial acts like 'Terrorfakt',
'Converter' and others on the same vein. Today we release his DEAD EP,
a collaboration work with other netlabels who is thinking outside of
the box on what a netlabel release is all about.
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New release out with Mrcien, founder of TLHOTRA. Music on "Sometimes when I watch trees sway" is
mostly based on field recordings from Gävle and Västerĺs and contain
crackles and pops, birds, dandelion trumpets, melodies barely audible,
grandfather clock and other personal and nostalgic sounds.
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If
you live in Uppsala or nearby, Hjorten, this time under the
name Reversed Obesity, is going to perform live in Musikens Hus on
the 17th October. The concert start 20:00. Besides Reversed Obesity are two other acts. Purchase ticket (50kr) from: www.ticnet.se
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Not one, but two new releases!
This time with the act SSH Visor, a laptop-based Austrian composer
who for both releases uses the same sound material created from a
variety of instruments, including guitars, hand percussion, generative
or improvised synths and even video game consoles. Though some would approach this work as
noise, Christopher thinks of the more abrasive elements in his music in terms of organic and
crunchy instead of harsh and mechanical.
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Delicate
ambient music with field recordings taken around the city of Detroit.
Does it sound like something that could suit your taste? If yes, we
suggest you listen to our new release with Monopole.
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If you liked our latest release with Jan-M. Iverssen you might want to check out a video teaser with Iversen & Beatfoundation on the "Střy pĺ landet festival."
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New release is up, this time with Jan-M. Iversen from Norway. On this release he outline a preparation
for a live performance for the Střy Pĺ Landet'-festival in Selbu, Norway. It's a long composition of abstract noise and soft ambiance.
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Our second release with Hjorten is now online. On this ep he manipulates the idea behind applause by re-arranging situations we are
used to, and finds rhythm where none is expected. The sound sources are
treated and forced into doing what he wants, creating an experimental and minimalistic picture by hand.
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If
everything is going as schedule Patel pretal is tonight going to
perform live in Shanghai. God luck guys! At the 18th of August
they perform in Chengdu, and at the 28th of August in Beijing.
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This is a call out for all REMIXERS out there. Adrián Juárez is going to do a remix version on his album Amílcar, released here on tlhotra. If you think you are up for it, choose a track and make contact with him. The deadline for a contribution is at the end of August!
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One
of our most successful artist, when it comes to downloads, have
participated on a compilation from the label Theremin Noise
Club. Clemens Haush, this time under the name Unfinished Business,
contributes with a track called: spring fails by means of automated
insight.
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Founder of tlhotra, Markus Ĺberg, have written an article about the Swedish netlabel sceen. Read it here. (Swedish readers only.)
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For
the first time we leave Europe and add to our catalouge a fine work by
the productive musician Adrián Juárez from Argentina. If you are an
experinced netlabel listener you might have seen or heard him from
different labels, getting fine praise regardless what kind of music he
practise. This time he creates a collection of ambient/drone pieces of conceptual nature in collaboration with Mexican artist Leopoldo, who for each track made a picture to complement the music.
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New
release is up! This time by talanted mister Roman Slavka from Ukraine with the ep:
Industry by nature. A work of dark imagery and ambient abstractions.
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Mrcien has been featured on the compilation See you in sanitarium, from the polish netlabel Kaos ex machina with an exclusively composed track called Tics. He also got played on the re:automation
podcast 101, with the track Reading books like a map, from the split
release: Mind Matter Norm, released here on tlhotra.
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Today we Release: Mind
Matter Norm, a split release between Mrcien, founder of tlhotra,
and
Zerofication, founder of Introvert distortion. The theme for this
release is mental disorder, or how a norm of behavior, when broken is
defined as sickness. The question is; what will happen if the norm
becomes narrower or wider and what these changes depends on.
The release is also available from Introvert distortion. |
| Rantala,
rantala! is a documentary movie about Finland's past and the director
Lotta Notfjälls relatives who lived there. In the movie, with a
tranquil and poetic voice, a family's past appears with a dark and
beautiful energy. Contributing in the soundtrack are Dense vision shrine
and Somnivore, who took part in our dark ambient compilation "We who with music beguile your pilgrimage
to the unknown". We congratulate to a successful work of art! |
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| A
new release is now available with Patel pretal, a collective from east
London who previously attracted attention with their live performances
with interactive installations. Imagine if György Ligeti lived
today
and got interested in lo-fi and found art. Then you might get the idea
of what to expect from them. We bring you a work of deconstructure and
reconstructure! |
| Creative
commons have updated their license, so from now on we will copyright
our
music with the 3.0 version. We
also want to share with you a link
to a blog of Arash Moori and his collaborative work with Esther
Mańas. (Arash Moori contributed on our dark ambient
compilation). The blog contains the result of some videos from their
audio visual
exhibitions. |
Today
we release a live recording in three parts, a session performed by
Clemens Hausch earlier this year. It's a suggestive display of fine
experimental electronic music. Listen, close your eyes and be
mesmerized!
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We're back with a new
release, this time by the duo and the couple: "Herr Ĺberg och
Fröken Ankarborg"
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Those
of you familiar with TLHOTRA probably know our web design skills is
insufficient. But the current layout we now have is based upon a
template by idave. It's simple and
straight forward and hopefully you
like it!
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| An
interview with Hjorten has appeared in the free weekly newspaper
Uppsalatidningen. We recommend you to read
it. Priceless comments by
people on the street who listen to his demo Ljudterrorism, says: "How
long do I have to listen" "I think these are the worst sounds I've ever
heard in my life." "What kind of cheating is this?" |
| The re-release of
the compilation "We who with music beguile your
pilgrimage to the unknown" is now online on Introvert
distortion.
A sequel is also in the making, so expect more interesting soundscapes
from the Nordic countries! |
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